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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1931
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR IN-CHIEP PAUL FISHER
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1931
BYRD
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is the kind of young man that College Humor heroes dream about. Dark hair that has grazed romantically about the temples would almost be enough to enlist the average maid, but in addition his shoulders are finally proportioned, and his profile is good, his voice clear and distinguished, his manner charming. Moreover, he is cultured. He has according to rumor, traveled extensively. A sense of detachment appears in his every move. You can't picture him at a Varsity dance or at a World Series or a bargain-counter sale. To see him is to think of endless recesses of untridden Arctic雪, of perquisites dancing between children clarked with icebergs and floes. If you think of him in relation to humanity at all, it is to observe him smiling casually as he rides down Broadway in a Rolls Royce while thousands of wildly applauding citizen greet him. You realize that he appreciates their admiration, but that he will not succumb to it.
He is still a young man. A decade from now, possibly sooner, biographers will take their pens in hand to unfold his life. Most of them, unless they are like the present-day crop who are so maliciously-minded and erotic in their presentations, will begin by saying that the famous explorer once took a trip across the country by himself at the age of 12. That fact is substantial. At once the fundamental nature of the man becomes evident. Thousands of young-guys have traveled alone transcontinental; but it happens that to date only one of them has been Richard E. Byrd.
Since that time, Byrd has touched zones of the earth that no other man has approached. He has inhabited the Arctic and Antarctica. He is a twentieth century explorer, a rarity, who instead of returning to civilization as Balboa, De Soto, and Columbus did with words from the world, he uses the country and its life (or is it its lack of life?) finished in the most modern manner.
Byrd and his vocation are inestimably merged. He confesses that he again wants to go back to the arctic, and that until humanity knows the world thoroughly it will always be disinterested. He says, further, that when the day comes when we have explored everything, then man will cease to live.
The Republicans of Kansas City, like many hen-pecked husbands, are worried about the home rule.
ROCKNE LEAVES HIS IMPRESSION
A distinction should always be made between the man and the myth of him that is publicised. Knute Rocke is an excellent proof—he is the exception to the rule. Like all America's legendary men, his name is synonymous with attributes such as vigor, calmness, physical efficiency, the ability to fight, the flesh is much like Rocke's personality in print. Only the voice is lacking in print.
His voice is vital. It is no soft, cultured tone that dips lightly on nasal twangs or assiduously avoids harsh consonants. Its quality is metallic. It attacks words aggressively. You are upon hearing him speak, aware that the outward manifestation of him, like his voice, his tight-lipped mouth, and the perceptible hum in his shoulders.
are like the fabric of his mind. He is direct and unwavering.
Rockne does not mince words. Nor, so far as that goes, ideas. He could never have been a philosopher, clad in all the notes of abstruse things such as thinkers are wont to wear. Indeed, he wears only one garment; it is plaid and Rockne thinks no more about Rockne thinks so of it that he always keeps it well buttoned.
Rocke said nothing Friday, night at the Union building of the general movement on foot toward reducing varsity athletics to a minimum and emphasizing intramurals. The situation did not call for it. But if the question should come to a distinct controversy, the Notre Dame mentor should lead the side favoring intercollegiate competition. Intramurals are necessary, and almost every university has neglected them. In the last two years here at Kansas they have matured and broadened amazingly. But so far as fulfilling varsity competition, they are inadequate; underwhat Rocke said, there lay that thought. A college football or basketball team has attributes that cannot be substituted by wandwaving or volley ball.
You can get exercise waving a wand, all right. But the hell, says Rocken, with that sort of exercise. When a man goes on a field, wearing a varium uniform, he is going to a laboratory where his whole character is shaped. Football is a tough game, and that is why it is good. It teaches a lot of things — discipline, courage, co-operation, celerity of body and mind, honesty, and perseverance. Young men do this because they learn by a casual swim nor their minds by a more dabbling in John Dewey's social psychology. Those things may help, but they are futile without the objective side. Football gives that.
Rockie Kutnee teaches football. Sometimes, out of season, he comes into a town like Lawrence and unleashes that voice of his. What he says is shorn of bungee. It is a lot like his five teams, purposeful and sincere.
Adolfo de la Huire, leader of two Mexican revolutions, has developed three singers who have reached the highest note ever produced by a human threat. The senor always liked hings at a high pitch.
PANIC OR LOGIC?
The governor of Kansas is being deluged with letters on both sides of the question of capital punishment. Eminent men like Warden Lawes and other criminalists who have had both practical experience and training in criminology theory have written him to veto the proposed bill inaugurating capital punishment in Kansas.
Popular claucor on the other side from expert students at present is all in favor of the bills. A public that is frightened and growing despair about an undoubtedly alarming crime situation sees in capital punishment a strict measure that it feels might give relief. To be sure, a more and more highly organized system of criminal groups needs measures that are stern and effective. Foolish sentimentality is out of place.
On the other hand, the situation should be adequately and sincerely studied before some impulsive step is taken. The murder rate is no more alarming in Kansas, all things considered, than it is in any state in which capital punishment is the law and the tradition.
The crime situation is alarming, but there is no reason to be panicooky—just as a theater audience does better to march slowly out of a burning building than to push and jostle, so the state of Kansas should be determined but logical in dealing with crime.
There is imminent danger of a return to savagery if intelligent individuals interested in humanmeasures and the greatest welfare of the state do not take an active part in seeing that the side against capital punishment is presented vividly to the legislature and the governor.
Plain Tales
The statue in front of Green hall is a fraternal thing, and when two rivals halt beneath it to sell their wares, they are told that they were friends anyway. The taller was one of those taciturn agents who made the "Ladies Home Journal" aloof, and let its cover speak for him. His companion came out of him by allied steam escaping a pipe. "Sat'day Even' Post!" he shruiled. But potential customers marched on by.
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Jay Jane meeting called at 4:30 Monday, Feb. 6, in central Administration rest room. SHIRLEY CASEIER, President.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVII  Funch, f. 8, 1921 No. 101
SPECIAL TAX PROBLEMS CLASS
Students who are enrolled in special tax problem will meet Tuesday, Feb
10, at 2:30 in rom 118 Administration building. D. J. TEOVATDLEA
JAY JANES:
Very important meeting of all W. Y. C. A. members on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 3:39 in Praeter theater. BESTHER CONFERENT, Chairmen of Meetings Comm.
Y. W. C. A.
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The Y. M. C. A. cabinet will meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the Y. M. Office.
FELIX MANLEY, President.
Y. M. C. A.:
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL
Petition to fill the offices of the secretary of Men's Student Council, the school of Business representatives to the Men's Student Council, and Junior 'from manager must be in my hands by 12 o'clock on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
The sultaness greed reluctant. The mute younger lowered his arm a bit as if to show the hopelessness of self-importance, and he might be. The other kept yelling; his voice subdued itself, and a note of hussky bolligerence crept into it. Three students sauntered by "Sat'd Day Even" and "The passersby never even smiled."
"Listen, Al," said the more logiqueous lad. The other lent him an attentive耳. His arm dropped perceptually. "Al, a guy with a good buy and no chance. You have a hard time tell them uses the Liberty, I betcha."
Two young ladies approached AI invaded his arm again. "Say day off," he said, and the two men were scorned by a fleeting smile, and that was all. An O'Cain, who said that she would scrise seriously out into space, "I betcha," he said finally, "I could sell the Lilb
"Joe," said the laconic Al, "Times are hard."
Al offered no bet. Quiet men rarely do.
The Campus Mews
THE OLD AND THE NEW
"How-do-you-do, pretty maiden.
Haven't I me you somewhere before?"
KEN MEUSER
So be went ahead and wod her
In the slow, old-fashioned way.
Three years found them blissfully
wadded.
"Sir, I do not even know you;"
"Sir, such holdout I declare"
"I should be told the truth."
I meant no harm, my misstep.
"Sir your apologe's accepted"
"Sir your apology's accepted."
wedded.
But the children don't woo that way
"Hello, Baby, how are you? How about taking a spin? How about a dinner and dinner? How about a dance? Big Boy, I don't know you. But you look O. K., to me. Let's see what we can see."
So he went ahead and took her
in the dishing modern way.
Three days found the knot all tied
And Padays told the bills, they say
If that is what it takes
To give you what you want,
I cannot do it, dear.
Impossible
If that is being what You call a real good sport, I'll never be a sport.
Impossible
Because you want me so—
That does not prove that I
Am wanting you that way.
I wish you hated me!
It could not hurt me as
This knowing I can't care.
College Curricula Discussed
Educational Conference Focuses Attention on Student Interests
Winter Park, Fla., — (NSPA)
Winter Park is a community of interested students and whether they should try to adapt their curricula to those interests common in the region. Dewey and members of the Rolling College educational conference re-
Dr. Joseph K Hart of Vanderbilt University said it was dangerous for a college to frame its curricula strictly in accordance with the adolescent interpersonal needs, he suggested, were "accidental" and should be considered from the viewpoint of their source, environment of the student, home life, or influences
The extent to which preliminary practice courses are required before students are allowed to take courses in which they have special interest in the subject of study. Mrs Constance Warren, president of Sarah Lawrence College, told of her "sad" experiences as a student in studying chemistry and her dislike for it. She said that the course seemed to have no relation to he world in which she lived.
Professor Goodwin Watson of Columbia presented "quatreteen points" as problems which face nearly every one in life, and which, he suggested, might be considered as the basis for discussion courses to meet the needs of students.
Dr. W. D. Bancroft, professor of chemistry at Cornell, suggested that the Liberci Arts College should be different in content and treatment from those offered in professional or technical care; they are not adapted to life, cared for are not adapted to life.
Now
New York Times.
The government of Uruguay has coevolved a Pan-American University Congress, which was first planned to take place in the centennial year of Bolivar's death, but which has been postponed until 10 April. It will be held in Montevideo. A number of universities in the United States expect to be represented.
New Conklin Endura Pens and Pencils
Colors Black and Green
Lawrence College, of which Henry M. Wriston, I., is president, has just received from an unnomy opponent a gift from the college library to add an addition to the college library.
Pens $5.00 to $7.00
Pencils $3.50 to $4.00
If any new student is home-sick, come to Ye Tavern Tea room and put your feet under a table like mother used to set.
Your name engraved free
Ye Tavern for Sunday
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Ye Tavern 1403 Tenn.
Strong Men Have Wept
and
women have rumpled their brand new finger waves because they did not know about the smart
Valentines
at
The Book Nook
So don't say we didn't tell YOU.
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