THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesday and Friday more
than once a week. The Journalism from the press of the De-
partment of News and Information.
Entered as second class mail matter
September 17, 1916, at the post-office
at Lawrence, Kansas, under the Act
of March 3, 1879
Subscription price, fifty cents for the six weeks' session.
Phones: K. U. 25 and K. U. 159.
Address all communications to The Summer Session Kausan, Lawrence Kansas.
Jerry Holdings      Editor
Lloyd Puppenhall   Business Manager
TIMES CHANGE, ALAS
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921
The spice of dressing is gone as far as coming on the Hill is concerned, for the Law steps are barren and not even one admiring eyes is cast at the fair damsels who brave the damp airs of 7:30 to attend classes. There is no daring at all in shortening the whole wardrobe two inches, for who is to see or care. While it is an accepted fact that young women do not dress strictly for men, they are sensible enough to conserve until a more appreciative audience is in order.
Some of the fair sex have gone so far as to doff their usually charming smiles and look quite as if misfortune were impending with the glum countenances and lengthy last summer's dresses. The most blighted ones are even forming an acquaintance with Spooner Library and are in the way of some Phi Beta Kappa grades if something does not happen to relieve conditions.
The brightly colored gowns which flowered forth at the beginning of the season have dwindled away and are now gracing the recesses of the clothes closet until the necessity for them arises. Needless to say everyone is in hopes that that need is not far off and that this "sensible" atmosphere has not come for permanency.
As it is the Summer School Girl has started on the downward road to doodiness and something vital must be done—B. C.
HUMAN CURIOSITY
Noonday in lower Manhattan thousands were emerging from the office buildings hurrying to get something to eat during the lunchon hour. New Yorkers, especially the office workers, don't pay much attention to street or sky scenery during the noon hour. They all had the same purpose—to get their lunch and get back.
But someone did stare skyward, that is, as much of it as there was showing between the buildings towering above the streets. The man was not a stranger from the agricultural districts, but a lifetime New Yorker. Others were moved to stop and ask the why of the vertically inclined chin.
He told his inquirers he had spotted Winnecke's comet, the hobo of the solar system, whose peregrinations have been well advertised in the newspapers this week.
The others turned their faces to the sky and in a moment hundreds more were gazing upward. A little longer and thousands were quitting cafeterias and desks and trooping out to watch the comet wag its tail. Many claimed they saw it and others would not give up hope.
People looked out from under car tops. Truck drivers failed to heed signals. Office workers on the upper floors craned their necks. On the street the traffic piled up. Extra traffic police had to be summoned to handle the jam. "D...n that comet," said Chief Gray
The Kansas wonders if New York will pass an ordinance to prohibit the papers from heralding the arrival of comets or to prohibit people on the streets to upset modern traffic conditions to watch the aged wonder of the sky wearing a tail—W. H.
Rhetoric Instructor, to class.—"Ninety-five per cent of poor selling is due to poor eyesight." Bright Summer School Stude.—"Gosh, I must be totally blind."
ONLY A FRIEND
When Benedict Arnold lay dying in London his attending physicians leaned over his cot and asked him what he wanted. "Only a friend" was the faint reply of the dying man. This was a very picturesque statement of the awful penalty which Arnold paid for his treachery; to be left a lonely outcast in society, literally without a friend on earth. No reward, however great, could possibly make up for such a great loss. Arnold's reply is also interesting in that it states a universal human need, the need of a friend. The things that even the most brilliant men can do, absolutely alone, are small at best, and numbered. But no limits can be set on the achievements of a man plus his friends.
The power to influence the world to any great degree, by the sheer force of their own ideas is given to very few men. You may be one of these geniuses, but if you are not, it is well to remember that your chief chance to do good, to count for something really worth while, is your chance of influencing a few friends.
Our moral, mental and social capacities enlarge and mature in contact with friends. So friendship brings a development of character that comes to us in no other way. Any success we may attain has half the pleasure taken out of it if we have no friend who may share our joy in it, and sorrow and trouble has a double edge when we must meet them in loneliness.
Have you ever spent Christmas alone and away from home? Indeed, there are many and diverse ways to entertain one's sclf, but how dull and uninteresting they seem compared with the joy and warmth of a circle of intimate friends.—C. F. D.
The University of Kansas is rapidly gaining renown in Europe on account of its possession of the only known bird possessing teeth. A letter requesting a picture of this bird and particulars has been received by the curator of the museum from several of the European newspapers.
This probably was the first time that they have ever been aware that K U. existed, but we hope it won't be the last.
Random Paragraphs on Topics of No Great Importance About Mount, Oread
The Symposium
THE TRUTH AND BEOWULF Again the students of English literature are struggling through that remarkable literary relic of early German literature, "Beowulf." Much has been said by the press and by critics regarding the imaginative and exaggerated propensities of modern fiction writers, but when it comes to a wild imagination, the ancient bards who compiled Beowulf are without peer.
THE TRUTH AND BEOWULF
Bowulf was said to have had the "strength of thirty men in his grip;" not a weaking by any means was Beowulf. When he sought the monster that he intended to kill, he was forced to descend through water, and was an hour in making the descent to the deep-sea home of the offender, so the story relates.
The singers of that day made their living by singing ballads and poems, and of course the wildest sort of an adventure would have been appreciated most by the mead-drinking audience of that period. While it is not known just what ingredients composed the mead of that day, the literature of the period plainly shows the effects of our erstwhile friend, Al K. Hall. It is a well-known fact that any story grows with the telling of it, so it is safe to infer that the "gleemen"—as the poets of that day were called—had quaffed a few schooners of mead, that they were well qualified to give Beowulf additional strength, and perhaps add a few minutes onto the time that he took for his long-distance dive.
When Beowulf and his thirty followers were ushered into the presence of Frohring, King of the Danes, their spears looked like a "gray ash forest," according to the poem. It would take considerable of mead to make thirty spears appear as a forest, so that for the sake of the readers of early literature, it would have been well if Mr. Volstead had lived in Denmark in the time of Beowulf. —C. L. S.
Down in the southwest corner of the University campus, is a small frame building. By the average visitor, it is not even noticed, and to those who do notice it, it means just another store room or tool shed. But to the real live University students, it is the office of one of the most popular workmen in the employ of the University. He is not popular because of the kind of work he does, but because he has never been known to *reet anybody on the Hill with any-*
thing but a smile and a hearty pleasant word.
Van, the Animal Man, he is called. Van has been connected with the University nearly since its inception, or since the beginning of the entomology and zoology departments. Van works with men on the Hill, and men with far more agreeable work are much more crabid and grouchy.
Van's job is to collect and buy or procure in any manner he sees fit, that is legitimate, enough small animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits and guinea pigs for the physiology, zoology and other departments in the university that require such animals dead and alive, for experimentation.
Now ordinarily a man whose job it is to get and kill or chloroform harmless pets and animals would be poorly thought of, especially by the women, but not so with Van. He can go across the campus with a sack filled with young cats or dogs, and tell all the women, and it shows that he will work in about five minutes, or that they are to be chloroformed, and the student will never change the manner of his hearty greeting.
The thought that Van is about to be cruel to a young, innocent, harmless animal never enters the heads of the students. They think only of the good, old Belgian, the kind-hearted old man who sees his pain in nature but becomes a friend of all the students. The Universky needs more mom
H. A. Russell of Topeka visited last week with his daughter, Marie Russell, l22.
Across Street From Courthouse
STUDENT
HOE
HOP
Shoe Repairs Shoe Findings
R. O. BURGERT, Prop 1113 Mass. St.
They Are Here
Note books, theme papers,
stationery, Fountain pens,
Evershap pencils.
WOLF'S BOOK STORE
Mrs. Hazel Cook Spenser, c19, of Henrietta, Okla., is visiting her mother, Mrs. F. A. Cook, 1301 1-2 Tennessee Street.
919 Mass. St.
PROFESSIONAL CARDINAL
LAWYER OPTIMIZATION MANAGEMENT
LICENSING OPTIMIZATION MANAGEMENT
CHIROPRACTORS
DRS. WELCH and WELCH—PALMER
GRADUATES. Offices 927 Mass. St.
Phones: 115. Residence 115KR.
CHIROPRACTORS
DALE PRINT SHOP, 1027 Mass. St.
Phone 228.
VANTY SHOP - Marcellino, manure-crane
son, phone 137-273 Stubbs Bldg.
son, phone 137-273 Stubbs Bldg.
DR. G, W. JONES, A, M. M, D. M.
diseases of stomach, surgery and gynecology
Suite 10 F. A. U. B. Phones
1745. Residence 3SK2. Hospital
DR. J. R. BECHTEL. Rooms 3 and 4
DR. J. R. BECHTEL. Rooms 3 and 4
Phone 342. Residence Phone 342.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS, Suite 2, Jackson Building. General practice. Special attention to nose, throat and ear. Telephone 217
DR. H. REDING-F. A. U. Building.
Ear, ear, nose and throat. Special attention to fitting glasses and tonsil
phone. Phone 513.
STADIUM BARBER SHOP
YES SIR! YOU'RE NEXT
1033 Mass. St.
"The Shop of Service"
—A good place to get into for you feel better when you get out
WHEN DOWN TOWN TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE
914 Mass. St.
Supreme Cafe 914 Mass. St.
Meal Tickets, $4.40 for $4.00
$2.20 for $2.00
STUDENTS ALWAYS
WELCOME
THOMAS'
ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
Shoes Repaired the "Right Way"
We know "OUR STUFF" on Wood Heels
1017½ Mass. St.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Alice Joyce
"THE SCARAB RING"
Burton Holmes Travels
in
BOWERSOCK
MONDAY AND TUESDAY Alice Brady in "THE LAND OF HOPE"
Mutt and Jeff Comedy
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY ONLY
THOS. MEIGHAN IN "THE CITY OF SILENT MEN"
Paramount Magazine
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Calendar of Events This Week
WEDNESDAY 2 P.M.—Room 10 Journalism-Preliminary preparations for establishing a high school publication.
THURSDAY 8 P.M.—Fraser Chapel—Lecture by Dudley Buck
FRIDAY 11:30 A.M.—Fraser Chapel—CONVOCATION