THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Editor-in-Chief  Louisie Cleveland
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Exchange Editor  Josephine Nelson
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Entered as second-class mail matnite September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 2, 1879.
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The Daily Kaisaan aims to pique the interest of students in the University of Karandi, to go for further study by standing for the ideas she has written, to be clean, to be cheerful, to have more serious problems, to have more courage to serve to the host of the faculty and to contribute.
TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921
ONE-EIGHTH FOR EXTRAS
The figures on the average yearly expense account of each student contain many surprises for outsiders as well as for students. The figures for board and room are very representative, but those for clothing and laundry are lower than a reasonable average. This is accounted for, in part, by the fact that many students send their laundry. The item of $153.68 for clothing does not sound unreasonable at present, but for the last year of high prices, this is abnormal low. Kansas certainly is wearing 'homched'.
The low figure on lectures and recitals, 88.1 to be exact, is misleading but is really large as practically all of the lectures and recitals, with the exception of the Concert Course, are free or very largely so, a bare expense defraying charge sometimes being imposed,
The total of $19.50 for religious activities and charities shows a splendid spirit among the students of the University. However, it seems logical to suppose that some may have added in their Stadium-Union subscriptions under charities and thus boosted the average, as this record is almost too high.
The expense for parties eclipses all individual expenses except board, room, and clothing. In addition to this the compilation shows that the average for moving pictures and confections of all kinds is practically the same as that used for parties. However, this expense may be construed to include many breakfasts and lunches of malted milk or celairs which are popular when funds are low. The total expense for what may be termed luxuries is $109.05 or more than twelve percent of the whole yearly expense. In fact, one half of this sum, if contributed by each student, would swell the Stadium-Unton total raised by the students more than one-half of its present figure.
These figures show however, that students of the University are not all agrinds, but that they are interspersing their school work with recreation and relaxation which cannot but benefit them in the end. Indeed, the Registrar's figures show that, as a whole, the student body is living and enjoying a well-balanced existence, in so far as the expenditure of funds will go to show, even though the report does not augur well for growing bank accounts acquired through eliminating useless expense.
INSIPIDITY
Being commonplace is deemed by many the cardinal sin: trieness of expression and action, the worst condition into which man may descend; and the evil of evils, plagiarism.
But after all, may not the old say that nothing original comes under the rays of the closest of planets apply to life of today? Is not everything of
the life of today "borrowed" from wise people who have gone before? And can we do better than appropriate from others the things which govern our lives?
The evident half of education is studying the things that other great men have done and thought. The other half, of course, comes from reaction to experience and to the things that others have propounded. But the study of other men's doings and sayings is the first step and is necessary to stimulate original thought.
So, just being like other people may not be such an undesirable condition after all. It really is not a mark at greatness for one to go out of one's way to be different from other people. Just living with the common bird is a rather fine thing, if one learns to tolerate the human weaknesses, pick out the virtues of every day life, and not to be bored by the mugl.
Marbles, the greatest game of Boydom, is back again. Keep your eyes open and you are sure to see it being played in the back yards, parks, and alleys.
Don't you remember those "chinsees," and "brannies," and "cloudies," and "glasses" that were the pride of your heart? Well, in Boyville they are still known by the same old names. A "cloudy" is still worth three "chinsees," a "burridie" is equal to two "glasses," and the rough surfaced "chalky" or "pee-wee" is still held in very low esteem.
"VENT DUBS!"
Of course, it has been several years, since you "kneed" down and participated in the great game. But the more mention of *marbles* ought to give you a thrill.
You used to look upon a marble as a financial asset. A cigar box full of "crookeries," "brunettes," and "stetches" placed the owner in the same class with Vanderbilt and the village banker.
Today, perhaps, you worry over your studies. The clamor of a restless world may cause you to look upon life as a dreary mistake. But, after all, the weather is usually fine, and out in the alleys "djues and "agries" are cracking together.
"How so?" asked the pianist.
Co and watch the boys play "Boston." Hear again those old familiar crises of "knacks down," "Vent Duba," and "rummons." Then if you don't smile and feel like a spring zephyth you had better consult your doctor,
BALMY DAYS
Warm spring days cause poets to give vent to metrical delusions and mothers to start taking up the front room rugs. Baliny days often cause the demand for diamonds to exceed the supply. Spring-like days start women to thinking about hats and men to checking up their bank accounts. The average person notes these things, but there are many little beauties of nature that he fails to see. Every time spring-like weather starts, a lot of well meaning youths get all wrapped up in pretty bunches of femininity. They never realize that the birds have begun to twitter, or that the squirrels have begun to chatter and search for food. Then, many a maiden (any single woman under forty) becomes attentive to some Apollo and thinks continuously of coecalas and ice-cream a la everyday. Thus it is during the balmy days.
Jack London met Paderwaki once and said: "Mr. Paderwaki, my performance on a plina on one occasion was the means of saving my life."
It is essential that people should have their eyes opened. These fineweather days contain beauty that everyone should see and feel. Even the atmosphere is charged with an intangible something that is a splendid tonic for pessimism or rheumatism. On every side, the rugged brown carpet of winter blends harmoniously with the timid green tapestries of juvenile spring. And it all means that spring is near.
"Well," said Lonion, "father owned a plantation on the Mississippi. There was a flood. The water broke through the levee and tore the house from its foundations. Father floated off downstream on the dining table. I accompanied him on the piano."—Ladies Home Journal.
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