THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Profanity Means Fighting Instinct Clings To Humans
H. C. Lehman Explains Why Men Swear, Over WDAF Reviews Sensation of Agency
of Anger
"The situations which provoke men to profanity are not merely a feeling of helpless distress, but a feeling of angry helpless distress," said Prof. H. C. Lehman, of the School of Education at the University of Kansas, in his talk over WDAF, Kansas City Star station Monday.
The occasions most likely to provoke profanity are, according to Professor Lehmman first, a sudden or unpleasant word; and second, unexpected irritation; third, men swear in personel encounters, or in altercations, when actual bodily injury is not being attempted. In fact, men who are manly is usually not a swapling man.
"The origin and function of either profanity or anger cannot be satisfactorily explained except from the standpoint of phylogeny or race. For instance, the hair of an angry dog rises in the vicinity of its neck and shoulders, causing the dog to appear larger, the angry hen raises and spreads her feathers, and all the dogs simply to scare away the opponent.
Ordinary Words Are Inadequate Fourth, men swear at horses as a incentive to greater effort, and at all domestic animals when irritated by them; and fifth, men swear in superiors where superiors are demanded and where the ordinary language is not adequate to their feeling.
Creatures Make Noise in Anger
Professor Lehman stated that it is impossible for all fighting creatures make terrifying noises, and that in civilized man the exclamation of anger frequently takes the form of profanity, although not often.
The point was also brought out by Professor Lehman that the growl, hiss, snarl, and bellow of animals is nothing more nor less than the excisions of anger, and correspond to this extent to the swear words of the humiliated dog snarls at you, he is simply wearing in you at dog fashion.
Swearing Is Purposeless
**Swinging is Purposes**:
"The fact that profanity is one of our most primitive forms of vocalization is confirmed both by philology and empirical pathology." Professor Lehm. He continued: "If profanity is an instinctive form of reaction, how can it be at the same time so useless, so purposeless, and so generally foolish as it seems to be today?"
The same is true of man, there are many occasions in a person's life if he is so angry that in anger than where it is useless to do so. Therefore ejaculate in anger whenever you find yo'self irritated or in an irritation, and take your chances.
In explaining this Professor Lehman compared it to the fish which bites fissibly at a worm on a hook, but since there are a great many more worms unattached to fishhooks than to them, so Nature has taught them to bite at every worm and take their chances.
"By far the most important function of profanity is its subjective rather than its external function," concluded Professor Lehmman.
Landscaping Near Finish
Twenty-five Shrub Varieties to Be Used in Work
"Probably most of the work in *landscape gardening* on the campus will be finished in two weeks if the garden is not completed. John Shea, superintendent of o'fillings and grounds. Some of the gardening north of the Administration building cannot be completed until that grade is reached grading that will be done this fall.
Twenty-five varieties of shrubs are being used for the landscape gardening. The illusion is that these shrubs are held up of Fraser hall. Plants from old beds which are poorly arranged are being transplanted; shrubs from east of the Museum have been moved to new front of the Administration building.
Work was begun on the flower beds about the chemistry building Monday morning. As soon as these are completed, the shrubbery will be made hard for the campus, and new beds will be made at Green hall and the Museum.
Moyne Rice, c'27, spent the vacation in Falls City, Neb.
President Carl R. Gray, of the Union Pacific railway showed his interest in the University of Kansas by leaving his executive duties at the Missouri-Kansas game. Mr. Gray's railroad is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its completion, marked by his death on April 29, when he spoke on the Utah desert in 1863.
Congested Slippery Roads Cause Motorists Trouble
Many of the football followers from Kansas City did not reach their homes until 3 o'clock Friday, when a plane carrying automobiles to leave Lawrence arrived in the city before 10 o'clock Thursday night. The roads were good as far as White Church, but drivers into Kansas City they were muddy.
Most of the trouble occurred on
the Victory Highway at New May-
wood station, just three miles from
Kansas City. Many cars skidded off
of the road and some turned over,
so they were so severely in any of the accidents.
Daniel Maber, sheriff of Wyndamette county, stationed two, motorcycle policemen at New Maywood station early Friday morning to st- thieve from stripping the cars of vehicles. A garage in Kansas City, Ks., managed they had towed in fifty cars by noon Friday.
Record Attendance Marks Homecoming of Faithful Alumni
"Hobo" Students Greet Five Thousand Old Grads Returning
Homecomers who arrived in Lawrence last Wednesday morning were greeted by sights of tackily clad students hurrying to the campus to classes or to engage in the first event of the Homecoming program, "Hobo" day. From that time the old times, about 5,400 strong, have remained the greatest number of former students came that has ever returned to a University homecoming or Thanksgiving football game.
Tiger hunting and riotous parading were the chief amusements on the campus before the big "pep" convocation Wednesday morning. Dr. John Outland. former Kansas athlete. George Worton. Pennsylvania athlete and manager of the Pennsylvania relay, gave short speeches. cheerleader, fine bowler and bursting' cheerleader, talked and led some yells.
Old Timmers' night was celebrated in Robinson gymnastium Wednesday night. Everything was turned over to the older men that night and they did their best to get the most out of it by visiting old chasms and by buying machines made by numbers of K. U. football teams of former years.
Every wearer of the "K" was introduced by Irving G. Hill. Speeches were made by Gov. Jonathan Johnson and several other members, Sandy" Winsor. Dr. John Outland,
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SAMPLE RABBER SHOP at 14th and Mass. "Just a step from the student district." Hair cutting and bobbing our curly hair.
DR. A. P. HULTZ. Perkins Building. Telephone 532.
Tommy Dixon
Boxing Instruction
Given Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons
at 4:30 in Gym.
"Potash and Perlmutter"
BARNEY
BERNARD
ALEX CARR
VERA
GORDON
"Mawruss, you neglect the customers."
"How can I look after customers when I'm manager of the models?"
The Scream of the Screen
Varsity Theatre
TONIGHT — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY
Prices: 10c and 33c
E. C. Quigley and others. After the program in the gymnasium a large bonfire was blink on the campus north Missouri. Missouri winer was burned in effugy.
Mrs. L. Lefschetz.
Thursday morning was started off with the Freshman-Sophomore Olympics in a blinding snowstorm. The game was played in a blizzard and Homecomers were delayed longer than usual after the game by the fact that traveling was hazardous on account of the storm.
gaged in the Students' Training Course of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y.
The University Women's Club will not hold its usual meeting next Thursday evening, but will entertain the men of the faculty with a Christmas party on Thursday evening, December 13.
D. B. Eyer and C. H. Sparklin, graduates of the class of 1923, are en-
LOST—In Robinson Gym. a black pocketbook containing keys. Return to K. U. Commons.
WANT ADS
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D-5
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ROBINSON GYM
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Prices: $1.50 - $1.00 - 75c - 50c
Special Student Tickets at
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