MAY 1, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Students In Education Trying To Discover Best Teaching Method
Candidates for Master's Degree Applying Critical Tests to the School Business
"The investigation of something, that needs to be known, is the aim of the candidates for the degree of Master of Arts from the School of Education," said Dean F. J. Kelly. "The value of the finished thesis depends, not upon what interest the student may have had in the subject, but upon the worth of the study to the field of education."
That the thesis subjects have been chosen with the view of scientific education in mind is shown by the studies being made by the four graduate students in education who are working toward the master's degree. Very little library work is being done in these studies as most of the material has never been gathered, and the problems are being investigated at first hand, from the high schools of Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City, and from questionnaires sent to teachers throughout the state.
D. L. Ketterjohn, who is working on one phase of the problem of teaching sent out by the state board of education, has chosen the subject "What have the teachers of Kansas found practical in professional training?" From five hundred questionnaires, sent to Kansas teachers, he is determining the courses in the department of education which are proving to be most valuable to teachers in their work.
work.
Another phase of the problem is being investigated by Mary E. McGaffey, whose thesis is on the subject of the rating of teachers in colleges and universities. Questionnaires, giving the new system of rating for the prospective teachers from the University have been sent to about two hundred colleges in the country, and their reaction to the system used here, noted. Ann G. Bookwalter has sent out about eight hundred questionnaires to Kansas teachers to ascertain what devices are of most benefit in improving the training of teachers while in service. In this study, the viewpoint of the high school teacher is taken, rather than that of the institution where his training was received, with a view to changing the methods of these institutions to meet the needs of the prospective teachers.
Edith Winn's work is being carried on in the Lawrence schools, with a view to determining the relative capacities of colored and white pupils. The Stanford revision of the Binet mental tests are being used in the gathering of her data.
John H. Hower is the only student in the School of Education who has received his master's degree, and is now working toward the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Since his work is primarily with the high schools themselves, facilities at the University for preparation for the doctor's degree are as good as may be found at any other university. Mr. Hower will complete the second year of his work toward his degree this spring. His will be the first degree of Doctor of Philosophy granted by the School of Education.
Folks from Far Countries Specialize in Grad Schoo
The University of Kanaas is too far inland to attract many students from foreign countries. When a foreigner comes to this country to study he arrives either at the eastern or western coast and as there are large Universities right at his hand which can offer him everything he wants there is no incentive to travel farther inland. K. U. has a small share of foreign students, who are for the most part specializing in the Graduate School.
he became At present there is but one citizen of a foreign country in the Graduate School. He is Pardaman Singh, formerly of Kahtsa College, Punjab, India. He took his A. B. at the University of Utah and he is here studying political science and sociology.
ng point in 1916 and 1917, Mr. A. P. Appleboom from Holland studied in the Graduate School. He was an instructor in the Romance language department in 1917.
Boris Patchejye of Bulgaria, a major in the Balkan War, received a graduate degree in engineering in 1913.
In the last few years one or two Germans, and several Chinese and Japanese students have taken work in the Graduate School.
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Dignity Dissolves In Grad Club Atmosphere
For many years, students have run through the Jayhawkers and noticed a picture of stern and serious looking persons who called themselves the Graduate Club. No one can say what the club does, for it is a dark mysterious organization that only members know about.
Investigation shows it is the one place where serious-minded grads, unbend and relax, for a few hours of genuine fun. A freshman, frivolous as he might be, would lend a solemn seriousness to the organization as a whole.
"At times we have serious meetings with talks by Dean Blackmar and other men on graduate work But to see the dignity of Pardaman Singh unbended a little, to have some of the women take their minds off of their thesis work for a few minutes, and to bring the few bashful men, out of their aloofness, is really the work of the club." said another member.
The club is made up of members of the Graduate School and faculty. Wertheim is president and Agnes Brady is secretary-treasurer. Doctor H. P. Cady, Miss Lulu Bookwalter, who has been a missionary in India for six years, Pardaman Singh, a native of India who is taking his doctor's degree, and Dean F. W. Blackmar have lectured. At a recent meeting "Caroline's Christmas or the Inexplicable Infant," a play by Stephen Leacock, was given by six members of the club.
"Last time we had the best eats and some of the members put on a funny play, and we had the time of our lives," said one of the women of the club. "The only thing that bothers me is, who will pay for the feed?"
"You know," said the woman whose motor car has run down a man, "you must have been walking very carelessly. I am a very careful driver. I have been driving a car for seven years."
efts.
"Lady, you've got nothing on me
I've been walking for fifty-four
years."-Detroit Motor News.
Economics Offers Chance To Students to Tackle Really Big Questions
War, Business and Home Demonstrate Need of Training in Economics
"During the war the constant call or persons specially trained in economics emphasized the importance of the courses in this subject in universities," said Prof. A. J. Boynton. "With the close of the war the call has not ceased. The banker, the merchant, and all classes of business men likewise the departments of federal, state and local governments must use more or less constantly principles of accounting, investments, insurance, banking, business organization and management, railway rates and regulations, business law and marketing."
The banker has need of a knowledge of the principles of money, banking, investments, corporations and trusts, business law and accounting. The accountant must have special, detailed training in as many or more phases of business development and principles. The man in public service must have at least a knowledge of the fundamentals of public finance, labor problems, public utilities, and corporations and trusts, and the person in social service similar knowledge along the principles of sociology. The teacher of commercial branches and all business men must have a broad knowledge of economics and even the lawyer has need for the fundamentals of economies.
"Housewives, most of whom have the control of the expenditure of the larger parts of their husbands' incomes" said Prof. John Ise, "have need for knowledge of accounting, especially, and good business administration." They also have need for a wide knowledge of principles of marketing.
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The University of Kansas through its department of economics and commerce offers to graduate students practically all courses open to major students in the department besides the opportunity of doing research work in some economic field of particular in-
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terest to the individual student. Courses are offered in money, banking, investments, business organization and management, railway rates and regulations, corporations and trusts, public utilities, insurance, public finance, accounting, statistics, business law, labor problems and legislation, immigration problems, markets and marketing, economic reform and several higher courses in economic theory. Some of the $uT$ jects for these writen in the department in the last few years have been on special phases of speculation, free trade, trust laws, tax commissions, railroad rates, forestry, wages, banking, blue sky leg-
iation, and land credits in the United States.
Master of Music is New Degree Given in Fine Arts
Two degrees above Bachelor of Music are now granted by the School of Fine Arts. Arrangements have been made this year to grant the degree of Master of Music to one who has received a B. M., and has spent two years in professional service and one year in professional study here. There will be none of these degrees granted this year.
The School of Fine Arts also grants the degree of Master of Arts with a major in music. This is granted to a student who holds an A. B. and who has taken one year of work in the Graduate School with the major in music.
All intra-mural games for today have been postponed account of the soggy condition of Hamilton Field. The three leagues are about ten games behind schedules, and expect to make them up in the next two weeks, playing Saturdays and on times not already occupied by present schedules.
YEP THE "GOV" WILL BE THERE
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Topeka, Kas., April 29,'19
Dear Bob:
Many thanks for invitation to Soph Hop—Myself, wife, and Henrietta will be on deck at 7:30 p. m. the 9th.
THE SOPH HOP
HENRY.
EVERYONE'S GOING
It's one party you can't afford to miss.. The alluring fascination of a real Oriental party will never be forgotten—
Eddie Kuhns himself—Chaquette—tko saxophones—a trombone—clarinet—xylophone and traps will furnish the music.
"BOB" LYNN, MGR. MAY 9TH
In addition there will be a big midnight "feed" and Cabaret entertainment by K. U. people. 3 Dollars
Trained Workers Needed in Offices Everywhere
This is what the Lawrence Business College can do for you: Teach you how to open a set of books; how to make entries; how to determine the profit and loss of a business; how to close a set of books. Starting with the simplest forms we teach you bookkeeping from beginning to end; a complete course.
We train you in our college bank so that you can hold a good position in any bank.
We teach you the duties of a stenographer—to take the business man's dictation, rapidly and accurately; how to transcribe it. We teach you how to file and take care of the correspondence in an office.
Besides this you get instruction in business English, rapid calculation, commercial law, pemnship, spelling, salesmanship, etc. You learn how to operate all the various machines and office appliances used in big offices.
We qualify you for secretarial positions that command the highest salaries paid to stenographers.
Our school is in session all summer. Write for catalogue and full information.
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