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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1928
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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Published in the afternoon, every week a day, and on Sunday morning, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Iowa, from the Press of the Department of Journalism.
Enterrel as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the net of March 3, 1897.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1928
DISAPPOINTED VISITORS
There were a number of disappointed visitors on the Hill yesterday who were expecting to make an inspection of the Union building. The driveways of the campus were lined with cars from out of town that had brought the usual crowd sightseeing to the University. The Thayer Museum was open; the renowned Dyche was open; but the much touted Union building was closed.
Possibly among the crowd were some who still had still unpaid pledges, and they wanted to see how their money was being spent; perhaps they wanted to see if the building was really meeting a student need. But they were disappointed. The day on which the greatest number of students might make use of the facilities of the Union building finds it closed. Its windows look blank and staring.
Just perhaps they wonder of what use was a student recreation center that closed its doors on a day when all else was also closed to the student. They might even have wondered if the primary idea of the building was being lost from sight.
"A woman artist who learned to paint as a wife!"—Headline. Cause us to wonder just how a wife does paint?
GRADING
For several years students of educational methods have been making investigations of the reliability of the grading system in use in our educational system.
Yet even with evidence of this type before them educators continue to place emphasis upon grades, awarding honors, and recommending students upon the basis of the marks they have been given.
The results of these investigations show that many teachers actually grade more inaccurately than they would were to award grades by lot. Even in the more exact sciences, such as mathematics, teacher's 'grades for identical papers have been known to range from 28 to 92 per cent.
A few of the more advanced in structors have come to realize the fallacies inherent in the system and are opposed to its use, but of course, they must employ it because of the rule and regulations imposed upon them.
The effect of the system on the students who are sufficiently intelligent to realize the futility of grades as measures of achievement is often more or less disastrous.
Such a student realizes that there are two courses open to him. One course leads him to devote his emphasis to grades, neglecting many of the more liberal aspects of the courses he is studying because he knows that he will not get a grade for them.
On the other hand, he could devote his time to studying those things which he feels he does not know, neglecting the insignificant tasks upon which his grade is frequently based.
Every semester students may be heard to wait, "I could have made an 'A' too, if I had wanted to polish apples." Sour grapes? Perhaps. But it may be the truth, and investigations seem to show that it is quite likely to be.
When the new football coaching staff was named some time ago, there was one man the student body didn't know much about. This man is Lyman David, now athletic director of Oklahoma City University, who is to be assistant coach.
LYNN WALDORF
with the beginning of spring football practice, less than a month away, the student body is again beginning to wonder what kind of a man he is.
The rest of the coaching staff, headed by W. H. "Bill" Harpins and consisting of John Burn and "Sleeve" Hibsone, is more or less familiar.
The only comments we can mike on Waldoft are good. For that is all we have heard about him. Editorial and news articles from the Oklahoma City papers, by the outstanding sport writers of Oklahoma sound a note of grief because he is leaving Oklahoma City.
Athletes at his school wired Wadolf, at the time he was considering the Kansas position, begging him to return.
Oklahoma City University is fortunate in having had his services, the University of Kansas is fortunate in that his services will be given here soon.
A CULTURAL EDUCATION IS POSSIBLE
A recent article in Plain Talk says that youth come to college expecting to become educated, but that it does not receive the training desired because school faculties are placing an over emphasis on vocational subjects. The writer blames the educational system and says that students are being cheated out of a cultural education byools.
It is true that many courses of a commercial nature are being added to the curriculum of universities and colleges. They have become specialized along many different lines. One desiring a professional training can receive it, and if he be so wishes graduate without having added materially to his so called cultural development.
But the fact that these courses are being added does not mean that cultural courses are being neglected. In fact, more than ever in educational history, they are within the reach of the teacher who designs them.
There are numerous courses that train the average person in appreciating art, even outside the schools of fine arts. Such courses are appreciation of music, history of painting, literary interpretation and criticism, and languages.
Anyone who makes a careful survey of courses offered at the University will find that the student can equip himself with almost any sort of knowledge he desires. If he chooses to take business courses it is evidently because they are the courses that interest him.
If the Jay James want to do some really constructive work, they might allay the worry of those who deploy the cigarette butts about the library entrance by contributing their little red ballot boxes as "snipe" receptacles.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
The editor of the school publication at the University of Arkansas, Theo Edmiston, was dismissed from the office of editorship because he blamed the faculty for the prevalence of drinking on the campus. According to the New Student, the charge was a direct violation of Section 9, page 11, of the student handbook which reads: "Any student who shall be guilty of publishing or causing to be published in any newspaper, periodical, or placard, any criticism of the action or character of a student or officer of the University shall be dismissed or otherwise punished."
As protest to the administrative action practically the entire staff of the paper resigned. Other student demonstrations showed that the body favored the stand taken by the editor. The Arkansas Gazette reported that the president of the state medical society had written his son asking him to withdraw because of the administration's reaction to criticism.
The administration of the University of Kansas has been singularly liberal in its attitude concerning student publications. Student opinion has been allowed much freedom under the authority of Chancellor Lindley. May it be hoped that the board of administration at the University of Kansas never become convinced that it is above reproach and that the University is above criticism. Absolute perfection is never reached—if it were, there would be nothing for which to strive.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. IX Monday, February 27, 1928 No. 419
Y. W. C. A.;
There will be an important business meeting of the W. Y. C. A. Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Myers hall. CONSTANT NUCKLES, President.
It will be necessary to begin our rehearsal this evening at 7.
K. K. OUERSTEINER, Director.
1194 E CVMOTIVV ADMIESTRA A
DR. H. H. LEWIS Optometrist
PL LAMBDA THEETA;
Pi Lambda Theta will hold a meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30. Nominations for new members will be made. All members are requested to be present.
MAJORIE RUTH MARTIN, Secretary.
There will be a regular meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club on Tuesday
feb. 28, at 7:15 p. m.
PHILIP C. VELUZ, Secretary.
Practice limited to examination of eyes without dilating, and fitting of glasses.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB:
The Classical Club will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 in 260 Frener hall. Miss Grant will give an illustrated lecture on "Some Visigustides of Ancient Statues." There will also be election of officers for the second semester. All those interested are invited. LUCY CURTIS, Secretary.
CLASSICAL CLUB:
There will be a regular meeting of the Christian Science Society I room B, Myers hall, Tuesday evening at 7:20.
801 Mass. St. Phone 912 (Over Round Corner Drug Store)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY;
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF GRADUATE SCHOOL:
There will be a meeting of the administrative committee of the Graduate
School on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 4:30 p. m. in the Graduate office.
E. R. STOUFFER Chairman.
SAM D. PARKER, President
OUR ANSWER
We are in receipt of the following letter from Jack Harris of the Chantecaille Tolane concerning the matter of onions. We are sorry that confusion has resulted in the land of the warring Bermudians and trust that our explanation in Friary's Kansas has reached the attention of Mr. Harris.
The Kausan deplores the use of the naughty word of which Mr. Harris has been guilty in the first paragraph of his communication. The Kausan never permits such usage to sway the purity of its name. However in fairness to
Mr. Harris and the public and in pursuance of our unyielding policy of printing the stern truth, we present his communication in its actuality.
Our Contemporaries
Dear Editor of the University Daily Kansan: I don't give a damn, but probably Jack Harrison of Beloit will. Onions to me are anything one way or two. I don't think he will die for them. In this argument he is opposed by Mr. Rola Clymer (Ham Burger) of the El Dorado and your files, if it makes law difference.
Princely rewards, comparatively speaking, are offered to those contemplating a commercial career, yet lit-
Sid Harris, Ottawa Herald.
Discussing the question of commercial or creative careers, Lucen Price, author-newspaperman, says: "The conflict between the artist and the trader—the conflict between the will to create and the will to purchase is the central conflict of any age; of this, and especially in America."
--tile is offered to those who would create. One's bank account seems to be the thermometer of one's success.
Sooner or later, along the path of educational endeavor, the average student comes to a fork in the road, where he must decide whether his purpose in life he to acquire or to lose. He must decide he should bend his energies.
It is unfortunate to have to have such a common front and last name, and your confusion is natural and excitable. It is hard enough to recognize something straight. How nice it would be to have an individualistic name and reputation like Henry Allen White of the Wichita Eagle State University, William Allen Henry Allen of the Emporia Gazette or Professor Jint of the Kansas Industrialist.
Sid Harrison, Ottown Herald.
Bert Harris, Hirting Times.
Jack Harris, Chanute Tribune.
Jack Harrison, Bologna Gazette.
Very truly,
Jack Harris.
E. B. STOUFFER, Chairman.
Our Contemporaries
The high school student is charged with the necessity of selecting a vocation. In college, he must equip himself with experience to increase the possibility of his success in a specialized pursuit. Students with foreign education, young men and women are trained to live with Big Business, and send forth with diploma in hand well girded for the job.
The path of commercial success is well tried. With the result that talent is ignored or forgotten. We have seen a college editor meticulously sniping squares of copy pasted into pages and smiling happily at the result. We have even future members of the advertising profession storing perplexedly in the cravens of great masters. And we know of engineers who like to
To those few who pass the Sign of the Dollar and follow the path of creative work, we doff our hats—University of Washington Daily.
Vagabonding or Snaking
Sometimes last year, a unique fad began to be observed at Harvard. Occasional students were seen to enamel a chair in the classroom; a vacant chair at the back of the class, and, in an adaptation of familiar Oregon parlance, proceed to sit in the chair.
Unlike most college fails, this one calls not to be untraintly. Informal students became increasingly frequent as the term "custom" became popular. Then Harvard students coined the apt term "to vanguard" in order to designate this campus wan-
On this page today the Emerald is imbuancing a new feature inspired by the enthusiasm of the Harvard students. The parents' reason—and we'd hardly admit it if they were—why the institution chose to teach in the sight of Oregon students.
Our personal sphere of acquaintance numbers many who are rked by their reterrited possibilities of lively contact. We are in a mental aura from a surfeit of stale ideas. Such students, we hope, will find a remedy in vagabonding. For here they may catch the adventures of the reward in the inward mouldation of learning.
treme case of emni, might be salivary if the vagabond antidote is wisely selected. Anyway, the program will persist until the emni becomes energized. And to those happy, complacent souls who are never affected by this monotonous satiety of which we are speaking, we only say, "Oregon Emergenee" alone in the East Oregon Emergenee."
The Emerald purpose to present each day through the new service is to increase variety and quality that will be of general interest and value. Expansion and perfection of the feature will enhance its appeal and suggestions which it induces.
If the Emerald dared, we might even intimate that a cut, in an ex-
The Activity Craze
Again we hear the argument that students are macking activities more often than others because variation is accused of dealing more in activities than in scholastic and vocational contexts.
The erase for activity, in athletics and all other phases of student life, has unabashed the collegium in some instances, we do believe.
But that universities are running youth by allowing too much concentration on activities we will not admit. We have proof that this is not the case.
of all groups of students, activity students rank the highest scholastically. Statistics based some time ago in the Daily Brain show that this
But the amazing discovery found in the report is the fact that the straight academic student, the former high school class and study, is the poorest in a group of groups. Ellbert Hubbard, the Sage of Aurora, was evidently right. He maxim was: "If you want an answer, ask your man to do"—The Daily Brain.
The Wisconsin Daily Cardinal describes the supposed conversation on a group of modern university grads who have gone through marriage pairings of alums, and married pairs of alums, and
"These members of society, types of their class, have been exposed b four years of culture and learning Yet they have no cultural inclusion in the classroom being of being thought "snooty." They are entirely concerned with th gr斌 evananced things of life. Their announcements and thoughts are chea
"State governments and various foundations spend millions of dollars annually to turn out these cultured citizens. Is it worthwhile? Is this the way we should think? Leave these thoughts for our readers most intelligent cognition."
What the Editors Say
-Arizona Wildcat
The editor of the Alamont Journise is perhaps one of the most enthusiastic counterists of unhatched reckless now at large, says the Iola Register. He negates the entry of Clyde Ice into the Army as a punishment of Sash Wells from it, for the reason that he wanted Mr. Wells to be elected governor so he could
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Athletics in Sel
Prof. J. B. Noah in the North American Review.
A proper system of athletics for girls in school and college means trained women physical direction, capable of classifying children and adapting them to the demands of an interschool program which involves the elimination of gate receipts, because gate receipts involve the elimination of the pyramid games which involve city championships and international championships. It prerequisites a proper spectator, who after all, represents the "deep-dyed villian" of this drama. Athletes cannot be run both as an a participant in an international proposition, and this is true not only for girls' athletes but also for boys' athletes, whether conducted in person or by computer. If the school does not finance athletics as part of an educational procedure, it cannot control athletes. We own schools and cannot back to what actually happens in practice. It is finance, it is aDesperate try for a winning team as an athlete.
Prohibition Pays
The New York Times, in a somewhat comprehensive discussion of the "cost of prohibition" to the nation arrives at a figure of 247,768,402. This number is based on research for the benefit of the Coast Guard. The expenditure covers eight years, and is astonishingly small, especially as no account is taken of direct off-
Professor Fisher of Yale says that indirectly prohibition has saved and added more than $3,000,000,000 annually to the national wealth. This minimum estimate, multiplied by the proportion of the annual expenditure of $177,716,869 in prohibition enforcement fund.
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The hundreds of successful graduates of the Lawrence Business College are the best in the world of our effectiveness.
LAWRENCE
Business College
Lawrence, Kansas
Successful Graduates
All are typical of spring and that spring feeling!
Tulip, Jonquil and Narcissus ought to be the names of these new Flanul Felt Hats we are showing.
$7
Others $3.45 to $8
where Society Brand Clothes are sent
UNIVERSITY CONCERT COURSE Final Concert of the 1927-28 season
JOSEPH LHEVINNE, Master Pianist
NOTE: No scenes of enthusiasm aroused by any pianist within many years have equalled those of Lhevinne's recent New York appearance.
UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM
Thursday Evening, March 1st. 8:20 o'clock
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