SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1924
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Students' Summer Prospects Include Touring, Pitching Hay and Just Some More Schoo
"What are you going to do this summer?"
"The beast that I can get by with," seems to be the most common reply.
For the senior, this summer is the beginning of life's stormy voyage. What he does will be more than just a transition from one class to the other, or a sort of breathing spell or linking up with the next year.
"I reckon he'll go back to the farm and help out the old man a bit," some say, "Lord knows he's been around enough all year." I owe it to him.
Full many a college student has toled and sweat 'neath the blazing sun, pitching Kansas wheat and having his dignity outraged by the farmers' outspoken opinion as to the need to "college dude" to earn their salt.
Some more exacting and less fortunate will probably get jobs as caretakers at country clubs, or swimming instructors at girls' hourly schoolings, or some such "work" as that.
One of the summer plagues, along with grasshoppers and drouths and chinch bugs, is the crop of salesmen who will try to sell anything from leather-booted slippers to Haiti. Pitty the poor farmer, the fortunate town dweller, the lackless urbanite, who has to stay hostile. They receive visit after visit from persistent, sleek, smooth-talking fellows who take an interest in "hope-you-die" insurance, or the collected works of Sherwood Anderson.
Hawaiian Music Mixes With Queer Menu at Cosmopolitan Banquet
Representatives of Twelve Na tions Meet at Annual Farewell Feast
Part of the menu consisted of geo
melia mikta, Carne a la minute, Ma-
mon, petits pois, and okolehane.
representatives of twelve nations talked, listened, banqueted, sang and communed together at the annual meeting of the Association club at Wiedemann's Friday evening
"What in the name of Esperanto is all this stuff?" asked the guests, mystified and dumfounded. "Might have expected them to feed us with a lot of unpronouncable names at a gathering like this!"
"Well, ladies and gentlemen," explained the toastmaster, Elmoco Lucas, of Manila, geomela mika, which may be Greek to you, is Goa. It is gayabaa means radishes and olives in Filipino. Mamon is Spanish for cake. Petticoats is nothing but French for green peas, and oakleba is Sandwich Island cheese.
"Well, of all things—who'd have thought that South Sea islanders even drank coffee!"
The international atmosphere was further maintained with a piano solo in English by Helen Marell, old-time vocal melodies by Elli Wampo of Hasslebell, and two songs by "Kanaka" Kong and "Flying Fish" wongui of Honolulu.
Such subjects as nationalism and internationalism, materialism and obligation, gazing backward and looking forward, eta cerea, filled in a good deal of time with subtle philosophical expositions and mild razzs.
"Just think, I've been saying talong at bayabas, mamoh and okokao many times without ever dreaming that they meant anything. I guess you can't hardly say anything or make any kind of a sound which doesn't mean something in one lingo or another, was the se-satisfying com-
Radio Helps Lighthouse Keepers
Radio is not only being used in lighthouses and on light vessels to make more safe the way of those who navigate the dark and foggy seas, but also to make more pleasant and endurable the lonely lives of the men of the lighthouse service. An example is furnished by a lighthouse on the Alaska coast. Formerly stationed there now listen in to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and stations as far inland as Nebraska. They report the radio "has certainly made the station a lot more cheerful."
There is no task which this predator band released every June will not attempt. Some advertise themselves as first class chauffeurs "who will drive any car, anywhere, any time."
Quite a few will go touring in their own cars. The West-bound trail are crowded every summer with caves from which to see the coast, Ohio State, Missouri, Kansas and other schools flutter in the breeze. The peaks of the Rockies echo with new and strange sounds. There are many a marina and Adonin.
The play, entitled "Made in U. S. A," which is to be given next week, under the direction of the French department, has been postponed indefinitely on account of the illness of one of the characters.
This being the Olympics year, the pilgrimage to the Old World will be taken by more than the usual number of athletes who will do their stuff in gay Paree. These same athletes call for some fans. And so the Rock Chalk and the Boailla will mindice you every year" and the "out on, monument."
A few words of condolence must he spoken for the few unfortunate who will have to attend summer school. The kind of student is cruel and unkind. How can you learn, cooped up within the bot, stuff classrooms, when their thoughts are far away? Well, they are not a question open to discussion.
They will dip within the muddy waters of Potter lake and imagine they are at Atlantic City; they will ride the street car round the loop and pretend they are touring the country, and they will see a twilight league game and kid themselves into believing it is a little Olympic event.
Prize Playlet Contest Closing Date Advanced
The intercollegiate prize playlet contest scheduled to terminate on May 30 has been set about to August 26. This week, the final examinations, so many of the University students had to take throughout the country, people who were interested in this contest did not have the time to put on their manuscripts.
The Milton Hooker & Howard J. Green Company, 110 West 47th street, New York City, are offering a prize of $250 to the winner and also a royalty of $50 for every week that the playlet appears in vandelle.
Another Rush to Farms
Maps Will Be Needed to Help Select Land
--tested and show a very evident need of better teaching and of adequate direction or supervision of the instruction that is being offered.
Washington, May 18—Within a few years, the tide of population now flowing toward the cities will turn and there will be another rush of settlers onto unused land, Thomas J. U., S. bureau of soils has predicted.
Maps are necessary showing the character of soil to guide the future farmers in selecting farm sites, he declares.
Young Peoples' Societies Will Hold Union Meeting
"This next invasion of settlers will probably stand in more need of assistance in selecting land and will be more willing to receive such assistance." Mr. Cohn said he would be said, "It will be composed not so largely of experienced farmers moving a short distance to good land but of men all of sorts, many of them from cities to take up land in the fields where they work the soil and agricultural conditions. "It is reasonable to suppose therefore, that a great number of these will require assistance in selecting their land that the soil survey and other branches of the agricultural department will be called on for advice."
University students will step across denominational lines Sunday evening when all the young people's societies of the Lawrence churches join in an union service. The union meeting will be held at the first Methodist church at 6:45 p. m., with a social hour beginning at 6:15 p. m.
Study of Instruction in Elementary Schools Made by Commission
Six students from various denominations will speak on the aims of such relations of such social relations as industrial, international, school and church.
Prof. C. H. Posey, of the department of geology, took his elementary geology class on a field trip to the pit near the Lawrence brick quarry. Different forms of glacial rocks were pointed out, observed, and their forms taken after disintegration. The bedding planes of the shale beds in this quarry are everywhere by the classes in elementary geology.
Kansas Boys and Girls Taught by Inferior, Poorly Paid
Instructors
A study of results of instruction in different types of elementary schools in Kansas, made for the school code commission by a committee from three Kansas schools, has just come from these institutions with tests in spelling, reading, arithmetic, composition and hand-writing, in representative schools of the state. The survey was made by Prof. F. P O Brien, University of Kentucky, College, Emporia; and E. N. Mendenhall, Teachers' College, Pittsburgh.
Not only were class room achievements of the pupils tested, but records were made of age-grade distributions, length of school year, and tenure and preparation of teachers. Conclusions reached include the following:
The boys and girls in the one-teacher schools are in general getting an inferior kind of instruction and they are usually taught by an inexperienced, poorly prepared and poorly paid teacher.
The pupil achievements in the graded schools are in general much superior to the results of instruction in the one teacher schools.
Notwithstanding this fact the graded schools, especially in cities of the third class, are still well below acceptable standards in subjects
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