PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1927 Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas University Daily Kansar Editorial Staff InDesign Editor-InChief Associate Editor News Editor Lawyer/Pier Sports Director Sport Editor Joe McMullen **Sunday Story** Jack Stakenberg Loclie Hinnen William Enright John Sparks Ada Sage Carly Nutt Advertising Manager W. Morgan Co. Advertising Administrator Mgr. J. Ronnel Robert Circulation Manager James T. Nesvorn Foreign Adm. Mgr. R. Dale Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Pennsylvania. Press of the Department of Journalism. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1927 Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1897. FROM K. U. SOIL Although local interest in the Shubert engagement of the Kannas Players this month is not passive, Kannas City itself seems to be more alive to the achievement than students at the University. This group of non-professional actors, several of them enrolled in the University, has overcome environmental obstacles and made itself outside its own community. Because of the love of producing good drama it has kept attempting the seemingly impossible until now it has been asked to appear at the leading Kansas City theater in the middle of the dramatic season. Bolief in the project of advancing drama and specifically belief in this company which is attempting it, is being shown by the backing of both the leading Kansas City papers. Through their dramatic departments and news columns these newspapers are promoting the appearance of the Players on February 17, 18 and 19. The Kansas City Theater, which is an organization of local non-professional actors, has also given its support to the University group. In its latest circulation it announced the plays and volunteered information concerning them. University alumni in Kansas City are actively playing the dramatic child of their alma mater. Surely the it is just cause for pride on the Hill. --nine matters of preeminent sites accounts for most of the rest. The remedy for such conditions seems to lie in a more accurate schedule and in the establishment of an advisory system for the upperclassmen with a thorough check of transcripts with case requirements. A college romance: an affair that develops in springlike February weather and fades with late March snows. HELPLESS JUNIORS Once upon a time there was a sophomore who spent a whole semester apple-polishing with an instructor he knew, and then didn't get to enroll in the instructor's course. Now that the first flurry of enrollment is over and classes have started, one may pause to meditate about the present system. Freshmen and sophomores are carefully guarded under the advisory system and the seniors are checked before enrolling. The juniors, however are left to blunder along in the best way they can, often with disastrous results. During the unprotected third year many students have enrolled in courses for which they were unprepared or to which they were insolible. Time after time it has been discovered that the prerequisites have not been fulfilled. Attention has already been called to several such cases. In one instance, junior have been enrolled in a strictly senior course. Here the fault seems to have been in the schedule which failed to make the restriction clear. In another case, however, a student was permitted to take an advanced course without the prerequisite. Later this was checked and five hours' credit was unnecessarily lost. Again, this semester a number of students in another school were enrolled in College courses to which they were ineligible because of classification. Several things may have contributed to the general confusion. Numerous mistakes in the class schedule itself were the cause of many of the difficulties. Failure to check the student classification with course requirements was responsible for others and K, U. got a lot of publicity a couple of years ago when someone turned down a Phi Beta Kappa key. It's about time for someone to refuse to accept a flunk. DEBATE TEAM HONORED The Players are not the only people who are bringing credit to the Hill away from the Hill. It is an unantual honor afforded the Kansas debate team, that of debating against Missouri when the team meet in the Capitol building at Topeka, Feb. 9. The question, too, is a vital one—"that Congress should enact legislation embodying the principles of the McNary-Haugen farm bill." Members of the Kansas supreme court will act as judges and Governor Paulen will be chairman of the debate. The unusual recognition accorded the Kansas team in this debate has been a considerable boost to forensic work at the University, as the debate team has been invited to debate the same question before the annual convention of the Kansas Live Stock Association, Feb. 24, at Wichita. Debating is one of the best things the University does; perhaps we shall begin to realize it after awhile, and get out nuancedness when we have de- tates at home. PROGRESS IN THE BALANCE Foreign Minister Chen, in offering to sign an agreement with Britain if troops and gunbattles are withdrawn, is telling John Ball that China will be good if England quits trying to force her to be good. PROGRESS IN THE BALANCE Enemies of the eugenics bill rally around the cry of what was good enough for grandfather is good enough for us. Their chief objection seems to be that the measure is a radical departure from the present order. The proposed bill has several objections. At present the public is not ready for scientific marriage. A state law would be hard to enforce when other states have no such laws. A federal law is the aim of eugenicists. The underlying principle of the measure, prevention of marriage of the unfit, is round. It is a step in the solution of the serious problem that the national government must eventually consider. Immediate benefit of the bill will be reflected in fewer and happier marriages. The requirement of public notice of marriage three days before the ceremony is performed would abolish "Capid's parlor" and stop elopements and habitable marriages in Kansas. Consideration inhibits action that may bring unhappiness. The three-day clause warns parties to a marriage to stop and look before they decide to leap into matrimony. They are given time to be sure that they are right before they go ahead. There must be a start to do any constructive work, and Kanus is in a position to start the march to social welfare through eugenic marriage. If the bill does any good it will be worth white. Now is the time to start keeping those good resolutions you made when school started last fall. PRESIDENT FRANK DEFENDS LIBERTY An unusually gratifying note of tolerance has been sounded by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, who in a reply to an attack made on a member of the faculty by the governor of the state voiced this challenge to the enemies of liberty: "As long as I am president of the University of Wisconsin complete freedom of thought and expression will be accorded with utter importality alike to teachers who entertain conservative opinions and to teachers who entertain radical opinions. The Zeta chapter will hold initiation services Sunday afternoon at Myers ball at 2:30. All must be there, and be sure to wear white. Mr. and Mrs. Braden will entertain the organization in their home after the services. RUTH SHAW, President BETHANY CIRCLE: OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Vol. VIII Sunday, February 6, 1927 No. 101 BAPTIST UNIVERSITY CLASSES: Baptist University classes will meet in joint session Sunday, at 9:45 a.m. Dr. H. P. C.ary, professor of chemistry, will speak on "The Real fundo- CHARLES W. THOMAS. BETA CHI SIGMA: Beta Chisigma will meet in room 3, cast administration building, on Monday at 4:40 p. m. C. R. GARVEY, President. TEACHERS APPOINTMENT BUREAU; All students who plan to teach next year are requested to meet in Fraser chapel Monday afternoon at 4:30. The purpose of this meeting is to instruct candidates concerning registration with the teachers appointment bureau and the occurring of teaching positions. EARL W. ANDERSON, Director. MATHEMATICS CLUB: The Mathematics Club will meet Monday at 4:30 p.m. in room 201, enst Administration building. We will be a talk on *Vectors* and Their Applications. ALPHA DELTA SIGMA; Kappa Phi will hold its regular business meeting at 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, Feb. 16 at the offices of its sponsor, Mrs. Edwin F. Price, 1232 Ohio. It is urged that every member be present. Dues are due. Regular meeting of actives and pledges will be held in the Journalism library Tuesday night, Feb. 8, at 7:30. C. E. MUNDIS. KAPPA PHI: K. U. BAND: University Band will rehearse Wednesday evening at 7, so as to not interfere with the play "Marionettes." All members must be on hand if they wish to remain a member of the band this semester. fact that I may think, that an officer of the state may think, or that a citizen of the state may think a teacher's opinion wrong-bended or even dangers will not alter this policy. For the whole of human history presents unknowable proof that only through the open and unaltered clash of contrary opinions can truth be found." Wisconsin has had a few black marks in the past—it refused to hear Oscar Garrison Villard, edited by the Nation—but it is stoning for them. J. C. McCANLES, Director. President Frank's expression is not new; Wendell Phillips gave utterance to the same thought more than half-century ago, and so did William Laidy Garrison and hundreds of others. Horace Greeley characterized this sentiment during his life as an editor, and founded a school of journalism of vigorousness and vitality, which although no longer extant has left an indelible imprint. Vice-President Dawes, recently married Margina Talley, the grand opera star, to avoid developing a "temperament." One wonders if Miss Talley later had a chance to hear "Hell Maria" do his stuff in the senate. The Kannan rejoices, as may all students and friends of the University rejoice, that the freedom Glenn Frank莲nums exists at Kansas, and to such an extent that it has drawn the approbation of editors throughout the state. DO WE ARGUE FOR EDUCATION? The business world tells us that we are impractical. We fowl away our time. Our main purpose is to have four years of enjoyment, learn the life of ease, and then carry it into the world. We do not know anything when we graduate nor do we rise in industry. We get a lot of job ideas. Yet business gobbles us up faster than our schools of commerce can turn us out. The cultural world points a stern finger at us and accuses us of being too practical. We are too much concerned in the mad scramble. Mass production is our watch-word in the University. We leave no time for the lesisure pursuit of culture. Yet culture finds its home in the university and draws on it for its recruits. Both are right. We are too impractical for the business world. We are to practical for the cultural world. But have we accomplished anything? Our purpose is to bring the practical world and the cultural world closer together. We are succeeding. The practical world has entered the home of culture. It has drawn us away from emphasis on the classics to greater emphasis on science and society. Culture has entered the business field. It has made the business world give up its laissez-faire. It has foreclosed on labor laws and relief As long as we make the practical world more impractical, and make the impractical world more practical we are working toward unity. The world may not sense what we are accomplishing, but both forces will recognize our accomplishments as long as they damn us simultaneously. bills. It is imposing freedom on our public schools. At Maitland University, Winnepec, Canada, upper-class women have passed a rule prohibiting all freshmen from wearing a necklace or connection or anything of the sort. Bobine Withe, famous Swedish runner, who defended Panvo Nurmi, is visiting Ann Arbor where he expects to meet the athletes months in studying American athletics. 33 1-3% Discount on all pipes (except Dunhill). 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