QUIZ WEEK EASY FOR INDIANANS
HESS ADVISES KANSAS TO ADOPT THEIR PLAN.
According to Scheme Suggested Schedule is Posted Three Weeks in Advance.
A letter was received by the Kansan this week from John Hess, who graduated from the the University in 1908, and who is now teaching in the University of Indiana, relative to the present unsatisfactory method of giving examinations in this University and in which he submits the Indiana plan as an improvement over the one in use here. The letter follows:
"For several years I remember various reforms for examination week have been advocated at Kansas University, by both faculty and students alike, in order by some means to relieve the unusual and unnecessary demand made upon the nerve forces of all concerned.
"It is evident, when a student rushes from one examination to the next, with his mind wearied and his heart perhaps faint from the demands of the previous one, that he is in no condition to give a proper exhibition of his knowledge. Neither can he attempt to give a systematic and careful review of the work covered during the term—a review, by the way, which is highly desirable for clinching and arranging the essential points—when examinations in three different subjects are scheduled for the same day.
"Likewise when there is no vacation between the terms and all reports must be in by Saturday noon following examination on Friday, either one of two things will happen. The very conscientious teacher will probably work at high pitch, burn midnight oil, or work all night as in one department read his quiz books faithfully and get his report in on time. He feels that he has done his duty although he suffer for the next week with impaired digestion and unstrung nerves. The teacher who is more careful of his health will glance through the examinations in a general way, somewhat as we scan the morning paper, and will then turn in his report based for the most part upon class room recitations and tests scattered through the term. Perhaps he has been wise, for the whole status of examination week has been unnatural.
"Accompanying the examinations is the vicious practice of cramming. I believe that there are many students who count on making their credits by cramming during the last few weeks, especially examination week. It is true that the Indiana plan lends itself more easily to this evil, but for the conscientious student it furnishes a much better opportunity for a satisfactory review. However, it is no fault of the system, but merely a general tendency to value the finals too highly.
"The examination scheme is quite simple. An examination schedule is printed some two or three weeks before the end of the term and posted in public places. Copies are also mailed to each teacher. A student taking five hour subjects cannot possibly have more than one examination in a day. It begins at 9 a.m. and lasts until noon, if he needs that much time. If a student is taking a three hour reading course, in German, for example, and a two hour composition course at the same hour, he will be examined in the former at 9 a.m. and in the latter at 2 p.m. The examination day for any particular period is varied from time to time. In the fall term the eleven o'clock classes were examined on Friday; in the winter term the 10 o'clock classes were last; probably next term it will be the 9 o'clock classes. However, this arrangement is more or less of a lottery, so that students are unable to choose their hours with a view to having their inter-term vacation commence earlier.
"JOHN A. HESS, K. U. '08."
GOLF MATCHES ARRANGED
Committee Announces a Series of Scheduled Games.
The Oread golf club tournament committee, consisting of D. L. Patterson, C. C. Crawford and J. D. Newton, has just completed a schedule of events for the members of the club. The first event comes on April 8, and will be a match between selected teams from the club members. A smoker will be given on the evening of that date in honor of the winning team. The big event of the season for the golfers will be the annual club handicap tournament, beginning May 13 and running through two weeks, to May 27. The handicaps are arranged for by comparing the April and May score cards of the various members. The annual tournament to determine the championship of the club will not be held until early next fall. The tournament committee is also in correspondence with teams at Leavenworth, Topeka and Kansas City, and expects to schedule matches with all of these out of town teams.
The schedule as prepared by the committee for the club members is as follows:
April 8. Match between selected teams.
April 15. Four ball foursome tournament.
April 22. Medal play tournament—18 holes.
 April 29. Bomstone tournament.
May 6. Mixed foursome tournament.
May 13. Annual club handicap tournament begins.
May 20. Approaching and putting contests.
May 27. Finals in handicap tournament.
May 30. Decoration Day program.
VANDALISM IN MUSEUM.
Thieving Students Give Cause for a Fence.
You may have noticed that the doors to the dome of the Museum building are locked and that the permission of the man in the base ment is necessary for admittance into the room of animals and birds. The answer lies in the fact that some few of the many visitors to the Museum building who have viewed the plaster cast of the new Administration building which was set up this winter, have not been able to resist a strong tendency to vandalism and have stolen some of the cornie of the building and the miniature lamps that stand on either side of the entrance to the building. The University authorities have taken steps since then to prevent this wanton vandalism. Professor W. A. Griffith, who has the cast in charge, is having an iron fence constructed in the Fowler shops which will be put around the table on which the cast is mounted. This fence will be completed within a few days and set up in the Museum building. It will be four and one-half feet high and thirty inches from the table, well without the reach of the longest arm of the University. At the same time that the fence is installed the proper mounting of the cast will be completed. It will be imbedded in sand and the crevices between the sections of the building will be filled with cement.
BARN PARTY SUCCESSFUL.
400 Students Had a Good Time Saturday Night.
Maurice Blacker and Stan Meyers, both of Kansas City, spent Sunday at the Phi Psi house.
The "Old Barn party," given by the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. in the gymnasium Saturday night, was attended by over 400 students. The event was the largest of its kind ever given at the University. According to the plans of the committee there should have been hay, straw and corn-stalks scattered in different parts of the floor. When the wagons drew up with the "scenery," however, the janitor refused to allow it to be taken inside the building. The objection was that there was too great a risk of a fire and also that none of the buildings on the hill are insured.
A quartet consisting of Buxton, Marshall, Campion and McKay started the program of the evening with a medley of popular songs. After the male number, Naomi Lowe of the Fine Arts School gave a vocal solo, which was well received. The next number, a Virginia reel, brought forth great applause. When this number was over the clapping continued until it seemed as if the party would have to be turned into a dance.
A number of impersonations
by George Bowles were followed by a hotly contested spelling match. Prof. W. E. Higgins of the Law School gave out the words. He explained that he was a little rustic at giving a spelling quiz, as the laws "don't have to spell." The contest was between the evens and the odds. The evens won. An elaborate meal ended this successful barn party.
MARCH PRETTY FAIR.
Rather Warm and Not Much Rainfall.
The seismograph showed no strong earthquakes during the month. A slight but distinct disturbance was recorded on the 10, which was probably due to a powder explosion in Wisconsin.
March, 1911, was a comparatively warm dry month. The highest temperature was 76 degrees on the 20 and the lowest was 18.1 degrees on the 1. The mean temperature was 46.05 degrees, which is 3.81 degrees above the average for March during the years that the University record has been kept since 1868. The rainfall was but .43 inches, which is 1.89 inches below the March average.
HOME DAIRY LUNCH ROOM
Wednesday Menu.
ENTREES.
Breaded pork chops... 20c
Baked pork and beans...15c
Beef stew ...15c
Chipped beef in cream on
toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15c
ROASTS
ROASTS
Prime ribs of beef au jus...15c
Roast pork ...20c
EASTER IS ALMOST HERE.
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Lectured on Advertising.
Mr. F. A. Gray, head of the Gray Advertising Co. of Kansas City, Mo., delivered a lecture last week on "The Preparation of Advertising Copy" before the advertising class. This is the second of a series of lectures given by expert advertising men before the class.
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