The University Kansan.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISHER - - Managing Editor
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MEMBERS OF BOARD.
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY, 26. 1911
COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 26-27—"The Idle Idol," by Red Domino.
Jan. 27-28—Missouri vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 3—Post Exam. Jubilee.
Feb. 3—Bethany vs. College, at Lawrence.
Feb. 4—K.C.A.C. vs.Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 16—Prof. E. B. Titchenor in chapel.
Feb. 10-11 -Nebraska vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 16—Fairmount vs, College,
at Lawrence.
Feb. 17-18 -Missouri vs. Kansas, at Columbia.
Feb. 20-21—Iowa vs. Kansas, at Ames.
Feb. 22—Grinnell vs. Kansas,
Grinnell.
Feb. 22—Washington's Birthday Holiday.
Feb. 22-23—"The Bachelor," by Thespiens.
Feb. 23—Cotner vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
Feb. 24-25 -Nebraska vs. Kansas at Lincoln.
"Student" comes to the front today with a few suggestions about the enrollment of students for the second term's work. In the opinion of "Student" there ought to be more advisors, especially for the lower classes. This would help to lessen the hours of standing in line, and certainly some method ought to be devised that would make it possible to enroll with less discomfort. A half-day of standing in line may not be a high price to pay for a term's instruction, but it is too much if it is avoidable.
A communication to the Topeka Capital protests against the equipment of a School of Medicine by the state. "There are already excellent schools engaged in that work," says the complainant. "Why should the state seek to cripple them by providing practically free training at great expense for prospective physicians?" The Capital correspondent is about a century behind the times in urging as a valid argument against the equipment of a school of medicine by the state that private interests represented by other schools will suffer. The "excellent" schools for training in medicine would not be affected by the state school. Only the small, starving institutions which are responsible for having filled the profession with incompetent men would suffer. This is one of the questions in which considerations of public welfare come into conflict with private interests. The small medical chools are not performing adequate service and should give place to a state school equipped according to modern standards.
Norman Hapgood made some assertions in his chapel talk yesterday of a kind not usually heard by college audiences. Students are not often told that no institution is sacred by reason of its great antiquity, that some of the oldest institutions of society are wrong and must give place to things that are right. Mr. Hapgood is a fine example of the militant journalist who aims to guide public opinion in right channels without fear of consequences. He has a way of looking at things which is scholarly and at the same time from the point of view of one outside the schools, and his interesting and invigorating talks were among the best heard by the students this year.
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While the discussion of bluffers is going on, it may be in order to reprint a contribution by "Mary Jane" to the Daily Student of Indiana University. "Mary Jane" evidently doesn't like the bluffing tribe, which is encouraged to multiply by the Colorado Silver and Gold, in the words: "It is better to have bluffed and flunked than never to have bluffed at all." Here is what "Mary Jane" thinks of the bluffer:
"Indiana is blest with Bluffers. Every class boasts of two or three of these wily creatures. It is great fun to watch the unfolding of their deep, dark plots. Their self-assurance is wonderful, and their arrogance even more astonishing. They boast of fooling the prof—a great compliment to the teachers of Indiana University. Undoubtedly the Bluffer's game is more obvious to the professor than to anyone else.
"Bluffing is one of those mistaken notions so prevalent among students in general. People who expect to reach success by this road have read the wrong sign. It is merely a by path that leads to nothing.
"These skilled salvers are marvelously verbose. Indeed, a ready tongue is quite necessary to the Bluffer. When called up to recite, he seizes upon the first subject that comes to his mind and delivers upon it a wordy harangue, that bores the class to extinction. Occasionally, the professor loses all patience, and tells the Bluffer in a tone that is ironically polite that his excursion is all very lovely, but it would perhaps be wiser to get on the subject—or cease speaking. For very obvious reasons the Bluffer chooses the latter course. "Bluffers on the whole are a great nuisance. They waste time bore the class, weary the prof., and most of all, they cheat themselves."
"MARY JANE."
He Counts Light Rays.
E. Bruce Blair, a graduate student, spoke before the Physies club Wednesday at 4:30 in room 201 of Blake hall. His talk was on light and he told of a new method of counting the number of lines in a wave length of light or in a defraction grading. According to the speaker, there are 17,000 lines of light to the inch, so the counting is very difficult and delicate work. The talk was a review of an article in an English scientific magazine.
Prof. J. W. Young, head of the Mathematics department, has accepted a position to teach during the Summer Session at the University of Chicago, which extends from June 19 to Sept. 1. He will offer a course in Projective Geometry and Solid Analytic Geometry.
—STUDENT.
Shooing Out THE SHOES!
Some Suggestions Concerning Enrollment.
The system was successful from the faculty point of view, but students are human and like a fair show, too. Why could not both the large gymnasium rooms be used and three times as many teachers?
In the last issue of The Kansan, "Reformer" entered a protest against the new system of enrollment, but failed—it seems to me—to reach the base of the dissatisfaction among the students. It is true that a great many were disappointed in arranging their courses as they had planned, but this is a condition which can be remedied only by an increase in faculty members. Since the legislature does not seem inclined to relieve the situation little can be done. My protest is against the small number of advisors allowed each class. The freshmen alone, however, with the number they should have had would have taken up the entire floor allotted to the College. But as it was, with all the classes in one room, the freshmen arriving at 8 had to stand out doors three quarters of an hour, and then spend an hour standing in line before reaching their advisors. Three men attempted to enroll the sophomores The line moved so slowly that the whole east half was packed with students who had stood there two hours and a half by the time the other entrances were cleared. The juniors and seniors also had three advisors each but since the classes were smaller the halls were not so crowded. It took the majority of the sophomores between four and five hours to enroll.
--at quick-selling prices.
KICKS.
Harry Beeker, a junior in the Engineering school, left yesterday for his home in Ellsworth, where he was called by the serious illness of his father.
A Treat for the Fastidious!
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INDIAN STORE
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Albert R. Kennedy
Forney's Shoe Shop
1015 Mass. St.
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Students, RATES NOW ON AT Lawrence Studio Kodak Finishings 734 Mass. St.
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Dancing school every Wednesday night. Ecke's hall. Private lessons by appointments. Home phone 4772, Bell 1719. LeOra Strahl, Instructor.
Try the molasses taffy at Wiedemann's.
Hot chocolate with whipped cream and crackers, 5e a cup, at Wiedemann's.