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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931
IS COLLEGE LIBERALISM DEAD?
After lamenting the fact that college liberalism has ceased to exist and that university men are becoming "collar conservatives," William Harlan Hale in the New Republic makes the following suggestion:
"It should be the duty of the university heads themselves to introduce provocative and controversial lectures. Of course, the capitalistic trustees and corporations which dominate the scene are averse to any such dangerous experimental; they see frightful visions of a graduating class of insane communists."
Mr. Hake's suggestion that University authorities should welcome speakers who are not strictly conservative is a good one. We have had on the campus a lecture course which has consisted of excellent men, but none of them presented radical points of view.
presentation.
Last year the student body was fortunate to have a man like Norman Thomas, and the campus population failed to exhibit any violent manifestations ofbolsehism. The students in this University are far too conservative to have any one or any one dozen or even one hundred speakers convert them to socialism, radicalism or any of the other "ams" which are such bugheurs in most people's minds. Such a course of lecturers would not contaminate the minds of the students, but they might stimulate in a few more of a thought and two which would be a real service to humanity. College authorities need not be afraid of the bugheur of the "ams", and they could properly welcome a few radicals as they have sometimes done in the past, who could present ideas to counteract that set conservation which leads to the blind acceptance of the status quo and a kind of social and intellectual stagnation.
Kansas weather is like a woman automobile driver. You never know which way it is going to turn.
PLIGHT OF THE Y. M. AND Y. W.
Together the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.
C. A. manage the Noon Forums, at which religious as well as sociological and economic questions are discussed by nationally-known speakers. They arrange for the publication of the K book, helpful to new students. They join with the national associations in working with the World Student Christian Federation, and promote inter-racial and international understanding through inter-racial and world fellowship groups. This winter they sponsored the National Student-Faculty conference in Detroit.
These activities of the Christian associations would seem to be deserving of student support, but it is becoming more and more evident that only a small proportion of the dwellers on Mt. Oread are interested in them. The difficulty seems to lie, not in the leadership of the two groups, for their heads are well-liked and respected on the campus, but in the preoccupation of students with other affairs. Whether this is the fault of the programs of the "Ys", which to a certain extent overlap those of other organizations on the Hill, or whether students are deliberately neglecting the opportunities which the Y. M. and Y. W. hold out to them, for other, less-deserving endeavors, is not entirely clear.
TREATED ALIKE
Football, basketball, and track are the three major sports recognized at Kansas. Even though students participate in baseball, swimming, tennis, wrestling there seems to be more pressure in being a participant of one of the three first mentioned.
Football and basketball are backed by the students more than any other sports, but the first Big Six championship was won by the track team of 1930. When the title was annexed, school was about over and that was all there was to it.
Why are't track men honored in some way as the football and basketball players are? Basketball and football men are given a banquet after the season is closed, but track men and the athletes of other sports get nothing of the kind.
Besides, men who earn track letters do so on their individual merit, as do the men in swimming, tennis, and wrestling.
Perhaps track men are unfortunate, since they close their season just as school closes and the time classes convene again the following fall, everyone has forgotten what the track team accomplished.
More power to the teams of football, basketball, and every other sport, but it seems as if the students who earn their letter on their own merit should be honored in some way. That would include the minor sports, too. Why not?
APPROACHING DOOM
Last night the final examiner schedules appeared in the Kansas. Just three weeks remain until we shall march to our class rooms to inform our instructors how little we know, how ill we have been, when we lost our text books, or how hard we tried to grasp the assignments.
If we should all perform a minimum of study from them until final crash the gate, we should not have to stay up until before we are "exposed" to the final exams. Now is the time to prepare for quizzes, take reviews, and get reports on in time. We shall be reminded of all these things often within the next three weeks.
No matter how much warning is given us, we shall all probably close the present semester interested in everything but work. Only when our professors suggest that we bring ten cent quiz books and two fountain pens, shall we open our eyes. Then we will enamble all night before the final. History is bound to repeat itself, especially in the string semester.
ACTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION
There is a world of difference between the two words "activity" and "participation" as they are used on the campus. Sororities and fraternities have a system of requiring their members to attend so many activities a week, which means groups of departmental clubs, tues, discussion groups or other extra-curricular work.
The students go. They occupy chairs, say as little as possible, and leave early to attend some other important meeting as often as they can. They soak up heat, and furnish an audience (in name only) for the business of the meeting, and back to the house with no idea of what has been going on. The teacher takes them to get the credit for attending an activity, and give nothing in return. Such a procedure is chalked down as an "activity."
Participation is quite a different thing. It involves a definite contribution by the individual and effort to further the interest of the group. Clubs which are supported (?) by students who want only activity credit are in dire straits, and the system is a valueless one, both for the organizations sponsoring it and the ones supported by it and the individuals concerned.
The classical philosophers were efficient as philosophers go, but they failed to offer what the modern world needs in the way of social reform. Quoting Plato and Aristotle and their abstractions may be all right in some fields, but it leads to valuation conclusions in economics and sociology because our modern systems are a product of modern factors, and have to be controlled by modern thought.
The old philosophers accepted slavery as a necessary institution, and its enforcement as a virtuous duty of the
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ruling classes, and they were still being quoted at the beginning of the civil war. They also believed that one class of people should labor in poverty in order that the few could study and pass on to generating their pattern of culture. Some people still accept such an explanation as powerlessness, poverty, but it has even less support than the ones which condemned a class of slavery.
There is no need for poverty. There is enough wealth in the world in proportion to the population that everyone could be supplied with the deiciencies of life, and it is time people stopped accepting a worm-out phrase as a justification of existing conditions. There is no need for part of the people to live in wretched poverty in order to support a wealthy few, and when that
"Correct to the last detail" was a statement in an nd in the Kansan What's wrong with the last detail?
fact is realized people will be willing to accept suggestions of how our economic system can be made more just.
Every newspaper has its own A. B.
MacDonald but they are the Pulitzer
prize winners without the prize.
At the Recital
By John W. Shively
The University community last night proved that Percy Grainger was one of the most popular musicians to have worked with. He has returned out in full force to hear a program of his own compositions presented by the University orchestra, glee club and concert hall. The program more than lived up to expectations. That the music with its characteristic movement, rhythm, polyphony and structure had a foregone conclusion. The pianists and organizers, however, portrayed the effects desired by the composer unanimously. He was with them with which he had to work with him was considered. Mr. Grainger did not overstate their ability when he expressed his apprehension to the orchestra's directors.
"It may be said that voice music is truly living up to its highest point when each voice seems as important as the other." Mr. Grainger said in his interview with The New Yorker and a "Fantasia" of Purcell, who shortly preceded Bach, were played, to illustrate the height of this idea of the past. Then the modern conception of this musical ideal was presented by composer Eugene Grisham in the director's compositions.
But Mr. Grainger said in addition, "music is an art only in its infancy, because we are only approaching the level of achievement." He clearly an effort to promote this freedom, to make music more "grown-up." There was freedom of movement last night in even the most quiet of places, and that was a consequent freedom of harmonies.
This freedom calls for the greatest amount of organization, however, and requires that, thus, the use of the various instruments in the orchestrations, particularly those not often included in the repertoire, be used to relish relations of all the voices in emphasis and quality, displayed a height of organization, first in the composition, secondly in the characteristic of Granger. But the tunes themselves do not comprise the major interest. The many little side pieces in this album, the folk tunes, the use of the small themes to express different moods, were the elements which held the interest. Mr. Derry's music has a purpose. The folk tunes, in their original state, were merely incidental to dances which they accompanied. Mr. Derry's improvisation developed们 for the dance, and still kept the tunes in their subordinate places. Cagliola, Irish Tune from the County Derry, and "Spoon River" which provided outstanding entertainment on the program. But there are also tunes as "The Wildo's Party" and "The Hunter in His Carne," which came under the same
The glue clubs were used in a somewhat unusual manner in the "March-8th Song," where syllables rather than words, in order to make the effect entirely tenial. This was a brilliant number, with the chorus ending in a grand sustained line of four syllables, vigorously coming to their conclusion. The pianos had their intings in the first Buch歌, in which Mr. Granger sang "the great Dances," the great advantage, and the "Zanzhar Boat Song" with three钢琴 at one piano, and the "Hill Song." The ideas were carried out effectively in all these numbers.
"The A to Nordic Princess" written in honor of Gräiner's wife, was presented at the annual festivals, and was another excellent example of development. "The Rescensional" was a presentation of Mr. Gräiner's ideas in a quiet, subdued manner.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVIII Thursday, May 7, 1931 No. 173
All freshmen enrolled in Exercise II who have not made a special health appointment should do so for Friday, May 8. HOOVER TOOH.
The K. U. Dramatic club will meet this evening at 8 in Green hall.
MARGARET SMITH, Secretary.
DRAMATIC CLUB:
RESHMEN:
INTER-RACIAL-INTER-NATIONAL COMMISSION;
INTER-RACIAL-INTER-NATIONAL COMMISSION.
The Inter-racial-International commission will meet this evening from 8 o'clock at Henley house. Mrs. J. H. Lawson will speak on "India".
CORA DUFF L.BLUFOID. Co-chairman.
Seniors who have met the requirements for the University teacher's diploma as outlined on page 66. Section I of the catalogue, and who wish to make application for this diploma, kindly do so at the office of the registrar immediately GEORGE O. FOSTER. Registrar.
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