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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1926
University Daily Kansar
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSA
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1926
"MAKING THE GRADE"
At the end of every semester the argument as to the value of grades in determining student rating is started afresh. The average student will say grades mean nothing because it is the collegiate thing to say. The flunker cynically points out that grades mean quite a bit to him. The conclusion reached by those who analyze the situation are good is that the grade system is not an adequate criterion but is the best developed of far,
Those who favor the present grade system contend that a student works harder if he has the prospect of a high grade as a reward. They hold also that it separates the brilliant from the average and the unfit. Others point out that grades can be used as a guide in employment. The arguments against the grade system include the use of questionable means of securing the grade, the evils of craming and the personal bias of the instructor. Lastly, it is argued, a grade is only an instructor's opinion and is likely to fault as anyone else's opinion.
A number of Hill instructors insist that there is only a passing grade and a failing grade. They contend that the object of the course is to benefit the student, and that the real test of passing or failure is in the mind of the student and not of the instructor. They believe, however, that the student viewpoint is not yet broad enough to grasp this and until it is broader we must continue under the present questionable standard.
EDUCATED FEET
Seven hours and forty minutes and the last woman dropped out, but on went the men to the glorious finish.
Another physical feat has just been completed and the "believe it or not" column will have something to talk about. Three men danced the Charleston for twenty-two and one-half hours continuously at a contact at the Roseland, a Broadway dance hall, Tuesday evening. It was a test of physical endurance, and one wonders if the men were really human. The three orchestras were exhausted and one thousand photograph needles were used, and the contestants danced away the soles of their shoes.
Is this a test of physical endurance or a test of mentality? What had these men gained after the race was halted? Perhaps they will receive an offer to the movies. The public seems to like more foolishness for its own sake, and if the foolishness wears out the entertainers so much the better.
THE OTHER SIDE OF MILITARY TRAINING
In a recent issue of the Survey Magazine John D. Kinderline defends the idea of military training in schools and colleges. His arguments are not for enforced training since, he says, that is up to the school of the state wherein the school is located. He opens his argument by saying that it involves the lives possibly of several million young men. If the United States should again go to war, this time without and one-half years' notice, it is highly probable that many young men would be slaughtered because of their ignorance of military matters.
He attacks an article on this sub-
ject written by Winthrop Lane be-
cause Lane says that military train
makeers soldiers of the students.
This is not the purpose, Kinderline says, the real objective being to provide material from which soldiers could be made in a hurry. He also says that military training does not teach the students to think of war, but that it does develop them physically, mentally and marvelly.
The war department, according to the article, is not a tyrann trying 15 force military training on students. Enforced military training is established by the state or institution. Also the war department has issued a statement that it favors military training for the greatest number of students considering the available personnel, funds and equipment. As to the future, it is difficult to imagine the war department being overapplied with funds.
"THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STILLMANS"
Psychology did it. Another sketch featuring Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stillman in "recollection" is being presented at this time aboard the steamship Olympic. The Stillmen are the same pair that have been messing up the front page of newspapers for the last five years.
Now after all those years of litigation and incintimation, the happy pair are united and on their second bourney moans the customary rice and old shoes. Steaming out of the picture of public interest, they make their last bids for front page space by admitting that "psychology did it." Mrs. Stillman has explained how the mental science enabled her to come back to victory after "her life had been smashed like broken crackery." Through her interest in psychology and psycho-analyses she was able to patch up relations with her husband and hopes to make over his life as she has made over her own. Psychology of course is a wonderful method of making over one's own life, but very little is being said about what psychological resources are being used to recompose the Stillman children for the notoriety they have achieved through their parents' exhibitions.
College students should find some consolation in the fact that even while they study, far out on the broad and leaving Atlantic, Mr. James Stillman is being taught analytical psychology by his wife—at least so a New York newspaper learns by radio.
Editorial of the Day
The Rigor of Reading
As the head of a friendly rival university President Lowell may have left an obligation to match President Butler's cute remarks on current reading habits with comments equally diverse. The students of Colombia that the stuff nearly everyone is reading is trash, President Lowell informs the overseers of Harvard that the average student does not know how to read a book.
Since President Battler devoted an annual report to the glory of Abelard he seems to have acquired an immense disdain for the contemporary art world and does not be first rate. Give your days and nights to Addison. Cultivated minds waste no time on the rubbish of the day, but hold fast to what has proved useful in many ways. It is probably classic; Greek and Latin professors no doubt can tell what ancient writers expressed it. Of late examples there is the dictum of Charles Warner that it "lives upon all the intellectual sin to frouder about blindly in the flood of new publications;" considering that "the work is full of books of the highest value, entertainment, and its formation."
Having by chance got hold of a book, the college boy, if President Lowell is right, does not know how to read it, cannot even follow the directions that freshmen can understand the meaning of particular things "when pointed out to them;" they may be grateful to him for this general concession. The only priggrish saying recorded of Sir Walt Scott, who wrote to the president, isn't that how ignorant these boys are! Perhaps the two college presidents are a shade superiors in their efforts to life undergraduates to their own standards of taste and learned penetration. As an antidote to the freshman's perceived lack of delivery this judgement: "Readin' ruts the mind."
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
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VOL VII. Monday, February 8, 1926 No. 15
Copy received by: VOL, VII Monday, February 8, 1926 No. 105
MEN'S GLEE CLUB:
The following members of the Men's Gke Club meet at Squires at 12:30 Tuesday for pictures. Be there without fail and on time. Wear tuxes.
--ing candidates and if election were more than popularity contests.
Does this seem to make for efficiency in student affairs and to be protecting the best interests of all the students?
The writer has asked several of the HII "politicians" what they consider to be the value of University politics and if they think that it is not worth their effort. Most of them agreed, first, that it gave them excellent training in dealing with men and women and, second, that it is the most efficient means of filling student positions at HII. In other words, and would be sound if a major of the student had a part in selecting candidates and if election were more than popularity contests.
First tenor—Ayera, Courtney, Frets, Fry, Celt, McNeil, Ogden, Roberts, Stephens, Tunning, Second tenors—Curtis, Durand, Carew, Fugel, Gruntz, McKeevon, Noah, Rice, Story, Wright, Brittones—Bratton, Hawklin, McGill, Needham, Poplar, Splervier, Swichten, Zinn, Bames—Lull, Mansou, Moody, Povey, Rymdahl, Skore, Seymour, Smith, Snyder, Accompaniment—E. E. Laurenture.
T. A. LARRIONE.
*E. E. Laurenture.*
PGI_KAPPA_DELTA;
If the purpose of the two parties is to conduct popularity contests every year and to bring into office those men and women who are popular with them, then you will be punished because they are capable students, then they are being successful. In the past, however, it has seemed that whether or not a man had ability to make a good executive was not considered. If he was an idiot because he was "worse getter."
Campus Opinion
Kappa chapler of Pai Delta Kappa invites all members of Pai Delta Kappa in K, U, to meet with them Wednesday evening, Feb. 10, at the Colonial Ten Rooms. A report of the Eleventh National Council will be given at that time. Dinner will be served at 6:30, at 50 cents per plate, on Friday, February 26.
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To the Editor:
All of this is good. At least, it seems to have worked after a fashion in the past. Neverthick, before anything is done by either of the two parties this year. I have a few things should like to say.
Since I have been in the University (about three years) I have noticed that for several weeks after the beginning of a campaign, Hilli财政官 start their hand-shaking campaigns in preparation for the spring election. About this time each of the venerable old parties begin to sharpen its eyes for a campaign, so the students upon which to base their meaningless platforms. At the same time political leaders begin to worry about what offices they owe to this or that fraternity, which is intended to support the participant party.
In my opinion, the present system of politics at the University is shooting wide of it mark and risking damage to the purposes which make politics necessary and desirable in student affairs. As it exists, the system today is inimitable even as a system of politics.
The former reason, however, is true and sound under the present system. But it is quite objectively because the students are so confused to such a small percentage of the student body. University politics might well be called "practice" politics, but only a very small number of them have any opportunity of participating. The fault is in the fact that the two small groups of men which meet in the dark of night select the candidates and their political views. They choose their choices. The practical political experience comes in their trying to get the largest number of students to vote for their particular candidates. The other group asks about these two groups of men.
Does this seem to make for democracy among the students on the University of Kansas campuses?
The writer is an exponent of the old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and believes that measures should be taken to improve or to abolish the present political system before the two parties begin to line things up for the spring election.
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