UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
GEORGIE MONTANA
GOVERNMENTAL SCHOOL
RICHARD GARDNER
Managing Editor
J. EARL MILLER
Managing Editor
J. EARL MILLER
Ass. Sporting Editor
EARL POTTER
High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
REPORTORIAL STAFF
**IKE E. LAMBERT**...Business Manager
J. LEWISD...Asst. Business Manager
MILTON D. BARR...Circulation Manager
EDNUND C. BICHTOLT..Asst. Circ. Mar.
REPORTORIAL STAFF
& BANKERS MARIS
JOHN MARDNER EDWARD
DENHAM DEIGHTON
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Lawrence.
MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912.
ONE DOLLAR AND THIRTY-FIVE
CENTS
A call for the support of the class of 1912 for their Jayhawker has been made by the business manager, and the members of the class should not falter in offering their aid to the management of the book of which they are proud as classmen. Through an error in estimating the costs of the book before printing, the total net liabilities of the management rose far above the figure planned by the manager.
Several factors all worked to boost the price of the Jayhawker and coupled with the intense desire on the part of the editor and business manager to give the class of 1912 one of the best annuals that has ever been published at the University, far greater expenses were incurred than should perhaps have been undertaken by the business and on the margin that was allowed.
From the first, a margin of only three or four per cent for profits was allowed, even expecting a complete sale of the edition. A twenty per cent margin should have been allowed to take care of all exigencies that might arise in the publication of a single edition such as the Jay-hawker.
In addition to these points, several of the important engravings that appeared in the book were delayed by the engraving company and additional cost in printing and composition was incurred on the receipt of these late cuts. Unexpected overtime in the print shop and sundry smaller and incidental features that were unforeseen by the manager of the Jayhawk combined to boost the price of the book to the five thousand dollar mark rather than the four thousand dollar contract which was closed at the first of the year.
A rough estimate would place the amount that each member of the senior class should pay in bearing this deficit at one dollar and thirty-five cents.
The manager and editor, who have already spent the best part of their time this year upon the book, have offered to bear a fifth of the total deficit.
The members of the class of 1911 should not even permit this.
They should vote to bear the entire amount and what is more to the point, should pay their part immediately.
ARTHUR ST. LEGER MOSSE AS HEAD COACH
Inasmuch as the regents have not classified Arthur St. Leger Mosse as being a member of that school of professional football coaches that has been barred from the universities of the Missouri Valley Conference, nothing should stand between the former expert pigskin mentor and the position as head coach of the 1912 Jayhawk football team. He has been selected already as the first assistant and on the resignation of Ralph Sherwin, Mosse is the only logical man for the job as head of the Kansas football machine.
When Mosse was formerly active in teaching the game of football, he
was famous for his ability in making the defensive work of his team impregnable, in solving the fake and trick plays of the opponents and in teaching his men how to meet their realistic features of offense.
His experience and success as a coach more than qualifies him for he position as chief mentor of the Kansas men and when he is once established in that position, Kansas will have one of the best teachers of the game in the Missouri Valley, a man who has aided in producing ever-victorious teams.
There is no fear for any child who is frank with his father and mother —Ruskin.
CO-EDUCATION
The senior men students at Wesleyan University have raised the boycott on the women and intend to permit them to take part in the class day exercises at graduation this spring, in the last year that the young women will be allowed to attend the university.
The banishment of the women students came the result of disapproval on the part of the men who maintained that their presence on the campus conducted to disorganization in the student body. This may be the ruling tendency in Ohio, but with a spirit among the women students such as is gathering strength and coming to be an important factor in
the university life of the young women here, men students in Ohio would hold another election before they placed their boycott.
It is even doubtful if they could hold such an exciting, closely-contested election as the women did here a week or so ago in selecting officers for the Student Government Association. And the men students have yet to demonstrate their ability and inclination to perfect an athletic organization such as started here this winter by the women students—an organization that obtained to the true end of university athletics, placing a higher per cent of student athletes in the field than the men with their organization of twenty years.
Whether or not the Women's Athletic Association will have that permanency that characterizes the association of the men remains to be seen. The present indications all point to a rising interest in their association. At least the men students at Wesleyan University would do well to reconsider and let their women students organize themselves.
WHAT ARE YOU?
What do you believe? Have you ever thought about your relation to the world and its inhabitants? What do you think of the philosophies, the creeds, and the theories? Have you one of your own? Or do you go through life attending to the daily tasks and duties without ever asking the why and whereof things.
If you have not, you should get it. Begin with your beliefs, formulate your opinions of the world for instance, and write it down. Write down what you believe of the hereafter, what you think is right and world's store of learning been augurise to you to find out that your prive to you to find out that your knowledge of these primal and fundamental topics is pitifully vague and meager.
The first thing that a college education should inspire in a man or woman is an inquiring state of mind, the desire to know the unknown and a yearning to know the unknowable. Only by such powerful instincts for investigation and research has the world's store of alarming been augmented. Have you the inquiring instinct?
And it ought to impel you, as a college man, to give more attention and thought to that part of your education. The steadiness and sureness of character that will come to you with a certain settled opinion as to what you are here for will be a powerful influence for the better in your life.
THE KAW FOLLOWS A
RUNAWAY BOY'S COURSE
The Ambitions Little River Encounters Many Vicissitudes Before It Dupes the Big Muddy Into Bearing Its Burdum.
THE Kaw river is a small, sandy stream the color of a chocolate nut sundaes, which carries away the waste rainfall of the upper right hand corner of the state of Kansas. It is very ambitious, and almost every spring it undertakes a job that is too big for its gross tonnage capacity, and the people who live along its shores are rescued in motor boats.
The Kaw sometimes goes under the alias of Kansas, but the people of the state, not wishing to have the fair name of their state dragged into the mud of the river bottom have generally consented to use the shorter and uglier word.
When in Lawrence, the Kaw is the guest of Hon. J. D. Bowersock and quite cheerfully—quite cheerfully—furnishes Mr. Bowersock with a few thousand horse power of energy with which to run his flour mill. It is at Lawrence also that the Kaw makes the acquaintance of students of the University of Kansas, but first impressions are unpleasant consisting usually in a violent tone. The cream proof for ladies and a cocoa set of hand blisters for ladies. However, it is said that most students come to have quite an affection for the stream, and his informal receptions, especially when he is assisted by that able and tactful accomplice, the Full Moon.
After the Kaw leaves Lawrence, it flows through a series of potato fields and railroad embankments until it comes to Kansas City. On its way it consumes large quantities of sand, cottonwood trees and in former times, railroad tracks. The latter practice proved very unprofitable to the railroads and they stopped it by building heavy stone hints out into the channel where they ran close to the bank. This makes the track safe, but it is hard on the farmer on the river.
It was nice and "comfy" not to be rushed to death, she thought, as she leaned back against the cushions and closed her eyes, just-for-a-minute.
"You have your quiz-books ready, I suppose?" came the crisp voice of the professor.
When the Kaw gets to Kansas City, like many others, it finds itself in bad company. All the packing houses, soap factories, stock yards, and fertilizer works that Kansas City Missouri refuses to smell, find a ready welcome and more callous noses over the line, and settle down beside the Kaw which is impressed into service. Its duties are to carry away that part of the packing industry, apparently a small business that neither pollutes the breezes nor is littered with it. After a few sluggish miles of this kind of thing, the Kaw gets disguised and turns the whole matter over to the Missouri, who being a stranger from Montana, is easily duped.
On the whole, the course of the Kaw is analogous to the career of a country boy in the western part of the state. He gets dissatisfied with conditions and in company with some other boys he starts to leave home. Some of his companions dry up and never get out of the country, but he perseveres and secures a job at the county seat. While there becomes ambitious for college life and after preparation at Manhattan and Washburn he takes a course at the University. From there he goes to Kansas City, works a while independently, and then is swallowed up in the whirl of the big city's commercial life.
CAN YOU?
The senior girl w.i. started to find her fountain-pen poised especially over a quik-book, tilted at the uncomfortable angle necessitated by the professor's presence in the class-room. The professor she did not recognize, and she rather
The senior girl settled back comfortably among the cushions of her "Sleepy Hollow" chair, turned the light so that it wouldn't shine in her eyes, and lazily picked up her text-book on "Evolution." It really seemed unnecessary to study hard this last semester. All disagreeable required groups were filled up, she was sure of straight ones from the students of the class. Phi Beta Kappa. Final quizzes had no terror for her; she could even answer all the questions propounded in "Stover at Yale," except the ones in politics.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
resented having unexpected quizzes thrust upon her by an unknown instructor. Before she could object, audibly, the professor continued his directions.
Far more seemingly it were for thee to
thrive of Books, than thy ture full of Mome
—JOHN LILLY.
"You will find the questions on these slips of paper which I shall hand to you immediately," he said, with the professional precision of speech which occupies a quiz and is purposeed to show that one must have wisdom so serene that neither moth nor rust corrupt not thieves break through and steal.
"You are doubtless aware," he chorted, "you are are doubtless aware that your diploma your successful ability to answer these simple questions."
The professor looked menacingly at the students seated before him.
With a little sighing rustle of quiz books, the students bent to their task. The senior girl gasped as she looked at the slip of paper, mercy, she could never answer all those questions! He ought to read them in a panic of fear.
1. What make is the paino in the chapel in Fraser Hall?
3. Name seven kinds of trees on the campus.
2. What style of architecture is Green Hall? Blake Hall?
4. Describe accurately the view from Mount Oread.
5. Name the original of the busts in Fraser Hall and the Library.
7. Name four famous statues, of which copies are to be found in Fraser Hall.
6. Describe the case of relics on the stairway at the Library.
8. Who was the first chancellor of the University?
9. When was the iliac hedge planted and by whom?
10. Whose names are carved on the walls of the Museum?
11. When was North College erected?
12. Describe the classical museum.
15. Who wrote the words and music to the "Mla Mater" song?
14. Locate the sun-dial on the campus
14. Why were the colors, crimson
16. Describe the seal of the University.
17. What decorations are used on the Natural History Museum Building?
The senior girl nibbled her fountain-pen, and wrote her name on her quizbook; she looked out over the valley and lunched again off the fountain-pen, but to no avail. She could not answer a single question. She dimly remembered the decorations on the Museum, those weird creatures that stuck out their tongues at the innocent bystander. But she could not remember what they were called. Something about having the sore throat, she thought.
"Time," called the professor, putting a stop to this intellectual wrestling match. "Leave your quiz-books at the desk as you go."
The senior girl dejectedly put away her fountain pen, handed in her blank quiz-book and walked slowly to the kitchen where she turned and hurried back to the desk.
"Gargoyles?" she cried, triumphantly.
"Those horrid things on the Museum Building are gargoyles. Give me another chance, professor, give me another
The senior girl's text-book on "Evolution" slid to the floor with a hang. She opened her eyes and rubbed her arm to get the prickles out of it. Sulkly she picked up the book on "Evolution" and opened it. "They are gargoyles!" she insisted to herself.
In the "good old days" the feminine sex used to put on their sun bonnets as soon as the sun began to be hot. Now, we find the ladies taking their head dress off as soon as the sun comes beating down. Why is it?
THE GREENWOOD
O, when tis summer weather,
And the yellow bee, with fairy sound,
The waters clear is humming round,
And the goose still unscent,
And the green leaves are waving
green—
O, then tis sweet,
In them sweet, to hear the murmuring dove,
With those whom on earth alone we love.
And through the greenwood
together.
And to wind through the greenwood together.
But when 'tis winter weather,
And cross grieve,
And friends deceive,
And rain and sleet
The lattice beat,—
O. then 'tis sweet
Tail and sling
Of the friends with whom, in the days of spring.
We roamed through the greenwood together.
WLLIAM LISLE BOWLES.
A College Student's Summer
During the summer of 1911, a college student appointed sixy agents-undercontract to sell THE SATURDAY EVENING POST and THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL in small towns and villages. By placing these contracts he earned $425.53 in commissions and $55.00 in prize money —total $480.53.
We want several college students, twenty-one years old or over, to do similar work this summer. We also have permanent, profitable work for a number of men able to travel and appoint agents to sell our publications.
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