PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN . THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1926 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAIR Editor-in-Chief Dick Matthies Associate Editor Jessica Kilimandou Associate Editor Alexandra Berry Campsus Editor Inex Pixel Editor Alumnet Editor Eva Bella Lawrie Alumnet Editor Eva Bella Lawrie Plain Tale Editor John F. Pritz Sport Editor Kenneth McShaughn Night Editor Flond Simpson Night Editor Flond Simpson **OCEAN BOARD MEMBERS** Ordersman Neil Smith Raymard Nichols Merrill Swanson Roy Cox Merrill Swanson Ilex Fiber Jace Brown Helen Clute Pete Clark Reed Chloe Plank Lacapita Warroy Griffith Marmara Warren Griffith Business Manager ... H. Richard McFarlane Editorial Department K. U. 2 Business Department K. U. 6 Refereed as secondhand mail matter茅特承森 (Mr. Sutherland) to the Secretary, Kansas, under the set of March 3, 1957, Rules and Regulations. Worked on Sunday morning by students in the veri- cation of Kansas, from the Press of the State of Kansas. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926 ABSENT-MINDED PROFS Good natured tolerance for the proverbal Rissent-mindedness of professors turns to angry resentment at this particular time of year, when required readings are assigned to classes and the books are not placed on reserve. Many are the transgressors in this category whose carelessness has lost multitudinous students endless time and worry. A student goes to the library with high hopes and lively interest in reading a compulsory assignment. Upon inquiry, he is informed that the book is not on reserve. Up three fights of stairs, he next investigates the card catalogue. No record of the volume is to be found. In a last attempt, he approaches the delivery desk and asks about the vagrant and elusive object, only to be told that out of the six copies in the library's possession, one is in the blindery, and the other five have been checked out. This means that five students out of fifty or more have monopolized all of the copies, and that the remainder of the class has no access whatever to the material. But quiz dates are invincible, and regardless of the insurmountable difficulty, professors continue to hold their classes responsible for library assignments on specific days. Furthermore, whole evenings are lost in attempting to locate references while other lessons are neglected. Absent-mindedness may be the traditional attribute of professors, but thoughtfulness is truly a cardinal virtue. ARE AMERICAN COLLEGES WORTH THEIR KEEP? "The American colleges are assumed to produce great national leader—trained men and women—as closely analogous to a ruling class as a democratic nation will tolerate. They are assumed to represent enlightenment, progress, culture." Such is the idea that Jesse Lee Bennett has of the American college today. In an article in the New Student "Are the American Colleges Worth Their Keep?" one finds many statements that are very frank and outspoken. In commenting on the "horde" that are turned out on the world from the American schools, Mr. Bennett has four classes of graduates. There are first, the sons of the powerful who find their places in the hierarchy of the ruling class; second, the shrewd and crafty, without parental support and influence who "play the game," and third, the average student who has equipped himself with a $p$ profession that manages to bring him a living in the middle class of Americans, and who looks upon his college diploma as a thing that gives him superiority. The fourth class is composed of an increasing number of befuddled and well-meaning types that find as time goes on that the influence of their college years has been disintegrating, and they are utterly unfit for life. American students are being criticized and condemned on one hand; on the other, there are many leaders in thought who have great faith in the youth of today. Such an article as Mr. Bennett's is a challenge. When he asks point blank, "Are the American colleges worth their keep?" it is time for the students to make an inventory of themselves and try to find out how much of what they are doing is really worth while. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING Steps have been taken by students at Coe College to abolish compulsory military training. School and state authorities denounced the action and declared it the work of professional pacifists. This is not the first college or university to make resolutions against compulsory drill; in fact the movement has become widespread. Motives of the student bodies in voting against these "conscript arrows in time of peace" are rarely studied. The faculty or regents nearly always endeavor to hush up the matter by declaring it revolt, unpatriotic, un-American. Several universities have abolished compulsory training, and in some cases have left the work in the curriculum, but only n course be taken by the free volition of the student. The University of Missouri, Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Arizona, and City College of New York are among the latest schools to attack this formal discipline. In these instances those in authority have put their foot on the matter. Of course, the matter has not been hushed. Deep in the hearts of these students who are revolting, burns the desire to get away from compulsory drill. Suppression of this revolt will not kill the movement. Righteous indignation will always find an outlet. Soon the authorities will be forced to give more adequate reasons than merely denunciating the work as "plainly the work of professional pacifists." WANING BASEBALL Three Missouri Valley schools have dropped baseball as an integregate sport, for this year at least. Two other schools have never had teams. Lack of interest and material has been given as the reason for not having teams at the latter schools. Professional baseball ruined college baseball. College baseball used to be in the limelight, but when the professional teams began to draw the college stars and developed a faster game, interest turned from the college to the paid teams. The college became a mere training school for the league players. Football has held the chief interest in sport circles in American colleges for some years. It has drawn larger crowds than all the other sports combined. In the past few years basketball has been becoming a more popular game and the number of fans has increased greatly. Both games are now being professionalized. Last year there were only a few professional basketball teams, but this year there is a notable increase. Professional football started this fall and, made prominent by the all-American University of Illinois player leaving school to play with a professional team, threatening to draw interest away from college football. Teams are organized all over the country and in the big cities the crowds flock to see the games. Professionalism takes the life out of college baseball. Many regard the advent of professional basketball and football teams and the great general interest in them as an indication of the downfall of football and basketball from the place they now hold in college athletics. It is too early yet to tell, but if the number of teams continues to increase and interest continues to follow them, in a few years they may follow the path of college baseball. WHAT CHANCE HAS LAW? The latest crime survey of Kansas City, Mo., reveals the astounding facts that a criminal's chance for escaping punishment for murder are 8 to 1; rebuffing 28 to 1; and burglary, 50 to 1. According to authorities in criminology, this is partly due to a revised attitude on the part of society in treating the criminal. Instead of protecting civilization against the law-breaker we are coming to the place where we protect the criminal from civilization. But back of all this is the fact that individuals have not received proper training during their youth. and when thrown on society to handle, society mites them and goes to extremes in trying to protect them, instead of meeting out justice properly. Almost any current paper contains a list of stories having to do with youthful criminals, "Student Held in Murder Case," or "Sixteen-year Old Bandit Caught At Last," are common headlines. Never before has the immature bandit figured so largely in the crime world as today. improper home training is given as the chief cause for this. Not long ago a prison chapman was heard to say, "What we need is not more penitentiaries, but more homes. Three-fourths of the inmates of prisons today come from broken homes." But even the more normal homes also come in for their share of condemnation, and according to a recent statement from Bishop Harry T. Moore, of Dallas, Tex., parents are to blame for not instructing their children in honesty and uprightness. "The child of today is just as good as the child of yesterday, but his influences are different. The boys and girls of today are not seen in church, but it is not their fault. The solution lies in the Christian home," asserts the Bishop. Thus really to get at the root of the trouble, the courts of today must dig with the home and its reformation, for as long as we have irresponsible, immature parents, how can we guarantee responsible and law-abiding youth? The future of a nation lies in its homes and families, and the conditions existing in them soon reflect themselves in the conditions of the country at large. Editorials From Other Hills Think for Yourself Think for Yourself It seems to be the impression about American universities that an individual is bighead, or that an individual is lowbrow. It has become a sacred duty apparently to be an unfaltering disciple of one cause or the other. Strangely, however, we must question the sincerity of these folk. The one another, sneering because both fail to attempt to understand the ideas of the other. Those people are neither intellectually advanced nor technically. They fail to attain true intellectualism because they deliberately fail to become spectators of all classes. Too much of our intellectualism opens the ideas of some free thinker. Too much of our Main Street scaffold mimics the criticism of some fanatical groups, and too much of our strife among the students of our state universities. We do disapprove of the mockery of it. Educational centers are supposed to aid and develop students and their work. Rhymes that may be recited to a dignified and expectant world at the time of graduation. We must appeal then to the students to think for themselves, and one must appeal then to the students to do individual thinking. We do not condemn these two groups that haunt our universities, Rather are these pseudo-highbrows and pseudo-downbrows to be dealt with kindly. We ask for the acceptance of being sincere, and not a group of soft nods, now expounding this doctrine, now arguing voicerely for that. We question the individual honesty of our students. And we care, we bow in undying faith to the sincerity of P. T. Barnum. There is not a college fraternity of good reputation today which is, not vitally concerned about the scholastic standing of its membership. It is also important that letter organizations are at present leading a movement which is gradually placing a premium upon the academic members in good scholastic standing. The Fraternity and the Student One of the best known of these fraternities has brought before the national governing body that carefully constructed report which recommends that the spotlight be thrown upon the scholastic character of fraternity and the distinction of fraternity membership. A man who cannot stay in college is worth nothing to his fraternity. This report advises that, "every chapter of a fraternity should have a course in theology or better than the average for all men in the institution where it is re- We believe that this progressive movement on the part of several fran At the Concert BY RUTH LAWLESS Mr. Karl Kusterstefan drew the maximum response from the University Symphony Orchestra in its concert Wednesday night. In spite of an hourlong performance by musicians played with a vitality and brilliance that was refreshing. The opening number, Nicole's Ovation from "The Merry Writes of Windsor" surpassed all subsequent selections in beauty of melody and delicacy of shading. A well mastered accent adds richness and full richness of the recurring theme. The facility with which sequences of melody were woven into unity in the Andante movement of Mozart's "Symphony in G Minor" was one of the most successful achievements of the program. Rapid completes played alternately by strings and wind merged single stream of interesting rhythms. M. Eugene Christy, tenor, once manned by Dean D. M, Seward, was very satisfying in Rossin's "Cujus Animam," a fervent supplication that demonstrated to advantage the vibrant fluency of his voice. Lutignin's "Ballet Egyptian," was a triumphant enduring for the orchestra, in which it achieved the most finished performance of the evening. Technical dexterity and accuracy of articulation were particularly marked in the Altire non troppo movement while in the Apollo movement was subtle. The melody was supreme. ternities represents the greatest step in further establishing the confidence of student and faculty bodies in the form of college fraternal organizations. The first business of a student in to study. Fraternities which breed that trismus in the selection of pleoganes can cause the unfortunate chapter organization. Check over the list of graduation candidates and you will find the majority of them are people who know how to study and assume the responsibility to prepare for graduation. They cannot make the grade usually fail by the wayside in their freshman and sophomore years. It seems that the Marquette interfraternity council could do much to cooperate with the national movement of fraternities, although accomplish would be to maintain a scholastic rating of all fraternies on the Hilltop campus each semester. Nothing could be benefited than the kind of competition this would bring about. These semester ratings ought then be published in the Tribune and carefully filed for record and reference. They would portray the real comparative strength of Marquette fraternity among colleges more to Marquette than it serves Marquette as a representative student group. On Other Hills A tradition 200 years old will be broken on April 22, by Harvard university when its debaters will travel across the country to meet the debating team of the University of Southern California, according to Conch A. Chandler, a graduate student spent eight months endearing to induce Harvard to come west. Professional Cards "It is a remarkable tribute to the debating standing of the University of Southern California that the Harvard team should select our men as players in the west." Coach Nichols said. The Charleston dance craze caved n the floor at the gymnasium of the MANGELI The EVERYDAY-AB kinds of beauty work done. Powder Box Beauty Shapee Phone 2185. 1025\| Mass. EYES EXAMINED. Glasses made. Law ence Optical Co. 1025 Mass. MARCEL APPOINTMENTS—Phone 1255. Expertized operators. Sample Barrier and Bath Shop. East Side, E-214. Mass St. R. B. HUTCHINSON, M. 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