PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kanans EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... CLARENCE RUPI MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM NICOLS Makeup Editor Mildred Carrue Sunday Editor Matthew Marquis Martha McKinney Sam Sham Spotted Editor Katherine Clarke Sporting Editor Dianne Cousins Forestry Editor Lula Hutchins Journal Editor Luke Hutchins Alumni Editor Heather Alumn Alumni Editor Heather Alumn Kansan Board Members ADVERTISING MGR. ROBERT PIERSON ADDITIONAL ASSISTANT. JR. Pikinson廖 District Assistant. Wendy R. Brown District Assistant. William B. Smith District Assistant. Robert G. Simmons Circulation Manager. Jack Morris Clarence Rupp Telenphones Robert McCliland William Nicholson Frankel Pierceon Virginia Wilmonson Mary Birtman Liz Fitzsimmons Carl Cooker Marion Moore Wilmer Moore Telephone Business Office K. U. 68 News Room K. U. 25 Night Connection 2791K2 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Depart- Subscription price, $100 per year, payable in advance. Single coupon. Inquire at the Booking System between 8 a.m. on April 19th, at the post office at Lawrence Kaunder, under the art of March 2, 1879. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 THE INFLUENCE OF CRITICAL THINKING ON MORALS When it comes to this thing of morals, students weigh their own values. They accept and reject just as they see fit, without attention to the mores of the past. The action that seems right to them is followed with no restraint from moral attitudes that have gone down in history. They do their own thinking, and by and large they do a pretty fair job of it, despite the reports of pessimistic philosophers. Old standards are not accepted merely because they have been accepted in the past. The fact that an institution has survived for a certain length of time does not mean necessarily that it is good. Looked at with open eyes and critical minds, a surprising number of flaws may crop out. But neither does a complete revolt against past standards stand the test of the critical thinking many young people apply to it. Extreme conduct is frowned upon, not because it is "wicked" but because it isn't the best thing for those concerned. When a thing is rejected it is rejected because it does not bring happiness, not because their elders claim against it or because their minister tells them there will be no room in the next world for them. Conduct is governed according to what the individual thinks is best in the long run for him. If he floues convention it is due to the fact that he believes the consequences will not outweigh the pleasures of his acts. If he lives by a hand and set rule of moral principles he believes in them. With a student with orange corduroy pants K. U. reaches the apex of fashion as no timid university can possibly do. THE COLLEGE WORKING WEEK The old gag that "you're all going to college because you don't want to work" is due for discard. It might have had some truth formerly, but it doesn't apply today. Students and instructors alike have taken good-natured the jibes of the public. The conflict of the town and gown has ever been waged merrily on both sides, with sharp comments often hitting at weak points in the opposition. As applied to students the jeers had more than once the truth just necessary to arouse parents and others interested in seeing that students were kept fully occupied. Now parental assistance is not necessary. The pressure applied to both faculty and undergraduates is intensified by the increased scope of scholastic interests and activities, easily sufficient to keep all busy. With college professors now actually acting in governmental commissions, bureaus, and the cabinet, the correlation of books and business is rapidly increasing professional responsibility and calling for increased work. As for the students, they find the increasing number of extrucurricular activities, the increasing emphasis of the faculty on studies, and the greater speed of business, demanding a higher efficiency that calls for more study and thought. For both, the demands of responsibility call for full schedules of honest work. At present the true position of the faculty and students is underestimated. This is partly due to the public misconception of the meaning of the average course of "fifteen hours." Hours to the business man means sixty-minute periods, and since he spends eight such periods daily in his business, he is inclined to criticize the laxity of the educational system, branding students as so-called "too lazy" who are too lazy to do homework." A recommendation might be in order to give the average course its proper commutation of forty-five hours—fifteen being restitution and the remaining thirty being for study and activities. While in many cases thirty hours might not be entirely absorbed, neither is the present fifteen, allowing for cuts. Professors and students who thus line up with the four-four and forty-four week would have made the criticism then made of waged academic hours could be checked against the Boturin or Klineman self scores. The Rolls-Royce on the campus gives us a standing comparable to Harvard, no doubt. PLEASANT REVERIE We generally understand knowledge to be a systematized accumulation of facts, whereas wisdom lies in the interpretation of these facts in a constructive manner. More often we speak of this interpretation of facts as creative thinking and like very much to say that a college of liberal education encourages this type of thought. Yet if we are perfectly frank, we will admit that creative thinking is rare even in an institution of higher learning. Several hours every day we are exposed to lectures and laboratories and at the termination of a semester are expected to repeat in parent-like fashion the things which we have learned. It is a routine process, and after a short time it becomes mechani- Still we cannot accredit this defect entirely to the system. We must realize the great lack of individuality among the student body. Personality flows generously, but the great mass are so consistently pleased with their pleasant reveries that they find neither time nor cause for creative thinking. A. Nebraska woman wunis for $25,000 as a result of losing her office safety in an automobile accident. Remind us of the old story in which one person asked another, "Does a fish swell?" "Till they say do." A WORD TO THE WISE Once there was a university student who put off his Christmas shopping until vacation had started. He had waded through a maze of late shoppers and was driven almost to distraction by the harassed clerks who seemed unable to appreciate his wants. Stocks had been picked over by hundreds of hands, so that the scarf he picked for his brother was a riotous thing. He wanted to get a book for his mother, but the only one available had been on the shelf since the close of the last century. Worst of all, the gift which he mailed to his sweetheart was delayed in the mass of Christmas mail and didn't reach till after New Year's day. The editorial attacks Billy Sunday. We not only resent the critics against Billy Sunday, but the audacity of editors so young. Those editors are hardly dark behind their ears, and yet they make hold to berate a great Belo is mourn. The university's being recently a recent editorial in "The University Daily, Kalman," published at the Kansas university by the students. DOWN WITH THE STAFF OF "THE KANSAN" Our Contemporaries --he Globe is aroused. ELECTRIC RADIOS Complete $59.50 Shimmers Bros. Plumbers and Electricians Repair Work, Especially. 836 Mass. Phone 161 American. First thing we know, those young squirts will be attacking religion and the church in general. So aroused are we about the editorial that we demand the resignation of the university Chancellor if he does not at once expel the editorial staff of "The Kansan" School journals should confine themselves to school activities, hand them off hands out the outside world, of which the young editors know nothing. "Some people are just naturally brookers," said Billy Sidney from the University of Chicago, sneering at anyone, you can tell right away what kind of a person The editorial which has bestirred us to righteous indignation follows: This all sounds very fine, but b reminds us of the old legend about what happened to a judge in burial cases. He burned his wounds. He devoided a method of testing old women for witchcraft. He tied them with their hands and left them on the river. If they floated, they were witches and were taken to an island and drowned, they were infarcent. Unfortunately, somebody had the bright idea of testing the judge himself. He sank, and that We shall have a rather high development of the social sciences when we have developed a technology which is in the evangelist that attracts such a large following in a supposedly intelligent and educated community. Since Doctor Brinkley's great victory strengthened Vow 4, it might be time for the president to "man of God" run together for President and Vice-president in a primary. If only somebody will ever come along and measure Mr. Swayden by his own words, surprises may be customised to villify his openness more readily than the "Reverend," as the backwoods newspapers will have it, he can stand forth as the law and order in this country. There will be a meeting of the Bacteriology club Thursday, Dec. 4, at 12:30 in room 502 Snow hall. Doctor Dane will speak. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XXVIII Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1930 No. 65 In order to secure salary warrants for December before Christmas the regular payroll must be signed at the business office on or before Dec. 11. FRANK A. DLABEL, President. --from your Favorite Snapshots. Eand members will bring in their cups this evening without fail. J. C. McCANLES. PAYROLL: BACTERIOLOGY CLUB: BAND: CHRISTMAS VESPER CHORUS: The second rehearsal) of the vaper chorus is scheduled for Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in room 23 Administration building. It is important that all members be present. There will be a dinner meeting of the Graduate club this evening at 6 o'clock in the Cafeteria. Miss Mary Larson will speak on Swedish educational systems. LAVON KIESTER, Chairman, Executive Committee. GRADUATE CLUB DINNER: PHI SIGMA: Pil Signa will meet Thursday at 6 o'clock in room 201 Snow hall. All members are urged to come. HRMA CASEY, Secretary. QUILL CLUB: There will not be a meeting of Quill club this evening at 7:30 o'clock. KATHRYN HAYES. President. Riadamatha meeting will be held this evening at 9 o'clock in the Union building. Members plane being all original material available. BHADAMANTHI: JOSEPHINE WHEELER, President. CO-ED CLUB NO.4: Coed club of district 4 will meet for a bridge party Thursday evening from 7 to 8 to room 2 of the Union building. And the staff of the Kansan will be the first applicants for soft jobs from these future greats. If their names get on the ballot, their election is assured. —Atchison Daily Globe. MARGARET HALSTEAD. Christmas Exhibition and Sale We just want to remind you of the Special Features Offered on a Twilight Night. The Faculty Women's Club will hold its annual Exhibition and Christmas Sale at the club house. 1300 Louisiana Street. Saturday afternoon. December 6, at one o'clock. A great variety of hand work and imported articles will be offered. 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