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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1926
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief Dick Mathews
Associate Editor Jessie Edmondson
Fisher Publisher Fletcher
News Editor Brian Belle Lawrence
Alumni Editor Elain Dale Lawrence
Plain Tales Editor John P. Vail
Night Editor Fred Eisenman
Night Editor
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS
George Cayre
Ryan McDonald
Ian Smith
Joe Fischer
Jake Pflüher
Jose Tresca
Frederick Reeves
Russell Hays
Clifford Fenwick
William Ward
Ruth Lawson
Elizabeth Schroeder
Sunday Editor
Alice Van Mceen
David A. Bentley
Editorial Department K, U, 5
Business Department K, U, 6
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1926
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Reports that constantly deny other as to the conditions in Russia are always reaching us. Not long ago many papers in the United States published a dispatch from Russian, tending of precarious existence of Russian children who were forced to rob and pillage under the soviet system of government in order to save themselves from starving. In weird and hurdled terms the horrible conditions are pictured, until other countries have a grushes conception of Russian life and all that surrounds it.
Then Dr. Anna Louise Strong, social worker in Russia for four years, came to the University and reversed our whole idea of the wretched country. In her talk she pointed out that during all the time she spent in Russia she witnessed no uprisings or fighting, and that the Russian people had the idea that the United States was in a constant state of turmoil and civil war, gained from reading the reports of our strikes here. And she especially commended to us the "farm schools" for motherless and fatherless children which are maintained there. So there you are!
Of course it is possible for two people to be in the same community and see different aspects of the whole situation, but somehow it doesn't seem quite logical that one wouldn't see more than one side of Russian life after living four years in the country. Yet some of the most reputable metropolitan newspapers give us a supposedly accurate report which somehow doesn't jibe with Doctor Strong's version.
In the meantime the poor provincial Americans sit by and receive these conflicting stories, wondering which way to turn and what to believe. Indeed, it is worse than a cross word puzzle!
THE INFIDEL SCIENTIST
"The idea a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me." This announcement from the world famed horticulturist, Luther Burbank, along with the admission that he is willing to be termed an "infidel," a self nominated "infidel" in fact, bids fair to create a furnish in the religious world like that of the recent Dayton anti-everything upheaval.
A few weeks ago Mr. Burbank started the staid stand-pattern, so to speak, of our present day theology, who are and have been from time immemorial, almost, far above anything of an inquiring nature by calling himself an "infidel," "as a challenge to those who are asleep."
Upon what grounds does the so-called plant wizard appear to base his judgment?
"The religion of most people is what they would like to believe, not what they do believe, and a very few step to examine its foundation," are Mr. Burbank's own words in defense of his stand, and if the comment his "brazen outburst" has brought down upon itself from pulpits throughout the entire country is in any way indicative, he certainly succeeded in striking close home.
Not that all of the comment has been of a derogatory nature. Far from it. In fact, and this is the startling part of it, many of the most orthodox have agreed with Mr. Burbank, one even going so far as
to term him "the prophet of the coming religion."
Perhaps he was right. It is a fact that the world, the thinking part of it, at least, is allowing itself a great deal more leeway for free thought than formally. We are coming to the belief that if we are saved it must be by our own effects.
Last Friday night the two Christian associations gave a party at Robinson gymnastium and if attendance is any criterion it was highly successful. But the encubriding feature is not concerned with the attendees, but rather with the fact that the bars were let down and dancing was provided to the tunes of a six-piece orchestra plus a new Brunswick Panorama. The two associations have been suffering from emui for some time, and their health has been endangered by the progress of the times. Slowly but surely, student life has become less influenced by them. In some quarters and in the minds of students there have even been some agitation for doing away with such organizations. But the associations can serve a necessary place in the life of the student. But in order to accomplish their purpose at the present time, it will be necessary for the associations to populate themselves in some manner, and to recognize prevalent social tendencies. Perhaps it will mean some route of advance other than the old orthodox road; perhaps it will mean that they will have to appeal to the students through a practical religion. The problem is not solved by giving a party; but parties such as were given last Friday will help to accommodate the end.
Editorials From Other Hills
"Spoon-Fed"
Iowa State Student
High is the interest at the present time, the country over in "collegiate circles" in the matter of educational development. High is the "spoon fed" education idea
Probably the foundation of it all is in the fact that university and college are two worlds. Though there are still ones, and a good many at that, with the old idea, coming to the realization that college is not merely college for college's
For a long time, the college has held the position of being more or less of a cultural institution, doing little to break down the barriers that have trended. Business men have held the attitudes "Well, if you can forget what you learned in college, I will give you a job."
This idea, though, is failing.
College graduates are daily proving that the colleges of today are turning out more than school teachers and athletes, but in still, too many cases, college instruction continues along the "spooned" channels of old.
Two much of the so-called education of today is a matter of listening, soaking in, and then spilling it all on the paper with the final exam, and promptly forgetting all about the exam. You can get three or four or five hours credit.
Schools the country over are being subjected to student, faculty or alumni investigation into the matter of the "spoon fed" tactics.
At Harvard, the faculty has granted an unlimited cut privilege to all seniors in good standing. They are allowed to stay or less on their own responsibility.
It is settling down to a matter of investigating the problems of the college from the students' standpoint rather than from the point of view of the college as an educational man-acturing plant.
Who Is Fit for College?
Our Contemporaries
Dr. Howard Edwards, president of the Rhode Island state college, holds that higher education should not be limited to young people "who have made brilliant previous records." He offers three academic tests to determine the capacity of applicants for admission to colleges and universities are a "delusion" and do not permit an accurate measurement of ability. Time and extended and varied testing are required, he says, so that students who are able of higher training.
There may be considerable sympathy with such a view. Certainly, the intelligence test alone, and in the form in which it is usually applied, is an unreliable method for the measuring of individual ability. It does
The contest sound of the Men's Glee Club will meet tonight at seven o'clock at the Engineering Auditorium for rehearsal.
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BOTANY CLUB:
BOTTANY CLUB:
There will be an important meeting at 7:15 p. m. Wednesday, February 5, at 11:12 Louisiana. Doctor Shaffer will talk on his biological discoveries in Labrador. A short business session will follow.
MACDOWELL MEETING:
WILLARD CROSIER, president.
There will be a meeting of MacDowell tonight at 8:30, in the rest room of central Administration building. Special initiation service will be a part of the event.
FRANCES ROBINSON, president.
There will be a business meeting of Tau Sigma at 7:30 p.m. m. Tuesday at the gymnasium.
BETTY STIMPSON, predecl.
TAU SIGMA:
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA:
UCHESKA
The regular orchestra will be held at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon in Marvin Hall.
K. O. KUERSTEINE, director.
seem to have a value, however, as an aid in classifying students in college, and is used extensively for that purpose and for a similar purpose in the classroom. It is also the majority of city school systems. But, aside from the intelligence test, the need has become apparent for a more careful selection and limiting of students in most of the large colleges and universities of the United States. This is being led by educators generally and has been receiving considerable attention.
No widely accepted plan of selection, however, has been worked out. The need of it has developed only recently, mainly in the years since the first larger institutions have been overrun with students, and in many cases with young people who have demonstrated an incapacity for higher education, or lack of proper college education to every one of its members, nor does every individual require such training to do the work for which he may be best fitted, or for those between those who are fit and those unit for advanced education. A
young person's record previous to college age certainly should be taken into account. But it should not be enough that the record has been "brilliant" merely in books. Genuine knowledge and genuine education more than good grades or an acquaintance with printed pages.
Selection of properly qualified students for college is substantially an unvolved problem. But the existence of such a solution should be for a solution are beyond question.
PaKochanski, who plays with the associated student's concert series, possesses one of the most valuable violins in existence. It is one of the few real Stradivarius instruments in use now.
Sherwood Anderson, who spoke at the University of Oregon recently, said that he read little, but obtained most of his ideas from people. He confessed that he had difficulty in portraying women characters.
The faculty at McGill University Montreal, engage in interfaculty boxing bouts and debates.
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