THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Assoc Editor-in-Chief Charles Sayer
Associate Editor Donald Higgins
News Editor Shannon Chester Shower
Campus Editor Rose Downing
Campus Editor Rose Downing
Telephonist Editor Paul Harrison
Alumni Editor Ward Kelby
Rollin Editor Rollin
Walter Smith Heilson Scott
Gilbert Smith Mary Wright Aber
Virginia Dunn Lily Brown
Lloyd Hammond Hill Linda Brown
Katherine Stull
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANASAS
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The Daily Kavanah aims to picture the undergraduate students to be further than merely preparing the news by standing for their favorite jobs; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be more serviceable; to be more serious problems to water hands; to be more intelligent; to ability the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1923
We have yet to see that hysterica R. O. T. C. freshman, whom the night watchman found on Fowler Shops green trying to "pick up the cadence" he lost during the last drill period.
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
The old wrangle of the roomer versus the landlady is prevalent again. In Monday's Student Opinion appeared comment in criticism of the recent tentative plans of the rooming house matrons covering yearly contracts, and requiring students to sign them. A storm of protest arose from sympathizers of the students who rent rooms.
A minor's contract for occupancy of rooms cannot be enforced legally. He is held only for past rent, for the reason that he may be unduly influenced to enter agreements to his deterriment. One case that might be cited is of a student who agreed to pay $15 a month for a room 6 feet by 9 feet, which had inadequate furnishings. Later he saw his error and had the contract abrogated. Contracts for less than a year are binding month by month only and may be abrogated on thirty-six notice.
An argument advanced for contracts is that University projects, such as Corbin hall, the CoMopolitan institute and co-operative houses require yearly contracts enforced by University law for roomers at these houses. But these houses are far different from ordinary rooming houses, in that they are managed for student interest and not for profit. The rent is relatively lower and accommodations are better.
Conducting a rooming house is a competent undertaking governed by economic law. As there is no hesitancy in boosting rents when rooms are scare and students plentiful, why should not a disaffected student be allowed to move?
On the other side of the question the rooming house mother sometimes has a grievance. It seems unair if her house is filled at the beginning of the year and within a month after most of the students are located all move to fraternity houses.
It is common practice among sororities either to provide another occupant for the vacated room or to pay the rent, when they take a woman who has made a contract. The same practice is becoming more common among the fraternities.
Yearly contracts for rooms are out of reason. A gentleman's agreement for a semester is suitable. A man is under a moral agreement when he takes a room, and the matron is under an implied agreement that he will be treated fairly. A document in black and white will aid in settling disputes and impress upon the maker that he means business.
A student's word should be as good as any written compact. If he is his own judge, his own jury, if he weigh the evidence on both sides of the question fairly, and does not enter contracts he does not expect to keep, there will be fewer hard feelings and disputes for the Housing Committee to settle.
One professor advances the theory that the Oklahoma Cross country team ran faster than the Kansas because they received such good practice feeling from the Ku Kluxans on one hand and Governor Walton's army on the other.
IT'S COMING
ITS COMING
Gypsy cars slowly moving southward, smoke rising up from hundreds of chimneys, north wind sweeping across Mt. Oread, the breath staining and condensing in the morning, weatherman forecasting sporadic snow flurries—winter is on the way.
All kinds of animals putting on winter coats: horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, squirrels, chickens, turkeys, ducks, quails, and the rest.
Better write home for that sheepled, storm proof overcat. Tell folks to send also heavy wool soils and old arctic rubbings. Might include the old pair of skates, rusted but serviceable.
Coal up in price, expected to go higher, miners threat strike if they do not get an increase. No more trans-continental airship flights until warmer weather. Wars over in Europe, seem to quiet down, start again next spring, Icebergs in the ocean, ships better look out. Floods in Amazon island, avalanches in Switzerland-all sure signs of the approaching season. Christmas is coming!
About the only thing you and your girl spend together is the evening.
THE SOPH HOP
Friday of this week is the data set for the annual Sophomore Hop one of the major parties on the Hill. These are affairs to be remembered and looked back upon with delight—the Freshman Prairie, Junior Prom, Senior Calk Walk, and the Soph Hop. Even though they may be thrown open to the whole University, those for whom the parties are meant primarily should have a majority in attendance at the functions. It's your party next Friday, sophomores. Its success will depend on you and the University will judge you accordingly.
“X” is a mystic symbol. In algebra, it represents the unknown; and in love letters, it marks the spo’ where the man falls.
CLINGERS
Call a man a quitter and you needn't expect to keep his friendship. He knows that a quitter, in the usual sense of the word, is one of the most disgraceful specimens in the huge human menace of this universe.
But he is only one of the most disagreeable, and he is rivalled closely by his anti-type, the clinger. A man who quits on every undertaking before he has fairly begun it, warrants all the blame he receives, but he warrants it not a whit more than the man who clings tenaciously to a doctrine or a custom long after its efficacy has been disproved.
The clinger bundles his family into the old surrey and drives them the six miles to church at a jog-trot, not because he can't afford an automobile, but because he never has had one and doesn't see why he should now, no matter how much time or discomfort he would save.
All the youthful feminine world may hike comfortably along in knckers, but the clinger remarks disapprovingly that grandma didn't do it and she doesn't think it's nice.
Scientists may authoritatively show that the doctrine of evolution is sound, but the clinger never has believed that and he'd like to see anybody make him.
There is a difference, of course, between sound conservation and clinging. Keeping an opinion because it still seems sound in the light of modern developments cannot be compared to retaining an idea simply because one has always had it.
The ability to quit gracefully—too bad it's not taught in college!
PETTY THIEVERY
The most hackneyed expression is the most hackneyed expression.
Stealing in the women's gymnasium lockers seems to break forth annually, like the mumps and measles. This fall, thefts have been reported again. It is almost certain that these robberies have been committed by students. Strange that college students, who are supposed to represent the best class of citizenship are unable to respect the simple property rights of others.
Official Daily University Bulletin
Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 11:00 a.m.
Vol. III. Wednesday, November 7, 1923 No. 45
El Altereo se remita el jueves, el ocho de noviembre, en la sala 101 del East Administration building, a las 4:30 en punto de la tarde. Se ha preparado un interesting programa de canciones españolas, acompañadas por el nuevo piano.
ROBERT WAYNE SMITH, Presidente.
AGNES, BRADY, Concejura.
They say that Professor Wilcox's statues on the statues in the classical museum were in good form in the early 19th century that he had some subject.
"University Buildings Practically All Completed" says a headline, Northwestern, with an eye for business, then steps in and asks Kansas for $83,800 for her building camper of course there no harm in asking.
The senior-journalist swagger-stick is getting to be quite prevalent around the department. The new model is too long for a swagger-stick, nor may it be called in a Kornstaff mode to be spoken of as a "Kornstaff"
A special meeting of Rhadamanthi will be held Wednesday, November 7th, at 8 o'clock in Fraser rest room, to elect new members.
There will be a meeting of the Filipino Students' Association next Sunday, November 11th, 1923, at the Cospolitan Club, at 3 p. m. All Filipinos are requested to be there.
ISAAC CALUPIG, Secretary.
MATTIE CRUMRINE, President.
Professor Wileox will be in the Classical Museum, 208 Fraser Hall,
Thursday, November 8th, from 3:30 to 4:20, and lecture on the objects on
exhibition there. All are invited who are not occupied at that hour.
C. T. FLUVEY, President.
Plain Tales From The Hill
The Graduate Club will meet Thursday, November 8th, at 8 p. m., in Henley Hall. C. T. ELVTY, President.
C. T. ELVEY, President.
The marathon dancing couple on the Soph Hign sign has been going for about 170 hours now. No wore they've turned rather red.
Sophomore: If you want to know why don't you hide in the pythrones bushes some night and find out?
Freshman: Why does it take the dates so long to say good night on Sunday evening?
It is rumored that engine school efficiency experts are working on a plan to utilize the enormous amount of power that was wasted at Varsity dances. If this energy can be baked off, admission will be free.
New student to another once: Say, did you see that Beau Brummel who just messed us?
"Learn to dance," says ad, "in he latest and most approved manner." But it's been our experience that the best is usually the most approuved.
Can it be by coincidence that the Annual Prayer Week comes at the same time as the mid-semester quizzes?
Other One: Really, I don't know him. I'm new on the hill.
We're for the suppression of women's rifle teams; they can shoot quite well enough now.
Some new organizations are being suggested for students to take part in. Why not do something useful in this kind of work and organise a society for the abolishment of superfluous organizations?
European students are rapidly losing their attitude of contempt for those who work their way through college. It is reported that in Germany alone, 60,000 students are working on farms and in factories.
On Other Hills
A monthly magazine called "Oregon Exchange," is now being published by the department of journalism of the University of Oregon The magazine publishes interviews and contributions from various news organizations. Each run devoted to interesting items of Oregon newspaper history.
A student who is now studying at Cornell University, has received a Palmolive fellowship. This fellowship was established in 1936. Of Milwaukee,
"Freshman Week" is the plan being used at the University of Nebraska as a means of enabling the freshmen to show their loyalty to the Scarlet and Cream by submitting an email, or being sent out telling each freshman why he should have a part in the building of Nebraska's memorial stadium.
The University of Nebraska received a check from the State Reformatory's dramatic club for $321.16. The check came as a donation to the new Yankee stadium, and was an expression of appreciation by the university for having coached the Reformatory's dramatic club.
ship was established by the olive Soap Company, of Milwaukee.
A new college has been organized under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan fifteen miles from Princeton University. This new school at Zerghat, New Jersey, is to be called Alma College.
to enable any well qualified student to study the fundamental principles or chemistry, physics, and colloids, with the cleaning action f soap.
A women's pep organization at the Kansas State Teachers' College, Pittsburgh, is known by the name "Kampus Kats." The "Kampus Kats" have adopted a distinctive cup and are warmed for all the school's athletic events.
Seniors in the Yale School of Fine Arts won all of the six medals and seven of the honorable mentions awarded in the first monthly contest of the Beaux Arts Institute of New York. The subject of the contest was a stained glass window for the chapel of a Gothic Renaissance church depicting the "Ascension of Christ."
According to the Syracuse Daily Orange, chicken and ice cream are to be barred from the menu of sorghum and fraternity houses the first Sunday in December. This plan is to be adopted in order that the students may donate the money save to their foreign brothers "who live on crusts of bread while endeavoring to secure an education."
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