The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
A TOUCH OF LIFE
Kansas Educational System to
Be Augmented.
State Will Teach Ups and
Downs in Business.
HEAR SUCCESSFUL SPEAKERS
Lecturers Will Drill Students
on All Vacations.
Board OF Administration Gives
Out New Plan.

| Believing that there is a lamentab1e
lack of general information on the live
! topics of the day and the ups and
! downs in business life among the stu
! dents of the state institutions, the
| board of administration after a recent
/ session in Topeka has decided to in
troduce in the schools a new course
! beginning with the fall terms. The
! course will consist of lectures by well
! known business; and professional men
! from over the state and the students
| of both sexes Will be required to at
| tend.
The new administration board has
taken peek at the practical side of
| the states education of young men and
women. The board insists that there
is something else in a college educa-
ton besides Latin, Greek, mathemat-
les. chemistry and football. 1t believes
! that the average man and woman who
graduates from a state institution is
anxious to make success in life. This
success, the board thinks. is due in d
great measure to the general knowl-
edge of the advantages and disadvan-
tages of the different Vocations in the
business world.
Hence, the new lecture course re-
quirement in the state institutions this
fall.
Hear From Successful Men.
The board of administration has an
idea that a man who acquires a spe-
cialty of language and literature and
classics in the university, for instance,
should look around for his favorite
vocation through contact with men
who have made a success along this
line.
If Willie Williams went to x. U.
and matriculated in the Journalism de-
partment with a trimming OF the
classics, the languages and a dab at
art. Willie would not be a fit candidate
for farmer. banker or hardware deal
er. In the same breath, Willie'S broth
er, John, goes to K. S. A. c and is sent
through the agricultural courses with
an insight into engineering. John,
the board declares, isn't the man to
dive into the game of Journalism.
Procure eminent speakers from the
newSr aver, banking farming and en-
gineering ranks, give them a subject
which deals with the application of
the young man to the profession and
deal out the information right from
the shoulder-that is the plan of the
three state officers in charge of the
educational institutions.
1--WE are planning to give the stu
dents the bright and dark sides of the
Hackney of the board of administra-
ton. I'VE want them to understand
about the relative advan-
tages or disadvantages of each and the
requirements for success in each.
With that in view, we will have a
series of lectures by men who have
been successful in their various occu-
pations. These lecturers will be re-
quested to point out to the students
the requirements for entering the vo-
cations. We want students to enter
a profession intelIigently, not blindly. |
This will tend to more efficiency
and will give young people an idea of |
the supply and demand in the various
fields of endeaVor
The students of both sexes will be !
required to attend these lectures for J
the board feels that a girl should /
have some conception of the difficult |
ties and possibilities and advantages !
of the profession of which her husband |
may bPlODVr