THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927
PAGE TWO
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927
WHY NOT THE MERIT SYS
TEM?
For the last three or four years the University has had medicine direction of the chewing section. The reason for this is not hard to find. The men that have been holding the positions have been doing their best, but for the most part they have not been fitted by temperament or training for the position.
We are about to enter the basketball season. In many schools this period, when the rooters are regularly gathered in a compact group, and leading is casual, is used for the training of prospective candidates, and the selection by a competent committee of the best among those trying out.
At present, all indications are that the cheerleader for next year will be chosen by the students from two men who have done yoyan political duty during their Hill career. It is hardly necessary to say that a good politician is not necessarily a good cheerleander. In other words, the students get a "pig in a poke" when they collect their cheerleader.
The Kansas would like to see some effort made this winter to train a competent group for these positions
A MEMORIAL THAT WILL GROW
The first meeting of the class of '28 has been held. Committees have been selected to plan and carry out the year's program. Perhaps the most significant of these—at least, as far as future generations of Jayhawks are concerned—is the committee that will select the class memorial
His problem is a big one. It must provide a memorial that will constantly remind University students of the class it represents—a memorial that is beautiful and lasting. But its choice should pass a more significant test than that of more beauty or prominence. That test is the one of usefulness—of service to the hosts of students that are to come.
Memorial benches, memorial sundials, memorial windows, memorial steps—all these things, though lasting and rich in memory, do little but add a slight touch of beauty to the relatively small sections of the campus they grace.
The library clock, left by the class of '22, is a sample of a useful, yet beautiful and lasting memorial. Such is the case, also, with the two tables and 24 chairs of walnut, purchased by last year's 'class for the new Memorial union building.
But what could be more lasting as a memorial or more useful to future students than a memorial loan fund to which needy students, as long as the University itself exists, could turn in times of financial stress?
The need for such a fund is evident. Scholarships are small and limited in number, and must be secured ahead of time. They offer nothing for emergency loans. The regular loan fund provided by the University has been exhausted, so that even the most worthy student seeking the most meager loan must be refused.
Administration of the memorial loan fund could only be by a special loan committee, or better still, by the present loan fund committee. The money could be held in trust as a separate fund and administered as such, according to the best of their knowledge and experience.
A nominal rate of interest could be charged—just enough to cover the possible risks incurred. Future classes could add their gifts, so that it would grow steadily, year by year. Interest on unused portions of the fund and future class gifts might well build the fund to underdream proportions.
Today the business office, according to Freed Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, holds a trust fund of $145 left by the class of '25, without specified use or purpose. With the permission of that class, this could be combined with the money to be left by this year's class to make a substantial start and to supply a much-needed resource for use next fall.
What class memorial could be more useful or more lasting than this? What memorial could do a greater or more cumulative good?
The professor who gives an examination the day before the holiday session in order to have something to do during the vacation is too ambitious for this world.
Campus Opinion
Editor Daily Kansan:
I wish to take issue with two collections which were printed in late night's Kansan. To my mind they both examples of shadow thought are thinking or a disdressing lack of a knowledge of his history and fact.
The first of these editorials took as its subject the proposed naval building campaign as outlined by Secretary Wilur.
Surely no sane minded person would护躯 the carrying on of any sensitive program for the future. And I think that quite as surely no one is quite lacking in normal enough to be a victim, but I think he has absolutely done away with war. Admitting the truth of those statements, as I think that it must be admissible.
Admitting the truth of these statements, as I think that it must be admitted, a little research in past his
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Members of the Men's Glee Club meet at Fraser hallat 7:50 tonight for participation in the indoor Christmas Tree program.
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. IX
Thursday, December 15, 1927
No. 78
MEN'S GLEE CLUB:
will show that only in the Spanish-American war, the only war it was prepared for, a heavy loss of life for the men can be avoided. Due to the foreclosure of Theodore Roosevelt's estate, the only losses of life by the American naval forces which fought two battles were due to sickness or accident.
If peace can be guaranteed, then abolition of the navy would be welcome. But since in this day and age such a course is improbable, let us maintain an efficient naval. Navy experts agree that our navy to be able to operate on a ship without an airplane carrier which this program will provide.
And by the way, in these piping times of 30,000 ton battle ships, 10,000 ton cruders are hardly "monsters."
The second editorial was headed "The Oklahoma Charges Must Be True," and intimated that because the Governor of Oklahoma had refused to allow the legislature to meet in office, he would be tempted to impeach him must be guilty.
Even in the exalted hall of our national capitol prejudice once ensues within a state vote of impeaching a president. Why not investigate whether or not we are the case in Oklahoma when attempting to away public opinion?
It does not seem that public opinion in Oklahoma is at all united in the belief that the Governor Johnson is a cannan jump so the conclusion that the governor is guilty becomes his tries to maintain legal membership of these legislatures?
Why not use a little reflective thought before writing an editorial? W. K. G.
Surply the writer of this editorial is not sufficiently unpollished and unversed in history to believe that it is impossible for legislators, in the interest of "principle politics" to do what they are not strictly honest and ethical.
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Since this is the last time we'll get to talk to you through the columns of the DailyKansan before Christmas—Let us say—
THE FIRST: are the folks who have purchased or will purchase Ober gifts to give to somebody else.
Merry Christmas
There are three classes of people at the University of Kansas to whom we extend our Merriest Wishes—
TO ALL—our smilingest wishes—with emphasis on the third class who need them more than the other two.
THE SECOND: includes the somebody elses who will receive gifts bearing the Other label.
THE THIRD: are the folks who will not receive or send an Ober present.
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