MARCH 27.1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Personals of the Campus
Personals of the Campus Earl McKinney, c20, of Iola is visiting for a few days at the Pi K. A. house. McKinney will not enroll this quarter but will enter the School of Law next fall.
Helen Jackson of Kansas City, who was on the Hill last year, has re-entered the University as a junior. Miss Jackson is a member of BPI Beta Phi.
Maurine Clark, c'19, went to Baldwin Tuesday to visit her sister, Miss Evelyn Clark, who attends Baker University.
Master Henry Allen Hale of Yates Center is visiting his sister, Thelma Hale, fa'21, at the Mu Phi Epsilon house.
Mr. and Mrs. L., W. Gogleve of Burt Oak visited their son, Rial Gogleve, m'22, at the Nu Stigma Nu house during vacation.
Helen Porter, fa'20, spent vacation visiting Miss Marcelia Marshall at Gardner.
Ernst W. Kugler of Abilene re- enrolled in the College Tuesday. He recently received his discharge from the Navy.
David Derge of Lebanon has returned from aviation service overseas and has enrolled as a senior in the college. Derge is a member of Kappa Sigma.
John Sturgeon, 'c21, has left school and returned to his home in Thomas, Oklahoma. He plans to be back next year. Sturgeon is a member of Kappa Sigma.
Lieut. Arthur Powell of Ottawa, who was in school here three years ago, has returned from service overseas in the Engineering Corps and is visiting at the Pi Upsilon house.
Harold Blake, c19, of Wichita has enrolled in the college since returning from overseas service. He is a member of Kappa Sigma.
Pi Upsilon will give their annual spring party, the Dublin, at the Country Club Friday evening.
Joe Reed, who was on the Hill two years ago has returned from service in the navy and has enrolled in the University. He is a member of Kapa Sigma.
Ferdinand Gottlieb of Pleasanton has returned for the last quarter's work.
Godfrey Greenley of Leavenworth has withdrawn from the University to study for entrance examinations into Annapolis Naval Academy. Greeley is a member of Kappa Sigma.
Erma Strong, c22, will not return to the University this quarter. She will accompany her parents to Washington in April where her father will attend the extra session of Congress.
Birthday Dinner
Mrs. Julia L. Fullerton entertained with a dinner Wednesday in honor of the birthday anniversaryes of her daughter, Miss Katherine Fullerton, and Mrs. W. A. Dill. Hyacinths were used for the table decorations. Mrs. Fullerton's guests were Miss Fullerton, Mrs. E. D. Shaw, Mrs. F. A. Wetherbeer of Reedley, California, Miss Helen Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dill and children.
Professor Whitcomb Is Married Dr. S. L. Whitcomb of the department of English and comparative literature, and Misa Edna Pearl Oborne were married at Norton Monday. Mrs. Whitcomb received her Master's Degree from the University in 1914 and was a fellow in the department of English here. Dr. and Mrs. Whitcomb will be at home at 1244 Tennessee Street after April 15.
Mrs. Faragher Leaves K. U.
Mrs. Faragher Leave k. U.
Mrs. Paul Faragher will leave Lawrence in about two weeks to join her husband, Dr. Faragher in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he is in the Mellon Institute. Mrs. Faragher has been an instructor in the department of psychology the first and second quarters.
Leonora Brownback, c'22, Frances Hitchcock c'19, and Katherine Sawyer, c'22, spent the vacation in Wichita as the guests of Betty Samuel, c'20, and aMry Wellcome, c'22.
Frank Oyster, c20, spent Friday and Saturday in Kansas City and attended the Kansas-Missouri Track Meet.
Delliah Johnson and Dorothy Johnson who were students in the University two years ago have enrolled for this quarter.
Josephine Houni, 'a' 20, spent the vacation in Cincinnati with friends.
Laura Jenkins, c'22, spent vacation in Kansas City as the guest of Elsie Grant, c'20.
Doroth Derge who was in the University last year has returned from Washington and has enrolled in the College this quarter.
Clarinda Ames, c"20, spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. H. M. Oakley, in Topeka.
Object of Education Lost Says Wheeler
School and Athletic Activities Prevent Students from Degenerating Mentally
"The capacity of the human mind for resisting the introduction of useful information cannot be overestimated." Mr. Gerald Chittenden in an article, "The Point of View of Youth," in Scribner's Magazine for March, quotes the above comment on the undergraduate mind from Professor Wheeler of Yale.
According to Mr. Chittenden, "this is an inermally accurate statement, as well as a caustic indictment of education in this country." He says, "In the melee of educational theories, the object of education has been lost sight of. It is not easy to achieve this object unless we know what it is, and it is harder yet to discover a definition which will satisfy all the contending parties.
"In part, education is the use an idea direction of human material and human energy—the discovery of what a man is fitted to do—and the placing of him in a position to do it. This of course is pure efficiency and the technician's definition has stopped there. But efficiency, although the best of servants, is the worst of gods unless a nation is at war; we shall not be at war forever, and the vision without which the people perish—the vision which sheer efficiency can never see—must at all costs be kept clear. In addition to putting the right man in the right place, true education must provide him with the means of growth—not that sort of growth which will simply render hid more efficient, but the purely personal variety that makes a man broad and tolerant, hospitable to new ideas as well as tenacious of old ideas.
"In order to carry on the war with any hope of success, we had to alter radically our national habits and customs, to imperil the very liberties we are fighting for, in order to preserve them. This was the same way to wage them, but it must be best chains where it belongs and when it is extremely useful.
The usefulness of the liberal arts is more difficult to demonstrate, especially to the mind of youth, than is the usefulness of scientific knowledge, for it does not deal with evidently material things. There is a tendency about it becomes cut and dried, and the resulting didacticism is repellent to many, if not most young men; in stead of stimulating their divine curiosity, the humanitarians have done much to quench it, or to convince them that satisfaction of it cannot be found in our academic departments.
"The trouble is not with the subjects our grammarians teach—at no age are men so intrigued by abstractions properly presented, as between sixteen and twenty-five but the way in which the subjects are handled, especially in the paramount years just before the boy enters college. We may mark this era as the one in which the crime—not less than the murder of curiosity—takes place annually. And that is the results of all the elementary schools, but of the colleges, and of the diverting nonsense which they demand that the elementary schools shall teach, keeping a straight face the white.
"Technical education and efficiency are one; economic conditions now in incubation will tremendously stimulate scientific work of all kinds. But along with the demand for knowledge of the exact sciences there is bound to arise a wide-spread curiosity about subjects which only the enlightened humanitarian is equipped to handle.
"The schoolmaster who prepares boys for college must prepare them for college examinations. History, shorn of the characters of generals, courtesans, and kings, is reduced to a skeleton whose bones must be laboriously memorized one by one; even English literature, which should be a playground, is torn up like a city street when a subway is iminent, that an uninterested class of adolescents may observe its insides, and so forscoff, cul-
divate the critical instinct before they have learned to enjoy beauty. Therefore, many a boy acquires a distaste for all the studies which can best teach him the art of life—a distaste from which he recovers by the grace of God, if at all. For this the colleges are wholly receptive to their demand and obliged to bob the chilies judgment of an anaemic and probably sinful octogonarian, and then wonder why he deserts them for technical schools of business.
"One line of activity in our colleges prevents the students from degenerating mentally. Extra curriculum activities have come in for a great deal of censure, and frequent attempts have been made to curtail them. It they are successfully curtailed before an appreciation of the curriculum develops, they will be a distinct loss and there will be no commensurate gain. For in them and in them only the college man finds a reasonable outlet not only for his physical but for his mental energy; managing an athletic, or playing on one for the matter of that, was an occupation of positive educational value, and the work involved in editing a college daily compares in quantity to that required by a daily Continued on galley 34 paper anywhere. These activities called for initiative, intelligence, hard work, and furnished the manager or the editor or the player with a knowledge of human nature such as he would not have acquired in ten years of classroom. And the time to give them this wholly desirable improvement is in the years before the boys go to college, not after they arrive.
"If the national conception of the use we shall make of our education is wrong, only more enlightened education can correct it, and to such improvement the national mind is still hostile.
Engineering Professors Busy During Vacation
"The question of compromise between the scientific schools and the colleges should be eliminated, because there ought to be no competition between them; neither one nor the other is the torch-bearer of civilization, both are needed to carry it forward as rapidly and as far as it should go."
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Faculty members of the School of Engineering who were out of town during the vacation include: Dean P. F, Walker, Prof. G, C. Shand, Prof. C, C. Wiltiams, and Prof. W. C. MeNown.
Professor McNown Finishes Survey of Island in Arkansas River
Dean Walker spent most of the vacation driving his Hudson car from Des Moines, Iowa, to Lawrence, a distance of 380 miles. Leaving Des Moines at 10 o'clock Friday morning he did not arrive in Lawrence until 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Prof. G. C. Shaad visited two Kansas towns as consulting engineer. At Luray he made an inspection of a new electric light plant prior to its acceptance by the town. At Ottawa, Professor Shaad was called into consultation on the letting of a contract for a 500 kw. turbine unit to be installed by the city.
Prof. C, C. C. Williams attended a meeting of the American Railway Association at Chicago last week. Professor Williams is a member of the committee on Economics of Railway Operation.
Prof. W. C. McNown, of the department of civil engineering, was in Dodge City for the greater part of the week making a survey of an island in the Arkansas River over which there has been litigation.
Salted nuts, fresh every day at Wiedemann. —Adv.
For your rushing parties order cream, nuts, punch and fancy candies from Wiedemanns.—Adv.
Nothing pleases more than a box of delicious chocolates — from Wiedemann. In plain or fancy boxes. — Adv.
LITTLE ITEMS That Will Interest You
New Ruffling
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Drink the universal water, acreated, distilled. McNish, Phone 198. —Adv.
You have a large variety to choose from, when buying perfumes at Rankins Drug Store.
Silk Handkerchiefs
We are expecting a shipment today of the greatest lot of new patterns and shades in Crepe de Chine handkerchiefs ever shown in Lawrence. All at one price, 25c
Silk Hosiery
Three numbers we recommend to you very highly:
Betsy Rose in Navy, Taupe, Russian, Fawn, Black and White,
a hair, $1.50.
Black, White, Grey and Brown, a 15-inch silk boot, lisle top at $7.00
An all silk hose, pure dye, black and white only, full fashioned, $2.75.
WEAVER'S
Quality stationery for ladies and gentlemen by the pound or by the box. Envelopes to match. Rankins Drug Store.
Nylotis Perpirem eliminates excessive perspiration under the arms preventing odors and soiling of garments. Rankins Drug Store.
Dr. Albright, Chiropractor, 1027 Mass. Office phone 1531. Res. 1769. —Adv.
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TAILORED TO MEASURE CLOTHES CLEANING and PRESSING W.E.WILSON
Twenty-one shades of Rit at the City Drug Store.—Adv.
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as long as they last
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The best fountain pens on the market can be secured here—
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Typewriters for rent.
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"The Poppy Girl's Husband"
ALICE JOYCE in "The Lion and the Mouse"
A "Boston Blackie" story. Also Latest Pathe News
A play worth seeing Also Bray Pictograph
BRYANT WASHBURN in "POOR BOOB" and FATTY ARBUCKLE in "LOVE"
At the Varsity Tomorrow
BOWERSOCK THEATRE One Night Only—Monday, March 31st
The Hunter-Lytell Producing Company Presents
'MARY'S ANKLE' In Three Interesting Views by
May Tully
The same bright, breezy comedy that kept New York laughing for 16 weeks Interpreted by
W. H. LYTELL and Associate Players
Prices—$1.50, $1.00, 7c and 50c—Plus Tax Seats on sale at the Round Corner Drug Co, Thursday, March 27