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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
EXAMINATIONS
Nothing is more discouraging or wrath-provoking to the average student than to have an instructor give an examination whose excessive length precludes any possibility of its completion. Capping this, the majority of the instructors grade on the entire list of questions asked. If psychology enters into an examination, as it probably does, it is poor psychology to get a student up in the air by loading him up with a lot of questions that he cannot answer properly if he gets to at all.
And when such a quiz comes the Monday after or the Friday before a football game—Wow!
BE A LITTLE LENIENT, PROFS
Coach Wheaton wonders what the students do with all of their time, and why more of them are not out in rallies or down on the football field on the eve of a momentous conflict. Perhaps one of the reasons that more pep is not displayed is that many of the students are saddled with examinations. Instructors could gain more popularity by concealing a little during football season than in any other way—by assigning a quiz for the middle of the week instead of Friday or Monday, for instance.
But maybe the members of the faculty do not desire popularity with the students, or perhaps they feel that it is their duty to be thorough intellectics, to continually exalt the value of books and mental training over football. If this be true, it is gross ignorance, if it be not too presumptuous for a mere student to suggest that the faculty errs. A good esprit de corps among the students—obtainable in athletics more than in any other way—is of vast importance to the University. Its presence will be a benefit beyond estimate.
And so, facultati, if a student may suggest one thing to you, it is, be easy on us this week. We need pep, we know we need it, we must get it if we are to beat Missouri? Let us rest a little from the bugaboo of books this week. We'll make it up a little later on, with interest if you wish.
EX POST FACTO RULES
How is it that changes in the rules governing graduation can be made effective against students already well along in the institution? When a student enters the school a certain set of regulations is in force. When he is graduated another has superseded it. Is there any reason, legal, moral, or ethical, why a student should not be allowed to be graduated under the catalog that was in force when he entered?
If this is not ex post facto legislation, pray then, what is?
IT'S FUN, ANYWAY
Usually, if the editor of a college paper dishes out anything but platitudes, bromides and inanities to his readers, he gets into trouble, especially if he lifes the faculty. So, the editor of this sheet does not expect to get away unscathed with his remarks addressed to the faculty.
printed above. If he is not flooded with communications, facultati will light around the Kansan office in flocks and droves, and express themselves more freely than the editor has dared. Members of the faculty are privileged to utilize a good share of their recitation time lamenting the deprivation of journalism in general, and of college journalism in particular. That is the excuse of the editor for taking a thrust at the faculty.
Incidentally this is bad journalism. The department of journalism would say that this is poorly written, in bad taste, has a tendency to provoke strife, lacks style and finish, expresses only a superficial view, stimulates non-social instincts, is a cheap appeal for popularity—space limitations here check the enumeration of other and less trivial defects.
Student Opinion
RIGHT-O. H. W!
The fact that winning athletics is possible only when, backed by the entire University, from "faculty to groundkeeper," is a truth which Coach Wheaton expressed at the pep meeting Tuesday night. The proper spirit generated by the students and encouraged by the faculty must be back of the team to make it a winner, and this spirit will never exist as it should until it is encouraged by the faculty.
A professor on the Hill announced last week a so-called optional meeting of the members of his classes for four o'clock on the afternoon of the Nebraska game. This is the second meeting that he has held this semester, and they were both on Saturday afternoons, one when Kansas was playing in Lincoln and one when she was playing on McCook Field. These meetings were optional only for those well up in their work and those who had decided to repeat the course next semester. For the rest of the meeting, she should curb their enthusiasm and listen to the cheering from the top of Mount Oread.
Whether he realizes it or not, this professor is doing much to destroy the spirit which is not only the foundational basis of both of all other student activities.
H. W.
Browsing Around Spooner
Germany's attitude toward the war, the feeling with which she began it, and the surprise that came with the realization that the sympathies of all the world were against her, have not been more clearly stated than by Oswald Garrison Villard, president of the New York Evening Post, in his article in the Christmas (December) Scribner, "Germany Embattled under German interruption," summarizes Germany's point of view and defines the meaning of German Kultur. "Her splendid abilities, her powers of organization, her sentiment, her idealism, the world needs for the prevention of wars, and not for the deficitation of the war spirit."
Are You Educated?
Some time ago the Daily Kansan ran an editorial clipped from the Ohio State Lantern, "Now Are You Educated?" Here is how the Minnesota Daily answered the questions asked:
Q. —Will a lonely dog follow you in the street?
A. —Yes, but he'll follow any other old tramn, too.
Q—Can you be happy alone?
A. Yes, there is a crowd.
A. —Yes, but we'd hate to try any of them.
Q—Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing and colf?
Q—Do you think washing dishes
A. —Yes. We can see anything but dollars and cents.
Q—Can you look out on the world and see anything but dollars and cents?
A. —Yes, we love them a long way
A. —Yes, if the star's hair doesn't get into our eyes.
Q—Can you see anything to love in a little child?
Q—Can you look an honest man in the eve?
Q—Can you see anything in the paddle but mud?
A. _Don't know that we ever met one.
Q—Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the stars?
A. —Yes, we love frogs.
Drake is no exception to the rule, for it too has caught the Billy Sunday fervor. Recently all the sororities of Drake University formally voted to suspend all evening entertainments this month and next while the Billy Sunday meetings are in progress at Des Moines.
He doffed his sweater, squared his feet.
No Cinch, No Sir!
constitutes
Then squirmed for the play;
And as the ball was kicked on high,
He rushed into the fray.
A dash to right, a duck to left,
And he had grabbed the sphere;
He gave a shout, then cried, "Til
The great play of the year." A dozen yards he ran and then The whole durned rival pack Pressed down upon him--right
And leaped upon his back.
They tackled high, they tripped him
Yes, there are some newspapers—one, particularly, whose editor calls it "the people's university"—and some magazines that recognize the daily life utility of culture, that purposefully give their readers the opportunity for such broadening of their outlook as will make them better men, better citizens; as will make their lifers fuller and happier. Pe-
They sat upon his chest;
And then they rolled him round and
They sat upon his chest: And then they rolled.
And slammed him "gally-west." A whistle blew, a doctor came And felt him o'er a bit; They said, "With snilts and band
Then said, "With splints and band
I'll some day have him fit.”
They bore him off across the field,
While wildly cheered the mob
"I use a hoover; there is
No very easy job.
Small Colleges Win Football
—Ed A. Goewey in Leslie's.
The thing that has featured this unusual season in the East has been the uniformly high grade of football played by the teams of the "minor colleges." Because their teams play the highest average football year after year, and also because they are the largest universities in the East, we hae usually referred to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Cornell as the "Big Sick." But this year they have been hard pressed to maintain a semblance of normality. This happened in November, when those institutions started their so called championship season, each one had either been defeated or tied by a minor college. An exceptible nshould be made of Dartmouth, whose single defeat was at the hands of Princeton.
Probably there never were so many early season defeats recorded in our football history, yet not one of the big colleges has had anything but praise to bestow upon the victors, to bestow upon the fans, to gracefully, even at the hands of the smaller colleges, the big universities have shown a most laudable spirit.
The reason for the rise of the small college is not hard to find. The new game puts a premium upon speed and cleverness, and a capable coach with a good squad of men can, in a few cases, hold the opposing team holding its own with the representatives of the biggest universities in the country.-Leslie's.
BRINGING CULTURE WITHIN
THE PEOPLE'S REACH
A university president rather resented the insinuation that the language of professors needed translation and that the scholastic viewfulness to the public could be extracted from academic subjects.
"I believe it would be possible, perhaps," he admitted, "for a well trained writer to get many articles from the various departments that would be instructive to the lay reader. But such a writer would have to be broadly cultured, a university graduate."
"Begging your pardon, you still miss my point," I insisted. "Your university man has the scholastic viewpoint, unless he has got it rubbed off by many years' contact with very practical and nonscholastic everyday life. And it's the noncollegiate that I think you ought to try to know better. His scholarship the academic subjects must be viewed; it is for him that the articles, the tabloid extension lectures, should be written."
"What you propose is rather outside our province," he said. But he smiled tolerantly. "There are some magazines that seem trying to do it."
"A day will come when the only battlefield will be the market open to commerce and the mind open to new ideas. A day will come when bullets and bombshells will be replaced by notes, by the universal aid of the venerable arbitration of a great sovereign senate," which will be to Europe what the parliament is to England, what the diet is to Germany, what the legislative assembly is to France. A day will come when a cannon will be fired from a fortress, as an instrument of torture is now, and people will be astonished how such a thing could have been."—Victor Hugo.
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haps it is the province of these publications—all too few they are—to translate the academic language into popular speech, to discover and understand the rhetorical phases of "college studies"."Benjamin S. Brown in American Education.
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HAL SOMERS BURNED BY FLASH LIGHT POWDERS
While attempting a flash light picture of the rally last night, Hal Somers, photographer for the Jayhawker, several severe burns on his left hand.
Somers held a package of flash powders in the same hand with which he held the flash reflector. As he lighted the powder on the reflector, the ball exploded in his hand. The burns were dressed at the Jones hospital.
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