SUNDAY, MARCH 16. 1924 --- UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAKAR Official student paper of the University of Michigan State THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Editor-in-Chief Marv Wright Alcec Associate Editor Holen Scott Ensure Edited Hugh Brown Suert Editor Pete Brown STAFF Leila Pyle Helen Clute Williams Poisson Steve Merrill Chas. K. Rogers Lilian Blixby John Montgomery, J Business Manager Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phone- K. U. 23 and 66 The Daily Klemman aims to picture the undergraduate students of the University of Missouri at St. Louis, who tag this group by standing for the ideas they present, to be leaders to be cleverer, to be heirs to their creations, to be more creative problem to water bears in a serious problem to water birds in a serious problem to water students of the University. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1924 Five small boys from Massachusetts sent a nickie to President Cedarslide for use in his campaign for the Republican nomination. That's a fine sentiment but it would call "Cal" more if he were running twenty years from now. CAMARADERIE They came, some 250 women, to the Puff-Pant From last night. They rustled lively the masculine warrobes of the Hill-domed cuff-links, fraternity pins, and atacomb. They stamped, applauded, and whooped their approval of the dances in the music, their dates, and the Prom as a whole. They joyfully and nobly ejected male invaders of this strictly women's party. But the best thing about, the Puff-Pant Prom is that it marked the passing of the day when women peeked through kiy-hoes to watch smokers, hid behind doors to hear the speecher at Gridiron banquets, and disguised themselves to sneak into stag parties. Let the men revel unmolested in their masculine affairs. The women of K. U. have discovered that they can enjoy the same sort of cameraderie that they have so long envied in men. COLLEGE MEDIOCRITY When a college education became fashionable, when the file of the sons of ministers and lawyers entering the college gates was joined and submerged by the multitude of everybody's sons—rich, poor, stupid, brilliant, ambitious, and the opposite—the question of "who among you shall be educated?" became an acute one be able to the colleges spend their abundant energies and their great if not too effective powers upon the fit, or upon the mass, the multitude of the medicine? Shall the search be for quantity or quality? The question has not been answered for Twentieth Century America. For America just now provides a great exhibition of unsuccessful and medicinity It can hardly be said that the college is more vital in American life, than any one of a dozen agencies committed by their nature to idealism and usefulness. No individual confronts more inevitably the problem of the mediocre than the professor in an American college. For see the mass of undergraduates that, drawn from all the social classes, but chiefly from those that have attained mediocrity are flung at his head. Among them are a few of the brilliantly ambitious who will use more than can be given them; but in far greater numbers are the brilliant and unambitious who will use nothing unless it is forced upon them, the stupid but well-meaning who have to be fed with a spoon, and the backward and unmeaning who must be cudged along after the rest. Where shall the bewildered teacher apply his goad? Whom shall he permit to fail The worst fault into which our agreeing service of the mediocity has led us is a weak-kneed pauillianism deference to mediocrity itself. The college has borrowed the vice from every-day American life. The problem of mediocrity cannot be solved by educating the best men only. It cannot be solved by alighting the able. Pretenonation that mediocrity is good enough will never do. But as we push on toward a distant and uncertain victory a clearer sight of the path we have chosen will save us from stumbling blindly and stupidly. WHO IS BRISBANE? WHO IS BRISBANE? The more radical critics of youth declare that young people take no interest in affairs of the community, or are illiterate. They hurt them as "lietentions, leather-armed, brass-necked and cigarette-smoking corruptees of morals" at their heads. their mother. Other crities such as Arthur Brisane, are more mild in their statements and merely argue that "there is nothing taught in college that a boy cannot learn at home if it is really and only knowledge that he wants." They believe that too much time is spent in social activities, and the gain of a college education is not proportionate to the money and time spent in gaining it. Who is Brisbane that he should presume to make the sweeping statements that "had Lincoln gone to college you would never have heard of him" and that Milton conquered the influence of "artificial mental university training, but he would have been greater without it?" He goes on to say that Milton was "high-sounding nothing compared with Shakespeare who held horses inside the theater for a penny, and learned only what he could 'pick up'—namely, ten thousand times more than any college would have taught him." The colleges of America do not claim to make firmer the moral fiber of men and women. That fiber is formed even farther back than their earliest training at home. It has been forming for centuries and has passed down through generations to the present students in the universities of the country. Isn't it an insult to Lincoln even to intimate that his character was of such a weak nature that he could not have resisted the disturbing influences which no one denies may be found in universities as in all groups? What are the problems which arise as character tests of students in comparison to tests Lincoln stood time and time again as President of the United States during a period of civil war? Who is Brisheane that he should judge Lincoln? He is a man of supreme intellectual power, it is true. But how has he used his gift of composing striking statements, few of which have been developed to meet the arguments of any reader who goes beyond their rhetorical merits to analyze them carefully? Brisheane has been said to have "one of the best-educated, keenest minds of the present generation" and few doubt that statement. Probably no one understands better than he just how far he molds his writing to please the public which does not take time to think as it reads. Certainly, from all appearances he has business ability as well as a talent for writing. Brisheane is not a college man. He probably believes that he, like Lincoln, would have amounted to nothing if he had attended college. Perhaps he knows himself and his own character better than his readers. A correspondent wonders if the Kansas is getting doggy. He said it seems too doggone good a paper, having two news stories on dogs, two editorials and other doggone dog stories. He wonders what would become of the sheet if the doggone dogs should leave. Plain Tales From The Hill tails. As he was uttering the words, one of the members of the class noticed that his ears were wiggling. He is taking advice mechanically. The Sour Owl did not go on sale Thursday as announced. It may have been because of the inclement weather, but there is a rumor about it that it was because of the snow on the hill for the convoction. At the bottom of a Chinese poster in the news room of the Kanan there is a scrawl reading "Love you" in the author's office—chief office." According to figures made public, the Indiana University Athletic Association realized more than $50,000 from gate receipts of the seven football games last fall. The association had a net profit of $25,000. "Journalism is one of the new nurses at Baker University." Thursday's Kansan makes this statement. He next sympathetic, that how it's thought of at K. U. in zone puffers. Two senior women were laughing at the poem in the Atlantic which wondered if anywhere in the world there were quiet women. A friend said, "Perhaps, at the Olatha School for the Deaf." The sectional track and field Olympic tryouts will be held at Ferry park, Ann Arbor, May 36, for the states of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Kentucky. On Other Hills On the other hand, words of one syllable make better curses than words of three syllables, don't they? Law students broke a windshield with snowballs the other day. Students with Torts, probably. A dormitory housing 130 men will be opened by Indiana University next September as a result of action taken in response to the fires recently. Including furnishings, the building will cost $150,000. The New Fencing team, undefeated The Navy fencing team, undefeated in dual collegiate meets for 16 years. When the Chancellor talked to the editorial writing class recently he mentioned the observance of de- According to statistics from the Commons office of the University of Chicago, men of the University are made of meat, potatoes, and pie—mostly pie, and women of desserts and salad—mostly salads. suffered its first back-set at hacks of the University fencers-Annapolis, Feb. 29, by a score 10-7. The junior annual, the Walluah, is sponsoring an innovation "for Williamtite"—a beauty contest for the purpose of discovering the five most handsome men and the five most beautiful girls in the upper classes. A volume known as the quarto of Richard II, containing five plays, one by Shakespeare, was found recently in the Reddish墓地 at McGill. The book has lain under the metapolitical and unnoticed because of its frayed pages and age-browned cover. Only one other copy of this particular copy is known to exist. The book is over 400 years old and one of the earliest copies is now one of the most cherished treasurers of the McGill Library. The contract for the new stadium at the University of Minnesota was let last Tuesday. Impressive ceremonies were held Thursday afternoon when the first showoff of dirt was turned by the president of the insti- Both the men's and women's gloe clubs of the University of Baldwin will leave Saturday on their annual tour. 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