PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official Student Paper of the University of Kangsu Editor-in-chief Amuseable Editor Brian Krawiter New Editor Mary Lee Rappaport Sigourney Editor Martell Snowman Tiffany Editor Hazel Flechter Trickleback Editor Jen Sneath Tickleback Editor Owen Church Evan Brown Johnson Mary Lee Rappaport Sigourney Editor Martell Snowman Tiffany Editor Hazel Flechter Trickleback Editor Jen Sneath Tickleback Editor Owen Church Evan Brown BOARD MEMBERS Carl Coffey II I. Winston Crower Hilary Brown I. Winston Crower Nivea Merrell II I. Green Levy Wendy Dulbury I. Wendy Dulbury Wendy Dulbury I. Wendy Dulbury Bakinswa Managee ... John Floyd McCom Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, Kansas Phones Federal department K. U, 22 Business department K. U, 60 THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925 With other people, the Koumba is awaiting the decision of the supreme court on the present difficulty in the University before commenting upon it, in the hopes that the court's decision may serve to clarify a situation which is at present much involved. "A drop of ink may make a million think" that your pen is leaking. Many assignments do not make a full quiz book—unless they have been read. Radio fans listening in on an orchestra miss the best part of the concert in not being able to see the antics of the conductor. RADIO INSTRUCTION Diver Broadcasts from Bottom of Ocean - headline. And now we are expecting to hear some radio fan assert that the words were hardly dry when they reached his ears. Radio broadcasting of educational courses is a distinct step forward on the path of learning. Persons unable to attend colleges and universities will be assigned materially in their search for knowledge, and simply by "tuning in" may hear lectures identical with those presented at the school. Our own University radio station, KPRU, at the present time, offers courses in elementary Spanish and educational psychology. Other courses are planned for the future, and ar attention will be made to make these and interacting. Reports from the approval of the project. They testify, also, to the benefit derived. Spanish, or any language, taught by correct pronunciation is rarely successful. The instructor must be heard or full benefit from the study not obtained. The radio eliminates the former difficulty, and the student may, by careful attention, obtain an excellent idea of the spoken language. And it would seem that this is but a beginning. If Kupanas didn't raise the best wheat in the world, she could still beat of her humper crops of reformers, politicians, granshoppers, poets and other such creations. SIMPLICITY Americans are a democratic people. They modeled their government in the interests of economy and simplicity, as far as possible from anything amacking of formality. They regard with scorn the ceremony and ritual involved in procedure in some of the European nations, but— at the governor's inaugural next week two new members representing the people of Kansas will meet and with due formality do what the people of Kansas have already done—east their vote for president. Then from their number one will be selected who will at the expense of the taxpayers of the state go to Washington to meet with the representatives of forty-seven other states who present their votes to the electoral college. The electoral college will officially, ceremonially, and unnecessarily inform President Coolidge of a fact he has known for nearly three months, that he has been chosen president of the United States. Yes, we are democratic. We believe in abolishing all ritual, all formality, and all useless things in connection with government. Never put off until tomorrow who you could leave until the next day. "Are there any questions on what I have covered so far?" asked the philosophy professor after a lengthy discussion of Cartesian dualism. There were nocey and the bared intelligence at the intelligence of his class. GALOSH! The "swish-swish" one hears all day long in the library now isn't all due to the rapid page-turning of antique distraction. Gabunes, hundreds of pairs of them, flop back and forth; row and student students start from their concentrated study, at what seem to be moments chagging his heart in a mid-air only pair of junty, shuffling galoshes with rattles buckles. Parents should be keen with pride to find the daughters, a few years ago, had to be spiked for not waring their robbers, now easily enveloped in these squamous protective skin of the sky shows promise of a cloud. Yet one Kanna editor shouts vehemently from his column, "Down with galeshoes!" He goes on to say that young women aren't what they used to be, back in those good old days, when they took a pride in their appearance, and wore "seat" overheshes backed "smartly" about their ankles. He forgets that they could never be "smartly" bucked nowadays. Horror! Would he exerci style for more neatness? The picture-uneness of the American woman in this distinctive pedal garb is alone sufficient justification for the continued flaming. The Glen who puts across a good "line" is probably acting on the advice of the doctor whose slogan is "Blow for Your Health." FINAL EXAMINATIONS Within a short period of days, students will begin the old routine of taking final examinations. Taking the examinations is not nearly as bad as as many imagine. It is a drudgery, and at the same time a proving ground where the student finds out what he doesn't know and the professor determines if the student has assimilated sufficient knowledge to be given a grade in the course. Before a person can become fully prepared upon any course in the university he must go to the library. Before he can get any book he must go to the cards and get the number. Before he can get the book he must go to the attendants and wait from seven to twenty minutes, and then often is told that it is either "not in" or that it is in old Soccer library. This is an endless couting, but every student must endure if he is to be sufficiently prepared for the final examinations. Professors are very exacting and often do not take into consideration that the student, being enrolled in other courses, cannot devote his entire time to theirs. It is realized that the attendants at the library are under a very severe handicap because of the recent moving into the new library; it is realized that every professor and instructor feels a certain sense of obligation to the student and by giving outside assignments, hoses the student will get the gift of the course from books if he has failed to get it in the textbook and lectures. James M. Barrie is writing a play about Robert Burns. The concentration of Barrie's abilities upon such a delightful character as Romeo should produce a drama of limited charm. No student cares to complain about extra assignments before the final examinations for fear of creating an impression of lethargy upon the mind of his instructors, so he says nothing. He will go to the library and spend several days completing an assignment that would take a few hours if he could get the hooks, and still say nothing about it. Report: are that the world is coming to an end again in 1947. But the fact remains that there should be fewer outside assignments before the final examinations and the students should be given a better chance to review their work. Finals, we presume, are intended to determine how much of the work a student has absorbed and can use, and not how much he can remember until the day of examination and then forget. Almost it everyone now admires Barrus and his poetry, and yet he was one of the worst prohificants of his day. The people of his own town would not even speak to him or walk with the same side of the street with him. The student who begins to take notes the week before exams has probably just taken note that he should have taken notes. A similar situation is frequently characteristic of poets, and yet we have a tendency to look upon poets and poetry as offenative. Few persons, especially men, will admit that they even read poetry, much less write an ocenessual verse, for fear that they will be termed "simmies." Poets have always been different from the popular conception of them. They are usually very real persons who seem to be a little more adored by some than by many other classes of people. Then they form Omar and his "jug of wine" or "Silly Boyon, and Burns who were perplexed in love. POETS Perhaps if Barrie presents the public with a picture of Burke, as the oldly snamp that he was, they would portrait poetry an eccentric feminine art. Commerce and journalism students of the University of Ohio took courses of the "Union," a Columbia story, and ran it for a day, recently. The store's regular force remained on duty to direct them. Investigation has proved that a dollar bill lasts seven months. Students could provide some valuable data and figures before one month is up. Whether or not "letter" awakens or other emblems will be given to the band, is at present a live issue at Howard College, Alabama. On Other Hills The University of Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas have *beyond* blinded institutions attending these institutions to even operate automatic whitehouses in school. At the University of Cincinnati, thiny paper publishes a crossword puzzle each day. The answer is in the popular women's newspaper the university. Last year $2,700 was earned by students of Leland Stanford University through jobs furnished by the college. The result of the men students earned a part of their expenses last year. The percentage this year is expected to be larger. It has come to this: A swimming class for rural boys exists at Columbia, Mo., according to the Columbia Missouri. Members of the men's gymnastics clubs at Ohio State University will be given a choice of eight winter sports for class work from now on. FREE! 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