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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. 1026
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief
Dick Matthias
Sunday Editor
Alan Vance
Monday Editor
Alan Vance
Irwin Phifer
News Editor
Kevin Dawley
Liverpool Editor
Ecsharan Editor
John Taft
Spirit Editor
Kenghua
Kenneth Ripson
Diagram Editor
Richie Platt
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS
George Carey
M. Koehler
T. C. Brayer
R. Robert L. Toussaint
Helen Clute
Frederick McNeil
Liae Louison
Wayne Grifflin
Warren Gribbell
Business Manager ... II. Richard McFarland
Editorial Department K. U. 25
Business Department K. U. 68
Entered as second-class mailmaster September 29, 1876. Appointed to the Department of Justice, Kansas, under the order of March 3, 1877, and was on Sunday morning by students in the office at the University from the Press of the Department of Justice.
YOUNG FOOLS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926
"The boys with money can afford liquor. They think it gives them the appearance of men of the world," says A. A. Dodd, principal of the Manual Training High School, in disclosing the violation of the Volunteer act in the Kansas City high schools.
Any young high school boy just weared into long trousers who holds such an opinion of himself is a young fool. If he thinks that the use of liquor will help him to take his place among the intelligent and respected, he has a great deal to learn. If he thinks that his acquaintances and friends will respect him the more for carrying a hip flask and staging drunken brawls at the parties of his friends, he is on the wrong track; he will find that respect is not earned in this manner.
Besides carving himself nothing but social ostracism in the long run, he will find that culture, refinement and wisdom are not to be his while pursuing such a course of conduct. The only reward is disaster. A man is known by the company he keeps, and a man of the world is not intimate with hip flasks and drunken brains—he knows too much for that!
The college student who *coordinates himself in the same manner belongs in the same category—he is still a young fool. He sacrifices profitable social intercourse with intelligent and thinking individuals for the inconsequential and futile rabble of his booze companions. He thinks he's smart when he has a hip flask to pass around; seemingly his acquaintances enjoy his generosity; but friendship established upon such a basis lays about as long as the supply holds out.
But it seems rather hopeless. Eyen after four years of contact with "knowledge, culture and refinement," alumni return to the University with burdened traveling bags which they guard carefully. Their conduct is not appreciated, only tolerated in the spirit of "fraternal love." These alumni still belong in the same category, though they can no longer be called young fools; they are just the common or garden variety.
GODLESS ACTIVITIES
The Oregon Daily Emerald, in its editorial "Much Ado About Nothing" which was reprinted recently in the "Editorials From Other Hill" column of the Kansan, has over-looked one of the greatest fundamentals of a university education in its blatant defense of activities. It contends that those students who are the busiest participants in extra-curricular activities almost invariably maintain commendable scholastic records.
There is no argument there. On our own campus student leaders in various activities make good enough grades. They prepare all compulsory assignments, and attend class fairly consistently. By doing the minimum of work that is required they manage to "get by" quite successfully.
But they have no time for the individual research work that suggests itself in different courses. To go more deeply into some phase of a problem that has interested them is out of the question. That meditation which is essential for the ultimate assimilation of knowledge finds no place in their diurnal program.
They find no leisure for comparing, evaluating, and correlating the heterogeneous mass of facts that have crowded into their harassed minds from a number of classes.
Education is a life process that should not be terminated with college. Interests should be aroused at this time which will persist and be followed up in years to come. Otherwise time spent in college will be just so much time wasted, for facts that are not fully assimilated and are stored away only until after the next final have no permanent value to the individual.
Those activities which promote general activity have a legitimate place on the campus so long as they are subordinate to scholastic interests. But when they reach the point of interfering with the interest or leisure of the student and force him to forego that research and rational thought and meditation which constitute the very essence of an education, they no longer justify their existence.
After all, a university can only supply the raw material of thought, and place the world's knowledge accessible to the student.
Editorials From Other Hills
Much Ado About Nothing
The popular thing now a-days is to pity the Joinsers—the activity men. On every side one hears wails about the Big Men on the campus who have no time to get an education. Here is the answer: Connecticut Wesleyan "Cardinal."
(THE ORIGINAL DATA ENTRAINED)
"I want to be a like you. Give me the opportunity to be a like you. Give me the opportunity to be a like you." We have plenty of intellectual imagination, so few ever have the ability to do it.
**Picture follow:** The overworked Senior. At a time when classes are most pressing restroom facilities, the team must mishap认识, mishap education, sports, clubs, societies, presidents, charisma, charisma. **Picture him falling down to that narrow book the kids are reading.** **Picture Po Pan Am, an in Professor Poon drama升 attendance for the Kournerade club.** **Solo the singer," I have everything!** **Picture the young woman at the gym.**
Very convincing at first thought; and so familiar that it might have been a voice from our own wilderness, that it was a moment before we pass judgement.
Perhaps those who have the greatest cause to weep and wall for loss of time are the officials of the student body, athletic managers, Emerald executives, and committee chairmen. Students must be one or more honor society, and are perhaps among the most guilty of the joiners. Yet glance at the "seundal sheet." Few and far between are the "F"s" and equally scarcely are the "Vs". While only two or three scale into Rita Kappa heights, for the students who are most hurt students are maintaining consistent, healthy scholastic records.
Now think of those who have recently departed because of scholastic reasons. Are they folk who have been engaged in extra-curricular activity? 72% of them have done so, and who have been in no activity of any sort—not even intellectual. Excep-
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The Lawrence Choral Union will meet tonight, Tuesday, Jan. 19, at the auditorium of the Liberty Memorial high school at 7:30 p.m.
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Vol. VII Tuesday, January 19, 1920 No. 94
ROPEAL UNION:
times, of course, creep in, but in the main an interest in most any phase of University activity will be beneficial to the student.
As for the thousand and one honor organization which come in for so much abuse—they too have their defense. Most of them promote genuine
intellectual activity; and while we are prone to scout when our vest has become heavy laiden, who can forget the thrill of his first honor fraternity election? If the societies be too numerous we should stimulate scholastic interests and the unnecessary societies will die a natural and harmless death.
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