PAGE TWO FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1927 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial staff Editor-In-Chief Robert B. Slightam Associate Editors Russell Winterstein Campus Editor Jeff Starr Campus Editor George Schoenberg Night Editor George Schoenberg Sunday Editor Janice Twinkle Sunday Editor Janice Twinkle Plain Tape Editor W. Jawson Plain Tape Editor G. Alston G. Alston G. H. Johnson Other Board Members Charles Edgerton Ford Russell Mark O'Neill Mary Kinigan Fikin Deyan Yadav Michael Sasser Lagerstein Vaughn Kimball Business Staff Talenhouse Advertising Manager ... Chance R. Mundell Attn. Advertising Merg., ... W. Morgan陈 Advertising Manager, ... D. Cox Foreign Alr. Merg., ... W. Edison伯恩曼 Citation Alr. Merg., ... Allies Van Meerens Business Office K. U. 68 News Room K. U. 25 Published in the afternoon, five times as week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of New York Press or the Free of the Department of Journalism. Entered as second-class mail matter. September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 2, 1897. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1927 PEDAGOGICAL FLUNKS A flunk is a flunk—and Robert Burns might add "for a 'n' that". But the flunk is a singular thing that comes to the student alone while the instructor, even though he be incompetent to fill the position which he occupies, is hurried. Sitting upon a high throne, heaped up by student advances in desire of "good will", the University pedagogy gloriously prescribes long assignments and administers periodic doses of ability tests. At the end of the course this instructor searches through his book of grades, shuffles out the superior and failing marks and through use of a weak imagination decides the status of other students. No, this is not a picture of every instructor. Nor is it a description of the majority. But that minority, suffering under the strain of a superiority complex, makes itself felt in every corner that is penetrated by student thought. This instructor is incapable of properly filling his position. Generally, he is not a teacher for any reason except his liking for remuneration and authority. Regardless of the side of the fence where it may be applied, a flunk is a flunk "for a' that". In order to secure a better system of education the instructor should be subject to a "flunk." As long as the incompetent pedagogy is given final authority he should be subject to failure in a class in which he may mack the life career and ambitions of students through his own failure. The student is in a position where he is even better fitted to judge the instructor than the instructor is to judge the student. The student knows the short-comings of the incapable instructor who cannot benefit the student even by wisely assigned text readings. An "Aggrie" student would surely have felt at home on the grounds near Fraser and the Journalism building a week or so ago. "If I can only get through these two weeks—" There isn't a student on the campus who if he has not expressed that thought has not been conscious of it. The last two or three weeks of any semester have come to be a nightmare to every student, conscientious in his work or not. THE WHY OF THE CRAM Nine instructors out of ten will advise the student not to cram the night or so before an examination and yet those same instructors will assign so much extra work during the last few weeks, to prove that their courses are not pipes, that there is no chance of a same review if the student expects to keep up with his daily work. The result is that there is a man rush and dash that sets everybody's nerves on edge and gains the ones most concerned practically nothing If the instructors would only learn to give the bulk of their work at the beginning of the term and allow the students time at the end to get a real review, there might not be so many failures and there certainly would be more real education gained, which is usually conceded to be the primary aim of a college course. REFUSAL I cannot merry till Foe Quenched my sight With life that moves on boardteers All day and night. And up above the night grows big And stove And stary. I have your heart? Here, take it, Quack. I'm sorry. SANITATION IS NOT ENOUGH by Stella Reinhardt in Haidemann-Julius Monthly Students and faculty members alike are expressing general disapproval of food at the University Commons. Almost without exception, it is being indicted on grounds of both quality and price. The "white" card tacked on the post which is passed by the waiting line may signify that the food is free from disease germs. Yes, it may be sanitary, but sanitation alone is hardly sufficient to satisfy an American college public even though it is accompanied with nutritive value. The clothes we wear must be more than warm, the buildings we live in must be more than mere places of shelter, and so it is with the food we eat, since choice is our privilege. Literally hundreds of students leave the Hill at noon to lunch at boarding club or restaurants. They have to devour their food hurriedly and then drag their weary bones all the way back up Fourteenth street and spend valuable time and energy. They do this rather than eat at the Commons. The extra effort must be worth it or else it would not be done But is it not unnecessary? To say that the food is too high because students do not patronize it is merely going around in a vicious circle. Besides, it is contrary to the basic principles of such a business to expect the patrons to come first and then satisfy them later. If a first-class cafeteria existed on the Hill there is little doubt that it would be patronized. Further expression of student opinion concerning the present situation will be received with interest. Some instructors on the Hill seem to think that the whistle at the end of class hours is a litting for them to imitate. Most of them let off just as much steam and some make almost as much noise after they hear it. The Kansan's Inquiring Reporter says he is now looking for someone who owns a Packard. No doubt he wants to ask him something. Everytime the campaign to repsa the anti-fag law is launched, the W C, T, U, throws out a smoke screen. --seems to me that with all the cheap labor and the mass output of the plant it could give better meals at a lower price. Last night the band was heard for the first time this year as a concert organization. While to many perhaps the band means little more than a ballyhoo for football and basketball games, the organization primarily is a concert organization with its work at the athletic contests as its issue. At the Concert BY JOHN SHIVELY The selection from "Rose Marie" was not particularly interesting for the reason the numbers were not wholly suitable for a concert band. The band showed its ability at ballet music in the "Russian Dance Suite," which is one of several moods, but the composer maintained the same idea throughout. "The Fall of Jericho" in itself was big enough to show up the band in all its good points. The brilliance in which the K. U. band仪授 it proved the organization's high quality. A strong concert section showed up particularly well, and it was well supported by the other brass instruments. Do Luca "Intermezzo" was an intermezzo number with good shading and effective work in company parts. The "Fra Diavolo" overture is essentially descriptive, although not as much so as the "first number." The weird portions of "The Dance of the Serpents" were vividly portrayed. The surprising thing is that some decidedly conventional types of appearance appear in what was expected to be a highly impressionistic number. Ralph Davis did a creditable playing in the difficult "Inflamatus" from To the whole band goes the credit for the brilliant performance of the "Stars and Stripes Forever". Particularly impressive was the work of the trombones in the introduction to the last strain. The picture of Jay James will be taken at the Lawrences gallery at 11:30. The costume in costume will be made by Katie Ruddy, and the dress will be given to them. Everyone else will have MARY ELLEN Vol. VII Friday, January 14, 1927 No. 90 Museum of Art New York, New York JAY JANES; The orchestra picture will be taken a 2 p.m. Saturday at Squires studio. No instruments and informal dress. K. O. KUEERSTENNER. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN K. U. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: PRESBYTERIAN STUDENT UNION: Preyberry students are invited to an International Party at Westminster Hall, Friday, at 8:30 p. m. Something different. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS: STANLEY ENGLE, President. The Student Volunteers will have an open meeting at 4:30 Sunday, Jan. 16, at the Methodist church. Any person, man or woman, who is interested in this world-wide movement is urgently invited to attend this meeting. "Stahat Mater?" he was sharp on some of his high tones, but this can be excused in such a difficult number. The director's "Hail Kammall Hass!" question that he has presented as far no musical qualities are concerned. EDNA M. WISER, President. The organization disclosed in this program the quality of its personnel and the careful training which its director has given. There were some slips which must be expected in such a large amateur organization, but on the whole the band played with brilliance and understanding. Campus Opinion I am told by an employee of the company that her commute never was paying income, that they are continually close to the red. Well enough, it is not supposed to be true. Editor Daily Kansan: Now I believe we have this same thing at the Commons. I have been around the "HII" for some years now and since then, this comes in for a lot of criticism during three or four years, and I know that part of that criticism has been just criticism of a bad situation and not of any ill will toward the management. So it's loyalty that is bothering the "pursons for fair play" person. Well first let us see about this loyalty issue in an organization and members of the organization complain about it to the extent that an investigation is necessary and remedy effected, I ask you "fair play," that I am loyalty to the organization. The Commons has only one meal that they probably make money on—luncheon, and so it will be in the foreground. We don't have the low价菜 and good food, for they cannot expect to bring students back to school unless the unices are good. In closing I suggest that a committee of senators in the different schools of economics investigate the school economies department and the School of Business, to investigate the economics department. Maybe the Commons should serve only the one final, the convenient one. You don't want to have to should receive a salary that would insure her remaining on the job for *n* few years. No organization that is supposed to operate with the utmost efficiency. Yours for more and better suggestions for remedying the situation. Editor, Daily Kansan. The recent selection for opponents was called a drawing. I am doubling whether chance alone could have been the key to closing closely in both the single and double matches. Some of the very best players are unattached. As the team tries to come up with players will eliminate each other early in the tournament while the poorer players, representing organizers, will go far toward the final-match. No homes are going to be broken up over the handball tournament, nor any careers blasted—it's a small matter. No one is really rather disgusting liftiness of spirit. Better call the intramural athletics by their real name, interfraternity athletics. There may have been some justification in excluding unattached players from receiving any cap and uniform, and justification in trying to discourage unattached participation in athletic activities. The result of the tournament is of interest. A selection of the selection that is objectionable after, after the person who labeled the selection a drawing may have been guilty of an error in its application; the drawing appears to have been affected by some uncalled-for fraternal relationship. Iowa Weekly College, Mt. 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