UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JANUARY 23.1919.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 191
AN EXCELLENT PLAN
At a recent meeting the University Senate inaugurated a plan to help students find the professions or lines of business in which they can work most efficiently. A committee was appointed to advise students concerning vocational matters. This is the most constructive and progressive plan to be adopted by the University Senate in years. When the work of the committee is organized, it will be an effective factor in helping men and women of this institution find their real places in business and in the professions.
Although Harvard University started a similar plan last year, it is practically a new departure for a university to maintain a committee on vocational guidance for its students and graduates. The first work of the committee here will be to gather information about all the vocations suitable to college-trained men and women. This information will then be given to students who apply for advice.
The fact that the United States Army employed psychologists to determine the general intellectual qualifications that fit men for various lines of work influenced the Senate to start the machinery for a vocational guidance program. The committee does not say that it will be able to determine the ability of students who wish to enter certain vocations, but it can be of practical value by giving out information.
Surely no more practical thing could be done for society in general than to adapt people to the occupations for which they are best suited. Vocational misfits are a social loss. Up to the present time our school system seems to have practically ignored the question of putting the right person in the right place, thus increasing industrial efficiency.
Members of the University Senate proved themselves to be progressive educators when they appointed a committee to aid students vocationaly.
Thirty-three and one-third per cent of the students in a class in American Government failed to pass the course last quarter. In other studies these students showed average intelligence. Some of them were students of an A and B standard in other subjects. Perhaps they did not apply themselves properly, but in this instance is there not some reflection on the manner in which the courses was presented?
POOR BUSINESS
There has been so much indefinite-
ness, delay and uncertainty about
the plans for the K. U. annual this
year that students are losing their
usual interest in its publication.
A great deal of this delay can be
attributed, of course, to the fact that
its publishers have only recently been
released from military service,
and have had no opportunity to get their
work well organized.
No one cares to buy a Jayhawker or to cast his votes in the popularity contest, however, when he has no definite information about these matters. And a student cannot be blamed for not turning in his senior picture when he is never able to get into communication with the managers.
The Jayhawker this year will excel former publications and will be unique, because it will record a wartime K. U. But its managers must employ business-like methods and have regular office hours if they intend to be supported by all the students.
The University of Kansas acquires new honors each day. Douglas Fairbanks rose graciously in the subway, smiled his best, and gave his seat to a member of the Class of '18 the other day.
KEEP GRADES UP-TO-DATE
When students go to the Registrar's office to get their grades, they discover that many professors and instructors have not yet turned in their grades for last semester, or even las year.
Punctuality in handing in themes, in getting to class, and in preparing class work has been drilled into the student's mind ever since he first entered the University. He has had his grades cut down for late work, and in some courses has even been flunked for not getting his work in on time. In spite of this we hear a lot about the care-free student who cannot be held responsible for getting anything done on time. He probably deserves to be criticized for his negligence, but what of the care-free professor who can never get his quizzes handed back or his grades made out the same year? He is as much a detritum to the machinery of the University as the easy going student.
Members of the Money and Credit course will probably derive more work and credit from it than mercenary recompense. And some of them may not get much credit.
THE DEMOBILIZATION PERIOD
A complete system has been worked out by the Army Educational Commission of the Y. M. C. A., with the approval of General Pershing and the active support of President Wilson and the Secretary of War, where by every soldier who may be kept in Europe during the demobilization period is to be given an opportunity to improve his education under Arm control, whether he has only the rudiments of education, none at all or whether he is a college senior and now holds a commission. The plan was formulated while the routine of war absorbed the Army's main energies but even then plans were made t widen it so that the army during the demobilization period may have the advantage of the higher educations systems of the English and French universities. The plan provided that while the army is waiting on peace negotiations, officers and enlisted me shall be given leaves of absence from their units to attend such classic institutions as those at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and at the Sorbonne and the Universities of Paris and Bordeaux in France. The students will receive credits in American universities for courses followed in Europe While the army is demobilizing awaiting transportation to the United States, the post schools will afford courses in English literature, modern history, civics, bookkeeping, accountancy, stenography, elementary biology, and other subjects. Specia schools will provide education courses in electric wiring and repai work, salesmanship, practical agriculture, carpentry, cadrery, tailoring, tinsmithing, cooking, etc.-Pictorial Review.
Plans for a million dollar school of medicine at Western Reserve University are being drawn.
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A BLIND POLL TO HIS NURSE
know you only by your tears.
I told them falling on my face.
And lay him down in the bed.
And lay I knew not in what lace.
O lady, not a dream was misel!
Despair had told the truth to me.
And I was fearful of life's call,
and bitter with my doiny.
But the warm touches of you reunited Meidu to the darkened years. Sweet reencounter of my days. I know you are by your tears.
I know you only by your tears.
—Agnes Lee, in Current Opinion.
Campus Opinion
"Have you ever tried to love your enemies?"
To The Daily Kansan;
Poor music at varsity dances is in doubt a trial and vexation of spiir but there is something to be said or the side of the student council. Many of the musicians popular with students last year and the year before have enlisted and have no immediate prospects of being discharged. People's tastes in music differ; music which has pleased one group of people this year has failed to please others. The council can only change about as much as possible and endeavor to please some of the people some of the time. It is not possible to bring in an expensive out-of-own orchestra every week and at the same time keep the pride of varsity dances down to a personal level. Performance situations Circumstances also have some effect. Snow storms and late trains aren't under human control. W. S. G. A.
"Yes." answered the slow-speaking man, "I have tried. But I never got a real enemy to reciprocate my affections with any degree of reliability." —Washington Star.
There is a Friday the Thirteenth in this new year: next June. Keep your eyes open about that time for another obit on some one's sense of the ludicrous-. -Colliers.
This Column is Open to all students of the University
To The Daily Kansan:
A statement appeared in the Daily Kansan a few days ago saying that the council of the Women's Student Government Association had made the ruling was passed by the University College of Oklahoma and the ruling was passed by the University Senate and the student council has no connection with it.
The ruling fixing the closing hour of all dances at 12 o'clock is also a senate ruling, made last spring. The W. S. G. A. and the adviser of women do not have jurisdiction over violations of that ruling. All rulings governing student parties and dances are subject to the rules and jurisdiction of the disciplinary committee. The W. S. G. A. works for the interests of the women of the University and has many other interests besides disciplinary powers. M. S.
THE FATAL DATE
Whenever the thirteenth of the month falls on a Friday the strain is sure to be too much for some delicate brains. Not long ago some so-called "radicals" in *New York* decided to make a Friday the Thirteenth "People's Day, and issued a proclamation abolishing a number of institutions that (to our amazement) still seem to be going on. Among the matters abolished by Ellis O. Jones (who made his first reputation as a humorist) and his soviet were all debts, leases, contracts, and statutes; all public offices were declared vacant: all indictments quashed; all vacant land (to say nothing of vacant skulls) were to revert to the people.
This reminded us of something, we didn't just know what. Now we have found it, in the thirty-eight chapter of the immortal "Pickwick." When Mr. Sam Weller was entertained at a "swarry" by the footman of Bath, some one proposed the health of the indies. "Hear, hear!" cried Sam. "The young missises!" This word was objected to by the footman as being unparliamentary. "We don't recognize such distinctions here!"
We should be sorry to believe that so able a humorist as Ellis O. Jones recognizes no distinction between genuine industrial reform and simple idiocy. If so, instead of parading with crape for "dead Liberty," he should wear the scarf where he used to keep his sense of humor. And, as far as social reform is concerned, we must remember the words of a great humorist, Don Marquis: "An idea is not always blame for the people who believe in it."
RICHES OF THE GOLD CHEVROUT
He wore the only gold service chevron the little town had seen. This fact won him a pleasing distinction right away. Folks he had known for years seemed a little awed in his presence. The greetings partook of features that hitherto had been reserved only for the rare occasions when great men visited the place. A delightful feeling of prominence, of merit at last recognized and rewarded, stole over him. It was great to be a returning hero, after all.
That was the first day, and early in the day, too. Somewhat later on that same day the returned veteran was called to the telephone. It was
"Really, my dear boy, you must come and talk to our Sunday School tomorrow morning," the good man told the man with the gold stripe promised.
He struggled through the talk to the Sunday School, though it left him perspiring and painfully aware of the fact that he had made an awful hash of it. Right then the principal of the high school nabbed him.
"You've just got to come up and talk to the school tomorrow morning," the educator declared. And, reluctant, he said that who had "been across" arrived to do so.
Followed another trying session. He barely had got home and seated himself in the cozy old chair that he had dreamed about so long when the owner of the town's picture show got him on the telephone.
"Ive advertised a talk by you between reels tonight. Folks are expecting you and it will go big," asserted the small town impressor. There was no escape and the man with the bold stripe had another bad half hour.
"Bill, we've got a big food planned for tonight and we want you over to tell the folks all about your experien- ture," she would say. And how could he refuse?
Then the uncles and the aunts and the old acquaintances began to get in their work.
Even when he went to call on her, what did her folks do but insist on coming into the parlor and making him talk about the things he had seen and gone through "over there." No time at all alone, just with her.
He's gone back to work in the city now; didn't stay in the old home town as long as he expected. And that gold service chevron isn't nearly as prized as it was a few days ago—K. C. Star.
MerelyMental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
OVER AGE
He was probably the smallest "middy" in the navy, and one evening he was invited to attend a party in the saloon. He was such a little chap that the ladies had no idea that he was a midshipman at all but took him for somebody's "dear little boy" in a suit. He was one of them, on whose lap he had been sitting, and who had just kissed him, asked:
“And how old are you, little dear?” “Twenty-two,” he said in a voice like a foghorn. Then the lady swooned.-Life.
Madge: Of course he's fat and bald and not very young, but he adores von.
NEXT
Marjorie: I haven't turned him down altogether; I've just put him in my deterred classification—Life.
"This can't be holl—there are no Germans here."
"Who won the ball game today?" "I dumpe. I took a girl. When the game ended I had only managed to explain things as far as the seventh innning." "Life."
"Yes, your honor, it is. But the regular people put up such a kick, we built this annex for them."—Life.
"What are you doing at a trousers
suit, Ms Newgirl? Women aren't
fashionable?"
"Not yet. But still—well, anyhow
I just look around." Stray
Ivory.
GETTING READY
Booth Tarkington tells of an old colored man who appeared as a witness before one of our committees. When he went home, these questions were put to the man.
LITERATE
"What is your name?"
"Calhoun, Clay, sah."
"Can you sign your name?"
"Sah?"
"I asked if you can write your name."
"Well, no, sah. Ah nebber writes ms name. Ah dictates it, sah."
—Atlanta Chronicle.
THIS IS A GREAT COUNTRY Did you know that—
The greatest cataract in the world
the Falls of Nigara?
The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky.
the Mississippi 4,100 miles long?
World record
the Valley of the Mississippi
The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being 430 miles long and 1,000 feet dee
The longest railroad in the world is the Southern Pacific, which is more than 300 miles long.
The greatest natural bridge in the world is the natural bridge over the Grand Canyon.
The greatest mass of solid iron in the world is the great.Iron Mountain in Missouri?—Sons and Daughters of Justice?
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MEDICAL MEN PATRIOTIC The splendid health in which the Canadian corps has been maintained is due to the unceasing vigilance of the Canadian adian army medical corps. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the medical profession in Canada is engaged in some professional capacity in connection with the armed forces of Canada, either at home or overseas—
According to the latest available figures, the religions of the world are divided as follows: Christians, 654-1510,000; Confucianists and Taolists, 300,830,000; Mohammedans, 221,825-000; Hindus, 210,540,000; Animists, 158,270,000; Buddhists, 138,031,000; Shintoists, 12,205-000; unclassified, 15,280,000—People Home Journal.
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