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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936
Comment
The Big Four
It is the honest belief of the Republican party that the President's popularity is on the ebb, and to brien their gobble of bliss, they have the deep conviction that their own situation, both with respect to candidate and issues, has undergone a welcome clarification. As things stand today the field of probable candidates has narrowed down to four names only: Governor Afl Landon, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Herbert Hoover and Senator William E. Borah. These men constitute the big four as far as the June convention is concerned.
The master strategists of the Republican party are profoundly convinced that Mr. Hoover could not defeat Mr. Roosevelt. The tragic years of 1930 and 1922 are not enough removed to give Mr. Hoover a chance to successfully return to the political arena.
Although, he was not considered a serious possible candidate when it became known that he would try for nomination, Senator William Borah has flooded with communications assuring his support in several parts of the country. What is more some of these communications come from party workers whose word carry authoritative meaning.
The strength of Senator Vandenberg lies in a certain conviction on the part of Republican leaders that his nomination would gain Borah's support and he would represent the conservative element of the party. The fact that the American people would rather vote against somebody than for them, gives Mr. Vandenberg the advantage because he is comparatively unknown.
At present, the most likely man for the Republicans is Alf Landon. He is a Western man whose successful governing of a state right in the center of the wheat and corn belt, makes him the one man who can cope with the farm relief issue. Landon has a vast amount of proven ability, much common sense, a great respect for the Republican party and a "nice way with people."
Dean of a Nebraska college reports that a study of the student's conversation indicates only seventh-of-1 per cent of the boys and two-tenth-of-1 per cent of the girls are interested in economic and social matters. A bunch of politicians wouldn't show up much worse than that—Cleveland Press.
Self-Inventories
A recent New York Times' article "Undergraduates: A Case Study," treated on the subject of the student and what he does with his time. The article was based on data collected from 700 students in a mid-western college.
Out of 29 forms of leisure time amusements, those favored most by students were "sheer idleness, random conversations, listening to the radio, 'bull sessions,' drinking, and cruising around the campus in a car." Outside of dates, the average student uses three and one-half hours of his time per week in dancing and one-and-half hours playing bridge.
Contrary to popular belief, very little time is allotted to extra-curricular activities by students. As for cultural activities, the average student finds very little time for them in his crowded week.
When students are asked how they utilized their time, the answers were always vague. Many of the students did not know just what they had done with their time.
Students should start on a self inventory to determine whether or not a proper balance between loaning and making the most out of college has been achieved. The results in most instances will be surprising—"Syracuse Daily Orange."
Sometimes the art of framing a political platform is confused with the art of framing an electorate—Grand Island (Nebr.) Independent.
I would rather be sick than idle—Seneuca
Continued Gambling
While the United States is planning legislation that would merely sink our country further in the financial mix, Great Britain's national budget has been held in almost exact balance for the past three years. This feat has been achieved, not by increasing the governments total income from taxation, but by reducing its costs of doing business. True Britain's economic problems are different from our own, but they are not so different that her present policy might help in our own country. Some day this ever increasing taxation is going to reach a saturation point and the government will be forced to decrease instead of increase taxes.
Although the national chamber of commerce, and other groups representing a part of organized business, have assailed the administration's 799-million-dollar tax program, a subcommittee is shaping the program into a bill. We note that President Roeveck has called upon business to help reduce unemployment, and yet, his administration seems to be levying taxes to the extent that business cannot possibly better the unemployment situation. The proposed legislation would also arrest the establishment and development of new business enterprises.
On Things Academic
“In the spring a young man’s fancy turns—” away from things academic. Books grow久厚, classroom walls turn to frowning prison bars. As a direct outgrowth of this feeling of boredom with study, there arises the age old question of whether or not an academic education is of any worth.
Many arguments are advanced against college. The principal one is that it does not fit one for anything in particular. The future is vague. Employment bureaus do not guarantee "white collar" jobs. We know of a former honors student from Cornell who is now behind a soda fountain and an engineer from M.I.T. who is a garage assistant on a back street in a New Jersey town. It is a rather drab picture.
But should a college function as an employment bureau? Most assuredly not, we believe. To assure a graduate a position is as foolish as it is impossible. In the last analysis the modern university and college exist for the purpose of teaching the fundamental truths of life and living. If properly used, a college can take a boy who has little conception of what his fellow humans are really like and mould him into a man who understands human nature, can co-operate with others, and perhaps lead them.
A college education is capable of developing personality, and of bringing out and correlating the traits that are peculiar to every human being. When the student realizes this fully, he will see the futility of bemoaning the fact that his college is not a glorified employment bureau. If he has obtained broad knowledge, he had obtained a great inner resource, that will let him see beyond the immediate present, the office job, and the home in the suburbs.-Brown Daily Herald.
The peasant women of Russia have been ordered to work six days a year on the roads. If they do well at it Stalin let them have a few days every summer to rest up in a coal mine.
-New York Sun.
Politics is an emotion. The question is, what effect will $4,880,000,000 have on the emotions of a supposedly free people?—Milwaukee Sentinel.
They think now that Hitler got out of the interior decorating game because he handled wall paper like a treat—Portland Morning Oregonian.
Wanted: Integration
What principles shall guide our lives?
Almost every department of the University presents different subject matter and different viewpoints. The zoology student pooh-poahs the abstraction of the philosophy department. In sociology one hears that many of our social lays may be attributed to economic problems, that there must be production to meet consumption. Then one goes right into advertising class to learn the technique for making the public buy more goods. Shall the students work for the good of the poor consumer from a social viewpoint, or shall he try to make more money via the business school? Shall the School of Fine Arts make the student appreciate beauty for his aesthetic's sake, or shall he cease to waste his leisure with such drivel and saturate his afternoons with chemical experiments?
Truly the student is caught. A network of various miconiesties of viewpoint is clutching at him for four long years in college. Then, on graduation, he heaves a sigh of relief at the joy of being able to cast off the burdensome net. After having been exposed to all these trains of thought, he goes "out into life" and falls back on his own theories and ideas.
Has the dabbling into psychology, sociology, literature, biology, philosophy, music, history, and astronomy given the student a well-integrated philosophy of life? Through some method the student should be able to construct for himself an organized philosophy. A movement is underway, sponsored by the Progressive Education Association, to give special training in high school that will enable the student to synthesize and unify what he has learned. There will be no true education until the whole system directs itself more toward the future.
The only punishment meted out to the five Dionnes is being stood in a corner—which is a very good trick in a four-cornered room.
—New Orleans Times-Picayune.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Notices due at Charleson II's Office at 3 p.m. preceding regular publication days and 11:10 a.m. saturday for Sunday issues.
A. S.M.E. There will be a meeting of A.S.M.E. tonight at 8 o'clock in Marvin hall. All mechanical engineering students are urged to attend. Final plans for the Engineering Exposition will be completed.
Vol. 33 APRIL 14, 1936 No. 133
Ray Halstead, Secretary.
--take these five hours in a language in which they already have credit.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The regular meeting will be held Wednesday morning at 7:55 in Room C, Myers hall. Students and faculty members are invited. Keith Davis, President.
Recently the University faculty voted to revise the group system as it now applies to students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Science. Because this change caused a great deal of comment and misunderstanding among students, we will explain the new plan and show what the new regulations will accomplish.
Dr. Nelson Explains How New Group Plan Will Benefit Future Students
Where formerly the entire College curriculum was divided into ten groups, it has now been redivided into four divisions, as is shown below.
Group 1.
English Field A:
Group II.
Ancient Language ... Field B.
Group III.
Modern Language ...
Group IV:
Mathematics ... Field A
Group V.
Physical Science Field B
Group VI.
Biological Science ... Field C:
SEM DIVISIONS
Division I
Language
Speech and Dramatic Art
Journalism
Latin
Greek
Germanic Languages
Germanic Languages
Division II
Group VII.
History ... Field A: B
Field B:
Group VII.
Philosophy ... Field C: Philosophy
C: Chemistry
    Physics and Astronomy
    Geology
B: Biochemistry
Philosophy ... Field C
Group IX.
Professional ...
Group X.
Miscellaneous ...
2. Before a student may enroll for any part of the final 30 hours of residence work for the A.B. degree, he must pass a prodigy examination in English. This examination shall be set by a committee chosen from the department of English, and the reading of the examination papers shall be under the supervision of a committee of five, two or three members of the department of English.
D. Students who present two units of one foreign language from high school shall be deemed to have also met the requirements for the Field B of Division I, provided that by the end of the first semester after matriculation they pass a proficiency examination, given by the department for the final semester, and have an average difficulty in that language.
Botany
Bacteriology
Entomology
Zoology
Physiology
Anatomy
Division III
History
Economics
Political Science
Sociology
E Students who satisfy the minimum distribution requirement of five hours only in Field B of Division I must
A-1. Of the 124 hours required for the AIB degree, 20 hours shall be taken in each of the first three divisions shown above. Fifteen hours must be taken in each division. Sixth and seventh the sophomore year, of which five must be in each of two fields in each division.
2. Five hours of work offered by the department of home economics may be applied in the satisfaction of distribution requirements under one of several options.
These new rules which have bee-
approved by the faculty will go inti-
fect with the class graduating in
June, 1940. The new regulations, then,
will apply to the freshman class enter-
ing the University in September, 1960.
This rule. A change has been made in
the number of junior-senior hours re-
quired. Under the new system at least
50 of the 124 required for graduation
shall be in junior-senior courses, but this provision will go into effect only when, in the opinion of the Admini-
strative Committee, a sufficient number
of students are enrolled. The rule will not at any rate become effective for at least two years.
The requirements in Rhetoric and in foreign language shall remain the same as at present, as modified by the rules and by the three rules which follow.
A summary of the new rules as stated in a bulletin issued recently by the College office follows:
B. A maximum of 40 hours shall be allowed in the major department, of which at least one department must not more than 25 hours. The minimum hours to be offered as completing a major course shall be 30. A maximum of six hours may be allowed in any department other than the major. The maximum in a field of more than one department shall be 60 hours.
C. 1. The English department shall offer the opportunity to all students whom it ascertains to be qualified, to take an examination testing them on the material of the freshman course in rhetoric. Any student who passes this examination will be awarded or all of the five hours of work required and he shall then be regarded as having satisfied an equivalent number of hours of the distribution re-required.
Philosophy Psychology
- Biochemistry may apply in either Field C or Field B
Division IV
Home Economics
Religion
Design
Drawing and Painting
Music
Arithmetic Science and Tactics
Physical Education
Professional Courses
which they already have credit. F. To satisfy the distribution requirement in Division A, a student must gain credit in at least one course in English literature or the literature of a foreign language.
G. To satisfy the distribution requirement in Division 2, a student must gain credit in at least one laboratory course. And now what will these new regulations accomplish? It should be noted that these are not radical, but simply an extension of the work for the A.B. degree as it is offered. The new regulations require that students complete 20 hours in each of three three new divisions indicated, and in six different fields. These fields roughly correspond to the groups as now constituted, the main language groups are now merged into one field, and the present history group (which should properly be called the social science group) is divided into two fields. Under the new system 60 instead of 30 hours of work are demanded for completion requirement, but it should be made 15 hours of this 60 will ordinarily be in the major subject.
The specific differences which the institution of the new regulations, as listed in the College bulletin, will make are indicated below:
1. The new regulations will insure that candidates for the AB, degree have a somewhat better balanced program of studies than is required of them at present. Probiably a third of our students will be affected by the proposal requiring them to complete more than 60 hours of study if they branchs of knowledge, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.
2. After 1940 no student will receive the A.B. degree who has not become acquainted with scientific methods in an institute laboratory course in a natural science. A fairly large number of students at the A.B. degree without having had such a course.
3. After 1940 no student will receive the A.B. degree who has not had at least one course in literature. Actually, very few students at present fail to take such a course, but it has seemed to minimize the possibility of their doing so.
4. Hereafter students may, if they wish, secure more credit in the social sciences. For some time there has been
an increasing demand that our present history group be divided; and the institution of the two separate social groups is under Division III, meets this demand.
7. Finally, in the new rules the first attempt is made in the College of Liberal Arts, so the policy of evaluating work only in terms of grades. The qualifying examinations provided for in Rules C(1), and C(2), and more important still, the policy of making the test Rule A(2), will, it is hoped, serve to remind students of the importance of scholastic attentions instead of grades. This is, the faculty believes, a desired effect.
6. Most important of all, possibly, after 16.40 no one will be voted the A.B. degree until he has demonstrated a reasonable mastery of the English language, as shown by by a grade but passing a proficiency examination.
5. After 1940 the foreign language requirement for the A.B. degree will be somewhat more exacting than the one at present. Many students will have to take courses in English beyond the one or two beginning courses in which they frequently enroll.
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