The University Kansan.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
HOMER BERGER -- Business Manager
CLARK WALACE - Assistant. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER -- Treasurer
J. E. MILLER -- Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
LOUIS LA COSS CARL CANNON
M. D. BAER RALPH SPOTTS
GEORGE MARSH PAUL E. FLAGG
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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SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1911.
COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 10-11 - Nebraska vs. Kansas at Lawrence.
at Lawrence.
Feb. 12—Vesper service.
Feb. 16—Prof. E. B. Titchener 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.
WILL THE COUNCIL ACT?
It is intimated that one reason why the Student Council is so reluctant to accept the athletic board's invitation to help enforce the eligibility rules governing baseball is because the members are convinced that the rules as they now stand are fareical—that their strict enforcement would bar out many men who are in the truest sense amateurs, and this fact encourages winking at them in every quarter.
Perhaps it is time to cast aside the present letter of the rules. They are at bottom rules adopted in the early days of collegiate baseball and patched and added to until the result is regarded by many as grotesque, bunglesome and ineffective. Possibly the time has arrived to discard them, and, building upon the experience of the last ten years, to frame a new code which will deal simply and directly with conditions as they stand today.
If the time has arrived for such action, why shouldn't the Council take a hand in the revision?
Far better than any policy of inaction and negation would be a genuinely constructive effort by the representatives of the student body to give form and force to the students' views on
If the members of the Student Council don't like the present rules, let them tell why, and suggest changes for the better. Here is a program that calls for some hard work, perhaps, but the students in general will not object to seeing their council work.
amateur athletics and the best way to insure the amateur standing of University athletics.
Perhaps, if the Legislature would appropriate enough money to set the School of Medicine on its feet it would be possible to do something for the serious condition described in the following paragraph from the Garden City Telegram:
"Three mighty good University regents are about to expire without much chance, it is feared, of reappointment: W. Y. Morgan, J. W. Gleed, Scott Hopkins
The point system by which Lynch of the Student Council is trying to pass student elective honors around among a slightly larger circle, will have a hard time getting through the Council. Some of the members seem hopelessly devoted to the doctrine that to the grafters belong the spoils. It is a curious fact that many of the students who achieve distinction after they leave the University are among those who never held an office or took part to any considerable extent in student affairs while they were in school. It also is a fact that many a man who goes forth from the University leaving a long trail of class honors behind his name in the senior annual is found to have reached the zenith of his ability in getting those honors associated with his name. Why should not the student body get the benefit of what some of the bright unknowns can do if they only have a chance? And why not prevent the present overburdened holders of student honors from wearing away all their energy before they get a chance to use it out in the world? A little better distribution of class and other student honors could do no harm and it might help a number of people.
It is easy enough to predict that none of the essays on applied Christianity for which an unknown benefactor is offering prizes will deal with University class politics.
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KICKS.
The Book-Worm Turns.
Again we have lived over a week of assignments in the reference courses and again we have been admonished to read, read, read, and take notes. I am not kicking on reading and taking notes, but I am kicking on the outrageous amount of reading that some professors seem to want students to do. Of course the student is not expected to read carefully everything that is assigned—that is an impossibility—but it is assigned just the same, and when the note-books come in it makes no particular difference whether the reader, if such he may be called, has put much material into his head, just so he has made some kind of a record of the assignment in his note-book. Unreasonable reading assignments thus lead to a haphazard, careless way of doing things. A lack of thoroughness is encouraged. Practical, systematic knowledge and mental training is sacrificed to a senseless desire to cover a lot of ground in a minimum of time, and the result is a careless mind with a useless confusion of general material.
For instance, I know of a case where a professor has this week assigned a definite list of references covering approximately one thousand pages to be read by the end of fifteen recitation periods. Now every professor ought to know that no student can or will average more than two hours reading to each recitation hour unless he neglects other work or ruins his health. Every professor knows also that the average student cannot read and take notes on more than twenty pages an hour and do it as it should be done. Figure it up then: thirty study hours times twenty pages an hour equals six hundred pages--about half the assignment. I contend that such unreasonable assignments do not “seare” students into working.
Why not have reasonable assigned readings and then a closer inspection of note-books by the professors? There is a crying need for greater thoroughness and care, and these qualities are not promoted by hasty and ill-considered reading. We need quality instead of bulk.
but merely discourage and overwork those conscientious students who are in for business, and encourages dishonesty, fraud, and carelessness on the part of those who want to get through as easily as possible. The latter class of students look upon such an assignment as an impossibility and hence neglect it altogether. They wait till about the last minute, then hastily run over the books and take copious notes on a lot of stuff they know little or nothing about, or they "borrow" some other person's note-book and do some extensive "eramming" and manage to creep through. Unreasonably large assignments tend to encourage these careless ways of doing things.
A STUDENT.
A Newspaper Creed.
This is Henry Watterson's newspaper creed: "To print nothing of a man which we would not say to his face; to print nothing of a man in malice; to look well and think twice before consigning a suspect to the ruin of the printer's ink; to respect the old and defend the weak, and, lastly at work and at play, day time and night time to be good to the girls and square with the boys, for hath it not been written, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven!"
The Unitarian Church.
Preaching service at 11 a. m.; topic, "The Fourth Grace;" Sunday school at 12 o'clock, with classes for students conducted by Dr. Carruth and Dr. Newport; Young People's meeting at 6:45 p. m.; topic, "Tolstoy and Mrs. Eddy;" leader, Miss Adella M. Pepper; the minister's study class will meet on Monday evening at 6:45 at his home. All cordially invited to these meetings. F. M. Bennett minister, F. E. Wells and Anna E. Manley, student pastors.
At Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. Robert M. Donaldson, D. D., of Denver, will speak at the First Presbyterian church tomorrow at 10:30 a. m., on "America in the World's Unrest," and at 7:45 p. m., showing fine colored stereopicon slides, made for himself, on "The Trail of the Cross in the Rockies;" Dr. Donaldson travels extensively through the Rocky Mountains; students will find his addresses especially interesting.
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