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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1926
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Payer of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief Raymond Nichols
Associate Editor Warren Griffith
Associate Frederick McNeil
Buffalo Editor
Assistant Sunday Editor Kaitlin Sanders
Jennie Tucker Lawrence Pipen
Kevin Golightle Charles Rowley
Ped Kolfer Chrieve Rowley
Gertrude Seary Floyd Binney
Jonathan Shanks Loren Grant
Jean Hamilton Larene Grand
Tom MacFarland
Business Manager ... H. Richard McFarlane
Editorial Department ... K. U, 2
Business Department ... K. U, 6
Entered as superintendent, mail matter supernumerary. Supervised students in the classroom, retrained, koreans under the act of March 3, 1987 and the Sunday morning by students in the classroom. Visited the Press at the Department of Journalism.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1926
TO WORSHIP OR TO LOVE
Whether we shall honor the roes of our country by worshiping them as gods, or by loving them as superior human beings seems to be a question constantly brought before the public.
A news story printed in the Kansas City Times of Feb. 19 represents one point of view:
"The whipping post for Rupert Hughes was urged by Robert O. Jones, former secretary of state of Idaho, before a lunch club here (Everett, Wash.) today, because of the novelist's recent remarks concerning the life and actions of George Washington."
Rupert Hughes has recently written ten about Washington, pointing out that he, like other men, had some ways that were not altogether pretty Mr. Jones, representative of the thought of many men of the country does not take issue with the facts but throws up his hands in horror that anyone should question the godness of his worshiped hero.
At the opposite pole are men like Rupert Hughes, who believe that facts are important. If we cover up the hero's failings we are doing the same thing as exaggerating his accomplishments; and we are taking away from him his reality and individuality and his definite achievements by making the story of his life impossible. At that rate, eventually, he will become a myth, a sort of god who has done something great, even though most people don't know just what.
Surely more respect and honor will be paid the man who is known to have been like most men and yet unlike most men, have given great service in spite of human weaknesses. Tomorrow is the birthday of George Washington. Let us pay him homo by keeping an honest memory of him fresh and vivid.
Reasoning from past experiences the United States should ponde lengthily before selling the world any more democracy on a charge account
THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTE
THE RELIGIOUS MATRIX
A petition presented to Chancellor Lindsey Friday by those attending the first assembly of the Institute of Religion held here requested that the occasion be made an annual one, and incidentally expressed appreciation for this year's meeting.
There is little doubt that the ad ministration will comply with the request of the institute if it is at all possible. The University should extend cordial welcome to an annual gathering of clergymen on the Hill as she does to all groups which gather here in order to gain inspiration through talking matters over.
The institute fits in admirably with religious week activities on the campus, and not only the clergymen of Kansas themselves, but also the students of the University should derive benefit from the visit of the ministers.
By all means, the Institute of Religion should be made an annual afair.
THE CHANGING PURPOSE
A member of a board of education of an eastern state recently criticized the methods used in many higher educational institutions in this country which replace vocational training for the development of liberal culture. He declared that if vocational training were to become the dominant purpose in our American
universities and drive out liberal culture, higher education would be pure bosh.
His frank criticism was startling, but it brings up a vital problem of educational institutions.
The aim of the university has always been the highest possible development of the man himself instead of more preparation for a job Cultural and intellectual development has been emphasized at the expense of vocational training.
When we look into the educational systems of present-day America under which we labor with little chances to develop our creative individualities, we cannot but realize that they are missing the real purpose of university education. The problem of how to make a living wellshadowbe the art of how to live.
The Department of Commerce has announced that in 1925 American frank more tea than ever before and that imports approached 200,000, 400 pounds.
A TEA-SIPPING COUNTRY
If there are those who doubt this high figure, let them just consider the new status of tea as the most popular beverage among organizations at many universities. This estimate is certainly not exaggerated as far as the Hill is concerned, and t seems plausible that the University of Kansas is typical of others in he country.
Every week the calendar of events appearing in the Kansas contains a list of teas, some held by sororities, therbs by departmental organizations, and most of the rest simply by groups if individuals who feel they really must have their "dish of tea."
The increasing number of "ten" may probably be attributed to the act that ten lacks the objectionable features which get coffee frowned upon by those who must have a hot drink, and yet provides somewhat he same stimulating and warming effect on the drinker.
Those who are inclined to doubt the statement of the Department of Commerce concerning the increased consumption of tea need only to spend a week on the Hill to be convinced that if other university consume as much of this beverage as Kansas students, there is little doubt that this country as an enormous consumption. We are certainly doing our part to help tea importers.
Helen Wills seems to be doing a pretty good job of representing the United States on the World Court
Book Notes
"The Breadgivers" by Anzia Yezier ka, Doubleday Page and Co., New York.
The scene of the struggle of the laughters and their fervently religious father, who keeps up his study of Hebrew and English, and his voluntary praaching, as well as his numerous lodge dues and his daily three meals by means of the meager wages of his daughters—the ministrals, is in New York's East Side.
Upon a theme that in America is annually expounded in autobiographical best magazine, biographical books, the American magazine, and the Ladie Jane Journal, namely the immigrant author Yaziera Yaozierca, has written an interesting, though not unusual, novel. Perhaps her greatest achievement is steering a little farther away from the standard account of an immigrant's rise, with its frank self-organization and its moral drawback tendencies, than usually does. The story usually does. The story of "The 3readigers is not so much the story of a rise as of a struggle between in old world Russian-Jewish father and his four daughters of the new world. The prize for the girls is the living in the motion with one daughter. One daughter works with another with the tyrannical Reb Snowlinsky.
Reading the novel is like listening to a keen, black-eyed Russian Jewess tell in unpretentious English the story of some interesting and tragic lives in America. It is no more than an immigrant colony in America, as well as in some American homes.
"The Breadgivers" makes no pretense of being great fiction—perhaps that accounts for its readability. It is interesting, if not new, that is stirring, without being a Sunday school paper story and is pleasingly told in the language of an immigrant who engages constructions with English words.
Campus Opinion
ditor Daily Kansan:
A few weeks ago the action of a student who, declined election to the Phi Beta Kappa society created a strata of national scope for a little while, and even brought forth an expression from the national secretary of the Kappa, which would there be some productive talk on the HII about the matters involved. The Kansan has given the subject little attention beyond an able defense of the sincerity of the dissension that he had public has no opinions in the matters except in private discussion.
Are we afraid to tain about it? At least some of us are members of the society are not satisfied that it is doing what it ought to do, or means that we are not benefiting for the right of a student organization to exist in the University; nor do we agree with the more or less contemptuous rejoinder of the national students to the few students who decline its election to membership. If that is its attitude toward honest criticism from the students, to whom it is by no means an unimportant matter, certain scholarship is the highest ideal of scholarship.
Two points of its procedure are involved: the method of election and the service rendered, other than election, toward appreciation and realization of scholarship, both within its leadership and among students in "general."
I have heard a good deal of vigorous criticism of the society and its methods among students, and not a little from members of the faculty as well. Why does not the Kansan lend into a discussion?
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Fitch the other morning gave a speech unusually liberal, far more so than the average on such a subject. However, even he not only gave contradictory logic, confounded him, but also was rather romantic at times.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Perhaps in fairness to all parties concerned it should be stated that this was not written by an athlete, a funeral minister nor a number of the Dove staff.
Here is some of his logic. He stated that man must accept all human experiences to a large degree on faith, and give some definite illustrations. I can't say whether Dr. Fitch's mind has experienced the numerical realism, or two or three times he has experienced the fact that an object cannot exist and not exist at the same time. If such logic is correct it would appear that there are at least a few things that need not be accepted entirely on faith, or supplemented correctly, or correctly, that man should walk in the middle path, between sentimental religion and blind atheism, supplementing with a statement that man should follow a "reasonable religion." But then went on to useness, "because the reasonable faith was the middle path and the "reasonable religion." Who is to define the word reas-nable? Can it be assumed that a religion is reasonable that accepts God on faith? In spite of his statement that man should follow the middle path he left soon for agnosticism nor panentheism.
He said that "a man is either a brute or a fool no. to be terrorized by nature." And then by his own statements and logic owed (by tell-tale examples, which they faced their death), that the victims of the Titanic were either brutes or both. I am sure that Dr. Fitch is another a fool nor a brute, so must, by accepting his own logic, conclude that he is terrified by nausea; that he is insolent in sonship, that men cannot always comprehend the nature and experience of others, I can assume that Dr. Fitch fails to see the viewpoint of the paucasist that does not feel the need of fear, and that his fears and desires to be compelled
Even with his contradictions Dr. Fitch was an improvement over the average convoction speaker. Let us have more speakers of his伯声. V. E.
It must be admitted that Dr. Fitch has a universal taste in literature even though he seemed blind to the incongruity of quoting the atheist Shelley with Wordsworth to describe a religious state of mind.
Avoiding the apparent meaning of the article in the Dove to which he referred he illustrated his own point about the need for the audience to be sinceré, honest, and all absorbing efforts—leaving the audience to infer that if their efforts could not go by the name of holy nothing should. Men also have been absorbed, and since they are less involved, However, their devotioned to their work does not lessen the absurdity of their aims which are not borne out in nature.
There will be a Full Glee Club rehearsal, of all members, at 2:30 p. m. tuesday, in the Engineering audition, to prepare for the coming benefit
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 11:00 a.m.
LARREMORE, Director.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB
Vol. VII Thursday, February 19, 1925 No. 115
Copy received Thursday, February 19, 1926 No. 113
Vol. VII
Masqueraded as Boy in Jamaica Church Choir, She Now Belongs to Victorious Men's Glee Club
Later she went to the famous St. Bartholemew's church chair in New York City where she received further training under Arthur Hydre. Later she taught a music tuition voice in the Danzschach School in New York City.
When the war broke out, she married Prof. T. A. Larsenrone, who was then a first lieutenant in the sanitary orps. Together they went to Alburno, Pa., Washington, D. C., Alexanla, La., Columbia, S. C., and then to Washington. On this trip Mrs. Larsenrone sang four nights a week in the
Mrs. Larrimore was born at Jamaica, Long Island, and there received her first lessons and experiences in voice in the choir of the Episcopal church, where her father was organist for 25 years. She was able to sing in this choir only by distinguishing as a boy, as it was a boys' chair, and although she had not been taught many causes many personal interviews she was able to hide her identity.
Much has been said lately about the University Men's Golf Club, what its individual members have been doing, and how streamlined everyone is working to make the trip to New York a success in every possible way. Yet there has been one name left almost entirely unmentioned. This person, although as yet very little has been said about her, has worked hour after hour, helping not only the entire golf club but each individual member, in an effort to enable the club to achieve the honors it now has and to aid it in achieving higher honors in New York.
This person is Mrs. Amy Larronee, wife of Prof. T. A. Larronee, who is director of the University Men's Glove Museum and has varied and interesting experiences, and has studied with a number of contemporary artists.
Y. M. C. A. camps for the entertainment of the soldiers.
At the close of the war Professor and Mrs. Larloremom moved to Eugene, Ore., where Professor Larloremom was associated with the University of Oregon and Mrs. Larloremom resumed her college education. She was solist and director of the Episcopal church choir at Larloremom's home, but that she was chapereus to the University orchestra on both the Oregon coast trip and California trip.
At this university Mrs. Larremore became a member of the social security, Alpha Phi, Mu Phi Epsilon, mulinium society and journalism journal. From Oregon she went to New Orleans, La, where she resumed her studies in the Sophie Newcome College and was soloist and conductor in New Orleans. From New Orleans the Larremore's came to the University of Kansas, where Mrs. Larremore again resumed her studies in the School of Fine Arts and was graduated from this school.
Each summer Professor and Mrs. Larmore return to New York to visit the parents of Mrs. Larmore. On their trip trip last year she studied in the West Side Unitarian church and gave regular concerts from radio stations WEAF and WJZ. Mrs. Larmore also gave a joint concert at the summer session at Columbia University Rosser G. Cole, Chicago composer.
Mrs. Larrmoreme has been so interested in the work of the Glee Club that she has given free voice lessons to members of the club who had predeceased her. She has been faithful in her attendance of the club rehearsals and has given helpful advice to the club as a whole and to its individual members.
The Art Crafts Guild of Chicago Announces Its
Via Canadian Pacific
Collegiate Tours to Europe
A 36-Day, Personally Candicated, "All Exposure" Tour for $855
J. L. Brown and H. W. Ehlers. Phone 1145, 1145 Indiana
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FOR EVENING WEAR CHIFFON
NO.1921
— $2.00 —
Innes Hutchman & Co.
England - Duxbury - North
Special Glee Club Dance
Monday Night—Washington's Birthday
F. A. U. 8:30-11:30
The Date Rule is Off
The K. U. Sun Dodgers Nine Pieces
Proceeds to Help Defray Expenses of the New York Trip
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Call Her Today --for the Varsity Dance
Saturday Night Feb. 27
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Will Furnish Plenty of Music
Jimmie Mitchell's Eight Piece Orchestra