PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SUNDAY, SEPT. 26, 1926 University Daily Kansar Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, VANCOUVER Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief Alice Van Smeeen Associate Editor Gladys Flinn Associate Editor John Jeffrey Sunday Editor Lawrence Abley Sport Editor Edward Kwain STAEDMUNDE David Eckerton Frank Tiffany Rosemary Leigh Joe McMullen C. H. Irene Mike Morphy Paul Porter Linda Reporter Rosemary Leigh Erik Murrumba Nate this Tavis John Sparks Business Staff Advertising Manager... Wm. Edel Nywersum Anti. Advertising Marr. ... Creature I. Mandel J. Anti. Advertising Marr. ... Rush Haily J. Foreign Ad. Marr. ... Monde C. Moura Business Office K. U. News Room K. U. Pollished in the afternoon, five time-week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois. The Press of the District month of Journalism. Entered as seconddead mail matter. May september 17, 1910, at the post office at Law rence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1928. SUNDAY, SEPT. 26, 1920 ECONOMY? Criticisms are often directed at young people for failure to wear enough clothing during the winter. Students are willing to take the responsibility for failure to wear enough for comfort when they are going to and from school, but they are not expecting that it should be necessary to carry along extra blankets to wrap around them in classrooms with the temperature the same as that outside. It is suggested that instead of comparing the relative cost per day of heating the buildings during a short chilly snap and that of heating them day after day to determine whether or not it be worth while to run steam through the pipes, the cost per day be balanced with the value of the time and the other costs of running the University. If the heating costs over balance the other total the best thing is to dismiss classes until the weather becomes warmer. On Saturday morning it was not covered that some of the pipes were buried. But if the buildings had been heated on Friday, the damage would have been discovered then and at any rate one day would have been so that, as things were, was a dead loss for the benefits shivering students received overbalanced by the losses which will be caused by colds start in the frigid classrooms. And students who use the buildings on Saturday for study and laboratory course have removed their overcurrents 'and probably accomplished more than they did. In addition they would have felt much more secure from colds. "An Elevator Lifts the Fish"—head line. Most students won't object to being classified as "poor fish" if they were assured of the same service in Hill skyscrapers. WHERE SCHOOL SPIRIT IS BORN Next Thursday at the stadium will be held the annual initiation service for all new students of this school. This ceremony, though begin but two years ago, has come to fill a place in the life of the University of Kansas that was heretofore empty. Students who have taken part in it remember the emotion with which they repeated the sword words of the oath of allegiance. The history and the meaning behind those few acts make them significant and effective. Ever since mankind associated in groups he is thought to have a ceremony of initiation. The most primitive tribes seem to have had a ceremony whereby they made their young men full fledged warriors, carrying upon their shoulders the responsibility of the tribe, and in their hearts a depth of feeling and of loyalty. Our own ceremony has come in the last few years to replace the physical infliction which was once the means of instilling this spirit. Certainly it is more effective. The chancellor himself conducts the initiation and the whole faculty as well as the student body partake. It is in truth the birthplace of the spirit that carries the name of the University out into the world, whether in athletic contest, or scholastic attainment, or general accomplishment. "The big grape crop will make fine visiting this winter in the Oarles." Missouri Note. Well, Burbank may have been a plant wizard, but visiting graces are something new on us. IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR FATHER Dear to us above all else in this world are our own preconceived ideas, opinions, and modes of thought. Change we may in all the external show of life but these remain the same, Education, liberal or otherwise, has no effect. As we grow up we absorb from those about us the ideas that are prevalent. These are never modified. Rather do we bolster and strengthen our own weakness so that we may exist in a "fool's palrise" of moth-entered preconceptions. If this mass of second-hand moral merit were based on honest reasoning or on the product of personal experience, there would not be the blind devotion to false doctrine as applied to religion, life, and the family. But because others have accepted them for ages we feel that we also must. Originality in thought is frowned upon by the majority—we would rather be bound to misapprehensions than admit that we are in the wrong. So we all, some more than others outside of a few striking exceptions blindly on. Flimley and unsweet as they are, our ideas and opinions must remain as proof of our slavish devotion to suggestion, our uniform habits of reasoning. On the surface we may wear the latest style but our minds are viled in fashions of a most age. All that is lacking this weather is Santa Clause. AN INDICTMENT Instructors, otherwise perfect, are addicted to a practice that is rapidly spreading—that of having papers read or corrected by outsiders. A convenient plan for the teacher, bit is it fair to the student concerned? In large classes, where it is difficult for papers to be graded by the professors, students are willing that a certain amount of the work be delegated to others. Quizzes, such as the "true-false" type, come under this head. But the regular discussion examination, the term report, the notebook, or the bit of original work should, in all fairness, be reviewed by the one who conducts the class. Pursue the instructor in bury or be engaged in a difficult piece of research work, or he may even be bored by the endless pile of papers that accumulate. He doesn't like to indicate mistakes or show how improvement might be made; in fact, he would rather have the student struggle along without assistance, believing that it is ailing in his development. But is it? On the contrary, the student who finds that his instructor, who was so particular in making assignments, pays them no further attention when they are filled, is going to lose faith in that instructor. More than that, he loses all incentive to work. For what is the use of spending hours of study and preparation for a quiz or a paper that is never read except by one paid by the instructor to do so? A feeling of antinomium or even active dislike often arises on the part of the student. This may lead to carolless, albedo methods It may even lead a student to abandon a long-cherished major simply because instructors do not exhibit an interest in the individual's work. The student is reasonable, he is willing to overlook an occasional lape of this sort by a busy instructor. But he does want his work to be considered. Surely he is entitled to that much. Harry Stewart, A. B. 20, is an instructor in accounting at the Kansas State Agricultural College. He will complete the required work for the Master of Arts degree from the University of Kansas later. Agnes Smith, A. B. '26, is now working as an organization expert on "The Woman Citizen" in Plainfield, publicist similar to "The Nation." Javhawks_Flown Vernon O. Johns, A. B. 23, is instructor in the School of Business Administration at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blackstone, Va. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas sometime this year. Judson Rudd, M. A. '28, is instruc t in business administration at Austin College, Sherman, Texas. There will be a meeting of the Department of English Monday, Sept. 7, at 4:30 p. m., in Fraser hall, room 205. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. The book exchange will be open Monday and Tuesday afternoons, sept. 27 and 28. Hours 2 to 4. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN oh. VIII Sunday, September 25, 1926 No. 13 HALIFAX W. S. JOHNSON, Chairman of English department. OLIVE FIGGS, Manager. All Student Volunteers are requested to meet at the First Methodist church at 4:30 Sunday afternoon. STUDENT VOLUNTEER GROUP: ORVILLE WALTERS, Union President. Plain Tales From the Hii! Drama: "Tweet what is a sound?" mother for a girl I met in summer school." Dumbers: "Well, you see that girl over there with long skirts, no rouge and a lot of books. She isn't a coed, she's just a student." "I hear you took in the open houses last night, what luck did you have?" "Not much, I mistook the house Isn't it about time some necessary upperclassman tried to collect the freshman initiation dues? * Proof: "What reasons can you offer for being absent yesterday, Brown?" Brown: "Any you want, sir, what are your pet aversion?" Fresh: "What does this W. S. G. A. stand for?" Soph: "Women see great athletics." Aurora Borealis A part felt whose facing of many hues diffuses happy lights upon the countenance of the wearer. Original Hyland model. 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