UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN C. ADLENN. JOHN C. HABBAR. JOHN GLDIMBERN. JOHN GLODIMBERN. HIGH SCHOOL Editor CALVIN LAMBERT. Sport Editor BUSINESS EDWIN AAREL Business Manager RAT EUDROUGE Circulation Manager JOB BISHOP ADVERTISING Manager AAREL AAREL CHAR S. SUBERVY Advertising SAM DRENN BROWN ALLOW HANDY CHARLES GIBSON LICHTER HILDEN- RILLE LICHTER- LAWRENCE SMITH WARRINGTON HELEN RAYES RIALK HARPER BANGER W. W. PERGUSON W. M. PERGUSON SCHYNER O'MANIEL OPPER CHARLES WILLIAM S. SWADY WILLIAM S. SWADY LANDON LAIBD Entered as second-class mail matter Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of Marcel Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of Journalism. Subscription price $2.50 per year, h advance, form 1998. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the future of education to go further than merely printing the news by standing for thefooter features; to be cleans; to be cheerful; to be mora TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1914. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.-Swift. We don't wish the Nebraskans any bad luck but we sincerely hope that the Cornhusker football team next fall isn't any better than this year's track squad. OUR VISITORS Mr. Kansas Merchant, shake hands with the University. RECOGNIZE DEBATERS You are with us today engaged in the same business as we students—trying to learn a little something that is new and valuable. We are glad to see you and would like to answer questions, serve as amateur guides or do anything else that would make your stay more profitable and enjoyable. Ask us to help, any of us. Inter-debating society contests with trophies for the winners would increase the interest in such activities. Debating deserves as much recognition as running or pole vaulting. Although this has been a successful year of debating at the University debating is, nevertheless, not what it should be. Instead of two debating societies struggling along with but little encouragement from the students or the University authorities, we should have several healthy societies. There is room for more than two. The student who fails to vote Thursday is pretty apt to be a non-voting citizen after he is graduated; and a non-voting citizen is a bad citizen. VOTE Express your sentiments, work for the men you believe to be best qualified for the positions, get in the game—and then be a good winner or a good loser after the ballots are counted. HIGH SCHOOLS AND K. U The University enjoys contact with high school students. Basketball tournaments, track meets and state championship debates are equal pleasures from K. U.'s point of view. On the other side, the high school student often is getting his first glimpse of a higher educational institution when he climbs Mount Oread for the first time. He is impressed with the number of young men and women enrolled and with the number and size of the buildings. A desire to be associated with some college or University often is crystalized when he crosses the campus, and in any event his vision is a little broader and his experience a little more varied. Additional chances to introduce the University to the high school students of the state would be welcomed warmly. DICTIONARY OF DATES, (Contain the names of official collector of worthless factors.) Alphabet—The lonic alphabet was introduced 399 years before Christ. Before this time the Greek letters were but sixteen in number. The number has been increased since to accommodate the fraternities. Anasthesia was discovered in 1583. The hook worm is a later development. Anchors were invented in 587. Anti-Slavery Society (American) was organized Dec. 6, 1833 at Philadelhia. **Argand Lamps** were invented by Aime Argand, of Geneva, about 1782. **Arguebus** was introduced about 1520, and remained in use until after it was replaced by the muzzlelock supplied it. In 1630 the flint locket was invented and the musket was introduced, (for the use of the Mexican "sniper.") ENDS AND ODDLETS "Foster Has 1914 Catalogs"—Kansan headline. Some job there if he tries to go through all of them. Last year K. U, had a student in knickerbockers and now the first Pinafina is to be seen on the campus. He needs to and welfare department to get busy. If the candidates for Student Council membership keep increasing there will be a cry for the Short Ballot by election time. EXPECTS COMMENDATION! The newspaper man is in a peculiar position. He has from 2,000 to 3,000 chances to make an ass of himself every day, and there is no glossing over his errors. The lawyer can have his corrected by a higher court, the doctor buries his, but the newspaper man is at the mercy of the public. Therefore if the writer makes a mistake now and then don't jump upon him. You can prove how he appreciates commendation now and then. If he has written something you like drop around and tell him so; he may not show you at the time that he appreciates it, but he will appreciate it just the same.-Oregon Emerald. CAMPUS OPINION KEEP OFF THE GRASS. To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: Let me first congratulate you on your success. To the Editor of the Daily Kansan last week. Everything must have a beginning and there is much more chance for the "feeble little trees" to live than would be for larger ones transplanted and positioned and an unsatisfactory soil. Another feature of the work being done by the authorities which should command more respect, is the siding of the bare spaces at the sides of the walks. Already there are hundreds of foot-prints on this new sod. Can we not give it a chance to take hold in its new position and grow? Complaint is sometimes made that walks are not wide enough. Perhaps, but may it not be also that our sympathies are not broad enough? There is surely sufficient width to the walk in front of the Cheese Bakery, but but there are warm and bare strips at the sides of the walks even there. Is this not that groups of two and three crowd those they meet off the walk, or step off on the grass when the opposite group is larger or ruder? What is the use of making our campus beautiful if we don't keep it so? When we trump the grass to death do we realize that we are depriving their rights? Let's leave the new sod to greet the newcomers in the Fall. We may even hope to come back to it ourselves. DEFENDS AN "ABUSED" FAC UITY. Nature Lover. To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: It was last semester, I believe, that some Committee on the honor system, of which the Committee the present editor was chairman, made a report consuring the faculty for assigning written papers and bookish work of which the Committee averred was never afterward looked at by the faculty. The prominence given this charge in the editorial and news columns of the Kansan at that time might well have led your readers over the state to infer that the K. U. student made up of loafers and hypocrites, and of combinations of the two. I am inclined to like muck-raking if it carries its point and makes for improvement. But to fulminate against an indestructible evo which is not weakest, does no positive good and may react to the injury of the University. thing tangible behind the charges of the committee and the Kansan. In the first place, neither submitted any evidence, either direct or indirect, in support of their assertions. They charged that a rotten spot existed, but did not specify where—in what schools? among which ranks of the faculty? Not so much as the least est hint was given; we are the ones charged with the malpractices charged do exist, the committee must have known where. How are we to go about reforming the situation if we do not know where to begin? Then, too, I have had the good fortune to see some of what happens behind the scenes in one or two departments. Nor have I found a man of them who did not agonize over the papers he got. It has often seemed to me that they sometimes agonized too much over most of the papers. I do not believe that there is any And I am disposed to defend the faculty from another standpoint—my own experience. In the course of gathering up some hundred and fifty hours of credits here I have had work under about thirty members of the faculty, many of whom are leaving from perhaps fifteen minutes to twenty-three hours per man of them. And I can bear witness that I have never had a paper or a notebook or a quiz-book returned without the evidence of a hard reading upon it. I have fared better in the matter of grades if they had not read my papers. Permit me then to challenge the assertions of that committee. Before we have the faculty condemned some of them, we have some proof in a few specific cases. Another complaint against the faculty has been considerably aired in this semester's Kansan, namely, that grading is unstandardized, and in consequence, unfairly done. Here, desire to carry out grading is given up by the grading system. Has such a one ever been devised? How are you going about it, Mr. Editor, to put the grading of philosophical essays upon an exact par with the grading of algebra? Shall a representative of the department of chemistry be on the committee of grading the sociologists may do? Can the biologists and the School of Fine Arts fix upon a common par value for a II? And after you have your subjects and your faculty standardized, how will you proceed to standardize the students who take the courses and write the quiz-books? Can you be as rigorous with the eight-year year of study, with the twelfth-year old man in the same class? How are you to express in a grade the precise difference between the plodding but persistent student and the near-genius who learns as much with half the effort? What manner of distinction is to be made between the two students, by diffusion to cover up two sentences of knowledge, and the one who simply tells those two, or who tells them in so clear a manner as to indicate an intelligent grasp of much he has left unsaid? Grade a few papers as carefully as you will. Mr. Editor and then try to standardize you will then be justified in undertaking to devise a standardized system for the whole University. I have written this protest, Mr. Editor, because I conceive that we should not bandy such charges about unless well founded, as I believe these are not. And when such are published and not denied, the impression given to high school students and taxpayers who hear them will certainly react to the disadvantage of the University. E. L. Bennett. The portion of the honor sentiment committee's report referring to faculty methods at the University was recently sent to the University Senate by the Student Council, Prof. H. Hoder is the chairman of the committee, and he recommends Professor Hodder, disagreeing with the above communicant, said yesterday that he considered the report to be very fair and well worthy of consideration. He expects to ask the student committee to meet with the professors some time next week who should then report the have always stood ready to give "specific information" to any authorized body. Grading in the various courses can never be placed on an "exact par." However when one professor gives I's and II's exclusively, and another seldom allows more than a III the present system which forces each instructor to work out his own grading methods might be improved profitably. Standardizing grading systems has been attempted in other universities with success. The University of Missouri is an example. "Specific information" concerning grades can be obtained at the Dean's office. As far as information "getting out over the state" is concerned, the Daily Kansan believes that the University need never fear the effects of a frantic treatment of wells and unfounded medias. It is the unjust and unfounded faultfinding which works harm unmerited by the institution.-Ed.4 A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AT ANDERSON'S OLD STAND JOHNSON & TUTTLE 715 PROPS. Mass. A. G. ALRICH Printing Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Bubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel Die Embossing, Seals, Badges. 744 Mass. SPRING SUITINGS FRANK KOCH TAILOR 727 Mass. Sam S. Shubert MAT. WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY WM. HODGE "The Road to Happiness" An Expanding Vocation that merits the investigation of the high school student who is attracted towards science is that of Chemical Engineering The demand for experts in this line is as keen as the desire of manufacturers for better processes and for the utilization of by-products. The pecuniary rewards include both large salaries and liberal percentages of the saving which the chemist brings about. The course in the University is complete, and after the necessary practical experience and work in research, leads to the degree of chemical engineer. Address Vocation Editor UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Even Professors Subscribe for the Daily Kansan If for no other reason They read it in order to be able to Knock Intelligently