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TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 1937
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Comment
The Final Straw
When "final week" is abolished on this campus, Colorado State will advance another step toward the true educational ideal.
The only factor favoring the giving of finals is that a few students are enabled to redeem themselves after having failed to study all semester. These people who study only for finals should not be in college—and therefore deserve no chance to continue.
Performance on final examinations is no measure of what he has learned! It merely indicates one's cramming ability and the faculty of retaining data from one day to the next.
Finals play the most harvoc on students themselves—sleepless nights, cigarettes, black coffee, worry and red eyes—are only some of the apparent results.
We hope that professors may some day be able to ascertain student ability through the duration of the course without the last minute capacity to cram being used as a mental yard-stick—Rocky Mountain Collegian.
This Little Theatre of which we speak is located in a southern metropolis. We won't mention any names, but because it may be indicative of the cultural tastes of the town, we will say that there was once a very popular radio station located in this city which greeted its listeners with "Hello, World, dawgone you"
Dilettante Doings
Collecting America is a fruitful pastime. No matter what mood you're in, you can appreciate a good specimen. Sometimes you can study a particularly good specimen and run a whole gamut of moods. Take this Little Theatre magazine we have here. At first we felt Sinclair Lewis-ish, and laughed hard, cynical laughs—even got a belly laugh at a couple of things. But now we feel mellow. After all, there's no use being cynical because little children won't act like grown-ups.
The Little Theatre is a fine thing, we suppose, any way you look at it, but we admire it especially for the contributions it has made to the theatre arts. Although it does not exist for Art's sake in this southern city, it is probably still a fine thing for the children. See if you can guess its raison d'etre in this city:
"There will be an intermission of fifteen minutes between the first and second acts, and ten minutes between the second and third, during which the audience is invited to partake of Dainty Coffee, which will be served in the lobby."
"Thank you, Monogram Coffee company, for Dainty Coffee; Big Chain Stores for cream; Piggy-Wigly Stores, for sugar . . .
"The Guild of the Little Theatre announces that it will conduct a shrubbery shower in the honor and for the beautification of the newly purchased lot next door to the theatre."
There was a swell airplane crash in the last play they put on. The sound effects were produced thusly: "First, a double-barreled shot gun was fired together with a small cannon. Second, a 200-pound log chain was dropped from the roof on three pieces of tin roofing. Third, two 50-pound weights were thrown on the three pieces of tin roofing. Fifth, a large box filled with broken glass was thrown to the floor.
Now can you guess what this Little Theatre is for? Doesn't it bring tears to your eyes to see the little children holding up their curly little heads for each other to pat? Bless you, my children!
"The crash was under the supervision of Mr. W. J. Macintyre and John Rohkoph, with the assistance of Burton Weekley, Leslie Pennington, Hugh Gallagher, Tom Fitzgerald, J. B. McCarthy, Dr. E. L. Ford, and John Allen."
Headline in the Student:
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FOR 14 HAMBURGERS
We'd need hesitate before asking her to a beach party—Indiana Daily Student.
Jumping the Hurdles
With only 43 members this year, Nebraska's unicameral legislature has become the center of attraction for government and political science students. Many states have named committees to visit Lincoln and watch the operation of a one-house legislature, and 26 of the other 43 state legislatures in session have before them bills which seek the adoption of the one-house plan.
The Kansan Platform
Candidates for election last November campaigned on a non-partisan basis in the 43 disc. Addition to the stacks of the library.
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
4. An adequate building program, including:
a. Reopening of Dyche museum.
b. Construction of a medical science building.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
3. Establishment of a co-operative bookshelf.
4. An adequate building program, including:
triets carved out according to population. Twenty-two of those elected are Democrats and 21 are Republicans.
The lieutenant governor is the presiding officer but provision has been made for a speaker to relieve him.
The adoption of the abbreviated session has cut total salaries from $106,660 to $75,000 a session, and traveling expenses, clerical help and stationery should be reduced in the same proportion. The smaller assembly should be able to get more work done, avoid deadlocks, and be less unwieldy than the two-house body. Responsibility should also be more easily fixed.
Nebraska's experiment, although it is not the first of its kind, is in keeping with the general movement to put more business management into governmental affairs.
Apropos the Queen and the Cunard now under construction which rumor has it will be named the Mrs. Simpson because it will be faster, F.A.P., writes to suggest the latter will doubtlessly have better lines, too.—The Chanute Tribune.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kauan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Striking inconsistencies stand out in the American Student Union's stand on the Spanish war.
If I remember right, it was only last year that the worthy conquered were advocating non-intervention in Il Dince's Ethiopian squabble—now they would have the United States intervene in the Spanish retaliation.
And on Peace Strike days, anything that were a uniform from the Boy Scouts and the R.O.T.C. up, were roundly damned—yet in advocating intervention, economic or otherwise, the A.S.U. (for the boys are not dumb) must presuppose a strong army and move to back any intervening moves that this country would
Another marked digression from the former policy is their definition of the cause of the last war compared with their actions regarding the Iraq war. It is clear that international bankers war supplies and munitions manufacturers for driving the United States into the last war—yet they would not have succeeded at all if before anyone knew exactly what is happening.
And the tactics used by the A.S.U. in advocating its policy are strangely like those of the S.A.U., which is also notorious for sending the "suffering Spanish Loyalist youth," presupposing again, of course, that one of them was living in Spain in a time of oppression that one of them was aware that the Loyalists might have caused Rebel youth. Which is obviously not humanitarianism, but opportunistic.
In other words, they are using the old pre-war propaganda of whose authors and who would go stuff to future leaders. In fact, we can reason and an objective, unbiased viewpoint.<sup>3</sup> Also, to supplement their propaganda, they have furnished a new set of war stories, like fighting a "war to end war," this time they would happily fight "to save civilization." How unutterably sweet it is.
It seems to me that the A.S.U. is taking, at an early date, the part that Mr. Heurst took in the Spanish-American war and that the Allied propagandists took in the last conflict. They are giving us nice, dripping little one-sided actify stories, substituting a story with another, supplying a soul-stirring snippet. Very neat indeed.
So a conclusion might be drawn, if one is to follow the line of these digressions. Perhaps in the near future we can expect the American Student Union to teach our students shirts, a salute and lead, clear-voiced cries of "Hell."
Editor Daily Kansan:
The other day you printed my campus opinion asking that asbes be put on the sidewalks. I facetiously warned that unless the sidewalks were made safe I might even go so far as to boycott the Uni-
Is my face red?
Today I discovered that the walks were almost ankle deep in ashes.
W.S.
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Vol.34 Tuesday, January 19, 1937 No.79
BASKETBALL USHERS AND GATEMEN Sule-
ku-ten State apples troush—Herbert G. Alphin
State apples troush—Herbert G. Alphin
Official University Bulletin
COLLEGE FACULTY. There will be NO meeting of
the College of Arts and Sciences today. E. H. Lindley President.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: There will be a meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in Room C Myers Hall. Students and faculty members are welcome—Keith Davis, President.
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FRESHMAN MEN: There will be a regular meeting of the Freshman Council of the Y.M.C.A. at 7 o'clock this evening,—Don Voorhees, Chairman of Freshman Council.
TRANSFERS: Students who expect to transfer from one school of the University to another for the spring semester should make application immediately at the university's office for such transfer—George O. George Rugby.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL VACANCY. Notice is hereby given of a vacancy in the office of Pharmacy representative. Applications for the filling of this position must be in my hands by January 24.
WORLD AFFAIRS COMMISSION There will be a meeting of the Affairs Commission until Feb. 10, and March 9, 2013.
William Zupanec, Secretary.
Y.W.C.A. ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION:
The Y.W.C.A. Advanced Standing Commission will meet in House at 4:30 today for the second of three days to discuss marriage and the family. The discussion, the subject of which will be "Adjustments Within the Family," women are invited —Ruth Harris, Chairman.
History Writes Robert E. Lee as Soldier Forgets He Started College Journalism
History has a habit of reserving niches in her hall of fame for soldiers and performers of more spectaculary feats. The moving finger seldom writes large concerning the men who work more quietly, but whose deeds, if not their names, live after them. Today is the birthday of a man who is remembered as a soldier, but whose most lasting work was done as an educator or teacher of art, an educator, yet his is one of the out-standing names in the history of journalism education.
General Leces had been an honor student at West Point, and was later superintendent of the academy. He occupied a high position in the United States Army when secession in 1861 called him back to his native
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It's a Riot--a great loss to the South, and the rest of the country as well, but his influence in the rehabilitation of the South lived after him.
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A reporter from the New York Sun made a trip to Lexington, Va., to get a story on this unheard-of innovation. Country-wide interest was around, and the reactions were electric. Eric Hudson, former manager editor of the New York Tribune, said, "Professor James Gordon Bennett, or Professor Horace Greeley would turn out more genuine journalists in one year than the Harvards, could produce in a generation." E. L. Godkin, editor of the Nation, was equally virulent.
At the end of the Civil War, Lee was offered many important business positions, but declined them because, he said, his job did not require such work. In spite of the fact that the war had left him a very poor man, he turned down these more lucrative positions to accept the presidency of Washington College, now Washington and Lee, at a salary of $1,500 a year.
"He was faced with a serious responsibility. The army very rarely needed a new order in the South. The war had left in its wake destruction and poverty. General Lee was determined to train the students in the light of the social needs of the time. The traditional college courses were Latin, Greek, French, and English. He proceed called for the addition of courses in modern languages, law, engineering, business and applied chemistry. The South needed men to rebuilt the wreck left by the war. Lee saw the need for men with social vision and a realization of the importance of teaching and help in shaping public opinion, and on March 30, 1869, he submitted to the board of trustees an unprecedented recommendation. It was that courses be established in journalism. Fifty scholarships were to be given to journalism students to pro-
But Lee had laid the foundation for a program of education in journalism which developed to its presiden-
tial status in 1865, a curriculum. His death in 1865 was
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In the chapel of Washington and Lee College, Robert E. Lee, soldier, educator, and greatest hero of the South, lies in undying glory, revered by all. The life-like recumbent statue by Valentine which decorates his tomb is a beautiful and impressive sight. In another part of the chapel lie Lighthouse Harry Lee and other famous members of the family who have joined him in death. His wife, Emily, a fitting memorial to the educator who has gone down in history as a soldier.
Candid Cameras
Gain in Popularity
On The Campus
The increasing interest being shown in the use of candid cameras for news photography in this country has made itself evident in various publications on this campus. The Sour Owl was the first publication here to adopt this method of introducing material to its readers. The Jaya Kumar, who is proudly with which it plans to obtain pictures of the various new events and features included in its mages.
Edward N. Doam, assistant professor of journalism, announced last night that the department of journalism has in its possession a large collection of digital cameras that they contemplate buying several smaller cameras in the future, so that students in the Reporting I classes may acquire some practical experience in news photography because the equipment is not, at the present time, equipped to offer a technical course, but plans are being made for a series
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KANSAS PLAYERS PRESENT
WEEKLY DRAMA OVER KFKU
Johnny Frye, first of the riders of the express, was a young horseman whose journey, twice a week, took him across Joseph across 125 miles of Kansas.
Monday night the Kansas Players presented another of their weekly programs, dramatizing the history of Kansas, over KFKU. Last night's play was "Johnny Frye of the Pony 'press'"
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The members of the cast were: Mary Frances Martin, Carl Peters, Natalie Nuckles, Allen Crafton and Martin Maloney. The sound effects were done by Dale Whitaker, Joe Myers, and James Bradley. This film is directed by Rollo Boldt in the department of speech and dramatic art.
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