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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934
University Daily Kansan
Oblief Student Paper of
THE TOWER OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANAS
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IT'S WORTH TRYING
A concerted effort to prove to colleges, educators, and the public that American fraternities are a constructive force in academic life has been inaugurated by the National Interfraternity Conference. The first step taken has been the formulation of a set of criteria regarding the relationship between fraternity and educational institution.
They urge, among other things, that the fraternity should promote conduct consistent with good morals and good taste; that it should create an atmosphere which will stimulate substantial intellectual progress and superior intellectual achievement, and that the objective and activities of the fraternity should be in accord with the aims and purposes of the institutions at which it has chapters.
This Interfraternity Council project will react in one way or another upon 170 college campuses, where national fraternities are located. It is the beginning of an effort to combat the adverse criticism which has hounded Greek letter organizations from the beginning, and to combat it with action instead of words.
Whether or not it succeeds in convincing a critical public of the worth of national fraternities, it is a commendable action on the part of the Council. National fraternities may wield a powerful influence for good or for evil in American college life, and it is to the credit of their national executives that efforts are under way to assure its being an influence for good.
Last year the automobile makers gave us "pants" for our fenders. This year came knee-action wheels. Next year we may expect announcement of "The new knee-pants for knee-action wheels."
GETTING DOWN TO A PAVEMENT BASIS
A recent visitor from Panama commented on the brick walks of Lawrence.
"I have visited in many places and countries and have learned that there is a reason, and a good reason, for the peculiar customs of each community. I have not yet discovered the reason for these brick walks, but I know there must be one. Perhaps it is to keep one from sliding down hill in the winter."
The woman from Panama is not the only one who has not discovered the reason for the brick walks. If it is true that they were laid as a preventive measure for sliding, is the service which they render a small part of the year worth the torture they inflict the rest of the time?
New students on the Hill find themselves walking between the amply spaced bricks rather than on them, and hitting all the chips and depressions. It is the seasoned student who sets his foot down at just the proper angle and with the proper weight, thereby saving himself a pair of heel caps, and avoiding a stubbed toe or a twisted ankle.
Lawrence is a rising business and residential town. Its stores,
treets, and citizens are progressive, but its brick walks are hopelessly outmoded and inconvenient.
The town is large enough that good sidewalks would appear to be a necessity. If the walks on several of the main streets leading to the downtown district were paved, many a student would offer up fervent thanks.
COLLEGE SOPHISTICATES
The young, as everyone knows, have always been fond of adopting exaggerated attitudes, and after all, college students are not so very old. Most of them haven't yet learned to maintain a sensible balance in either living or thinking. And so they carry on a constant series of experiments in everything from coifures to "philosophies of life."
Of all the poses popular with the student, the youngest and most amusing is the determination to achieve sophistication. What crimes have not been committed under that head!
There can be no very serious objections to the cynical and jaded expression put on by the aspiring sophisticate, even though it makes him look faintly billious. But when he decides to be bored with everything that happens around him, the matter demands attention, for the person who is determined to evince no interest in anything may end by becoming veally indifferent.
The world is full of interesting people and places and events. There are so many pleasures to be enjoyed, so many feelings to be experienced, so many things to get really excited about that it seems rather silly to trade them all for the dubious satisfaction of being "sophisticated."
"Port Said Waits for Arrival of Insull's Ship" says a recent headline. Now, that's a news. A port usually goes out to meet distinguished visitors.
COLLEGE TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING
Several American universities and colleges have recently announced particularly unusual courses in their curriculum. Some of the courses include "Nut Culture" at Oklahoma A. & M. college; "Ping Pong" at the University of Iowa; "Charm" at Rollins college, and "Sleeping" at the University of Iowa.
Contrary to early rumors, the University will have a Summer Session this year, and from early indications the enrollment will be equal to, if not better, than that of last year's session.
It just goes to prove that colleges are rapidly preparing to take care of every present day problem. There is probably no drowsing in the lecture room of these courses, and one would suppose that the class attendance is large. With these results in mind why shouldn't the University of Kansas follow the path of its contemporaries and install a few such courses of practical instruction?
There is no doubting that the installation of these courses here would make students more eager to learn, and education would become truly popular.
For example it might open a course in "How to Cram," for students who leave the majority of their studying until the last few weeks. Then a study in "Correct Cribbing" would no doubt assist many who are now doing it rather clumsily. "Perfection in Apple Polishing" would be welcomed by some, and a student enrolled in this study should expect a definite raise in his grades or no fee. A course which should prove particularly popular for many coeds, and some men, would be the evasion of date acceptance, and also appointment breaking. This course might be labeled "Artful Dodging."
SUMMER SESSION
The staff will be made up of instructors from the regular faculty, with a few from other institutions. All departments will offer classes during the eight weeks' session.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXXII Wednesday, 3/19 at 4:55 a.m. 106-72-21
Notices due at Cancelor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. on saturday for Sunday issues.
An interesting lecture on Highway Bridges will be given by LaMotte Grover, Kansas State Highway Bridge Engineer, at regular meeting on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 in room 210 Marvin hall. R. D. McKim, Secretary.
A. S. C. E.:
No.121
A. S. M. E.
There will be a regular meeting of A.S.M.E. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in room 210 Marvin hall. Prof. Calderwood, of the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art, will speak.
LEWIS W. BENZ. Secretary.
A. S. M. E.:
All men desiring to enter the swimming meet at K.C.A.C. natatorium, see Herbert Allphin, Robinson gymnasium 105. HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
A. A. U. SWIMMING MEET:
There will be Band rehearsal tonight. A full attendance is requested.
J. C. McCANLES, Director.
ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL:
ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL There will be a regular meeting of the council tonight at 8:30 in Marvin hall. CARL KINDSVATER, Secretary.
FENCING CLUB
Tournament seedings will be arranged at the Thursday meeting of the club Those interested in participating in the tournament must attend.
GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE:
Miss Florence Stone, state executive secretary, will conduct a training course in Girl Reserve work at Henley house on April 6, 7 and 8. The course is open to all senior and graduate women who are preparing to teach. Will those who wish to take the work and have not already registered please do so by Thursday evening? FRANCES BALLARD, Chairman.
P. RAPOPORT, President.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB:
The International Relations club will meet for supper in the private dining room of the Cafeteria at 6:15 p.m. Thursday April 5. The discussion "Private Manufacture of Munitions and War" will begin at 7:00 p.m. Delegates to the Fourth Annual Mississippi Valley Conference of International Relations Clubs to be held at Grimm College, Grimmell, Iowa, on April 6, 7, and 8, will be elected. All those interested are invited to attend.
K. A. C. E.:
An important meeting of the Kansas Association of Chemical Engineers will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 in room 101 Chemistry building. Officers will be elected. Prepared to help make plans for the Chemical Engineer's exhibit at the coming Engineering Exposition. Refreshments will be served.
MEN
Regular night meeting will be held at 8:30 o'clock this evening.
WALTER LAPHAM, Business Manager.
ED. SHARPE and TOM PAGE.
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
The regular mid-week varsity will be held this evening from 7 to 8 o'clock at the Memorial Union building. C. OZWIN RUTLEDGE, Manager.
MINING SEMINAR:
The Mining Seminar will meet in room 8 Haworth, Thursday at 4:30. Mr.
Rolland Sturm, '33, will speak. C. D. CANTRELL ...
OUACK CLUB:
Quack club will meet tonight at 8:15. All members please be present. CAROL HUNTER, President.
The University Women's club extends an invitation to all senior and graduate women to be guests at their April tea on Thursday, April 5, at Myers hall from 3 to 5 o'clock.
with the exception of the School of Law, which has a ten weeks' program.
The Summer Session courses provide an excellent opportunity to obtain extra credit hours, make up unfinished work, or complete college course in a shorter period of time, at proportionately a lower expense than during the regular sessions.
MRS. ROBERT CALDERWOOD, Corresponding Secretary.
They are the stone figures, one on each balustrade of the stairs in Deering library. He on the north staircase is a monk. From the hood of the heavy monastic robe a pair of weary and sorrowful eyes look out, surmounting a long thin nose, tight mouth, lean face—holds in his hand a book, shut tight. His head is bowed, and his robe is not as clean as it once was.
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He on the south staircase is an Arab in the flowing costume of his tribe. His face, too, is sad—stronger and harder than the monk's, for having faced the wind and sun and swords of unbelievers, but stern, unhappy. He holds a scroll—a passage from the Koran, perhaps—but though it is unrolled the
They sit and watch the world of Northwestern pass them by—the one from the cool, dim cloisters of a monastery, the other from the burning sands of the desert. For more than a year they have held themselves thus, he in his cowl and he in his burncoose, and few students have paused to become acquainted with these two silent, sad-faced men.
THESE SHELLS ARE DANGEROUS
Oklahoma Daily;
The nice, innocent looking shell attracted their attention and they started playing with it. Suddenly before they investigated its power or the harm it could do, it exploded and they were annihilated.
Sadness surrounds the accident in Portland which took the lives of 10 school children when an old World War II attack they uncovered, suddenly exploded.
Nations should know by now that playing with shells is not such a safe pastime.
In 1914, Europe likewise played around with a great number of bright, shiny shells which suddenly exploded. In 1925, the French caused but she was caused plenty of trouble.
THE MONK AND THE ARAB Daily Northwestern;
Arab reads it not. His eyes look straight ahead, forlornly.
Meaningless coincidence, builder's joke, or devastating commentary upon our education—which of these is it that the monk and the Arab, standing guard on Deering's steps, hold a book unopened and a scroll unread!
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