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F. T. LYLIE [173] THE 'UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926
University Daily Kansai
Official-Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAR Lawrence, Kansas
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926
OUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Students of the University are to have a Christmas present just before they leave for the holidays. The state printer is the Santa Claus this time. He promises to have the student directory here for distribution next week. Presumably the idea is that it will be handy while students are at home. At least it will make a good souvenir of the last semester, because it will be in perfect condition.
The fault of this delay in getting the student directory does not lie with local officials. George Foster, registrar, who had charge of compiling the directory, sent the copy to the state printer October 15. It has required two months to set the type and print 5,000 small booklets.
Mr. Foster says that the book will be more accurate this year because more care was used in checking names. It would have been better, however, to have had a little less accuracy and have the use of the directory for the first semester. The registrar's office force could more easily have answered the few inquiries about incorrect addresses than the many that have poured in when no directory was available.
It would be well for the administration to consider some plan of having the directory printed by the Journal Press next year. A little competition is a good thing, even for state printers.
THE THIRD SEX
The human race is growing more pronounced tri-sexual; men, women, and school teachers. And, in the words of the eminent American, C. W. Post, "There's a reason."
The school-teaching profession, which once merited a good measure of dignity and respectability, has in the past few decades been a refuge of the hackenheads, and a destroyer of intellectual integrity. When it happens—as it frequently does—that a person with mental and moral courage enters the profession, he is soon bounded into submission, or driven out to a position where there is less hostility toward ideas.
The teacher in the elementary and high schools has almost no intellectual freedom. He must let his mind be moulded by the appalling mediocrity of the masses. The Average Man—so much vaunted by democracies—has a chronic phobic for ideas which conflict with the status quo. The school teacher's salary comes from the masses, therefore, he is their slave.
If a teacher dares to disgree with the socially dominant class, he is stigmatized a heretic, holiehvik, or nut; and if his non-conformity goes so far that he doesn't believe that Mr. Coidieau is a great statesman, that the constitution of the United States is perilous political document, and that jazz and robed hose are immoral—if, to repeat, his non-conformity is carried to such an extreme, he is forbidden canned. The only alternative is hypocrisy, and, rather than be a jobless outcast, teachers almost inevitably develop a dual personality in defense. It is more painful to
be hungry than two-faced.
The system of reducing teachers to spineless lumps of protoplasm is not confined to elementary schools; it operates in colleges and universities, only in most cases, in less stifling extreme. Many instances are recorded of professors losing their positions for failing to be hypocrites and martyldoodles of the administration.
A few months ago, a professor in an eastern university was asked to resign, his offense being that he contributed a poem to the New Masses, a magazine which is non-platonicate, pre-labor, and "radical," so to speak. In a mid-western state university last year, an instructor got into trouble because of an article published in no less a magazine than the New Republic. The objection to the article seemed to be that it deviated from cut-and-dried text-book facts. Other ones of this sort are countless.
As long as originality and intellect tunihe honest are the enduidal sins of the teaching profession, it is folly to expect education to be the splendid thing it could be. Not until teacher are emancipated can we expect the schools to be a powerful factor if freeing humanity from bigamy and intolerance, and in making the work safe for an honest man.
Almee will not drop into oblivion so long as Kenneth Ormiston can prevent it.
DISCARDING THE VEIL.
Declaring that the wearing of the veil is imposed by custom rather than religion, a thousand representatives of Moslem women of South India adopted a resolution to discard the traditional face covering.
It has been but a long time since Turkish women took a similar action, which marked the beginning of the "women's rights" movement in that country. Orthodox religious parties have been greatly stirred by the action, but the Moslema women have challenged them to produce from the text of the Koran anything requiring the wearing of a veil.
It is a good thing for the women of my country to break away from useless and oppressing custom, whether t he one of wearing a veil or long air. Custom is a steadying force in human progress, but at the same time t is an oppressing one, and the sooner hone customs based on superstition, religious or otherwise, are discarded, he more rapidly the race will approach the state of Utopian dreams.
AN APPRECIATION
The eleven students who were recently elected to receive fall scholarships have, by fulfilling the requirements, performed a noteworthy service to the University. In face of the unavoidable criticism so often directed at college students, it is refreshing to have such students brought to the attention of the public and fittingly rewarded.
First, to satisfy the committee, the scholarship recipients must have made a consistently high record in their University work. In other words, they must have worked earnestly, and put intellectual things first. Then, moreover, they must have come up to a high standard of personality and character, and proved themselves deserving.
To a woman Negro student especial commendation is due. Regrettably, but none the less truly, the Negro student inbors under social discrimination and at psychological disadvantage. Inasmuch as she forged ahead, in spite of her social handicaps, to recognition in the front rank her attainment is doubly significant. These eleven have brought credit to the University.
Shades of John Brown! Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, Kansas authors, says his anti-slavery ideas must have been distorted just because the poor man was cursed with seven children by his first wife and thirteen by his second.
"Congress Will Do Little"—headline. Such a change from their former practice may prove a fatal blow to some of the veterans.
The annual Christmas convention will be held Monday, Dec. 13, at 10 o'clock. Mr. William Allen White will speak, E. H. LINDLEY
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB:
All members of the Snow Zoology club are requested to be present at Squires studio Saturday, Dec. 11, at 1:30, for the club picture. Please be there on time.
W. H. BURT, President.
ATL UNIVERSITY CONSTITUTION.
Vol. VIII Friday, December 10, 1926 No. 74
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ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION:
The Phi Lambda SIGMA picture will be taken at Saint John Saturday, Dec.
11, at 10:30 a.m. **VIGINIA AERMTHRONG, Secretary**
BAPTIST STUDENT GROUP:
Prof. F. E. Melvin, of the determined history, will speak to the combined student group Sunday morning at 3:45 at the First Baptist church. His subject will be "Contemporary Trends Affecting Christianity." All interested students are invited. CHAGLES W. THOMAS.
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF GRADUATE SCHOOL:
There will be a meeting of the administrative committee of the Graduate School on Saturday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m., in the Graduate office, 201 central Ames Building.
Pi Laplace Theta picture will be taken at Squire Sunday, Dec. 12, at
9:45 a. m.
TWILA SHDEMAKER, Secretary.
PI_LAMBDA_THETA:
Students whose prime purpose is coming to college is the acquisition of knowledge will be robbed of the learning experience they bring their way. What if Measure all defeat Kaman? We have failed to realize just how unimportant the long run is the side-stepping an instructor through a broken field in a touchdown.
Campus Opinion
The Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Psi Kappa will meet in 2023 central Administration building on Monday afternoon, Dec. 15, from 4 to 5:30. A social half hour will be followed by the invitation of the candidates recently selected and by an address, "The Country of Kansas," by Lynn VITA, VTEA Secretary.
PHI BETA KAPPA:
Editor Daily Kansan:
The demand from students, alumni, and would-be friends of the University has made it necessary for the department of physical education to begin roping in prospective college athletes. Through the medium of "all RK" men, past and present, efforts are now being made to corral the high school football captains and other outstunting athletes, and to reveal to them the dangers of their way in easy fashion through the University.
With as high ideals as any athletic department in the country, ours has been driven by actual threats to take a backward step. For a long time, it was the humiliation "humana" that the germ was too contagious. A little super in college life is a fine thing, but now we have acquired the college diabetes. Though far from fatal, it is bound to hamper our ability in its acquisition of knowledge.
The athletic department should be commended for the length of time it has turned a deaf ear to the cry, "Go out and bring in the athletes as others done." It was a crush on athletic purposes and purposeful athletic cry. The eyebrow was unsteamed at first, but its effect was inevitable. So severely was it felt, that the athletic department has at last been forced to place built in the mouths of the high school students who seek attainment and ability more than intellectual development.
institution dedicated to the improvement of human life through the acquisition of knowledge, whose central purpose is an intellectual ope." Now we want and "except when intellect is sacrificed" tackled for athletic purposes." - R. M.
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