- PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS EDITOR-IN-CHEP PAUL FISHER Associate Editors MARKAGING EDITOR Makayla Wayne Campus Editor Grace McKinney Night Editor Jeremy Knuckle Telegraph Editor Lisa Cavevich Marcy Mackenzie Security Editor Rachel Pinkhill Kristina Ruth ADVERTISING MANAGER...MARION BEATTY Astr. Advertising Mgr...Iris FireSimon **BOWEN** Frank McClintock William Nichols Virginia Wilkinson Murray Beauty Garrett Burrow Ian Frohnauer Caitlin Harron Joe Pyman Paul Green Walter Moore Telephone Business Office K. U. 64 News Room K. U. 35 Night Connection 2501K3 Pollished in the aftereffect, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansu, from the Press of the Department. Subscription price, $4.00 per year, payable in advance. Single copies. On request. Market January 17, 1958, at the post office at Lawrence Kansai, under the act of March 2, 1959. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931 LET'S HAVE MORE DISCUSSION If the purpose of a college course is to cram students' minds with facts and principles, most of our classes are inefficient. Surely a great many more facts could be memorized during a semester if the instructor spent the class hours drilling the students on textbook formulae or supplementary material, as teachers do in the elementary grades. But if the instructor has a function as an interpreter of profound subject matter, a more sensible and less expensive system would bring to classes through the country the best teacher of his field by means of the radio with a loud-speaker in each classroom. An assistant might be paid a small salary to give quizzes and take the roll so that indoleent students would not remain in bed to listen to their eighth-liquid lectures. This would prevent students from taking their education too leisurely. On the other hand, if a college course is to make students acquainted with what has been thought in their field and to train them to investigate, evaluate, think and express themselves in terms of the subject matter of the field, then surely few of our courses of the purely lecture type accomplish their purpose. For an instructor to lecture on material covered more adequately by assigned readings is uncompetitive to the intelligence of the students and a waste of much valuable time. It also encourages dawling habits of study and develops a kind of passive dexility which dulls the intellect. Factual material can surely be obtained more accurately and completely from the printed word. In courses where the principal aim is to develop certain mental habits the better method is to learn by doing, to learn to think by thinking, to express ideas by speaking and writing. If students graduate from our universities without learning to think for themselves or to express themselves intelligently about many subjects, is it not because we have so few classes where such training is sponsored? A Michigan psychologist informs us that the dangerous age is 45. What does that make Youth? LOAN FUNDS Loans serve a type of students who could never hope to get aid through scholarships, and in that measure they are superior to scholarships which supposedly carry an honor with them. The reason for this is the fact that many times scholarships are granted on a basis of leadership, athletic ability, and grades. A student who is working his way through school seismum has time for all three of these activities. If he excels in leadership, he is likely to fall low in the other requirements. It is the same if he maintains a high standard in athletics, or grades. It is almost impossible for a person to be equally outstanding in all three of the specifications. A student who needs money often has had to work his way through college. He has not had time to study as much as he would like to do. He has not been able to take part in many of the activities in which, had he had the time he would have taken part. He is the plooring student who will forge ahead later in life, but who must delay that time in order to get the immediate necessities of life. It is this type of university student which the loan funds especially serve. Although he may have only an average of "C" if his grades have been rising during the past semester or two, there is a strong possibility that he will be a success in the future. If he has maintained an average between "C" and "B" there is very little doubt that he will be a good investment. The loan funds often serve a vital and in many cases a better need than do the numerous scholarships which are granted indiscriminately as to the monetary need. The Dove must be going capitalist. It claims to have made a profit of more than 31 per cent on its latest venture. UNEMPLOYMENT: AN EUPHEMISM Of all the inexpressive euphemisms, the term "unemployment" is the flabbleiest when it attempts to describe a man or a group of men out of work. The word is inert; it does not delineate the mental pain, the social consciousness, the physical dejection that the jobless man suffers. "Unemployment" has a veiled dignity, and men without work, especially men who have sought any sort of a task to keep them alive in these hard materials, realize no dignity in their situation. Only one quality is left them in the crisis of hunting work and failing to find it, and that is courage. The more serious American periodicals are thick with descriptions of jobless men in metropolitan centers. The articles are not meant to bring tears; they are simple accounts of economic conditions among the poor and uncared-for of our country. With every employment agency crowded with men hour after hour, with soup lines inadequate to feed the hungry, the jobless condition has incited the nation to a sense of economic peril and social catastrophe. Until more work is made available the jobless will stand as our largest issue in need. Headline—"Woold-Be Movie Stars Interviewed." Just one of the copy readers practicing that broad movie accent. PROVINCIAL EDUCATION Years ago someone said that a native Kansasan was a "dead give-away;" that the Kansasan could be picked out of a crowd by almost anyone; that he had that unique Kansas appearance and the "Kansas angle." There is some evidence for this argument. The Kansas angle isn't absent from the University. Here at K. U., we know what goes on around Mount Cread but we have little or no idea about what happens at dear old Calford, or Midcale, or Siwsh or a host of others. Steps have been taken to bring about close contact with other universities. The exchange student plan, as carried out with German colleges, has notable merit. The Men's Student Council also has recently affiliated with the National Student Federation of America, which President Meuser says will promote harmony and understand. But still we know comparatively little about university life outside of schools in the Missouri valley. We have, for example, no more of a picture of college methods and enterprises at the University of Virginia than we have of the meats of the Vassar Daisy Cham- if any. At Kansas, we are molded into a type. We become Kanansa, which is only natural. But it would be a much more profitable process if we could institute some means of augmenting our education by realizing that at least a few other states have worthwhile ideas and customs which might well be included advantageously in the Kansas angle. NO PRAISE NEEDED With consecutive championships in track and football in Big 6 competition, the University of Kansas basketball team established itself as sure of at least a tie for first place in the present race. A game with Missouri Friday night, if won, will give the Jayhawk five the uncontested title. The record of Kansas teams in athletics speaks well enough for itself in the last year; it needs no further ebulging from this column. An important meeting of the K. U. Aero elb will be held this evening at 12 noon 138 Marvin. All members are urged to be there. New members of the team will be notified. AYTO CLUB: JOHN A. LAPHAM, Secretary. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVII Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1931 No. 115 BOTANY CLUB: There will be a meeting of the Botany club this evening at 7:30 o'clock at 1121 Louisiana street. All members are urged to attend. There will be initiation of new members. IRMA MARZOLF, President. DELTA PHI DETA The Delaware Medical Center will hold a bodge service this evening at 7:50 clock at the home of Prof. Rosemary Ketehm, 1698 Louisiana street. DELTA PHI DELTA: ENGINEERING_COUNCIL: JAMES PENNEY, President. BEFORE ACCEPTING THE MEMBERSHIP, you are required to fill the vacancy of senior representative on the Engineering council. Petitions must be in the hands of the council by January 25th, 2014. INTER-RACIAL MEETING: There will be an inter-rental meeting at 7:30 Thursday, evening at Henley house. MILDERD REED, PAULINE PETEKSON, Chairman. Kappa Phi will meet this evening at 7 o'clock in Nyeas half, THELMA CARTER, Publicity. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Le Carcele Franca se reunit mercredi a quatre heures et domain la salle 306 Fraser hall. RUTH DIREENTIAL. Secretaire. PEN AND SCROLL: PRACTICE TEACHERS MEETING: There will be a meeting of Peel and Seron this evening at a club in the rest room of central Administration building. ELIZABETH BRANDT, President. There will be a meeting of Pen and Screw this evening at 8 o'clock in the net room of control Administration building. 15 Froster, the business meeting meeting at 7:30 o'clock in room 15. EDWIN MILTON HELLIES, Director of Teacher Training. QUILL. CLUB: There will be a regular meeting of Quill club Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 o'clock in the rest room of central administration building. KATHRYN HAYES. President A. I.E.E. There will be a regular meeting of ALEE at 7:50 Thursday evening. A paper on "Helios" will be given by Mr. Helen Miller, Chairman of the Board of Friends and FrANCE L. SHINER, Secretary Y. W.C.A. Commission: The freeman and sophomore W.Y.C.A. commission will hold a joint meeting at Henley house, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Fri. 28. DORI JOHACSON. Campus Opinion DUTCH-DATING Editor, Deile Kempen You *entertain-me-and-I'll* pay the bill, is the lengthy but pertinent phrase which describes the museums-feminist or consumerist ethos. It happens to be truly expressive. Men pay for the show, buy the food, formish the car or pay the taxi fare. You can sit at a table and somehow manage to supply enough entertainment for the date. But entertaining is hard work if it is taken seriously. We clever and amusing, etc., worth the price of one show, one "bate to eat" or two, two "beats to eat." And on the part of the men, is the brand of entertainment worth the cost? There is a lot of dissatisfaction on the part of the men, the knotty problem lies in dutch-dating. Fifty-two on the bill, and fifty-one on the bill, is a bad idea. In fact the idea is simply great, and we recommend it to the next love-sucker who wants to make a good impression on the table. *hears*! Holland's Need one call your attention to the action of some of the student body at the end of the games previous to the two mentioned? During the playing of But, fellow Jayhawk, one must look at this from two sides to give unbiased opinion which evidently hasn't been done. Editor Daily Kansan: Wake up Kanean, wake up; your editorial of "What a Blunder" is just a week behind time. The band has been performing two games. As the Kansas kannn't given the band a good rap this year (as should call attention to "such an error"). the alma mater some of that "Loyal" student body are exceedingly anxious to leave and do so by jumping off the stage on to the floor, where they report onto the to the floor kneeling over a few chairs and away they go. Is that good sportmanship? It is not, but it is a great K. U.; the alma mater; and that traditional Jawahrah war cry, the "Rock Chalk." Should the band be expected to play the alma mater under these conditions? Let us correct this maladjustment and undoubtedly "Mac" and his band will strike up the alma mater at the school. The "Legal" student body can spare two minutes of its time to remain on the court, but the "played" student, don't be surprised by "the members of the Band picking up their instruments and folding up their song books." A Band Member CONCERNING SUMMERFIELD I have been a resident of Kansas for 30 years and a resident of Lawrence for 25 years. I work with children through K, U, and still keep up my interests in student affairs by attending seminars. Editor Daily Kansan: In Summerfield's time they had no closet. But in the 1930s two ex- isting men paid rent for houses own by tax-payers. This exemption did not come up until later, 1900 I would have said. If he were here now in this present environment, I would be favor of hacking his cell for mind- minded toward the deserving poor! I know some ex-fragrant men who We still have a supply of the "Hit of the Week" records at 15c Read the Kansan want-ads. But you had better hurry if you want to buy a pound of chocolate covered almonds at only 69c to minch on while you listen to your new records. Toss a penny for who's jealous. A Taxjayer. Rankin's Drug Store 11th & Mass "Handy for Students" A. G. ALRICH Printing Engraving Binding Rubber Stamps Office Supplier Stationery 736 Mass. Street Phone 678 Hobo Convention Tonight Don't Miss the WIGWAM ROLLER SKATING RINK 8th & New Hampshire Men 35c Ladies 25c A Bright Young Man sent a book to his friend who had the FLU The patient laughed and immediately recovered; the nurse laughed and asked the dentist. It was THE OWL IN THE ATTIC $2.00 at The Book Nook SPECIALS Baked Halibut Wednesday Noon *** Baked Halibut Breaded Pork Fresh Spinach Corn All-Bran Muffins Try Our Pecan Pie The Cafeteria Nothing is good enough but the best Shoes play the lead part in one's appearance. Let us keep them look well! Electric Shoe Shop Repairing. Shining. 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