PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS / FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1904 Comment Seventy Years Ago This morning Chancellor Lindley will convene the seventy-first annual Convocation of the University. Great changes have occurred since the first one was held in little old North College on that morning seventy years ago. Only 55 men and women faced the chancellor that day. Today there will be over 4000 students, and we will seat ourselves in a spacious auditorium after passing along a street lined with over thirty beautiful and imposing buildings. Surely that thought should be an inspiration to all, both old and new members of the student body. These 55 eager seekers for knowledge could not dream of what was to be but they helped to build it with all of their heart and work. Let us think of these things as we gather inspiration from our first convocation. Unfortunately I have an open mind. I let down a window in my brain about six or seven inches from the top even in the bitterest weather. —Heywood Brom. Acquire New Skills The psychologist knows that determined learning can achieve miracles. He knows that when men are properly guided they move toward achievement with a speed and a completeness that are amazing. The man of great accomplishment was not great from the start. But he was able to make himself great. Great men have been great because they treated problems as challenges rather than as terrors, because they attacked and overcame their weaknesses. The fact that some people may have a bigger mental endowment than we is all the more reason for making every scrap of ability and power that we possess count to the limit. Everything, however, depends on how we set about learning. By far the most common cause of ineffective learning is an absence of an aggressive will to learn. Any job of learning is a process of experimenting and discovering. Thinking between practice is one of the most valuable means of learning. There is no need to tolerate ineffectiveness in yourself. Learning is an art—an art to be acquired by intelligent practice. It is worth acquiring. Why not make a start? July, Readers Digest. Campus Opinion Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kauan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited. Editor Daily Kansas: I was intrigued by the lead editorial in Thursday's Kansan. Our campus paper may now take its place beside the Kansas City Star as a protector of American freedom, not because God-given protection of eating donuts without drunking. However, this editorial has put me in a back of a jum- p. I pressured the editor to send me a letter. I pressure has called to the cause of the deforestation. I am very hopeful that the truth is being told. "Who" said he, "are some of these persons who have lost their liberty?" And while we're on the subject, what liberties have they lost? Somehow I gathered the impression that he was not convinced. Would the Kansan help me out of this predicament by citing a few examples of the repression of liberty to which it objects? I know they must exist, or the Kansan wouldn't have said so; but I can't put my stubborn friend in his place without a few specific cases. And now that he has brought up the subject, my own curiosity is aroused. There is no question that the Juyhawk does an excellent job of recording the year's activities. There is no question that it is desirable to own a copy of it. But the turtles employed in the sale of the magazine are questions- Editor Daily Kansan: other magazines are sold by solicitation. If the potential subscriber cannot afford them or do not want mail, he should opt for a newspaper trade magazine, haps, by another young man working his way through college ... and he may be turned away without enclause. Every school boy knows the case against the Jayhawks. But it hears repeats. Retention can bring anger. We stand in the long line leading to the business office suffering the torments of falling arches, corms and cones glibly, that we may pay all the money we've earned this year. We have no time to worry about a happy moment when our summer's work will be culminated in a receipt handed us at the window. But if we can't afford the Jayhawker we are forced to formulate our own plans for the summer. Our feet were not to beg a boon of the exemption committee. Some of us humiliate ourselves with the graphic explanations of the poverty of our parents we feel must give. Others of us manifest indifference to the pain, are stuck in our The Jayhawker magazine is a good magazine. But it's already called strike one on itself. D.A.I.R. Editor Daily Kansan: Again the question of etiquette comes up on the computer. What would poor Emily Post have done the other day? What would poor Jimmy Post have done it is a more descriptive term) at the variance Wednesday night? Probably the same thing I did—take a pair of pants off. With no disrespect to my dear friend Emily, I believe in the old saying, "Whatever you do, do well," and make 1. Stick your elbows out so that you have your share of room. If the other person is staring at you, your elbows, it is much easier to get through the window. 2. When you are cutting-in, don't say, "Pardon, please." Shap the man on the back hard enough to knock him down, don't just knock the wind out of him. Show him that you are ready for a good fight, if he objects. 3. To the stop line, don't be "wall flowers." Get right out to the middle of the floor so that no one else can walk in. 4. Go to the back wall and pull the cord. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Notice that at Charleston's Office at 1 p.m. perringal, regular publication days and 11:00 a.m. Vol. 24 FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1936 No.7 COMPUTER CONSTRUCTION. All Duality evaluations and themes of BAPTIST STUDENTS: All Baptist students and three of Baptist preference and their friends are urged to be present at the muxer-reception at the First Baptist Church, corner of English and South. Keath Court, General Chairman. CAMPUS SISTERS: There will be a picnic Saturday afternoon for all members of the Campus Sister organization, their Little Sisters, and those interested in becoming members. Meet at Heaton house at 430. Calm Heaton house, 1135, or 2574W for information. BEULAH PINNEO, Chairman PHI CHI DELTA: Phi Chi Da will meet Tuesday night for a supper meeting at 5:30 at Westminster hall, 1231 Oread. All Prebysterian women and those interested are invited. Mildred E. Mitchell, Program Chairman. PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS: A make-up-Up phological Examination will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in Fraser theater. Doors will close promptly at 2 p.m. A. H. Turrcy WESTMINSTER STUDENT FORUM. The Westminster Student Forum will meet Sunday evening, September 20, at 7:30. Chancellor Lindley will be the speaker of the evening. W. Y.C.A. ASSEMBLY. The first W.Y.C.A. assembly will be held in the Central Administration Auditorium Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. All University women are invited to attend. Martha Peterson, President W.Y.C.A. Eleanor Mann, Publicity Chairman Y.W.C.A. CABINET Y.W.C.A. Cabinet will meet at Henry Friday afternoon at 4:30. Please be prompt. Seventy years ago this month, 26 young women and 29 young men trooped into a small two-story building to attend the first classes of the University of Kansas. The faculty consisted of seven professors; Professors R. Johnson, and Snow. Not one member of the student body was prepared for college work and a two-year preparatory course had to be inaugurated. No attention was paid to the ruling that "there shall be two branches of the University, viz, a male and a female branch. The female branch may be taught exclusively by women, and buildings for that purpose are the buildings of the male branch." Instead, both sexes worked side by side in the 12 classroom. Enrollment figures increased rapidly and North College soon was too small. General John Fraser, the first active Chancellor, was responsible for the building of Friars hall, which was at the time of construction the largest school building in the country. In 1872 it was opened for students. The college had been largely discontinued and college work was be done. Charnier Fischer served two years and was succeeded by the Rev. James Marvin, during whose time the departments of law and music were established and the College of Arts had nearly doubled its enrollment. This Year Marks Seventieth Anniversary of University of Kansas Berin Law and Music Courses in pharmacy and art were The Roving Reporter Conducted by Steven David, Esq. c37 Question: What is your pet aversion? Roland Smith, c:30 "Free variables. All you do is bump into people you don't know." This can be remedied by bumping into people you do Prof. Edward Doan, journalism "The fellow who comes in at the end of the year and wants to know why he didn't get a better grade, when he knows daru well what the maurice is." We've made our own time, we also make it make comments. **Enrique Eatap, c. 138:** "The room numbers in Fraser. The numbers are on the doors and if the door is open one's got to go to the room to see what room it is. It tee here, is most embark-ion it. Ah, a chance for a Kaisan camille." Floyd Speerschneider. gr.: "Dunking—coffee should be drunk, not absorbed." Hohen Geis, c'48 "Peeing fingernail polish off the nails." This must be one of those problems of modern woman-bood we heard about... Doctor A. MiceChang Lee, sociology "Amateur apple-polishers, and professional apple-polishers." I guess that takes in everybody." In use; us? Betty Graham, c. 1983. "People who call up for dates at the last moment" (Graham we in Graham cracker?, we in Graham, No, also and so in Graham Police). Larry Wood. e'37, "I dislike big words—like 'aversion.'" (He started to tell us his pet avocation.) Chancellor Oliver—1886 added during Chancellor Lippincott's administration. About this time, in the middle '90s, the science club of the University was hunting for an original yell. Doctor Bailey, the first president of the club, suggested "Rah' Rah! Jayhawk, K.U.' to be repeated three times with a staccato accent. Soon after this, the University adopted it in the official yell and substituting Rock Chalk for that symbolizing innovation. Featured on Mr Oreed. In the '90s the words were drawn out to a slow monotone. Frances Huntington Snow became Chancellor in 1896 and served in that capacity for 18 years. During this time the schools of Liberal Arts, Engineers, Law, Medicine and Philosophy were established and the School of Medicine was organized. In 1902 Dr. Frank Strong succeeded Dr Snow. The Chemistry building and Dyche Museum were then completed and subsequently the Engineering and Geology buildings, engineering laboratory and Great Lab. The Dr. Strong's administration increased from 1200 to 4,300. Since 1920 our present Chancellor, Dr Snow. University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER JOHN R. MALONE Editorial Staff Forton-IN-Chile WILLIAM GELA AMMERTON EDITOR DALE O'BRIAN ALMA FRAZILER FEATURE EDITOR MARY RUTTER MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM R. DOWNS CAMPUS EDITOR DONALD LEEHLE COPYRIGHT MANAGER JOHN COOK TELLEGRAPH EDITOR KEN. POSTWITHERSTATE SPORT EDITOR MARGARET MUNGOT SOCIETY EDITOR JOANNE CURRIER MAKE-UP EDITOR { DWIGHT BROTHERS | PHILL SITATION } DORW KENT STEVEN DAVID BUSINESS MANAGER ___ T. QUENTIN BROWN ASSTANT ___ ELTON CARTER News Room .. Day; KU. 23; Night; 2702.K3 Business Office .. Day; KU. 66; Night; 2701.K3 Subscription price, per year, $3.00 cash in advance, $3.27 on payments. Single copies, 1c each. Entered at second class matter, September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas. 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