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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 17, 1957
'Beisbol' Epidemic Upon Us
The season of funerals is upon us. Soor. approaching is the time when more grandmothers, aunts and mothers-in-law die than during any other comparable season, but not of any deadly germ or disease epidemic.
No, for this is the season of strange creatures Indians, Giants, Yankees and Athletics. It is these creatures who are wrecking the American working day with the influx of imagined funerals.
No longer is the meek little bookkeeper willing to work all day Saturday without extra pay. He begs off to attend the funeral of his "grandmother" and then is a little embarrassed when he sits by his boss at the weekly game.
Yes, the official Big League baseball season opens next week...with all its natural consequences. It brings upon the American scene the inescapable stream of "Peanuts, popcorn and ice-cold pop!" the badly off-key renditions of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and the sound of mothers' voices calling for offspring to come home from the sandlot.
Baseball season is a colorful one, too. Combine the colors of the uniforms of the teams, the pennants waved by 'loyal' fans, and the bright summer colors of the attending crowds and you have some of the color of the season.
Add to this the smell of well-oiled leather of the precious gloves, the smell of popcorn being sold throughout the stands, the slight smell of sweat coming from the hard-working pitcher, and the smell of the coke the neighbor's child just poured
all over you, and you get an idea of the essential characteristics of a baseball game.
Whether it is the neighborhood game played on the sandlot, where all the seats are either on the ground or on top of nearby cars, or at the World Series, where all the tickets have been sold out for weeks—baseball is the one truly American game, and is enjoyed by American people all over the country.
Baseball is not a game exclusively for the young, but includes players from eight to 48. Most towns have several teams, ranging from Pee Wees to semi-professional or professional teams. Everybody gets in the act.
The strange thing about baseball is that nearly every fan and player is an expert. There are more self-styled experts on baseball than on virtually any other subject in the world (excluding the topic of women).
Everyone, from the smallest fan on up, knows how Ted Williams holds his bat, what's the matter with Mickey Mantle's knees, and that Stan Musial hit A71 in spring training. Furthermore, everyone knows that their team is the best, that the last runner wasn't really out, and that most umpires are blind.
So whether enjoyed as a good place to meet your neighbors, as a cheap place to take your date, or as a sport (with a mitt in one hand and the other holding up ragged jeans) baseball is truly The American Game.
Batter up!
. Letters To The Editor
Joan Graham
'We' Laughed
Speaking of Tom Sawyer as the "clever boy critica" Rock Chalk Master of Ceremonies in Monday's Daily Kansan, Bob Lyle went too far when he said "the crowd loved it" meaning Sawyer's "fifth."
What I want to know is: Mr. Lyle, whose crowd—yours?
Was Bob Lyle hiding behind his title (so carefully added in parenthesis beneath his byline) in that Daily Kansan feature, or was he trying to make it look as if his opinion were that of the entire management and staff of the students' publication — thereby reporting what MUST, naturally, be the opinion of all of us students?
Mr. Lyle forgot that a crowd is composed of individual persons. I was part of that crowd, and I don't remember seeing too many persons rolling in the aisles with glee. If they were rolling at all, it was a scrunching down farther into their seats between acts.
write your features praising Tom Sawyer, but remember to use "T" instead of the collective "we." You may be alone in your praise.
Virginia Dale
One word of advice, Mr. Lyle.
Virginia Dale Hutchinson senior
Vote 'Against'
Editor:
The "compromise proposal" as outlined in the Daily Kansan would disenfranchise quite a number of students because their fellow students did not bother to vote.
Let's keep the "All" in the All Student Council and vote AGAINST any proposal that would take away the vote of the student body.
Inherent in this proposal was the requirement that 75 ballots must be cast in a given school or living district in order for those voters to be represented on the Council. For all practical purposes this would remove the voting power of those casting ballots in the schools and districts with fewer than 75 students voting.
The record shows that in the recent past, the Graduate School, the
IQ, Memory-Synonymous?
His slip might be excused as a memory block. The facts were there, but he simply could not recall them for the moment. This brings up another point: what is the relationship between memory and sheer intelligence? Is a person less intelligent if his memory is poor?
Many persons are endowed with exceptional memories, and are able to recall minor incidents in their lives. Given a situation which must be solved by reasoning, however, they are helpless. This is not to suggest that Mr. Van Doren does not possess intelligence per se, that he was dependent on memory. Rather it is to point out that psychologists
For several months recently a 31-year-old Columbia University English instructor fascinated national TV audiences with his uncanny memory and his store of knowledge. He was able to tell trifling details of the Oedipus complex, to tick off complicated scientific formulae forgotten by most persons soon after they are learned.
Then Charles Van Doren stumbled; he could not name the youthful King of Belgium, Baudouin. In a sense, this failure was a relief, for it proved that Mr. Van Doren was human and fallible. The wonderman who had the answers to intricate questions on literature, history, art and science at his fingertips failed to recall a generally known fact, a current event.
Few persons who have studied geology can remember what a graben was; still fewer can recall the algebraic formula for determining the rate at which an object will fall. But according to psychologists, this is unimportant; a person's reasoning ability is the important factor.
Does this mean that some courses are slanted toward the student's ability to remember rather than his ability to analyze? In short, does the school judge a student's intelligence by his memory?
Intelligence tests are based on reasoning. Questions are not intended to test what a person has learned, but to see if he can relate bits of knowledge, and by process of reasoning achieve an answer.
in measuring intelligence use reasoning ability as a basis.
Actually, there is probably no cut and dried basis for determining the limits and capacities of something so complex as the human mind. And in the dispute of memory vs. intelligence, where does common sense come in? Many persons possessed with this gift have done more with their lives and for others than the acclaimed intelligentsia.
Students are often heard to say: "My IQ shows that I am capable of doing much better work. My grades really aren't what they should be."
Schools of Journalism. Law, and Pharmacy, and the cooperative houses and professional fraternities district have had fewer than 75 voters each.
The "best heads on the present Council" seemed to have overlooked a few facts in preparing this compromise proposal, and the undemocratic result is not an improvement over the present system.
—Felecia Anne Fenberg
This proposal, regardless of its other merits, should be defeated as long as it permits any student voting to be unfairly deprived of full representation. This proposal could be made acceptable by changing it so as to guarantee one representative to each school and to each living district as under the present constitution.
John M. Dealy Wichita junior
Editor:
Should It Go?
Is it really necessary for the University Daily Kansan to continually print that insult to the intelligence called "Ad Booki?"
The column is on the caliber of those found in a high school paper and to add to the insult, the picture of the author staring off into space is included.
It seems a paper the size of the Daily Kansan would make better use of space.
Russ Branden Kingman junior
Daiyi Hansan
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