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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1026
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Entered an invocation mail matter Tuesday morning, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1973. He and Sandy moveover by students in the Department of Kansas, from the Front of the Department to the Back.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920
EXPENSIVE DELEGATES
The Men's Student Council of the University recently voted to send two delegates to attend the national student council convention at New Orleans in the near future. These men are to have their expenses paid by the local council. Both of the delegates are seniors, who will go out of office soon and will graduate next June.
W. S. G. A., last spring, sent the retiring president and the newly elected president to the national W. S. G. A. convention in Eugene, Oregon. The retiring president relinquished her office and graduated a month or two after returning from the trip. These delegates' expense, totaling more than four hundred dollars, were also paid by the local branch of W. S. G. A.
The value of national convention such as these is not unchallenged the main object being to bring about an exchange of ideas and opinions and help to break down provincialism. It is often questionable whether the benefits derived from the delegates' experience will balance the expenses incurred in sending them.
The custom of sending two delegates to these conventions seems to prevail only at the University of Kansas. It is not commonly observed elsewhere. Why could not one delegate bring back the results of the conference as well as two? And further, would it not be more practical to send men and women who will he in school for at least a semester after the return from the trip and who will be in a position to disseminate the benefits of their experiences, if there were any?
The question is one which has been much discussed, and rightly so, for in reality the expenses are paid by the students; it is they who fill the treasury of the two councils.
In all fairness, it should be said that the councils accomplish a good deal of constructive work in various ways. But more could surely be accomplished for the good of the University if the money expended in sending one delegate too many in each case, were spent in some other way.
MORE STATISTICS
At Columbia University the men of the senior class are given a questionnaire each year. Coming from a school of such standing one might suppose that the answers were to be used for reference in the school files or that the purpose would be to find out how much the men had really obtained from their four years at the institution.
This is not the case, however. Such are some of the answers, "Of the 108 who answered the question, 22 averred they had never been blessed. Fifty-five believe in Platonic love, and 49 do not. The favorite girl's name is Virginia." Probably the time that the students took in making out the questionnaire was insignificant, but why should the man ready for graduation be devoting his time and attention to answering such silly questions?
Still, that may be the Columbia idea of serious questions. Let in hope that these questionnaires have proved to be of use for the university in the past years and that the one just made will find its place among the documents of the school.
OPTIONAL MILITARY TRAINING
Student sentiment against compulsory military training is continually increasing, and more and more colleges are bullying to get representative opinion among the men students affected by the operation of this "Pressurization" in colleges and universities of the United States.
The issue of The New Student for Feb. 3, carries a story giving the results of a vote taken recently at Ohio State University, which gives compulsory drill a severe blow when the men voted 19 to 7 for optional training. Only about one third of the eligible students voted, as is usual, but the vote seems to be representative of the disaffection exiting at other schools. Most of the students expressed favorable opinions toward some form of military training and said that they had received some benefit from such training, but that they were opposed to compulsory drill.
The vote was an allist: Do you believe in any form of military training? Yes 1544, no 260. Do you believe military training has a place in the university curriculum? Yes 1320, no 465. Have you received any benefit from military training? Yes 1131, no 654. How do you believe in compulsory military training? Yes 701, no 1060.
School authorities, "American" organizations, and royalty clubs have denounced this ever growing movement as plainly the work of "teens" and have attempted to curb it by forestalling the vote at some places, or ignoring the vote where taken. But indignant students and a few sympathizers are voicing their sentiments, in spite of the consequent effort to stop it.
The University of Kansas has no optional military drill, and has a small but very efficient Reserve Officer's Training Corps on the campus. This unit is growing every year, and the Kansas believes they could compete successfully against any unit in the country that is larger because training is compulsory.
PRCPOSALS ON CURRICULUM
The most essential need in curriculum-reform is a definition of principles, rather than a definite plan of study to replace the one now in use, according to the chapter on curriculum in the Durmont Report. The Committee of the Commissaries are given in detail in the New Student for Feb. 3.
The committee has net worked on a hard-and-fast, entirely new curriculum, but rather the principles that are to be applied to the present existing systems. The seniors of this committee believe that any curriculum to be used by a liberal arts college should be checked up with ten principles that they have found fundamentally important. They are:
1. That courses required of all undergraduates should be comprehensive enough in nature to meet he needs of the large group, and that or the most part they should be courses in background or information.
2. That courses that are designed or developing special interests or fields are required of the student.
3. That all required courses outside of the student's major field should be disposed of before the beginning of the junior year.
4. That no one should be graduated from a liberal arts college without a reading knowledge of some language other than his mother tongue and that that language preferably should be one of those in widest use.
5. That no one should be graduated from the liberal arts college without having had at least a year's study in the appreciation of literature.
6. That the curriculum should very definitely include courses which will present to the undergraduate some of the more compelling problems of society and the individual's relationship thereto.
7. That there should be a definite place early in the curriculum where conscious effort is made to train the student in the technique of thinking and to develop his ability to consider formally the foundation of his belief.
9. That because of the primary unity of knowledge it is desirable to
8. That throughout the undergraduate course the college should insist upon adequate written and oral expression in English under all circumstances.
new fields of work should be, where possible, through the problem method. In the four years that a student attends a college he has very little time to get all that is offered, but before he starts in his major field he ought to have a general background of information. A program resembling the one proposed in Dartmouth college should be drawn up with the idea that each year will be a stepping stone to the next, and prepare the student for something worth while.
study the sciences and the social sciences at the outset as unified fields. 10. That the introduction to the
This tentative program offers, certainly, an interesting field for study
Our Contemporaries
These Complex Americans
It is a human trait to generalise about a nation on the basis of slight equivalence with a few individuals who differ from the average article on Americans written by Count Soykochian, a Japanese who recently lectured at the University of Califor-
"While Americans are kind hearted on the one hand, they are extremely selfish on the other" (Masl American Society of Bioscience) "Are no philanthropic movements anywhere else in the world to compare with those in America. Some Ameri-
He does not like Americans because "most of them are arrogant imperialists" and "they do not value civics and humanity in their mouth". (A few Americans are arrogant immature.)
"Theirs is an intensely complex character." (No more complex than the character of other nationalists. Most human beings are complex.)
*Incommensality is observable in the matter of prohibition as well as in the matter of acceptance.* (Incommensality is a fairly common human failure; not公认 to Amer-
Having read these statements we might be tempted to retort that we
don't like the Japanese, that they are arrogant imperialists, selfish, complex and inconsistent. But recalling our insults to Count Josephinus were refractive.
Clad only in piemans, two members of the varity boat club of the University of Washington recently purchased a rooster several blocks. The man had broken into the cluck stairs and the latest encasement stopped this year.
The University of Utah and Stanford will give a debate Thursday Feb. 4, on the topic "Resolved that the freedom of thought and action of the younger generation in detrimental society."
On Other Hills
Saint Mary's College of California has set May 15 as the date for the ground-breaking ceremony of their new $2,000,000 University. A new site of 258 acres in the Oakland hills offers 13 buildings that will be built immediately at a cost of about $,553,000 from money raised by subscription.
The mustache fad is in high favor, at the Oklahoma Alabama school at the present. According to their school publication discussion on the subject is throwing Burbank into the background.
Scientific forestry is being demonstrated at the University of California on 320 acres following the gift of a million and a half foot board of timber to L. Pack of Lakewood, N.J., president of the American Tree Association.
A student at the University of Oregon died recently with spinal meningitis, and much concern was shown by the student body. Throat cultures were made of all exposed persons, and were found to be nematic.
The dean of physical education stated that there was little danger of a fire in the dining hall, disease and materials for moss and throat disinfection were distributed to all rooming houses. The disease is not spread easily because amounts of precondition are being taken.
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What is said to be the most complete one-volume anthology of short stories ever created has just been published by the *World*'s by the Robert M. McBride Company. It contains 177 stories, taken from 35 different literature sources.
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"There is now a German translation of "The Four Horses of the Apocalypse" the book in which the story was set," he added, linked to German military methods.
Literary "celebrations" for the year 1926 include: the tercentery of the death of Bacon in 1620; the bicentury of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" in 1725; and the centery of Couper's "The Last of the Mubienss."
"Tales and Shakespeare" by J. Middleton on Murry is the infect volume out of the past to be published, it is told to be not only a portrait but also a commentary on pietic thought and the philosophy of metoties.
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