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MONDAY, JANUARY 40, 1927
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence', Kansas
Editorial Staff
Instrument Editor-In-Chief Robert H. Slightman
Direcitor-Dryad Kroger
Campaign Editor Gerritt R. Busey
Editor-Neil Night John Stears
Tunnel Editor John Stears
Sport Editor Joe McMinnigan
Animal Editor Brendan Muster
Animals Editor James Muster
Charles Benson Foley
Frank K. Tufte
Floyd Rousell
John Slavicev
Jay Sullivan
Jarl Strimple
George Alden
Lawrence Laper
Laurence G. Culter
Vaughn Kimball
Rinkinema Staff
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Anti Advertising Mgmt ... W. Morgan Co.
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1897.
MONDAY, JANUARY 10. 1927
A WORLD OF ART AT YOUR DOOR
Shadows of antiquity, shades of the Orient, classic beauty—enough beautiful old furniture, paintings, wall hangings, Indian drums and Paisley shawls to keep a student of art and decoration busy for a long time—all these may be found on the campus, at the Thayer-Spooner art museum.
But how many students avail themselves of the opportunity to view even hastily these treasures which have been given to the University? A visit to the museum would furnish enough food for thought for many days to come.
If one quickies tice of Chinese art, water colors, or oil paintings, there still would remain two rooms full of early American furnishings, chairs, tables, spinning wheels, coverlids, and an old, old harpiccado, like the ones that our great-great grandmothers played upon.
Another room contains early American etchings, silhouettes, samplers, embroidered wall hangings, a few solid mahogany chests from Spain and Italy, and a chest of drawers containing views of feminine styles from the earliest continental period up to the present and these are only a few of the many beautiful and inspiring things which may be found there.
Art, which is so easily seen, and which is so beautiful and inspiring to look upon, should not be so neglected. You are missing more than you realize and sometimes, perhaps years hence, when you are wiser, you will be traveling all the way back to your Alma Mater to see a classic collection of art which you missed while here.
The Broadway Central Bank of New York closed its doors last Saturday during a "run." The reason given by the vice-president was that the clerks were tired. He must have been reading "This Believing World."
"See a Mudd Conspiracy" says a headline. No, it's not a Kansas road story.
ARE JURIES FALLIBLE?
To find men guilty a jury must be convinced beyond the possibility of reasonable doubt. It is conceivable therefore that the jury which acquitted Fall and Doheny merely meant to give them benefit of a reasonable doubt and not of a moral vindication.
Nevertheless, what the jury did in acquitting these men was to convict itself of a very low ethical standard. None of the salient facts against Fall and Doheny was denied. Two federal courts notoriously tender to private property in civil suits have declared the lease fraudulent.
The acquittal is a disinguisht exhibition made possible by the ethical callousness not only of this jury but of the American public to the way in which public office is prostituted for private profit. The "well, what of it?'" attitude of the American public on the scandals of the Harding administration is another proof of the way in which material standards have dehauched our national sense of honor
Will the new year bring a new pub lic spirit in favor of public honesty?
A SONG AFTER FAREWELL
O, long ago I thought I had forgot
Her beauty that was like a tree;
But every word that blew said; "You
have not."
The aid men argued that it was best. Yet, even with their armwarming, I dreamed of the young blossoms on
I tried to see, behind the leafy grape
I dreamed of the young bosswoman of her breast.
Of girls all cherries and white bloom,
But as the moon, came her unvau-
quished face.
JUNIOR COLLEGES AND HIGHER EDUCATION
by Lawrence Lee in the Century
Probably the topic of greatest educational significance discussed at the All-Kansas Alumni Council was the junior college movement. With the great increase in the number of such schools and their growing importance, not only as feeders to the University but as a means of making higher education more possible to the masses, their value is becoming apparent.
The change in our present educational system, predicted by Professor Mitchell, which would include six years in the grades, four years in the city high school and four years in the junior college, has many distinct advantages.
In the first place it would eliminate much of the repetition and wasted time and effort now so prevalent under the present system of organization. It would also lower the age of the students in secondary schools and bring us nearer the plan that has been followed for years in the European countries of France and Germany, where the problem of education has been much more closely studied than in America.
Probably the greatest contribution which the junior college has made toward educational advancement, however, is in bringing institutions of higher learning and higher education itself home to the people. It not only makes it more easy to get an education, as Doctor Lindley pointed out, but it is selling education itself to the people. When that is done, a steady progress toward universal education is assured.
This new game of talking to London is getting quite popular in New York despite the fact that it requires a $75 opener and a $2 ante with no limit.
OUR LINGUISTIC MUDDLE
An examination of the average college student's linguistic studies reveals an astounding jumble of inefficiency.
It would appear that students merely take enough language hours to fill the required groups. By that time, if they feel the urge to study languages further, as likely as not they switch to another language and pick up a smattering of it. And by the time they are graduated they have dabbled in from one to three foreign languages and know none of them even fairly well, let alone conversationally.
Educators point out that anyone of collegiate mentality can do the introductory work of a foreign language. To continue in one until proficiency is gained requires far more perseverance and considerable time as reckoned in credit hours. This efficiency, however, is displayed by only a small number of students, and they do it for the sake of their majors.
As Liberty recently pointed out in an editorial, "Learn Languages," knowledge of foreign tongues is essential for success in international commerce; and, though we may be moving toward a universal language with perhaps English its base or the tongue itself, we cannot continue to assume that our customers must speak our language rather than we theirs.
More important than commercial achievement is the need of international understanding through common knowledge of languages. The future advancement of world good-will is based on surely the friendship of common understanding as is the advancement of world prosperity. And only as persons who come into contact with foreign people and are able to converse with them in their own
GLOUCESTER, F. S. NORTHWEST, UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTER
Graduate School at 4 p. m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the Graduate office.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY RULLETIN
GRADUATE SCHOOL FACULTY MEETING
GRADUATE SCROGL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE;
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VIII  Monday, January 10, 1927  No. 86
There will be a meeting of the Society of the Graduate School at 4:30 p.m.
(m) Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the auditorium of the Administration building.
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SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB:
There will be a meeting of the Snow Zoology club at 5:30, Wednesday
Jan. 12, in room 304, snow hall,
W, H, PURT, President.
Thus far there has been only one candidate for the office of editor of the 1928 yearbook of the University of Oklahoma.
tongues, understanding their points of view, can there be greater hope for universal peace.
So if the faculties of American colleges would do one thing in the promotion of better understanding between peoples they might watch closely that students study one foreign language well rather than several foreign languages badly, and thus do away with our linguistic moulding.
University women should be warned by the report from Miami Beach of a new disease, not to specialize in the Charleston or Black Bottom dances.
PASTIME THREATENED
"Disease of the blues" is the common name for the newly developed malady. The medical appellation is "azulittis." Symptoms are small blue spots appearing on each side of a dancer's knees, and the cause has been traced by the Florida doctor to the gyrations necessary in the舞者 named.
Professional dancers appear to have been the first afflicted by the disease, and several are under treatment for the ailment. Cessation from dancing will probably be fatal to their profession, but could not do the mental harm which to a popular University student which would result from having to decline all party dates until an indefinite time in the future.
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Specialization (MICHICAN DAILY)
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Specialization is the secret which men students have long ago discovered. The experience of a strong detachment, have not yet found, according to a University of Iowa professor, could lead them from one thing to another during their college career and emerges from her experience in real-world
On the other hand, men are said to definitely prey on themselves for their life work. The fact as bruteful as we are has not yet been weaker sex has not yet learned to utilize university training to its fullest. It is at least worth thinking about. It is at least worth thinking about.
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New York University, New York City, New York has a course in Moskower art, museums, monuments, and antiquities, which has just recently been established as a regular part of the curriculum. At first the course was tried as an experiment but now it is a huge success. During the last registration more than 2000 students enrolled for the work.
Some have stranger roommates at the University of Wisconsin. A small American monkey has his aloe with karbert B. Erante in the Kipa Kappa room and has an amake share the room of Leonard Wilson in a furniture.
The student council at the University of Toledo has adopted a set of parking rules for the campus.
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The Minnesota Daily, of the University of Minnesota, runs a headline: "the World's Largest, College Newspaper."
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