University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Board Room i m:r i: m i s .i i s i i i i. i: n QIKKLY, SPROUT NEW AND HIM Oil) FRIENDSHIPS AS THEY IHl. IN FOR NINE MONTHS EVERY SEPTEMBER HUNDREDS of students start tramping up and down Tennessee and neighboring streets. For these constitute the famous hash house row. And famous, or at least well known, it should be as well over half the University student body there make their homes. Living conditions of these independents vary from the best to such cases in which eight people live in a single small, ill- lighted and ventilated basement. Despite the difference in setting between the hash houses and the more palatial fraternity and sorority houses, these hundreds, no thousands, of independents live just as fully as do the often more monied and sophisticated Greeks. No rush week opens the year for them with all its palaver and tenseness. Yet they have every bit as great a thrill in the opening of school the newcomer in becoming adjusted to wholly different environment, the upperclassman in once more beginning an experience that never becomes old. These photos depict the digging in of the many who so proudly cherish the title of barb. Landladies always want too much for too little and roomers invariably want too much for too little. i Once a price is agreed upon, the next thing to do is start wrestling with Remembering her experiences of the year before, the landlady pointedly trunks. After that the other things seem easy. cautions her boys not to play havoc with the new wallpaper.

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NOVEMBER 1938 19 GlicM- Photo by Bert Brandt DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR, SCHOLAR, AND PROGRESSIVE IS DR. LINDLEY By Patricia Lock TALL AND SPARE but with an appearance of true dignity is Dr. Ernest Hiram Lindley, who as Chancellor has since 1920 directed the innumerable activities of the University of Kansas. Thoroughly educated along academic lines, Dr. Lindley has him- self never ceased to be a student and seeks to find that scholarly spirit in others. His own criterion of an educated individual is the degree of genuine interest and attention with which he hears the ideas of others, however much they may conflict with his own. Spending his life largely in the service of edu- cation, Dr. Lindley has interspersed a few digressions into industry, such as reorganization of personnel for the Ford Motor Plant at Indianapolis and for the National Cash Register Company. The University of Indiana claimed his under- graduate days. There his interests were divided among campus politics, psychology and languages, and the future Mrs. Lindley. Following his graduation in 1893, he became an instructor is psychology there, rose to a professorship as head of the department by 1902, and on leave of absence received his doctorate at Clark University. Later he studied in Germany at Jena, Leipzig, and at Heidelberg under Kraepelin. At Harvard he studied under William James. His pub- lished works form a distinct contribution to the field of psychological research. In 1917 Dr. Lindley was invited to become a member of the committee of five psychologists who compiled the Army Alpha and Beta tests, but instead, he went to Idaho as president of the State university. There he met with such eminent success that in 1920 he was invited to become Chancellor at the Uni- versity. Major eductaional aim of the University of Kansas, according to Chancellor Lindley ' s conception, is first of all the discovery and encouragement of exceptional individuals while maintaining the ideal of democratic mass education. Training students to recognize the ( Continued on page 80 )

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NOVEMBER 1 9,3 8 21 - Universal is the institution known as the bull session. The first bi . one serves as a get-acquainted fest for all the boys in the house. learns a lot about the other in these all-night affairs. Ea ig ch Boarding house fare soon convinces the newcomer that hashhouse row is no misnomer. But after the first touch of homesickness to put his feet under mother ' s dinner table, he realizes that many before him have lived through it. ndx ss inafa . Y -d [.the oofy FROM BULL SESSIONS TO HASH TO MILDLY INTEL- LECTUAL LABOR TO DATES GOES THE LIFE OF THE INDEPENDENT. WHEN CLASSES START HE EVEN STUDIES When the newcomer cakes time off to sit down and read the paper and chat with his fellow boarders, it means that he has really dug in for the next nine months. In these quiet talks he learns much of his neighbor ' s real side that does not come out in a rough and tumble bull session. War was the topic of the day at that time. Independents have their social life as well as the Greeks, although in not such an ostentatious manner. By this time Bud ' s roomie ' s steady has told him about her own new roomie , Betty. So it ' s not long beofre Betty is nervously primping for her first date with Bud as the other girls in the house jokingly tell their experiences with blind dates.