THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesday and Friday mornings by students in the Department of Journalism from the press of the Department of Journalism.
Entered as second clear mail mails
September 17, 1916, at the postoffice
at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Ae
of March 3, 1879
Subscription price, fifty cents for the six weeks' session.
A. W. Reynolds Editor
Lloyd Tappenthal Business Manager
Phones: K. U. 20 and K. U. 159.
Address all communications to The Summer Session Kanan, Lawrence, Kansas.
VACATIONS AT WORK
The summer session brings, each year, a highly respected, serious-minded, hard-working individual who avails herself of every opportunity for self-improvement—the tired school teacher.
Perhaps she is struggling against many odds that she may obtain a degree and thus climb from the ranks of the low-salaried rural teacher to a more lucrative position in her chosen profession. She may have come from a community where she is expected to put aside each month a portion of her meagre salary that she may attend summer school and thereby become a bigger asset to the town or district in which she works.
There is another class, composed of high school teachers who possess one degree, but who, for professional reasons, find it necessary to obtain another. Perhaps it is in this class that we find more tired faces than in the other two, for their term of work is much longer than that of the rural teacher and most of them have had little or no vacation.
From whatever class of the profession she comes, the teacher is here for a very definite, high and serious purpose, and she has come to work. In her youth she, like her younger sister just home from her first or second year in college, may have taken her academic work very largely for credit, and may have dismissed it from her mind when she left the classroom, but she is a changed being now. She is a real knowledge seeker.
All honor to her! May her summer here be a pleasant one.—L. M. H.
PLANNING A PICNIC
Where you may eat a picnic lunch may be decided by following some excellent suggestions made by any of the old hellers of Lawrence or by walking at random to some grassy spot where there are enough flies to employ spare time and create diversion.
There are many such spots near and about the town which will provide an afternoon or evening's entertainment. Perhaps the most popular of these is Cameron's Bluff, several miles up the river (never learn the exact distance because you will always have a happy surprise on arriving), and approachable by a short trip canor or a pleasant little jaundit up the railroad. A small cabin identifies the place, and though the surrounding jungles are rather dense, there is small danger of wild animals.
Both the Island and the shee of Potter Lake offer excellent lunching places, with splendid bathing possibilities adjoining, though it would probably be wise to fortify yourself with water wings as several casualties have occurred at both places.
If you have a car at your disposal the Pallisades overlooking Dutton's Bridge may interest you as it is a fine imitation of the pink tinted rock found in Colorado and the cave-like cut, formed by the water, is similar to the Italian grotto.
However, best of all there is one place where you are fed until your appetite is appeased. The unusual situation is found at Myer's Place in Tonganoxie. Here there is every possibility of gaining acute indigestion without financially ruining yourself and no one will be-punch your ticket if you ask for a second helping.
On the whole, regardless of the stringent demands your studies will make on you rime perhaps the present weather conditions will continue so that everyone may enjoy the successive hours of outdoor life now possible.
A LESSON OF LIFE
The turmoil of a university session is on; the heat of a summer session flames and the dust of the summer roads blows wild in the winds. Side by side they toil up the hill, the flunker and the educational highbrow, the medic, the scientist, the pedagogue. Six hours' credit is life, and they rush to grasp it while they may. It is wonderful, this increasing activity within the walls of a great university, this race for knowledge that is building up a twentieth century world.
Down at the foot of the hill of learning was a forlorn youth. He had cast aside his books, his shoulders drooped and his eyes wandered despondently over a maze of moving life. He had lost his grip on things. From somewhere out of the crowd a Scotch collie made its way to the boy and rubbed against his knee, speaking out mutely his language of sympathy. The next morning, as the youth came, tired from his bed, the collie lay outside his door, waiting as only a dog can wait. The boy stopped and looked into the eyes of the dog, and then straightened himself to a manly height. He had his grip on things.
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
This is a little picture of university life that was seen by few and appreciated by even fewer. But the boy has learned with the scientist the lesson that was life to him. "Les extremes se touchant," say the French. Extremes touch each other. They both play their part in the whirligig of life, the one drawn from the flame of Mount Orcad and the other from the homely faith of a Scotch collie. Yes, surely, extremes touch each other.
We didn't have a Rock Chalk after the Crimson and Blue at convocation last week, and Sandy Winsor was in the audience. We need Sandy's pop just as much in the summer time as when it's cooler. Let's not forget him today.
The press informs us that there are 25,000 divorce suits pending in Paris. Is the whole world getting Americanized?
Einstein has left America. Are we any wiser or more scientific—relatively—than before he came?
The controversy between Prof. W. A. McKeever and "Snort" Brown, who is columnist for the Atchison Globe, reminds us of the twins who "ced to be one hundred years old. Twin No. 1 attributed his long life to the fact that he had always used tobacco, while Twin No. 2 was confident that he would have died when young had he used the filthy weed.
"Americans are being forced into the Greek Army," says a headline No wonder. All the Greeks are in the United States running restaurants.
A Mexican couple were married in Lawrence recently with the aid of an interpreter. They would probably have been just as well satisfied if the judge had read the fish and game laws to them and dispensed with the interpreter.
In the football of tomorrow we suppose we shall hear the referees softly coo, "Go back ten yards, please. You have committed a foul." A woman is taking Director Allen's course in coaching and sportsmanship.
Since several classes of the English department have been scheduled in Green Hall the laws are getting used to girls. Shouts of "Gangway" do not greet the feminine ears as in days past.
Buying secondhand books at the book stores is certainly a saving. We were able to get a damaged copy of a $3 text for $2.75.
"Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling—"when on a hot Saturday afternoon you have dragged yourself up in the "hill" to do some heavy reference work—to find the seminar rooms closed.
The Symposium
Random Paragraphs on Topics of No Great Importance About Mount Oread
The overgrown paths on the campus show a willingness of the summer students to observe the signs, "Keep Off the Grass," and a co-operative spirit in observing rules. It is important that students who walk the paths will be so obliterated that the fall students will be induced to walk on the sidewalks.
There is to be noticed a marked spirit of camaraderie among the students of the summer school. Most of them have few friends in school and so have adopted the "Hail fellow well met" attitude toward everyone. Thus friends of a day are on a more familiar tone than those of a month in any regular session. However, this may be excused as they only have 6 weeks.
Early rising seems to have a desirable effect on students and professors, for good humor is a noticeable factor as students hurry to their 7:30 class. They also tend to international terms with the world and this is extraordinary considering that they have dressed, breakfasted, and are jogging to class at their usual rising hour. This fact may be explained by the streets are deserted at eleven of late but who can vouch that these former town cut-ups are safe abed?
Cafe and restaurant owners are complaining that light summer appetites are affecting business and are nursing brightest hopes for a little cool weather to instill hunger into the indifferent customers of the last few days. O. P. Connors gives very much benefit but a visit of Pollyannism will aid in keeping everyone good humored and will do harm.
The perpetual bug-hunters have appeared again with their bottles odorous of cyanide and a surprising tendency to indulge in a dash across the green, followed with a scream of triumph as they succeeded in capturing a harmless Lamprayra or a gren of disposition as they discover the truth. Leoliphius is nothing less than a toad. It is said that the professors are called upon to comfort their students who have been accused of light-headedness, who could say that there is no excuse for them.
CHANCE FOR SPECULATION
Freckles will soon have to be an acknowledged factor of beauty or the coords of the University will be taking drastic measures to be rid of them. Each successive day sees an added number appearing on various reluctant noses and those damsels of the Titan type are even adopting hats as a means of protection. It is said that style accommodates itself to circumstances. Perhaps freckles will soon be the range—B, C.
IN THE Summer Session One see many "bachelor girls" cause him to wonder how they came to these years of discretion without having succeeded to Cupids' darts. To be sure, they are not all that way, but there are a great number of fine-looking women here. In addition, they are well-bred, and here we have arrived at the real cause of their being "bachelor girls." They have had too much self-reserve to go in search of the proverbial man, except at night when most of them have regularly looked under the bed. Another viewpoint is that they have spent the main part of their lives in college, where they've been thrown little with men; but the modern college girl has no such excuse, for if she is not engaged, or positively married, before her graduation, she is just naturally born slow. So improve your opportunities, girls before it is forever too late.
My Pet Hobby Is—
ARRIVING LATE—WHATS
YOURS?
My pet hobby is arriving at any destination from fifteen to thirty minutes late. This is really a very credible habit, as there is nothing so pressing that it cannot be delayed a few minutes excepting perhaps, a train, and there are always plenty more. Timely arrival at classes has its advantages, but by being absent from the first fifteen minutes you learn how to handle such a during roll call and also a little extra time for arranging a neatly tie bow tie or disarranging your well-combed hair.
Popularity is always assured if you keep your companion waiting awhile. He has time to review your phone and email. Then he arrives your arrival after a lonesome wait.
Too, you can gain the undivided attention of the entire party if you are the center and when you appear unaware, you will have the hour everyone will soon forget it.
If it is an accepted fact that you will arrive late, your dinner hostess will be certain that you won't turn over a new leaf and be on time, there can be delayed so that the entree will be served with your arrival and the cook's temper remain unruffled. While the rest of your companions have presented themselves a trifle breathless of appearance your well-groomed aspect will create a pleasing contrast, which will enhance their appearance and appreciation. In fact, it is absurd to excuse me, I'm die young in five minutes and I must be on time—B. C.
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