UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Eugene
LAUREN LACOUSASI
HORAL ROBINSON
Editor-in-Chief
EARL MILLER
Editor-Special Editor
ERIKA SMITH
EDITORIAL STAFF
IRE E. LAMBERT...Business Manager
J. LEBERG...Ass. Business Manager
T. HUCKS...Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
REPORTORIAL STAFF
L. F MEINSERB RUSSELL CLARK
JOHN MADDEN WM. FEHRSON
ROBERT SELLERS WM. DRAHN AND HACKNEY
HOU GOLDWERD
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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU!
If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself
WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU! The University welcomes its visitors, members of the conference of high schools and academies and the entries in the interscholastic basketball tournament. The campus and the University buildings are placed at your disposal and it is hoped that you will all want to return to form a better acquaintanceship than the short stay this time will permit.
Do not hesitate to ask anyone for any information you may desire while you are here, for that is what the students are here for—to answer questions and aid in any way possible. The University itself is a democracy and all of the students are good fellows, anxious to make the visiting people feel at their ease. This place belongs to you as well as those who are here now, and it is your right to learn about it.
Any new features that have have been acquired for the campus since the old graduates' day at the University anyone will be glad to tell about.
Lunchone in Robinson gymnasium Saturday noon has been provided for the members of the Teachers' Association, and the Glee club will entertain with a part of their program The athletic association has made arrangements for the entertainment of the high school athletes from the time they arrive till they depart.
WEAKNESS OF SLANG
Although the war correspondent reports a hot engagement, the Laws think they got a cold reception.
Professor O'Leary tells his students that he knows what they mean when they say they are "peeved," but he advises the use of some other phrase.
"Slang should be avoided," added Professor O'Leary. "There is entirely too much of it heard on the campus."
To cultivate tast and discrimination in the use of the English language, the faculty of the department of English advise the students to avoid the use of all such terms as:
It's up to you.
I don't think.
Not on your life.
You can search me.
I guess.
That's going some.
Can you beat it?
Sure I will.
That looks quite spiffy.
There's some class to that.
Are you on?
That's awfully nice.
It's a cinch.
Oh fudge!
Cut it out.
Talking to beat the band.
They're not in it.
It's all bosh.
Nothing doing.
That's nifty.
Never again.
Cough up!
He has nothing on me.
The surest thing, you know.
She is sneezed at.
That's the real thing.
Not by a long shot.
I see his finish.
Get the hook.
That will be about all.
The members of the faculty of the English department are right in their condemnation of slang expressions and phrases. Investigation will show that slang itself is invented and used by those minds too weak to think and express themselves in pure English—it is the lazy man's discourse.
The use of slang by the average undergraduate in the University is probably restricted to his speech and conversation. The gross erora put in black and white often disgust the writer, who may turn, in the next moment, to a friend and let fall such an expression as "I get you," meaning "I understand," or "Not to be sneezed at" for "Not to be disrewarded."
It is a habit that may faster itself upon students—a habit indicating slovenice and one that should be uprooted. The English department is taking active steps to eradicate from both the written and the oral discourse of the students the custom of slang using, and they should receive the co-operation in this of fort of all the students of the University. It is only fitting that University people should not be forced to revert to subterfuges in the English languages for the expression of their thoughts.
If the University is a great training school for clear, discriminating thinking, if its graduates, as leaders, are to mold, crystallize and enunciate the opinions of their communities, undergraduates should make the best use of every means to acquire power and force in their discourse—the power that slang can never give.
Dire punishment is promised to the person who inscribes his name on the exhibits in the Museum and gets caught at it. It has been suggested that a fitting way of treating with such an individual would be to have his bones "curated," his hide stuffed and the specimen placed in one of the cases.
CABS AND FLOWERS
Both the junior young women and the junior young men have been set at ease regarding their affair of the cabs and the flowers for the Promnade. The fair sex did not want to be the cause of too much expense for their young men—it is said that the Prom costs a lot anyway—but they did want those cabs and flowers.
It was an excellent way out of a difficult position that they finally selected—one that allowed them to assume the virtues of self-sacrifice, but at the same time, did not close the doors entirely to the cabs and flowers.
However, their diplomacy was for nought. The management has officially asked that the coveted conveyance be tabooed on the grounds that it is the cause of the late arrivals for the farce. Something is due to the manager that can summon up courage enough to issue an edict such as that and expect to dance at the Pron himself.
"Columbia University's trustees passed the annual budget, which amounts to $3,159,730.28, $132,000 less than the estimated expenditure for the year ending July 1, 1912. The amount appropriated included funds necessary for the work as well as the support of the educational system."
Kansas manages to get along on a sixth of that amount.
WHAT OTHERS GET.
A New York paper says:
In the old days, when men were allowed to have many wives, a midnight dress was in fashion and he was old and one that was young; each loved him very much, and desired to see him like herself. Now the Man's hair was turning grey, which the young Wife did not like, as it made him look old. The older man might night she used to comb his hair and pick out the white ones. But the elder Wife saw her husband growing grey with great pleasure, for she did not like to be mistaken for his sister, but they arrange his hair and pick out as many of the black ones as she could. The consequence was the Man soon found himself entirely bald.
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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"How are you getting along in the law business, old man?"
Ma- Hiram says he's eatin' in Tites ow.
Boston Transcript.
"I have one
"Is he rich?"
"He was."
"I have one client."
Pa—Must be some durn-fool college fashion, I reckon. —Siren.
"Miss Bolde," said the shy student to the fair co-ed on the other end of the sofa, "If I were to throw you a kiss, what would you say?"
"I'd say you're the laziest man ever met." —Minne-ha-ha.
First Artist—"What shall I call this picture? It represents a devil chasing a poor lost soul.
Second Artist—“How does 'Just one damned thing after another' strike you?” —Purple Cow.
"The college I went to didn't have a very good baseball team."
"How is it I never hear you say a word about your old college davs?"
Washington Herald.
Bangs—So you have left your boarding-
house. What was the fly in the ointment?
"Hurray."
*Why are you scratching your head?*
*because no one else knows where it is!*
Harvard Lampoon.
Alleged Humorist—Can you imagine anything worse than a giraffe with a mouse face?
The Chaparral.
Bings—'Twasn't a fly in the ointment was ants in the mush.
Proven One—Sure, a centipede with corn.
Coyote.
Llandlord—I regret to say that your lease has expired.
Tenant—I thought something had, judging from the oder around the place.
JONES.
Jones forms the bulk of our population. While there is life in Jones. He will happen in the best regulated families.
"What's in a name," applied to the letters J. O, N. E, and S.
A man settsdown answers to the name of Jones—he thinks you mean somebody else. —Purple Cow.
Friend-What were your sensations in the wreck?
Victim—Just the same as in foot ball. Three coaches passed over me and then the doctor came. ___ Puck.
She (after the quarrel)—Well, dear,
you started it you know.
He (looking blank)—Oh, I may!
She (sweetly)—Well didn't you come
with me? No, no, no.
No. No. No.
(And that the poodle sneaked out and bit the cat two on the shin.)
---Minne-ha-ha.
THE HOI POLLOI
"According to the report of the university physical director, the great majority of the freshmen are physically imperfect; that is, some have uneven shoulders, others have hips on plumb, and still others crooked spines and undeveloped chests," commented the Post Grad. "We wonder what has become of the fabled college boy who, like Ralph Rose, could beat up two or three ordinary men in a rough-and-tumble fight.
HOI POLLOI UNDERDEVELOPED.
"In spite of our athletic records—we won the Olympic games at London, you remember —our average young man is certainly not above the German youth in robustiousness or the Englishman either, whom we generally consider as living on tea and wafers and playing cricket once and awhile for exercise. Development of a few stars has brought underdevelopment of the hoi polloi on the athletic field.
"And it's the hoi polloi that must take their place in the fightin' ranks in time of peace, as well as war. The German nation, with compulsory drill, takes fine care of her young men because it pays, and some time, despite our Hague tribunals, it's going to pay when stamina, as well as gilt, is needed. The Americans are a trifle behind in proper physical upbringing of the boy.
"It has too often been pointed out that our system of school athletics is shortsighted. We have plenty of examples thrust before us of the country boy who makes good in competition with the city-bred youth. A good body makes a clear brain has been said many times that it has become刻ite, but still our school directors keep on appointing teachers
BEGIN TRAINING WHEN YOUNG.
HOI POLLOI UNDERDEVELOPED.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
And of this let every one be assured—that he owes to the impassioned books which he has read, many a thousand more of emotions than he can consciously trace back to them. Dim by their origination, these emojis would have made him through life like the forgusted children of childhood.
who know nothing whatever of the best methods of training and instructing young men in athletics to coach our high school track teams and take charge of gym classes.
—THOMAS DE QUINCY.
"A former university assistant physical director, however, who has spent most of his life studying physical training is engaged as athletic director at one of the city high schools. He will get results, and the boys that come to the university from his school will probably have fewer physical defects that the present crop of high school grads.
A HABIT EASILY FORMED.
"Athletes for everybody with the strenuousness cut out except for the few that are really stars is the thing to be desired. Give the boy a liking for exercise and play in the prep school, and he will take good care of his physical condition when he becomes a college man. The girl who used to be considered a hothouse plant is now allowed to romp and play, and is clinging because he won no change is out of order. There is no reason why every American should not be a manly man, and a reasonable adjustment between study and play will make him so, and keep him so."
"If the youth wants to get away from home in the summer to work in the harvest fields, his parents should let him go. He will be better off than loafing listlessly at home attending the professional baseball games every afternoon for exercise."—Washington Daily.
SEVERITY FOR STUDENTS
There should be no dalying with undergraduates lawbreakers, no special exemptions for students says a writer in the Century. Reprehensible, and even criminal, acts have been committed by college men in the last few years which called for more punishment than seemingly they received.
It is no kindness to the undergraduate to overlook acts of dishonesty, ruthless destruction of property or dissipated license. Respects for property and decency should be impressed upon a boy before he reaches college age. It is because law-lessness has been tolerated by parents in the home, as well as by overlenient masters at bording school, that we read continually in the press of offenses against common sense and respectability committed by persons of supposed cultivation.
WELLESLEY GIRLS REBEL
Taxation without representation is tyranny, argue the Wellesley undergraduates, who have eschewed the fountain pen while in the sacred precincts of the college library in accordance with an adjective used with the rest of the students with the rest of the students for a bill for cleansing the desk desks, tables and woodwork of inkstains
Miss Henrietta S. Brooks, college librarian, presented a bill of $26 for unpaid damages in this respect to the student government association.
These girls are indignant over the assessment and charges that they have willfully broken rules laid down by the institution.
Some of the members were for ignoring the bills, but it was decided to pay it. The assessment means that they had received a total of several cents—Washington Post.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
OLD IRONSIDES
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That cloud in the sky
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar:
The meteor of the ocean air
And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky: Beneath it rung the battle shout.
The meteor of the ocean no.
Shall sweep the clouds no more!
And burst the cannon's roar:—
The meteor of the ocean air
Her deck, once red with herss' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe.
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying 'd'er the
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Nor would he hear his calling.
No more shall feel the victor's tread.
Or know the conquered knee: —
o know the conquered knee
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave;
Hire hunters snook the mighty deep.
And there should be her grave:
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbeard gill.
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms.
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
ALL THINGS
—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Athletic we are headquarters for. Make our store your home while here.
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT,
Phones 608.
The Students' DowntownHome.
GO TO
Bell Bros. Music Store FOR THE Latest Hits in Popular Music
New and Catchy Ones Arriving all the Time. Following is a list of especially good ones:
That Daffyll Rag.
Railroad Rag.
The Only Pal I Ever Had Came
From Frisco Town.
Honey Man.
If You Talk In Your Sleep
Don't Mention My Name.
Mysterious Rag.
They Always Pick On Me.
Hits from following popular operas:
Deedle Dum Dee.
They Gotta Quit Kickin' My
Dawg Around'.
Oh You Circus Day.
That Hypnotizing Man.
King of the Bungalos.
College Rag
Knock Wood.
The Monarch and The Maid.
Pearl Maiden.
Pink Lady.
Heart-Breakers.
Wall Street Girls.
Spring Maid.
The Enchantress.
Nobody ever stops to look at a clay bank until some artist puts it into a picture with a gift frame and a tag that says $750. Lawrence grew up beside a clay bank, but nobody ever noticed it except the boys who had to go around it on their way to the pasture after the cows. Finally somebody began to bake old-fashioned soft brick out of this clay. Somebody else improved the process. Today Lawrence is paved with its own vitrified brick, and many other cities in Kansas and elsewhere are paved with it. An enormous plant runs night and day to supply the demand.
And there are other opportunities for profitably industry in Lawrence waiting for the man with the insight and ability to develop them.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
Send the Daily Kansan Home CAR SCHEDULE
Beginning Sunday, February 4, A. M. until further notice.
Cars leave Haskell 5,20,35,and 50 minutes past the hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for Santa Fe 5,20,35,and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for South Massachusetts, 5,
20, 35, and 50 min. past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for K. U. via Tennessee,
bear over 20 points, past hours.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for K. U. via Mississippi, 20 and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for Indiana street, 5, 20, 35, and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave K. U. via Tennessee Street, 2 and 32 minutes past the hour.
Cars leave K. U. via Mississippi Street, 17 and 47 minutes past the hour.
Please note K. U. cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street five minutes earlier than old schedule. This change was made at the request of the majority of the patrons using these cars.
Lawrence Railway and Light Co.
The Peoples State Bank The Only Bank in Lawrence where DEPOSITS ARE GUARANTEED under the Bank Depositors Guaranty Laws of Kansas