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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1932
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University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR IN CHIEF GORDON MARTIN
Lola Heikau Associates Edizioni Ellen Primmer
MANAGING EDITOR STEACY PICKELLE
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Advertising Manager Robert Reed
District Assistant Sakura Keys
District Assistant Mary Galton
District Assistant Maxine
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Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kuwait, from the Press of the Department of Journalism.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19.1932
PRIVILEGED CHARACTERS
A minority of students at the University are prone to take advantage of social regulations that are intended for the convenience of all, with the result that it is often necessary to abandon the regulations and install more rigid ones, much to the disgust and criticism of the student body as a whole.
The most recent breach of social privileges was committed at Watkins Memorial Hospital. Students of both sexes were permitted to visit unchapecered, but instead of appreciating this privilege, a few took advantage of it. And now through their misconduct the entire student body must pay the price for the abuse of not being able of visit a person of the opposite sex unless chaperoned.
It would be quite useless to name a penalty for the delinquents, insofar as there are so many students at every university who take advantage of privileges just for the devilly involved.
Nineteen hundred and thirty
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP!
Nunethi hunter and aristocrat year after year begin above the horizon. Manhunters women densely populate the campus, and it behoves every self-respecting young man to keep himself free from their wiles.
Of course, some are bound to be captured in relentless snakes, and for that reason it is considered adviable to formulate and present a theory of how to observe. It is open space on college sheds, so stop, look, and listen.
The following rules should aid the college man in making his choice among the proposals proffered to him:
2. Don't marry a girl unless she is able to support you.
1. It is a man's business to keep unmarried as long as he can, so don't say "yes" until it is useless to protest any longer.
3. Insist that your "leap year girl" be considerate of your every wish. Pout and sulk if her actions don't suit you.
4. Be doubtful when she calls for a date—and keep your K book filled, Talk freely about your other girls.
5. Insist on going to the varsity if she wants to go to the movie, and vice versa.
6. Always be from 25 minutes to one hour late for any date.
7. Take her window shopping, and pause at every men's haberdashery.
8. Comb your hair, straighten your tie and adjust your secks at every opportunity.
9. Don't forget that you are not "the kind of boy."
10. Dawn a "line."
10. Develop a "line.'
The above list is not exhaustive, but the rest must be left to the ingenuity of the men. Now is your chance to show the women a thing or two, and, perhaps, to learn a skill. Try it—and see how it works.
FRANCE OBJECTS
Germany's recent repudiation of reparation payments has France in a rage. Paris has already served notice on Chancellor Brunewald that the president won't accept the plea made to Great Britain a short time ago.
The German Chancellor is reported as having informed Great Britain that the Reich could not pay its reparations obligations either now or at any time in the future. And if this is true, the French feel that such a statement is in direct denunciation of the
Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles. And in spite of Germany's deplorable financial condition, they still insist on their "sacred right" to collect for war damage.
French political leaders are wrought up over the German attempt to make "scrapes of paper" of the post-war treaties regarding reparations settlement. They feel that their attitude toward Germany has been fair and just, in contrast to the United States willing to postpone payment in an effort to alleviate the present world economic crisis.
It is a well known adage that "you can't get blood out of a turnip." If Germany simply can't pay, France should forget her historical animosity and hatred to the United States for the world wide credit adjustment in the interest of future world prosperity.
LIVING
"Death plucks" at my ear am says 'Live! I am coming'." These were the words with which Oliver Wendell Holmes ended his long and inspiring career as justice of the supreme court, "Live fittingly" characterizes him and his work; for he has really lived and will continue to live as long as libera justice is a part of the American courts.
Justice Holmes has made the Federal Constitution a living, throbbing instrument of legal procedure, a changing, developing rule of life. Oliver Wendell Holmes continually rediscovered the state as exemplified in the Constitution, and in doing so he eliminated many of the stumbling blocks which are constantly confronting orderly and directed change. He gave weight to the object instead of insisting on a strict construction of a statute, thus he became the champion of the people and personal rights. He was a true leader; for he promoted the welfare of the public.
In appreciation of the invariable services of justice Holmes and because of the large amount of social legislation which will result from the conditions of the past few years, it behooves President Hoover to appoint a liberal judge to attempt to fill the place vaceted by Dr. Holmes. The supreme court maintains its liberal views; therefore the third whom President Hoover is to apoint to this important tribunal should be one who does not believe in political fixity, in making sanctity of the Constitution an invitation to revolt.
THE EXAM QUESTION
Now is the time of year when we look over the examination schedule and realize to our horror that we have three exams scheduled the same day. Perhaps the faculty do not realize our limitations, but certainly feel inadequate to writing seven hours of straight examination in one day. We firmly believe that even the Phi Beta, Kappas would run out of ideas under such a gruelling! As to our own feeling of helplessness when we come into the third third degree in one day, need anything be said? All the carefully learned, crammed, or otherwise acquired idens are as lost to us as to any layman who never even heard of the subject under consideration.
We realize the limitations which confront any group that has the schedule to make out, but, granting that examinations are necessary, what can be done about the matter? Next week, the week that finals commence, is supposed to include four regular class sessions scheduled in it; but the faculty as well as the students realize how difficult it is to get any satisfactory recitation in those days. So, would it not be a good idea to have the coming two weeks for examinations, and give the student a fair chance to show what he can do, as well as aid the teacher in all the confusion and rush of the last few days?
PROGRESS AND HUMANITY
A few days ago army bombing planes flew over the Navajo Indian villages near Winslow, Arizona, and along the Mexican border, dropping food and supplies to half-starved Indians, snow-bound and fast succumbing to the ravages of a severe winter. Oddly enough, the planes were bombers of the United States air corps, originally destined to deal death and destruction to time zones. But their peace-time role was that of a saviour; for the five tons of supplies which were dropped into the snowdraft spelled life to hundreds of people.
Airplanes have performed other noble feats to alleviate pain and suffering. And aviation is by no means the only such modern contribution to humanity, but it is an example of what mechanical progress can really mean to the world. It took just as much time, trouble, and ingenuity to perfect modern machines but in this case—perhaps more than that—it suffers. Ingenious inventions become a terrible menace when placed in the hands of gangsters and murderers.
Progress and her numerous in ventions and conveniences are much abused by selfish and degen cruel persons, but when our mod on contrivances are used to carry out an expedition, there can be no doubt that the new mechanical age has been a boon to suffering humanity.
"A Curb on Church Bells." Headline from Kansas City Times Probably for the flies to pink on.
Our Contemporaries
From The Michigan Daily:
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol XXI Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1932 No. 94
From The Michigan Daily:
NEEDED: ALUMNI TO TELL STATE
According to the opinion of many taxpayers in the state, a normal day in the office would be more important undergraduate would have a chain of events as follows: A arise at 1 o'clock in the afternoon with a hangover. Drink a bromo-seltzer to cure headache and nausea.
Weekly meeting will be held in room 10 sub-basement of Union building on Wednesday at 4:45 p.m. All interested are invited to attend. President
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION:
All members of the K-Club are requested to be at Freckle's studio, 508 Massachusetts, over the Miller Furniture store, at 7 tonight in order that a group picture may be taken. The picture will be followed by a short meeting. PAUL BEARDSLEE, President.
HELENDORIS FEAR, President.
Le Cerce Francais se renumira mercedri, a quatre heures et domine, dans l'allu 306 Fresnel hall.
MARY KREAMER, Secretaire.
1 LE CERCLE FRANCAIS:
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB:
Snow Zoology club will meet in room 201 Snow hall Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. Dr. Downs, of the department of bacteriology, will address the club
K-CLUB;
An important meeting will be held at 4:30 Wednesday, Jan. 20 at the gym,
ELIZAEBETH BRYAN, President.
W. S. G. A. BOOK EXCHANGE:
W. A. A. :
The W. S. G. A. Book Exchange will buy used textbooks Jan. 25, 26, 27, 28
and 29. The texts used in the Schools of Law and Engineering "Office"
is open to students who wish to purchase them.
There will be a Wednesday night variety tomorrow night at the Union Building.
NEWMAN JEFFREY.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY:
There is little that the University can do to correct this sensational, untrue, incorrect, and wrong statement. quickly, there is little that can be done to make the average taxpayer see the difference.
attend a "gig-orgy" until 8 at night. Leave the party with a "hip-flask" in his pocket to attend a "tixi-dance". Leave舞宴 at 3 o'clock the next morning to return to his "fiat" in time for the morning liquor raid" in which he would line up against the wall and searched.
In view of the adverse publicity to which the University has been subject in recent years, the taxpayer has a perfect right to believe these statements, but not to receive news articles written as true facts.
If we can convince our alumni, however, that the majority of the student body is as serious, well-behaved, and conservative a group as student bodies in other colleges, we need to leap a partial victory. The good will and respect of our graduates, who compose a large number of the state tax payers, will certainly help to counteract the opinions of some of the more important readers of the yellow journals.
It is with this in mind that we commend the various student organizations on the campus who, with the help of Mr. Hailey Tapping, secretary of and T. Hawley Tapping, secretary of the Alumni association, are sponsoring Spring Homecoming. Returning alumni from the University operating under normal conditions. This is not possible at the fall Homecoming because of the natural excitement provided in Ann Arbor
Spring Homecoming was established last year for the first time, and met with much enthusiasm. We can bring a portion of our graduates back to Ann Avery and send them again with the knowledge that their achievements will have made a decided step forward.
New Study Plan Proves Successful for University of Chicago Students
Springfield, III, IL. Jan. 18–(UPI)—Its cannot go aboard its statewide improvement program because Chicago has been ranked No. 20 on Louis L. Emerson announced officially. He said that the state program would have to be postponed indefinitely.
After three month's trial the new plan of study put into practice at the University of Chicago last fall has proved to be a success, indeed, much more so than that of the teachers and others had anticipated. Even quite a few instructors had expected "a devil of a mess," not because they were opposed to freedom for the students, but because they thought it was to get used to students it a while to get used to them.
The plan is not a new idea at the University of Chicago. The authorities, in charge, from the time of the founding of the school, have believed that the university should be more than a doubt as to whether the students would know how to work after the ordinary four years preparatory school training. Would the students go to class? Would the students work if they did not have it? Three months before the new plan has called the fears of the administration, under the direction of President Hutchins, for authorities who have watched the new plan generally agree that answers to the queries were worrying officials, are favorable.
Briefly, the plan eliminates the old system of grades, examinations, and compulsory attendance at class. Students will not have to strive for grades which will allow them to pass. The plan provides that the career of the students be divided into two sections, and as soon as they reach the second grade he or she edge to pass the "comprehensive examination" which, if they pass it, will allow them to advance into the senior college division, they present them with an application and examination is so arranged that the ordinary student can pass it at the end of the first two years, but some students, by taking more work than the average student, prepare for it in less time than that.
A reassuring reaction to the new plan in found in the type of students who entered in the freshman class last fall. The average score in the last fall the average across scores in the
"Scholastic Aptitude" test, which determines the fitness for college of all incoming students, was 180. This year the 750 freshmen made an average of 93 points, near that of the students also ranked near the top in their preparatory school work.
Students are not compelled to take any specific course; they are only advised. In the examination they are required to discuss intelligently and in English, and those who have taken it. Any deficiency which might make it impossible for them to pass the examination is pointed out to them by the examiner, and they can take corrective courses.
Each freshman is under the supervision of an adviser, whom he must see at least three times a year. There are eleven freshman advisers, each in their own room, who may also confer with their instructors, and the instructors in turn discuss the student's progress with the adviser. If a student does not wish to go to class, and can prove to his adviser that he wants to do so, the adviser will give his approval.
Classes are conducted differently than at most American colleges and universities. A college adds 130 to the students attend lecture courses in a university's leading authorities and specialists, and then break up into smaller groups, each of which is in turn taught by a professor. The differences the students discuss the subject among themselves, the instructor merely answering questions when the conversation within proper limits.
As a whole the plan is meeting with an enthusiastic response from both students and faculty. Of course, there are some complaints, mostly from alumni and upperclassmen who did not enjoy attending classes from faculty members who have to do more work than formerly. But the freshman class opinion, as reflected in the students publications and in its attitude in class seems favorable, and the teachers members show their satisfaction by doing more work than is required of them.
DICKINSON
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