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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1926
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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1926
THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH
The Days of Reckoning are at hand final examination dates have been announced.
Butterfly students pause in their play and scan the schedule with horror and amazement. "Two the first day," one moans, "and I haven't even read the text in either of them. The midnight oil for me. Why did I wait so late?"
Others, the wiser ones, who believe in preparedness, smile placidly at the terrifying edict and pass calmly on perhaps debating which course they will review the most, if at all. Cramping until late hours will be unnecessary for them, for like the five wise virgins with their well-filled lamps, they are prepared to meet their master.
THE SENATE AND THE COURT
The irreconcilables in the Senate have adopted the tactics of prolonging debate on the entrance of the United States into the World Court, while the Kansas City Star is printing front page editorials about the "league court," "entangling alliances," "Europe's muddle," "the great traditional American policy." The World Court issue is beginning to look like a good old scrap after the manner of the League of Nations fight. Which is not to be regretted, altogether. A fight is always good reading. But what the American public needs even more than membership in the World Court is an intelligent and lively interest in the affairs of the nation and the world. Great thanks, then, to the obstinate senators who are making a fight—hence newspapers stories—out of the World Court issue. The public only asks that they fight fairly, and the newspapers report fairly, so that we can become slightly educated, not completely propagandized on the issue.
Whether, as in their League of Nations fight, the irreconcilable senators, by prolonged debate and delaying the vote until March, perhaps, will be successful in delaying the measure is doubtful. The World Court situation is different from the League debate in one vital respect. That is the relationship between the president and the senate. Wilson was at odds with the senate that defeated his beloved plan. The Coolidge administration has a majority support in the upper house, as well as unusual public confidence.
OUT IN THE MUD
Missouri is out of the mud. There is now one long ribbon of concrete from Kansas City to St. Louis. Over the newly-paved No. 2 "airline" highway between the two cities a trail blazing car made the first trip Friday, completing a historic journey that marks the end of the mud age for Missouri.
Two years ago, when Missouri started her road campaign she was knee deep in mud. Kapsas laughed at her, and did nothing. Now that Missouri is out of the mud, the laugh is on Kansas, who is just where she was two years ago.
Missouri wants Kansas to build a cross-state highway. Such a road would of course benefit Missouri, but it would also help Kansas. Both states would draw more trade if a road were completed in this state. As it is Kansas holds the sack.
Through good roads the nation comes to know the state better Tourist trade, always profitable, favors good roads. Should cross-country travel be roasted around Kansas to escape the muddy roads or the jaywalk state, as has been suggested, the hen to the state would be incalculable.
Aside from this fact, good road benefit every citizen. Through cheaper and quicker transportation the farmer profits. This in turn help the consumer. In this age motor transportation, playing so large a part in the life of the nation, demands good roads all the year. A motivated travel depends on the condition of the roads.
Kansas needs a hard-surfaced cross-state highway. A leader in so many movements, Kansas has fallen behind this time. The people want good roads. They will get them eventually, but while Kansas remains in the mud the desirable trade may follow detours around the state.
FOR FREE EXPRESSION
A recent article in The New Student entitled "Laboratories for Student Thought" which discusses college publications of the nature of the Dove, is worthy of serious consideration. It seems that Kansas is not the only institution at which students feel the need of a medium which offers an avenue to those who would have greater freedom in the expression of opinion than the regular campus paper affords.
The other magazines of this nature are The Blaze, of Antioch College; El Giro, of the University of Arizona; and The Issue, of the University of Wisconsin. These publications have a common characteristic in that they "live from band to mouth" and attempt fearlessly to discuss matters of interest in a manner that challenges student thought. Two of the journals, one of them being The Dove, are in their second year, an indication of popularity that is significant.
Apparently, the comment says, the undergraduate is coming to a realization of the fact that he is not Racing life and its problems as frankly as he should. At least, there are enough individuals of this belief to make possible the existence of this new type of journal, in which independent thinking is a characteristic. It is significant, too, that the editors are no longer the co-called "radical" element in student life, but are coming more and more to consist in those members of the student body who are asked for their high character and fearless action.
These magazines have aided materially in stirring the undergraduate from the rut in which he was content to exist. It is possible that, with the elimination of undesirable features, these publications will occupy a more important place in the coming years than they hold today. They offer at any rate a medium for free expression of student thought than is practicable in any other manner.
But the Kansan Darst
The College of Emporia has passed a resolution which will keep drones out of the school who have come there chiefly to get on the athletic teams. When a student is an athletic hero it is hard for the faculty to tunk him, even when he needs it. Most boys who are destined as athletic shows signs of their ambition in the schools from which they come. Their previous grades—if any—indicate what kind of collegiate staff—also if any—they have in them. The College now proposes to reject the men who do not make good grades in other institutions. This is fine.
(William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette under the heading, "Good for College.")
A college is no place for the athletic hero, anyway. A college is a place where youths should go who are chiefly interested in things of the mind. If young people are chiefly interested in their bodies—let them go to work.
Why go to college? Books, the arts, and sciences and problems of the human spirit should be the chief concerns of young men and women who want a college education. If they go to college to sport around, to join a frat, to girl at about night, and do a
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The World Court Conference As Seen by the K. U. Delegate
This is the first of a series of papers by Food Bioscience, to submit the national introspective paper "A new approach to reducing food loss in processed meats," which has summarized the various aspects of the conference and has weighed its value in a review article.
lot of button-chiing, ugly, high-keying, neck-clutching dances or if they go to colleges to swell around and show off their hulking bodies before the multitude like prize buffs, they are wasting their own time and the money of their parents; which is not so important. But worse than that, they are wasting the energies of a perfectly good and often concreted college faculty which is in the teaching business not for the money that is in it, but for the good teachers can do.
What was the use of it, after all
In passing a resolution to keep on the obvious athletes the College of Emporia is doing a plus act deverifying of the support of the community. Lawrence and Manhattan papers dare not publish this!
What was the use of it, after all?
This is a good question to ask about all human practices and plans, both individual and collective, despite its skepticism and the ontinual supporter.
So it is a pertinent question to ask about the national collegiate world court conference at Princeton. In attempting an answer to it one natural challenge is that inevitably come out of conferences and other gatherings. These were two at the Princeton conference: The passing of a resolution directed to the president and the senate favoring an ordinance to give students into the permanent court of international justice, under the Harding-Hughes-Colledge reservations and, secondly, the formulation of plans and the election of an executive committee.
With regard to the first, it will be foolish to expect too much from it. No one thinks that the senate will reverently bend its car to and be covered by "the voice of the students" or "the voice of a highly doubtful) if many of the illustrious semanates will recognize the voice in its role of peace, so seldom has it been heard outside of the football stadiums. In the second place the senate is not for noted with an extremely plant ear, except at election time. It has become hard to understand from all sorts of organizations.
All that can be said at present of the national federation of the colleges and universities of the country is that it looks good on paper. To get it off
the paper will require great energy and patience on the part of the executive committee and the hearty cooperation of the individual schools.
The value of the conference can also be looked for in more general results than these. It did set a precedent, although those are common enough nowadays. It set the precedent of a nation-wide gathering of students to express themselves on a current issue of national life. Concerns raised by this conference have influenced the Princeton conferences—witness the thousand students at the interdisciplinary conference at Evanston during the holidays—have been held to consider the problems of race, war, industry and any other ailments of our world. But this was a conference on an issue which was being debated in the senate and twisted in the newspapers. It went about its work with great enthusiasm and aimed of having an influence upon the senate.
A final fruit of the conference should be the encouragement of the minitories on the campuses of the country who, in some unaccountable way, have worked up an interest in teaching mathematics to a world. They can feel that they have at last, got some recognition as a worthwhile part of student life. If we are willing, they have argued, to spend time and money sending *athletic teams* across the continent to represent our schools before the eyes of others, they may have opportunities of university life be given similar opportunities?
On Other Hills
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In a recent debate held at the University of California, the men's debating society, Congress, defeated the orthodox. The question was: "Resolved, that America should practice and advocate the ideals of a composite race." The women took the affirms and负着 the negative side of the issue.
An expedition to evacuate Armen-
gaddon, famous ancient battleground
in Palestine, was recently organised
by the University of the Uni-
versity of Chicago.
Tryouts for the Jordan River Reveal, a musical production, are being held at the University of Indiana.
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