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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937
Comment
Tiresome Tradition
To "abolish in one sweep the expense, nuisance, and nonsense of graduation week" is a goal the Traveler, University of Arkansas student newspaper has set for itself. And darned if there isn't something in it.
We feel we should agree with the editor of the paper when he asserts that "of all the clap-trap and useless fixtures of college life, Commencement is one of the principal absurdities," but there is always the matter of tradition to consider—or is there? At any rate, something should be done about the speakers who flock to Commencements.
As the Traveler declares: "How many seniors want to sit through a baccalaureate sermon comprising little else but hollow plaititudes and faulty philosophy? How many seniors have any desire to endure a funeral exercise featuring borescene introductions, political bombast and medicore music?"
Boy, that's tellin' them!
The Home Stretch
Up till now it's been a pretty easy race we've been running since the middle of September. The track was reasonably straight and smooth, and any handicaps put in the way by heartless instructors one could usually avoid or somehow manage to fall over. Atlanta's golden apples of pleasure and diversion, cast hither and thither along the wayside, have helped to take our minds off the ultimate sprint we knew must be made before the tape line could be broken and this race pass into history.
Coming into the home stretch, however, things appear in a more somber light. The track is suddenly packed so full of obstacles in the varying forms of term papers, reports, make-up exams, and such that it seems impossible they can be hurdled in the short time remaining. Why, oh why, didn't we heed that smug little sign we've been passing daily in the "Ad" building, "It's easier to keep up than catch up"?
But courage, fellow student! That you are not alone in your suffering may be confirmed by a glance over the library where others like you are thumbing frantically through this book and that, worried lines furrowing their usually complacent brows. With a reasonable amount of cramming and worry you'll probably win the race after all. Worry and work can once again be cast aside and more pleasurable duties attended to. Our merciful and perpetual near sightedness can be counted on to blind us to the hurdles ahead.
A "Rotten Country"
'This is a rotten country.'
Thus spoke an adult of voting age as he scanned the headlines telling of the brutal murder of the Mattson boy.
Remarks similar to these have become increasingly frequent since the activities of Dillinger, the Karpis gang, and the Barrows brothers.
The person who makes such statements must somebody be brought to realize that in the final analysis it is his fault that many gangsters and murderers are loomed upon this continent. He it is who elects the legislators and then sits back in passive indifference to their activities. He turns thumbs down on proposals for slum clearance on the ground that it costs too much, never realizing how much more it costs in dollars and cents as well as in human misery when these cecopsools of crime are allowed to remain standing.
He takes no interest in plans for creative leisure for the children of the poor.
He permits politicians to run the prisons and reformatories from which convicts are turned loose on a hostile world to get along as best they may, with no lesson learned from their incarceration except to do a better job next time.
The time is growing near when additional thousands of young men and women will be sent out into the world from institutions of higher learning. Will they repeat the mistakes of their predecessors? Will they sit with furrowed brow because of the rising toll of murders and insanity, or will they roll up their sleeves and do something about it?
A Bouquet or Something
The University Daily Kansan has won a remarkable battle.
The power of a college newspaper which
The Kansan Platform
1. A well-rounded varsity athletic program.
1. Betterment of student working conditions.
2. Establishment of a cooperative bookstore.
4. An adequate building program, including;
a. Reopening of Dyche museum.
b. Construction of a medical science building.
2. Betterment of student working conditions.
4. Establishment of a co-operative bookseller.
4. An adequate building program, including:
5. Restoration of faculty and employee salaries.
b. Summing.
c. Addition to the stacks of the library.
jumped at the opportunity of fighting for a just cause was well demonstrated when the athletic department of the University of Kansas was given a complete shakeup following the Kansas's persistent crusade.
Let the Kansan tell the story:
"An irresistible force met the fabled immovable object in Topeka last Saturday. The immovable object, strange to say, budged perceptibly.
"The force was the firm, sincere efforts of the board of regents to do something about the Jayhawker football situation. The immovable object was the deeply mired athletic organization of the university.
"And when such a force meets such an object the concussion is apt to do considerable damage. It did."
Thus goes the story which tells of dethroning "Phog" Allen, Kansas's athletic dictator, and the setting up of a committee of three members to decide the future athletic policies of the university.
During the past football season, the newspaper heaped burning ridicule on the head of the football coach, Adrian Lindsey, former Oklahoma mentor, who has been directing the unsuccessful pigskin activities of the Jayhawkers for the past five years.
When the freshman team played the varsity to a scoreless tie, the Daily Kansan gave the verdict as, "Kansas Wins, 0 to 0"
And so on throughout the season, the paper continued its battle to secure some relief from the losing streak which the team continued to suffer.
With the new athletic setup, it may be expected that the paper will carry the fight to demand the removal of Lindsey and the installation of a new set of football coaches. Daily Oklahoma.
Campus Opinion
CAMPUS OPINION
Editor Daily Kansan:
What does the neutrality program of the U. S. and foreign democratic nations espousing Spain mean?
The Fascist nations continue to ship army units and munitions. That is an accepted and established part of their strategy, in the name of training volunteers and materials. The effect of this action has been to aid the cause of international Fascism. How one can aid peace by giving free rein to a bully is a bit of logic that the Kansan hasn't gone
The Fascists get all their planes from Italy and Germany. By decreeing the end of plane shipments to Spain and by virulence they have provoked a wave of insurrection, the cause of a democratic government. In the Ethiopian dispute last year we refused to embargo oil to Italy because we feared to be threatened by a retaliatory attack. In effect we aided Fascism. Now we do embark the shipment of arms to Loyalist Spain. Thus we do commit an un-neutral act toward a friendly power.
There is no danger of our being involved in war
we sell war materials for cash and let the parachute
fall.
Our action on neutrality means only one thing so long as Germany and Italy continue to defy international law and decency. That we facilitate the spread of Fascism and impel the cause of democratic pas-
And why does the resolution pass by Congress only refer to the civil conflict in Spain? Is our spam a problem?
Member of Editorial II.
Who reads editorials? Probably those who write them, and maybe a few of those incredible intellectuals.
Who writes the editorials? The editor and his associates principally, but trailing along behind, both in number and in quality, come a few uninspired editorial writing students.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Swamped with other things to do, we of this group must keep on writing. All the time, knowing that no one will读 our work because everyone else is too busy. And I should be careful not to and would be dazed, if we but didn't have to write!
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB: The International Relations Club will meet Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Pine Room. Professor W. W. Davis will discuss recent events in the Far East and invite you to attend the meeting time for members to attend the Swimming Concert—Dean Moorhead, Prosser.
LECTURE ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE:
Professor John Knaw will appear in 302 on Contemporary Literature. He will present in 205 Fraser, Upperclassman and graduates are cordially invited—W. S. Johnson, Chairman, Department
Vol. 34 Wednesday, January 15, 1937 No. 75
Official University Bulletin
LE CERCLE FRANCAISE: Le Cerce Franceis will meet this afternoon at 430 in Room 113. Administration building. Mrs. Quaida will speak on the program. She will be joined by all members present. Helen Cooper, Vice-President.
but we are doing it. We will have to do it.
But we keep on writing, writing. M.M.
MID-WEEK DANCE. There will be a free mid-week dance from T-8 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. Stags will be留给 10 cents. Stag W. - W. Cochrane, Manager, Memorial Union Building.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Men's Student Council tonight at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30.
Survey Shows Applied Music Students Have Highest Grade Point Average
Students in the department of applied music have the highest grade point average, for 1925-76, according to the survey made by the College office. Throughout the year there were 95 students enrolled in this department making an average of 2.38. These figures include all four classes.
Physiology and biochemistry shared the lower birth for the Freshman-Sophomore and Junior-Seniors courses respectively. There were 234 freshmen and sophomores enrolled in physiology, averaging 16.2 students per class for juniors and seniors in biochemistry, averning 77.
In the Freshman - Sophomore courses the English department reported the greatest number of marks. During the year there were 2352 marks recorded. The percent of the grades are as follows: $143\%$ A; $325\%$ B; $364\%$ C; $79\%$ D; $25\%$ E; and $64\%$ F$. The same department and the number of marks recorded are as follows: $631$ marks recorded; $234\%$ A; $44\%$ B; $241\%$ C; $27\%$ D; $35\%$ F; and $17\%$ F$.
It seems that about 1.4 for Freshman-Sophmore work and about 1.7
The German-American association of Kansas City will present Professor Friedrich Schonemann, head of the American department and institute of the University of Berlin Saturday, Jan. 16. Doctor Schonemann will lecture in German or The Spirit of Germany Today."
The meeting will be held at 8 p. m. in the hall room of the Steuben Club, 1115 E. Armour, Kansas City, Mo. The lecture will be followed by an informal dance with Karl Schinner's orchestra.
University Daily Kansan
GERMAN DOCTOR WILL
LECTURE IN K.C. SATURDAY
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for Junior-Senior work were the median departmental indices for 19-35."36.
There are 29 departments listed in 1935-36 in the Freshman-Sophomore list as against 28 in 1944-35, because the courses for Applied and Theory courses in must have been separated. Thirty-one departments are listed in the Junior-Senior list for 1935-36 as against 32 in 1944-35.
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