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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1933
University Daily Kansan
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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CONVENTION DELEGATES
Two members of the Men's Student Council have been chosen to represent the University at the national meeting of the National Student Federation of America, which is to be held in Washington, D.C., this month. Last year a district meeting of the Federation was held here, and the various schools that attended expressed belief that the meeting was largely successful.
The Federation is an organization composed of the student governing bodies of the leading colleges and universities throughout the United States. Its purpose is to help the various student governments meet their problems, and to suggest better plans and methods of self-government.
This nation-wide convention should prove very valuable to all the schools that send delegates, as wide and varied contacts will be made, and many possibilities will be suggested and discussed. The University is indeed fortunate in being represented at such a meeting.
THE ERRORS OF PROHIBITION
A number of student romances are scheduled to be temporarily discontinued until after the gift ex-changing season is over.
The prohibition camel failed after a fourteen-year attempt to cross the great arid American desert, and the same rock-strewn maze of paths over which the camel floundered should be avoided in the attempt at state regulation.
(1) Lack of rigid enforcement of the regulatory provisions;
The inherited stumbling blocks under federal control included:
But the Missouri state legislature is steering its liquor craft over the same disastrous trail.
(2) A public resentment against the unrestrained hand of bootleggers and "speaks";
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(3) The rise of lawlessness made possible by bootleg profits;
(4) A party platform pledged to repeal, but voiced against the return of the saloon.
And under state regulation, the new vehicle of liquor control is starting out needlessly over the same path of the camel.
The lid is off, and the means of regulating, licensing, or taxing have not been formed;
... The bootlegger and "speaks" are still rampant, doing business as usual; still carrying on lawlessness with profits;
... The party is in power in Missouri,
but the saloon has yet to be banned;
control and regulation have yet to be set up.
Fourteen years over that rock-strewn trail, and the noble adventure floundered. Why then, set the liquer cargo out over that same trail under the new plan of state control?
Half of the fun of going to school is planning on what you will do when you are out.
The tuberculin test which has been given to 300 students at the University this year is a preventive measure which greatly reduces the danger of tuberculosis in persons who are susceptive to the disease.
If the giving of this test can be continued, it will be only a few years before every student in the University will be protected from the ravages of the "white plague."
Kansas is the only university in the Middle West which at present provides the tuberculin test. The hospital authorities hope to be able to give the test to all of the incoming students next fall.
The financial support of the tuberculin test is gained from the sale of the Christmas seals which now being carried on.
Publication of the final examination schedule now allows plenty of time to worry about the problem apportioning sufficient study for each test.
ROOSEVELT AND LYNCHING
President Roosevelt strongly condemned lynching in an address Wednesday night. He referred to this form of violence as a "vile form of collective murder," and indirectly rebuked Governor Rolph of California for condoning the lynching at San Jose.
The President's speech makes it clear that the federal government does not have the views of Governor Rolph's administration concerning the punishment of crime
When kidnapping became so common and so serious in the United States, the federal government took steps toward controlling and lessening this form of lawlessness. Laws were passed which brought the federal officers into action with authority to arrest and punish violators. Means employed in fighting these criminals were improved.
The United States federal and state police took a definite step forward in opposing crime, but the numerous lynchings springing up over the country, indicate a definite step backward. Had the federal government, through its spokesman, the President, condoned lynching as Governor Ronld did, it would have been admitting its failure in performing the duty of protecting its citizen assigned to it in the Constitution
THOSE MUSTY ARCHIVES
That libraries are musty archives sheltering ponderous and treasured volumes of old masters which only the highly intellectual dare open is a delusion of medieval origin fast fading into oblivion. Harry Hanson, reporting in the Survey Graphic this month on the fifty-fifth annual conference of the American Library Association unveils the modern library.
A library is not an institution of musty book shelves that gather dust for lack of patronage. It is one whose first purpose is for the public needs tempered by the public's taste, and has in recent years increased remarkably in patronage.
The modern library, like every other institution, is supplying material for the practical program that modern civilization is demanding, from the business executive to the college student. Although the library may yet have its musty archives where the classies rest under dust, they are found in obscure corners, while its public shelves display bright shellacored covers under which are stores of treasures that satisfy all who come for ideas.
PLAIN TALES from the HILL
The girl walked hesitatingly up to the reserve desk in the library and said something quietly to the librarian. He looked puzzled for a minute, then his face brightened, and he went into the stacks to emerge with a green book in his hand. She nodded as he head when he showed it to her. The both looked puzzled and with a gesture of despair, she walked away. She just couldn't remember the name of that book, but she was sure it was green with a harp on the front of it.
—Students dashing on the campus during a windstorm, heads close together behind notebooks so each could hear what the other had to sav.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
The Advanced Standing commission will be postponed Tuesday because of Vocational Guidance week. EMILY LORD.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days
No. 58
Sunday, Dec. 10. 1933
ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION:
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION:
The Christian Science organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Mvers hall, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited.
JAY JANES:
LUCIENE THOMAS, President.
Have your basketball tickets reserved at the Athletic office as soon as possible.
EVANGELINE CLARK, Vice President.
KAPPA BETA:
The Children's Christmas party will be held in the student room at Myers hall on Tuesday from 3:30 to 5:00 o'clock. ETHEL FORD, President.
There will be an official meeting of the Kayhawk club tomorrow evening. Dec. 11 at 7:30 o'clock in the basement of the Memorial Union building
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS:
ED THOMAS, Vice President.
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Le Cerule Francais ne reuinaire mercredi à quatre heures et demie dans la salle 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlent francais sont invites.
Regular meeting tomorrow at 4:30 in room 211 Administration building Professor J. J. Wheeler will speak on "Correlation." Visitors welcome.
SCHOOL OF LAW:
In the First Year Court: The case of The State of Kansas vs. Henry Robinson. Action charging defendant with the crime of bigamy, defendant apparently having three wives at the same time. Argument on writ of haba corpus and motion to quash. Hearing in the Court room, Green hall, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, before Burdick, Smith, Hyland, JJ, Of counsel for the State, Paul Denton and Wayne Lourdige; for the defendant, John Fornell and Arthur Hodgson.
Sigma Eta Chi will hold a business meeting this afternoon at 5:15 in the chapter room. All members are requested to be present.
SIGMA ETA CHI:
HAZEL RICE, Corresponding Secretary.
"A professor telling his class: "If the Nordics are the cream of the world, then God pity the skim milk."
A Christmas party will be held Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 6 o'clock at the Manor, 1941 Massachusetts street. All members please sign notice on the bulletin board in Snow hall and draw names in the department office for gift exchange. Gifts are not to exceed ten cents. LAURA ALICE CUNNINGHAM, President.
- A sign on the freshly painted rail-
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'A professor gretting his Monday morning class in this manner: "This class looks like a drunk man the morning after—I feel like you look."
Our Contemporaries
The idea is not wholly new. Robert Frost has served as "resident poet" in more than one institution, and many
When, after 25 years of coaching, a man is honored at a banquet by many of his former pupils; when he is praised not for the number of victories that he has amassed but because of his salutary effect upon young men by example and experience, then with honest and sincere devotion, then that coach has not worked in vain.
Recently Coach Tom E. Jones was given just such a tribute. His former students presented him with a silver statue of "Victory," symbolic, not in the narrow sense of the word, but in its broader manifestations. This was not a group of young men closely associated with the university's mature men which has put his teachings of clean fighting and fair play into its round of living.
To those students attending the university who come under the influence of Tom Jones, he typifies all that a coach should be. In his own field, he has adjusted his values so that those of clean play come first and those of winning second. No one claims that he is a philosopher in the technical sense of the word least of all Coach Jones. His field of expertise has developed himself to the fullest extent
To those students who have not had contact with him, some perhaps who have taken a cynical attitude towards athletics, he still typifies all that a coach should be. They have heard his virtues extolled and they have admitted that these virtues are fundamental. No one has heard Coach Jones spoken of as a steam-roller who uses his athletes to pluck the laurel for his crown. Victory was a means not an end.—Wisconsin Daily Cardinal.
of his potentialities. Discipline and training have been his fundamental tenets and never in his career has he allowed any other criterion to creep in. He has won more than his share of vhicle, those came as a matter of course and were not.
An innovation in the teaching of English, especially creative writing and criticism, is announced by New York university. From November until next April a limited group of 100 students majoring in English will have an opportunity in the classroom to meet, hear and question authors as well as read their works. Twelve speakers will discuss the technique of the writers craft. They will include posts, dramatist novelists, essays, magazine writers, biographers, and publishers. After each speaker has talked informally on the technique of his craft the students may ask questions and participate in the discussion.
AUTHORS IN CLASSROOM
colleges have invited to their platforms significant living writers of prose and verse. The novelty of the idea as planned by the English department of New York is that it provides informality of contacts, and providing for such contacts in a regular course.
The question arises, Will authors shrink or grow in student estimation as a result of contact? Even so genial a philosopher and writer as David Grayson in his "Friendly Road" warned against such familiarity thus:
The poet sings his song and goes his way. If we sought him out how horribly disappointed we might be. We might find him shaving or eating sausage. We might find him shaggy and unkempt where we imagined him beautiful, weak though he thought him strong, dull where we thought him weak. We thought the vintage of his heart and let him go.
But the roster of authors chosen to give the course makes it unlikely that the students will see any of them shaggy or unkempt or eating sausage. They include Lawrence Langner, Gilbert Seldes James Stephens, Horace Gregory, Kathine Fullerton Gerould, Eda Lou Walton, Hal White, John Varney, Kenny Burke, Elmer Adler, Frederick L. Allen and John Farrar.
While it is true that the most vital part of a writer's contribution is usually found in his or her writings, most college courses in English composition provide at best only laboratory drill in writing, and courses in English literature can do little more than direct the student's reading. Therefore Dr. Homer A. Watt, of the N.Y.U. English department, holds that the teacher should act as a mediator between student and literary artist. He believes the student needs to hear the creative artist who speaks not to one but as one having authority. He hands the student easy contact with writers, students will obtain a more vivid understanding of the literary art than in the formal atmosphere of classroom lectures by teachers who, while versed in their subject, are not usually creative artists.
The experiment is worth following. It may well be that students, after a peep back stage, will turn to their instructors with appetites whetted and mentalities more understanding and alert—The Christian Science Monitor.
ARE GRADES NECESSARY?
In an institution of advanced education, is it desirable that students should be subjected to the measuring rod of grades? We believe not. We believe that grades do not measure inherent intelligence, but only the ability to pass quizzes. Yet quizzes do not always prove very much. Consider the instance where a student made "A" in his freshman math course, although he admits that he now remembers practically nothing of the courses. His grade was lower than usual. Again, when the same course is offered by more than one professor, all of whom have varying standards, the grade the student receives from one professor may have been entirely different had he been under a different man. Grades, therefore, are inadequate as a measuring rod.
But in spite of its obvious faults, does the grade system nevertheless have an indispensable function? Are grades a necessary stimulus to make students aware of their mistakes in course, upon the student. In many cases it is conceivable that the student
would get more satisfaction from his work if the bogy of grades did not exist. The answer to the problem seems to lie in a modified grade system in which only three grades would be given—"T nor," "Pass," and "Fail." The first Id make the recipient a candidate for Phi Beta Kappa; the second would be the average student, i.e., with a grade, if it were computed in numerals, running from 70% to 90%; the last, "Fail," will be all those below 70%.
The system here proposed would have the threefold advantage of (1) acting as a stimulus to the student, (2) rewarding the honor sudent, and (3) at the same time not making such a fine distinction between grades as to make the grade the only aim of the student; rather, it is that the student must enter course than more marks. Study for study's sake, not for the grade's sake! Daily Tar Holfe.
The Campus Muse
Wm. Herbert Carruth is probably best tnown for his poems, of which "Each in His Own Tongue" brought him the most 'ame.
The poem follows:
A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell.
A Jelynn and batham,
And caves where cavenem dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty.
A face turned from the clod—
Some call it evolution And others call it God.
A haze on the far horizon,
A haze on the far horizon,
The infinite, tender sky,
The wild grasses in canneleds,
And wild weeese sailing high—
And all over upland and lowland
The sign of the golden rod;
Some of us call it autumn,
And some of us call it winter.
Like tides on a crescent sea beach
When the moon is new and thin,
Into our hearts high yearnings
Come welling and surging in,
Come life and death.
Whose rim no foot has trod;
Some of us call it longing
Whose Jim no foot has to Some of us call it longing And others call it God.
And Jesus on the rooft
And millions, who harmless and nannes
And men of God, whom troy lord—
Some call it consecution,
And others call it God.
Waterville — (UP) — William Krus went to the state school for the blinc when he lost his eye sight. While in the institution he became an expert at making brooms. Now he has left the school and has opened a broom factory.
Caney-(UP)—Butchers in this town are quite obliging. They have offered to butcher the farmer's fat porkers, make the sausage and even render the lard. Not only that, but they will even take care of the affidavits required by the government that the meat is for home use, thus eliminating the processing tax.
Humboldt—(UP)—A shooting match at which only old cap-and-ball rifles were used featured the 78th anniversary of the Campbell homestead here recently.
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