Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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PI KAPS HIGH IN SCHOLARSHIP Thetas in Second Place anti Might Have Won It Permanently Pi Kappa Sigma, with an index ol 3.82, was announced winner of th sorority scholarship shield for tin fall semester of 1934. This shield i awarded to the sorority with the high- est scholastic index each semester and the sornritv that, obtain H thee Fifty-four Students Earn| 4.5 Average or Better; Four Make “A” Average Fifty-four students were ucluded in the list announced by dea t F.B. Lee ns the honor roll for the fall semester. In order to get on the Honor Roll, a indent must have a grade point av- i i ' uge of 4.5 or above. The list in- cludes only students who are en- rolleti in 12 hour? or more of work. A 4.r average shows that the stu- dents has earned an equal number of A ' a and B r s. The students having u straight A average are Donald Garnet, Jack Lecuyer, Arnold McGrath, and Omer Voss. Other with an index of 4.5 are Wayne Gutzmun, Elizabeth Ifibbs, Revu Jewell, Boyd MeCandless, El- 710 ra Meier, Lois Meyer, George Nel- on. Mary Nielson. Clara Nicholas, Marguerite Perkins, June Rader,) Paul Razak, Kenneth Reddick, Alan ' Rankin. Marie Salmon, Sister Mar- cella Loud weh r. Sinter Theodosia Toc-|| krrt, Elmer Spoiner, Viola Streck, James Williams, Ruth Baker, Charles Bahi, Orle Burr, Mary Claude)!, Faye Garten. Anita Haag. Frances Hanson, Paul Johnson, Pearl Postma. Violet I tarns ey, Gladys Razak. Keith Seb- clius, Burton Van Shaw, Rachel Strong, Richard White, Robert Wyatt, Glenn Balnier, Elwood Bartlett, Mar- ion Bishop. Dorothy Biasing, Naydne Calvert, Helen Dannefer, Kenneth Davenport, Ralph Eikelberger, Anne Fankhauser, Elizabeth Eppstein, Hugh Farguharrton and Frances Fic- ken. ft r • . L % M . J Pc- pj 1 UL 111 t I o o O H ! hisses. tests . and then yrades the vicious cycle lor the student. M about the sixth neck of the semester slips are handed out at assembly, learn iny the student • f someth iny he already knows Had if he doesn ' t watch out he’ll flunk certain speei licit subjects. Sometimes at the nine weeks a flunk list is posted on the out • ug«- 10

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PLEASE TAKE ALTERNATE SEATS! That dread cry lhat always heralds another period of lorlure for I he innocent student. By Floyd Conry universities and colleges all over the country tests are given, at repealed inter- vals, to a vast army of students. Tests! From whence did they come?— Out of nowhere inlo here. Why? Only iod, the merciful, knows. Thai they are here, however, is an established lad which most school-going youths would be willing lo forget. The word “test” looks harmless enough, but the theory put into practice deals destruction to the school life of many students who do not have the stamina for study, or a retentive memory. For the average pupil tests are a cruel form of grilling and cross-examination by the “powers that be’ upon I he pupil. I he varieties of examinations are as abundant as the number of pedagogues (teachers to you), for each master teaching mind has, during the course of securing his own education, propounded individual “pel ’ theories on the subject of tests, and formed personal methods of prying into reluctant minds o! quaking students to see how much knowledge has been absorbed in each par- ticular subject on the curriculum. Few stu- dents favor the lest idea, and most teachers as well, are secretly “soured” on the practice or habit. el tests are a traditional thing in the lite of each student from the grade school days to his present scholastic achievement. Tests are the ghosts that have haunted one and all. One of the most frequently used methods of examining on the Hays College campus is the shotgun quiz, given without warning to startle I he lazy, sleepy-headed pupil out of his state of lethargy into a fact consciousness. For the student who has the ability to keep up his daily assignments the spur-of-the- moment test is simple, but in the person for whom tin art of studying is sheer drudgery, any sort of examination is a horror, and the shotgun quiz is no exception. Most universities use the objective test more than any other. This includes matching tests, true and false, and completion tests. In this kind each one has a fifty-fifty chance, lor if he does not know the answer he can guess and have a chance of being correct. The cli ec k i n a desk al the Li- brary popular alike with those s Indians ones check i rni hooks or those others who ham orer the desk readimj the ones from the home- town papers. I y agc .N

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BY THEIR QUESTIONS YE SHALL KNOW THEM- And it doesn’t take Ions to get acquainted sttir bulletin hoard and fur the next few days (bis s ml is (hr most po mlur one on I lie campus. 1 the nine weeks ami semester the t radcs are sent home so the fond parents ran judqe of the efforts of their aspirin tj and perspirint offspring. I hen there is I he lest which is read rally and can be answered in one or two words. This is used to cover a Int of work in a short lime, hut the teacher who wishes to thor- oughly cover the material in the text, u es still another form 1 test lie essay lest. In this, a quest i n is given and the student can write all he knows on the subject, so the one being quizzed has a much belter chance of displaying his knowledge. Some professors who want eat h pupil to do his own I hitiking. rule that his students move the chairs far apart or take every other seal so that no one will la tempted to cheat. Others put questions on the boards and num- ber the rows of chairs: even rows lake the even-numbered questions and odd rows answer the odd-numbered ones. I he pro- fessors gi e their tests because they are re- quired to pay scant attention to whether the student uses his own brain nr his neighbor s. Numerous teachers present tests in mimeo- graphed form with a key for rapid grading. ny lest is presented to a ariety of indi- viduals. There are persons who inspect the lest, start writing immediately and continue to work diligently until they are finished. Then there is the one who sits and stares at the walls in the futile hope that an idea will soon materialize. In any school there is the individual, known as the ‘’moodier, who depends largely upon his neighbor to help him through the ordeal. The ’Yribber is the fellow that has brought convenient “help- ers” to class to be used at every opportunity . I n any classroom can be found I he “beaker loved by all classmates the “I know, teacher specimen. lint no malic what the lest or what the type of individual that takes it it all comes out in t he “wash ' belter know n as “grades. nxious students gather forbodingly around the Dean s office to receive the verdict on eighteen weeks of labor. Student faces show every possible reaction— happiness, sorrow, disgust . anger. Some take it chin up. Others mope and pass I he buck. V bet her w inning or losing, each student has adopted a favorite met hod of forget I ing his t roubles. I o relax is the important thing, and serenity reigns on the campus for a few days before enrollment and the beginning of a new semester. Page 31