1 PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1928 University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of TIDE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Edition in Chief: Earl B. Sturkmeier Saturday Edition Penny Hoffman Sunday Edition Penny Hoffman Citizen Editie Lloyd Beckett Citizen Editie Mikhail Pasternak Ternus Patentee Alumni Editie Alumni Editie Dino Dibson Taken Table Editor Jason Hankison Frank Hankison Evocateur Editie Gortrade McCoy Alberto Mianer Henon Tatum Robert Mine Porter Potter Chuckland Cable Jack Kushner William Griffith BUSINESS MANAGER Advertising Manager Loadle Reppert Aust. Advertising Mgr. William Clark Aust. Advertising Mgr. W. E. Werring Business Office K, U. 65 News Room K, U. 24 Night Connection 2701K2 Published in the afternoon, five times a week, and on Sunday morning, by students in the department of Journalism of the University Press of the Department of Journalism. Entered an record-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1897. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3. 1928 NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT There is a challenge in the new year. Somehow it seems to strike us like a cool wind and makes us stop take a breath, and consider a moment before going on. These first few days of 1928 are charged with expectancy; they are filled with bright, new hopes for greater things in the year to come, with dreams and resolutions. Here at the University we can look back at a year of great material progress. Three imposing structures have been dedicated to the use of the youth of Kansas in the past year. Our beautiful auditorium, our Memorial Union building, and our imposing stadium give visual evidence of progress. The University has also gone forward in other ways. Our enrollment has increased; the influence of the University has been felt out over the state through the band, orchestra, and glee clubs, who carried the best musical talent of this institution to the towns where they gave concertes; the class of 1927 has gone out from the University, many of its members to enter actively into the life of their home communities and become leaders there. In many other ways the University has endeavored to carry out its mission as the educational center of this state. We, the student, however, should remember that not only are we at the University, but we are the University. We are just as much a part of the University as the instructors or the buildings, or the equipment. The University is not for us—it is by us, through us, and in us. The destiny of the University for 1928 is our destiny. We who are the University then have the new year in our group. What are we going to do with it? Will our university during the next year advance in broader vision, in truer unselfish service, and in greater influence for the best in our state. It is up to us—we have the new year in which to prove that the confidence of those who send us here to make the University has not been misplaced. THE GOALS OF CAMPUS ACTIVITIES A group of students last spring, working in co-operation with the faculty, conducted a survey among 451 junior and seniors in 21 college classes of the University, in an attempt to evaluate our present educational system. The survey questionaire asked that those answering it check in a list of probable values which they got from participation in campus activities, those which they thought had meant most to them. The five highest, in the order named were; Chances to develop my own initiative or personality; discovery of congenial companionship, and recreation; development of poise and confidence; development of wider and more varied interests; and the opportunity to follow more or less intensively the interests that are natural to the person concerned. to the plex The things that this group of representative students valued least were: The opportunities to meet men and women; the development of executive ability or the chance to exert TO THE WORN-OUT MOTOR CAR Goodbye, old bus! A food farewell! The junk man has you now. You've earned your real life: I hate to sell Your carcasses, I allow. I seek to turn you out to grass In some delicate elf, emissor With not a tibbo to do but pass An endless summer, BY BILL TAEL For nine hour, years you've rolled about This Western hamburger. Without complain, along the route Where I might stop. My boon companion you have been. My loan companion you have been in courtship and in marriage. My moving van! My medicine! Of late, my baby carriage! And every day, at work or play, With fortitude observing You're helped me in my human way Of condescension, thirsting service. The jokn man must canny wee far you far. Your partner he may discover; But the spirit of the mother rose on and on, forever. And so, I sing this little lily in this improvisation. Of what the mute means today To me, and the mute tomorrow, The Lakest (Lake, Orc.) influence; and the opportunity to gain recognition or to develop leadership. Making allowances for the fact that a number of those answering the questionnaire undoubtedly did not it intelligently, we must still recognize that the answers show that the college student of today is primarily interested in himself and his own welfare. The chance to develop his own personality, so that he can use it to the economic advantage of himself, the discovery of conglomerate companions, so that life may be a little less boresome; the development of wide interests; and the opportunity then to follow those that seem to be most to his advantage—these are his goals. The emphasis in all of these activities is personal and therefore, in most cases, selfish. Notice, however, how this group of students shuns leadership or responsibility. The development of executive ability and the opportunity to develop leadership come last on the list, and probably would not have been mentioned at all had they not been on the question sheet. Yet practically the only training school we students have for the responsibilities that should come in life in the University. If the college man does not care to accept responsibility, what can we expect of those who do not even have the God-given privilege of spending four years in one of our modern curricula for the life of the world, a university? ATHLETES AND THE PROFIT MOTIVE College students put athletes on pedestals, and almost as literally as the Children of Israel worshiped the golden calf, they fall down and worship them. We like to think of college athletes as great, strong men, who have no thought beyond service to their Alma Mater, and who would be only too glad to die for her, if that were necessary to win a game. If college athletes are ever to assume a logical place in the scheme of our educational system we must look at them honestly. We often hear it said that a college athlete is not doing the hard work necessary to keep in training because he likes the name that comes from being a member of the varsity team; oh no, he is doing that out of love for his school, and a burning desire to see her triumph by making use of his talents. To prove the fallacy of such a belief we have only to ask any member of a varsity team to tell honestly why he works and trains as he does in order to play on the team. He will tell his questioner, if he be really honest, about the hot surge of blood through his body at the opening whistle, the thrill of the game, the joy that comes when the thousands thunder their approval at a good play, and the pride with which he wears his "K." He will mention last his desire to be of service to his Alma Mater. Why all the talk about service, and school name, and loyalty? Let's admit that the reason we attend athletic contests is to participate in a colorful and exciting spectacle, and that the reason the athlete plays is because he gets measure for measure in profit for everything he puts into athletics. Why not be honest with ourselves and the athletes? Quartet rehearsal on both contest rongs. The make-up of the final contest regard will depend largely upon the showing made in those quartets this week. Regular rehearsal Wednesday night as usual. New man take part with a regular band. Wednesdays evening at the latest regarding assignment for quartet contest. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. 1X Tuesday, January 3, 1928 No. 80 THOS. A. LARREMORE, Director MEN'S GLEE CLUB: Kappa Paul will hold its regular monthly dinner meeting at the churent thursday at 5:30 sharp. Attendance is required UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB; KAPPA BETA: The University Women's Club will meet on Thursday, Jan. 5, at Myers hall at 2 p.m., m. Mrs. F. C. Allen is the chairman in charge. The club will have an guest the University housemates and mothers of members of the faculty. FLORENCE M. HODDER, Social Chairman. LECTURE ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE; The fourth of a series of lectures on contemporary literature for freshmen of the University will be given Thursday, Jan. 8, at 4:00 p.m., in room 205 Fensner hall. Miss Gardner will talk on the subject "Gossip Cornel." ALICE WINSTON, Chairman of the Committee. Our Contemporaries K. U. BAND: "Ring out my mumbohynch traps, "and ring the new servers in" song Tennison with the advent of the year. Was he an unusually satirical prophet, or did he have an inferiority complex? Among those populations who would like to see in our present day educational system the demission of all American youth, the idea that students have very little religion or very little knowledge of social and popularity and currency. These same persons, doubles, would be taken aback to hear from the lips of one who is incompetent for his life with students. He would say that "I am not one who claims that because students are relatively indeficient to many current expressions of religion, that they are therefore necessary to preach or indirect to religion." OPERATION DIRECTION Band rehearsal as usual at 7:30 Wednesday evening. J. C. McCANNES. An estimated saving or a thousand dollars a year is enough to recommend the proposition strongly to the commencement committee. This statement was made by Eric Thomson, student councilor of the Student Christian association. GUR OWN CAPS AND GOWNS The recommendation by the Men's Student Council that the University commencement, committees, purchase enough eggs and gowns to supply the members of the senior class each year at a nominal rental is a worthy one. And after all, and notwithstanding the perishants, one is impeded to understand the whole shallow superficiality of college students (the deliberate answers to questions) by the Seniors have had to pay exorbitant charges for their caps and gowns in former years. Often not enough were ordered and some members of the senior class had their commencement almost ruined because of the inefficiency of those who ordered the caps and gowns. a deeper strain than students are generally credited with. Soffing they is to be sure, and ridicule and criticism, but through it all the students feel the pressure for themselves a religion much more sound and enduring than the ally faith of many of their professors. The University student of history is not to be expected to examine the problems of his everyday life from the standpoint of scientific accuracy; and the inevitable result is conviction rather than crenudity, and a religion which, if wrong, is at alteration on the basis of new "words." All in all there is very little cause for alarm in the situation of student religion today, even on the part of narrow theologians. From the unification of men and women to the carrying men and women who may not hold the most conservative beliefs, but who hold them the more firmly for their being more broad. Alarms there will always be, and you are supposed to observe the observation, expressed by Mr. Thomson, is more valuable to a scientifically minded person than the prejudice of conservation, no matter how much prejudice may be Michigan教育局. Send the Daily Kansan home. When it's so cold to go down the Hill why not stop at the New Cafeteria. Excellent food, attractively served at reasonable prices. Service Hours $$ 7:30 -- 9:00 11:30 -- 1:30 2:30 -- 4:30 5:00 -- 6:30 $$ New Cafeteria Memorial Building R-O-W-E-R-S-O-C-K Thursday, January 12 Mail Orders Now Seat Sale Monday, January 9th UNIVERSITY CONCERT COURSE 1927-28 Prices: Parquet, $2.20; Halony, $1.65; Second Halony, $1.10. 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