THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Suffered as second-class mail matter September
19, 1865. Received by lawrence, Kansas,
under the cut of March 3, 1879.
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The Summer Session Kanaan, Lawrence, Kansas
Mary Smith ...Editor
Emine Pleasant ...Associate Editor
Edith Rothe ...Associate Editor
Fort Cochran ...Business Manager
OUR WAR WORKSHOP
ANOTHER year of sending men over to France and into our training camps by the hundreds of thousands may make it hard for prospective students to see that it may be their best patriotic service to remain in school, or to enter a university.
But in this phase of war adjustment, as in so many others, surely we can learn from the experience of England and others of our allies. During the first year of the war, the university men of England all rushed to enlist, and the enrollment in Oxford most conservative of English schools—the one designed to "teach an English gentleman how to be an English gentleman" fell, in October of 1914, from 3500 to 1200. Many of these men went down in the inevitable "initial sacrifice," and the second year of the war, all England wished desperately that these men had been saved for use as officers. R. O. T. C.'s were organized in every higher school of England.
On the other hand, citizens and prospective students are right to ask what the universities are proposing to do to meet the changed conditions of the country—what they can offer in the way of real war service or preparation.
The mainspring of the activity of every member of the University faculty, from the Chancellor to the newest instructor, is the consideration of what the University may do to help win the war. Each department co-operates with each other in furthering war interests; there is added the impetus of cumulative and combined efforts. Surely any young man or woman who is considering the question of colleges, will do well by his country in coming to the University, where he may find his talent which will best serve his country, or develop that talent at top war-time speed, for the service of his country.
The University of Kansas will continue next year three main lines of activity: general preparation, which should make the student more valuable in the service of the country when his time comes, and more apt for military training; direct preparation for war service, such as that in the R. O. T. C. and the food conservation courses; and actual war work, as of the classes in surgical dressings, the raising of funds for the French orphans, and home service work.
By a recent order of the War Department, in providing for the establishment of R. O. T. C.'s at the larger educational institutions, the members of the R. O. T. C. are to be given a definite military status next year. By this provision, any young man in a university or college, will be proclaimed to all his associates for what he actually is—a soldier in the course of training, as truly as the men in the regular army camps
For all young women except those entering training as nurses, we believe there is no place offering better opportunities to do war service, and to train for effective work, than the schools and colleges of the country. To fulfill this promise is the chief desire and aim of the University of Kansas for the coming year, and as many more years as it may take to defeat the Huns.
EDUCATION HOLDS THE KEY
EDUCATION
In the early days of the war we Americans were inclined to be proud of our isolation, and our superior sort of aloofness from European affairs. But it quite pleased our vanity none the less to consider ourselves a world power. We liked the phrase, and imagined that we could be a world power merely by virtue of size.
But at last we have come to understand that we can be a world power in truth only by taking a real part and place in the world's affairs. The next step, as Dr. Slosson put it in his recent convoitation address at the University is that we should become A WORLD INTELLIGENCE AS WELL AS A WORLD POWER.
We can never reach this stage in our development by complacently regarding ourselves as already superior to the rest of the world, and
pluming ourselves on our past achievements.
The young men and you women of America will never help us to it by concluding that an education does not matter in such strenuous times as these. It is precisely in such strenuous times as these that an education matters most.
Each new investigation of Germany's methods of conducting warfare shows more clearly than before that she neglects no possible sphere of knowledge or activity. Every branch of education is mads to contribute to the cause. She uses political as well as military strategy; studies racial characteristics and social conditions, as well as contours of land for army operations.
Modern languages are of increasingly greater importance. So long as we held to our old idea of isolation from the old world, we might reasonably say to ourselves that languages were of minor importance. But if we are to deal with other nations in any effective manner, we must be able to communicate with those people in their own language.
So it is also with international law and diplomacy, commercial law, accounting, economics, history, business methods—these and many other subjects demand attention as never before.
We cannot fight this war in our own way—we must counteract the movements of the enemy, and if his operations lead us into the devious courses of sciences andologies and isms, we must outmanouver him there and beat him at his own game. We must learn even from our enemies.
Training is at the foundation of victory in the war. Education and training must be depended on to take care of after-the-war problems.
My Notion is That— Expressions of Opinions by Students and Teachers on Matters of General Concern
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Did you ever notice the innocent but pertinacious prevarication that people practice in regard to their own climate? Did you ever see this: "Mt. Oread, the coolest spot in Kansas," or this, California, cool in summer, warm in winter." Now at Wisconsin State University, on three beautiful lakes. Cool and pleasant," or this, "Come to California, col in summer, warm in winter." Now having made trial of all these I can say they as superlative hot as any other place where grain and fruit get warm enough to ripen. At each place, in reply to any surprised or painted complaint, you hear this: "But really this is unusual, the hottest in years." ete ad lib. So, after all, we are just as comfortable in believing and acting on the climatic announcement of our own circulars as when we travel hither and yon.
M. A.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
That the University will in time need more land added to it's campus is undeniable. When the dormitories, which are sure to come, are built, where will they be located? New buildings will be needed in all departments, and the University should buy land adjoining the campus before it is built upon.
The Board of Alumni Visitors have advocated the purchase of the land just south of the University.
IF anyone really thinks the University of Kansas is a school only for the sons and daughters of the rich he should be told the fact that more than sixty per cent of the students last year were either wholly or partly self-supporting! And these students are leaders in college affairs too, in every phase of school life.
This is the best available piece of ground around the campus, as all the land both north and east is occupied. Let's have it.
Henry tends to Mrs. Brown's furnace in winter, and waits on the table at a club and still finds time to be the most popular man in his class. They do all sorts of work, these worth-while students in college. Some are expert stenographers and sit in dignified coolness in some Dean's office, while others act as stewards for clubs or wash stacks of dishes each day for their meal. But the University of Kansas is a democratic school and it makes no difference what kind of work a man does, just so he is a good fellow, a good student and will do his share in keeping up the spirit of the University.
DEMOCRACY RAMPANT
R. P.
Seregant Whoozia: I would take you to the vaudeville at the Harris, but I know you would be uncomfortable.
Miss Converse: How is that?
Sergeant W.: You know the Government now puts tax on the seats—Gas Attack.
K. U. Thirty Years Ago From the Columns of University Publications of That Day
E. E. Slosson will take charge of the chemistry class during the absence of Prof. E. Franklin.
Dr. Cordley conducted chapel services Monday morning.
The Sigma Chi mandolin club has become famous of late and is in demand at many of the entertainments in the city.
Prof. Green will take charge of the Senior Law Class next week.
Miss Nellie Thacher was seen in the library, Wednesday.
Prof. Ryan's Academy of Dancing open for ladies and gentlemen every Monday and Friday evenings. Mr. Ryan teaches all the most fashionable dances, making a speciality of the Waltz and Reverse.
A. L. Wilmoth went to attend the Y. M. C. A. convention at Abilene last Friday.
Miss Carrie Watson made a flying trip to Kansas City last Saturday.
Miss Bessie Root is visiting Marcella Rowland.
UNIVERSITY BORN IN WAR TIME If you live out in the state and meet some one just fresh from the University, he will tell you that the war is the one great thing at the University these days; and you think, "Yes, where there are so many young people there will always be much enthusiasm. And besides, these boys and girls do not know what war means."
But come on up to Lawrence, and you begin to discover that just as the “win the war spirit” is not expressing itself as football-enthusiasm is wont to do, so it is not a demonstration by persons unable to realize what war means.
By the time you find stained professors giving their sons to all branches of fighting service in spite of long laid and cherished plans; and they and their families making all kinds of sacrifices of personal comfort, in many instances giving their entire time to some form of war work—then you feel that the spirit developed at such institutions is as fine a thing as America can produce.
The very traditions of the University, and the circumstances of its founding, lead to just such a spirit of loyalty and sacrifice. The legislative act providing for the establishment of a University and its location at Lawrence, was passed in 1863, and in that year and the following one the citizens of Lawrence raised a large proportion of the first endowment fund of the University, even though the town had been laid waste in the meantime by the Quantrell raid.
With such birth and ancestry, could the University of Kansas be other than a disciple of the cause of freedom for all people of the earth?
AMONG THE ALUMNI
Frank C. Baldwin, '16, county attorney of Washington county, has been drafted and is stationed at Camp Funston. He is again a candidate for county attorney.
Chaucey Hunter, '17, is stationed at -Camp Jackson, North Carolina.
Marjorie Templin, c'14, is in New York, awaiting her departure for France as a Red Cross dietition.
Fina C. Ott, '15, is the student secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association in the State College at Ames, Iowa.
Henrietta McKaughan, '15, did publicity work for the Third Liberty Loan in the state of Oregon.
Wm. M. Morrow, '15, who was married this spring to Marjorie Jackson of Washington, Kansas, is a flying cadet stationed at Berkeley, California.
Nellie Kennedy, '16, is taking work in the Nurses' Training School in New York, preparing to be a Red Cross nurse.
Two Chances Left
Cheer up! You have two chances: one of being drafted and one of not.
And if you are drafted, you have two chances:
one of going to France and one of not going.
And if you go to France, you have two chances:
One of being shot and one of not.
And if you are shot, you have two chances:
One of dying and one of not dying.
And if you die—Well! You still have two chances!—Anon.
Soph: I was over to see her last night when someone threw a brick through the window and hit the poor girl in the side!
Frosh: Did it hurt her?
Soph: No; but it broke three of my fingers—Burr.
Fraser Hall was erected and occupied in 1872.
It was just fifty years ago that Lawrence was selected as a location for the University of Kansas.
In 1895 Blake Hall was arrested.
The department of engineering was the first department organized at he University of Kansas.
the first session of the University opened at North College, September 12, 1866.
The normal department was established in 1876 and discontinued in 1885; the same year the department was established.
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