PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1926 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSA Editor-in-Chief Warren McGriffich Associate Editor Warren McGriffich Commisitr Editor Glenn Frosty Editor-Principal Alcee Brown Teacher-Editor Nathan Burnett Teachermotif Editor Frederick Mackenzie Sunday Editor Frederick Mackenzie Sunday Editor Frederick Mackenzie Alumni Editor John Shirley Alumni Editor John Shirley Officers, Johns Hopkins, Mary Eleanor Hall, Joseph Doyle, Rebecca J. Lawson, James F. McKinnon, Jennifer L. Mason, John F. Part, Robert H. Southern, Belle Chao, Richard M. Nicholls Business Manager H. Richard McFarland Editorial Department K. U. 25 Business Department K. U. 66 attend an early morning mail matter Sep. 9, 2017. In the morning, Kirsten, under the umbrella of May 3, 2017, met with students from the Department of Kastanian, on Sunday morning by students in the department and students from the Department of Kastanian, from the Press of the Department THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1926 French prime ministers in the official chair are much like the small boy who picked by the teacher. They don't sit long. "APPLE POLISHERS" Have you a little apple-polisher in your class? The "ample-polishers" are those obnoxious persons who rush to the front of the room as soon as the whistle blows and begin talking to the professors. Not that the talking to professors is a sin, although some of the latter seem to regard it as such. The obnoxious feature is the motive for which they talk—n grade. Look around in your next class and you will see them, talking about golf, chickens, or babies, according to the professor and his hobby. The problem is not as amusing as one might think. It has developed to such an extent in some universities that university authorities are taking steps to prevent its continuing. The main objection to the practice of apple-polishing is that it prevents seriously interested students from making important questions. Although after long practice the professors became able to detect an apple pollinator on sight, the latter appear to be persistent beats, and something in the manner of insurance salesmen, or the litch, they are not easy to get rid of. He who says K. U., hasn't any time-honored traditions is all wrong. Every year, since time almost immemorial, the seniors have petitioned the members of the faculty to don caps and growns at commencement time. VALUE OF SELF GOVERNMENT Students of a little denominational college in the East have gone or strike because the president refuse to grant their request for student government. The move was ill-considered and will probably have little effect in bringing the self-government that is desired; but it furnishes food for thought. For what a different attitude is in this from the one held by the great mass of students on the Hill. Student government is taken as a matter of course. It is something that we have had for a long time and thus something in which we no longer have a serious interest. But if it were refused us or taken away, what an outwey could be raised. Those who need least attention to it would be the first to clamor for some method by which students could control their own affairs. It is not creditable that we have made so little use of the instruments that we possess. Few students have even a knowledge of the constitutions of their respective governing associations. True, they make rather tiresome reading, but it should be one of the duties of a student to know the rules under which his government exists. When it comes to active participation, there is a small group who are greatly interested in politics, either because they are trying to get something for themselves or because they are really sincere in trying to better the conditions that exist. And yet this government that we have, that we take as a matter of course, is something for which other students will go on strike. PLATFORM PLANKS Four weeks from today the Hill will be in a flairy over the annual spring popularity contest. "Campus politicians are holding late meetings to choose the contenders for the great event. They choose the most popular men, men that are 'sure to win.'" Herefore in Hill elections the platforms of the two parties have been minor considerations. It has been the "candidate that counts," the popular man that wins. Platform planks have been about as strong as a sheet of paper; they have failed to support anything. Last spring a little advance was made. One or two real issues appeared in the party publicity, but for the most part the platforms were political brunch, sugar-coated propaganda artfully presented to draw votes. Most of them had no bearing on campus life. Reform in student politics that has been demanded and promised for so many years might well start this spring by making party platforms mean something. Vital and worthwhile campus issues supported by candidates pledged to carry out the planks would prove that the parties are of some worth. As they have existed their need has been questioned. Now is the chance to show that they are not altogether useless. "The material for a team is not as good as it has been in future years," says the Journal-World in discussing K. U.'s baseball team. This is sufficient grounds on which to predict that last year's team will be a big failure, in spite of the fact that next year's team was a success. INSTRUCTORS WHO STEAL What word shall be used, if not a ugly one, to describe the action of the instructor who habitually, day after day, keeps his class from two to ten minutes over-time? He not only stalks time from the students in his classes, but he takes it from the other members of the faculty. All classes under such instructors follow a fairly close formula. The class assembles, waits nine and three-quarter minutes for the instructor to appear, and then when he arrives, the class must wait twenty or thirty minutes while the safety valve blows off. Finally he settles himself to the subject and begins giving solid facts and important matter in cannon ball fashion. Twenty minutes later the whistle blows, facts come faster and the class is held over for ten minutes. This is typical of the way in which some instructors steal time from one another and from their students. Instead of using the fifty minutes allotted to them for their lecture period, they prefer to start their lectures at the close of an introductory mouth exercise and run the class ten minutes overtime into some other instructor's class hour. The University whistle supposedly marks the close of the class periods. That seems simple enough to even be understood by an instructor who wonders how his students reached college. Editorials From Other Hills The legislative committee of the National Congress of Teachers and Parents recently presented a report to the convention of the National education institution, in which the statement that the present invasiveness is not due to the generation of youth, but "to the fact that we are in a transition period, from the small town era to, the era of big cities and urban areas of human activity." We might ask what solution for the crime wave the writers of this report anticipate when the so-called era of big cities and automobiles arrives. If as much as possible we do not have a period of transition, what may be the extent of crime when the great centers of humanity finally do occupy the center of the national stage? Because after all what is more conducive to growth than mobilies, and furthermore, do not these big cities exist and reveal in crime at the present time? The Vindication of Youth (The Daily Illini) All mechanical and industrial engineering students are urged to attend a joint meeting of A, S, M, S, and A, I, E, E, at 7:30 tonight in the lecture room, Marvin hall, Mr. Robinson, of the General Electric Company, and the training dept. of the dog will speak OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 11:30 a.m. A. S. M. E. Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 11:30 a.m. Vol. VII Thursday, March 11, 1926 No. 133 BETA_CHI_SIGMA: There will be a meeting Friday, March 12, at 8 p. m., to welcome all members. F. E. POTTER, Pres At the Concert (By Miriam McClelland) Sacha Jacobeen, young New York violist, appeared in a recital last night which left the audience expressing admiration for his technical performance, but not the instrument, and inspiration that music from such violin as he played C. R. GARVEY, President His first number, "Pneudium and Allegro" by Pugniani-Kreisler, was given with a powerful mastery of the technical features of the piece. music from such a violin as he played on should have aroused. The last number in his first group, Pagamini's "Carriage," was arrogant, mishevish, and hauntingly sweet by turns. But in this number he lost some of the high notes and blured and flattened a few others. *Adagio*, Tartini, in which the rich full tenons proceeded in measured time, displayed effectively the marvellous tonal quality of the instrument which His second number, Meldonssheim's very beautiful "Concerto" was disappointingly similar in all three movements; the second movement, the impression, that indefinable touch the lack of which is expressed by the saying, "There is no soul in that music." The first movement, "Allegro moto vivoce," was the most impassioned. The very lovely show "Andante" is the second movement. The third, Allegro moto vivace, vivacious and spikering, showed very well the artist's amazing precision. His last group was composed of modern selections. The first number, "Cherry Rip" by Scott, was engagingly sweet and simple. "Waves at Play" by Grusso, was a tone picture in which the eccentricionary, and well emphasized character, swells as the waves as they run up to the shore, hesitate, and break, running back on themselves. Schubert-Spalding, "Hark! Hark! the Lark," was eloquent with a deep throbbing tone. The last number in this group, and the last number on the program, "Rondo Capricciption," by Saint-Sauni was the one number in the recital in which Mr. Jacobson allowed himself adequate expression, and full of contrast, the piano and violin alternating in carrying the melody. The second and last encore,"Danny Boy" was delightful. Mr. Jacobsen was very easily assisted by Mr. William A. Parson, at the piano. Mr. Parson gave an intelligent and well balanced accompaniment which succeeded in supporting and emphasizing the truly beautiful tones of the violin. Plain Tales From the Hill The Kansan-Ames wrestling match was half over. Kansan had lost every bout. The hunky Ames grappler now had his Kansan opponent heaving for breath beneath him, his eyes wide and his mouth all the side line crenched, and --only the puffing of the wrestlers interrupted the silence. It looked like another easy victory for the Ames team; the crowd waited the end. Suddenly a piping voice from the barny hissed the Kansas man's name. Our selection of Easter Cards will please you. UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE Harl H. Bronson, Prop. 803 Massachusetts Free Gold Fish See our Windows tonight for particulars The Round Corner Drug Co 801 Mass. St. Phone 20 IKE'S IKE'S IIKES "The Town Pump" Has Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies in St.Patrick boxes As Free from substitutions and imitations as Ireland is from snakes. "Get up," it said, "get up, you're wanted on the phone!" In the course of collegiate contests, the MacDowell Club decided to hold its regular meeting the members thereof prepared a feast the afternoon before and showed it away in the rest room of central Administration, where the meeting was to be held. A junior, seeing the feast thus prepared and feeling deeply locked in the process of the rest room to await the time of meeting and then passed on to his other duties. When the members of MacDowell arrived at 8:30 for the meeting, the door was still locked. MacDowell did not meet that night—and neither did it out. If you like QUICK SERVICE and A TASTY LUNCH We Have Them Both GEORGES LUNCH Along with the Coming of Springtime You'll find that now's the right time Even if you come late at night time to stay at the Blue Mill For one of a dozen different Dainty Sandwiches served with Chocote, Tea, or Coffee OR TRY OUR WEEK-END SPECIALS Blue Mill Sandwich Shop 1009 Mass. 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