THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesday and Friday mornings by stu-
ents in the department of Journalism, at the
Library on 28th Street.
Mitored as second class mail matter September
14, 2015. Lawrence, Kansas,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
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M. L. Peek...Managing Editor
Henry McCardy...Business Mgr.
Never mind a little rain. The good old summer sun and wind will soon put plenty of dust into our industry.
A person is educated when he knows his limitations.
In the United States they run for president;
in Mexico, they run after they're president.
Pope Benedict addresses a peace letter to the World. Hasn't he read the preamble to the League of Nations?
A man loses importance when he gets married or engaged, a girl gains importance.
"Cootie Bill" is the name of a book in which a discharged soldier tells his experiences overseas. A. E. F. men will testify that they had some bills.
It is announced that there are three schools in the University that have no deans. Have these vacancies been listed with the Y. M. C. A. employment bureau, which has filled 78 positions so far this season?
With a few more radical changes in the weather, Potter Lake frequenters wont know which to take along, their bathing suits or their skates.
One K. U. man will walk on his toes around Dr. Allen's idea to interest all University men in athletics. His most strenuous workout of the day is turning over and shutting off the alarm clock.
The Republican nominee for the presidency is a newspaper man. But not every newspaper man can avoid the print paper situation by running for the presidency.
Mrs. George Bass, of San Francisco, says that the Democrats will get the women's votes because they will not sideteer any issue. The question is, if it considers every so-called "issue" how can the convention adjourn in time for election this fall?
Now that the Lawrence fire department has acquired its expensive ladder truck, all that is required is a building tall enough to justify the use of the ladders.
The senior class memorial was placed at the west entrance to the campus, near Marvin Hall. The committee was evidently in a hurry when it selected the site. A far better hiding place could be found behind Blake Hall.
Illogical but true: Spooners are not to be found at Spooner; neither are all the oddities in the museum.
"Keep off the Grass" signs on the campus have generally marked the future location of new cement walks. Shows a wonderful appreciation of human nature! Government for the people! Give the public what it wants!
Campus Opinion Views of Students and Others Submitted for the Open Forum
Editor Summer Session Kansan;
Save That Grass!
Since the signs asking students not to cut across the grass have been put up one wonders why the persons responsible for the condition of the campus do not take some steps to keep the automobiles from making further inroads on the few grassy spots remaining. The attempt to stop the cutting across the grass is the proper thing and should be observed by the students but in putting up the signs the authorities have overlooked the worst factor in the destruction of the campus beauty.
The parking of automobiles on the grass, or where there should be grass is muxcussable and unless are taken to put a stop to the practice there is little use of taking precautions against
the less injurious practice of cutting across the grass. M. B.
A Primer of Mount Oread
Answers and Near-Answers to Questions About Things on the Campus
History shows that having has been practically unknown at the University of Kansas.
The class of 84, in their sophomore year adopted the mortar board as the class hat.
Beta Theta Pi was the first fraternity to enter the University. It was founded by Major W. C. Ransom, January 9, 1873. Among the charter members was Frank MacLennan, editor of the Topeka Journal.
Phi Kappa Pi was the third fraternity to enter the University. It secured its charter in 1876.
A charter for the Kappa Chapter of I. C. Sorosis was secured in 1873. In 1888 the fraternity elected to be called by its Greek letter name, Pi Beta Phi. Hannah Oliver was one of the charter members.
Reflections in a Chair Car
A little bare house as the train rushes by; an old hen and chickens scratching in the yard; a mother with her baby standing in the doorway, watching the train. A wormout piece of machinery, a struggling porch vine, a half depleted garden, a flea-bitten dog—mere things, devoid of personalities. Among familiar surroundings, the personal education obscures our perspective but from the car window we get an impersonal, detached view of humanity that impresses us with the insignificance of the individual. The woman and child appear to exist merely for the passing moment, but if we stop to think, we know that we in the rushing train are merely an incident in her life, as she is in ours; that her life goes on from day to day; contains the same interests, pleasures, and problems that ours does. That this is true of every household we see; that every town we pass through contains hundreds of such households; that there are hundreds of towns we do not pass through, each one containing the same sort of households, with the same joys, interests and problems. And we realize the meaning of the term HUMANITY.
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As I watch the men passing up the aisle, or comfortably and inlegible snoozing in their chairs, or lolling on the station platform, I think how many, many men there are in the world that I do not want to marry.
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Women's hats, like presidential candidates, are either Republican, Democratic, or Bolshivik. The Republican hats are conservative; the standpatters of hatdom, such as the trim sailor with its modest ribbon bow; the conventional black street hat, rich in material, but quiet in color and of moderate proportions; the aristocratic and chaste Milan, and the airy chiffon creation. These slightly predominate on the hooks above the upper berths. The Democratic hats do not stick so closely to precedent. Here we find variegated flower gardens, fantastic combinations or ribbons, plumes, fruits and vegetables. Convention is discarded. Hats may tip on the side, front
or back. Bows may perch on top, hang perilously on one edge, or drape themselves artistically down the back of the wearer. Bolshik hats trample ruthlegaly on the mandates of convention, and shudder at the thought of conservatism. Blue roses crowd green daisies on a background of kitchen oil cloth and checker-board ribbon. Cornfields, carpenter anps, waste baskets, chicken yards and museums are ransacked for suitable trimmings. Their number is legion, but the possibilities are not yet exhausted. And in this age of invention, we may hope to see still more bewildering varieties.
Odds and Ends
"Don't Ever Marry" is the name of a motion picture serial soon to be presented to the public. The title, however, is believed to be in conflict with the policies of several movie stars, whose advice would seem to be, "Don't Ever Marry Less Than Twice."
Miss Helen Taft, the acting president of Bryan Mawr, says that the girl of today does not wear her religion on her sleeve. Present styles make the reason obvious.
High School Instructor: This is my vacation at K. U.
Winter termer: I choose winter for mine.
Lives of small boys oft remind us,
That there mud outside the door;
For they're great to leave behind them
Footprints on the kitchen door.
PREPARED
PREFARED
I met a Kansas sage last week
His brow was free from rancor.
An umbrella, coat, and fan
He carried, and an anchor.
Here and There at K. U.
Bearing a basket of vegetables on each arm and opening the interview with "does you want some nice lettuce dis mornin", Uncle George, aged Southern negro approaches the kitchen of certain homes in Lawrence.
For years, Uncle George has peddled vegetables to many localities of the residential district and his courteous southern mannersism, caused him to be the favorite huckster of numberless housewives. When the children see a rickety wagon drawn by an ancient horse, round the corner, they run for their mother and announce the coming of Uncle George.
This morning Uncle George delivered his vegetables without old "Bill" the white horse and the dilapidated wagon. "I'se sure had bad luck," said Uncle George mournfully, "old Bill, my hoss jes natcatchy up and quit."
"Did your horse die, Uncle George?" asked a sympathetic customer.
"Welkhe didn't do nothin' else," returned George, and two big tears appeared in his stubby white beard.
STREET-CAR CASUALTY
A man was found dead beside one of the streetcar tracks in St. Paul: the other day. Probably starved to death waiting for his car,"—St. Paul Non-Partizan Leader.
STREET-CAR CASUALTY
The Ship of Dreams
SHIP drawing furrows of following foam, leaning down shorewide out of the sky.
What are the dreams you are carrying home, what are the wares that you bring to buy
"You can purchase your fill, you may have what you will," the Great Ship, leaning, made her repr
"For I bear all cargos here in my hold as down the ways of the sky I dance,
Chests of ebony, plates of gold, the High Adventure, the Great Romance,
The One True Love that you've long dreamed of, the Single Throw of the Dice of Chance;
"The Riches you seek and the Fame you've pursued, the Joy of the Sweet Cine-Tradised Cot,
And every Dream wherewith you've ended the hopes of man in his earthly lot,
Where you've ended, like a moving cloak in the wind, the Ship awaken,
The ship awoken, like a moving cloak in the wind, the heavenly white,
Singing with great winds, thunder-bowed, joy of the ocean, the sky's delight,
While, climbing high in the rocking sky, her mariners went up, small, from sight.
Then the people came crowding from field and town to see the Ship of Their Dreams come in,
Through highway and byway pouring down, they made a noise like a market's din,
The Rich and the Poor, the Gentle and Boor, the Glad and the Sad, the Fat and the Thin:
For there never a person but has his Dream or who has not sent his heart afar
Where the moving hills of the ocean gleam beyond the reach of the harbor bar
Whence the day is born, anew, each morn, preceded by the morning star.
The traffic of unlading began, from the hold's last depth the merchandise came:
They crowded closer, woman and man, each answering to his schoename—
And they bore away, the Sad and the Gay, their bundles of woe and joy and shame.
The Peet got his fame and his crust; the Statesman achieved his empty height,
The Congressman reached the beach; the Congressman reached the beach;
That his oceans were blind to the storm behind and the pit that jaunted at his feet forth-right.
Now rose a wapling that grew and grew, "Nay, this is not our hope did seem;
We have gained a thing that we never knew! Then answered a voice, "Aye! So ye deem?
Yet to each as he lives the Captain gives—and for the Dream, the Reward of The Dream!"
And yet full many were jocund there and, singing, bore their burdens away,
For they knew that the Captain had trafficked fair, and they had no word of cavil to say—
As away from the rout the rout the Ship drew out till it hung, like a star, on the edge of the day!
Harry Kemp, in The Popular Magazine.
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