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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937
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We Want Essential Courses
This spring many of the graduates of the University will enter their applications to business colleges. Even more of these graduates, after trying all summer and finding they are not fitted for a position in the business world, will enter business colleges next fall. And all because the University of Kansas does not offer typing short hand and the remainder of the business course to its students.
It seem ridiculous that students spend four years in college, yet graduate unqualified to hold a position in many cases. Not until they have taken a business course can they secure employment.
For many years University students have desired the addition of a business course to the curriculum of the University. Officials of the school have "pro and conned" the entire matter, but because of the initial expense required to set up such a program, and the stigma attached to such a professional course, action has been delayed.
The popularity of a business course, and the utility of such an arrangement would very soon repay the University. Colleges have delayed combining college courses and business courses long enough. Students are finding them essential.
Is Everybody Happy? You Said It!
The United Press comes through with this dispatch:
Paris, May 22 (UP)—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was quoted by the Journal today as saying in an interview with Abel Bonnard, member of the French Academy;
"It is thought abroad that Germany lives under a dictatorship. But a regime like ours cannot be maintained by constraint. People are for me because they know I really busy myself regarding their needs and problems and because their souls interest me. That is why I have my greatest partisans in the people and am loved more than German monarchs were."
So you see, people, that you were all wrong in your views on what is taking place in Germany. Everybody loves everybody else, and so on. The important thing is that everybody loves Hitler—he even says so himself...
Not Quite The Glory That Was Rome
The quarrel between the British and Italian empires reminds us of a quarrel between two small boys, both making the fiercest faces but neither with nerve enough to fight.
Mussolini's refusal to permit the Italian press to print any news of the coronation hardly fits in with his hope of restoring the glory that was Rome. We never heard of Julius Caesar sticking out his tongue at the Gauls (from the hither and sider side of the Alps), nor of Marcus Aurelius thumping his nose at the Parthians.
For a while we thought Il Duce was so peeved—peeved seems to be the proper word for his somewhat less than imperial rage—because the British press had been accusing his brave blackshirts of bombing women and children in Spain. It seems we were wrong. One cable let sin the real reason:
"Official Italy is indignant about continued British press reports of Italian defeats in Spain, particularly one widely published in England that Basque fishwives threw Italian soldiers from the windows of their houses in Bermeco."
We suggest that II Duce appeal to the League of Nations—or, perhaps, more properly to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. —New York Post.
Now It's Marriage Clinics
"Keep away from in-laws, even if you must live in a nutshell," is the advice of the Rev, Gilbert Appleof, Jr., of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Detroit, to young married couples. The Reverend should know, for he is preparing to open a marriage clinic, the first of its kind in the nation, the object of which will be to straighten out tangled marriages and lay a successful groundwork for those to take place.
The minister has worked out two separate charts on which he will record details of the
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
2. Bettermor or student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Construction of a medical science building.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookstore.
6. Addition to the stacks of the library.
9. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
b. Addition to the stacks of the library.
lives of married and unmarried persons. Aided by the charts and personal investigation, Rev. Applehof believes that he will be able to solve a great many of the troubles between young people which lead to the divorce court.
After ten years in the ministry, the Episcopal preacher says he is convinced that the main problem confronting the American public is laying a successful groundwork for marriage. And it is his belief that the solution of the difficulty lies in marriage clinics, which, he states, are just as necessary as health clinics.
The problem is an old one, one that sociologists, clerics, and others have attempted to meet for a long time without much success. But the approach Rev. Appleoflok takes is at least original, and who knows but what he may hit upon the correct method of reform.
Curb On Collegians
Judges and police officials who hold forth in college towns might be interested in remarks made from the bench recently by Judge Arthur P. Stone of Cambridge, Mass.
Some of the exuberant lads from Harvard and Massachusetts Tech got riotous the other night, threw part of Cambridge into a mild turmoil, destroyed a bit of property and fought with the coppers. Five of them landed in court; and when they came before Judge Stone he promptly fined them, remarking that "there seems to be some idea that there is something sacred" about the person of a college student but that he, as a judge, did not in any way share in the idea.
That idea, it might be remarked, is usually held by no one but the collegians themselves. And so almost every college town has known moments in which thoughtless students made rowdies of themselves, expecting that the town authorities would make allowances simply because they were students.—Topeka Daily Capital.
"No child," asserts Judge Florence Allen, lady jurist mentioned as a supreme court prospect, "is truly educated unless he knows the Declaration of Independence, the preamble of the constitution and the multilateral pact." And the batting averages of the big leagues' ten leading hitters—Kansas City Kansan.
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There Ought to be a Law
The library for the use of the students or for the indulgence of the faculty? Mr. Baker will tell you with great pride that it is for the students, but your library is not for them. Why? Because that the library is for the purpose of permitting the profs to acquire a library without buying any books. The library charges profs NO rent on overdue books. If a prof wants to keep a book 15 years it is OK with the library (I think 15 years is the record although the library has not).
with no penalties for keeping books from the library. Some faculty members have acquired so many KU books that their houses might be said to be sub-warehouse. Many faculty members stack not those on the New Book Shelf. A "best seller" may be held out 6 weeks. One faculty member at Northwestern University has books at the Northern Western University Library. Of course there is no penalty for such an error on the book. You will probably think what would happen to a student in a similar case.
What to do? One plan would be to charge the faculty members just one cent a day for overdue books. That $200,000 addition could be had in a few months with the proceeds. Another plan would be for the faculty to hold an annual fund to borrow their borrowed books until the faculty likewise returned a few. A Democrat
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The question is—can you believe your eyes? Modern psychologists tell us that we cannot. There are too many optical illusions present in everyday life some helpful, some amusing, and a few too dangerous to trust our eyes to tell us what is really taking place.
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"Pogendorf's Illusion" shows the strange behavior of slanting lines. Plumbers have to be extremely careful in following a slanting pipe through a wall, especially where there are numerous pipes, because it will emerge several inches below where he thinks it will. Architects must also be acquainted with complex structures from appearing to be falling down. As far back as 2000 years when the Greeks built the Parthenon, they knew they had to make thirty-four foot high pillars
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After-Images Are Startling
The magic-like actions of after-images are often startling. After staring at the stained glass window in a church for some time you look away and see its after-image on a blank wall but it will be in complementary colors, or opposites of the originals. Thus a red object gives a green aftermath, a black one, white, and a blue and yellow change places. When you stop your car suddenly, you and houses appear to be backhanging from you. The explanation of this is that an after-image of motion lasts for a number of seconds. For this same reason the scenery from an observation car after the train has stopped will seem to be advancing upon you. The same illusion can occur when watching a slowly moving part of machinery and tries to stop it at a desired point. When the motion is
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Have you noticed that sometimes waterfalls, trees, and rocks seem to be moving in the opposite direction? Or the moon seems to be sailing across it. The explanation is that your eyes are Continued on page 3
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