THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1930, at the office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the name of A. F. Patterson.
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The Daily Kaanan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kanaan; to go further than merely printing the news by standing for it; to be a positive role model for others; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to another generation; to best of its ability the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,1921
K. U.S GORDIAN HISTORY KNOT
There they are—tied all together—economics, political science, sociology and history. Its clumsiest knot in the University curriculum. Four popular departments are crowded into one all-inclusive group. For years, students have asked in vain that some cut this Gordian tangle, and if it is not done presently many students will lose hope waiting for an Alexander.
There is a ruler in that no student carry more than twelve hours in any one group during a semester, and many students, the sociology and economics majors especially, often are hampered in the selection of their courses. They usually carry about nine hours in their major, so that any additional hours in any of the three other departments would likely be jerked short by the 12-hour ruling.
However, the criticism is not directed against the 12-hour ruling, for this is desirable in that it aims to keep the student's course well-balanced. The complaint is directed against the inclusion of these more or less distinct departments into one group. If, for example, a student could take nine hours of economics, he would not be violating the spirit of the restriction he enrolled also in three hours of sociology and three in political science. But this is impossible so long as these departments are tangled together.
The history group contains enough material for two well-defined groups—political science, sociology, and history in one, and economics in the other. Many students and faculty members are vitally interested in this division. Surely the facts and merits of the case deserve the serious and respectful attention of the University officials.
Judging from newspaper versions of the diplomatic situation in France, the name of Premier Briand might well be changed to Brigand.
AGGIES GO A-MOBBING
Victory rests heavily on the brow of our respected co-Kansan up the river, the Aggie. After breaking all preceded by winning two Valley games in succession, one thousand students at the agrajiqian institution displayed their enthusiasm in such boisterous fashion as to necessitate calling out both the police and fire department of Manhattan.
Following their win over Missouri Saturday, the Wildcat supporters formed "en masse," and during the course of the evening rushed a movie show, raided grocery and dry-goods stores for bonfire material, buffeted a policeman, charged the jail, and cut the hole of the fire department when it was called to the rescue.
Truly, the Agric Cow was on a real rampage, going far beyond his usual limit of doole discretion.
The occurrence on the whole was genuinely regrettable. President Jardine of the College, roused from his sleep to quell the angry mob, later expressed deep regret at the entire affair, and requested that it be given as little publicity as possible. The other extreme was what actually occurred. The incident was blown across by correspondents to all parts of the state.
Violent publicity on such matters is hard to suppress, for college correspondents are aching for the opportunity to "eat up" any unusual news that takes place on their beats. Yet the emphatic request of President Jardine should have been more implicit observed.
Certainly the Aggie students had just cause to celebrate; just as certainly they went too far in their methods of celebration. But the extreme publicity given the affair was the most regretable item of the whole proceedings.
THE BOOMERANG.
"Work is the gift of God," once said a famous philosopher. "But there is no work," says the manufacturers, the mine workers and employees in general. There seems to be no assured existence for those unfortunate who have to live from hand to mouth, even when they have regular jobs.
Winter is coming on. Still there are multitudes of men who have dependent families who don't know where the next meal is coming from. They clamour for work, work of any description.
We, who are here in the University, should take a lesson from these facts. We, who are living here in the warmth, in contentment, in ease. We, whose greatest trouble is that of preparing tomorrow's lessons or spending an equal amount of time and energy in figuring out a scheme to get by. Some day, when the newspapers are full of labor problems and the employment situation, we may be the ones to whom the articles refer. Then, perhaps, we can look back on those hilarious college days and remember the sport we had beating and bumfooling the professors when, in fact, we were only bumfooling ourselves.
JAYHAWKS FLOWN
Paul Flagg, A. B. 21, was a Lawrence visitor Saturday. Mr. Flagg is a reporter on the Kansas City
Mrs. Paul Airgood, formerly Miss Helen Jones, c14, who was an assistant in the department of German in 1917, has returned from Turkey and Armenia and is making her home, for the present, in Beachville, Penn. Mrs. Airgood went over with the W. Y. C. A. to Constantinople, in the spring of 1919, to take up work with the Commission for Relief in the Near East. From Turkey she went into Harpoot, Armenia, which is many miles inward; and while there she was engaged in relief work among the Armenian orphans.
Oswald has literary ambitions. He read "On a Slow Train Through Arkansas," the other night for the first time, and was disgusted, "Why," said Oswald, "I can understand what that about the Lawrence Street Railway system."
Caleb F. B, Brown, LLB, '15, is city attorney of Hiawatha, Kans.
Grin and Bury It
(Old Man Grounch)
By Hee-Haw
"How long have you been indisposed, my poor fellow?" asked a hair visitor at a hospital of a big negro town.
"Dis ain't no pose 'tall, mall," answered the patient in tones of disgust. "Dis am merely de carless manner in which dem doctors went away an let' me yesiddy." -American Legion Weekly.
The mock may inherit the earth, but that's the only way they will ever get it—Western Kansas News.
She: "What do follow talk about after a dance?"
He: "The same things you girls talk about."
She: "And I don't."
Prof—"Hey, what's that noise out there?"
Stuck—"Why I just dropped a perpendicular, sir."
Switched—"Okay."
He—"Both my father and grandfather married the girl they took to the Prom."
She—"Oh, Bill! This is so sudden."—Record.
Today's Peep in the Mirror
The hour is 10:30 in the morning. Picture yourself as an unjudged and impartial observer. Notice those people wagging about with caps on. They are editors and members of the staff. Their work is chiefly directing others. The headwear is worn to inform all others in the office that these people are the "big guns."
Next in line of importance you see the old reporters who have outgrown the cub stage, and who now cover only the big stories, such as interviewing the Chancellor, or occasionally reporting a convocation. The attitude of this class is that of boredom. They saunter about the studio, lamenting the fact that the good old days are gone.
The home of manners in the Kansan news room.
Here is found the heat expression of style, because it is
traditional.
But the most interesting class are those that you sometimes see visiting the business office, or perhaps out in the news room occupying the easiest chair available. This group fit in between the editors and the old reporters, but they are unique in that they do not work at all. They are the mascots of the Kansan. They are supposed to bring good luck to the paper by playing around and serving as ornaments. They make them and agreeable to the "big guns," disdain to associate with the old reporters, and absolutely imure the cuba.
The little fellow just entering with his hat in his hand is the proverbial cub. He walks lightly and unobtrusively to the desk and in a timid voice asks, "Is there anything I can do?" There usually is not, unless he rewrites the story that he handed in the previous week as soon as he learns Kansas style will cease to be a cub.
So Kansaan style has created a code of its own. Mistakes appear in the style of the Kansaan, but not in the style of the Kanran.
The student council of the University of the City of Toledo has passed a resolution that the first week of November be set aside as "Ivy Week." During this period the organizations connected with the university will plant vines around the administration and science buildings.
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