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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1926, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 2, 1937.
TO THE EDUCATIONAL RADICAL
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927
"Grades! A degree! A diploma! Ph Beta Kanna! Bah!___"
So college is merely a place for obtaining these meaningless objects, is it? So "students" are not securing an education?
Deception reigns. Grades, degrees, diplomas are of value. They are the outward, visible signs of an inward, intellectual development. They are symbolic of the attainments achieved during four years of college life.
Students primarily strive not for degrees and diplomas but for education, and they realize that they are in college primarily for their own development. What proofs are there? First, in each year's graduating class there are a number of students who prefer to have a small laboratory fee or a library bill unpaid rather than to receive a diploma. Second, in every grading class a proportion of students have more hours to their credit than is necessary. Why is this so, if a degree is all they desire?
Those who wish to do away with the outward signs of a college education, fail to consider that students are human. The giving of grades stresses competition. The giving of a degree is a means of recognizing achievement.
It is easier to work for a material rather than an intellectual purpose. But in college, the two go hand in hand. He who receives a better grade has a better knowledge of the subject, Statistics from "Who's Who" reveal the fact that the Phi Beta Kappa has the knowledge. He is worth his key. So let the cynic sneer. A college system that has taken from the twelfth century to develop will not be suddenly and violently changed by the whims of a few eleven thinkers. That it will undergo evolution is inevitable, but it is by no means all wrong.
ALL ABOARD FOR HOLLYWOOD
A graceful and novel method of retiring from the University for those who come under the 40 per cent rule after the finals have struck Mount Oread is being offered students at Kansas this year. Of course Phil Beta Kappas may qualify too. Representatives from the movie colony at Hollywood will be on the campus Wednesday looking for more editions of Buddy Rogers.
Next September if the dean won't allow students to sing "Back to Old K. U." they may, they are lucky, substitute "California, Here I Come," and become Ronald Coleman instead of Phi Beta Kappa's. In reply to the unquestion of whether John is back at school, it will be much easier for parents to boost that John is going into the movies than to explain that he tried of college life and took up salesmanship of washing machines.
There is another good result that may come on the screen tests. The greatly decreased enrollment that is bound to follow will make it possible to reduce the teaching staff and thereby end financial difficulties for the University. Also, since the trials are for men only the general exodus of males to the west coast will serve to equalize the number of men and women on the campus and make it easier to date for gunes busy week-end nights.
A CRY FOR INTERVENTION
One of the noteworthy phases of the Chinese situation is the influence that the entrepreneurs and other commercial folk who live in the international settlement] have on the home governments. Almost invariably the foreigners who inhabit the segregated districts at Hankow and Shanghai favor stern action on the part of the nations that they represent.
In many instances they live live of luxury in these protected settlements without coming in contact with Chinese culture and national life. The natives that they do know are usually servants and commercial agents. They are free from the jurisdiction of the Chinese courts. They know little of the political aspirations of the Chinese; of the nationalist movements toward a greater unification of the nation; of the significance of the smouldering flames of freedom that have been fanned to a white heat. Because of the environment in which they live and because of their narrow interests it is not surprising that they have built up a diadium for China and the Chinese. In short, they have developed a superior complexity.
Now that the crisis has come they have made insistent appeals to their governments for aid. American commercial investments amount to $80,000,000, and those who have immediate interests have stressed the necessity of foreign intervention for their own self-protection. The investment of the American churches in China amounts to $70,000,000, and many of the missionaries would rather see the powers intervene than to witness a total loss of years of labor.
If the foreign governments heed the try of the interventionists who live in the international settlements it would probably mean a serious setback for the nationalist movement. With intervention would come distrust and hate for the West and anything western. Not only would America lose the friendship of the Chinese people, but she would suffer a loss of trade that would have far-reaching effects on the future development of our industrial resources in the future. Undoubtedly a policy of good will will gain far more in the end than a policy of force.
The "hands-off" policy President Coolidge has taken with respect to China is gratifying to all who favor the right of self-determination of the Chinese people. By refusing to go all the way with Great Britain in the direction of forceful intervention, the United States has laid the foundation for a peaceful future of friendship with our neighbor across the Pacific.
According to the cap and gown committee, the local clothing merchants are in no danger of going bankrupt, if the turnout for measurements for the mortars and night-shirts are any indication.
A SPECIAL CONGRESS FOR FLOOD RELIEF
Each day the news bring new and more disturbing accounts of the devastations of the Mississippi flood, "Another Leaven Gives Away" "Floods Submerge Six More Parishes"—these are becoming commonplace heads which the newspaper reader may expect as readily as the sermon briefs on Monday morning.
But these daily stories of disaster have a significance equalled by few other news dispatches. For the present—immediate relief for the sufferers—for the future—a more constructive program is needed—measures to prevent a recurrence of such devastations.
It is a problem which calls for the attention of the whole country. Engineers must make an extensive study of the Mississippi and all its tributaries as a step toward preventing such a large volume of water ever starting on its way to the Gulf all at once again. Dams up stream —which incidentally could make excellent hydro-electric powersters—to hold the water in check; reforestation to retain longer the moisture in the ground and make droughts less imminent; and construction of irresistible levees—these are some of the possible preventive measures which demand their careful study.
A different duty devolve on the
The regular meeting of W. A. A. will be held Wednesday, May 18, at
board meeting will be at 4 p.m. before it begins.
JOSIE STAUPTIN, Pretender
The regular meeting of the Christian Science society will be held at 7:30
p. m., Tuesday, in Myers hall,
ETHEL HINDS, President.
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VII. Tuesday, May 17, 1927 No. 182
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY:
Pen and Scroll will meet Wednesday evening in central Administration building, promptly at 7:30. HUGH R. SMITH, President.
PEN AND SCROLL:
At The Concert BY JOHN THRIVELY
PI LAMBDA THETA;
Genovieve Lee's recital last night was a work of art, not only in its effective presentation, but also in the selection and arrangement of the program. While some of the songs were familiar to some audience, which maintained interest throughout.
The annual Strawberry Festival will be held Wednesday, May 18. Members will meet at Henley House at 5:00 p. m.
TWILA SHOEMAKER, Secretary.
ZOOLOGY CLUB:
Snow Zoology Club will hold its last training of the year Wednesday evening, May 18. The members will meet at Snow hall at 5:30 and hike to the country.
LAWRENCE V. COMPTON, President.
QUILL CLUB:
The Companion Club will elect officers for the coming year Wednesday day night at 7:30, at the club house. CLIFORD JONES, Secretary.
Quill Club will entertain the sophomores of Pen and Roelll at the last regular meeting of the year, Thursday evening, in the women's rest room of the Quill Club.
Perhaps the most outstanding impression from the recital was Miss Lee's expression. Her conunciation not only was clear, but it was also the means by which she expressed the mood of the song. With this she had been capable image of volume to fully portray her artistic understanding ing.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB:
ENGLISH MAJORS:
Government. It must appoint the engineers, consider their reports and finance the projects. It is doing well in the administration of flood relief; but the measures which it must take for prevention are more than can hardly be handled by a few men. Moreover, little can be done until appropriations are voted by Congress.
English majors and those wishing to declare a major in English should see an advisor before the end of the semester. Honor Wednesday, May 18
CARL NIEMEYER.
It would seem that the logical thing for the President to do would be to summon a special session of Congress to initiate action for such a program.
Miss Lee had a real contralto tone, deep and with a full roundness, in addition to a pleasing individuality;
To delay because of politics or false economy is foolhardy. There is plenty to require the undidited attention of Congress: First there is relief for the distress, which has acquired such magnitude within the past week as to make it almost impossible to be handled by the President's men in the field. Again it is most imperative that a prevention program be inaugurated at once. In connection with this Congress can do well to consider a national system of hydro-electric plants owned and operated by the Government as co-ordinate with data along the Mississippi tributaries.
President Coolidge should carefully consider Senator Reed's request for a special congressional session.
MISS LYNN and MISS LAIRD
Her high knees were weak at first, but as the program advanced these were taken with greater assurance, so that they were showed the same restraint and comfort. She stood die and lower range. "Good Morning Sun" was just as delightful as those songs portraying the depth and fullness of her lower tones. The Technikawaiy "Aria" thus permits the numbness to lie; the greatest range of expression.
Jayhawks Flown
Roy Angle, A. B. '18, is now clerk of the city court in Kansas City, Kan.
Edgar Gregg, B. S. '26, recently purchased an auto battery station at Ponce City, Ocala.
Lee Gregory, B. S., 26, is now with the Goodrich Rubber Company with headquarters at St. Louis.
George Rudy, basketball captain in 1920, is now coaching at the Oklahoma City high school.
Albert Hall Lakin, A. B. '17, was married recently to Miss Margaret Young Whitman in Atlanta, Ga.
Ralph Seger, A. B. '12, has moved
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Carl Logan, A. B. '15, has moved to Asheville, N. C., where he is associated with Joe Gillie, A. B. '15, in engagement of the Gullie catering.
Judge R. E. Cullum, LL. B., '98,
has resigned from his jurisdiction in
the 37th Kansas district to become
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Company of Bartlettville.
J, E. "Ed" Dyche, A. B., 90, recently died at his home in Oakland City. Dyche was a veteran leader who served as the warden of the Atlanta federal penitentiary for many years. In 1924 he was campaign manager for W. B. Pine in his successful campaign for the United States senate.
Where are the lambrequins of yesteryear?
GONE! Hardly a single flapper of today could even tell what a lambrequin is, or rather, was.
GONE, gone, along with the parlor organ, the bamboo easel, the crayon portrait, the gold-painted chair and the tin bathtub.
AND happily, no one, be he ever so humble, sighs for their return.
WE do things better nowadays. Good taste in home furnishings and decoration has become the rule throughout the country.
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