THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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TUESDAY, FEB. 15, 1910.
Millionaire Crane of Chicago, than whom there is not a more persistent foe to education in the universe, has again tried to show the folly and impracticability of scientific training. The Chicoagoan has prepared what he considers a knock-out blow to all the arguments for education. The knockout is in the form of a question and is as follows, "If education is practical and useful, why is it that teachers will train men to be able to command salaries of $5,000 to $10,000 a year, while the teacher himself gets only about $2,500? How can a $2,500 man train a $10,000 man and why does not the $2,500 teacher go out into the world and get the $10,000 position that he prepare others to take?"
To a man like Mr. Crane this argument is unanswerable. Fortunately most of the people in the world have a different mental make-up and look upon the world from a different viewpoint. Mr. Crane can not conceive of any other goal for human aspiration except the accumulation of wealth. The positive benefitting of mankind does not seemingly enter his mind and he can not conceive of a man giving his life up largely to service. The university professor serves man more than does any other class of people. His emoluments are generally not large in comparison with his talents and his powers, but the fact that he is able to do good in the world is compensation in itself.
There are many teachers at the University who could go out into the world and make largely increased salaries. For instance there are several men in the engineering School who could earn $10,000 a year following their professions out in the world. There is one teacher in the University who can command a salary of $15,000 yearly. Mr. Crane is wrong when he thinks that University professors are impractical and unable to succeed in the workaday world. They know there is something else in life besides money-making. Mr. Crane has yet to learn that fact.
The two victories over Missouri at basket-ball removed a lit.
the bit of the sting of foot-ball defeat. Two victories over the Tigers on their own court will go a long ways toward making the student body forget.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Dr. Percival Lowell will give an illustrated lecture on "Mars" in the hapel this evening. He will speak in chapel tomorrow morning.
Dr. Paul Shorey will speak at 4:30 in the chapel every day this week.
Miss Katherine Oliver will read "Dr. Luke of the Labrador" in the chapel Thursday evening.
The students of the department of voice and of expression will give a recital at the down-town studio Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Baseball Men to Report.
All men who wish to try for battery positions on the Varsity baseball team will please report to Coach Ebright at once. The following men are especially asked to be at the gymnasium Wednes day at 3:30: Hostettler, Doyle, McMullen, Van der Vries, Abrens, Rodgers, Johnson, Huff, Heizer, Farrell, Sevin, and Rockefeller.
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We are going to close out all of our late Books at a sacrifice. Goose Girl, Half a Chance, Bobby Burnit, Truxton King,and many others. This is the time to buy late books at the right price.
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Magazine Writer Tells Merits of the New York School.
ADVANTAGES OF COLUMBIA.
The last of the series of articles on great American Universities in the Independent magazine, which have been written by Edwin E. Slosson, is about Columbia, appearing in the issue of February 3. Fourteen great universities have been described, impartially, critically and fairly. The author visited each university and obtained the facts about which he has written, at first hand. Now that the series is completed it would be hard to say which one impressed Mr. Slosson the least, or the most, favorably, or whether he thought any one better or worse than the rest.
From Mr. Slosson's account, Columbia impresses the reader as being almost ideally developed. He says "So the visitor, forming his opinion after the manner of his kind, from casual first impressions, comes to the conclusion that at Columbia University all the three elements of man's nature are recognized as essential but intellectual culture is in the foreground, religious culture at the side, and physical culture in the background. In this he would not be so far out of the way as those who judge by superficialities are apt to be."
Mr. Slosson considers that a university situated in a large city possesses advantages which can not be attained or equaled by one situated in a town or small city. To prove his point he cites German and French universities and says that London University, as young as it is, seems likely to surpass Oxford in a short time. He thinks that the city university is better supplied with tributary see ondary and preparatory schools and that it has a better chance at catching "the crumbs which fall from the rich man's table," than has the university in a small town The more highly specialized the work of the university and the more closely it is associated with the work of the world, the more necessary are the urban facilities, and these Columbia possesses to a high degree. Columbia has made itself a part of New York City, as Wisconsin has merged itself in the state, while Chicago has sequestered itself, a cloister, as distinct from the city, and seemingly as afraid of it as it can well be.
The graduate school at Columbia is by far the largest in the country. It has approximately twice as many graduate students, and half as many undergraduates Harvard. Johns Hopkins is the only university besides Columbia where the graduates outnumber the undergraduates, and
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Johns Hopkins has hardly more than a tenth as many students as has Columbia.
Undergraduate instruction for women is provided in Barnard College, which is a quasi-independent organization, ostensibly on an equality with Columbia College, the same standards of admission and graduation being required and many of the professors dividing their time between the two universities.
In conclusion, Mr. Slosson says that Columbia is destined to take the place among universities that New York has among cities, that is if it continues to progress as it has in recent years.
HE IS HERE AGAIN.
Smooth Tongued Brush Agent Grafting Among Students.
A. K. Harper, the traveling representative of the Harper Brush Works of Fairfield, Ia., is at the University again this spring to induce students to take up with his "get rich quick" scheme. Last year he was here and succeeded in "roping in" about forty young men from the University who for the most part spent the summer disadvantageously.
Every spring the University is "flooded" with this kind of sales men who work most effectively among the students who want to earn their way through college. The University authorities have recognized the way in which the presence of such men reflect on the institution, but they are helpless when it comes to taking action against them.
Y. M. C. A. Mission Study.
The Y. M. C. A. has arranged for three mission study courses to run during the spring term. Dr. W. C. Payne will conduct a course in "Comparative Religions," at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Dr.F.A.Wilber will have a course in home missions entitled "Civie Problems in City Life." The class will meet at Westminster house at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evenings. Secretary H. C.Herman will have a class at 9 a.m. Sunday on "Christian and the Social Crises." These classes will begin at once.
The Times Is Grateful.
The Times is Grateful.
The Leavenworth Times praises the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas for teaching the young men and young women to "write the kind of English that doesn't have carbuncles on it."
In the annual senior.junior fight at William Jewell College Thursday, Lewis Carr, a senior, lost an eye. The news dispatch says the accident was "the resu of the throwing of a flapjack by a junior."
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