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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1926
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief Dick Matthews
Journal Editor Jessica Gustafson
Commission Editor John Lawn
Sustainer Dianne Chipotle
Start Editor Kenneth Koehler
Start Editor Peter Kreiss
Summer Editor Prebenck McNeil
Foreword Editor Frederick McNeil
Platinum Editor Robert Tompkins
Finance Editor Daniel Hewlett
Teachership Editor Udrey Filon
OTHER BOARD MEMBER
George Carson
Ryan Richards
Mary Nichols
Alice Van Mussel
Tiff Fischer
Iris Fischer
Ella Bole Insurance
Ellen Bole
Clayton Fitch
Hilary Hayes
Business Manager ... H. Richard McFarland
Entered on second-class mail matter New York, December 31, 2015. Received by Kavanahan, under the act of March 3, 1987. Received on Monday, April 6, 2015. Received on Sunday morning by students, in the University of Kansas, from the Press of the Department of Kansan
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1926
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"Statesmen—even the greatest—have rarely won the same unquiescing recognition that falls to the great warriors or those supreme in science, art or literature." The artist, the scientist, the warrior are measured by definite achievements. The general commands an army and he succeeds or fails quickly, the men of science or art frequently succeed within a life time but the statesman may never know the value of his work.
"For the statesman there is no such exact measure of greatness." His success depends upon the way in which he has shaped the policy of a nation and wielded a people's spirit. Only the passing of time can tell of his definite success. The greatness of Lincoln seems but to increase with the passing years. The work of Grant, Seward and Everett, his contemporaries, were measured during their life time and they have taded from the public's mind. Misunderstood during his life, Lincoln seems to grow into reality as our country takes form.
Lincoln, believes Lord Charwood (his English biographer), was one of the few supreme statements of the last three centuries, and he has not yet come into his own. "His place is among the great men of earth. To him he belongs by right of his immense power of hard work, his unfastening pursuit of what seems to him right, and above all by that childlike directness and simplicity of vision which none but the greatest carry beyond their earliest years."
RELIGIOUS WEEK
This year the committee in charge, realizing the deep influence of the church in the life of the students before they come, after they are here and after they are graduated, has extended an invitation to the ministers of the state to come and spend this week of February 16-18 with the University. The Lawrence Ministerial Alliance is also aiding the Christian organizations with the plans.
Each year the student Christian organizations united plan a week in which there are a number of addresses by an outstanding speaker The University as a whole has always endorsed all the work of the groups in the week.
As the outstanding speaker this year the committee has been so fortunate as to secure Dr. Albert Parker Fitch. He is now Professor of the History of Religion at Carlton College, Northfield, Minn. Doctor Fitch is the author of several books.
With such a leader as Doctor Fitch, the Kansas ministers with us, and a program that should be of general interest, any student, no matter how he feels about religion, will surely find time to take advantage of the rare opportunity to attend these meetings.
The Institute of Religion that is being held in connection with religious week is designed to reveal to the clergymen present a better conception of what influence the church has and should have on the students of a university.
With three main addresses, numerous forums, and special conferences, the students and faculty with the minister guests can make this week one that will be most profitable and beneficial to all in attendance.
MAKING THE COLLEGE REAL
To counteract the unreality of schelastic knowledge, the great indictment against the modern college Jerome Davies, in the Century, suggests that students be brought in touch with realities of life as it exists with the concrete experiences of the laboring class, and thus be made to see at first-hand some of the complex problems of our workday world. This, he believes, will make the intellectual side of the college appear attractive.
In the modern college there are too many who consider the scholastic side nicely a necessary civil accompanying the real interests of the other side, "the real college life," athletics, fraternities and clubs, movies and social life. This is a situation that however unwillingly all must admit exists.
From all sides come charges that the college as exclusively a world of intellectual pursuits is rapidly becoming extinct. Even ex-President Eliot of Harvard says that the students of today pass four of the most precious years of adolescence without any intellectual intercourse to speak of.
It is to bridge the gap between reality of student activities and the theory and facts of the intellectual campus, to make the present abstract studies as vital and as absorbing a reality as activities, that Mr. Davis suggests his plan of students "rubbing elbows with reality."
To illustrate, he mentions the Collegiate Industrial Research Movement, organized in 1920 as an experiment. The organization gathered a score of women from different colleges and set them to work at common labor in industrial Denver with instructions to seek the truth and impartially study both the capitalistic and labor side of industry.
After a summer of work of this "rubbing of chooses" with the real things of industry the views of the students changed. They understood the laboring world and its problems, and as its oppression and undeclariability became clear they had a new outlook on life. When they returned to college the curricular side of the exams was real and attractive.
Applying a similar test to the University student body somewhat the same results are noticeable. A survey of the campus shows that the students who have been face to face with the reality of the industrial world are, in general, the ones who see reality in the intellectual camps. They are the ones who participate activities to scholastic work. Study is vital and red to them.
The plan seems good enough to be given a trial, at any rate.
THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE
A much-discussed and sadly-needed project—that of a municipal swimming pool—has been brought to the force again, this time by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Whether some definite action will at last be taken in regard to this question is problematical.
There is little doubt that Lawrence is sadly deficient in the matter of a modern and sanitary swimming pool. The indoor tank at the Chamber of Commerce building is hardly large enough for the children who patronize it in summer. Similar conditions prevail at the University pool which must be largely reserved for students and limited groups of townpeople during the summer months.
Only two alternatives remain—the river and Potter lake. The former is obviously out of the question. It is notably unsanitary and dangerous. University officials have made every effort, with limited resources, to better conditions at the lake, but still there is vast room for improvement.
In the first place, the lake in too small to fit the needs of the many who wish to use it; and, in the second place, the sanitary conditions are desirable.
Some time ago, it was planned to make the lake over into a modern and satisfactory pool. Other plans included a proposal to turn the south section of Central park into a pool. Both plans have apparently been abandoned.
itted. The need for a centrally located, sanitary and adequately sized pool is recognized by everyone. That some action should be taken soon is imperative. It is to be hoped that those who have this matter under consideration may come to a favorable decision and evolve a plan whereby a municipal pool may soon become a reality.
Thus the problem remains unset
Our Contemporaries
IC's a Condition We've Heard of
Before
Before
(The Korean City, Wan)
Prof. E. A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin says there are as many as a thousand buffers attending that event, but the university would be a better university if it were a smaller one. He would like to see only current students thrify for knowledge, in its classes and in what of a university ought to be.
That's what all human society ought to be, we suppose. There ought to be nobody but good people in the church and nobody but statesmen in congress and all football teams should be made an exclusively of Red Granges.
But it isn't so. Alas no. The people who don't seem to be ready for the university, the church or congress are very much in the majority and there are some alarming indications that they are growing more so. Yet they insist upon going to those places reserved, in theory, for better people they are even crowded. As Professor Rosa says, in the case of Wisconsin, they mugs so much racket that even those who want to study can't do it.
What's the answer? We wonder, if we reduced the universities, the church and congress to bodies large enough only to accommodate the fit, wouldn't there be a tremendous start that the little leaven prepared by Professor Ross's method would be entirely in it? It seems probable. Yet if the must be taken in, it doesn't matter. The talling and tiring to run the shop. When we can't quite classify an evil or find a remedy for it, we generally get it off our hands by putting it aside and letting it grow. You know the formula—the fat goes with the bean. Probably that's what this condition at Wisconsin is, if Professor Ross will permit us to suggest it; just another defect of democracy, or for him to know what to do about it.
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Campus Opinion
To the Editor:
C. R. GARVEY, president.
An example of the term "Educated ignorance," may he seen at every basketball game. It seems as though there are always a few smart boys on the sidelines who must feed it their curiosity, and then distance of distance of team. They are the type of fellow who goes home at vacation talling the world that he is a college man, and they are educated. They are the wiser-ones who pull the time-worn trick of knowing prepares them for challenges in real halves. Surely they do not realize that one penny on the gym floor might cause a player to get a hard fall. And of course they wouldn't be expected to take into consideration the feelings of the people who are trying to benefit. No, their minds are too shallow for that. All that they can are capable of doing in to annoy the people
new them, with their munduked also know it. The big hemen also know how to swear, which they do quite often, showing that they have no regard for the women who cannot help but hear them.
R. S. V. P. with money only
Well, here's the hoping that the three mit-wits who have disgraced all of us in my section will read this and think about them. Perhaps it would be of use for them if they could realize that the article had any reference to them. E, P.
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WHEN style is combined with quality and long life, as it is in a Stetson, there can be no question as to the hat you should wear.
Saturday night, February Thirteenth Nineteen hundred twenty-six
STETSON HATS
Styled for young men
Varsity Dance at F. A. U. Hall
FIRE SALE
Beginning Friday, February 12
On All Stock in the Store including
Party Favors Leather Goods Decorations
Blank Books Ream Papers
Fancy Stationery
V A L E N T I N E S
All-Year-Round Cards
A. G. ALRICH
736 Mass. St.
Phone 697 202 West 6th St.
Lawrence Sanitary Milk & Ice Cream Co.
Valentine Specials
Heart Center Bricks Individual Cupid Hearts
Honey Dew and Pineapple Sherbet
Peanut Brittle and Green Gage Sherbet
Vanilla and Strawberry Vanilla and Chocolate
Carmel Nut and Honey Dew
Vanilla and Black Walnut
One-Flavor Bricks
Chocolate Black Walnut
Prune Honey Dew
Sherbets
Miscellaneous
Orange Pineapple Green Gage Lime
Frozen Fruit Salad All Flavors Punch
Creamed Cottage Cheese
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Big Reduction in Closed Car Prices
Effective February 11th
| | New Price | Old Price | Reduction |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Tudor | $520 | $580 | $60 |
| Coupe | $500 | $520 | $20 |
| Fordor | $565 | $660 | $95 |
Demand for Ford Closed Cars since the improved types in colors were introduced has been constantly increasing. With greater output of these types production costs have been lessened and it is the policy of the company to give its customers the benefits of all such reductions.
New Open Car Prices
Touring Car—$310 Runabout—$290
Tractor, Car and Truck Chassis Prices Remain Unchanged (All Prices F. O. B. Detroit)
The Davis & Child Co.
Authorized Ford Dealers
1020 Mass.
Phone 77