UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas Alfred G. Hill ... Editor-in-Chief Helen Patterson ... Associate Editor Robert H. Reed ... Society Editor Mary L. Barker ... Society Editor D. D. Davis ... Plain Tales Editor BUSINESS STAFF NEWS STAFF Vernon A. Moore Business Mgr Robert Rightman Assistant Fred Righty Director William Koester James Morgan Harry Morgan Eugene Dyer John Montgomery Joseph C. Clifford Butcher Ruth Gardiner Ruth Gardiner Herbert Howland Albey Howley Alloowby Jason Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $175. Entered as second-class mail maller serviced by the Postmaster, Swareney, Kansas, under the act of March 25, 1976. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66 Published in the afternoon five times by Kashmiri, from the press of the de- cimal Kalasha, from the press of the de- cimal Kalasha. The Daily Kansan aims to plea the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news from Kansas; to hold university holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be compassionate; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1917 Poor Richard Say?! have you somehow to do tomorrow? have you somehow to do tomorrow? TWENTY-FIVE MORE NEEDED ANOTHER REASON Twenty-five men are needed to fill the ranks of Company M, the University company of the Kansas National Guard. Other companies are filled. The University should not fall behind. The tragedy of France—this was the story told by Miss Fell to University students this morning. The Prussian lust for power that brought about the last chapter of this tragedy is the power at which the United States strikes in entering the great war. THE ONE SOLUTION The war declaration by this country is more than the mere upholding of American rights. This does not alter the real situation. The Kansan has spent some energy this week criticizing the action of the University Senate in abolishing padding without offering a substitute as a means of enforcing the cap tradition. The Kansan can criticize until Potter Lake floods Fraser Hall and padding still will be abolished and the Senate is not likely to offer a substitute. Unofficially, the information comes that the Senate, after abolishing paddling, believes that the enforcement of the cap tradition is a matter for the students to work out. A member of the University Senate disciplinary committee which recommended that paddling be abolished, has offered the suggestion that the Men's Student Council take up the problem this spring, so that next fall the freshmen will wear their caps as usual. This faculty member believes in all seriousness that Student Council influence will be strong enough to secure the co-operation of the freshmen class in the enforcing of the cap tradition. A number of faculty members have stated that while they voted to abolish paddling, they favor the wearing of distinctive caps by the yearlings. Leaving aside the question as to whether the University Senate was fair in abolishing paddling without offering any substitute, it seems that there is only one way out. That is for the Student Council to tackle the job of saving the cap tradition. Grit your teeth and go to it boys. PRACTICAL POLITICS The University student political system is condemned. "Student organizations are a failure." "Holders of the most important stu dent offices are not the most capable of the students." "A few individual students in secret encaucates dictate student politics." The Kansan has received a suggestion as to a remedy. These are frequent charges. Let the University department of political science, including faculty and students, take up the University "student political system" as a problem. Critical study may bring about practical improvements. Verily the University student government can stand improvement as much as sundry state legislatures, courts and United States semes. A WAR QUESTION The Kanan today reprints an editorial from the Los Angeles Times, urging that no Americans be sent to fight in Europe. The editorial is similar to many that are appearing in American newspapers, although the majority of the metropolitan publications side with Colonel Roosevelt in urging that we furnish men also in the fight against Germany. The difference of opinion presents a real problem for the government to meet. Our guess is that before many months there will be American troops in European trenches. HILLTOP PHILOSOPHY Naturally the botany experts will be a little anxious until the new shrubbery shows signs of life. When frush, upperclassmen and faculty members all march as common soldiers they will have an opinion to right many a wrong impression. O what is so rare among college students as a man who wants to be merely a private in the army. Of course it is a little strange that the 1600 men who only last week were considered incompetent to settle a little matter like paddling are now the ones being looked to to aid in up-ending the honor of the United States. Any man who talks about the weather when he has known a girl long enough to discover that she prefers candy and picture books, a rear shelf and a weather cock substituted. It is not so hard on the parlor furniture. Higher education counts for something after all—more than 100 applications have been made by K. Umen formensions in the army. When Seniors Were Freshmen Items From the Daily Kansan Files of Three Years Ago. Harry McCulloch and Dutch Hansen are appointed on committee to arrange a tue of war across Potter Lake between the freshman and sophomore The University Glee Club gives concert in Topeka. Charles S. Boyle announces candidate-president of the Men's Student Course. OUR SOLDIERS NEEDED AT HOME There are many good reasons why American troops should not now, if ever, be sent to Europe to fight Germany. We are by no means adequately prepared to defend our own soil in the event of any one of many possible emergencies; and we cannot send sufficient troops abroad to be of any practical value without entirely depleting our defenses. The armies of Europe are numbered by the million. We send one a mere corporal's guard among the myrmidons that swarm in the tranches of France. So there will be a call to send another division — and another and another. Public sentiment is opposed to sending troops abroad. "America first" is the country's slogan. And if troops are sent, it will bring dissension and dissatisfaction among our own citizens. It will imply a military imposition and create unseeably bickering among prominent Americans; there will be parties pro and con. The country now is unanimously and resolutely determined to stand by the flag, but only a minority wish to have that flag carried to Europe by troops. Let us have no quarrel on this issue! Foreign oppression, even when we have been forced into them with better cause than we now have for offering troops to the Allies. We can aid the Allies with money, munitions, food and the aid of the navy on the high seas—factors of war that are more needed at present than men, women, children, and soldiers from the United States places in jeopardy the vast commercial resources upon which the Allies are depending and without which they cannot win—Los Angeles Times. CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent During my four years as a student here on Mt. Oread I have noticed that a large portion of the faculty members rely to a great extent, and, in some cases, almost wholly, on examinations as a test of the student's scholarship. The various courses in this department are enriched in their case that nearly all the accusations of dishonesty in examinations, of unfairness in grading, of low scholarship, and incapacity after graduation for a chosen profession, each of which have at times been made against certain students. For example, our alumni, have their root in this recitation, the predominance of examination grades over daily grades. [Editor Daily Kansan; Cases are not rare of where an "all-1" student in some subject, because of inability to study for the final examination, fails to pass the exam. In such cases, a particular disinterestedness for the same subject, "crams" for the final examination and makes a passing grade. Which of these two is deserving of the higher mark in the course? Yet the instructor is aware of the relative merits of his two pupils, under what might be called "moral obligations" to pass the second student and "condition" the first. Thus, the system in use of grading is unjust to this student and unfair to the instructor. A SOCIAL ERROR The results of examinations depend very largely upon the amount of preparation made on the night before the test. Some students in our UWIT subjects must be given a fact) can study a text book in certain subjects until the "wee scm" hours" of the morning and, without having had any previous introduction to the particular subject, pass with a fair grade any examination that might be given, because we occurred a few years ago, where one of our own students took a "final" in German III after an all-night session spent over the reader. Before the quiz this young man was so well enough aware of his poor performance, he received the assistance of a tutor. The results of his "cramming" were surprising. The instructor said that he passed a much more creditable examination than her best scholars could do. In fact, his showing was so exceptionally good that his suspicion was on him. On a few minutes after this young man turned in his paper, a certain sentence from the German reader which he had just translated perfectly was pointed out to him and he was asked to re-translate it. Try as hard as he would, beginning of this excerpt. Other cases similar to this one can be recited by many of our University students. Thus, written examinations do not give a fair indication of the student's ability, and are more profitable to the unworthy student than to the worthy one. I fact, they are usually promote stenology in daily work. With plenty of other things on their hands, what do many students care about their next day's lesson when they realize that the examinations are largely the determining factor for college admissions, pro and con, continually arising concerning the adoption of the honor system, it should be borne in mind that the more important the examinations become in the student's final reckoning, the more tempting the test from somewhere outside of his or her own head. After a consideration of these faults, the conclusion must be reached that scholarship receives too much credit from examinations. Otherwise, she is the "flunker"'s salvation, and the deserving student would not receive a "set-back" if he or she acked a few points of passing a quiz. He (after a collision)—Hurt you? She-No. He (absentmindedly)—I am sorry -Yale Record. I am fully convinced that a change in the existing conditions of the relative merits of the daily recitation and the examination (particularly the final) will tend to be further blurred between the student and his instructor; second, relieve those embarrassing moments when the instructor tries to judge the relative importance of a student's excellent recitations and his low examination grades; third, decrease any undeniable interest in fourth, reduce the hardships which not a few of the most worthy students unjustly experience because of poor quiz grades; and fifth, raise the scholarship of the University by making the everyday work of the student more important than a month or two, or proof of work preceded by examinations, which means a better general knowledge of the subject and one which will stay by him longer. Senior. SHOULD KNOW THE SYMPTOMS She: Are you sure you love me? He: Are you so loved of girls and I guess I ought to know. —Boston Transcript. 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