PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1930 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... CLARENCE RUPP Associate Editors French McClelland Sara Thomson RIO CARDINAS SANTANDER BURGO DE WILMAAM NICOHOLA MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NUCCHIS Singer, Editor... Owen Paul Lasi Carroll Olivi Herbert Liam Hawkins Lia Tidyhawk Liam Thackway Sam Shade Sam Shade Charles Sayer Charles Sayer Frank Anselmber Frank Anselmber Ben Yenxin Rikke Klassen Kansan Board Members ADVERTISING MGR. ROEBERT PERSONAL District Assistant Irie PitSimmons District Assistant William B. Smith District Assistant William B. Smith Circulation Manager Jack Martin Frank McClendon William Nichols Robert Pierson Virginia Williamson Mary Bartrum Iris Pflammenson Carl Cooper Morton Walter Moore William Moore Telephones Business Office ___ K. U. 66 News Room ___ K. U. 25 Night Connection ___ 2k14K Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students of the Department of Journalism of the University. Published free of the Department of Journalism. Subscriptions arrears, 14.00 per year, payable in advance. Single coupon rate. Entred in second-class and/or system at Lawrence Center at laverry or at Lawrence Kanna, under the act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1930 HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE Not since the era of the country, literary society has there been such a wide-spread interest in debating and public speaking as there is now. The intense interest which debate is acquiring for our high schools is attested by the growth of the invitation tournament held annually under the auspices of the University extension division. Even though the element of competition was removed this year by the elimination of all rewards and decisions, the number of students entered in the tournament has increased more than 30 per cent over the number last year. Educational leaders in our secondary schools are coming to realize more and more that debate is one of the best methods of testing a student's ability to put his knowledge into action. Knowledge becomes a dynamic thing when a student learns to think on his feet. Debate teaches acuteness in decerning the irrelevant and the trivial, and in recognizing the vital issues upon which a decision hinges. Naturally, many of the teams entered have achieved these abilities in very small measure only. Many of the speakers are totally unable to speak interpersonally. Their presentation is halting, their arguments are memorized or read, and their refutation is trivial. But there are some very fine teams entered in the tournament, with debaters who would do credit to many college teams. By meeting an outstanding team, those who have little or no training in debate gain ideals and standards for future accomplishment which probably they could not acquire in any other way. In this way, the debate tournament becomes a medium for disseminating standards of achievement which may ultimately result in greater uniformity for our system of secondary education. Governor-elect Woodring has denied that married women will not be given positions under his administration. We don't care to be conciliate in our deductions, but it does sorta look as if he isn't going to make any special effort to depart from bachelorhood. WHAT COUNTY CLUBS CAN DO WHAT COUNTY CLUBS CAN DO Through their influence the county clubs can become a powerful medium for demonstrating the entire educational system. That there is tremendous waste of time and effort in our colleges today is almost universally conceded. The curriculum has been burdened with courses which are either of such elementary nature that they properly belong only in the high schools, or courses which are not compatible with the college's awed purpose of providing a general cultural background for its graduates. This condition exists because of two principal conditions: students come to college poorly prepared, or they come without realizing the purpose of a college education. They have been led to believe that all their troubles will vanish once they have acquired a bachelor's degree. The county clubs, by disseminating a clear conception of what is to be gained y acquiring the degree of Bachelor of Arts will attract students to the College who are really interested in acquiring culture and will not be disappointed with what is offered them. High school graduates to whom a cultural background means little or nothing and who are not ready to undertake the thorough preparation of the University will turn to the schools which will more quickly satisfy their demands for preparation for a specific vocation. With the college freshman aware of what is being offered to him, scholastic standards in colleges will rise. High schools will have to raise their standards to meet the college requirements. As a result the high schools will become what they should be—institutions thoroughly preparing their graduates for the cultural education of a college or training for a specific vocation. The topic for discussion was convo- ation and chapels. One broad minded student spoke up and said: "It ought to be chapel here instead of convoya- ment, but they haven't got enough religion here to call it chapel!" No? And sometimes not enough students to have convoiation either. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS Much as we modern pride ourselves on the fact that we have purged our religion of all the old medieval superstitution, ritual, and formal ceremony, we are nevertheless willing to admit that Christmas without its symbolism would be a drub season. Who could imagine a happy childhood without its tree, stockings, and Santa Claus? Children learn more of benevolence and human brotherhood from the old legend of a jolly Santa in his red and white suit than from any abstract deity of whom their parents may teach them. The emotional responses of adults, made rough and harsh by constant attention to the cold realities of a commercialized world, are curiously softened by the symbolic observances of Christmas. Campus Opinion "WHY COLLEGES FAIL STUDENTS" That is the title given to an article written by Philip Wyle in the December 13 issue of the Saturday evening Post. It portrays a hypothetical case of a college student who fakes his exam and then the author goes ahead to capital "why colleges flunk students." "Why," M. Schoonmaker concludes, "it should be considered dishonorable, let alone dishonest, for a young man to profit by his natural talents to the extent that he lacks the necessary for an education is an eternal mystery. And, why if, it is dishonorable for the young man to do thin, it is honorable for his university to profit far more greatly by these students than the university deeper and more unhalfamous." The basis of the amateur rule lies in two theories: that intercollegiate sports are a side issue, and that the spirit of competition would be counteracted if it were to be taken up by personal gain. It may be doubted that football, at least, is a side issue in most American colleges. Certainly it would be difficult for any college to violate the violent partnership, the spirit of loyalty, the love of athletic prowess for its own sake that inspire players and rosters alike and if college teams should have two of these three elements would be taken from it. So, being as an cynic toward the present college situation and the world today, I am a follow-student who needs encourage-ment. I write a momentary article as a possible momentary relief. Something must be wrong somewhere. Now to any student of any college who at any time begins to feel some what clowns in the mouth as a response to his own role for him, I a student, urge and recommend that he or she read this article by Mr. Cormack, who has been teaching every student becomes cynical toward the whole plan and system of higher education. There are times when he or she will not need to spend four years and as many thousands of dollars for the undelible bits of learning that college gives to students. He explains that the student in every college wonders whether or not college life with in social organizations is not more or less But whether the damage would be irreparable if college football players were permitted to turn their talents to their owner, even if they had been a legitimate question. Editors of college publications are not disqualified by the fact that they are occasionally paid to play in college games at campus and off-campus periodsicals. Dairy teams may still conepate on judging teams the they have actually worked in diaries. They are simply able to advantage to thereby "estimate advantage." And yet—to the college student who leaves school either voluntarily or at the request of the dean the people of the college comment, most of which is unfaire and untrue. Of course not all of those who leave school are the college students, but as Mr. Wylie says in his article, "out of the two-third or three-quarter of the college students who conquer without a few thousands who conquer without a degree and prevail without a sheepskin." I wonder just what is wrong with our curricular emphasis on a standard that assumes that the average college education imparts nothing of practical value to the student. Yet the class- The Cynical Sophomore. What, after all, is it unanimely? For football purposes he's a boma file coach. He has to keep the national's most popular sport for love of the game, love of the collage, or at any rate love of something—certainly not football. It also pays cash. What of it? "the nation is asking." Our Contemporaries As the simon-pure will point out, this theory at once brings up a question: Where shall the line be drawn? That's a question for the book—America, which doesn't give you the answer. It looks more and more, however, as the answer must be found. Iowa State, which can be accused neither of buying winning football tickets nor of finding it in ball crowds, would like to find it as much as would anybody else. AMATEURS AMIRETUX What, after all, is an amateur? Only seven of the 1,705 books of the University of Kansas are sure they want to be home makers. At that the men might change the sense, temptation, and pleasure some one to keep the house in order. If the girls can produce enough to meet the monthly installments and pay the grocery bill, that's all any man can wish for. Frank Schonnockma, writing in Harper's, also asks the question, and he decides that it's a ridiculous standard—particularly absurd, he decries, in his book *The Art of War*, made by the athletic departments for whom these amateurs are "working." --- Chalkings --- The Christmas issue of the Chalking column will be printed Thursday evening of this week, to allow more students to submit copy. Literary Editor. The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will treat on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium on the third floor of the Administration building. E. H. LINDLEY. BACON STUDIO will be a meeting of the Easterlander club Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 5:30 p.m. in room 923 Snow hall. FRANK A. DLABAL, President ACCEPTED BY: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIII Sunday, Dec. 14, 1920 No. 74 COLLEGE FACULTY: MATHEMATICS CLUB! There will be a meeting of the Mathematics club on Monday, Dec. 15, at 4:30 p.m. in room 211 Administration building. PHILIP BELL, President. Y.W.C.A.: MATHEMATICS CLUB' --- Christmas vespers will be in the auditorium of the Administration building Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 3:36 p.m. Everyone is cordially invited. ESTHER CONGER, Chairman of Meetings Committee. GERMAN CLUB BRUNO RADTKE, Faculty Adviser. GERMAN CLUB: The Christmas celebration of the German club will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 4:38 in room 313 France. Every one interested is cordially invited will be no nontent of the club on Monday, Dec. 15. PRACTICE TEACHING: Students wishing to enroll for supervised teaching during the second semester must make application at the Education office, 103 Fraser, Dec. 15, 16, or 17. FAYMOND A. SCHWEGLER, Dean, Well Dressed Students R. E. Frotsch, the Tailor 833 Mass. Chicken Dinner 50c Hillside Pharmacy UNION PACIFIC STAGES BUS ECONOMY with RAILROAD CERTAINTY Frequent Service to Topeka and Kansas City New Union Stage Terminals in Kansas City, 13th and Main, also Topeka, 6th and Jackson—Right in the heart of both cities. BUSES EVERYWHERE UNION STAGE DEPOT Eldridge Hotel Tel. 26 Dancing Taps - Arch Supports - Laces and Polish Shoe Repairing That Satisfies That's why we are always busy 1017 Mass. Electric Shoe Shop 11 W. 9th "Naught Can Compare With Gifts to Wear!" This suggestion is not as "funny" as it sounds! You can give him a hat without risking your judgment in the selection of it. 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