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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 23, 1935
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ... WESLEY McCALLA
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935
DANNY DEEVER
At a certain university in this broad country there is a tall tower, which serves not only to hold a large clock, but houses in its lofty pinnacles a set of climes. Exactly at eight o'clock in the morning, at noon, and at six in the evening, a dignified old man sits down at an electric keyboard and plays sundry tunes on the chimes.
All the notes are not there, however. Some sharps and flats are omitted, and you have to be an old student at the university before you can recognize all the tunes that he plays. The effect of it is, though, quite majestic. The yellow notes float out over the campus and bring a choked feeling of emotion into the throats of all loyal sons and daughters of the school.
But he is not without a sense of humor. He has one number in his repertoire that is somehow expressive of his ability to sense the musical needs on the campus and interpret student feeling through his tower. It is played at the starting hour of the first final every semester. When students take out quiz books and apply pens thereto in that first examination, it is to the pathetic strains of "They're Hanging Danny Deever in the Morning."
The chimes master is dignified and thoroughly artistic. His tunes are simple classics and semi-classics. He plays, you can tell by the sound, with a good deal of feeling.
And now we're wondering if the quoted opinions of the co-eds on the combine question are really their own ideas or merely that which they wished printed.
"DEFEATED"
Are the American people growing old? Are we as a nation forfeiting all the enthusiasm and optimism of youth? We have built up a reputation for going after the things we find desirable with the high courage that refuses to recognize obstacles. And time and again we have accomplished the seemingly impossible. Are we going to lie down, now, and give up? It begins to look that way.
The current Saturday Evening Post, gospel of our great middle class, features an article which is far more alien to the real spirit of America than any of the "Commist propaganda" it takes such delight in hounding. The whole tone of the article is revealed in a cartoon which represents the average citizen, on a very short ladder of "desirability," reaching for a moon labelled "security." The whole movement for security—a vital and growing thing—is thus termed futile and dismissed.
The realization that has spread among us recently of the importance of security is a promising thing. People have begun to see how immense are the social evils growing out of the fear and worry and virtual slavery imposed on great numbers of our citizens by the present economic set-up. They are coming to see the importance of security as a preventive measure—one which will eliminate many of the problems of crime
and vice and insanity and poverty that confront us, unsolved and at present unsolvable.
Will the people of this country allow themselves to be persuaded that the fight for security is hopeless? Such widely circulated magazines as the Saturday Evening Post are powerful; such articles are as menacing as any propaganda. One can only hope that this will be one of the times when all of the people can't be fooled.
BIRDS IN THE BELFRY
If the contractor who built the stadium ever wanders through Lawrence, and one suspects that he does, he probably looks resentfully at the mass of ivy that will one day totally conceal the drab plaster of the outside walls. He probably thinks to himself that it is no less than criminal to shield such a beautiful piece of work from the public with a mat of silly old vines.
He is right in his way. He knows that those vines will hasten decomposition, and maybe the stadium will last only five hundred years instead of a thousand. Tendrils will pry into crevices and sparrows will build fetid nests in the vines, and relatively soon, in four hundred years, may be, chunks of concrete will fall out of the walls.
That is the reason for all this talk about the pigeons in Fraser hall's ancient eaves. Buildings and grounds officials say the meek birds are a nuisance to the caretakers, hastening the already old process of nature's destruction of the grand old building.
But somehow the warefare being conducted against the deziens of the roofs seems a little repugnant. A great many people get a great deal of pleasure watching the graceful birds spring into flight from Fraser's pedantic ramparts and go soaring in the clear Kansas sunlight over the campus. Watchers are distinctly unaware of the condition of skyward surfaces of the older building while they view mauve, white, and shate-colored bodies of birds against the blue. And even if they knew, they could not be expected, unpractical aesthetes that they are, to get militant against such a modest, unassuming creature as a pigeon. The fact that there may be Tarzans in the towers stamping out the lives of the peaceful birds seems abhorrent to many of them.
Those of us who dream of traveling someday, and spend much time looking at the pictures in travel books, know that many cities in the world vie for the greatest number of pigeons in their streets. We suspect that anyone in Paris who waged mortal combat against the doves of peace would be eyed severely by passers-by, and moreover, we are given to understand that anyone doing harm to the birds subjects himself to the wrath of the law.
There are more paintings of doves in art galleries than there are of crusading caretakers bent on saving a doge's palace from pigeon's terrific depredations. The pigeon is noted for his beauty everywhere. If we are going to condemn him for building his nests in our sturdy towers, just what does an unhuman creature have to be besides being edible to justify living on the same planet with us?
The idea of a student grievances board, or whatever you call it, is not new at the University, but has never worked properly here because its functions and purposes have not been set forth clearly to the students.
AN AID FOR IMPROVEMENT
The central purpose of such a body would be to afford some asylium for the individuals who definitely have good ideas to advance for the welfare of the school community but who do not air them because they fear action from the Administration, or through timidity will not push their ideas to a hearing. The student board would protect their identity and give them a
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Report at 6:20 and 6:40 respectively in the Auditorium Saturday night
(an. 26.
HERBERT G. ALLPHIN.
No.81
BASKETBALL STILEMEN AND USHERS:
VOL. 3284 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM COLUMBIA TO NEW YORK
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Wednesday. Jan. 23, 1935
**DANCE:**
There will be no mid-wet season tonight because of final examinations.
**BILL COCHRANE, Manager.**
TRANSPORTATION OSCAR AMERINGER LECTURE
The "Big Four" took a nice sleigh ride Wednesday eve.
MID-WEEK DANCE:
Persons wishing transportation to the lecture by Oscar Ameringer this evening at 8:15 in the Auditorium of the New York School building, please meet at the following places not later than 8 o'clock. Followable places not later than 8 o'clock:
The Orophilians will have a "parliamentary drill" next Friday.
meet at the following places not interm 8 o clock.
Dist. No. 1 Uni.领导 jobbw. Henry brow, chairman
Dist. No. 1 Union宿舍, Henry Hill, Johnson
Dist. No. 2 Henley house, Mrs.Charlotte Walker, chairman
Dist. No. 2 Henley house, Mrs.Charlotte Walker, chairman
Dist. No. 1 1325 Miss St. Angela McCraney, chairman.
Dist. No. 3 1125 Miss. St. Ann Ackerman, Chairman
Dist. No. 4 Our Drug store No. 2, Curtis Packard, Chairman
Dist. No. 5 1555 Miss St. Jane Plummer, Chairman.
BRIGHTON MILLEE, General Chairman of Transportation.
Dist. No. 4 Coe's drug store No. 2, Curtis Packard,
Dist. No. 4 1955 Misc St. John Plummer Chairman
WORKING STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE:
All Freshmen and Sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who work in the afternoons and therefore wish to be excused from taking afternoon classes should come to the College Office for work cards. These cards should be signed by employers and presented either at the College Office before the time of enrollment or at Robinson gymnasium on enrollment day.
J. H. NELSON, Associate Dean.
W. S. G. A. BOOK EXCHANGE:
The W.S.G.A. book exchange will open for buying books Thursday morning, dat at 8 o'clock. It will be open from 10 a.m. until the day of the next ETHIH BORDET.
Prof. Dyche has finally decided that the bears in the museum are grizzlies.
legalized avenue to make themselves heard when injustice strikes them, or when some possible improvement is seen in the way things might be done.
On the other hand, the Administration would undoubtedly benefit from the student board in that it would be a buffer to ward off the continually howling individual of the pushing sort who takes up ten students' time with the authorities. He could be talked down, perhaps, or shown the silliness of his suggestions.
A dancing teacher in town is instructing those so inclined in the maze art.
We are sure that if the board functioned intelligently it would soon come to be a major factor in forming a needed link between the well-wishing of the Administration and the vocal, interested suggestions of every student who thinks of the University as it will be.
Boys and Young Ladies of 50 Years Ago From The University Courier of Jan. 23, 1885
Ottawa University will be represented in the state oratorial contest by a lady.
Tuesday evening 56 young men gathered in the Y.M.C.A. lecture room to hear Prof. Canfield's "talk" upon Labor. The professor treated of the subject in his usual entertaining, instructive way. The bright and dark sides of our system of labor were shown; how the progress of culture and civilization has been parallel with division of labor, and how that division has a beneficial effect on children. But still the good qualities outweigh the bad. The professor's last "talk" will be next Tuesday evening on the subject of "Waces."
The Juniors are laying schemes for vengeance on '88 when it has its class party.
So the little ponies
Glanced at on the sly
Make the naughty Freshmen
Sophomores by-and-by.
Tiny little letter
On a little card
Helps the jolly student
Answer question hard.
Guilty or Not Guilty
bott, aided by the Hon. W. L. Little, we rest assured that justice will be met out. Judge Linkley will convene court promptly at 3 o'clock. We hesitate to pronounce our opinion as to the result of the trial, but will sternly insist, as custodian of the public welfare, "Let no guilty man escape."
The Oreands are getting wrought up over their moot court. This afternoon the trial of Cyrus Crane takes place in Oredhall, on the charge of stealing some dishes from Mr. A. L. Adams, on the night of the alleged Junior party. The previous high standing of the accused brings great interest to the decision. For some time the efficient sheriff, Mr. Bowersock, has been on the track of the criminal, and at last beaten by his defense team, stoutly asserts his innocence, and his many friends refuse to believe him guilty. He has secured the services of the eminent law firm of Gilmore and Morgan, and his defense will be a strong one. But with the ability and energy of Prosecuting Attorney Tal-
A few "cranks" in the country press of the state still insist in denominating the Courier "an efficient organ of the faculty of the State University, by which they reach the Legislature." Once again we cry out in our just indignation that the Courier is ours—The Students' Paper. A member of the faculty who has served his own signature. Through the loyalty and love of the students for their school only, is the Legislature now reached as it is. Of the enterprise of the Courier we are proud and do not want to be so robbed of the glory thereof.
Editor:-Some time ago there was a communication in your department about a covered walk from the main building to the chemistry building. The wisdom of the writer is now apparent, for I myself know of several colds and consequent ill health in the past cold weather, resulting from exposure in
passing from the main building to the lab. It seems to me, and I have heard many others speak in the same way, that a covered walk could be built to connect the two buildings at a comparatively slight expense, and the benefit and need of such is apparent.
A piece of sponge cake made by a Vassar girl has been presented to President-elect Cleveland. It is said that Mr. Cleveland prizes it highly and will use it as a paper weight when he goes to the White House.
It is said that out of 586 Vassar graduates only 188 are married.
More than a fourth of the students in German universities are Americans.
The Campus Muse
Woe is me!
Woe is me!
Woe is me!
Woe is me!
Woe is me!
Gee, I feel awful!
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