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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 1,936
Comment
"No Spirit. Eb. 'Phog' "
Perhaps Dr. Allen is right. Maybe the student body doesn't have the same kind of school spirit that has been shown in the past. But perhaps there is a reason for this lack of spirit. A short resume of the K. U. football record since the formation of the Big Six Conference, in 1928, discloses that--nothing more than a hypothesis which can't be proven until the necessary time has elapsed.
In '28 and '29 the University team finished in fifth place. In '31, '33, and '34 in fourth place. In '32 the University tied for second place with Oklahoma. In '35 K. U. finished in third place. And the year of our great triumph, '30 the team finished in first place winning four games and losing one.
Is this the kind of a record to touch the hearts of the present student body making them want to display all sorts of emotions (i.e. school spirit)? It is also interesting to note that the man who coached a University team to a conference championship is now freshman coach.
What of the Varsity team of today? Last Saturday spectators sat for two hours and a half watching these tricky- flashy running plays the lehabs put through the defensive line. On the offense the Jayhawkers' beautiful, smooth working end sweeps would net them a loss of a few yards. This writer does not claim to be a football coach or a sports writer, but somewhere he has heard of football fundamentals. The K. U. players did their best but somewhere, though, something seems to be wrong.
Dr. Allen speaks of the good old days when men were men and shirt tail parades were brawls. The days of furious battle under goal posts results in black eyes,ashed noses or broken bones. The days when contestants with broken legs would plead, with tear-filled eyes, to run the length of the field on their stumps. About the only thing of value that ever came out of this type of school spirit was a few mediocre moving pictures, many punch drunk morons and numerous cripples who are forced to go through life with a limp and a few scars.
The student body doesn't expect to see the University football players be so foolish as to vent their "school spirit," as it is called, to such an extent as to endanger physical well-being.
Generally speaking men play the game for three reasons; because they like the thrill of competition, because it is good for both their mental and physical well-being, or because it enables them to get a college education.
Emotional demonstrations, as defined by the layman, come from an unexplainable force. So it is with the displaying of "pep" or "school spirit" by the student body. It should be realized that school spirit cannot be generated—it is something spontaneous coming from inside the student. Give the students a reason for a demonstration and then watch what happens.
The material is here with which to construct a strong winning team. Give students a reason to kindle the inner spark and the flames of school spirit will burn high.
Remember last year when the erroneous fire alarm whistle summoned the students to the Hill? Recall the "pep" demonstration that started and ended finally at the Chancellor's home. Think of the support given to the basketball teams. To those men who report to the football field for practice each afternoon we take off our hat. To those players who sit on the bench each game and act as cannon fodder for the Varsity we give another salutation.
"No spirit, eh, 'Phog.'
When conservatives gather they call it a study club. Progressives call theirs a discussion group. "Forum" suits the liberals. And radicals have a mass meeting - Minnesota Daily.
Those who know, report, "the principal trouble with the fast young man is that he is not speeding in the right direction."-Daily Trojan.
Not So Dumb
College students are dumb! At least, the Daily Trojan seems to think they are: "College men go through hectic cycles. As freshmen they are dumb and they know it. As sophomores, they don't know it, but they are still are dumb. Upon turning to junior hood, their professors proclaim them dumb, but they don't care. In the senior year, they think the professors are dumb, and the professors don't care."
That's all well and good, but the Trojan fails to clearly define the word, dumb, which it so freely and definitely applies to fellow schoolmates. Do the editors have Webster's first meaning, mute or speechless, in mind? Professors and students, who have to listen to bluffing in class and applpolishing out of class, will not agree that college men are mute or speechless. In stead, they no doubt wish they were at times.
Or did the Tropan mean dull or stupid? How can this be true? Students seem to get through courses somehow and in the course of get a degree.
After it is all said and done, remember the old saying about the crazy man: "One sure way to tell when a man is crazy is when he thinks everyone else is crazy."
"Birds of a Feather--"
Last week Dr. Francis E. Townsend's scheduled broadcast over站 WENR, Chicago, was cancelled because the speech he was to make entailed the solicitation of funds which is "contrary to the policies of the National Broadcasting Company."
Dr. Townsend is now negotiating with two Mexican stations on the Texas border. If present plans go through, semi-weekly broadcasts from these stations would be made, featuring transcriptions of Townsend's voice.
You know, it's almost humorous, Townsend speaking between astrologers and cancer-users.
Coeds at Boston University study, as a part of a course in "social behavior," streamline and check-to-check dancing—Minnesota Daily.
The annual cost of crime to the United States, according to J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of investigation, is at least 15 billion dollars. But this, he says, is paid "in cash." So the only consolation about it is that the country is not paying by borrowing—Kansas City Star.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
There is an old idea that previews among most of us on the campus that we should drink or smoke because
I am reminded of a story told to me by a girl who had entered college as a freshman. When she attended her first party she found that she was stubbed and insecure. I remembered the moment when I burst into that it was demoralizing to nartage of such things.
But, at last she found out that she could not bear to be pointed out as the girl who had antiquated ideas. She wanted to be admired, popular, and modernist. She was too old or worse. Should she be led by another's judgment?
There is always that subconscious mind telling her don't. Still another voice keeps whispering, "You're alone, unpopular, and antiquated if you don't indulge." Has it ever occurred to you that there still is a moral standard and that the old fashioned girl cannot be right. And remember that society cannot always be right.
E J.
Editor, Daily Kansan;
A faint aord has already begun to emulate from
a neither regions of the Academy building, and by
the end of October we will be November that
editorize will smell like a zoo. I suggest that one or
two of the Ph.D. in the psychology department at
UCLA will get involved with this project's cage
and spray the mice's home—or else move the
objectionable fauna over to the basement of the Carnegie
Museum. R.E.
Editor, Daily Kansan;
At the game Saturday, during the playing of the national anthem most of the spectators and every Washburn player stood at attention facing the flagpole. Seven teams were in a group paid little or nothing to the proceedings.
Out on the field as they were their every action could not but be noticed by the crowd. Is it too much to ask that the team as representatives of the University pay a little respect to the flag and the National Anthem?
R. E.R.
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--nothing more than a hypothesis which can't be proven until the necessary time has elapsed.
ASME. There will be a regular meeting of ASME.
Thursday, October 8, at $ p.m in Marvin hall. Mechanics
Section.
L. S. Votaw, Secretary
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION. Regular weekly meeting Thursday morning at 7:55 in Room C, Myers hall. Students and faculty members are welcome.
Keith Davis, President
MID-WEEK DANCE. There will be a free mid-week dance tonight from 7-8 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom. Stages will be fined ten cents. Stage limit—200.
PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT: The initial meeting of the newly-created Personal Adjustment Commission of the M.Y.C.A. will meet in the "Y" office this afternoon at 4:30. Charles Coolbaugh, Chairman
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Men's Student Council tonight at eight o'clock in the evening. Secretary
QUACK CLUB: The Quack Club tryst will be continued tonight at 8 o'clock. All the women who have been requested to report again and those who have been unable to appear before should be present.
Memorial Union Building
Marjorie E. Rowland
TALK ON INDIAN COOPERATIVES: Dr. David Rodin-nick, Consulting Anthropologist, and Mr. Ben Rifle, Field Agent, office of Indian Affairs, U. S. Department of the interior, will speak on american Indian problem issues at 10 a.m. Central Administration auditorium Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. All interested are invited. Carol D. Clark.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY MEETING: The Faculty of the School of Education will meet in Room 112, Fraser hall, at eleven o'clock on Saturday, October 10. E. H. Lindsey, President
WORLD AFFAIRS COMMISSION OF Y.W.C.A.: The World Affairs Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at Henley House this afternoon following the Gingham Frolic. It will be a Spanish supper meeting. Charge—20 cents. Reservations must be made at Henley House before noon today. **Geneva Landridge, Chairman**
Sociology Department
Mary Jane Bruce, Hill Pianist. Sees Great Future for Concert Piano in Radio
By Larielle Ouffet, cunel
"I think the radio field is opening up more each day to the concert piano," averved Mary Jane Mireau, prominent Hill pianist, "and I think it will con-
tense me more and more with orchestras which are creating a love for good music and thereby paving the way."
Miss Bruce re-employed in the University of Kansas this fall after doing radio work over station KVO1 in Colorado Springs last summer. This was Miss Bruce's first entrance into the professional radio field. She played a series of 10-minute programs on Thursday evening during the summer, and was also interviewed by mentors and members of the press. She had previously played over stations WADF, WHAF and WLBF in Kansas City and one over a station in Boulder, N.Y.
Bach Her *A favorite* Composer
Miss Bruce Rouse is typical of that of a lover of music. In her second-floor room, she has her own Steinway piano and for her stool she uses an antique ladder-back chair with a hand-made needlepaint seat cushion. On the piano she plays in bass and on the wall hang autographed photograph of Myra Hess and Fritz Kreisler.
Bach is Mie Bruce's favorite composer, with Beethoven and Chopin ranking next. Of modern composers, her ideals are Myra Hess and Ignace Paderwack. She studied piano for 10 years under Eshar Shaw Gilson in
Question: What is your favorite knock-knock?
The Roving Reporter
Conducted by
Steven David, Esq. c37
Helen Deer, c37: "Highwzy cop Highway cop early in the morning."
Gordon O'Brien, 'c40: "Giddle- billet protect the working girl." This we may take some thought on the art of some.
Junior Lambert, c37: "Tennessee Tennessee the trees that fill, etc."
Ralph Hakeh, c'37. "Euripides-Eu-
ripides裤 and you'll pay for 'em"
Olive Kreibhel, fa 37. "Dick-Die*
e'm up, a tongue tied bandit."
We heared innumerable that should be printed, but, well, you know how such things are. Credit for the question goes once more to Gene Klimp
Barney Joyce, e28: "Winchell-Win-
chell we get those d-n knock-knocks
over?"
"Finally," Mr Kent continued, "frequent protests from the students concerning the accuracy of the clock brought an investigation that revealed that the weight of the pipes on the hands slowed down the clock when on the east side and speeded it up when the hands were on the west side. The custodian of the building, growing taller, pushed the clock heavily, caused the birds to slide off the eave, and changed a medico story into a scoop.
"The custodian was forced to sweep the gutters free of the pigeons, which had been killed in the fall from the roof, and had been again kicked in. Word seemed to spread among the pigeons that it was a dangerous place, and they never bothered us again; they were the consternation of the manorer, who kept the building a dead end place ever since."
Pigeons Take Time in Their Own Hands, or Feet
Professor C. V. Kent, teacher a physics for fifteen years in this university, yesterday unravelled to a Kanman reporter a startling tale of traditions that have made his mark on the colm of old back-street Blake hall.
As the conversation drifted around to the building as an ancient landmark, note was taken that the huge clock in the tower, looking down Oread, has received more attention than the edifice itself. Students tell time by the clock for months, sometimes, before they even learn the name of the hall it is at the only outdoor clock on the campus, its prominence is a fact.
"About ten years ago," Professor Kent broke in, "the pigeons which hovered in swarms so thick around the face of the clock that the position of the hands become sometimes indistinguishable." The reporter on the daily Kansan was at the end of his rope as to what to turn in at the copy desk. All efforts to exterminate in whole or part of these winged pests proved uneasy, but each new attempt resulted in a faint page box in the paper until Mr. Green realized the currence and began to reserve a place for it every now and then.
Kansas City, Kan. Owing to this training, when the entered the University on a scholarship last year, she was placed directly in the sophomore class. Last spring she won the Elizbiz B. Parry $50 gift scholarship from the School of Fine Arts at Wichita State and was awarded a scholarship membership in the Kansas City Municipal club.
When Miss Bruce was 16 she was hailed as a prodigy at the piano. She gave a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kana, and was assisted by John Wahlsstedt, well-known radio trentor. At present she is preparing some chamber ensemble music with a flute and cello to do over KFKU.
A Prodigy at 16
Here at the University, Mima Brise is a student of Prof. Cai Preyer, who also taught her last summer when both were on a family trip to Europe for popular music, nor does she dance. She also dislikes to play accompaniments. She is devoted to the piano and in the summer often practises 10 hours of orchestra, she usually practices two hours a day.
Miss Bruce's immediate goal on finishing the University next year is to win a scholarship to study in Europe. Her ultimate aim is the contest stage and
London to See 2000 Copies of Old Crown Jewels
London...(UP)—A unique collection of 2,000 copies and models of crown jewels, regalia and other emblems of royal ceremonial, including the crowns, scepters and orslets of England from the medieval era, will be exhibited in London.
For 40 years, Max Berman, of London, has traveled the capitales of Europe, making working drawings of royal jewelry, some cutters, politicians, and historians. He is making of this collection. He estimates that his hobby has cost him $150,000.
Copies of the imperial state crown, which was made for Queen Victoria, and is being altered to fit the head of a monarch. It will be crowned, with which the King actually will be crowned, will form the central feature of Bermans exhibition. He is confident that either could be substitutive or not, without the difference being detected.
During the Commonwealth, most of the coronation jewels of former kings and queens of England were destroyed. These were taken from ancient prints and documents. His collection includes crowns, sepulps, and orb of 36 English kings
Some of the earlier cullors have great beauty and simplicity of design. Henry III hulb what Berman describes as a "tiny house" with its small armourment by a "very small cross."
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The society of tomorrow is to be a voluntary co-operative system, where life is to be sustained by united effort. Yet before we reach this improved culture we are headed directly to revolutions; breakdowns of communism and dictatsthips; short depressions, yet on the whole, economic recovery.
This is the hypothetical prediction made by Dr. R. H. Wheeler of the psychology department, who for four years has been working on a study of cultural progress which includes the evolution of human nature in society.
The major findings have been compiled on a large graph scroll. The cultural progresses have been recorded by a line showing the peaks of culture which occurred during periods of aristocratic and socialistic tensions and which developed through a revolutionary period at the axis of the curve and develop at the lowest point of culture into what is predicted to be our new future. The mathematical properties of recent culture cycles suggested that the cycles didn't stop with Greece and Rome, but went on to the stone age. Then it was fashioned down as well as cultural and external back to the beginning of the earth.
However the cycles vary from 5,000 - 400, at the start, to a 35-year interval which we are in now. Because of this decrease which becomes to appear, the climate should warm up and should vanish in 1988. After that point they should begin to increase, which means the climate may become extremely severe in the distant future.
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