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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1943
University Alumni Association Offers Feeling Of Unity Among All Graduates
One of the most worthy and important organizations connected with the University now, in the past, or in the future is that of the KU Alumni Association. Since its formation in 1883, the association has served both school and students in such a way as to bind together in spirit and companionship all who have entered their names on the registration books. Among all students from the first to the present freshman class, there is a tie and bond centered in the University Alumni'Association.
During the 19 years following its establishment, the association's main activities included annual meetings, speeches, resolutions, and banquets. As the organization grew, however these interests and activities broadened until today they cover the 48 states. The Graduate Magazine, monthly publication of the Alumni Association giving news and stories about the University and its former students, was started in 1902. With the Graduate Magazine developed the method of records in the form of alumni catalogs or directories, which are large books containing the names and addresses and occupations of the graduates. The first of this type of directory was published in 1890 and the last, which contained 1200 names, came out in 1928.
The alumni office now has names of approximately 32,000 living graduates, and former students who were not graduates. In the files of the office are pictures, clippings, and biographical and scholastic data on all the students recorded. Alumni organizations and clubs are in operation all over the country under the direction of the KU Alumni Association.
The real value of the Alumni Association can not be fully appreciated by students while they are in school, but the time will undoubtedly come, after they have left the University, when they will understand and praise the work of the organization. To know that the great body of University graduates is bound together is a feeling of unity that only such an organization as this can present.
Students are wrong if they feel that their connections with the University are severed with graduation. It is through interested alumni that the University and the Alumni Association are able to carry on and to receive the support needed. This is a duty that comes to life with Commencement and grows as each student advances through life and becomes more and more in a position to add strength and backing to the college and the alumni group.
"For the purpose of forming a closer bond among ourselves and maintaining our interest in our Alma Mater, we, the Alumni of the University of Kansas, do hereby unite ourselves into an association." What quotation could be more fitting to explain the past and the future of the Alumni Association than this part of the association's preamble, and what quotation could mean more to the students, to the University, and to the association itself?
Just Wondering
If this year people will be comfortable at Commencement instead of sweltering in their caps and gowns as they usually do when the exercises are held in June.
Memories of Lilacs in Spring Are Cherished on Battlefield
Lilacs, glowing purple in the dawn; flowers, delicate and rare; spring, peering coyly around the corner—spring, it is almost here. How strange that it should come so soon, so suddenly.
Lilacs and blood-red flowers springing through the mud. And the quickening southern breeze that reeks with the scent of death. Spring comes, and we are waiting.
There are no lilacs here, no blood-red flowers. Our blood is red enough, but we have no time for blossoms or for spring. We can not offer them the loving care they need. For we have work to do, and spring is coming.
We have no time for lilacs. Lilacs are for those who can enjoy them, whose senses are alive to scent and hue. Our senses have been shocked and deadened with the bomb and shell. Lilacs are not for us, for spring is coming.
Lilacs are for those who can enjoy them. We cannot find them on our battlefields; they do not camoufiage our shell-pocked hills. But we know them, for they are a part of us, the part we left behind. We hold the memory tight, for spring is coming.
We must remember them, the blue, the white, the purple. We must remember how they scent the air upon a soft spring night. We must remember where they grow, where they bring the heavens down to earth. We must remember, for spring is coming.
We are waiting. The mud lies deep along the trench, but spring is balmy in the air. The odor of death drifts in across the plains, and we remember. Spring is coming, and with the spring we must advance.
The lilacs may not bloom for us another spring.—J.G.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ...Virginia Tieman
Editorial Associates ...Don Keown, Jimmy
Gunn, Maurice Barker
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NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Joy Miller
Sunday editor ... Bill Haage
Campus Editors ... Jane Miner, Florence
Brown, Clare Lee Oxyle
A strange lot, these journalists: Peggy McConnell and Bob Schultheis, Delt, arrived at the Colonial Tea room for the Kansan Board Dinner Tuesday in an open car. The machine was driven by a man with a shot gun across his knee and guarded from the back seat by another vigilante holding a rifle in either hand. When the car stopped the two jumped out of the car and kept Schultheis covered until he was safely the outside of other murders on the porch.
Two explanations have been advanced: (1) Schulteis was in the clink and just got out for the party. (2) The fellows with the guns were going Squirrel hunting. The latter may be discredited. That's what Schultheis said.
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Illustrating the value of a mind: Joe Laird, Delt, has had to give up smoking. He loaded every other cigarette in his cigarette case and now he can't remember which one comes first.
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The Pee Wee Kansan is a four page publication which appears annually on the day of the Kansan Board Banquet (that was Tuesday this year). The publication isn't exactly legitimate. It's genetics: "entered as lower-class matter February 30, 1942, under the act of the Men's Student Council, passed February 29, '942, and immediately repealed by the Chancellor."
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A shade off: Journalism man of the year, John Conard, proved his genius beyond dispute in connection with the Pee Wee by being co-author of a Rock Chalk column so libelous that not even one item passed the Kansan's censor bureau—which always in the past has shown itself to be conveniently ignorant of the finer facts of life.
Just to prove it—this Rock Chalk was much lower than the Pee Wee social column and the Pee Wee social column ran:
CHI OMEGA . . . Danny Bachmann was a weekend guest.
THETA SIGMA PHI . . . will hold a beerbust tonight at Eagle's Nest. Members will please bring their own pretzels.
CHANCELLOR'S HOUSE : ,, the Chancellor, Mrs. Malott, and all the little Malottes had dinner at home as usual.
JOHNNY'S PLACE. . Paul Brownlee, John Conard, and Don Keown were overnight guests Friday evening.
Housemothers Beware Raid Ice-boxes
By JANE JONES
Hunger in the '80's started students on a career of crime when they were forced to raid their housemother's ice boxes if they wanted cheese sandwiches other than at meal time.
In 1887, an enterprising young man by the name of George Falley, decided he could make a comfortabe living for himself.
by dishing out hot dogs and tomato soup to campus "personalities." Falley was permitted-to use a basement room in Fraser. In this room, where the only interior decorations wee a stove and a lunch counter, he began serving meals to students. Thus, the first eating house on the Hill was born.
The eating house was very popular with students. One night during its first year of business, a careless helper almost succeeded in destroying the lunch room by fire and burning down Fraser hall as well. Records do not show whether it was the administration's determination to keep its buildings intact or Falley's disappointment in his new business venture that kept the lunch room from opening a second year.
New Jelly Joint Appears
Several years passed before University collegians had another "Jelly joint". Seven years later, Billy Reynolds, a senior at the University, opened a lunch room just off the campus, which was known as The Oread cafe, Billies', and The Dog House. At first, the eating house was nothing more than a lunch room on wheels, but Reynolds soon converted it into a more permanent structure. Billies' reputation as a gossip center, date bureau, and
"beauty barometer" of the Hill probably drew as big a crowd as the food that was served. "The lunch wagon on wheels" closed in the fall of 1911.
The closing of Billies' directed the attention of University authorities to the eating problem which existed on the campus, and shortly afterward, it was announced that a University cafeteria would open the next semester. In the spring of 1912, a cafeteria operated by the home economics department was opened in the basement of Fraser. Because the home economics department needed more room for its teaching, and no other rooms were available, the cafeteria was abandoned in less than a year.
Bricks Opens in 1914
Bricks was the next eating house to be opened on the Hill. In the spring of 1914, E. C. Bricken, purchased the Oread cafe. He ran the place for nine years before he sold it. "Bricks" had become so popular with students that the original nickname was retained.
There was still no eating place directly on the campus until the University, through the cooperation with the home economics depart-
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