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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1926
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1920
American papers may expect big news to break any day now. The Prince of Wales has recovered sufficiently from his last fall to remove his arm from the sling.
PHI BETA KAPPA
In the Campus Opinion column last Sunday appeared a letter bringing up the issue of the usefulness of the Phi issue of the usefulness of the Phi Beta Kappa society and asking why the Kanan does not discuss it and lead others to do so.
The Kansas admits that it ought to have done this sooner; there is not a more vital question on the campus nor one that, at certain seasons at least, provokes more private criticism—and less public expression; the latter probably because students who have a chance for election hate to spoil their chance and students who haven't are afraid of references to sour grapes.
Phi Beta Kappa is doing the very thing it awards its key to students for not doing: just as little as possible and still "get by."
Its purpose is to "promote scholarship and fellowship among students and graduates of American colleges"; and it is making a somewhat useful attempt at the former by recognizing students who make superior grades. Because Piha Beta Kapa is just about the only recognition of the quality of intellectual development for which the college primarily exists, the organization justifies its existence, although that is about all it does justify.
Many criticisms of the fraternity can be carried right on back to our system of education and grading. Even so, it has some responsibility for the condition. Every critic of this system will point out many disadvantages and faults; many professors lecture dryly, semester after semester, over the same material, requiring, at periodic intervals, "photographic reproductions" of what they have said; many place too much emphasis upon the knowledge rather than the use of it; individuality and incentive for real scholarship are killed by this system; grades vary from professor to professor; and so on and so on.
For these and many other well-known reasons it is pretty generally recognized that grades are not a very accurate way of determining scholarship. But grades are the only basis upon which elections to Phi Beta Kappa can generally be made? Who is more capable of judging a student than his professors? If others try it, or if his professors try it on any basis than grades, the element of personality will take the place of scholarship.
If grades as used now in educational institutions are inaccurate, if methods of education do not always make for better scholarship, then Phi Beta Kappa must consider the system of education, both in order to promote scholarship in general and in order to bring about a better basis for election. The members of Phi Beta Kappa should, all of the students and the faculty, be able to criticize our educational system, and to offer suggestions that will help make it better.
As to the fellowship which Phi Beta Kappa is purposed to promote, it is apparently doing nothing, when it should be functioning both for its elected members and for the large class of average students. In true fellowship each member should get inspiration, new ideas, and a better concept of culture from his fellow members. To the whole group of stu-
Acents should be brought a more vivid ideal of culture, of the real pleasure of intellectual and cultural development. Both might be accomplished through a series of open meetings, discussion groups, and the bringing 'n' of outside speakers.
Now, in a comparison of what Phi Beta Kappa is doing and what it essays to do, it can easily be seen that if the faculty members of the society would apply the same to the organization that they have for students' work, they would give 'a gradeaving from C-minus to C-plus for its work. Would the organization elect a member on an average grade of C?
To Phi Beta Kappa there is a challenge to function, to do something; to be something more than a decorative reward. What does the unman think about it?
It is reported that in Austria students settle their difficulties by award duels. As many as five or six duels take place in a week. University of Kansas politicians might save time 'y' trying this.
BUY A TICKET
Students will have a chance today and tomorrow to do their share in sending the glee club to New York by buying tickets to the concert which is to be given Thursday evening.
But buying a ticket doesn't mean merely donating a dollar toward the expenses of the trip, for those who attend this concert will see and hear the club at its best.
Indications at present are that the gymnasium will be packed when the men who are to carry the spirit of the dayhawk can open their concert. Students should snare no effort to make sure that it will be, for something else will be needed besides a full hill fold by the club when it appears in New York. That something can't be described, but every athletic team known what it is. The glee club will have it if the gymnasium is packed with loyal fellow students Thursday night, who show by their presence that they have the true Kansen spirit and believe in the K. H. simmers.
So aid the club financially by buying a ticket, and then give it a still greater boost by attending the concert.
A CHANCE FOR GOOD DRAMA
The presentation of "The Administr"
Wednesday night in the high school
auditorium will provide Lawrence
people one of the few opportunities
that have been offered this year to
see something really worthwhile, at
a reasonable price.
All year there has been a demand on the Hill and throughout the city to bring some high class productions to Lawrence, but to date it has been necessary to travel to Kansas City, or Topeka in order to get a taste of good drama.
Now the plea of students and townpeople for something worth going to see has been answered. The American Association of University Women has succeeded in bringing "The Admiral" to Lawrence with a cast which includes three well known players, and the prices are so reasonable that almost any student can afford to attend.
What will the answer be? If the students of the University take advantage of the opportunity offered, it will be a hearty affirmative, and it may eventually force the theater owners to realize that to win the patronage and goodwill of the students, they must give them what they want.
If a good drama is to be brought to Lawrence in the future, it is up to the University and to city people to prove that people want it had enough to buy tickets and attend. If not, then those interested in the cheap form of entertainment with which we have been forced to be content thus far will be vindicated and theater geers will either have to be content with low class musical shows, tent show companies trying to scrape a living and poor vauduille, or it will be necessary to spend several hours going to and from neighboring cities and pay considerably more to see anything decent.
The contact squad of the Men's Glee Club will meet at 7 o'clock in the Engineering auditorium tonight. T. A. LARREMORE, director.
W. A. A.:
WESTERN WORDS CLUB
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VII Tuesday, February 28, 1925 No. 117
There will be a meeting of the W. A. A. at 4:30 Wednesday, February 24.
PI LAMBDA THETA:
PLAMBIA THEATRAL
The executive board will meet at 4 o'clock. VIRGINIA DAVIS, president.
will be a special P. Lambia Theta meeting at 7:30 Wednesday evening at Hemley House. HILDA M. KOEHLE, recording secretary.
Campus Opinion
Editor. Daily Kansas:
For a long time the writer has wondered just what method the University administration has of checking up on instructors and professors and knowing what is going on in their lives, and what ones are not. In there any method by which such a check-up is made or are men hired because they are well recommended and kept on indecently, regardless of their ability; often seems that the latter is the case.
Most any student can point out an instructor or two, or sometimes a head of a department, who doesn't seem to know what he is supposed to teach, or if he does, is so poor at lecturing that he cannot understand what it is all about.
No doubt the dean checks up occasionally on the number of funks a professor turns in. If a large number are turned in it is taken for granted that the professor is a good one, and is eliminating the drones. On the other hand, if only a few funks come back from the course, they are rated as a good instructor, one who makes the course, interesting, and therefore has few funks.
Plain Tales From the Hill
Evidently the proposition is rather a difficult one, for the dean of the college can't go around and listen in on all lectures and grades the lecturer (and the University marshal has to come on the campus to tend to already.)
When little Audrey was at the university she was on the girl's riffle. After she left school and got married she one day placed a 12-
But it does seem repettable that an instructor who is inefficient, and incompetent should remain on the payrol from three to four years, simply by determining his value source. No other business is run that way.
M. R
gauge shotgun against her husband's head and pulled the trigger. Then she laughed and laughed, for she knew all the time it would kill him.
Major Cygon--I'd like to get my hands on the freshman who wrote that article for the Dove against military training.
Student—But, how do you know it was written by a freshman?
From the Lawrence Journal-World 25 years ago.
Major Cygon—He signs his name "The New Student."
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