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University Daily Kansan Monday. Nov. 16, 1959
THINK IT WILL FIT—Two Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers work on homecoming decorations.
From left are Richard Peil, Atchison sophomore, and Gary Irwin, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Contributors Mistake UDK for Fund Director
By Jane Boyd
A few contributors to the Campus Chest Fund mistook the Daily Kansan for the agency in charge of the drive.
Donations should have been mailed to Don Logan, Prairie Village junior, not the Daily Kansan.
Membership Cards Given
The Daily Kansan received another Campus Chest donation Friday, this one for $20.
A letter with cards was signed by an imaginary president, Derf Fpkoksots. Spelled backwards this is Fred Stoskpof, a student here last year.
The Kansan staff did get a bonus for its trouble-10 honorary membership cards to L.B.S.G., the League for Better Student Government.
Thursday the Daily Kansan was asked in a letter from Pachacamac, a defunct political party since 1954, to donate an enclosed amount of $25 to the Campus Chest.
The League for Better Student Government should not be confused with the Better Student Government League. Their president is Rex Fowler, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Same Typewriter Used
There seems to be a certain similarity between Pachacamac and the League for Better Student Government. Both organizations use the same typewriter.
The only active political party on the campus is Vox Populi.
The motto of L.B.S.G. printed on the membership cards is "Vires acquirit Eundo," which has no meaning according to the Latin Department.
With the addition of "fama" at the beginning of the phrase the meaning would be "a rumor gathers strength by spreading." The phrase comes from Virgil's Aeneid.
Soviet Success Due to Schools
The root of Soviet success is in its own special professional institutions which train persons in specific fields, G. A. Tokaty, professor of aeronautical engineering at Northampton College of Advanced Technology, told members of the Faculty Club last night.
Prof. Tokaty, who was educated in the best Soviet school for aeronautical engineers, said:
"After the 1917 revolution, the old Russian social and political institutions were destroyed. To survive with the West, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reconstructed its economic and social system—everything.
"This was not a simple reconstruction. The USSR had nothing and it started at an up-to-date level. The United States was still operating on its old factory basis."
Education Belongs to State
"Since 1938, the Soviet Union has established 37 non-technical universities, 28 building and general material institutes, 37 polytechnical institutes, 26 mechanical institutes, 22 mining and metallurgical institutes, 27 engineering institutes, 4 textile institutes, 8 aeronautical institutes, 4 civil aviation institutes, 3 petroleum institutes and 15 military engineering academies," he said.
State ownership was the legal basis of the economy, Prof. Tokaty said. All education belonged to the state and was controlled and financed by the Soviet government. The sciences of all sciences, Marxism and Lenninism, must be taught in all schools like other subjects, he said.
"Universities remain non-technical in the Soviet Union. No Soviet university prepares engineers. Engineers and experts are specifically educated in academies and institutions," Prof. Tokaty said.
Professor to Talk On Tolstoi Here
Prof. Simmons will hold informal conferences with students at the home of Sam F. Anderson, instructor of German, 1236 Louisiana St.
Ernest J. Simmons, professor of Russian literature at Columbia University and Phi Beta Kappa lecturer, will speak on "Tolstoi, the Man and his Vision of Life," at 8:30 tonight at Fraser Theater.
He will be available from 9 to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. Times for conferences should be arranged by telephoning VI 3-2288.
Prof. Simmons lectured to two classes today. At 6:30 tonight he will be the guest of Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at a dinner at the Kansas Union.
Engineers Are Oligarchy
"The military engineers are the oligarchy of the USSR, Prof. Tokaty said.
Under the new doctrine, everything not related to the field must be done away with, he said. Latin is not studied except by the medical institutions. General and ancient history has been taken away, he stated.
No teacher is given a degree unless he has prepared a thesis and defended it in public," Prof. Tokaty said.
Prof. Tokaty defended his thesis in German at Polska Academie Nauk in 1937.
In the Soviet Union, students are obligated to study their text books, Prof. Tokaty said. Text books correspond to the main course and are changed every three to five years, he said.
"Being methodical is not enough. There must not be anything unnecessary. It destroys the student if unnecessary elements are added. You can't put in more than the mind can accept. But, nothing necessary must be left out. Text books are designed this way." Prof. Tokaty said.
"Methodical successiveness is one of the basic Soviet defenses. Teaching experience is based on this concept. That is, 'A' must be finished before you teach 'B'." he said.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.—Henry David Thoreau
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