Show SPENDER RECORDS HIS fIlS IMPRESSIONS VF K U. U STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OP OF KA KANSAS SAS May raY 31 Harold farold Harold Spender r tho tle eminent t English Journalist who spoke to the 1 students of or the department nt of or Journalism Journ I last lut fall when ho visited the 1 University In behalf of oC the tho Sul- Sul 1 grave ra Institute has recorded his Im- Im a of or Kansas In the current issue of ot the Fortnightly Review From Georgia wo we travelled tra to Topeka Topeka Topeka To- To peka the capital of ot Kansas state Tho The great reat new fact tact was th the th broad new highway that has been built through the state and will soon link It up with the East The roads of oC America are passing at one stride from the worst to the best We climbed the Oread the Oread the steep solitary hilt hill that rises from the Kansas plain That hilt hillS Is 19 now crown crowned till by tho the beautiful buildings of ot the Kansas s university It was nO i an unforgettable da lay clay that we spent un on that hill op We Ve talked to great audiences of oC strenuous students and I sweet s girl graduates graduates' The rho apprentice of ot journalism I took very ery kindly my simple sU simple ion simple o to us but ut not to America Amer Artier ica that lea that Journalism should have a mission higher than money I The great packed mass of or three I thousand listened breathlessly to the I kind 13 fatherly therl words of ot our leader Sir Charles Wakefield i There American universities fill a graduate of ot old Oxford with awe nwe They are so o immense so rich so o throbbing with life lir and eager hope hopeS They seem capable of oC so much I am amt t told ld that these American universities universities ties now train well wen over halt half a a. million mil lion students I Oxford trains Cambridge about Imagine the tho effects of or a nation the tho bulk of oC whoso whose youth Is brought up to the tho university stan stan- dard It Is the tho most formidable fact tact In the world woi-Id The Tho young people pr-opte In the these e universities uni Impressed us as eager an and serious We e saw them m both at work and at pia play Of or course we In I England England Eng Eng- n land would regard much of or their work as technical training training- and not university work t In the full tun sense of oC that t great t phrase But Rut there seemed a Rood good deal of or genuine university stu ly going oh on even In our sen sense e alike in languages language philosophy and lIt literature T Th wonder wonder won Icon der dr Is is that with all aU these wonderful universities and schools that re should still be any uneducated people peo peo- plo pie left In America |