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GRADUATE MAGAZINE—SPECIAL NEWS EDITION
The University of Kansas and the World's Work
CHANCELLOR LINDLEY'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS
The Graduate Magazine newspaper edition is publishing the larger part of the text of Chancellor Lindley's inaugural address of June 7. The address is well worth the attention of every friend of the University because of its striking presentation of the development of University education and the University's importance in relation to the welfare of Kansas. The University which Chancellor Lindley proposes to develop in the future will be one in intimate touch with its people.
We college men and women are children of the Greeks. Our souls are shaped, more than we dream, by the genius of Aristotle and Plato.
Hellenic culture made living a noble achievement, filled with the arts and graces which dignified life and made it beautiful; poetry, music and the knowledge of tongues. We think of the passionate aspiration for perfection, for the True, the Beautiful and the Good, for harmony of all elemen- tives in a human world, regnant, man in joyous concord with nature, a beautiful soul in a beautiful body, the individual in harmony with the state.
For two thousand years the spell of that ideal and of that achievement has largely shaped the aims and directed the activities of the scholar-Work. And rightly so. It represents impermissible human values.
A FATAL LIMITATION
And yet it carried in its heart it fatal limitation. It was an aristocratic, leisure class ideal. It conceived a rich personal life for only a few. And being so, it smote its devotees with blindness to the largest domain of reality, that of the world of the necessary work of men.
While the Greeks did not originate their genius and particularly that of Plato and Aristotle did perpetuate the most baleal duellism that has afflicted the minds of men; the separation of Thinker from Worker, of Leoism from Art, of Culture from Udell, of Art from Factory, of Ideal from Actual.
Such separations may indeed have been necessary in the evolution of primitive social groups. The struggle for life in the face of a hostile environment is exemplified by diligent leadership. And the success of this leadership led to the development of a favored social class. But it remains the ultimate law that we strength of the wolf is the pack and its strength of the pack is the wolf."
To the leisure class we owe the establishment of institutes of formal education. But these opportunities were at first for the chosen few, and were to fit youth for an aristocratic life. So $o_2$ the courses of study emphasized polite learning, and the needs of interior classes were ignored. . .
HARASSING THE WORLD
Then they revolutions.
Science with her new method of experimental inquiry revealed a vast new world of energies and harnessed them, filled men with courage to face and transform a hostile cosmos. Democracy the expression of a national identity, cognition of the worth of human personality placed political sovereignty in the hands of the common man. The invention of machinery with resulting development of factory industry, all the resources conspired to give man a new conception of the meaning of civilization.
Civilization was now seen to be an earth conch—the mastery of Nature and of Human Nature in the spirit of the arts and sciences. So work came tardily to its own—and there dawned a new humanism which proclaimed that neither war, nor worship, nae contemplation, nor the endurance of life, but the shaping of Nature thru human industry to realize human ideals. The new sibbloibet was "The Idealization of Voections." ...
Morris has set up a humanistic standard for vocations. Man's work should offer opportunity for experience, which should possess four qualifications:
Each should be self-chosen.
Each should be self-chosen.
Each should be health-giving.
Each should be source of satisfaction and happiness.
Most of the children of men choose their occupations blindly. "We send our ships to sea without a trial voyage."
The old-world tradition that the son should follow the calling of his father often breed inefficiency and a life of joyless routine. When it is estimated that three-fourths of the children of a certain place, the importance of discovery of aptitude and through right vocational guidance the youth is assisted in the wise choice of a career will add largely to production and to human happiness.
STANDARDS OF WORK
STANDARDS OF WORK
When one gives most of his daylight intention to work, he works should if possible not destroy the sources of the workers health.
The studies of occupational diseases and of industrial hygiene has led to great progress in protection of the health of the worker. Society in self-defense must see to it, that the man-power of the world must not be sacrificed to material production.
One's employment should be of such a character as to enrich rather than impoverish the personal life. The division of labor in the modern industrial plan gives little scope for enlargement of experience. It dooms men to become mere附属物 of work, and provides them with limited provision for frequent rest and leisure must be provided to compensate for the routine of work at the machine. Finally one's job should be a source of satisfaction and happiness. This comes through adjustment of task to aptitude and through training which reveals the social importance of one's contribution to the whole. "The ideal career is to do what you please, and get paid for it."
Ensitive management is, nothing less than the application of the art and sciences to problems of human industry. Chief progress of scientific management has been made in the perfecting of machine processes.
Yes—but if every man is trained who is to do the unskilled work of the world?
The bulk of the crudue work will eventually be done by machines, the unthinking man cannot compete with machines.
RECOGNIZE HUMAN EXCELLENCE
For the graduates of work requiring a small measure of intelligence, Nature has provided a vast army of men. Intelligence tests reveal that people are mentally subnormal. In some the unfellowness of intelligence stopped short in infancy. These constitute the feeble-minded. Others suffered permanent arrest of mental growth in childhood and youth. Each level of narcissism which render possible genuine service by these person in the world's program of less skilled employments. These unfortunately are doomed to be "the hewers of wood and drawers of water." They are probably numerous emulators to the simple work of the human being than using the range of vocational activity.
Certain callings had already been in part humanized, namely those which were at once the servants of the leisure class and which shared in the education provided by leisure class studies. (These include: Ministry, Medicine, Teaching, Law and Politics, Engineering, Business.)
William James declares that liberal education consists of the recognition of human excellence. It is a quest of human master strokes. "The feeling for a human job anywhere, the admiration of the really admirable—that is what we call the critical sense, the sense of ideal values." Humanism always glorifies initiative and creativity. The supreme intellectual activity of men. Plato despised labor in his day, just because it was rule of thumb, a life of routine and devoid of invention. Followers of Plato today to be loyal to their human ideals, must, however, realize that a vast amount of the creative intelligence of mankind is now engaged in industrial production and organization. This is the domain with which human values are being wrought. This is the world which must be conquered by humanistic ideals. We must recognize that new types of creative imagination have emerged. In the words of President Eliot "the scientific imagination is quite as productive for human service as the literary or poetic imagination. The imagination of Darwin or Pasteur, for example, is similar to that of Dante, or Goethe, or even Shakespeare." And they
may minister as much to mental or spiritual needs.
APPRECIATION OF LABOR
APPELLICATION OF LABOR
The colossal human masterpieces are not so accessible as those of literature and the arts and the means of teaching that are accessible. This gigantic earth-wrench will soon be reducible to a convenient manual of pedagogy. But surely every college and university graduate must acquire some sympathetic knowledge of that portion of the world which is most alive. Surely every college man and woman in our public schools should have some knowledge of the rise of free labor—a most inspiring chapter in the history of education, too, that prior to the great war, that when sixty-five per cent of those who work with their hands in this country earn less than a decent living they must see that the problem of the distribution of wealth is not a merely academic question. Moreover the achievements of great carriers of industry whose genius is lowering the cost of production increases the purchasing power among students and the work should appeal to the man who works to human culture. Captains of industry have revealed the miracle of collective power in the masses of men working in cooperation. They are prophetic of what man may accomplish through organized action in the realm of civic and social well-being. So the Fords, Schwabs, the Fels, the Filenze are paddishfriends hereby the ideals of Plato may at last be fulfilled. At the wars the arts will be reserved not for amusement of the few, but woven into the daily lives of the many.
The educated man and women should welcome the great moves for vocational education. But they should see to it that the spirit of the arts and sciences shall be encouraged through and through. They should maintain that those who seek to learn will be taught by President W. F. Bryan has called
THE FINDING OF TRUTH
Finally as to research in the Universities: In the light of the larger conception of social utility all truth sought be useful. There are a few instances where it is probably a myth, generated by cloistered men who lack courage to face reality, who live as parasites on an industrial order which they sometimes despise." It is certainly a mistake to suppose that science in its larger and more speculative aspects is best advanced when laboratory work and original research are carried out. The vast majority and in utter aloofness from practical affairs. The whole history of scientific progress points in an opposite direction, and goes to show that the largest accession of knowledge and a true scientific philosophy are
likely to come from a university that is enmeshed in an industrial order and whose atmosphere is afama with a passion for social progress. On the other hand research in the field of science has grown in commerce and industry. Leaders in industry have found that few great inventions or epoch making discoveries are nowadays made in the work-shop. Such possibilities seem to be largely exhausted. The chief advances are to be sought thru the discovery of new principles. These principles are to be found only by research in the fundamental sciences of physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, psychology et cetera. The tungsten lamp, for instance, was produced in the laboratory and science. Industrial establishments in consequence are today spending more than are the Universities in investigation in pure science.
The Universities are as yet the only training schools for the vast number of men needed to prosecute research in industry. Provision for research and teaching of fundamental sciences is therefore absolutely indispensable to the normal development of modern Industry. So the College of Liberal Arts is designed to retain its proud position as a centre of education, the life and work of the University.
RESEARCH AT K. U.
To this conception of the new humanism the University of Kansas has not been recruit. The great frontier is the zone in which modern science and the arts meet the work of the world. Peaceful penetration and transformation of every nook and cranny of the twilight hinterland work and play by illumination of Knowledge is the task of the University.
The University of Kansas has already occupied a portion of this frontier. It has rendered pioneer engineers well-respected in industrial engineering no less than in investigations in the fields of community life and activity, such as education, public health and sanitation, recreation, charities and social services.
This service has been accomplished not only through research and the dissemination of knowledge but chiefly through the humanistic training of our students in vocations. The University may well be proud of the distinguished roll of its sons and daughters who have carried the curricula finoitee the active life of the university and who have made mighty contributions to the idealization of vocations.
But the frontier shifts and undergoes vast extension in our day. This should determine the program of the University for the coming years. Commerce, evolved from primitive sciences, is now a discipline. Training for a business career, involving accounting, finance, business administration, salesmanship, advertising levies tribute not only on all the arts and sciences which underly the production and transportation of commodities, but also the mental and social sciences which influence business activities and the application of legitimate human wants.
PROVISION FOR WOMEN
The University aspires to train the young men of Kansas for leadership in the commerce of Kansas. This great commonwealth seems at odds with the needs of great industrial development. The rapid substitution of electric power for
steam and the growth of cities renders less difficult the establishment of industry in response to local need and a nearby market. The geological survey, the survey in industrial settings, has revealed the resources and amazing industrial possibilities of this great state. By providing a better market the swift but sound development of manufacturing will redound to success, which will long continue to be one of the chief concerns of Kansas.
Home-making will always be the chief vocation of the women of Kansas. No field of human activity has more to gain from the arts and sciences than has the modern home. The University seeks to provide for everyone of its women students opportunity for intensive training in this important field. The State of Kansas owe it to the future of its women students, an early date on this campus material equipment to serve fifteen hundred young women who are enrolled at this University.
Training for citizenship is one of the great obligations of the University which becomes increasingly important with the growing complexity of government. This training is to be attained partially by an intelligent study of the functions of government and partly through the labor practice. The University points with pride in preparing our ousent student organizations which have successfully assumed many tasks of self government. These young people pass into the active life of the state with theoretical and practical experience which should be most valuable in their respective communities. The University seeks to provide richly the opportunities for the study of government and to train men for careers in this field. The recent appointment to our staff requires a large experience as well as port in main duties who will be at the service of our students and of the cities of the state, indicate the desire of the University to meet the requirements in this field.
JOURNALISM AN OBLIGATION
Modern democracies are governed largely by public opinion. The modern newspaper is the chief organ of public opinion. An enlightened public press is indispensable to free government. The University takes very seriously its obligation to train students and help the spirit of the free arts and sciences.
Thanks to the acceptance by the state of the larger program for medicine and public health, the Medical School is on the threshold of accomplishments worthy of a rich commonswalth.
The University accepts the obligation to organize in cooperation with other institutions of the state all the agencies for Child Welfare. The University provides an adequate survey of needs and of resources may be achieved which will release adequate funds to insure improvement in child rearing and child life and thus will insure to children that chance to be well-born and well-reared.
The supreme task of civilization is education. Public education shapes the lives of plastic children and youth more hours in the day, more days in the year and more years in the life-time than any other public institution in the history of mankind.
The University is designated as the head of the system of public education in the state. It feels its organic unity with all other parts of the system; with the State Agricultural College, the Normal Schools and the public schools, both city and rural.
The special function of the University in public education is not only to train men and women for administration of schools and others to teach in the secondary schools. Its duty is also to undertake researches in the fields above mentioned. Without invading the territory explicitly reserved for other institutions of the State, the School of Education of the University has a search center and a clearing house for Knowledge which will keep public education in Kansas abreast of the times. Such are a few of the fields of contemplated contact of the University with the work of the world.
associated therewith two to five times as much as she spends for education.
PROFITABLE LEISURE
The most tragic waste among civilized men is not however the waste due to inefficient work, but the waste due to poor preservation. An ancestry America does not know how to play. The arts of enjoyment and appreciation lag far behind the arts of production. The pursuit of pleasure however, consumes vast sums of money. Kansas, thriffy Kansas, it is estimated spends for recreation and the simple pleasures
Public education should train for the constructive use and enjoyment of leisure. In these fields the public schools have made great advances. The curriculum is the systematic teaching of plays and games, the development of athletics, the intelligent provision for the recreation of the whole community through out-door sports, games, games, and activities are encouraging signs of the times.
The University should educate men for the higher use of leisure. Its program of physical education should provide for every student the means of sound and balanced physical activity. A sound body is the only guaranteed benefit. Then the study and practice of arts, of literature, of music and painting, sculpture open the great universe of appreciation. The mind enriched by contact with great masterpieces in the realms of artistic achievement, a spirit trained to live life as an artist, and an empty hour of experience and thus recreation is transformed from a blind groping for pleasure which represents a retreat from the day's work, to an enthancement correcting the deformities, included by specialized employment, and best of all, mar- keting, teaching, and refreshing the soul for new and more masterful contact with reality.
CULTURE SERVING UTILITY
WORE SEEING IT CALLS
The University of Kansas is the awakening awareness of the people to the self-government of their leisure under the leadership of artists, not merchants of art. The Woodward Collection and the great William B. Thayer Collection, a portion of which is now on exhibition are proxies to the possibilities of the arts in life of the people of Kansas.
A liberal education gives domin over work and over leisure. It lifts its task of life from the level of a trade to the level of an art, and indeed from the level of an art to the level of a religion, where abide the eternal values.
The conquest of the University will not be complete until every worker shall be a thinker; every worker shall enjoy a constructive leisure; culture shall to the limit serve utility; art shall permeate industry; ideals cannot indeed be realized until reals are idealized.
Stadium Work Pushed;
10,000 Seats Ready Oct. 29
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also presented in connection with the Harrington plans, an estimate of the building necessary to supply the facilities lacking in the Harrington plan. The cost of the complete shelter which be said would be necessary under the latter plan. Mr Williams pointed out the cost of providing the lacking facilities in the Harrington plan.
Chancellor Lindley read a letter from Mr. Harrington in which he criticized some features of the WIlliamson design submitted to the tentative design submitted.
Mr. Mann, who had attended all conferences and worked with Mr. Harrington as a member of the reviewing board, summarized his own opinion as to the relative merits of the stadium plan as designed by the visibility of adopting the Stadium plan as designed by Mr. Williams. As a result to the discussion a series of motions were made and passed. On motion of Mr. Mann, it was stated to be the consensus of opinion that a shelter for spectators was a necessary adjunct to a Stadium and should be considered in comparing costs.
On motion of Mr. Delano, it was stated to be the consensus of opinion that adequate space for dressing, team and locker rooms as well as indoor games, and outdoor games, should be provided and the same included in comparing costs.
It was moved by Mr. Williams and Mr. Corteloy that it is the consensus of opinion that either type of construction underg consideration could be made structurally sound if proper conditions were taken in construction.
Finally on motion of Mr. Delano, and seconded by Mr. Mann, it was voted that the plans as submitted by Mr. Williams and in the form on which bills were received be considered as the Stadium plan.
The action of the Executive Committee in letting the partial contract followed the report of the conference and was by unanimous vote.
Rochelle R. Thomas, *fis.* 19-20, in studying in the Kansas City School of Law in 1947. K. Stone of the U. S. Circuit Court in Kansas City. He lived at 2017 E 57th