JANUARY 21,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the class rather than merely print the news that more and more Wetty holds; to play no favoriter; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to leave more serious wiser head; to all, to serve to the students of the University.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1919.
COLLEGIATE CREDIT FOR ARMY WORK
University men who have been in the service, and who are now returning to the Hill believe that in many instances they should receive credit for various lines of work done in the army. The University granted credits to the men who left the S. A. T. C. detachment here to go to officers' training camps, but no definite basis for men who did not enter the army through the University has been established.
It seems only fair that a man who has been in the service other than the S. A. T. C. should get just as much credit as the men in the S. A. T. C. Most of them have had more actual experience and more specific training in War Aims than those who remained here in the University. Many men who are returning to school are officers who have had enough experience to equal a year's work in the University. Later men will come back who have seen service in France. Will they receive credit in the University?
Some think that if a man asks for credit for war work that he is trying to beat the University out of that many hours' credit. Others are inclined to look on the matter in a more favorable light. They suggest that the individual should state just exactly what he has been doing and should be granted credit according to the amount of work he has done.
Harvard and Yale are considering the plan of giving to any man who returns to school this year credit for a full year. Other schools are considering the plan of giving from five to twenty hours credit for war work. The Canadian colleges are giving full credit for a year's academic work to all men who have joined the military or naval service since last April.
This same plan was brought up before the annual convention of the American College Association but was not voted upon, pending the return of army officers representing the educational division of the War Department.
PROFESSORS NEED PUBLIC SPEAKING
No, friend professor, you are not getting by! When you think you can come to class, slide down in your chair, cross your feet, and gaze out of the window while you are conducting a class, you are fooling no one but your poor deluded self. Your very attitude shows a lack of interest and indifference, and you may be sure that if you are not interested in the subject you the attempting to teach, that your class will not be.
Remember the big problem in putting an idea across, is the intense desire to communicate the thought to the
audience. If you do not have this desire do not blame your students for going to sleep or looking bored. And what is more, if your students get anything from your course it will be because they are very conscientious or because they are intensely interested in the subject and are willing to do much more outside reading. It is much the same with teachers who read their pictures—lectures which have been copied in whole or in part from text books, and which contain many highounding but meaningless phrases.
The best thing for you to do is to take a course in Public Speaking—in fact there should be a law to the effect that no one shall be permitted to obtain a teacher's certificate until he has had thorough preparation in Public Speaking. If you are unable to appear before a class and talk so the members will remain awake, then your vocation in life is not teaching and you should overcome your failings or go into the landscape-gardening profession. If, on the other hand, you know your subject thoroughly and are so unfortunate as to have no public speaking ability, then publish a text book and let some one teach it who has the ability, to get the ideas across.
There are only a few plutocrats in the University who have cars here at school, but for the benefit of those persons and the mail-man on the Hill, a good roads campaign on the campus would not be at all inappropriate.
Six-sevenths of the students of the University are church members, and only one-seventh of the entire enrollment attend church here in Lawrence. Perhaps the non-members are investigating to see if there is anything in it, and the members feel so sure of their spiritual status that there is no necessity for undue exertion.
MOUNT OREAD OBSERVATORY
The astronomical observatory proposed by the department of astronomy and waiting for legislature appropriations for construction of the building will be an addition of great importance to the equipment of the University.
The University of Kansas is the largest university in the United States that does not have such an observatory. Mount Oread affords, however, an ideal location for astronomical observation, taking all climatic conditions into consideration, according to local experts in astronomy.
Apparatus to equip the building is already possessed by the University. It is stored away in Blake Hall and is rarely used because there are no proper mountings for the instruments.
An observatory will cost about $3,500, according to estimates by Major Alter, professor in the department of astronomy.
Because of the factors that favor the establishment of an observatory on Mount Oread and the advantages it would lend to the University, it is expected that the state legislature will appropriate the small amount necessary for its institution.
The department of astronomy was started at the University at the beginning of this quarter. Formerly one or sometimes several courses in astronomy were offered. A great impetus will be given the new department if the observatory is established, and the University will have a facility that offers opportunity for worthwhile scientific research.
In a suffrage state and a coeducational university, a picture of Susan B. Anthony, trail-breaker of suffrage, has hung practically unnoticed and never mentioned in the public prints since May, 1917. The photograph of Miss Anthony was given to Spooner Library by Miss Kate Stephens, author of Kansas books, and a graduate and former professor in the University.
The picture is a profile in a rococo frame placed in a larger oval frame. It hangs in the south-east corner of the library near Miss Carrie Watson's office, and bears the inscription, "This Photograph taken in Rome, Anthony gave me in Berlin in 1883. Kate Stephens,"
Skiing is very popular at the MeGill university this month.
Readable Verse
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
THE LINGERING SNOW
Along the mountain top a gleam,
Misty and silver, half a dream
Of holiness upon the air,
So far it is, so fair.
And on the garden-side a drift
Touched by a sunbeam strong and swift
But soiled and dun the broken crust,
O'berblown with lathy dust.
And this shall slowly drip and drip.
And round the eager root shall slip.
And come again to light where blows
the whorl of some red rose.
From ledge to ledge in one gid sweep.
Powder to fom and hinge a veil;
From ledge to ledge in one gid sweep.
And this shall feed great brooks that lean
Ob, beauty of the falling mist,
Dissolved on distant amethyst.
As royal thun where stuled snow
Brings the great rose to blow!
Campus Opinion
—Harriet Prescott Spofford in Th Century.
This Column is Open to all Students of the University
Editor Daily Kansan:
Better music should be secured for the all-University dances. Only one of the dance halls in Lawrence is available for University dances and this always assures the dance managers of a paying crowd every Friday or Saturday night.
To The Daily Kansan:
At first sight it is seems pathetic that a group of fine old gentlemen who's glory it is that they did their part to promote the physical freedom of mankind, should be found protesting against freedom of expression exercised by a fellow citizen with whom they do not happen to agree. But it is not pathetic, it is fine. They are a little band of stalwart fighters and they propose to go on fighting to the end.
Under the present regime one must put on a dance at his fraternity house to be assured of real music. All students are not included in dances. It is an expensive pastime when a few pay for high class music, and many more could enjoy the same music for the same price.
Of course the protest of the Lawrence G. A. R. against Professor Hodder's criticism of Colonel Roosevelt is in itself thoroughly bad. It would punish a man for stating views which it was his right and probably his duty to express a matter which he regarded as vital to the interests of the country. Suppression of opinion is not the goal toward the world seems to be moving. But the real cause of the resentment manifest in the resolutions printed in your paper yesterday is probably less the substance of what Professor Hodder said than its form. It is undeniably true that Professorhodder chose rather forceful terms than well-thought-out humility most as forceful as the terms which Colonel Roosevelt habitually chose to characterize persons with whom he disagreed. Colonel Roosevelt's friends in the Lawrence G. A. R. might well recall his hard hitting proclivities and its downright enjoyment of a merry light.
This year dances have been advertised with reputable musicians but upon arrival at the hall students are greeted with a medicine violinist and an unknown accompanist. The students attend these dances every week and take the dance managers' excuses for having such music instead of the advertised players as a matter of course. This happens regularly.
More than one hundred couples usually attend all-University dances here. This crowd will pay for the best music. More students would defend themselves in a dance if they were better. The students would become more democratic.
Again, at first thought, it seems that if a protest against Professor Hodder's remarks was to have been made, it should have been made before the incident was practically forgotten and not after Colonel Roosevelt's death when all controversy about him was naturally laid aside. He was also likely to be particularly in such matters. Our most dynamic American is, after all, about as much a living influence in our affairs as he ever was.
So there is no occasion for any objection to the well meant activities *f* the Lawrence Post. It did them all and will not do anybody my harm.
The University should either place a ban on advertising players that do
L. N. F.
not arrive or see that rqal music is
secured for the dances and that it
is played.
When this is accomplished democracy will be established and students will have a better and a cheaper time.
BOGUS HEROES
There have been a lot of bogus heroes in America since the army began dispatching men back to the States for sickness, wounds, training and other reasons. Every soldier who goes home has been until proved otherwise, and the temptation not to prove themselves has been too much for some.
One Who Tried It Last Saturday.
There is the case of the air service mechanic who went back with heart trouble. His home town newspaper printed his "dairy," which recounted several stirring fights over the German lines, all imaginary. The nearest he had been to the front was Issoudun.
But, once the idea is around, and once we get back with our first hand knowledge of affairs over here, the bogo hero is going to have a pretty thorny trail—Stars and Stripes, France.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
There is the case of the sergeant who lectured on the Battle of Cantigny for the fourth Liberty Loan, and sold a lot of bonds, too, until he was found to have spent all his stay in France, barring traveling time, at LeMans.
And there is the case, just to show how hard it was to be a hero, of the major who returned and, merely obeying military regulations, refused to be interviewed. As far as he had got toward gunfire and danger was a training school at Langres. "Modest-ness," he said, "was this the art in Château Thierry fighting" was the second line of the heading over the story about him in the next morning's paper. The fault was the newspaper's, not the major's.
To date in the eyes of the people back home, every soldier who has been in Europe has undergone the horrors of the front. Private Johnnie Jones, whose greatest hardship in this war was taps at 9:30, was pictured in his home journal and captioned—"John Jones of this city, now battling for freedom in the trenches." It is going to be hard to convince the home folks that of the 2 million Americans in France, half of them, through no fault of his own, of course, never got under fire."
SOME UNUSUAL LADIES
Topeka State Journal.
Sir-I see, according to the want a department of your paper, that "A Blue-Serge woman's suit" is for sale; "a solid gold lady's ring and 'a diamond lady's solitaire." Note also a reference to a "corrugated paper man." Would suggest that the corrugated paper man select one of these ladies for a wife. The blue serge woman would perhaps be more fitting than the solid gold woman or the diamond woman—E. N. Graves.
And, by the way, has any one
sued to ask why the peace confer-
ance is not being held in that lovely
way? Or are they doing something?
The Hague? - Topeka State Journal.
Germans will now begin to take the American occupation seriously. Pershing has cut down on their supply of beer.
Thus the greatest blow of the war comes with peace.—Topeka State Journal.
The following story of a Wellesley Junior would tend to show that the sweet unreasonableness of the feminine mind is not wholly done away with by higher education.
This junior filled a prescription for a tonic sometime during the spring semester. The medicine came in dainty little pills of a delicate apple-green shade. When the first supply was exhausted the young lady tripee back to the druggist and, taking out the last dose, which she had carefully rolled up in tissue paper, held it out to the astonished clerk and said, sweetly, "Will you please match this pill?"—Harper's.
A QUESTION OF COLOR
Mrs. Winfall, a society woman, always allowed the housekeeper to hire
One morning, however, the mistress wished to interview the cook, who had been engaged only the day before.
"What is your name?" inquired the lady.
Mrs. McCarty," replied the cook. "I expect to be called Mr. McCarty?"
"Oh, no, ma'am, not if you have an alarm clock."-Harper's.
Why is it that the losing team never telegraphs the results to the gang back home?
Why don't you tell people about falling down in the street, so they can enjoy the joke?
Why don't you write to father about the A quiz grade, and neglect to inform him of the incomplete?
MORE PROFITABLE
"Irving, dear," asked the mother,
"how did you like the circus?"
Little Irving had never been to a circus in all his life, and he was recently taken to one by his father. His delight knew no bounds, and he came home round-eyed and apoplectic with joy.
"Oh, mother," the boy cried out, earnestly, "if you would go to the circus just once, you would never want to work there on church work, again," "Harper."
HER FAMILY
An artist who occupied a studio on the top floor of a large building was always friendly with the woman who cleaned his rooms.
"How many children have you, Molly?" he asked one morning as she was nolishing the floor.
"It's given I have, sir, thank ye for askin. It's lucky I am, sir, bless 'em.
I have four be the third wife of me second husband, and three be the second wife of me first."-Harper's
A women lately wrote an editor of the personal columns, and said:
"I have lost three husbands and now have an offer of a fourth. Shall I accept him?"
The reply came: "If you have lost three husbands I should say you are too careless to be trusted with a fourth."-Harper's
IN USE
"I want a half-pound of water crackers, Mrs. Jones. "I find out, you said, ours."
"I'm all-fired sorry, ma'am," replied the country storekeeper, "but I ain't got but two dozen in the place." "Well, I'll take them."
"Jest wait ten minutes. Hi Peters and John Smith have been usin' em for checkers and they're playin' the deciding game now."-Harper's.
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