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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3. 1833
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Papers of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANAS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3.1933
THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR STUDENTS
Most office workers on a salary are required to spend eight hours a day at their job. There has been some talk of the five hour day but so far it has not been realized to a very great extent. The majority of University students would welcome a three or four-hour school day if they could have their way about it but so far this has not come to pass.
Those students, and we hope they are few in number, who are accustomed to the three or four hour day while in school might find it pretty hard to live up to the eight hour day after school days are over and they are on their own. It might not be a bad idea for more to give the eighth-hour day a trial while in school so that it won't seem so hard afterwards.
The post office department has announced that rural mail carriers will scatter bird feed along their routes if delivered to them in packages addressed Mr. and Mrs. Bird, R. F. D. The next move might be to have them delivery money in envelopes to Mr. and Mrs. Unemployed, City.
CRYSTALS OR QUARTZ?
Departing from the regular lecture course for a few minutes one day recently, Dr. W. H. Schoewe, professor of geology, stopped to philosophize upon one example in the laws of nature discovered in the study of minerals. Holding up a crystal mineral before the class, he explained the cause of various forms, from the perfect and beautiful crystal to the irregular lumps of quartz crystal.
The beauty of the crystal, he told, lies in the perfection of its crystalization. Any influence which may interfere with this process of development will destroy this perfection. One interference in its natural growth will leave an imperfection. The oftener these influences enter in, the more irregular and distorted the mineral becomes. With continued interference, the crystal becomes nothing but a mass of unshaped quartz and as such, loses most of its beauty and value. Perfect crystals are rare, the great mass of crystal minerals being common quartz.
In these laws, nature teaches man that influences do leave their mark. The oftener a man yields to bad influences, the farther from the perfect he draws. Laws of nature cannot be broken. One interference will leave one interfeference. If these grow more numerous, one will gradually develop a character as different from the perfect as the lump of quartz is from the perfect crystal. Quartz or crystal characters; which shall it be?
Three colleges are in line for aid from the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Arkansas A and M. has received $175,000; the University of Colorado and Oklahoma State have asked for about half a million each.
MATH PROBLEMS
If any math *student* thinks he is overworked, he might try his hand on the following problem, which is said to be typical of the problems assigned to high school pupils in France.
"On a circular track 25 centimeters in diameter the horsefly and an ant ran a race. The stride of the ant was one-half millimeter in length; three of his strides equaled one of the horsefly's. In two minutes the ant made 2,000 strides; the horsefly 500. Given (1) the race was for 300 meters; (2) after eight hours the horsefly began to cheat by flying to the point on the race track diametrically opposite to him, in the space of one second every alternate round, from that minute on; (3) at the same insn    the ant sprained one of his ankles so that he could take only 1,200 strides every two minutes.
"To find: Which won the race? At the finish, what was the time of each contest? What was the distance covered while running by the horsefly? How many times did the ant run around the track?"
This problem is also recommended for any student who finds he has a spare moment between now and final exams.
VHAT? NO APPRECIATION?
Frequent grumbles were heard on the Hill yesterday morning because the influenza epidemic had not proved sufficiently serious on the campus to warrant the closing of school for another week. Rumor had it throughout the vacation that the number of cases was increasing daily and that it would be impossible to open school for at least a week after the new year.
And many were the students who complained about it and whined that they never get a "break." After two weeks of idleness, they would have their fellow classmates afflicted with a disease that might prove fatal, and did in a few cases, in order that they might amicably waste a few more days in loafing.
Personally, they don't want the malady, but they reason that there are plenty of people who could get it easily. And they could be of real service to the other students. After all, what is a little flu?
It is opinions like these which students so freely express that make parents and friends shake their heads and inquire, "What are they coming to? Is this what college education is doing for them?"
EDITORIAL COLUMNS
A college newspaper without an editorial column would be considered a dismal failure. But what to do with such a column is a problem of concern to the newspaper staff and to the administrative powers of the college as well.
Whether published by a journalism department or by certain hired students or by some other method, the student daily or weekly is considered usually as an official campus paper, and its editorials as indicative of the general opinion of the students and, oftimes, of the faculty.
University authorities are therefore interested in the tone and content of the editorials, and this interest is often extended into a form of censorship, real or implied. This policy is defended on the grounds that students' opinions are immature and that the student should not publicly criticize an institution that has conferred on him so many privileges.
Much can be said in opposition to censorship. Thoughtful student criticism has a place on any campus. Students, as well as faculty members, make a college progressive. Freedom of thought allows the student editor to develop his own initiative and to give his page a zest that is sadly lacking in many student papers. As long as these newspapers are considered university organs by the public as well as by the
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXX Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1982 No. 75
Notice to at Chancellor's Office in a m.a.m on regular afternoon publication days
and 11:30 a.m. m.g. $3.50m for Sunday issues.
A regular meeting will be held at 4:45 Wednesday in room 32 Administration building. JESSIE PICKLEK, President.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:
Immunacula club, an organization for young Catholic women, will meet toight at 7:30 at the parish hall of St. John's Catholic church.
IMMACULATA CLUB:
MARY ASTON, President.
JAY JANES:
There will be a meeting on Wednesday, Jun. 4, in room 216 Administration building.
HARRIETT SHAW, President.
The nights should be strangely quiet for some time to come at the Oklahoma Agricultural college. Nine men were recently fined three dollars each and they are now sereading because they persisted in "filling the air with odd notices."
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS;
Le Corcle Francaise se reunit mercredi a quatre heures et demie, salle 500 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlent francais sont invités.
MARY SHRUM, Secretant.
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
The regular mid-week variety will be held at the Memorial Union Wed-
day evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. OZWIN RUTLEDGE, Manager.
W. S. G. A. COUNCIL:
W. S. G. A. COUNCIL;
The W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock tonight at the Memorial Union.
HELEN JEASTON, President
Y. W. C. 'A.:
Henley and Social Committee will hold its regular meeting Wednesday, Jan.
4, at 7 p.m. "Personality Detours" will be the subject for discussion. All Y.W.
C.A. members are cordially invited.
MARY SHRUM, LUCILE WEISS, Chairmen
Dr. W. L. Burdick Visits Chinese Courts; Relates Swiftness of Legal Proceedings
Justice moves rapidly in China, according to Dr. William L. Burdick, professor of law at the University of Kansas, now on tour of the world with Mrs. Burdick. They were in Peiping early summer, and Dr. Burdick attended a session of criminal court, according to a letter just received from Dr. Burdick.
"I was present at a murder trial, the defendants being three bandits, and a grave robbery trial. The former re-enacted it, but about a half an hour, each resulting in conviction," wrote Dr. Burdick. "In America we would have devoted weeks to each case probably. But there are cases in China, and the judge acts swiftly."
At Yencheng, Dr. and Mrs. Burdick meet Dean and Mrs. Frank Martin of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, just the day they were on campus (in Europe) after a year of expatriate professorship at Yencheng University.
Dr. Burdick visited the law school at Peiping, meeting Dean Chow and Professor Sheen. In Shanghai he visited the University and American courts, and at the invitation of a graduate of Northernwestern University, addressed the students of the law department of Soochow University, unparalleled in the college of the Southern Missionist method.
"At Taiwan, on the way to Nanking from Peiping," continues Dr. Burdick, "we met Dr. and Mrs. Perry Hanson, the former having been K. K. U's YMJ, who has been a graduate of Hanson (Ruth S. Ewing Hanson) a graduate of K. U and a sister-in-law of our Charles Scott of Iola, K. U's staunch and good friend. It was a delight to meet the Hansons. They are also successful work in their mission school."
Dr. Burdick delivered the Thanksgiving Day address before the American Association of Hongkong, at the in-
An avenue for discussion, however, is open to students through the medium of the campus opinion columns. Opinions can be presented there as long as they are signed, are within the bounds of good taste, and are not libelous. It is possible that in a few years, such columns will dominate the editorial page.
college administration, the weight of the argument appears to be on the side of faculty regulation.
Many Students to Hear Iurbi
So popular is Jose Iurbi with the faculty and students of the University of Kansas that large numbers are planning on hearing the Spanish pianist, who has appeared here in two recitals, and Anno 10 in Concert hall in Kansas City. Mo. Iurbi is now considered by managers as one of the best box office attractions in the concert field.
University of Nebraska student organizations played Santa Claus to some 4,500 children of Lincoln during the spring of 2012. The consisted of an "adoption" of two or three families whose real need has been assured by the Social Welfare Agency and their gifts of cash and taken on shopping expeditions for clothes and food.
vitation of Dr. Henry Provost of Lingnan University. Dr. William Hoffman, 18, is a member of the Lingnan faculty. Dr. Burdick, who was master of the Kanaas Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M. in 1915, visited a number of Masonic lodges in China, maintained by Americans and Europeans. There are no Japanese or Chinese Masonic lodges, but he found a number of Chinese gentlemen members of the existing lodges.
The Campus Pest
One of the worst campus pests in the minds of most concientious students is the person who oh!; so obviously, apple-pelihis the instructor.
--for the rest of the year
"This is the type of student who hangs dotingly on the professor's every word. There is a look almost of adoration in his eyes, caused no doubt by awe of the teacher's crudition. Yes, it is—not for that type is not sinister. He wants nothing more out of the course than a grade, and he will go all to end it to get it."
He always has some answer ready for the instructor's question. And he delivers it in a fawning, falsely obseious manner. He rather likes to imply that he, the insignificant student, feels the lowiness of his position and the inferiority of his knowledge compared with that of the professor, but nevertheless, he poor犬 that he is. The teacher, he is his master, and is doing all he can, considering the meagerness of his abilities, of course, to gather the pearls of wisdom that are sure to fall from the lips of the august professor.
After the end of the class period, this tripe—pardon—type always makes a beeline for the instructor's desk, there to tell of something he has read or heard which the professor is sure to be interested in, or to ask some question. He asks for it, and as a result, he the student, has in the course.
We hope Hill professors are not fooled by this type, but they probably aren't—they so not dumb, either!
Present Portrait in Silk Cambridge, Mass. (U.P.) - A portrait in silk embroidery of Francis A. Walker, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881 to 1887, has been presented to the Institute. The unusual portrait, created by oriental artists, was the gift of Chinese alumni and was presented through the Technology Club of Shanghai.
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