THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF: PAUL W. HARVEY - Editor in-Chief EDGAR MARKHAM - Managing Editor BUSINESS STAFF: R. K. JOHNSTON - Business Manager HOMER BERGER - Assistant Bus. Mgr JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Treasurer CARL EDDY - Circulation Mgr MEMBERS OF BOARD. ROY K. DEITRICH HENRY F. DRAPER FLAVEL ROBERTSON LOUIS LA COSS PEARL STUCKEY J. E. MILLER CARL CANNON W. E. HAMMER Entered as second-class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association. Address all business communications to Robert K. Johnston, Business Manager, 511 Ohio Street, Lawrence, Kansas; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1129 La. St., Lawrence, Ks. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance: one term, 75c; time subscriptions, $1.75 per year. Office in Basement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell. K U 25. SATURDAY, FEB. 5, 1919. Final examinations are ended and the students have been awarded their marks each according to his worth or according to what the professor thinks he was worth. Final examinations are a nuisance to the teacher, and to the student. But they are necessary and will persist until same genius suggests a satisfactory substitute for them. Examinations are always more or less unsatisfactory. In every quiz there are always some hard working conscientious, students whose examination papers do not give the teacher knowledge of what the student really knows. And then there are other students who accidentally run into good fortune in the examinations and whose papers do not give the professor a proper idea of what the student really does not know. Thus is goes, and everyone generally condemns examinations. As long as students have to be forced to work examinations are an absolutely necessary evil. From that standpoint their final abolition looks a great way off. Maybe at some future time all the students at the University will so love to study that they will master their lessons and their problems for knowledge's own sake. Then it will not be necessary to have examinations or keep a record of grades. Degrees can be granted after four years study. Until that great day we will have examinations with us. How nice it must be, after three and one-half years of strenuous existence on all the hard courses on the hill, to end a college career with a term of ten hours work and five of that economies 1. The students who rush into the "snap" courses in their first two years do not know that they are doing an act analogous to killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Hold off the easy courses until the last semester of your school life. Then as you smoothly and carelessly glide to the haven of Artium Baecalareaus you can look back on the troubled and stormy waters with a serene brow—and a knowing wink—by your left eye. Maybe the purported plan to establish a newspaper at the University which will follow the ideals of "sane journalism" is a subtle means of rebuking Arthur Brisane for his defense of the yellow journals at the journalism conference. Post-examination thought by a "flunker"—Achievement is the only solace for the longing of an ambitious soul, and accomplishment is the only consolation for father's dwindling bank account. BIG JUBILEE TONIGHT. Novel System of Advertising War Used Yesterday. Yesterday morning as the students came up the hill they had a small red card handed to them containing an inscription on each side: "Come to the Post-Exam Jubilee Tomorrow Night" and "Your Grades Will Be Handed Out." The latter further aroused the curiosity which the students have in regard to the entertainment and many are planning to go to the gymnasium tonight.The committee in charge have been giving much thought to the amusements for the evening, and every one who attends is promised a fitting celebration of the close of quiz week. AT EMPORIA TODAY. Members of University Faculty Attending Association Meeting. Chancellor Strong, Prof. R. R Price, Prof. W. H. Johnson and Prof. L. E. Sisson are attending a meeting of the Association of High School Superintendents at Emporia today. Professor Price is president of the association and will speak at the meeting. Prof. W. C. Stevens is in Salina today to speak before the meeting of the Saline county teachers' association. Only 7 more days and our Sale closes. Suits, Overcoats, Shoes, Manhattan Shirts, Underwear, at a saving of 25 to 40 per cent You better Hurry! New Hats are here. We have everything for your work. Second Term Text=Books and Supplies ROWLANDS' College Book Store "Where Students Go" GRADUATES EARN MONEY AMOUNT DEPENDENT UPON THE PERSON. "How much may a person earn after getting a college education?" The question is often asked, and best answered by saying: "Any Amount. It depends upon the person." From 180 Requests Sent Out, 151 Graduates Were Gettings $469,157 Yearly Salary. There has been so much of speculation regarding the salaries of college graduates and especially regarding the income of engineers and men of technical training, that at a recent gathering of a class graduated ten years ago from one of the foremost technical colleges in the country it was decided to collect reliable information on this point. There were about 180 graduates in the class in question, and as they had become scattered in all parts of the country, and had taken up a great variety of business and of engineering lines of work, it was evident that the results would be of great value. Furthermore, they would provide information of a kind that people in general have much interest in, but can ascertain little about. A college man's success, like that of any other man in the business world of today, must of necessity be judged largely by his salary, or by the amount of money that he is able to make. Here and there a man is to be found whose labors have been the work of love or one who keeps at his task largely for the glory or the honor that may be attached to the position that he holds, but such men are greatly in the minority. Information blanks, asking for replies to certain questions covering location, business, etc., were sent out to all the graduates of the college class referred to above. It was requested that the salary for the preceding year be marked on a blank card and returned in a separate envelope, and in order to avoid any occasion for exaggerating the salary, all of the "income envelopes" were opened by a stranger. Of the 180 requests sent out,151 replies were received. These came from thirty states in this country one reply each from Canada, British Columbia, and Mexico, and three replies from countries in Europe. Of the 151 men who answered, 70 per cent were married and the married ones had a total among them of ninety-nine children. The great majority of them were managers, engineers, or executives for successful manufacturing and business corporations, dealing with the work in electrical, civil, mining and other engineering lines. A few in business for themselves as consulting engineers, one was a lecturer, one a California ranch owner, and ten were in the service of the United States government. These details are mentioned to show the wide reaching and representative character of those whose replies form a basis of the statistics of salaries given here. The lowest salary received was $728. The largest salary was $20 000. The following table shows the salaries for the last year, separated into divisions of $500 each and the number of college men receiving salaries in each of these divisions: Yearly No. men each division. Yearly salary No. men ex. division. Below $1,000 2 $1,000—$1,499 14 1,500—1,999 30 2,000—2,499 27 2,500—2,999 27 3,000—3,499 18 3,500—3,999 11 4,000—4,499 7 4,500—4,999 0 5,000—9,999 15 10,000—20,000 7 The average received for the year was $3,107. The total amount of money received by the 151 graduates during the last year in their business work was $469,. 157, or nearly $500,000. Another interesting item that developed from the replies received was that the seven states in which the largest incomes were earned, and these were also the seven states in which the largest number of men were employed, are as follows: Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana Pennsylvania and Colorado. TALKED IN TOPEKA Prof. Boodin Told of Citizen's Duty to Municipality. Prof. J. E. Boodin commended the commission form of government for cities in his talk at Topeka Thursday evening to the ladies of the City Federation of clubs and their husbands. The subject of his address was "The Citizens Duty to the Municipality" and as Topeka has recently adopted the commission form of government it was quite natura for Professor Boodin to discuss i in his speech. While endorsing the method Professor Boodin recognizes that the right kind of people must be back of it. "Any government will be all right if we get the right people back of it," he said "There must be a public conscience. The government is merely a tool and it depends upon how you handle it as to the success you have. Prof. Boodin also said that city ownership of some of the public utilities was calculated to increase their efficiency. Will Be Married in May. That all college engagements are not mere "engagements" is shown by the fact that Miss Lola Smart, '09, and Mr. William Clark, are to be married at Ottawa May 10th. Miss Smart graduated last spring and has since been teaching school at Ottawa. Mr. Clark left school in his sophomore year, going into the flour business at Pittsburg, Penn. Miss Smart is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Mr. Clark a member of Phi Gamma Delta. ATTEND THE LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. for a course in Bookkeeping, Show band, Typewriting and Pennamisha Lawrence National Bank Buildin Telephone 717. Protsch THE TAILOR The Watkins National Bank Capital $100,000 Surplus $50,000 Undivided profits $20,000 J. B. Watkins, Pres. C. A. Hill, V. $ C. H. Tucker, cashier. W. E. Hazen, assistant cashier. R. B. Wag staff Staple and Fancy Groceries 839 Massachusetts St. Both Phones 25. Special Attention to Spreads. Programs and Invitations Made to order. Either printed or engraved. A. G. 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