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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper or
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE?
Lectures on popular subjects by the highest paid speakers—that is the aim of the committee which was appointed by Chancellor Lindley recently to work out the details of a proposed lecture course for the 1928-29 school year.
Before this time an undertaking such as this has been found unfeasible because there were no facilities which would justify it on such a large scale. Now that the new Auditorium has met that situation, plans may be made for the future.
John R. Dyer, chairman, said that after meeting, the sentiment of the committee has been that the "program should be of the highest quality, made up of not more than four lectures presented at a very reasonable price." The speakers selected will be of significance nationally and top-tellers in their particular field. The list now under consideration includes men from Senator Borah to Clarence Chamberlain and from Charles Evans Hughes to H. L. Mencken.
Undoubtedly contact with men of such high caliber would be of decided benefit to the students and to the Lawrence public in general, to say nothing about people from other parts of the state who would come long distances to hear their favorites. The movement is a decided departure from the usual run of things and therefore requires vision and courage. The first requisite toward success is the united support of the students.
Students will support only what they like and enjoy. Knowing this, they are being given an opportunity to express their sentiments concerning their favorite platform representatives. "Any comments and suggestions concerning the course will be most welcome," Dean Dyer said.
The opportune time is now. Student opinion is not only indicative but also necessary. Since the larger part of the audiences will come from the Hill, its wishes should be known before hand.
TRACING THE DISASTER
- Let's begin thinking about it now.
Evidence seems to point to the fact that the recent dam disaster, resulting in the death of nearly 300 persons and unaccountable loss of property, was due to a bomb.
If such be the case, those who are responsible for that bomb are also responsible for the murder of the 300 people.
The city of Los Angeles and the neighboring territory for some years has been disputing respective water rights. In the past ranchers, who needed the water for their farms, threatened to disregard the Los Angeles authorities and open the water gates to their thirsty lands.
This most recent disaster may prove to be an out-growth of that former trouble.
A dispute which must be brought to a settlement through the death of 300 men, women and helpless children, is a dispute which should never evidence itself in a nation which has the slightest regard for humanity.
If it is definitely learned that the terrible deed was committed by a bomb, then the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding country will carry a mark of shame which will not be erased by time.
DEMOCRACY AND THE UNIVERSITY
Much is being said today of the important role which the institutions of higher education are playing in creating the distinctive American civilization.
Nowhere than in the Abundant Life, a collection of articles and addresses of Benjamin Wheeler who was president of the University of California for 20 years, are the ideals of higher education set forth more clearly or in fuller detail.
While recognizing the defects and weaknesses of widespread higher education, he connects it increasingly to the inward qualities of American life.
"I repudiate the idea that the children of laboring men should be differently educated from other people's children. There is no reason why a child in this free country should inherit the occupation of his father. The manner and subjects of a child's education should be determined by its aptitude, and not by the occupation of its parents.
"Democracy and the university were made for each other. Both are training schools of self-reliance and responsibility. The world will never be saved by the device of staying out of it. Free government with all its life demands the university."
Despite the defects of the system of widespread university education, its real service has been to prevent the caste system from developing in this country. In finding fault with the overemphasis upon higher education this truth must not be forgotten. Our colleges and universities may not always fill the minds of all who attend them; for some do not want to have their minds filled and others have no minds to fill.
As he toppled from the water warren "Bath House John!" said he was training now for the fortitures he plans to hold April 1, 1922, when Al Smith codifies the Volunteer act. We really can't see what difference it makes to people like Bath House John whether here is a Volunteer act or not.
JAYHAWKER OFFICERS
The Jayhawker offices are to go out of politics. That is if a bill proposed at the last student council meeting is adopted. What a relief these few words must be to those who are working on the Jayhawker staff.
The bill provides for a Jayawhakie board which will appoint the editor and business manager, solon on their merits. This means that every member of the staff will have an equal chance to secure this enviable position. Hereofefer, the expanse of putting on a election campaign and eloquently caused many good notions were otherwise well qualified for the position to hesitate to attempt it.
The council is to be commanded for attempting such a change. The Jayawhakie offices are positions that are desirable to any junior, and so those desiring the office often resort to questionable methods in elections.
With a month elapsing between the time of the women's election and that of the men, then the candidates for the Jahaywah, which are voted on by both men and women, have two distinct groups to appeal to, and practically double the time and expense.
The present council has taken this into consideration and has devised this board to remedy the situation. It provides for four faculty members and four student members. The student members are the present Jayhawk editor and business manager and a representative from both the W. S. G. A. and Men's Student Council. All former Jayhawk officers in school are to act as ex-officers members. The board is as well as it will
The board is small so that it will be impossible for political lines to erupt in. Chalk up another mark for the "functioning student council."
It is quite unlikely that the former Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle thought that she would have rings on her fingers and bells on her toes as she chanted several years ago the little nursery rhyme about "rings on my fingers and bells on my toes."
The regular meeting of the Snow Zoology Club will be held Thursday, March 21, m. in room 304. Snow Zoology will be the领会 of the overviews of the
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BUILLETIN
Vol. 1X
Wednesday, March 21, 1928
No. 138
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB:
KAPPA BETA:
There will be a meeting of Kappa Beta Thursday, March 22, in Myers hall at 7:30 p.m. Election of officers and bidding services will be held.
PHI LAMBDA SIGMA:
The Phi Lambda Sigma super is scheduled for this evening at 6:20 in Westminster hall.
HENRIETTA (CONNAI) Secretary.
The methods which they employ are varied. The pledges are those who git and keep an endless chatter with their neighbors. The upperclassmen in this society have been in school longer and know more students; they go rushing over to greet some long
LECTURE ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE;
LAMBDA PI ALPHA
Miss Barnes will speak on "Irish Poets and Playwrights," Thursday March 22, at 1:30 in room 205 Fraser hall.
ALPHA SIGMA NU:
Alma Sigma Nu, honorary physical education fraternity, will hold a meeting at the gymnasium Thursday at 10 a.m. for new members. MEMORIES RUTH MARTINS
ALICE WINSTON, Chairman of the Committee.
Lambda Pi Alpha, better known perhaps as the Library Pets Association, functions only in the library. The main purpose of its existence is to make study difficult for those who go to the library with the earnest desire to get some work done.
Those advocating the abolition of all nucels organizations might well consider the case of the Lambda Pi Alphas. Members of this society have been inactive for a time, but their inactivity is increasing and they are rapidly gaining new members.
BUDGET CONFERENCES:
The following budget conferences are scheduled for Thursday, March 22
(5:20) Business and Economics; 11:00 Library; 23:30 Museum; 23:30 Student
Room.
13 Atofone se remita el ojevies 22 de murza has 4:30 de la tarde en la
laia 105 vest Administration building.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
EL ATENEO:
E. B. STOUFFER, Chairman
SOCIAL INSURANCE IN FRANCE
lost friend whom they have not seen
Dr. G. Leoncourt Harrington will continue his lectures on Mental Hygiene Thursday morning, March 22, at 12:30 in the auditorium of the University of Illinois. Dr. R. H. WHEELER
CANDACE McLEAN, Secretarin
Removal of the Women's Gloe Club will be held tonight at 7:15 shines in Female chapel. Every woman who is going on the trip must present a valid photo of themselves.
LECTURE ON MENTAL HYGIENE.
Already among the first nations is the world to experiment with social insurance France the other night through action by her chamber of deputies, embarked on a program characterized in the press dispatches as the "world's largest insurance."
This measure, which will affect half the French population, has required seven years of deliberation finally to pass the parliament, having been initiated in the senate. It makes obligatory the collection by the national government of 10 per cent of wages and salaries, half from the workers and half from the employers, totaling 260 million dollars annually.
It is admitted in French political circles that the plan is not complete in its present form, but will have to be revised from time to time to meet the objections of certain economical and agricultural groups. The farmers, especially, are expected to voice protests against certain features of the measure as it begins to be put into effect.
From this sum will be paid death and disability benefits, old age pensions, and the costs of general medical services among those compulsorily insured. The new law will be put into effect gradually, and will not operate fully until a treasury reserve of four billion dollars is reached.
While the French plan contains no unemployment provision, it will nevertheless, prove susceptible to exploitation by those it seeks to benefit. It will be interesting to watch the French experiment and see if the working class of that nation are as incapable of co-operating with their government as workers of other nations have shown themselves to be.
since their last class together-a few hours before.
Of course there are other duties which belong in the ritual of the Lambda Pi Alphas. Among these are checking out reserve books and carrying them on to classes, talking and laughing in the halways, and loitering on the steps.
Anyone who has a friend or otherwise who fulfills the above requirements for pledging in this society is asked to submit the name to the Kansan. If enough are submitted this organization may have a meeting soon—probably in Porter lake.
ANOTHER NAVY YARN
As a result, the lie, the captain, and no commander who backed the captain, have been suspended from service, and there is a scandalous ripple in English naval circles. Should the band have played, or was the captain right in preferring slumber to sympathy? My, Oh, My, the navy is a big problem.
The life on the ocean wave and the old good home on the rolling sea have had their sanctity invaded by that enemy of land firesides, jazz. It seems that Admiral Collard, of the English navy, invited "the elite of Malta" to a party on board ship, laboring under the misapprehension that Captain Dewar's hand would play, and then Captain Dewar, the mean old thing wouldn't let the boys stay up late and the admiral's party flopped.
The bio system is fast rendering unworkable the various forms of democratic government which exist in all parts of the wword. In the United States the elique idea gained much ground before the last election and unfortunately it appears that the trade unions, prohibition organizations, pacifists, co-operative associations and other groups are to enter our new administration again as blocs.
It is impossible for a legislator who considers himself nothing more than the delegate of his own constituency to approach national questions with a broad and unbiased viewpoint.
Affiliation with a bio actibilly fixes ones attitude on the most important questions.
THE VOICE OF THE MINORITIES
Campus Opinion
Do not be surprised to read in the morning paper tomorrow that the institution of hand shaking has been abolished in Chicago by a decree issued by Mayor William Hale Thompson. The cause of such action could be likely traced to the recent incident when former Mayor Dever refused to shake hands with the potentiate. Well, hand shaking is a British fad anyway.
To you it may seem exceedingly improper for me, an outsider, to interfere with affairs not in my line of business or to blunder as has the editor of "At the Theorem" into a field of France that took place Friday last. Unlike the reporter, I am not a dramatist so I cannot criticize the acting in the play, have to say that in most everyone's opinion the lawyer Dostourelle*'s acting was admirable and he did his roll the most credit.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Editor, Daily Kansun:
The costuming was horrible, one must admit, but upon inquiry the writer finds that the actors were not at fault.
The reporter uses the words "Piece de la theatre" in his article. Please note this is a mistake unforgivable to beginners let alone a critic of French plays by amateurs and one well versed in composition he is likely admire he is.
It seems to this writer that an important lesson may be learned by the writer of the article under discussion. That is, it is unwise for anyone to become a critic on any subject in he is totally ignorant as the reporter makes his claim. I hope few lines will serve a warning to amateur journalists and remind them that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. G, W, S.
--don't like the way you speak of that girl!"
--don't like the way you speak of that girl!"
(Heard in Bricks' Monday morning).
"Pickles, please—dill, if you have them!"
"Anything else?"
"No, only pickles, and rush the order, please!"
"Funny tastes that girl has," said one waiter to the other, "ordering pickles, and only 9 o'clock in the morning. See that look on her face too, looks like she's scared to death!" "Yee, wonder why?"
"Here it is, strongest dill we'd had yet, hope she will be satisfied!" "Sure they dill?" said the answer on the pickets in front before her.
"Taste 'em and see!"
The girl took a huge bite, chewed on the pickle for a minute and then hold her breath, and swallowed, long and hard. "Thank heavens," she said, in a voice of relief, no numps! You see, I was with one of the boys who came down with them this morning, that is, I was with him last night—and you know, pickles—er —I mean, mummies are —er contagious!
“And how—” murmured the waiter to himself.
A Vacation Saves His Life—Headline.
These spring days convince us that we need such a life saver.
(Heard after big exam in administration building.)
"Pass that exam?"
"Hell, no, ever see such a bunch of questions?"
"Nope, think I hit it thoug!"
"How'd you do it?"
"Help from the gawk next to me. The funny looking new girl who came in this morning—you know the one you spoke to."
"Ya mean the tall slender blond?" "Tall? - a perfect skyscraper, I'd call her, and as for slender, you mean, skimmy, just skin and bones, and what a mug, whew, only a mother could love one like that!"
"Not very complimentary or very grateful are you? Rather do my own work than talk about any girl like that!"
"Not casting any reflections are you?"
"Lord, no, me of all people—I'd have cribbed too, had I had the chance, but what I'm talking about is that I
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"Nothing is good enough but the Best"
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"Scuddle, nothing. Fact is, Ive known her for eighteen years, she's a good sort when you know her--happa you must be my sister you know so long!"
Why the sudden interest in this new female?"
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--a very potent point to bring out, but if he doesn't bring it out, what good is it?
"Bright" copyrender;
"Say, was Mrs. Thayer's husband's name Spooner?" ___
Our Contemporaries
WHO'S TO BLAME?
A recent survey at the University of Kansas, made in an attempt to discover reasons for certain courses being horrious or valueless, brought out the fact that it is not merely the students who are to blame. Certain objections were made to the professors, themselves. Amnesia was one reason and not known to get his material over to others; that he did not organize his subjects, that his personality was distasteful and that he was too theoretical.
Now, it is quite well recognized that many of the best authorities are men who cannot lecture; but is also true, as was recently pointed out by the Institute, that there are numbers of men who have a general scope of a subject, and can present it in such as to get the elements over. In regard to organizing material, it seems that anyone who sets himself up as a college professor should have learned to put together lectures. But not the case. As a result, students listening to his lectures don't know just where he is headed. He may have
Professors might do well to look in them themselves office in a while when they find that a heavy percentage of their students are flunking or getting too old. Professors should prove of those, low grades, but they should see the marks as a reflection on their own as well as the students' work. Some teachers would be very much surprised to find that the members of their classes give them a low grade. The trouble is that instructors often forget the importance of teams to themselves and their courses that they apply to the work of the pupils.
It might be interesting to see what students think of specific professors and classes. We prophey that the ones ranking highest would be the professors who deal with their students as individuals, not as mirrors reflecting the words of a lecture back on a blue book. -Suffolk Daily.
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