UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Washoe
EDITORIAL STAFF
RICHARD GARDNER Managing Editor
J. EARLE MILLER Sporting Editor
ROBESLL H. CLARK Ast. Sporting Editor
EARL POTTER High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
IKE E. LAMBERT...Business Manager
L. BERNARD...Manager in D.A.B.
Cirkulation Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
REPORTORIAL
@SKALEY WEBB
WARD MADS
JOHN MADSHE
HOPKINS
HOCKEYTON
HOSCHITON
Easted as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910. at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence.
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1912.
AWARD K'S ON STUDENTS DAY
Subscription price $2.00 per year,
in advance; one term, $1.00; time subscriptions
$2.50 per year; one term $1.25.
Phone: Bleda K. U. 325; Home 1165.
Ever since the custom of granting baseball and track K's was originated at the University, the athletes of these teams have received notice of the granting of their honor letters, either during the week of final quizzes or not until they had packed their trunks and were on their way home for the summer vacation.
The baseball players and track men receive the greatest honor which the University student-body can give them, in a manner not at all befitting the occasion.
Students' Day, which comes on May 24, when the athletic seasons are virtually at a close, offers an excellent opportunity for a public announcement of the winners of the honor letter this year. The K committee of the athletic board should experience no difficulty in choosing the men for the honor from the baseball team, and there will be small chance after that date, for track men to win letters, who have not already done so. The basketball letters, which have been so long delayed, can be properly presented on this occasion, as well.
Student's Day should be made the annual date for awarding track and baseball K's. The problem of a public presentation of the honor would be solved, and the day itself would acquire much more importance than it now holds.
GENTLEMEN, THE BAND
Who was it said, some years ago, that a football game was a contest between two colleges to determine which had the worst band? Whoever it was, he would have a hard time reconciling himself to the idea that students and faculty would gather to hear a college band play with no other object than the music itself.
At the University of Kansas the band has changed with the passing years. It is no longer regarded as an aggregation of noise-making youths who are to be endured on public occasions because they mean well, and who should at other times, like the old-fashioned child, be seen and not heard.
Last year the University band introduced the custom of giving regular evening concerts on the Museum steps. It was not long until the students woke to the fact that the University band was, as a visitor at the Editorial Association meetings expressed it, "as good as anybody's band." The first spring concert of the band this year will be given tonight and indications are that the music fans will be in as large attendance as ever.
Outdoor ceremonies among the students are becoming numerous and they are adding to the University's roll of traditions. Gradually the student-body is building up a series of annual events which they alone can conduct and it is for the best. Perhaps if the other class organizations, the Friars and the Black Helmets, would follow the lead of the Sachems in devising some simple
scheme for conducting their pledging in the spring an embryo tradition would be strengthened and become inviolate. One day could be selected on which the announcement of all the pledges to honorary class organizations could be made and that day would be looked forward to for the the pledging of the society men.
MOTHERS' DAY
Sunday May 12 is National Mother's Day and all the men of the University should remember their best friends by wearing a white carnation in the buttonhole of their coat lapel. Many of us attending the University are far from home and a little token of some sort, sent so that "Mother" would get it in time for the right day would aid immensely in keeping the day set aside by the men for honoring their mothers.
Don't forget men! She never forgets you and if you could write a long letter for that day it would cheer one heart immeasurably.
IOTHER BEATTY'S CHICKEN
BIE
Only a few can make chicken pie that is chicken pie. And there are a few select people who can make the kind of chicken pie that lingers in the memory—bare mention brings a sniff of approval and one's mouth just can't help but "water."
That's the kind of chicken pie that Mother Beatty, makes and it was like going home last night, for the members of the Scoop Club who put their feet under the table at Mother Beatty's, to partake once more of that good, chicken pie.
The pie that was served in the little trenchers over at the "Dog-House" on the brow of the hill, became one of the most dear things to the students at chapel time, and its loss is more deeply felt at times when a group of students seek out the matron who made the mystic pastry and claim her art once more.
HELPING THE STUDENT FIND HIMSELF.
Following a suggestion of the Carnegie Foundation, and in accordance with a plan drawn by several members of its faculty, the University of Washington has just undertaken, through a course apparently embodied in the research agenda of the department, professional students "find themselves."
"The course is one of four hours given in the second semester of the freshman year to all men and women in the college of arts and science. It is divided into three equal portions, the first dealing with vocational opportunities, the second with the relationship of each individual department to the vocator for which it is preparing registrants, and the third with the general problem of student life, university ideals, and the most effective methods of study.
For the presentation of all this matter three different sets of lectures are required; first, leaders and doers in the world of action, who shall discuss the professional demands, and the responsibilities that meren and women go forth to meet in the world life; second, representatives of the various departments of the university, who shall speak upon the ends for which they and their immediate colleagues stand, and the means by which their academic training strives to fasten upon the youth the armor that the vocational opportunities and demands to demand, third, the executive heads—that is, the students—of the university, who shall say something constructive," who掌办 collegiate ideas, the social tendencies at the campus, and above all attention to some of the simpler psychological principles of memory, fixation, and ideas which mean so much in the formation of correct habits of study.
"It is a little curious that such a course in which an institution for studies turns to study itself,—indeed, the originators of the plan remark that a valuable part of its operation will be in its reflex action upon the self-consciousness of the university—should first have come into being at a new and far-western school; and despite the proximity of Seattle to the University of Washington, we incline to believe that a desire to help the student, to a knowledge of the world of real life for which he must prepare arises from a consciousness that western students, more than eastern, have not in their
Such a course would probably be of little value to the sophisticated and urban-bred young man of Harvard or Princeton, who knows upon matriculation where he will find the readiest field for his talents, and who has a direct realization of the exact steps which he must take to fit himself for the business and professional world in which from boyhood he has seen the oldsters about him struggling; except in so far as it would give him a more inspired and serious view of the part he should play on the stage of life.
"But that brilliant and earnest mind which so often comes to the western college under the shaggy hair of the farmer lad needs early tuelage as to the nature of the contest which it would win. This section of the apparently confused course in "self-finding would prove valuable."—The Daily Student.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
The Flathead—The play was so exciting I was beside myself,
Bill Coons—Here's a foot print. It's man's
Book Agent—Can you spare me a few minutes?
The Shaver—How very expensive with seats four dollars a throw. Tiger
Goldie—But the culprit is a woman.
Bill Coons—Then it must be a miss-print.”
—Princeton Tiger.
Bank President — Certainly—the longer the better—good day
Cow
"Sort of hard wood finish, eh?"
—Princeton Tiger.
"He slipped on the hardwood floor and killed himself."
'15—Why do you wear that mustache?
'12—It enables me to keep a stiff upper lip.
"How are you going to raise money for the crew this year?"
-Purple Cow.
"We thought of starting a sinking fund." —Lampon,
Yale Record.
She—This light dress spots awfully
easy.
He- You bet! I spotted it two blocks away.
Yale Record.
Friend—"Why don't you swear of poker?"
Pat—*Begobis, ivery time I swear
of i start to win.*
Grad—(reminiscently) — “A fellow before marriage is generally a dude.” Senior—(effectively) — “Yes, and after marriage he’s sub-dude.”
Salvation Army Lady—What do you boys do with your clothes?
—Tiger.
"Say, porter, I gave you a dollar
Isn't there any change?"
—Tiger.
you boys do with your clothes?
D. Brugne—Well, personally, for the last couple of years I've been wearing mine." —Widow.
YOUNG UNIVERSITY
STUDENT OPINION
"Kindly return my lock of hair."
"All right. Do you want the dark lock or the one you gave me when you were a blond?"
An appropriation of $125,000 gold for the construction of buildings for the University of the Philippines, which was made during the last session of the Legislature, is now available, reports the Manila Times.
"No, sah! This train goes right through to Princeton. sah!"
Washington Herald.
What student did not feel cheered as he came up the hill at 8:30 to make an 8:00 class and saw the genial face of a girl who was bravely asserting the hour to be 7:30?
Can the Daily Kansan do anything to help this state of affairs, or has another tradition departed to return no more? A MATUTINAL CLIMBER
As a representative of the student body, I present the fact that for the last few days the time piece has been running and its artifacts its artifacts of days gone by are missed.
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed in this article. All authors must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
Every person knows the habits of the clock are not exactly regular, so what is the use of advertising a fact that is known and accepted by all.
DON'T DISTURB THE P. C.
To the Daily Kansan;
The fact that the Physics Clock is eccentric is one of the best traditions of the University, and to destroy this tradition the university has an official name of the University of Karans.
I wish to extend my thanks for the
sensation of crushed which your
colleagues have appreciated.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
I am not going to preach to you any artificial stocism. I am not going to preach to you any indifference to money, or to pleasures of social intercourse, or to dislike your neighbors, or to any other of the consolations and necessities of life. But, after all, the thing that matters most, both for happiness and for duty, is that we should strive habitually to live with our bodies and surroundings in a nurture helps us more than our studies to this most blessed companionship of wise thoughts and right feelings.
Plans are being prepared in the office of the consulting architect and when completed and approved will be turned over to the bureau of public works (at Manila). The bureau is responsible for construction, and actual work will be commenced as soon as these are accepted.
The first president of the university, Dr. Murray Bartlett, was inaugurated on Dec. 20, 1911.
FOREST UNDER THE SEA
On the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, a primeval forest has been exposed through the washing away of sand from a great area of the bay. Trunks of trees embedded in great rocks were found, and have been removed for expert examination. Many of the trees are in a fine state of preservation, in some cases the wood has only changed color, while in others it is in the nature of coal. The total extent of the forest uncovered is about a quarter of an acre. Most of the trunks of the trees are encrusted with sandstone, and it is probably due to this that they are so well preserved.-Christian Science Monitor.
CHANGE IN EDUCATIONAL WAYS
—LORD MORLEY.
A CHANGE has come in the system of education, and this is brought out in the report of the board of education for 1910-11, which has just been issued.
"The child's life in school," it says, "is being brought into closer relation with his life out of school; the barrier 'which tradition has erected between the two is being broken down.
"At the same time the influence of school is spreading more and more widely over the whole sphere of the child's interests and activities."
"Education is less bookish and more practical than it was. In almost every subject in the curriculum, in English and arithmetic hardly less than in nature study and geography, the teacher of today uses the materials and experience with children are familiar in everyday life.
The report goes on to say that the child's amusements are as much cared for as his mental and moral development. He is taught how to use his hands as well as his head; to play as well as to work.-Monitor.
CEREMONIAL FORMS IN CHINA CHANGED
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The Board of Education of the Nankin Government has issued a general order that the sacrifices of Confucius in his temple should be retained temporarily, as a set form of ceremonies has not been promulgated for the republic, but that the form of worship should be changed. Thekowtow, that is kneeling and bowing the head to the ground, should be changed and in its place three bows should be made.
As to other worships and sacrifices in vogue during the Manchu dynasty, all worships in connection with superstition, the board thinks, should be abolished, but the question should not be raised. The sacrifices in the provinces, as each has its own peculiar customary sacrifices—Japan Advertiser.
Our lives are songs;
God writes the words
And we set them to music at leisure;
And the song is sad, or the song is
glad
As we choose to fashion the measure
We must write the song,
Whatever the words,
Whatever its rhyme, or meter;
And if it is sad, we must make it glad. And if sweet, we must make it sweeter.
—Gibbon.
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