PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Editor-in-Chief Clainton Flush Editorial Director Gunnar Ellison Editor Silhouette Sport Editor Ronell Waterboone Sport Editor Ronell Waterboone Nick Kurtzman Marc Kurrer Johnson Suicide Editor Warren Gillen Exchange Editor George Alden Exchange Editor OTHER BOARD MEMBERS John Tahmie Finderstick McNeil Josh Brower Jane Hewlett Joe Braun Joseph Hayes Joseph Hare Joseph Hayes James Klein Jesse Meier Raymond McKean Business Manager H. Richard McFarland Amt's Lt. Mgr. W. Eshon Bryantson Editorial Department K. U. 55 Business Department K. U. 66 Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Kansas, from the front of the Department of Journalism, Entered as second-class mail master September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawyers, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1902. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926 The Committee. THE ENGINEER IN PUBLIC SERVICE The popular conception of the engineer represents him as a builder of huge bridges—the genius behind the development of mummath power projects—and so on. There are, indeed, functions of the engineer in a high sense. But in thinking of the engineer, we have been poised to attach too much importance to his more spectacular fonts. In so doing we have lost sight of the economies that might be realized if he were given the opportunity to apply his technical training to the solution of some of the more general problems of men's welfare. The world does not yet realize fully how very profitably its problems may be handled by scientific methods. In many fields non-technical men are capable of meeting the difficulties in a haphazed fashion, but the experience of the engineer has dulled him to do the job in the most commercial way. The engineer is entering more widely varied types of work every day. The industries are finding him almost indispensable. Municipalities engage him to answer the questions that arise in connection with control of street traffic—which was a few years ago not even dreamed of as a man. There is no immediate continue. There are encouraging indications of a changing state of mind on the part of the public, but the change is coming too slowly. Let us take a very pertinent example. The street lights on the University campus have five globes. Had the authorities bethought themselves of their several highly capable illuminating engineers close at hand, they would have been notified that only three were necessary, with consequent saving. The full possibilities of the engineer as a public servant are not being developed. The fault is on both sides. The engineer must be more active in selling his services, and the public must be more receptive to his advances. When such a common understanding is reached a high degree of mutual benefit will ensue. CO-EDUCATION Co-education in the engineering profession would, and perhaps will in the future, mark another successful step in scientific progress and educational development. The chief difficulty right at present appears to be the lack of sufficient interest among the ladies in the intricacies of the physical laws of nature. Un doubted ytheir participation would create a broader, finer and gentler spirit in the engineering schools. It is broader in the sense that ever since the would begin the tendency has been for man to literally, "make a fool of himself" in the presence of ladies (this would aid the development of the experimental sciences); he tells all he knows in their prescience (but aiding the professor and promoting the distribution of wisdom) and then follows his fellows in gaining the respect and admiration of his Lady Fair. Even the professor succeeds to dancing eyes, rolled lips, and fair fingers, to any other of his wives. Assignments become slower, lectures more elucidating and elaborate, and higher education more desirable. Employing the teacher in an environment school in particular, should be encouraged and promoted. The few ladies who are with us now are a babe to the spirit and a delight to the optics. But at present the number is so limited that we feel a large enrollment of femininity in the engine school next fall would contribute greatly to the welfare of the widows of the guscan* rule. DISCRIMINATION Does the School of Engineering have any lower students? Apparently it does not, if we are to judge by the students who are given recognition in various ways as the University honor students. Each year the commencement program contains the names of those students who have attained scholastic excellence, and each year this first invariably contains only the numbers of those students who have received the honor of election to Phi Bappa Kappa and Sargon XI. Whether civic organizations and clubs entertain the honor student of the University only matters indirectly to the groups awarded are extended invitations. A hasty glance at the list of students choose each year by Phi Beta Kappa will show that every school in the University is represented but the Engineering School. The reason is simple. Engineers are not eligible for election no matter how good their scholastic record may be. Phi Beta Kappa, an long ago as 1885, discontinued the practice of taking into membership these students interested purely in engineering. As a consequence of the notion of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, an honorary fraternity for engineers and having somewhat the ideals of Phi Beta Fats at all prices - in masses. Each of General Electric electricity—or its likely possible at its price. 700 MASS. PHONE 880 Kansas Electric Power Company Come to the exclusive luggage store if you need luggage. LUGGAGE - LUGGAGE We carry a complete line of Gladiates, Grips, Suitcases, Overnight causes, Overnight filled cases, Hat boxes, Brief causes, Boston bags, Pocketbooks, Ladies' Handbags, Ladies' Dressing Cases, Gents' Dressing Cases, Wardrobe Trunks, Trunk Cases, Auto Trunks, and many other articles that usually go with the luggage line. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Our prices will please you. Arthur S. Wettig Men's Gke Club will rehearse Wednesday evening. This will be the final rehearsal for the commencement concert. 732 MASSACHUSETTS ST. Vol. VII Wednesday, May 28, 1935 100, 142 Hours of use per day MEN'S GLEE CLUB: Vol. VII Wednesday, May 26, 1926 Copy received at the Chancellor's Office until 11.09 a.m. Kappa, was instituted. The honor students of the School of Engineering belong to this organization. Pearhill, because of the general lack of information on the status of the engineering student, six fifteen or twenty of them each year, who have attained a high grade of scholarship in work which is most difficult and exacting, are not recognized as honor students. When the commendations are made and the public is informed of their merit, the University why not include all of them? ACADEMIC SHARPERS T. A. LARREMORE, Director. Particularly in the Engineering School is there opportunity for many and varied ways of playing the game unfairly. In the matter of puzzles, the same situation claims here as elsewhere; the underhandness practice the noble art of crIBbing as ardently ever, and the sensors just begin to realize the folly of their indictments. However, the engineer's numerous laboratory reports present an opportunity for mechanical conduct which other students do not have. It has come to such a thing as going to the report harrel, inverting it, and selecting the appropriate one to copy. The same thing applies to other personal assignments. Why can't these men see that the perpetuation of these barrels is conducive to a practice just as contemptible as the ordinary cribbling? It is not faim to the students who have no such material available. The chief excuse for the continuation of such a practice is that one may learn much from the perusal of many other reports; he may learn by mistakes of others. Why, then, does not his report include a bibliography containing the names and the numbers of old reports referred to, or the authors and publishers marked? This would allow the instructor to grade the report upon the same basis as that upon which the work was done. The following men contributed editorials for publication in the Kaucan "Feminist's Dew." Carl A. Pennington Dean A. M.Geer C. Aron Patman Kenneth B. Clark George W. Timmons Charles W. Hildeb2 The committee which selected the material was composed of the followe men: "Do not lay on the grass," says n sien at Lincoln, Kan. "I wonder if they prohibit setting, "I remarked a visitor, "Do not lay on the grass," sa Professor F. N. Raymond serve Charles R. Dube Charles W. Hobdell Joan A. McGow Kenneth E. Clark IT'S VACATION TIME Come to a store where the "Boss" waits on you Summer is upon us and you students will be in need of your outing equipment in a few days. 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