PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1929 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DITOR-IN-CHEF WM. A. DAUGHERTY Associate Editors sela May Ensign Homer Mille MANAGING EDITOR LAWRENCE MANN Sunday Editor Mary Wyrig Communis Editor Mary Barton Communis Editor Mary Barton Night Editor Kathleen Burke Night Editor Kathleen Burke Sunday Magazine Editor Nana Dumoeh Sunday Magazine Editor Nana Dumoeh Exchange Editor Iris Plattonman Exchange Editor Iris Plattonman KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS ADV, MANAGER MAURINE CLEVINGER Ablient Adv. Mar. Burkana Kennedy Assistant Adv. May. Kenneth Paddock ANASHA BANK Lawrence Main Katherine Borth Arthur Main Betty Imbree Mary Worsley William A. Damburby Luda Kecklil James S. Weick David McGee James W. Weick Business Office K, U. 66 News Room K, U. 25 Night Connection 2701K3 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kannu, from the Press of the Depart Subscriptions price, $4.16 per year, available in advance. Single copies, be each. Included in the rate for the booklet dated 19.10.1875, at the mid-office at Lawrence Kahni, under the order of the article 3.1879. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929 BOOS AND HISSES Of late, there has been a growing tendency among students and other patrons of local picture-houses to stamp their feet in time with the music, to bios and in other ways to make themselves objectionable to persons who attend the theaters for pleasure. It is true that advertisements on the screen do not furnish a particularly interesting source of amusement, but it is equally true that boos and hisses are not the proper method of reform. We expect this sort of conduct from the vulgar and ill-bred mob, but not from those whose education and up-bringing has extended past the sixth grade. Stamping of feet, in time with music accompanying the picture, is reminiscent of the days when we marched out of the grade-school classes for "trees." It parallels the hundred other things some college students do in unison. So movie conduct may be excusable on these grounds, since most of us haven't individually enough to side-step when the gang says "march forward." Good behavior—good breeding, let us say, in public, is merely common sense plus tacet. If we lack this, a good book of etiquette should put us right. An Associated Press dispatch tells us Ramsey MacDonald said, "I believe good is going to come out of faithful work religiously stuck to work which is returned to again and again," and the Thoughtful Freshman says while he realizes the parallel isn't perfect, he feels that he no longer has to be careful to not split his infinitives. RICHARD E. BYRD Richard E. Byrd, America's exploring aviator, has added another conquest to his already imposing list, by completing his flight over the South Pole Friday. In less than five years, this young army flier has accomplished more in the way of exploration than other famous adventurers have in a life time. In 1925, Beyrd commanded a scientific expedition into the Arctic. He flew over the North Pole in 1926 and completed a trans-Atlantic flight from the United States to France the following year. In all of the spectacular achievements of this venturesome hero, one fact stands above the rest. He has demonstrated the value of the airplane and the radio in conquering and charting the polar regions. The weary days of travel by dog sled, the hazard of starvation and death, and isolation from the rest of the world have been eliminated by this modern Viking of the Icelands. His successful flight in the Antarctic is valuable from the scientific standpoint. Facts about the topography, meteorological phenomena and other characteristics of the almost unknown Antarctic region, which he observed, will be of importance to experts in those fields. But, were all the benefits cast aside, Byrd would remain a great man. His love of exploration, his unceasing efforts in the outskirts of civilization, and his daring flights over both poles, will give him a place in history along with Columbus, Leif Erickson, Lindbergh, Ulysses, and the rest. The Thanksgiving vacation was pretty short, but there is some advantage in not having to stay home and eat hush for the next two weeks. ELEVENTH HOUR SHOCK For some reason, the brief Thanksgiving vacation has the effect of a "teaser" for the big show of Christmas holidays. Swift glimpses of pleasure are flashed before us with no time for their completion. We will hurry back to Mt. Oreo to await impatiently the fulfillment of these tempting promises. During the coming three weeks of suspense, we will forget about the meetings we put up until after Thanksgiving. No realization of the ominous approach of finals creepins in to trouble our blesseful dreams. Only six school weeks before fin alb! Don't let that fact get away from you when you plan to put off work until after Christmas. Some early January morning you will wake up with a shiver not altogether due to the temperature and realize that finals are upon you and that you will have several weeks work to catch up. Join the society for the prevention of cruelty to dumb animals, and do your studying now so you won't have to acram an aching head during the last hours preceding final examinations. Now is as good as any time to make the customary remark about "resting up from one's vacation." AN INSIDE APPROACH President Hoover has been holding conferences with business and farm groups in order to discuss their respective problems with them. He has adopted this method to win the cooperation of the industrial and agricultural leaders of the country as well as to get reliable information which may help him solve a number of economic problems facing the administration. Herefore, the tendency has been for government officials to rely on politicians and logrollers to furnish misinformation in regard to the needs of the nation rather than to consult with the men who are vitally concerned with business because of their personal connections with it. His plan has been open to a great deal of criticism from influential leaders who predict that nothing will be accomplished in the way of sound economic legislation. Again, others believe that the men who attend these conferences are selfish and seek benefits for their particular industries rather than for the good of the entire country. We must not forget, however, that the country was on the verge of a financial panic a few weeks ago and it was largely through the efforts of Hoover that the crisis was avoided. Through his ability to organize and win the co-operation of the business and farm interests, he seems to have been able to restore public confidence in the financial condition of the country. Whether his group conferences prove to be a success or do not, he deserves commendation for making an honest effort to study the problem from the inside—which is the only satisfactory approach to a careful and correct analysis of the situation. The Sunday papers said the news from Commander Byrd ended a period of confident anxiety for his family. Now we know what to call that queer feeling we have when we go to a final exam after an all-night's eram. Having our own traffic problems which have furnished warmth on many a cold editorial day, we naturally are interested in knowing that Kansas City at last has found a solution for her difficulties with reckless motorists, hit-and-run drivers, and laparkers. A SIMPLE SOLUTION That solution has been found in the creation of the Courtesy Auto OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. XVIIH December, 2 y 1929 No. 65 Pen and Scroll will meet Tuesday night at 8 a.m. in groups, Groups and room assignments are posted on the Pen and Scroll bulletin in Fraser. PEN AND SCROLL: Mr. Robert J. Allen of the department of English will talk to English majors and others interested Thursday, Dec. 7, at 4:36 p.m., in Fawner 295. His subject is "London in the Literature of the Early Eighteenth Century." W. S. JOHNSON ENGLISH MAJORS: Important meeting of the members of the sophomore class in Fraser chapel, at 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Dec. 3. SOPHOMORE CLASS; BOTANY CLUB: CURTIS_SKAGGS, President. There will be a meeting of Betty's club, Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 7:20 for installation of new member. Announcement of the place of meeting will appear on the website www.BettyS Club.org. COLLEGE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: The College League of Women Voters will meet Tuesday, 3, at 5:30 p. m. in the Union building. All members are urged to be present. MARCIA NEED, President. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The picture of the Mathematics club for the Jayhawk will be taken Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 12:30 at Squire's studios. All members are requested to be present. PHI BETA KAPPA: The Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will meet in the rest room, central Administration building, from 4 to 6 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 5, 1929. A social half hour will be followed by the initiation of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, F. H. Haldor. The title of his address will be "Somewhat about History." Archaeologists Discover Relics of Past in Recent Czechoslovakia Excavations VETA LEAR, EDNA TEETER, Secretaries Philadelphia... Relies on museum established Czechoslovakia between 2000 B. C and 2000 A. D, have been unearthened by a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Peabody Museum of Harvard. In the course of less than a month's preliminary search, 19 archaeological sites were encountered, the director of the expedition, J. Fowkes, leaked some details. *Results obtained justify a belief that many of the most important problems relating to the antiquity of mankind may be more closely approached,* Club, composed of motorists who agree to put a smile behind the steering wheel, and to bear out the watchword, "You first, my dear Alphonse." We are surprised that the solution to so perplexing a problem can be so simple. We suppose that the major problem facing the club will be that of membership. At this time of choosing mythical football championship teams, we ask the answer to this problem in applied mathematics: How can there be three Big Six eleven? Scythian Tomb of 400 B. C. Found in Siberia Lengnied—The Syrians, whose wild troops of horsemen hung like a cloud on the northern edges of the name of antiquity, in what is now southern Arabia, once had their house guarded, in the Alai region of Siberia. Light on this ancient civilization, which flourished in interior Asia from the sixth to the fourth century B.C., and underwent an extinction exploration by Pref. S. L. Rudenkow of Leingradh. His chief find was an ancient tomb, built of heavy bogs, in which an old-time chieftain lived in a well-structured, one structure, room constituting the tomper proper and the other a large burial chamber for the chief's horses, which apparently had been slain to preserve their master into the next world. The carcasses of the horses will be brought to Leiminggrad frozen, for study by geneticists and zoologists. Seventeen charitable organizations of the Community Chest, a welfare organization of non-lunar University. The drive for the Community Chest is carried on by the and possibly solved, by extensive ex- cavations in Czechoslovakia. The front chamber had been booted. It still contained the empty cotton, padding, and wadding of the walls, and a number of household objects. The thieves had attempted to cut through the wall to the door, but bud broken their tool and left it. There were in all ten carcasses of horses, preserved in the permanently frozen soil. Their brides and husbands were all buried in these are, of remarkably artistic workmanship. Two of the horses were equipped with head masks represented deer, made of skin and felt, covered with gold, and richly ornamented. How long will a horned toad live? for the first time the frogs' longevity will be tested. A credited laboratory. The biological department of Oklahoma Junior college at Tonkawe, Okla., will make the frogs a hard-to-catch cledo and the toad is to be put into its tomb, sealed with glass with the center except through the porch rock. The preliminary expedition worked only in the province of Bohemia. Three of the sites containing trunks of early wood were excavated, the Elmwood, the Elmwood, or copper age, to 2100 B. C, and 1800 B. C, a period just before the discovery of bronze. Three of the sites are also part of a settlement where the earth still holds quantities of their pottery, bane ash and chisels, stone weights used in making textiles. "A huge house pit with two fire places and an unusual ash pit with stone slabs for heating and pebbles for cooking," Pewskes states. "These latter discoveries are of an unman character and it is believed that a careful analysis of them will add considerable to our understanding of the Fronze age. Eight graves of the Bronze Age, en- caused in limestone slabs and containing highly contracted skeletons and bronze pottery objects were among the items found in the sites, too. There were 22 arm burials containing cremated remains and accompanied by accesses of pottery vessel Remains of a settlement of the early Iron Age dating between 800 B. C, and 500 B. C, revealed several house pits and the impressions and decayed parts of some of the wooden roofs that originally supported the house construction. An urn burial from the Roman period, about the third century A. D., is pronounced representative of the true "barbarian" or "Teutonic" culture. 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They also who in a physician as well as psychologist, pointed out that about 7-100 students started on freshman courses towards a medical degree or equivalent. In the spring of 1,900 I was placed in a year's study, only to flunk the freshman course. Medical school officials who pleaded the 7,100 charge were placed in another institution. The usual grounds for selection were the number of pre-medical college credits held by an applicant, and his rating on his college A psychological test of aptitude for a medical course has been devised by Professor Moss and two mosaicologists, Humbard and an experiment which gauges its efficiency has very regular explanations explained. Twenty-two medical schools gave the test to their students at the close of the freshman year to examine how well they depicted the student's learning ability. Among the students who were picked out by the test as the best performers in these courses, At the other end of the scale, among the students rated low- est by the test, 42 per cent, failed the freshman course and, 44 per cent, were conditioned. The experiment indicates that by refraining admission to prospective medical schools could eliminate 75 per cent of the applicants destined to fail. At the same time, more than 60 per cent of the students who would have ranked among the best medical schools should be used by most schools appears to cut out about 60 per cent of the failures and 38 per cent of the best candidates. Professor Moss' nautilus quiz includes 100 questions on pre-medical subjects, a text of visual memory based on an anatomical drawing, a text of memory based on a passage from an anatomy textbook, and a text of ability to understand and recall a difficult neurological paragraph. Touch Typewriting Read the Kansan Want Ads. 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