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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1926
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Sunday Editor
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Sport Editor
.. Dick Matthews
Jessie Edmondson
Frederick McNeil
K Elizabeth Sanborn
Kenneth Simona
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Nadine Miller
George Calhoun
George Cahill
M. L. Lourdach
Dorothy Taylor
Burroughs Taylor
Edward Kinsall
Ebba Edison
Aru Levi Miller
Rialto Miller
Jennie Tucker
Taylor Jeffries
Jaffrey Ferguson
M. L. Ilias
T. M. Lilias
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Returned an second-class, mail master stopper on July 15. He was returned to Kauaio, under the act of March 3, 1907, where he resided until his death on April 8 and is Sunday morning by students in the department at Kaunei, from the Frank of the Department at Kauaio, from the Frank of the Department
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1926
AT LAST—GOOD WORK
First of all, we feel that the Women's Self Governance Association has taken a definitely progressive step in taking over the job of conducting election campaigns at the University of Kansas. Somehow it makes us believe that the students at K, U, are on the right track toward their goal of representative government. In this policy, W. S. G. A. is to be commended, and the Men's Student Council, it is to be hoped, will in this one case put aside their usual precedent of independence and follow the women.
For a long time this University of ours has not had fair student government. The legislative organizations of both men and women have been dominated by first one party and then the other, and the spoils system has enjoyed an uninterrupted stay. Personal favoritism, based on party affiliations, has made appointment a mere formality. And often such political crimes as graft, stuffing the ballot boxes and miscounting of votes have occurred.
For some reason or other, the administration has been fit to let this system of things continue and allow the students to go the limit in their unethical political practices. Has this been a worthy influence on the lives of college men and women who are to become citizens of a community after their graduation? There has been nothing clean, wholesome or even educational in the method of elections the University has followed.
W. S. G. A. plans to run candidates for the various offices this spring without party affiliations. The nominees will be chosen on their individual merit, alone. Why cannot the Associated Men of the University adopt a similar plan?
One may well ask the question, why not? The political "bosses" of the Black Mask and Pachacamac parties, who accept their positions as a means of putting forward their own selfish motives, will doubtless have many arguments against changing the present system. We may well anticipate that the most emphatic argument that the "bosses" will raise is that there is no other system which would be practical. We will attempt to answer that question in advance and will propose a system of primaries in which elected representatives from various groups of the campus would nominate any number of candidates at open convention, and narrow the number of nominees for each office down to two by balloting. This plan would necessitate the organization of groups of men, similar to W. S. G. A.'s groups. Without much difficulty these groups could be built about fraternity houses, boarding clubs and large rooming houses.
The Kansan invites discussion of this question through its "Campus Opinion" column.
EDUCATIONAL EMAN- CIPATION
Various systems of regulating class attendance and for giving upperclassmen freedom in regard to acquiring their education are being tried out at various schools and universities over the United States. Recently Harvard and Yale enunciated their seniors from compulsory class attendance, and a hearty greed of approval greeted the movement.
Students, instructors and administrators are beginning to realize the inadequacy of the lecture method and
the undesirability of the cut system.
Students are growing tired of listening, abasbing and then reproducing with almost photographic accuracy the words of instructors. Educational enunciation will give the student a chance to feel himself.
Administrators of colleges will be forced to make fundamental changes in the curriculum and classroom methods. Under the present system students have almost a dead routine for lectures and studies each day. To concentrate on a subject one must study and think of that study in terms of days, weeks, or perhaps longer. To profit the utmost from study, one must concentrate on a subject for at least a day at a time. Under the present system this is not possible. He need not study the same subject the next day. Perhaps it would be better if he were studying in three or four fields.
These proposals for concentrated study in given fields and freedom from lecture periods will only appeal to the rarity—the real students. The man engaged in extra curricular activities depends on the lecture system to produce this knowledge for him. This minority should be allowed to follow an independent study system and be given a comprehensive term examation.
Some instructors at Kansas are realizing some of the weaknesses of the prevailing system, and are giving the upperclassmen more freedom in their work. But we still have the cut system. The next move depends upon the administration.
A good share of criticism has recently been voiced about the untidy condition of several vards at the north approach of the campus. Chief among these eye offenders are "Brick's" Cafe and Rowlands Amex. Gum paper, cigar packs and candy wrappers are scattered in disorderly profusion over the grass plots in front of these places, and create an unfavorable impression on visitors of the University.
DIRTY YARDS
Carelessness of some students upon leaving "Brickle" is responsible for the waste wrappers which decorate these yards, but pride of appearance should enable the owners of these stores to force their student customers to refrain from throwing trash on their lawns. In wet weather these untidy yards present a doubly bad appearance, and are surely not in harmony with the well-landscaped campus of the University.
Little time and care would be needed to clean up these "uglies" and it is up to the students and the owners in co-operation to engineer it.
IRISH SOFT SOAP
Believe it or not, hundreds of people are bowered by the beech each year to kiss the Blairstone Bay. In the days news attention has been called to this historic spot of Ireland by the death of the owner of Blairstone castle, Sir George Colthurn. His elder son now becomes Sir George and takes over all rights, including movie rights, to this much visted place.
It is not only the chanters of "Eri Go Brah!" and the wielders of the shillah who have strong faith in the Baracay Stone. The number of tourists who indulge in this stony ocelot whereby the kisser obtains a rare ability to flatter, increases each year. Among the visitors there must undoubtedly be a host of real estate agents and bond salesmen. America has an institution something of the same type, only soft songtone is used.
Nitn't it a fact that in this world of ours a great deal of the trouble always present is caused by little things? Things that are out of line with the general run of affairs and that apparently seem unable to get in line?
SMALL BUT POWERFUL
One of the best examples of this is the minority of college students who persist in breaking laws and who are constantly getting into trouble over it. It cannot be denied that this minority is present in any educational institution. It is to be found there just as it is where any group of people is assembled.
The most discouraging fact about this is that it is their wrong doings that get the publicity that hurts the
institution. We do not hear much of the good things that are done. There was no big front page story on the Christmas candle fund that is really a fine and constructive thing. But let a student get into trouble and the fact is broadcast to the world. A distorted view of college life may easily result. And it does much real harm in the college itself. The evil minority can very easily undermine the good work of the constructive majority. Stringent steps must be taken to abolish it if the good of the institution is to be promoted.
Editorials From Other Hills
Education
We talked to two seniors who are leaving the University of Missouri this semester.
The Columbia Minorsian
"I shall miss the football games, the Missouri spirit, the friends in my particular school, and all that, but as much as anything I believe I will miss the libraries," and one. "I have had no many opportunities for reading that I could not take up, but that I have recall any especially 'wasted hours' for I've had my son and my woe, and its all a part of the game. But there was the comfortable feeling of knowing that usually, along almost any line I wanted to study, there was material in the University Library of Columbia, and my Home town is much larger than Columbia, and it has a Carnegie library, but I know it doesn't have the facilities of the University Library, and it will probably be many years before I'm again in a place which has. I have acquired some information to get more." The Other's reply was an commonplace, but indicated that he agreed.
A R T
We have an idea that those seniors had an education. We don't know their grade—at least not many of them, but we suspect those marks were probably ordinary. Nevertheless, even if those seniors didn't have whole heifolds of nemorized information, the desire for it was at least intentionally designed. Their development from now on will not come at the same steady rate at which it has been administered in the University, but it will come.
They want it and they have received valuable suggestions as to where to get it. If every senior could say in response not the state's taxes will withstand
Primitive Art Today
The spirit of the primitive art forms in the five battles of Edgar Miller, Chicago artist, on exhibition in the central administration building, is no more ancient than the artist's own feeling for the simplicity and strength of these primitive patterns. This is an important aspect he visited the campus Friday and Saturday. For, he holds, man's immortality lies in his aesthetic sense.
Three Reasons-of the five battles on exhibition two are solely design work, done on george whitney's book *The Battles* would make. The battles on cotton impress the causal observer as reproductions of the primitive art he is in museum from museums and history books.
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The process of making battiks—a method of staining and stencling on cloth—was introduced into Europe by the Dutch after they took possession of the British island of Bonaire. Yet the battiks at today, at least those of Miller, are not merely reproductions of primitive art forms—cows, birds, horses, women, designs. The battik process, the primitive color technique, is a way in which through which he expresses a living art experience—in the present case largely a feeling for form. But this art experience is essentially the same as that of the original artists who reconstitute their works using battik tools, Miller insists. Of course the forms meant much more to these early artists than to the modern painters, in such other life experiences as domestic life and tribal custom. So run one painter's theory of
Besides the battles the exhibition contains a few samples of Miller's ink sketches and his etching. The drawings show how special merit, the three or four woodcuts on display are imaginative and mystical-spirited studies in black and white.
While many psychologists would take up their cudgels against Miller's conception of an aesthetic sense by which appreciation of certain forms and colors is made inherent in him, it is interesting to note what is actually going on in the art field, as illustrated by the adaptation of hamilton's modern art and by the various "primitive" elements in "modernistic" art.
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Modern painters sometimes find in their efforts to express themselves that they have produced an art that in its simplicity and naivity resembles the primitive and ancient forms. One of the results of this kind of art is the modernistic art as "crudes," "queasy," "award," "inartistic."
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