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E. S. WEATHERBY,
Superintendent.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The University Orchestra will give its last concert for this year Thursday evening, May 18, in Fraser Hall, at 8:00 p. m.
Mrs. Eustace Brown requests that all students who participated in the Scotch Dance at the Halloween Party and who are still owing for the gingham for their costumes, please call at once on her office and pay the small amount. The greater part of this bill is still unpaid, and it is unfair to expect the merchants to carry the account any longer.
W. H. QUAKENBUSH President
Every Sphinx must be present at the Kanza house Tuesday night. Meeting begins 7:45 sharp. Important business.
Last sale of Senior announcements.
75 Senior Announcements are left for the first persons who come to get them. At the check stand in Fraser Hall between 8:30 and 10:30 Tuesday morning.
The Botany Club will hold its annual picnic Wednesday evening, May 17, in the grove east of Woodland Park. Letters from the students are sent to the street in South Park at 6 o'clock. See Miss Frances McCune in regard to the eats.
Estes Park students will hold a rally Wednesday evening at 5:30. All students ho have attended the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. conferences and those who expect to go this year are invited to join the kickoff. The first cabinets of the two Associations are asked to attend the meeting.
Y. W. C. A. will hold its regular meeting on the golf links, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. The meeting will be a social affair and is in charge of Itaca Hillsman and Carolyn McNutt.
Student Volunteers will go to Woodland Park, Tuesday evening at six o'clock for a picnic supper and general meeting.
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The May Convocation will be held Friday, May 19 at 10:30, and will be in charge of the Student Government associations.
Frank Strong.
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MISS. VISITORS HERE
Commission From Mississippi Visits K. U. to Investigate System
FAVORS K. U. JOURNALISM
"We Are Greatly Impressed With This Work" Governor
A party, consisting of Gov. Theo C. Bilbo, of Mississippi, Chancellor J. N. Powers of the University of Mississippi, W. H. Smith, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Joe Kernick, Assistant Professor and the members of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions, Judge E. L. Bryan, of Vicksburg; J. S. Howerton, of Baldwin; W. C. Trotter, of Winona; and O. F. Lawrence, secretary of the Board, visited the University of Kansas Saturday while on a tour of inspection of the lending institutions of the Central West.
This commission, which was created by the last session of the state legislature of Mississippi for the purpose of recommending new school legislation, visited the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma A. and M. College, the Oklahoma Normal College, the Kansas State Agricultural College and the Kansas State Normal College, before coming here. They will visit, during the remainder of their three weeks tour, the universities, agricultural schools of Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan.
FOR BETTER SCHOOL LEGISLATION
FLAYS NEW EFFICIENCY
"I believe that it was better for the heads of the state institutions, members of the board and the representatives of the state legislature to take this trip together, in order that they might unite on their recommendations for a new school code to the next session of the state legislature," said Governor Bilbo, by way of explanation of the purpose of the tour.
"We have four state educational institutions in Mississippi, the university, with an enrollment of 600 at Oxford, the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville, the Industrial Institute and College for girls at Columbus, and the All Corn College for negroes at Rodney. These four institutions are under the control of one board of trustees.
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FOUR STATE SCHOOLS
IMPRESSED WITH K. U.
"We are greatly impressed with your organisation work here at the University and your department of journalism. These features of university work will probably be recommended to the legislature by the commission in its report to the legislature," added the governor.
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way and even an indispensable part of a liberal education.
CONCERNED OVER YOU "I became more concerned than ever to know what needs paid by the state had to do with these young people, so terribly 'at ease in Zion,' who in ever increasing numbers assembled at the state university to educate themselves. The answer to this question was by no means easy. It was difficult to avoid the conclusion that if people wished to maintain a great public play ground where they could have fun, dangerous nor too oesthetic, might be acquired by the way, the professor was there to give them what they wanted. And I could not but cling fondly to the notion that most people would take it for granted that students who came to the university desired the higher education in a serious sense. I imagined that the professor must legitimize his institutional interests rather than with student interests, and give his best efforts to the few who were prepared for serious intellectual effort.
THE NEW ORDER "EFFICIENCY"
"With this order I should doubtless have remained sufficiently content, had it not been for a new order of ideas which finally made its way in the business world. As soon as I felt the edge of that word Efficiency I knew that there was sharp business to be done. A word so compact of every kind of practical implications, a word so self contained and yet so little leisurely, a word so metallic and polished, so hard and yet so resilient, would surely cut straight and ruthlessly through the heart of this world; would prick every bubble of speculative thinking, expose all soft idealism, and throw a white light into those obscure and shaded mokks of the mind where emotion keeps its day and energy is dissipated by lukewarm musicics and fruitfulness striving after vain thinks. Suddenly confronted by what I could tell will there little I could set down in exécution. There was nothing but to surrender at discretion; and to determine what an efficient education was like and then what one might do in the way of promoting it.
THE THREE TESTS
"There are three tests which I could be applied in determining the efficiency of a given form of education: Has it practical value? Is it measureable? Is its value equivalent to its cost. I soon came to see that these three tests are derived from a theory, which was quite difficult as the principle that education has to do primarily with things that are seen and temporal rather than with the things that are unseen and eternal. It is perhaps not surprising that this way of viewing the question had escaped me. For, as a student of history, I had been greatly impressed with the discipline of old Martin Luther and Socrates before him, attempted to draw between the inner or spiritual man and outer or physical man. Ignoring the fact that these men lived a long time ago, I came to regard this distinction as of great importance, as lying at the very basis of all right thinking about man and world. And talking about man's history showed nothing in development or progress that did not spring from a partial liberation of the inner from the outer man.
"I had come to think of our institutions of learning as devoted to promoting interests which humanity had always found indispensable, and to increasing as far as possible, that all things should be dom. or virtue, which as Socrates said, 'is surely the one true coin for which all things should be exchanged.'
RESOLUTION WAS REQUIRED
"Certainly it required much faith and resolution to engage in the business of education on these terms. Tangible and observable results were small. Who could with any show of evidence claim that charity increasest with knowledge of history, or that their study of the righteousness that exaltest a nation! It was indeed difficult on these terms for a professor to affirm his own worth.
"With what relief then, with what a comforting sense of assured results, might the professor turn to a theory which, identifying the inner with the outer man, concerned itself with visible and measurable realities!
educated who had the best paying job. The ablest professor was he who taught the most hours a day, the one who attracted the most pupils, or the one more encumbered than another with variegated and noted activities, or attended with the longest retinue of spoken or printed words.
"It was simply a matter of quantitative reckoning. The registration determined the rank of the university, and he was the most effective course. He was the ablest student who had the highest total of good grades. He was the best
"Another obvious feature of the efficient educational system was uniform. Method and system would make easy substitutes for inspiration. Education must be standardized. The university could be so organized and equipped that professors would be efficient in setting up classes and become educated from mere passive resistance to the established routine. No professor would conduct his classes differently from any other. All requirements would be the same. All students would then conform more nearly to the general average. And in that event might not one look forward hopefully to the happy day when pupils would enter the Latin class. The Oral Expression, being assured beforehand that the chances for acquiring the mental power stamped 'grade A' would be practically the same in one case as in the other.
A NEW TYPE OF MEN
"Of course, for such standardization one prime requisite was a new type of men, pedagogical experts, wide awake men, practical, hustling fellows, systematizers and methodologists, men of a different background or educational institution. His work, is seemed to me, would be the devising of perfect system as a substitute for personal responsibility, thus enabling the student, and the professor, too to rest his soul, to cast aside his own interests as a vicariously, meditative institution.
"Intellectual and moral capacity would obviously be open to all on more even terms when tested by external standards. There is good authority for believing that it is easier to fulfill the law than to live by the gospel; and the busy student who records much easier than self examination, as a method of testing conduct, or estimating attainments.
"And if there should be some who failed even on these terms, it was a fine thing to know that the fault was in the system and not in themselves. An anonymous writer in the 'Outlook' recently complained that an inequitable system of grading in his university discouraged him, that his professors were not inspiring, there were many social interactions, and that in general student opinion was comfortable to serious intellectual effort. For all these reasons he had lost his capacity for work. Obviously, if four years residence could give this result, the institution lacked efficiency.
JUST ONE MORE STANDARD
"Now that colleges are being standardized, however, it remains only to define intelligence and virtue in terms of concrete and observable standards of social judgment. Then any student, or professor either, even the most indifferent, may lie down at the lap of the university in expectation of being nursed into the achievement of something excellent.
"Of course we have not as yet reached this ideal situation; but the movement is nevertheless so well under way that I myself regard it, with
admiration, indeed; but also with a certain resignation, as one who knows that he is already of an older generation.
"With great resolution I have set about to acquire a stock of precise and practical ideas to banish useless dreams, to standardize my methods of instruction, and to assume at least such appearance of efficiency, the capacity of a smart person to pass muster before an inspector from the Carnegie Foundation. It may be that I am more efficient than I was, but, compared with the increasing number of the truly competent, I have the uncomfortable sense of being only an imitation, at best, no more than anything just as good as the genuine.
MEN OF SUPER-QUALITIES
"So I deluded myself with formulating a kind of salve morbidity suited to one who has in a measure succumbed to men of super-qualities. I realize it and am resigned on the whole that I shall never be an efficient professor in a medical school. I will do what I can but hope to keep close in my sheltered corner, and to avoid if possible, the Survey and Questionnaire, knowing well that they would expose all my counterfeit values to the curious world. Already I remind myself, and in the future I doubt not I shall remind myself more and more, of the little old man in a shinny frock coat who used to come in the spring to figuratively speaking, make a good living sawing wood. But like him also, I forsee myself still nourishing
certain fantastic ideas which the most charitable will regard as eccentricities, and the unfriendly as vain imaginations. Such is the irony of fate that I should come to resemble the old 'professor' whom I in my youth thought so admirable! As yet, it is true, I do not habitually wear a frock coat. But it is said that everything comes to him who waits."
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Frank Strong.
The May Convocation will be held Friday, May 19 at 10:30, and will be in charge of the Student Government associations.
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MY OWN HOME
Every man takes pride in pointing to the house in which he lives and speaking of it as "His" own. You, Mr. University Professor, can own your own home—the kind of a home you would build tomorrow if you had the ready money; a home exactly as you want it—in a few years.
WHERE?
In the University Place Addition—two blocks south of Blake Hall, away from the noisy part of town, close to the car line. I have several lots down there connected with city water, gas and sewer, with large shade trees, well-drained. They are ideally located for you.
WE BOTH WANT
Most everybody does. You want a home of your own and I want to build it. We really ought to get together. I will build you just the kind of a home you want on any of those lots and make it possible for you to own it in a few years by small monthly installments—just a little more than you are now paying for rent. I have moved. It's your move next. Stop in tomorrow at 1046 Mass, and let's talk the matter over. We might start building next week.
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