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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1940
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
Dynamite For Living
Editor's note: The following editorial was written at the invitation of the Daily Kansan by Dr. Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, as a prelude to Religious week which starts on the campus Sunday.
"Dynamics for Living" was stamped on the napkins at the cafeteria Thursday and today. Was that reminiscent or hopeful? Did the Student Religious council adopt this motto for Religious Emphasis week to resurrect a good New Testament word or because they thought that was what religion ought to be?
First century Christians were always talking about power: power to do right, power to stand up in persecution, human power, divine power. And their word was "dynamos," from which we get dynamo and dynamite, the power that makes things go or blow up.
For many people today, religion is a pious attitude, but certainly neither powerful nor revolutionary. But it was not so in the beginning.
The religion of the Old Testament prophets stirred men to action. It made and deposed kings, altered the course of history, changed men's lives. Often it brought death to the prophet himself but it could not be ignored.
Jesus Christ was killed for the religious ideas he taught. A riot once started in Ephesus because men said some Christian preachers had "turned the world upside down." Religion does have power if it is not doctored up or watered down.
The Student Religious council has struck off a good phrase. This week of religious emphasis should give us power for living. Dynamite to you!
The Lights Are Out In Danforth Chapel
For the first time in the two years since the dedication of Danforth chapel, its doors were locked Wednesday night. When the chapel was dedicated, the University administration said it would never be closed. It belonged to the students to be used as they saw fit. Many students will carry through life the memory of joyous and solemn minutes within this sanctuary.
But through the action of one person, or a group of persons, the lights within the chapel were turned out.
Who would want to desecrate a University chapel? Who would steal a sacred picture from its walls? Surely not a student. The picture
already belonged to the students.
It must have been someone who knew the value of the painting and wanted it for the money he could get from its sale, or someone who thought he could attack religion by the destruction of an inanimate object.
If the thief had the first motive, money, he will never receive enough to compensate him for the disturbance within his own conscience, whether he would admit it or not
But if he had the second motive, then he deserves to be pitied. For no amount of punishment he will ever receive will make him as unhappy as he already is in his renunciation of God.
It Was A Joke, Son
Dear Editor:
Recently a letter appeared in the Daily Kansan raising the question of inequities in the distribution of Saturday classes. It is not my purpose to criticize that article, nor to criticize the editor's note which followed except in one particular: "After a careful check we could find no mean conspiracy to keep the lawyers sober Friday night by having so many Saturday classes."
Inferences as that made by the editor are quite common on the campus. Little wonder that there were so many persons before the Christmas recess who were amazed that the lawyers, as a group, sang the joyful Christmas carols on the steps of Green hall twice a day—as if they could never think a spiritual or lofty thought.
The lawyers are, by and large, as mature a group of young men, and certainly as gentlemanly and as morally sound as can be found in any school of the University. Moreover, the course of prescribed study in the School of Law is quite sufficient to keep the lawyers out of very much extra-curricular activity in the local taverns, were there no other question involved.
No careful analysis is required to realize the statement was merely a facetious one, stated lightly, and with no particular malice aforethought.
On the wall outside the law library are printed these words by Justinian:
"The principles of the law are these—to live uprightly, to wrong no one, To render every man his due."
It will be appreciated if you do not have us joining Alcoholies Anonymous until we first become alcoholics.
Earle E. Brehmer
Editor's note: The editor just finished writing 50 times "I'll never be facious again."
2nd year law student
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Watkins hall will entertain with 1 "Heaven and Hell" party this weekend. The living room will be decorated to represent heaven and the basement recreation room will take on the atmosphere of hell.
Orval Swander, College sophmore, demonstrated how to feed a pet alligator to his extemporaneous speaking class Wednesday. The pet, a Christmas present, had not eaten since the first of the year.
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Although it will be interesting to learn which of the two rooms will be the more popular, it also will pose a problem for the men when they want to ask their girls if they are ready to go down to the basement.
They may be "dumb animals," but they sure know how to beat the high cost of living.
Many of the freshman English students are just as confused after seeing "Henry V" as they were before.
One student remarked as he left the theater, "It sure had good technicolor. Too bad it was a foreign film."
Let's Have A Heart
The Templin hall fire fund, with $1,200 as its goal, reached the $95 mark Thursday.
The Daily Kansan realized when it decided to sponsor this drive that most University students do not have much, if any, extra money. But we also thought that since this appeal came to close to home, the students would want to help. Many of the girls lost all their clothing and personal effects, others had their clothing damaged by smoke and water. None of the personal loss was covered by insurance.
Some persons misunderstood the purpose of the drive. They believed it was to pay for the repair of the house or for refurnishing. But it is not. The University had insurance on the house and furniture and not one cent of the money contributed by students goes for that purpose.
It is a matter of helping our fellow students in a pressing situation. Fifteen cents from each student will do it. Let's put this fund over the top.
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The artists judged Miss Darnell's legs as the best "because of their flawless symmetry," but had a hard time taking their eyes off those of runnerup Ava Gardner, according to Daniel Koerner, executive secretary of the league.
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