UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 17, 1919
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919.
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CONSIDER R.O.T.C. ANEW
The refusal of a Reserve Officers' Training Camp by the Senate at the end of the first quarter has not killed the consideration of establishing the camp. The question is coming up again in a special session of the University Senate Monday night.
The University of Kansas in not accepting the training camp has taken a course opposite to that taken in many universities. Student sentiment at the beginning of this quarter seemed to be in favor of establishing a corps. Getting a unit here would not be forcing students to enter something they did not want, because enrollment in the corps is voluntary.
If enough students want the corp and will enter and support it, th R.O.T.C. should be adopted.
The question is, "Will a sufficiently large number of students enroll in the unit?" A distaste of taking up more military training exists among many students who were in the service. A large number of these, while not opposing the training, probably would not enroll in the R.O.T.C.
In the mud rush of time, even Saint Valentine's Day went by without visible signs of "hearts and Cupid darts and such."
MORNING CONVOCATIONS
Regular convocations are apparently impossible at the University of Kansas. The University Senate has a rule preventing convocations at any other hour than 4:30 in the afternoon. Attendance at meeting at this hour would be too small to make the ordinary convocation worth while.
Objection has been raised that to shorten class periods one day and hold chapel in the morning would be unwise. It is true such a plan would necessitate a shortening of the classes from ten to fifteen minutes, but it must be remembered that there are or should be benefits from University life other than class routine.
The Kansan believes most students favor holding regular convocations. If this is the case, the students have it within their power to make such meetings possible. If enough students speak for re-establishing regular convocations, the Senate will doubtless repeal its rule against morning meetings, and the faculty convocation committee will arrange for regular gatherings.
GUARD STUDENT HEALTH
The action of the University cafeteria in posting lists of food values along the line of march, where all who eat may read, is only the beginning of a great opportunity for University service.
The University inspects rooming houses and publishes an approved list, but it makes no attempt to supervise the boarding clubs and public eating houses where student energy is, or is not, made. Right food means efficiency and general well-being, but ignorance of the principles of nutrition is prevalent among the students themselves and among the managers of eating establishments.
Since the department of home economics is able to give information derived from the best scientific sources on the subject to those who wish to learn, the University community ought not to suffer from ignorance. The University Health Committee has overlooked an opportunity for service and a vital need for reforming conditions.
Organized supervision of boarding clubs could be put into effect. Instruction is necessary first. At called meetings of club managers and public caterers, information prepared by the department of home economics would soon provide a working knowledge of calories and proteins and vitamins. Suggested menus could be sent out regularly from the department, and a special officer chosen by the Health Committee could inspect the clubs frequently. Each club would be graded and a certain standard would have to be maintained. Such a program could be carried out with great ease, and would result in a marked improvement of student health.
The day of the calorie is here, whether or not the committee chooses to recognize it. In an institution where scientific methods are supposed to rule, it is a mistake for the authorities to allow the bit or miss methods of uninformed managers of student boarding places to retard the physical welfare of the University.
The freshman class is going to have a picture section in the 1919 Jayhawker. Why not have each first-year man appear in the photograph with a freshman cap on his head?
SENIORS WANT CONVOCA TIONS
The senior class in its mass meeting Friday afternoon voted to petition the University Senate that the regulation against holding convocations at other times than 1:30 o'clock be repealed and regular convocations be held in the morning.
Probably what influenced the seniors most in their decision was their memory of the convocations they attended during their first two years at the University. They saw the good the meetings did for them and for the school and found it desirable for a reestablishment of the custom of holding convocations regularly.
Campus Opinion
By recent issues of the daily papers, we have seen that the establishment of an R. O. T. C. at the University of Kannas is being advocated once more. The recent action of the senate in rejecting this proposition was in entire accord with our ideas and we regret to see it again in agitation, this period. I take this means of inviting attention to our reasons for believing that such an institution has no place at the University.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
The advocates of military training claim that such training improves the man in at least three ways, viz: that it gives him a better physique, that it teaches him the meaning of discipline, and that it improves his moral character. It approaches the thwarted desire of a woman by an R. O. T. C. can give any of these presumed advantages to an appreciable extent.
The R. O. T. C.'s in actual operation prove this. The one hour slovely drill characteristic of these detachments must not be confused with the eight hours, daily, of hard, active, outdoor exercise which the average soldier in the army gets during his period of training. 'Physical benefits resulting from this drill do not even approximate one-eighth those derived by the soldier from his life, owing largely to the difference in the efficiency of the drill masters, the character of the work, and the training required. The soldier results from his regular habits of living, which cannot be enforced in the R. O. T. C. system.
Anyone who has seen an R. O. T. C. system in operation knows that the discipline of these organizations is a joke. The discipline of the army is derived from practically a cast of characters, tied upon the life of the University.
The moral advantage to be derived from the work of an R. O. T. C. can manifestly be no greater than that derived from the gymnasium work and Hygiene course now required of all students.
The installation of such a system will make an additional demand upon the time of the student, and for this reason the standard of work which can be required in the academic courses must, in fairness to the student, be lowered to compensate for this reduction of his time for study. We do this by thinking that a system which is derived from such a system which will equalize the disadvantage of lowering the standard of academic work.
Those who heard the recent address of Major General Leonard Wood, who is perhaps America's foremost advocate of military training, will recall that even he minimized the military benefits of such a system. He recommended that he train his military lines, but stated in his opinion the drill of student cadet corps failed to achieve its intended purpose.
It seems to us that the addition to the curriculum of the university of courses on so wide a field as the science of war, particularly if made a requirement for any class, would encourage the tendency toward a superficial education. In it the student body would find added excuse and discouragement to be content with a smattering of education in a great many subjects while getting no real knowledge.
As seniors will leave the University this year, our interest in this matter is not of a personal nature but is due to the fact that we do not wish to see an action taken which it seems to us, would be detrimental to the best interests of the school. Having seen REN's performance at Ohio State University and at the University of Illinois, we feel that the establishment of this system at the University of Kansas would be a serious mistake.
Dorman H. O'Leary
R. D. Edwards
Readable Verse
UNDOUBTED ADAPTABILITY
Journalists endite astutely Columns proving absolutely That returning soldiers should
given cosy farms;
And we sip their offerings mutely,
Tell friend wife who murmurs cutely.
Ah, yes; keep the dear boys safely
Bayonets for pasture weeders,
Cast-off helmet chicken-feeders,
(Beating sword-blades into plum
wrap in Mother Nature's arms
"Yes, I fought at Chateau Thierry," Says the hayseed to your query. As he casts the stray potato in the
shares as the ancient used to say.
Worn machine gun cornfield seeders -
So these ultra-modern leaders
Home to mould men and devils.
to mould men and devices for the glory of the clay.
furrow of the plough;
"Though I find life somewhat dreary,
I can make things bright and cheery
By essaying bayenning on an unof-
American troops in France received a more careful and prolonged training than could possibly be given most of the regiments hurriedly raised during the Civil War. General Pershing tells the story of a volunteer battalion of rough backwoodmen that once joined General Grant. He admired their fine physique, but disdusted the capacity of their uncount commander to handle troops promptly and efficiently in the field, so he said.
GOT THERE JUST THE SAME
"Colonel, I want to see your men at work; call them to attention, and order them to march with shouldered arms in close column to the left flank."
—Harvard Lampoon.
Without a moment's hesitation the colonel yelled to his fellow ruffian: "Boys, look out and that! Make ready, make sure you left endways! Toe wrest尔 gun!" GIT!
Other Opinions
R. O. T. C. AT PENNSYLVANIA
The maneuver proved a brilliant success and the self-elected colonel was forthwith officially commissioned. —Ladies Home Journal.
We have been asked by the government to re-establish an R.O.T.C. Unit at the University of Pennsylvania. Ordinarily any request of our country would be honored—our institution has an enviable record in this respect. These are certainly not ordinary times, however, nor can this latest government action be considered an ordinary one in any sense. Frankly, indications of every sort would seem to show that this move at Washington is a decidedly poor one. Colleges everywhere have been and are rebelling at the thought of another R.O.T.C.—a very close relation to "gone but not forgotten" S.A.T.C.
There used to be time when anything transacted at the Nation's Capitol was considered beyond reproach. Criticism meant treason. Fortunately, such is no longer the case. During the war the administration was frequently criticised in no uncertain terms. And the result very often was that we were able to know New York that we are vis-a-vis with a problem which affects us all as University men, there can surely be no harm in airing the facts.
Preparedness is a great thing. So is patriotism. And unquestionably military life is a benefit, physically and mentally. These confessions concern generalities, however. When we come to consider them in relation to Pennsylvania during this session, the paramount importance of all but patriotism is appreciably reduced. Every man in the University at this time (the exceptions are negligible) has, until recently, been connected with some arm of the service. All of their best work was done when we were quite willing to sacrifice time for the great cause. Now we have returned to these neglected scholastic duties, and in almost every case it will be necessary to "put on extra steam" to gain any headway during the few months remaining this year. A degree is at stake in many cases.
To attempt an R.O.T.C at such a time is unwise, expressing it mildly. Unless made compulsory (a thing entirely impossible at this institution), military training at Pennsylvania this year would be a dismal failure. Judging from interest shown to date, less than a hundred men would take the course. We need not feel that this record expresses lack of patriotism on our campus. Similar conditions exist at Yale and elsewhere.
Pennsylnanian.
SHE KNEW
For an hour the teacher had dwell with painful iteration on the par played by carbohydrates, proteins and fats, respectively, in the upkeep of the human body. At the end of the lesson the usual test questions were put, among them, "Can any girl tell me the three foods required to keep the body in health?"
There was silence till one maiden held up her hand and replied: "Yer breakfast, yer dinner and yer supper!" -Ladies Home Journal.
Uncle Bill, hearing an explosion in the immediate neighborhood, said to his small nephew, sitting in the automobile beside him: "Get out Jimmy, and look at the tire, and see that he said I didn't say it!" said Jimmy upon inspection; it's only flat on the bottom side". - Reedy's Mir por.
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