THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928 PAGE TWO University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANJAB Lawrence, Kansas Euler in Chief William Grithman Associate editor John Sutton Associate editor John Sutton Sport editor Arthur Ferguson Executive editore Arthur Ferguson Executive editore Alison Munger New Editor Alan Munger Executive editore Alan Munger Laughing Editor Warren Forsyth Laughing Editor Warren Forsyth Tolkien Editor Warren Forsyth Tolkien Editor Warren Forsyth British Vanguard Bernard Vanguard Advertising Manager ... R, M. Dale Aust, Advertising Marr ... Hannon Pimonee Aust, Advertising Marr ... Howard V. Koe Foreign Advertising Marr ... Robt, W. Heering Business Staff Brian Blissberg Ben Blissberg Ben Blissberg Ben Blissberg Richard Hardtown Mike Hardtown Laine Cahney Dal Rite Jerry Lapine Warren Warnock Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism at the city of Kannu, from the Press of the Department of Journalism. THESE DANDELIONS Fahh day as students come on the Hill there are a few more yellow heads to greet them. Each day a few more go to seed and make it possible for many more to spring up next year. If the dandelions are not attended to immediately some day we may come up the Hill and find that there is no grass left—nothing but those dear little yellow dandelions. A plan has been suggested whereby a holiday might be declared and the dandelions easily destroyed. If such a plan was put into effect no one student would seriously impair his study; no teacher would be a failure because one lecture was crowded into the next; but the dandelions would cease to greet us each morning. When such a little time, such a little waste; and such a little effort is all that is necessary to rid ourselves of this pest it seems a shame that they are allowed to continue to grow on the state University campus. Entered as second inch mail matter September her 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the net of March 5, 1929. FRIDAY, APRIL. 20, 1928 The election is over. IT'S ALL OVER NOW At least judging from the lack o glad handing and activity among the collegiate candidates and their benchmen there won't be much excitement again until next April. There are so many things we are going to miss for a few days. No more yellow and white tails blowing gayly about; no more smiling faces gazing at us from every telephone post and tree. No more Pachauncan advocates happily watching independent in new voters, and vice versa. One of the most worthy features of the election is the experience it has given the two parties in showing their true value to the camps. Everyone is now aware that we have political台阶 on the Hill, and may proceed to forget it. Yes, we shall miss the bits of paper, the promulgata, the sociable attitude manifested recently. But we shall have a chance to hear more about high ideals of government at another election next year. It is difficult to see wherein mid semester grades serve any such useful purpose. USELESS MID-SEMESTER GRADES The grades turned in at mid-s semester are incorrect. Some instructors really try to mark those students who deserve it "Very Superior." others discard this mark entirely, and mark only "Satisfactory" or "Unassatisfactory". Then the grade of "Unsatisfactorily" at mid-s semester often restrains an instructor from giving a student a high grade at the end of a course, although he may have just as good a group of the course as others who get high grades. It is certainly possible for a student to get more than halfway through a course and then suddenly find himself and know the subject thoroughly before the final examination. But by the system of mid-s semester grading, such a student stands bandaged. Now that the flurry of preparation and reception of mid-season grade is over, there is time to consider whether there is any real need for them. They cause much extra work for instructors, interrupt the schedule of class work offenses, and necessitate a great deal of office work, and therefore, unless they serve a useful purpose, they should not be compiled. A better plan than the turning in of mid-seminar grades to the central office, from which the students get them, would be to arrange for individual conferences between instructors and students at mid-seminar. The instructor could then suggest to a student who is low in a course how he could improve, and the students who were doing satisfactory work would have the opportunity of talking also with their instructors and getting any criticism of their work that the instructors might have to offer. INEFFICIENT INSTRUCTORS It won't be long now with certain instructors will start loading on assignments. They have spent the semester talking about general subjects, and topics not taken from the textbooks. Presently they will become concise stricken as the time for finals approaches and to give a semester's work in the last two weeks. One group of these instructors have given their classes interesting content. Attend the Kansas Relays Tomorrow $7.50 and $10 If the men interpreted their feelings as aesthetic dancers do this is how a lot of them would go to the Relays tomorrow in their new Bostonian Spring Oxfords! OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. IX Friday, 402, 1928 No. 161 This is the first year that the Play-day has been held. It will be hold annually if it is a success. Without doubt in a few years it will be one of the events of the school year that high school girls will look forward to so many boys look forward to the holidays. More than sixty girls from high school athletic associations in this part of Kansas will be here at the University Friday, and Saturday for a Praying Spanned by the Women's Athletic Association. The girls will be here at this time in connection with the Kansas Relay, and will have their own field day Saturday morning, Friday evening the women's physical education department will put on an examination of University work. worthwhile discussions, even though they were not a direct part of the course. They should not feel that the semester has been wasted because all the material has not been covered, for they may have added much to the students' education. The other class of instructor has given his classes nothing except scattered, incoherent history of his life and his achievements. Anyone who is interested can by honest self-servicing determine into which class he falls. The one may comfort themselves by the thought that they have given something of value; while the others must acknowledge that they have done nothing but waste the students' time. THE W, A, A, PLAYDAY The Womens's Athletic Association has started a worthy function. It should be supported. W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman of Department ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Attend the Kansas Relays. The April meeting of the department of English will be held on Monday, April 23, 1928, at 4:30 p. m. in Froerley room 205. By 'encouraging the play, Dayley the W. A. A., is bringing the University and over sixty high school girls into a much closer relation with each other. It is affording a means whereby the girls may be acquainted with their state University. They will wrap the benefit of their trip when they come to Lawrence to enter the University, and probably in a number of cases it will bring girls to college who had not planned on remaining in school. Campus Opinion --these are but a very few of the things which went on your day. If such methods be used in an election in which the candidates receive no remuneration for their position, what effect will this have on the nearby cities to swing the votes? The entire nation has voiced its disapproval of the Thompson region in response to the recent war on politics. Chicago has been pointed to as America's worst place for just such a war. But if all that was heard floating around last night is true, then Mt. Ordean is another Chicago with its players playing the leading part at present. Yesterday one of the worst battles of the independent and Pacachanee parties was fought. Neither side is to be regarded as the winner, but the crooked methods that were used. Editor Daily Kansan; I must admit that all you are now reading was overhead, and due concomitance to it, the news that it is but it is by such news that Plants about, that the University of Kannada wrote about, that a change is necessary; if there be no truth in it, then the voices of others will echo. For example, one student was heard to say, "Why I managed to get six men through six times each with the team," and he asked how he worked it he said that the men were run in as persons who were no longer in school or as those who might have been. Another student went to the polling place of one school and voted, returning to his own school to cast his second vote. A member of the opposing party ran a race with him in the polling place, and the person from voting for the second time. In one of the schools, some fifty ballots, unused, had the numbers removed from them. For a time they were the only candidates, and are finally located in that condition. Student If a state can be no greater than her University, then Kansas as an union is in a sat state of affairs. If the state would be able to questionable practices in their early years, what will they be doing when they have reached adulthood and are now living in a real world of today? It is all worth thinking about. A clean election on the Hill should not be an impossibility. According to present standards it evaneshed. At the Concert By Charlotte Thompson Someone should start a movement to limit the length of the selections at A Few Suggestions to the Athletes Who Compete in the Relay Carried BREAKFAST Chilled Grape Fruit Brown Toast Large Melba Peach Halves Poached Eggs Oatmeal — Double Cream Coffee DINNER DINNER Broiled Steaks Baked Potatoes Head Lettuce Salad Fresh Fruit — Hot Tea — Coffee student recitals if the full interest of the audience is to be maintained. The first half of the program last night at the senoir recital of Lonzo Ridway, pianist, and Kone Aitken, violinist, was almost stopped by the extreme length of the pieces played. Not even in graduating recitals do students show sufficient artistry to keep their auditions for long stretches of time. Miss L. Daygrey, pianist, plays surely and symmetrically. Some persons naturally impire confidence. Miss Daygrey also appears the moment she first appeared on the stage last night the audience felt that she had something to give them and that she had been called in to make an indee" by Greig, her first number, was lengthy. "Album Letter" by Hutcheson in her second group was a quiet, slow piece with a simple fury "Pride Tragique" by Orstein which followed it. The third number in the group was laughing, redolicking over the performance of Ridgway concluded her program with "Concanto in G minor" by Saint-Saens with orchestral accompaniment by Lee S. Green, organ Miss Aitken, violinist, seems neat and careful in her playing, but she lukes force. Possibly she won tired songs from her group — "Souza No. 10 in F major" by Corollia "Concerto in B minor" by Saint-Saens both of which were long and dire. Sometimes she didn't selectations which were well received by the audiences. "From the Cancenbroker" by Gardner was a candy dish to everybody who was especially well liked. 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