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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 1932
University Daily Kansan
OFFICIAL Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932
WE CONFESS
We are now a senior. In a few months we will be graduated from this institution of higher learning. We have spent four years of our life in preparation for our chosen occupation. We now confess that we are a failure. We find that we know exactly nothing.
In school we have accomplished nothing. We have made friends. We have taken certain prescribed courses. We also have a certain number of grade points. This is supposed to guarantee one a job and a salary large enough to furnish food and lodging. We find, however, that we have been fooled. We have drunk of the magic elixer and have found it to be nothing but water.
Our friends who finished school last year have accomplished nothing either. They are still going to school, living at home with their folks and loafing, or working at a job that pays them only enough money to keep them from starvation. We had higher hopes and kept on with our education, until slowly but surely we have become convinced that a college education is a flop.
People who merely finished high school and went to work have jobs. They are now married and started on a life of happiness. We, the seekers of the light of higher education, are looking forward to a poor job, if one at all, and a long hard grind to catch the people who started out ahead of us with only a high school education.
A college education gives one a background, the optimists say. But what good is a background going to do when we are faced with the prospects of manual labor for a life occupation?
It is understood that the Dove is going to sponsor a beauty contest to pan the Jayhawker Bernie-Winnie-cled judged affair. Probably they will have "By-Line" White and "Barney" Scofield for judges.
EXPOSED AT LAST
At last the truth is known. Spinach is not the wonder-working iron food that it has been popularly supposed to be. There is no a doubt that it contains iron, but not in the quantities which are used in cooking and according to an article in the Saturday Evening Post one could get all the iron he needs each day by merely sucking a rusty nail.
That in itself is a bit of hope. A rusty nail would not be very appetizing, but at that it would taste as good as spinach.
"Car Fails a Modern Cowboy." Headline in Kansas City Star. There you are, New York. We're keeping abreast of the times, even out here in Kansas.
THE PROHIBITION VOTE
The roll call vote Monday on the proposal for re-submission of prohibition provided congressmen with their most uncomfortable situation in years. The vote was a showdown on individual hands in the most highly disputed issue of the times.
Crowding the galleries were enthusiastic supporters of both sides. Back home, in the districts which decide fortunes in congress, were organized political groups, ready
to throw all their resources into the field if their representative's vote went the wrong way.
Prohibition is an issue which cuts squares across party lines, toppling delicately balanced sectional combinations and casting party allegiance into the background. It is a question which party managers are seeking desperately to straddle. Prohibition, as a party issue, must be avoided if the party is not to run desperate on the rocks of controversy, as the Whig party was wracked by slavery in 1854 and the Democrats by free silver in 1896.
Until recently, the problem was a mild one. Wet sentiment, while strong in many states, was indistinct and poorly organized. The drys, on the other hand, were headed by the powerful and dreaded Anti-Saloon League and other temperature and church oratory flags, which during the wet states flag was safe enough except in a few ultra-wet states, where silence on the question usually was sufficient.
Now, however, the wet forces are stealing their opponents thunder. Militant and well financed organizations have been formed and are pushing their views forward with energy and dispatch. Some states still present little cause for political worry. They are either predominately dry or predominately wet.
It is in the "doubtful" states, many of them political w-o'-the-wisps normally, that the conflict is raging. Here the congressmen must face intense pressure from those who are the frying pan or the fire. It's simply a matter of guessing which is the warmer.
The anti-vivisectionists in congress must base their arguments on the facts of evolution which show that the human and animal races are related, but they needn't worry—scientists haven't begun to use jackasses for experiments yet
During the course of a year most of the newspapers will carry duplicates of these stories:
OLD FRIENDS
The Whoooz News reports that a mad stone, found in the stomach of a deer, was a means of saving a woman of a woman bitten by a mad dog.
The newspaper reporter who borrowed a dollar from a gambler, gave it to a starving damsel and was called to the morgue at three o'clock in the morning to identify a body which he found to be that of the object of his beneficence. She had been put out of a cafe for trying to pass a counterfeit dollar and had committed suicide.
The visiting golfer who played golf at a millionaire's club for five a hole, assuming it meant five dollars, found that at the end of ten holes he had won five thousand dollars. He refused to accept the money.
The native of Europe who accumulated a fortune during ten or fifteen years in the United States, returned home unrecognized by his parents, who killed him in order to get his money.
These make smooth stories. Bu after the ninth* or tenth reading, with only date line and names injured, they grow a trifle familiar.
After months of popular use, O.K. with its variations oak, okey, and okay, is passing into the tomb marked: Slang Once Popular.
Bern Benie remarks that Walter Winchell has a fine collection of dogs: a thousand "Peeks."
The sports writer viewing a hotly contested game does not start his story. "The annual classic is always, 'Wotta game! Wotta game!'
Today "wotta," somethin' and
whatys" rule "slang."
But if you want to hear each of these terms used with reckless abandon, step into Dyche museum on Sunday afternoon when it is crowded with visitors. Everything on display which isn't familiar to you makes it the first time it is a "whatsy". Or it may be "somethun". If it's superior, its "wotta Whatsy!" or "wotta sumthin'"
"Somethan" is just as abstract as "watta." The student, asked to define rain, replies that it is bits if water or "somethun."
"WOTTA SOMETHUN WHATSY"
OUR UNIVERSITY
An enterprising reporter has gone to the trouble of digging up some "dirt" on the old University and has attempted to show that the oldest of K.U. traditions are plagiarized. He finds that our songs, our colors, and even our charter were lifted bodily from other universities that we takeen our professors and deans from the eastern schools and that our very halls have been named after them.
Perhaps he is justified in his assertions, but we'd like to refresh his memory on some of the traditions which can rightly be called our own.
Take our Rock Chalk yell, for example. It is famous throughout the country as one of the best college yells ever developed. Neither Princeton, Pennsylvania nor any of the other old, established schools of the East has anything which compares to that famous yell of the University of Kansas. Professors, faculty members and instructors on our faculty list who are graduates of our own institution.
Kansas may have taken the seed of organization from other universities, but she has cared for and cultivated that seed until it has grown and expanded into the University of Kansas as it now is, a credit to the state of Kansas and to the people of the middle west.
15 On the Hill Years Ago
March 16.1917
When a girl makes a man walk to a show, insists upon sitting in the balcony, she falls on the floor. On the way down, it's a pretty good initiation of what she thinks of him. He can either accept it as a warning and go home, or he learns a hard-hearted edge it as a signal and plunge ahead.
The salaries for university professors must go up or this institution will go down," said Dean Oln Templin this morning. "A higher scale of salaries is being paid in the universities of the United States, but it should not lag in this advance or it will be unable to meet competition of the other schools and outside industries."
The senior class play, "If I were Dean,' will be given April 23.
The Drama League will meet Thursday night at 7:45 at the Uitarian church. Mr. Gerhard Baerg will read "Johnson" and Mr. Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman."
"the bureau of appointments already has forty or fifty request for teachers from the high schools of the state," said Prof. W. H Johnson last night. "The bureau is until the beginning of the conference. You can draw your own conclusions as to why the are coming in earlier this year." There are 200 students in the bureau of appointments for positions in high schools for the coming year.
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XIXI
Wednesday, 16 March, 1962
No. 134
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days
and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues.
The A. I. E. E. will hold a meeting Thursday evening, March 17, at 7:30, in the auditorium of Davall hall. A faculty member and a student will speak. All are welcome.
There will be a meeting of the A. S. M. E. Thursday evening at 7:30 in the Union building, Mr. Mallahid, of Kansas City, will speak on "South America."
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There will be a Delta Phi Dell meet discussion Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in room 310 west Administration. Attendance of all members is required.
All persons interested in the publication of a Dove are requested to meet in the north tower of Fraser hall Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. Writers who have promised articles, please bring the copy that you have completed. LAURENCE WHITE
A. S. M. E.
Habra una session de El Atenco el jueves, el 17 de marzo, a las cuatro y media. Que asistan todos. WILLELLA CURRITT, PRENDITE
DOVE MEETING:
DELTA PHI DELTA:
EL ATENEO:
FRESHMAN COMMISSION:
The freshman commission will meet at 4:30 Thursday, March 17, at Henley house. Alfredo Hamante will speak on "Life and Custom of Young People in Latin America."
There will be a meeting of Sigma Tau on Wednesday, March 13, in room
115 Marvin hall, at 7:30 p.m. This meeting is very important; please be present.
Please check the agenda for details.
Professor Seba Eidridge will address the Club for Socialist Study Monday March 21 in the Journalism building. The article of discussion is "How Socialism Comes to Pass." The meeting is open to everyone. CARL PETERS.
SOCIALIST STUDY CLUB:
SIGMA TAU:
All members not reporting to a class, the musical entertainment, or water carnival practices, must report Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 at the gymnasium.
TAU SIGMA:
WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY:
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF Y. W. C. A.
WITH WILLIAM VARSITY
There will be a Scotch variety tonight at the Union. Stugs will be filled
dime.
NEWMAN JEFFREY.
The international group of the Y. W. C. A. will meet at Henley house at 7:30 Thursday evening, March 17. Miss Carolyn Converse will speak on "The Chinese Students' Share in the Bovett."
MARIAN NELSON. ANNIE MAE HAMLETT. co-Chairmen.
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