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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926
University Daily Kansan
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAR
Editor-in-Chief Editor Warren Griffen
Campus Editor Larry Pitney Gladison Filson
Campus Editor Warren Griffen
Telegraph Editor Nathan Bolton
Night Editor Nathan Bolton
Night Editor Yangbo Kimball
Night Editor Wangbo Kimball
Tape Tie Editor Mary Ehrlich Fleron
Exchange Editor Robert Mishcott
Exchange Editor Robert Mishcott
Inex Pilche
OGUERA, Beth M. McMullen
Bayward, John C.
George Carey
Clinton, Gary B.
Clinton, Jim
Franklin, Francis
Frederick, McNeil
Rodriguez, R.J.
Matthew, Richard Matthews
Business Manager ... H. Richard McFarland
Editorial Department ... K. U. 08
Business Department ... K. U. 06
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926
STOP, PULL, AND THINK
Entered as second-class mail master Septer 15, 2016. Received at the University of Kansas, under the order of March 3, 1981. Attended summer school in Des Moines and on Sunday morning by students in the Department of Kansan, from the Press of the Department of Kansan, from the Press of the Department of Kansan.
A thousand or two students well neonically up to the door of Watson library daily, grasp the handle on the door firmly, and exert a pull varying from 15 to 125 pounds, depending on whether it is a freshman woman or a football star.
Foolish, thoughtless students! They think that just because the doors to the rest of the buildings on the campus open outward these doors to Watson will do the same.
But not so! Don't be so foolish Watson hall is a storehouse o knowledge—its purpose is to stimu late thought, to cause the mind t work. It has been constructed wit this in mind, down to the most minute detail-convention, custom, cor venience and state laws notwith standing.
The explanation is simple: If a student goes to the library on a balmy spring day, just out of habit opens the door in the customary way for doors to open (outward) just out of habit, and enters the building, the chances are that hell check out a book, just out of habit and dream over it for an allotted two or three hours—all on account of heat.
But picture to yourself the difference in the mental process that results simply because of this clever scheme of hanging doors over at the library. The student marches up to the door and thoughtlessly exerts his customary pull of 15 to 125 pounds on the handle thereof. The door creaks and groans (or maybe it laughs); the casing may give slightly, and the student's slide on the door sill—but the door remains closed.
Now the remarkable thing occurs The student wakes up, he thinks; the cells of his grey matter start to whip, they chase up one inner wall of his cranium and down the other—they come to rest and the student realizes that the door opens inward He punches open the door and enters wide awake and alert, due to the preliminary mental calisthenics.
"England about to release rubber," and we suppose the United States is going to get "stung."
He is now in a mental condition to study, all due to the remarkable forethought of those who hung the door at the library.
IN A RUT
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Now that the blue grass is getting greener, we must again turn our attention to those innocent looking little signs "Please Follow the Walk." Ulyg they are, but still more beautiful than paths made by the insistent lawn cutters.
University students should have enough initiative to be original and would at least not follow in the footsteps of hundreds of others. Both literally and figuratively they are putting themselves in a rut.
Those rounded corners! How pretty they are!
How kind and considerate it is of these cutters to voluntarily take off these little sharp turns.
Perhaps the University officials might find it helpful to build a series of barbed-wire entanglements as reminders to those forgetful sons. Townpeople have adopted this expedient to keep the ward school pupils on the straight and narrow and undoubtedly it would be effective here on the campus.
SPANISH PROVINCIALISM
The action of the Spanish government in exiling nine prominent lawyers because they used the Catalan language, contrary to the laws of the country, marks a new epoch in the evolution of language. Recent revival of agitation to make the province of Catalonia autonomous prompted it the Spanish government to issue a royal decree governing severe punishment for persons found guilty of using other than the Spanish language or flag.
Less than five centuries ago Savonarola, Dante, and other heroic precursors of the Italian Renaissance suffered banship and persecution because they attempted to create a vernacular language for Italy. But the profound reverence in which the age of classicism was held gave Greek and Latin enormous prestige, and a vernacular language was considered plebian, and was spoken only by the peasant class. Men fought and died to establish national languages.
In the eighteenth century the rising spirit of nationalism changed this medieval attitude. Traditions, institutions, languages, everything with national significance was exalted. But with the new era of expansion and colonization a more cosmopolitan spirit appeared, with a corresponding tolerance of extra-national elements.
Spain, however, has failed to keep pace with other nations. Her attitude is still typically medieval. She lacks tolerance in interests other than her own, and her defense mechanism makes banishment the penalty for violation of her provincialism.
STRIKE TWO, BALL THREE
In the Big Ten, baseball draws a much attention as basketball. In southern conferences, baseball is the main sport. In the Missouri Valley and especially at the University of Kansas, interest has dwindled.
Many can remember when Kansan won the valley championship. The teams have not done very well the past two years and now attendance is falling off.
Coach Bunn has players whom he believes will develop a team which will make a creditable showing.
Are the students of the University of Kansas to be called quitters because they will support only winning teams? Certainly not.
Although no attempt is made by the valley coaches to develop players for the professional teams, this vicinity has produced many of these players. Kanas stands high in the number of men who have gone to the big leagues. This shows that the brand of baseball played in the valley is high grade. Authorities have said that college teams as a rule give better contests than those in the minor leagues.
The Jayhawker baseball team of 1926 will have a successful season if the students so desire.
HOWE'S HOBO COLLEGE
The 150 graduates were honor guests of the many hokos who had not passed the requirements. They were all happy.
Hobo college has held its first commencement and James Eads Howe is happy.
James Eads Howe, millionaire hobo, has done more than anybody else for the men who cannot claim a home. Several years ago he established his Hobo hotel and gave free service to the knights of the road. His college is celebrating its first anniversary with pride. Although 20,000 transient visitors attended and only 150 completed the series of lectures, public speaking classes and clinics, this percentage is far above what anyone would have figured for his success of the institution.
The college in itself is a mere hall in the district of the unemployed in Chicago. The men do not complain—they attend for what the college has to offer.
The graduates upon receiving their mimeographed sheepkins, voluntarily plied themselves to better their conditioning and to lead clean lives. This is Howe's goal.
Howo's Hobo college is not listed among the many over the country, but it is doing work as important as any. A much larger graduation class is to be expected next year.
Editorials From Other Hills
Wasted Efforts?
(California Grizzly)
We men and women engaged in search for knowledge too often have, but an imperfect idea of what knowledge means. We come to a university with the impression that an education consists in acquiring facts which may be called from their hiding places in future when they are needed. We be lieveth that a man increases in value to himself and to others in proportion to the number of friends he has. We pound away, diligently harrowing other people ideas to which we add now and then one of our own. We leave college, completed; confident that we have made the best of four years of learning, the world finds us comfortable settled in some office family engaged in disgoring our information. Thirty years more finds us comfortably set tled in a coffin, happy in the thought that somebody with a like amount of information is ready to fit in very easily.
Never once do we realize that education consists in being something more than a mere eranium stoker. We don't stop to think that information is but a means to intelligence rather than intelligence itself, by digging out from our brains the particular fact that we want to use with the mental process called thinking. Real thinking, so the wise men tell us, is the sorting of ideas into related groups, weighing their particular values, discarding the useless and developing the worthwhile. In short, thinking is what the sheep from the goats, but we must be able to recognize a sheep and a goat.
I wonder how many of us are really able, even when we realize the true purpose of education, to wisely educate ourselves?
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Lafarge in Lacerville, we visit Charter
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contributions to chartered hospitals,
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NEVER before has there been such a great travel "bay" as 'tap'! Imagines Sixty-day all-explores' tour to England, Holland, Belgium and France at a cost of one million.
Instead of just on early vacation at the mountain or sea-side this summer, why not go to the coastal district, depts. instructors, and their friends in Montreal, Canada Pacific state; Montreal, Canadian Pacific state; Montreal, Canadian Pacific state;
Opportunity to tour the eastern Canada. Romantic mottain and pittgettahine grouse, mountain goose and muskox resting in the back of the famous Mount McKinley on board a party plane. College dance band doh with party. Party. Party deck games, sports, dramatisms. Two-day dugout down the beautiful lilac风景. Drama classes.
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There will be a regular rehearsal tonight at 7:30 in Room 10 Central Administration Building, because of the Wango Panga practice in Engineering Auditorium.
T. A. LARREMORE, Director.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Copy registered at the Chambers' office until 12:00 a.m.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB:
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Vol. VII  Wednesday, March 24, 1950 No. 142
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CVL, Wednesday, March 34, 1926 No. 1
SIGMA XI:
THE Iota Chapter of the Society of $^{1}$ Sigan Xi announces the following public lectures for Thursday, March 27, 1920:
"Mechanical Force Between Electric Circuits"
450 p. m., Lecture Room, Blake Hall.
"Development of Power Transmission Systems."
800 p. m., Auditorium, Administration Bldg.
by R. E. Daugherty, Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Company.
GUY W. SMITH, Secretary
ZOOLOGY CLUB:
The regular meeting of the Zoology Club will be held Wednesday, March 24, in 304 Snow Hall.
W. W, NEWBY, President.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB:
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Nearly time now for the annual migration to "gay camp" in town, and most of the college fairs are going via
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Annual Sample Sale
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week we will give a sack containing at least 25 different kinds of samples with each purchase of $1.00 or over.
Only one to a customer. Get yours before they are all gone.
The Round Corner Drug Co.
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