The University Kansas
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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JOSEPH W, MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FARSLER  --  Management, Editor
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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.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1911
COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 4—K. C. A. C. vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 10-11—Nebraska vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 16—Prof. E. B. Titchenor in chapel.
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 Thespians.
Feb. 23—Cotner vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
Feb. 24-25—Nebraska vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
If mothers would come to the University with their children, the cases of "sore eyes,""job in the bank," and others now so prevalent probably would be greatly decreased.
A report on the number of students to be found in the library places it at an average of eighteen women and thirteen men. We are curious to know where the other five men keep themselves. Probably they attend engineering meetings until the library closes.
It would seem to be to the interest of the University public to accede to the request Nebraska has made to play the Kansas-Nebraska game on McCook field next year. If it is true that the contest between Kansas and Missouri will go to Columbia next fall, such an arrangement would secure just the alternation of big games on McCook field that is most desirable.
At last the week of extreme nervousness is over. Our work is now history—in the Registrar's office. We guess there will be more studying at the opening of the new term than there was at the opening of the one just ended. Object lessons in what
Present statistics show that there is a wonderful increase in the number of people who depend on Glasses for good vision. Take enlightened Boston, "The Hub," for instance. There are more people wearing Spees there than in any other city of its size. Where learning and progress are, you will find the most people wearing Glasses. Are you going to stay behind till you have to have them and then maybe find you have waited too long, that some small trouble has grown on till Glasses won't remedy it?
happens to those who don't are so fresh in the minds of students that they will contribute to this result. "Never let your studies interfere with your education," says a fake proverb. Numerous students have taken a term to discover that it's an expensive education and one not exactly desirable that is acquired at the expense of neglecting one's studies.
"Millions for hogs, but not one cent for humans" would make a good slogan for those who are opposing the expansion of the School of Medicine to keep pace with the growing needs of the state of Kansas. The state spends liberally for the investigation and cure of the diseases to which porcine flesh is heir. The appropriation for hog cholera serum will go through unquestioned. The state rightly figures that money which will promote the health of live stock is well invested. It pays. It is surprising that there are people who do not realize that the human inhabitants are, even commercially speaking, worth more than any form of life on which a dollars and cents valuation is placed. An appropriation which will promote the health and well-being of the people of a state is a good commercial investment for that state, if the discussion must be narrowed down to considerations for commercial advantage.
Everybody Will Wear Specs Some Day
If You Don't Need 'Em Gastafson We Tell You.
Bad Scholars, and Why.
From Life, New York. The private boarding schools for boys, St.Peul's, St.Marks, Groton and the like, are accused
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of turning out bad scholars. The charge, which is not new, is based on the lists of the Harvard undergraduates who come to notice, either at graduation or before, as scholarsts of distinction. In December the names of 178 first and second group scholars were announced by the Harvard authorities. To this number, the private schools, St. Paul's, St. Mark's, Groton, Middlesex, Milton, Pomfret and St. George's, which certainly must contribute at least one-tenth of the total number of Harvard undergraduates, contributed only seven persons. To meet reasonable expectations, they should have shown twice or three times that number. The explanation is that the general run of boys from these schools who go to Harvard don't care for distinction in scholarship and don't go in for it, but put in their best energies on sports and social competitions. They think, and their friends, and as a rule their parents also, that in so doing they follow the course most profitable to them.
Six years ago President Eliot disclosed that the best Harvard scholars come from the public schools; that out of 172 men who got their A.B.'s with distinction in 1903, 84 came from the public schools, 44 from academies, and 32 from private schools. As to these figures, it may doubtless be said that the public schools send only their best scholars to college, whereas the academies and private schools send nearly all their boys there. If the high school boys who go to Harvard and the private school boys are not, that makes a difference. The instruction given in the private schools, is, presumably at least, as good as that given in the high schools and probably better. Probably the figures fail to tell the whole story; nevertheless the private school boys don't show up as
well in scholarship as they should. Why not? Aren't they capable enough?
Yes, they include due proportion of boys with good families What ails them, then?
What ails them seems to be distraction of purpose. Most of them, when they get to college, try to do two things—appease the authorities by doing what work is necessary and gratify themselves by vindicating or establishing (please don't laugh) their social position. Scholarship does not do their social position one spark of good, and the attention to studies which is necessary to attain distinction in scholarship can only be bestowed at some sacrifice of time and energy that might profitably be devoted to the acquisition of social eminence. The young gentlemen try for the line of goods that is most in request in their world. The authorities try to persuade them that their estimate of value is mistaken, and that they try for the wrong thing. But they try for what they discover to be the most esteemed in their world, for what they value, for what all the girls they know value, for what their friends and parents value, and for what, as they see it, is scarcer and harder to get than scholarship, and more remunerative after they get it.
The boys from the private schools are more exposed to this distracted competition than the boys from the high schools, because they have more money and come out of a social layer where associations that look advantageous are prized and more attainable. Their job, besides learning something out of books or at lectures, is to keep in the social plane in which they start, or break into a better one.
That is a matter that requires much thought and some industry, and that is what is the matter with their scholarship.
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