UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 27,1910.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1019
"Barracks may go soon," John M. Shen reports, although the bids submitted have not been acted upon. And yet old North College, which was to have "gone soon" many months ago, still remains.
JAYHAWK JOKES IN GERMANY
Over on German soil they are printing jokes in good old United States, jokes about eats and coodies and "K-K-K P.", all in the same vein as the Pee Wee Kansas and the Sour Owl and the Jayhawk itself. They're real Kansas jokes and real Kansas news, in the "Dope Sheet of the First Battalion of the Three Hundred and Fifty-fourth Infantry in the Army of Occupation," published by a former student of the University of Kansas, who is a private over there somewhere near the Rhine.
It is a situation that the much-caricatured gentleman with the devilish moustaches would scarcely appreciate When the American sense of humor gets loose along his own little river, it is time for him to renounce all hope of ever being worshiped again even in secret, by his former subjects. The sense of humor would have killed kaiserism long ago, if it had been known in the waterland.
MENTAL TESTS
Now that the end of the war has released hundreds of thousands of men needing employment, modern business efficiency is demanding a new way of sorting out workers. Business is no longer content with judging men by the old fashioned method of a long period of daily contact. It is demanding some way to sort men as precisely and nicely as apples are sorted in the fall.
In the army psychological tests were given recruits to determine their general intelligence and to find as nearly as possible the branches of the service for which they were fit. Now that testing people has become of more or less widespread use, it seems possible that psychological tests may be introduced in our colleges and schools of higher education.
Education needs a swift and effective sorting device as badly as business does. The examination system has proved unsuccessful in many cases. A way of turning out a standardized product has not yet been found.
Under the present system many students, still underclassmen, have no idea of what profession they intend to pursue. If psychological tests prove successful, by referring to a card index on file at the administrative offices of the University, they could easily and quickly tell if they had best study to become engineers, school teachers, journalists, preachers, or members of any other profession.
The danger in modern psychological tests lies in the fact that many brilliant minds cannot respond with their fullest capacity under certain external conditions. In a space of time which they know to be limited many nervous persons of high intelligence are unable to answer even the most nonsensical appearing questions asked in a psychological test.
Universities and colleges will probably be slow to adopt a method which yet has to be proved. In the army the tests did well generally, but selection for the best army service is different than the selection of a college career. Brilliant minds cannot accurately be found by two or three hours' testing and the use of the science of psychology in this matter is yet to be definitely proved.
It seems rather paradoxical that the University students began their reconstructive movement regarding student government under what was termed boleshevik methods, when bolsoheism itself is the very contradiction of reconstruction.
THE KID BROTHER
Did you ever have that younger brother up for a week end visit? Probably you have not even thought of it this year, with football almost ruined by the S. A. T. C. that so efficiently interfered with everything. Now, though, you have time to introduce a little originality into life with perfect safety.
Of course, you do not correspond regularly with the lad. He is too busy with high school affairs to be bothered. But he would be thrilled if you should ask him down.
It would not be hard to know what to do with him he got in. Lead him along Massachusetts Street, stop at three, or four of your favorite food-parlors, thus giving him a wonderful impression at first—and incidentally a little power to go up Fourteenth. The first thing he will want to see is the Hill itself, and you can begin with gym or the museum, according to his tastes.
As he would be awed by Spooner, unless he found the worn-out copy of Life, it would be wise not to try to show him how we study. But he would like the engineering building and the shops. Show him the Laws in action, and when he goes home he can tell the gang that he saw the exact place where the effigy of the Senate went up in smoke, all except its shoes. Of course, the field and Potter's and the river and Haskell will appeal to him.
But what he will enjoy most is the time at the club or the house where the fellows sing and scrap, and where he will really feel the warm-hearted fellowship of the University. It will not bother the men to have him around. They will show him a good time, just because they can't help it, and then because that he will advertise them well in his own crowd at home. The boosting he will do for Kansas when he gets home will be worth a lot.
And then, it's all over, it wil notta do you good to see him again.
Next month representative high school students from every part of the state will be here for the annual state high school basketball tournament given by the athletic department and it is up to the University students and faculty to entertain and make the visitors feel welcome. The athletes, who will be here for the tournament, are considered leaders in their respective schools and the degree of welcome shown them will largely determine whether or not they will become boosters for the University.
MAKE NEW BOOSTERS
Every high school student who attends the tournament is a prospective University student. Plan now to do your duty in making the visit agreeable.
Readable Verse
PRAYER OF A VIOLIN
1 pray, the trembling wood through which I sang.
When I am gone, my last string snapped, burn up.
To scramble strains—this Thing through
which I breath.
the broken bridge, the keys that
touched on strings.
This was the one the Master used on such
have a message to the winds
Plant a treeeyes eye should find me out and
Little Pity's eyebear should find me out and
A day. The worms and dust of time have done
For it. He found a better one!" Ah Friend.
Give not an endless, death like this (t
me.
But burn this shell whence I have fed,
and grant
Eternal life through haunting melodies
The Master drew from me, his violin
—Harry Greenwood Grover in Amherst Graduates' Monthly
THE FACULTY GYM CLASS
Not satisfied with confining the sports-for-all program to the formation of intercollege, interclass, interfraternity and interboarding-club basketball leagues for undergraduates, Director St. John has reorganized the league and interclass is being revived by introducing a faculty basketball league.
Forty members of the faculty attented the class, which is under the personal direction of Director St. John, this week. Four teams—Agriculture, Engineering, Arts-Education and Commerce-Law—are already in the few leagues, and two others will probably come in.
Much can be said for the new venture in the way of athletics for the faculty. There is, of course, the physical benefit, the exercise, to be derived from the class work and the recreation from the competitive games of volleyball and basketball. Conducting the work of University offices and instructing classes are confining at best, and exercise is not the most regular part of the day's routine. But aside from the physical good, there is the mixing with men. Probably most of these men know one another, but there is no place like the gymnasium to actually get chummy.
And the Armory is a good building for which to strike up a feeling. The place, with its Varsity athletic contests, social functions and gymnasium classes is a rather familiar part of every student's life, and the professors should be just as interested. There is no surer sign of advancing age than for a person to admit that he has no further interest in anything that is going on around the Gymnasium, the velical center of campus life.
Ohio State Lantern
Temple Scott has started something entirely original in New York. It is a literary bureau which has several branches, one of which is a bulletin issued nine times a year giving information and advice to readers and collectors of good books. The Bureau includes books, special articles for book collectors, and a query page in which questions are answered.
Pangs of jealousy were in Miss Coldfoot's heart when she heard that her late admirer had been accepted by Miss Lovebird, and when she happened to run across her could not resist giving a thrust.
"Well, not quite all, Dinah. Ipse got to buy a trose, an 'rent a house, an' get mish husband a job, an'buy him a good suit o' close, an'get some regular washin' work to do. An' when them's done I kin name de happy day."—People's Home Journal.
Mitchell S. Buck, a poet and a lover of books, has just published a manual full of suggestions for the care and repair of rare books which have undergone the ravages of old age and hard usage. The possessor of such books are loath to turn them over to the ordinary book repairer and so the suggestions in Mr. Buck's manual are of great interest to them.
"No," answered Jack's flance. "He once told me that there were a lot of things in his life he was not sure what to ask him that they were." -Tit-Bits.
"Has you made all arrangements for your marriage. Mandy?"
Mental Lapses
"I hear you've accepted Jack," she pushed. "I support he never told you about the trip."
BUSINESS FIRST
"Yes. In making agreements we should write our agreements with a slate pencil. We could clean off the plate and make it waterless if we were wasteful." -Washington Star.
"Paper is getting scarcer," explained Doctor Dunkomk.
Upon her return home from the park, little Alice greeted her mother enthusiastically, confiding the emotions she had experienced as she swung round the curves of the roller coaster.
"Have you any suggestions?" inquired the Berlin official.
When Elsie came home from neighbor's house murmuring a choo-
se, she told her friend.
"Now, Elise, how many times have I told you not to ask Mrs. Gres for help?"
ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE
"I did exactly what you told me to do, mother. I didn't ask her." replied Elsie. "I know where she keeps them."—Ladies Home Journal.
HOW SHE FELT
"No, I wasn't frightened." Alice replied. "But when I went round those awful turns so fast I felt just tired. But now I'm walking to my stomach!" —Ladies Home Journal.
"Were you frightened, dear?" questioned her mother.
The famous "Well, if you knows of a better 'ole' to it" is reproduced on the binding. Private Jones, who walks the slab barred wire entanglement for the delectation of Germans and English alike, "appreciates that our people per yard of frontace." Every cartoon in the book is equally delicious.
The student who gets to the point of mental exhaustion after a dreary stretch of prescribed history reading should step back to the shelf of new war books in Spooner Library, and revive his spirits with "Fragments from France," a collection of Capt. Bruce Bainfair's war cartoons.
For Highbrows Only
Lady (entering bank very business-
ly) wish to get a Liberty Loan
bond for her.
Bairnsfather is a household word in England. His imitative "Ail" probably helped the people of Britain endure the war as much as any other one thing. The English veteran, fed up with four years in prison for robbing the police shown in the different visisitudes of his picturesque life at the front.
The weary student who sees diversion with Barimfather should perhaps locate himself in an obscure location for or his laughter is bound to be audible.
FROM COVER TO COVER
A MODEST SIZED BOND
Clerk: "What does this mean?
Lady: 'Why, I don't believe know exactly, but he wears a fifteen shirt."—American Boy.
Clerk: "What size, please?"
OVER THE WEEK END
Lucy Ann and her fiance and two old ladies who prayed, one for the Germans and one against them, are the characters in the delightful story, "Praying Sally," by Alice Brown in Harpers for February.
"Could You Use Three?" by HollyWorth Hall in the March American, is a lively little story of a girl who expected to entertain twelve privates for dinner, but the "flu" mixed up all her plans. However, three young officers who came, very much disappointed because they didn't get to France, had a joyous time. But you must read it for yourself.
The aunt who prayed for the Germans was a loyal American and the last paragraphe for the kulturists who were then at their friendi heights.
Men in business, (and this includes women, too) will not be judged by general "impressions" henceforth, but by an actual rating scale that has been tried and found good in the army. Bruce Barton has an interest in the scales of life. Do You own on the Rating Scale?" in the March American. Some interesting tables, by which you can rate your own ability, are given.
From a very humble beginning, employing only two men, a wooden press and a case or two of type, the Oxford University Press has grown to be one of the biggest institutions in existence, employing about seven hundred persons. Its equipment includes sixty modern printing machines and prospective authors can be offered appropriate type for more than 50 languages. The most noteworthy work of this press is the publication of the famous Oxford English Dictionary, the first part of which was issued in 1888 and the last, it is hoped, to be issued in three or four years.
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TEETOTALISM AND TEA-TIPPING
Between 1900 and 1918 the annual consumption of tea rose from 115, 000,000 to 151, 000,000 pounds, an Increase of $ \frac{3}{4} $ per cent. per annum, or 4,000,000 pounds.
Estimating the average individual consumption of tea-drinkers to be two-fifths of an ounce per diem, the total number of tea-drinkers in the United States is about 16,000,000, an army of addicts whose number is increased annually by the addition of 425,000 new recruits.
SUITING YOU is my business
Search for the cause of this surprisingly rapid increase of tea-drinkers has led to the discovery that the increase of tea-drinking has parallelled the decrease of alcoholic liquors. It appears, indeed, that the American people are exchanging alcohol for tea. The question at once arises. Will the nation gain or lose by swapping rum-drinking for tea-tipling?
Of course the answer must depend upon the amount consumed in both cases. A little tea would of course be less damaging than much alcohol. On the other hand, a little alcohol would be less harmful than much tea. In equal quantities, tea is decidedly worse than beer. The amount of poison in a pint of strong tea is greater than that in an equal amount of beer, not by weight, but in physiologic effect. A man could drink without showing evidence of intoxication more pints of beer than of strong tea.
We shall not be satisfied to trade off whisky intemperance for tea-tipling. Drug-addication of all sorts is to be frowned upon and suppress A ten drunkard is a nervous wreck—neurasthenic, unsettled, depresed, sleepless, inefficient, and haunted by morbid fears—Good Health.
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