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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITOR IN CHIEP MARION LEIGH
Associate Editor Arthur Circle
Attaché Editor James Weibb
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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929
BLOW. WHISTLE BLOW
PUBLICITY
Several times, during the past few weeks the Hilt whistle has either failed to blow at the correct time or has not blown at all. As a result many classes have been held over time, and students have been late to their next classes or else have missed them altogether. The defect can easily be remedied by installing a time clock which would perform the function automatically and at the proper time. With such a device there would be no more between-class confusion and a great deal of irritation would be avoided.
Probably one of the most powerful weapons of modern times is the innocent sounding one of publicity. It was the most powerful weapon in the recent World War, though it was then called propaganda. But it is unquestionable but what the two words mean almost the same, for they come from about the same source.
It is rather speculative to guess why people desire publicity. Perhaps it is selfishness with some and vanity in others; but it is a safe bet that in the majority of cases, where a man or woman is a real performer in the world it is desired more because of the evidence of appreciation on the part of the recipient than for any other reason. In a majority of cases, those people who seek publicity are those who really do not need it.
Great business houses throughout the world have now their own publicity departments. Cities have them and of course human beings have their own private publicity departments, for we all get a thrill therein whether we acknowledge it or not.
If people of the world spoke the same language, and understood the ideals and hopes and ambitions of one another, there would be an end to all wars forever! Perhaps publicity, used wisely, will bring this about.
VERY_ENCOURAGING
Alarmists should avoid the University of Kansas. Even the most persistent of them would find difficulty in taking anything but an optimistic view toward one of the recent tendencies of modern campus youth. This tendency is the stability of the male students. Freakishness, the unusual, the superficial, the foolish, would seem to be becoming obolate, in favor of a new dignity and seriousness of men and purpose.
Speaking concretely, the evidence which bears out this conclusion is the fact that the vari-colored spring bonsets for moth, in the brilliant hues of pink, green, blue sky, red, and what not, are particularly absent on the camouflage of the underwater joying undeniable popularity among the young bloods of neighboring cities.
On the whole, this is quite encouraging. The college man of Kansas is obviously above allowing the fade of society to exert influence over his
conduct. Instead, he blithely greets the 'spring in his customary bar-headed manner, wear his habitual lead neckties and plus fours, and ride on 'traditional antique vehicles.
IF ONLY?
A bill has been introduced into the Missouri legislature which provides for a fifty million dollar endowment fund which would make the University of Missouri almost financially independent. The bill calls for the appointment of a committee of three house members to investigate the possibility of creating such a fund by public subscription.
Such a measure cannot be too highly recommended. It would mean that the University would be free to function as an educational unit, not subject to political interference. There would be no retaliation in development under standardized understanding of educational needs by untrained state committees.
If the bill goes through, Missouri ny well serve as a model to surounding state institutions.
SCORE TIED
Some down and more to go. The score is now tied with professors and students even matched, although the lead goes on. Years give the edge to the students.
Judging from the statistics of former seasons it will take concentrated effort, teletubs hours of drill, and perfect team-work at quiz time for the students to be able to stage a rally in the closing weeks of play sufficient to overcome the lead of flunks the professors have piled up. Many students in the past have won fame by their brilliant tackling and lice plunging, only to be downed in the shadow of the commencement posts by some interfering professor. The professors' team is well drilled in the line and in surprise plays.
It is a great game in which the buttered student crew usually rattles enough near the end to successfully pass and receive the sheepkin at the goal to win by a degree.
Gold is due for a fall, now that they are transporting it in airplanes.
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SAME OLD BUT
"The habit of independent thinking on books, prevailing customs, and current events is part of the equipment of Harvard college," once said the late President Eliot of Harvard university. In his opinion, anyone who has received a degree in college education has developed individuality and independence of opinion. developed a mind capable of making decisions without outside assistance.
In theory, the president's judgment is above reproach, but in practice, unfortunately, it has proved to be an issue. The president should absorb to the fulest extent the ad vanjances offered at college are pitilily full few. Originality and independence among the average college students due primarily to their dermant attitude toward school work—that of mere routine preparation in place of academic study.
Students fall easily into ruts of bought proposed by their instructors and then accepted the ideas brought out by their instructors and those expressed in their textbooks to attempt any further research or consideration. The students are presented from day to day with the assistance f textbooks, supplemented by classroom lectures, and discussions, and then reward original r individual thinking.
The average professor appreciates the advancement of originality on the web, but is scarcely willing to direct them to diregrant the textbook's own reading materials with it. Usually, however, are not able few students who venture to follow this suggestion and really think it over. Sometimes they cannot be doubted that those who are getting the most out of their training
Daily, Nebraska
The March wind roared and blu tered.
"Come out, we flower!" he said.
But the little softwood answer
the gun's soft call instead.
The March wind called the snow drop.
THE APPEAL
In a wooing sunny hour,
The March wind shook the jongil
But her petals die warn't
To the winnowness of sunlight
On a hot summer's day.
A braggart of his power.
But the crocus cups came peeping
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Famous Physicist Believes the Earth to Be a Comparatively Young Planet
London. Old as our earth is, its age cannot be more than about three billion, four hundred million years. This is the conclusion reached by Sir Ernest Rutherford, famous British physist and Nobel prize winner, and expressed in a communication to the British scientific journal, Nature. It is reenamed from a study of photographs by Dr. F. W. Aston, of the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge, with a instrument called the mass spectrograph. By means of this instrument it is possible to measure the weight of the atoms of matter; the meteor Asten has shown the weight of the atoms of matter. The meteor Asten has shown the weight of the atoms of matter. There are two or more separate kinds of stuff, with slightly atomic weights, though they are all the same element. These different forms of the same element are called iso-
Shib-ch-b. This is from 'way inside, deep, dark secret, and so on. If some day soon the Kankan fails to report it, you can watch a afternoon the Sunday editor, the sport editor and one lone reporter sat on the lid. All others were gone fish
--if anything, the colored peoples across the Pacific and down in Africa should be fearing a white peril.
"Inside Stuff"
Alas! Another altitude has been proved false. Who first called Misouri the "show me" state?
(Science Service)
Ever since routine melodies have been played, the oppressors of jazz (and there are many) have given it a certain shape. It is also of late that this has been charged to formulae which read thus—Jazz have a rather short life, ten years at the most, and if it takes longer than that, it will not be recognized as such.
Such critics should know and be able to prophecy concerning the future of jazz, but the question is, blanketed? over their prediction is the fact that jazz has not changed to any great extent since the first ragtime composition.
EXAMS OR NO
At the present rate of increase, the 700,000,000 whites in the world will double their population in from 60 to 70 years. The yellow race will double in not less than 275 years, the black in 282 years, and the black in 139.
McGill Daily
The colored races are maintaining today a much larger birth-rate than the white man is. It is also raising the lower standards of living and old-fashioned systems—more than offsets the superior birth-rate. In other words, white infants survive better than black infants surviving than have colored infants. The average length of life in the United States approximates 60 years, whereas the average in China is estimated at 45.
With examinations upon us again, the age-old problem of "Why have examinations?" comes to light more clearly than at any other time during our school days. We do not behave do not worry about exams, whereas others continually express
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--if anything, the colored peoples across the Pacific and down in Africa should be fearing a white peril.
These figures certainly indicate that there is more of a white peril than there is of a yellow peril.
Jazz used to be explained as being a result of the war—as something inevitable (this was after it became clear that jazz was made in the lives of young people. True, jazz did follow the war, but it was bound, to happen some time, and the war merely hastened its end). Jazz was not mutable in itself but when linked up with other things, forming a very stable part of life at present day, jazz became an important feature of the war. It says life is not something of powdered peruvians and petrofluids, and jazz has been the most facile means of expression of relief among jazzmen.
We think people really secretly like jazz even in spite of their high-browed faces. Some people are their own championship expressions of delight concerning the classics. If people did not like "the stuff" jazz, they would not have a business, but since Ivry Berlin, Walter Donaldson, and other do not seem to be having fun, they are putting out one most naturally conclude that jazz is still making us a big hit as it old when it first came along.
THE WHITE PERIL
For generations the old school of social scientists have timorously pointed to "The Yellow Peril" that is, the possibility of the white man's civilization being destroyed by an explosion of coated people in the world.
ZAZZ JAZZ
This talk, however, was largely on speculation, for now that definite answers are available to the social sciences of the new school there is scarcely a reason why it should be taken.
Although the fact remains that today there is an excess of more than 400,000 yellow, brown, and black people over the approximately 50 million people in the United States tendency; show that in less than 50 years the white race will be dominant numerically as well as culturally—and this is the white peril from the standpoint of the presumed power that there are at present approximately 1,100,000 people.
Proteins. One lead isotope is obtained as the find result of *n* series of elements into which radium disintegrates.
Doctor Aston has studied lead from a rare Norwegian mineral, called leadite. Dr. C. S. Piggot, of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, found in a line showing the presence of lead in atomic weight 297. This, he concluded, must be ordinary lead. He then studied series, two of which break up into some kind of lead, namely radium, radon and strontium. The 207 isotope is the result of the break-up of actinium, of which less is known than of the other two series.
Sir Ernest, who is one of the greatest authorities on radium and its allied elements, states that Bactor activum is both radium and actinium are descendants of uranium, a well-known element. Sir Ernest believes that a form of radium that occurs in uranium is one of the ancestors of actinium. Actino-uranium, he concludes is present in ordinary uranium to the extent of about a quarter of a per cent.
Because of the behavior of similar elements, he believes that the action mechanism is less extent than the main isole. But even if it is supposed that they were formed in equal quantity, their amounts only take about three billion, four hundred million years to bring it down to a size not even in which it is present today.
"It is natural to suppose that the uranium in our earth has its origin n' the sup. he says, 'and has been extracted by the preparation of the earth from the sun.'
If we suppose that the production of uranium in the earth caused the moon to rise, and the sun 'he continues,' it follows that the earth cannot be older than 10 billion years.
Other studies of radioactive minerals have shown that some of them must have an age of at least half this figure, so that his calculations give students of the earth's early history a maximum and a minimum for its age.
Sir Ernest also cites Sir James Jeans, British astronomer, who gives a figure for the age of the sun as 63.9 billion years ago, separated from it 3,400,000,000 years ago, the sun had then reached the rather respectable age of 6,996,000,000 years. The time since is scarcely more than a moment in the past.
However, if the actino-uranium
of the generally accepted system o instruction.
The time when the system of optional study, recitation and class attendance cuts and final examination university is probably far distant, but the test submitted nonchalantly to the "yoke" of examinations is more likely to be probed further than in the future.
Numerous questions may be raised about justifications, if any, for the exam idea. Are examination facts? Are students' studies? Are the tests of ability to think clearly or are they pure tests of memory? Are exams of performances? Is there a broader understanding of the subjects in which the tests are given? Most of these questions cannot be answered by test results, so there are different kinds of examinations, just as there are different kinds of students taking them. The ten examples above are examples of these man-sized quizzes tests of memory only, rather than making them tests of ability to use any knowledge gained from courses in its particular subject.
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"We may thus conclude," remarks Sir Kresset, "I think with some confidence, that process of production of elements like uranium was certainly taking place in the sun 1,000,000,000 years ago and probably still continues today.
could have been formed under special conditions in the sun when it was very strong, it would have all disappeared when the earth was born.
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After perusing the column written by Himan Hebsholik Hemer, I was frightened out of my psyche by seeing the kind of unusual irregular attendance of my this morning. Unless further afflicted with HIV, I will continue the Hawk's next (sometimes chronically called the Hawk Next) until you are further unresponsive.
Here's what knocked me out last week:
Instructor (putting quiz question on board); I just love to make Es. Voice from the rear: Well, you aren't making any ease for me!
Reprimanded by his mother because he had been playing in the rain, a man who was so selfish. On himself. At that, he isn't the first man to kill him because some women think he is a murderer.
If a man is knighted, that is a great honor, but if he is houghten, well-he is no better than a college boy.
"A blind man sits on the windy street, and he neglected a dime for a bite to eat. A flapper on the curb did stop. She said, "No, I don't want a rumor." The buryer look.
He looks, and looks——the dirty crook."
Simile for today: As useless :
Grape Nuts in an old folks home.
I suggest that, since the variety dance managers insist on having contest at ever more parties, this would give the crowd little more time between whichever to choose the accumulators. They are out of their ears, eyes, hair, etc.
Clothes, proclaim college men no style leaders, and then they sell us these little red, and blue, and green hats.
"Tick Lives Without Food—Kansas Headline." Tock must have eaten it all.
Considering the prevalence of the affliction, it is remarkable how sel
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--ren and Scroll will meet Tuesday evening, March 26, in the rest room of central Administration building. Members and initiatives are invited to come.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XVII  Monday, March 25, 1929 No. 136
SHORT CONFERENCE.
UDGET CONFERENCES;
The following budget conferences will be held Tuesday, March 26, in the Chancellor's office: 2:30 - Applied Mechanics; 10:00 - Machine Construction; 10:30 - Architecture; 2:00 - Physics and Astronomy; 2:30 - Chemistry.
PHI LAMBDA SIGMA;
Phi Lambda Sigma will meet Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock at West-
minster hall.
ELIZABETH FYFLE, Secretary.
JAY JANE MEETING:
PEN AND SCROLL:
There will be a meeting of Jay Jones, Tuesday, March 26, at 1:30 p. m. in the rest room of central Administration building.
ADELA-HALE, President.
ALBERT PRESTON, JR., President.
dom "love sickness" is used as an excuse for cutting classes.
"What's the matter, old waffle?
Yee- appear ill."
"Appendicitis?"
Heard at the student hospital and dispensary;
"I am. I just underwent a severe operation."
Apprehension:
"No. I had my allowance cut off."
—Hugh Bently
Attend the Kansas Relays, April 20.
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Others—far less in number—are so fine-looking, so "right" in every respect, that you don't think about them in terms of price at all.
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Most suits carry a price tag in conspicuous numerals—a price tag that won't come off. You can tell at a glance that nobody went broke to buy them!
The difference lies partly in the quality of the fabrics and the tailoring. But the greatest difference is in style.
That's the "priceless" thing. And you can get it for as little as fifty dollars. Which means that Society Brand is the soundest value on the clothing market today! . $50
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