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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921
REAL STUDENT CONTROL
Chancellor Lindley, in outlining his ideas on University social life to a group of 116 representatives of men Wednesday night, expressed a great confidence in present general conditions when he told them that in the very near future, he was going to do all he could to put practically complete control of student activities in the hands of the groups themselves.
The eager response of the men to Chancellor Lindley's suggestions during the evening showed their confidence in his assertions of belief, their great willingness to co-operate in the things which will tend toward making the University better, and their ability to "see a greater light." He heard the petition of the Associated Women of the University, protesting against the improper forms of dancing practiced to some extent here, and "followed through" by adopting a similar petition to the Chancellor, but embodying also resolutions against other improper practices, including improper music, and smoking in University entrances and buildings.
LIKE THE BULLDOC
Righteous indignation is said to be a more or less frequent state of mind with most "red-blooded, virile" persons.
More deliberate people sometimes have characterized this "righteous indignation" as "flying off the handle."
At any rate, the loss of temper is sometimes a good thing even as all things essentially human are essentially good. Some faculty members, in the course of a fifty-minute recitation, are able to stir up the hottest of rows, but few, either faculty or students, are so foolish as to keep their anger hot across the ten-minute intermission between classes.
The fellow who thinks things over, after he gets angry, then forgets his pride, and discovers a good joke in the fact that the price of beefsteak will prevent proper attention to his black eye, is a pretty good sort of a felloy, and if he forges his wrath hot after troubles are settled, he's a pretty decent sort of a fellow to tie to.
A bulldog never is popular for his disposition, anyhow.
NEW TRADITIONS
The penalty of breaking a law, or violating a regulation, is an uncertain proposition, even when the culprit is apprehended—which is another uncertain thing. The results of violating a custom, however, are swift and sure. If it is a good custom, the penalty of social disapproval is effectual in its enforcement. If it is a bad custom, the results of its violation are weighed well before
action is taken.
University society just now is in a process of awakening and readjustment, along with the other things that pertain to the University. Several more or less infrequent practices are being looked upon now as unwholesome, and bad. The students are looking for something to take the place of these heedless customs.
Those wholesome things are coming more prominently to the front in the University life every day. Student activities, in which the individual works for the good of the group, the Million Dollar Drive, general support of athletics, and many other activities tend toward building up greater traditions for the University.
STUDENTS AND FORD OWNERS
The average red-blooded American who owns a tin liver for any length of time gradually comes to be somewhat of an automobile doctor, whether he wishes it or not. Probably few drivers who have stayed in the flipper class for two years or more would fail to pass a fairly difficult quiz on the fundamentals of the engine and chassis construction of a Ford motor car. Through necessity, often against their will, they have come to learn the essential working parts of "Lizzle." A quiz given the owner of a Ford car of considerable age might well be compared to the average final quiz that a K. U. student takes at the end of a semester. For example, the questions in both would be confine almost exclusively to the funda mentales, the important things, about the subject.
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The Ford owner, on the one hand, would know his fundamentals, not through pre-arranged study, but through actual experience forced upon him unexpectedly, and often disregrettably. The student, on the other hand, would presumably know his fundamentals through pre-arranged and purposeful study, which was, however, optional with him, and not practically compulsory, as with the Ford owner.
it is probably a safe bet that mess Ford owners would flunk on their quiz than the students would on theirs. And why? The answer is almost self-evident. The student, though purporting to study when he enrolls in the course, sometimes fails to live up to his original resolve, and his failure in that respect shows up in the final quiz. That is one reason for the existence of final quizzes.
EVERY AFTERNOON
It would be interesting to compare notes on the prevalence of cutting in 8:30 classes and 1:30 classes. The first hour might show the greatest number of absences, but if intention instituted the crime, the after-lunch classes would be by far the more depopulated. The mind awaking from slumber is harder to force into the notion of going up the hill than the mind just about to sink into a slumbrous condition.
And with 2:30% the same condition, if not a worse one, exists. Keeping an eye on the clock and another on one's work when both are apt to close at any moment, is a difficult achievement to say the least. And when the time comes to ascend the hill the student, if still in a conscious condition, presents the lowest rate of miles per hour shown by any creature or motive thing about the University or the universe as he drags himself to class. His innermost consciousness may tell him that the instructor is about to call the roll, but his feet refuse to shuffle into more rapidity.
The lessons recited in an afternoon usually show the result of letting the preparation go to the last moment. The instructor may become wrathy, but usually he too comes under the influence of the lotus flower that blossoms only in the afternoon. For both student and instructor it is usually the last class of the day and many are the fervent wishes from both sides of the professional desk for the liberating note of the whistle.
One can scarcely imagine men of acumen and learning as having acquired their Ph. D.'s by process of the afternoon class". The imagination places them by preference in a library digging busily while other students nap in their rooms. But sitting in a classroom, alert and attentive, storing up in their minds the substance that will make them in future eminent authorities and givers of law.
For the drug of the afternoon lass is deadlier than opium, and its atmosphere is dulter than that of n alway waiting room.
ALL IN EIGHT YEARS
"Only 55 days more!" exclaims George Harvey with an easily imagined sigh of relief in the last number of his weekly. Readers have watched Colonel Harvey count the days till March 4 since some time before election, and many have agreed with him that the nation would not be in safe hands till Woodrow Wilson nuts the White House.
Mr. Harding's six million majority was said to be a crushing blow for Mr. Wilson. Yet Mr. Wilson seldom during the past eight years merited the charge of being a party man. For many months he had the combined support of all America, and the Sixty-Fifth congress, though half Republican, followed his policies with few audible voices of dissent.
Then came Mr. Wilson's inauspicious pitched battle with European diplomacy on the battleground of Versailles, and the more bitter, less successful conflict with the Senate on his return.
Whether or not the year will be kind to Mr. Wilson depends on the fate of the League of Nations, the very name of which to the average newspaper reader connotes Woodrow Wilson. Just now the President's prestige is under a cloud the cause for which deeper than a political reverse. Yet at one time the very principles which brought about his virtual downfall at one time united partisanship and made him American's man of the hour.
Wilson's ear was keenly attuned to the pitch of the public voice when he gave the Fourteen Points to the world. Though a trifle idealistic, the American people accepted them eagerly as a credo, for two years of war had roused ideals which did not balk even at accepting freedom of the seas as a possibility. Yet even these, America's talking points at the Peace Conference, failed to go intact through the devious diplomatic lajinhybrts they encountered there Practically half the points have been discredited, now together with their maker.
However, the influence of Woodrow Wilson on America's future will not perish with his departure from the White House. With America in a league of Nations, even Mr. Harding's "association," the strivings and aims of Mr. Wilson will again be taken seriously by the non-Demo cratic portion of the country. His state papers will remain the classics they were hailed when fresh from the White House.
On Other Hills
The years will probably be kind to America's chief. They can scarcely be expected to discredit him more. Though never again, under any conditions, will he gain the pedestal he held during the clamorous days of war, he may well be expected to take his seat among the wise men of the nation, the elders who advise the young and active. His actions in future cannot be considered by even the most cynical other than coming from conviction, but he cannot again be acclaimed by the people as he was three years ago.
Furor recently was raised at Leland Stanford when a woman student stated in the University paper that crashhooting and cigarette smoking were rampant among the fair students. Charges, denials, and counter charges are flooding the faculty and the office of the university publication.
Washington university students have started official action to kill the nickname of "Pikers" by which they have been known for several years. The student council, following recommendation of the alumni and athletic officials, have started a name contest from which the most appropri-
One freshman at the University of Texas has an unusual way of making his way through school. He has installed on a small lot adjacent to the university campus, a confectionery car. This is painted in orange and white, colors of the university, and is known as a "catering car." It is for the serving of hamburgers, popcorn, peanuts, candy and other "cats" in demand by hungry students. This student entered the university as a freshman this fall.
f ate name will be selected.
It has been proposed in the State Legislature of Missouri that the State School of Agriculture be removed from M. U., at Columbia, to Marysville and that the facilities for the study of agriculture and dairying are better.
The worst paper corrected misspelled 23 out of 50 words. Professor Scott of the English department has prepared a list of words most frequently misspelled by the 150 who failed. They were cases out of 150; exchallenge; 111, vilin; 87, mischievous; 81; embarrass 54; and rheumatism, 54.
Out of 450 freshmen at the University of Illinois who took the spelling examination, 150 failed to pass with a grade of 90.
A student cannot receive a degree from the University of Illinois until he has successfully passed the spelling
Dartmouth University has a large boxing class. About 70 men are reporting regularly every afternoon for practice. Preparations are being made for two boxing tournaments this winter.
tests with a grade of 90.
The Engineers of the University of Arkansas will begin publishing soon a 12-page monthly magazine devoted to the interests of the College of Engineering.
The latest thing in the line of fraternity initials took place a short time ago at the University of Ohio, when open air singing of the highest type was carried out. Eight students were perched upon the highest limbs of the tallest trees from 7 p. m. until late into the night, each singing a different tune. The bedlam continued for several hours until a nearby resident who was unable to get to sleep, the police department. The officer's fevers were futile for a long time, and it was not until they finally threatened to call the fire department and turn the hose on them, that the nephrotes could be coaxed from their perilous roosts and the party dispersed.
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