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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931
University Daily Kansan
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931
NICHOLAS LONGWORTH
The death yesterday of Nicholas Longwell, speaker in the national house of representatives, "culminated the career of an intelligent and well-bred legislator, a man reputed to be respected not only by his friends but by his enemies.
Longworth was a popular man in every circle where he was known, an accomplished musician, a speaker of wit and integrity, and an opponent of the highest calibre. His death marks the passing of the fourth nationally known American within a fortnight. Rockie, Johnston, and Barnard have died—now the nation loses the loss of "genial Nick," the Gentleman of the House.
THE PERSONAL EQUATION
All Hill politics need now to make them really cosmopolitan is a prohibition issue.
Even after making due allowance for the usual elasticity of student complaints, it is apparent that the personal equation exists to a fault among members of the teaching profession. It would be unwise and untrue, therefore, to deny this fact--that students can jeopardize their scholastic future by failing to make allowance for it.
Student protests, other opinions to the contrary, are often just; they represent a gauge or barometer by which an administration, if it be a wise one, may take heed. The complaint here that a faculty member occasionally flunks a student merely because of personal antagonism may not always be without foundation. Because a student has failed to fit into the personal groove of approval of the instructor, we have seen that individual fail in a course.
As for remedy, "apple-polishing" is resorted to by those who suppress their conscious objection to such procedure. But it would seem that bias and uncertain equilibrium, unless they be notorious cases, are apt to continue among members of the faculty who are still so fundamentally human that their constitutions and good intentions are aided by their personal reactions toward some students above whom they have been appointed as guides to a fuller life. Although the remedy is perplexing, there should be some solution even for these minority cases of injustice.
A prohibitionist met a drunk on the street the other night. A stranger had to take them both home.
GANDH'S COMMON SENSE
Mahatma Gandhi, whose lean shanks have disconcerted more American cinema crowds than the bullets of "Little Caesar," or the liberated emotions of Ruth Chatterton, has decided to embellish his appearance with a pair of European trousers when he appears in London soon. But connoisseurs of fashion should not regard his accession to conventionality as vanity; Gandhi has no intention of clothing himself in white starched shoes or silk knee breeches. "I am ugly enough," he says, "without additional fopery. I was never made to be ornamental."
Gandhi's wisdom has the quality of
Solomon's. Not all great men realize that the natiorary tartanism has nothing to do with their innate genius. Gandhi will not tog out his body in European clothing, nor his mind with egotic ideals concerning his physical beauty. He is one of those men whose common sense and good eyesight have shown him, on those rare times he has consulted mirrors, that he can make no liaisons with either Apollo or Aphrodite, and he is stubborn enough, even in the face of the greatest adulthood any living being perhaps has ever known, to cling to his simplicity of dress and his content of soul.
In a well-known househouse, piee- quilts is all the girls can think about this spring. There just aren't any old-fashioned girls left, it seems.
BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER
Bruce Bainspath the creator of "Old Bill" talked last night. In his pleasant English accent he drawn on about his adventures in the World war which led to the origination of that lovable soldier, "Old Bill", and his trusty comrade, "Bert". In the darkened auditorium the voice went on and on while the cartons of Bill in his various adventures were thrown on the screen. The story of "Old Bill" clever as it was, faded into insignificance, and the audience saw not only the English Bill, but Yanks Frenchmen, Italians and all the rest of the men who gaily and courageously fought the war. These heroes were seen, not in heroic scenes, but at times when the real human stuff made them terrily in earnest though they were, pathetically humorous to the rest of the world.
And as the story continued the spirits of those soldiers seemed to be in the darkness of the auditorium, chuckling perhaps a little sheepishly, at the things that happened over there. The light snapped on and when the illusion of all those figures disappeared they entered somehow into the hand that sketched so surely the portrait of Old Bill in 1914. 1916, and 1931.
Bruce Batesfather knew just how Old Bill and Bert felt, knee deep in mud and water in a lonesome shell hole somewhere in no man's land. He understood, even while he was picturing the funny side of the war, the stark tragedy of the struggle.
The national cookie industry is the only one that has been quite unaffected by the well-known depression so there won't anything to all that alk about diets, after all.
BEAUTY AND OUR LADIES
We do not, as a general rule, put much stock in the blirrs written by beauty experts who regale our feminine population with ways to stay lovely. Still, there are times when our respect goes out to those advisers and their suggestions.
We note a recent article wherein an expert suggests that the mouth, is the fundamental expression of beauty, as it has always been.
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The mouth is an indicative of moof as it is of character, and we are loath to think that all the drooping-ided people we know are an hard put as their lips suggest; and all the stereotyped smiles we know as significant of eternal happiness as offer their frozen joy proposes. We might offer a happy medium, but it would be unfair to leave our devotes with their mouths agape until we reach a less disconfining facial appearance.
Surely mouths are indigenous with surly dispositions; a snarl does not p涩 the unhook toward clever bon mots or sharp deductions. Nor does a machine-like smile, as set and moulded in all one's conscious hours as are the faces on street-cur placards that advertise toothpaste, warm a man to great effort.
Regular bathing is required by law in Poland. In America we have municipal swimming in the summer only.
For Americans who have viewed brought conditions in the United States with a realizing eye, the appearance of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth," offers a striking likeness when hunger visits the Orient. The work takes the
"THE GOOD EARTH"
life of Wang Lang, a poorly born Chinese, from the day of his marriage to a slave through the long years of his life until he faces death.
Chinese, from the day of his marriage to a slave through the long years of his life until he faces death.
Hilliterate, frugal, energetic. Wang Lung rose from the small ground of a great landowner, and in the process he faced famine, floods, drought, war, and pestilence. Always he saw the fundamental exigency that could safeguard the lives of himself and his people—the good earth. It is the old story of a man springing from the earth, existing on the earth, and returning to it when he dies. Wang Lung saw it thousand sacrileges during his existence, but the sacrilege that wring his heart most was that of the soil. The American people, with their big businesses and great factories, are devoid as a whole, of respect for the soil as were Wang Lung and his people. But when there appears a drought, a great flood, or a shortage in crops, even the most machine-mad of our manufacturers know that all life still exists from the "good earth."
The women of India are said to have 2 language known only among themselves. American women have a language all their own, too, characterized by its rapidity and endurance.
FAME FOR A 13-YEAR-OLD
Single-handedly, Sergeant Alvin York captured a large number of Germans in the war. He was in charge, but remained always he modest Tennessee mountaineer seeking the public eye only for the lectures which he made in order to mow a school in his state for the education of mountain children. We all the stories of the Col. Linbordheen and Admiral Byrd, their intrepid air exhuls and subsequent modesty.
all of these men were mature beings. Bryan Untied, the Colorado boy, is only 13 years old. He has received an invitation from President Loover, quantities of letters from admirers, and in general much salaamaging of newspaper readers. He deserves much praise. Only, we trust that he will withstand this shower of adulation. We hope, sincerely so, that all this attention will not alter seriously his original destiny—that of being a normal young American boy.
EVOLUTION OF UNIVERSITIES
All of these new curricular changes indicate that the universities are beginning to take their educational responsibilities more seriously. When collegians have to devote more time to their academic work, and when they feel that they are really becoming specialists in one subject, a decrease in campus extra-curricular activities
Mussolini's battle cry: Who is the greatest man in the world, and why am?
A widespread upheaval in the college and university system is to be expected in the future, if we are to judge from the wind that has been slowing from Eastern educational institutions.
Harvard helped begin the movement by installing an "honors" plan by which students may prepare, under the supervision of tutors, for a written final, comprehensive examination in some special field. To allow time for intensive study for this test the honors student is excused from examinations in his last year's courses.
Other Eastern schools adopted the honors plan, which is really a modification of the English "tripos" system. Then the University of Chicago drew attention by announcing that it would give students their degrees as soon as they had finished their work, without regard to the time they had spent in residence.
Next, Yale suddenly swoke to the need of innovation and broadcast the fact that it would abolish one-semester courses and compel students to learn more about fewer subjects. There has even been a reverberation of this newer educational theory in the Southwest, where "Aifaffa Bill" Murray has issued a statement declaring that he would like to see the University of Oklahoma limit itself to the last two years of college and leave the work of the first two years to the junior colleges.
There will be an important meeting of Jay James in the rest room of central Administration building at 4:30 on Monday.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVIII Friday, April 10, 1931 No. 138
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
The Mathematics club will meet at 4:30 on Monday in room 210. Administration building. Professor J. C. G., J. Quinn of the mathematics department at University of Arizona will be there.
JAY JANES:
At any rate, their college life, whatever it may have been, or whatever it is to them, is dying fast. Some will carry it with them as a memory, and some will hit him among the mothballs in the bottom of an already old trunk where in later years either their children or their grandchildren will uncover it in the dust of the art. It will be mused over seriously, but withal in a humorous frame of mind. The college of that future date will be different. At least it is hoped that it will be. The education of 1921 will be out of style.
A university education to many of us is probably like a beautiful dress or a line suit of clothes—to be worn and then disenabled or neglected because of
Leaving?
For Your Week-end
NELL REZAC, President
The thoughts which seniors think would more than fill a library. Some of them are certain that college is a place to have a whole of a good time. Some no doubt regard it as a place where they have spent four years imbibing ideas with which they can disconcert, or even shock, their parents. The more pessimistic, who are always with us, look forward to the time when they will be free to learn and think once more. Possibly a number also believe that they have increased their store of knowledge, if not in books, in something else.
come more like the serious-minded European schools, the place of the present social-seeking college may be supplanted by the junior colleges, or even by an expansion of the last two years of high school. The same number of people may attend "college" in his future but it will be one of a different nature.
may be expected to take place. When a few obvious and glaring stains upon his happens and universities be-
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As commencement years, probably an increasing number in the ranks of the seniors who should be graduated are reflecting on the four years which they have spent in making themselves eligible to a degree.
To Gabrielle Chanel is given the credit of making the peasant's tunic so chie that queens wear it. But that's nothing to what the musical comedy chorus has done to mechanics' unionals.
SHELVED EDUCATION
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You are invited to hear this vital subunit presented from the perspective of view by E. Barettle Backus, of Angeles, at the Museum of Natural History.
"Patriotism Is Not Enough." The dream of a united world can no longer be regarded as visionary and impractical. It is rapidly becoming a stern necessity for the survival of civilization. "Unified we stand, divided
leta you sleep.
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The most popular cereals served in the dining-rooms of New York are whole wheat fortifieries are made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. They include ALL-BRAN, PEP Pean Flakes, Rice Krispies, WHOLE WHEAT Biscuit, Akin Kaffe Hag Coffee — the coffee that makes them.
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THERE's nothing better than a bowl of delicious Kellogg's Corn Flakes and milk. So easy to digest, it invites sound sleep. Dietitians advise it. How much more healthful than hot, heavy foods.
So order Kellogg's when you drop in at the campus restaurant tonight. Enjoy with canned peaches, or sweeten with honey for an extra treat. Good . . . and good for you!
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