UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SENATE WILL DECIDE FATE OF COLLEGE DAY
Governing Body Will Hold Special Meeting to Consider Allowing Holiday
A special meeting of the University Senate is to be held at 4:30 o'clock Friday of this week to render definite action on the proposal for a College Day. The plans that are being made for celebration of the holiday being, rushed ahead too fast until definite action is taken by the Senate.
The Senate was not forced to take any definite action on the matter last year, and was somewhat relieved when the students themselves defeated the proposition by their indifference. This year the demand is so obvious that a special meeting will be added to take care of the proposition.
The Laws have already celebrated their day and the Engineers are making elaborate preparation for their big day the latter part of this month. The enrollment in the School of Law is 185,000, and the enrollment is 299. The number that are enrolled in the College totals at the present time more than 1500.
Ogden Jones, president of the College, has been working on the plans for some months. He says: "We have the largest enrollment in the University and it is only right that we should have a holiday. We need such an event to get the College student engaged with each other." College has the reputation of not having any life or pep, but before we are through this year, the remainder of the student body will change its mind about us.
GRADE DETERMINES DOWRY
--in regard to state legislation to lower interest rates, "I do not think that the state should go farther than to remove some present state laws that prevent the land from raising the rate of interest," writes Professor Putnam.
In India Size of Wedding Dowry Deends on Ability as Student
The place of the student in India in social life is markedly dependent upon on the stamp which his examinations leave upon him. For example, a graduate of the preparatory or secondary school who upon graduation holds a good certificate can command from his prospective employer as well as be forthcoming for the uncertified youth. So definite is this matter, economically speaking, that in a certain part of India, the teachers give the information that a regular scale of dowries is in vogue. Five hundred rupees is exacted from the prospective father for a secondary school certificated husband. His present position is 1000 rupees demanded by the youth who has an academic M. A.
The patriarchal custom of the head of the family being responsible for the various relatives so far as their support is concerned is also a matter that must be seriously considered upon his eyes upon his study and his tests for the sake of their practical value. It is not unusual for a student, even in his first year after college, to find himself saddled with the enormous burdens of a large circle of relatives who are free to work or in part dependent upon his efforts.
When it is considered furthermore that even where such obligations as these do not exist, in nine cases out of ten they have been fulfilled of the father, and that he is just now coming into a period when prices for living have increased twofold it does not appear so remarkable that the Inventors dwell upon its economic future.
There must be a reason why so many students drop into Wilson's Drug Store for their refreshments. They try to please everybody.—Adv.
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MOTHER BUNNIE ATE
HER BABIES
Wouldn't Sacrifice Them to Science
Black crepe hangs on the door of the immunity class room in Snow Hall. Mrs. Peter Bannie, one of the rabbits used in immunity experiments, the other morning became the mother of six. At supper time last month Mrs. Bannie and ate every one of them—only a few wipes of dragged baby fur remain.
The cannibalistic mother is a mystery to the zoology people.
"They were the tiniest things I ever saw," said Elizabeth Fleeson, nurse official, when she returned to the lab and found that she had happened during her absence.
"Their actor acted as if she was ashamed of them, but I never dreamed that she was so devoid of maternal love."
Mrs. Peter Bunnie refuses to be interviewed; and so no one will ever know just what thought came to her mind. Perhaps she was ashamed of the sorry appearance of her children; probably she dreaded dedicating them to science; it may be that her mother heart was so wrung with the thought that her babies would never see the green grass; perhaps that the nearest field would come to green fields would be next to the box of alfalfa hay near the cage; or maybe she is just naturally a cannibal, is Mrs. Peter Bunnie.
TRADITIONS BIND INDIA
Customs of 3000 Years Hold Individuality in Check Among Students
The student of India has also a system tending against individuality. For 3000 years orientalism in theory and practise has tended to suppress personal possibilities in favor of despotism. In the present Indian systems, India has been beried with collectivism both in family and in state. The present Indian student is, like his father, a slave to social and ancestral systems whose first tendency is to deindividualize him and to make him a mere cop in a great social context.
This emphasis upon conformity of type has produced a fixity and conservatism which differentiates the Indian student from the westerner in a most emphatic way. It is one of the most impregnable walls through which the civilization of Europe has had to penetrate. India has gloried in her exclusiveness and in her annihilation of public spirit, in her allegiance to the duty of lot or the laws of the fathers, defying all sudden transformation. New India has inherited a traditional conservatism.
Whether one inquires of teachers, officials, business men or missionaries, the need to talk before the conversation is over he will usually employ the phase, "the lack of initiative." The Indian student never has time for creative resources.
Whether this deficiency is due to the long servitude of the race which has naturally involved the checking of initiative and compelled service other than those self-asserting and reliant characteristics of a ruling and accomplishing people, to the fact that the ruling race has taken for granted this natural right to act native indian and has not tried especially to develop the Indian student, may be quite generally regarded as an open question.
There must be a reason why so many students drop into Wilson's Drug Store for their refreshments. They try to please everybody.—Adv
It is everywhere evident, however, that India has not been prolife in great leadership. Even a few great men, a Cromwell or a John Knox to "see life steadily and to see it whole" and then with practical aggressive power to build up united unity and progressive development—even one such man would have been notable by his uniqueness in Indian history.
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WRITES ON FARM CREDITS
Prof. G, E. Putnam Has' Article in March American Economic Review
Prof. George E. Putnam, of the department of economics, has an article in the March number of the Americas in which he discusses a subject of "Farm. Credit in Kansas."
Because of the idea over the state that our present credit system is prejudicial to the interests of the farm, we must work with the department of economics, has made a careful investigation of the conditions and has sent out questionaires to every county of the state. We are unable to uncover the result of this investigation.
In answer to the question as to whether interest rates are too high, forty-five farmers expressed satisfaction with the present rate. Seven
In answer to the question as to whether interest rates are too high, forty-three farmers expressed satisfaction with the present rate. Seven-one regarded the rates as too high for profitable farming. In response to every five farmers expressed dissatisfaction with the present rate.
Concerning the possibilities of cooperative credit as a remedial agent for high interest rate Professor Putnam finds that the Kansas farmer, like the K. U. student is a strong individualist. Living a life of comparative isolation he has become accustomed to looking for assistance from others; and it is seldom that he will brook interference.
IRRIGATION IN 400 B. C.
Herdotus Found Assyria and Babylon With Watering Systems
From the Springfield Republic.
Herodotus, who wrote in the fifth century, B. C., says: "The land of Assyria is little but watered, and that little nearishes the root of milk up, and the grain comes to maturity by being irrigated from the river, not, as in Egypt, by the river overflowing the fields, but it is irrigated by the hand and by engines. For the Babylonian territory, like Egypt, is intersected by canals, and the largest of these is navigable, stretching in the direction of the river into the Euphrates to another river, the river Tigris, on which the city of Nineveh stood.
"This is, of all lands with which we are acquainted, by far the best for the growth of corn; but it does not carry any show of producing trees of any kind, nor the olive, yet it is so fruitful in the produce of corn, that it yields continually two hundred-fold, and when it produces its best, it yields even three hundred-fold. The blades of wheat and barley grow there to four ferns in inches; to what height will mullet and sesame grow, I shall not mention it; for I am well assured that, to those who have never been in the Babylonian country, what has been said concerning its production will appear to be greater than such as is drawn from sesame. They have palm trees growing all over the plain; most of these bear fruit."
FOUNDS SIX UNIVERSITIES
Chinese Government Establishes Higher School in Republic
The new ministry of education of the Chinese republic is planning for six great national universities located in six sections of the country. The minister of education, Tang Jieguo, has announced that he will be forthcoming immediately and the actual work for the establishment of these institutions, intended to have such vital relation to the nation, will be started at once. It is expected that within the next year or two the system will be in complete operation.
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It is hoped that ample preparation will be made in these new universities for the education of Chinese students, who are actually every eastern country today, are beginning to look forward to having a share in the intelligent minds of their daughters, as well as exerting their influence upon the whole nation.
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Parents Released Him From School and Allowed Him to Paint
From the N. Y. Times.
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"He chose for his master Pieter Lastman, who had visited Rome and had brought back with him a Dutchman's version of the classical tradition, which is to say, a man who has lived in a missionary context in his contemporaries than it is to us, Rembrandt, a man in advance of his time, was not long in exhausting all that his fashionable master had to teach him. By the time he was eighteen, he would have been there, in the words one of his biographers, 'to study and practise painting alone, in his own fashion.'
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