THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The Daily Kannan aims to please the students of University of Kannan, to go forward by standing for the ideals the students of University of Kannan, to be clean; to be cheerful; to be to have more serious aproaches to have more serious aproaches to serve the host of its ability to serve the host of its ability
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1921.
We are going to buy more Christmas presents next year. All of the instructors who treat us kindly and look over our shortcomings at the end of the semester, may look for a pleasant surprise.
A BUSY YEAR
There is much to be done in the year 1321. Many problems of importance to the world remain to be solved.
The beginning of the change in America is expected to come with the new administration in March. At present, Congress is concerned with efforts to reduce the governmental expenditures and to reorganize executive machinery. Then, too, there is the plan of the farmers for financial relief that must be considered this year. Business everywhere is undergoing radical changes, and although economic affairs are progressing toward the normal basis, it will not be without a degree of suffering among workers and employers.
Of greatest importance from the international standpoint is the League of Nations and the treaty O. Versailles. Everyone is waiting until March to see what America is going to do before considering these questions finally. Another matter that awaits the assumption of power by the Republicans is our relation with Germany. An American army is still on the Rhine and a technical state of war still exists between America and Germany. Conclusion of a peace is expected from the new administration. Japan may be a possible source of trouble over California anti-Japanese legislation and Japan's aggressions in the East. It is hoped that some agreement may be reached this year. Our attitude toward Russia probably will not change unless the soviets lose control, as statesmen have long predicted they will. Mexico seems fairly calm and likely to remain so, although America has never obtained satisfactory guarantee that property of her citizens will not be destroyed
So, even if no unforsen complications arise, America will be kept busy straightening up old affairs this year.
If it were not for the discouragements in life, one would never know when to be happy.
FADDIST ART
In Berlin, perhaps the most crazen city of an not-over-sation nation, a new cult has been inaugurated and the cult is rapidly gathering recruits. The cult is called "Dalaism," and seeks a new expression in all forms of art.
Its poetry, seemingly nonsensical,
consists of unrelated ideas, and its art is made up of blotches and such
materials as buttons, toothpicks and tomato cans.
This fad, as are most others, i
founded upon the desire to obtain expression in a novel manner. In this it succeeds admiration. But there are only a few of us here in America who can see a sunset in the portrait of a dirty napkin, and less who can "they say it's warm in Italy. I want to write. If I had a revolver now-" the best type of poetical endeavor.
True expression should be founded upon and measured by the public thought and sentiment. All of the great artists, the great poets, the great painters, the great sculptors, have seized the general trend of opinion, and molded their work in that direction. Nudity and informal sex' relations are not the truest ideas of Americans, and consequently Americans cannot help but feel contempt toward those men of undeniable genius who defy Puritanism. "Dadism" will not gain many
"Dadaism" will not gain many converts over here.
There are men who get their great' at life thrills when they look at the pictures in a movie magazine.
FREEDOM TO READ
The fruits of liberty cannot be un wholesome, despite what the censor assert. With a group of normal intelligence and self-control, such as constitutes a liberal republic, many restrictions found in other communities are unnecessary.
Take the matter of "contraband" literature. At the University of Kansas, students have access to practically all the writings of modern radicals and reformers. In many other libraries, such freedom is not allowed the patrons.
For instance, "Upton Sinclair's latest work, The Brass Check," which deals with modern journalism. Several copies of the book are accessible at Spooner, but the volume has been barred from the shelves of
accessible at Spooner, but the volume has been barred from the shelves of the Kansas City public libraries, because, according to a librarian there, is "unheathful literature."
No unheaven has been manifest at K. U., although students have had ree opportunity to read Mr. Sinclair's extremely outspoken volume in the contrary, those who have read he book, and they have been many, ave been stimulated to thought and inquiry as to the truth or falsity of the statements made therein regarding the corrupt condition of American newspapers.
The delivers for truth in Kansas City will not be kept from hearing both sides of the question because the book is not accessible at the library; they will write directly to the publishers for the volume or borrow it from their friends. And because an effort has been made to keep from the facts contained in the book their effect good or bad, will be more potent.
Trusting the intelligence of the reader to distinguish between the false and the true, as is done at the University library, is in every analysis the better method.
Now comes the story of a university student who worked hard each vacation day, so that he could bring about his back aching at night.
&, appears, from the outside at east, that most houses on the hill run a communistic haberdashery and ready-to-wear. Evidently the first person up in the morning takes his choice of garments and the ten-thirty class devotee has to wear what is left.
WHOSE CLOTHES?
How extreme the men are in this movement cannot be so easily told since men's clothes are not so individual and it takes an observing eye to recognize Tom's silk shirt on Bill. As long as they manage to keep within one or two degrees of the size they should wear they pass fairly well.
But with the women it is different. The middy is about their only neutral medium for exchange, and since nearly all of them have middies of their own, this fails to fulfill the desire to wear someone's something, so they turn to the more noticeable things. The women are long past the stage of keeping it a dark hat is, in reality, Susie's. Now they proudly boost that they are wearing Mary's shoes, Anna's dress, and
VERSE BY HARRY KEMP
of Brentano's, New York
IVE DECKED THE TOWN
I've decked the tops of flying cars
That leaped across the night;
FVE DECKED THE TOPS.
By Permission
That leaped across the wing. The long and level coaches skimmed low like a swallow's flight.
Close to the sleet-blinds I've clung Rocking on and on; All night I am enriched in empty cars
All night I've crouched in empty cars
That rode into the dawn.
Seeing the ravelled edge of life
traveling, insights
Vivian's spring hat.
And learning rough and reary ways.
From rough and ready mutes.
In Jails, on rolling freights And learning rough and ready way Have enough and ready notes.
With the women, too, the eighth-army martyr is赃绑 by the variety of clothes she has to select from. It is no longer any use for a more man to seize on the girl's sunset hat as a means of identification on the campus. Many of them have already learned not to rush up to the hat he took home from the library the night before and say, "Hello sweetie," for when she turns around it probably will be a girl he has never seen before.
As far as our campus is concerned the day of individuality in dress is gone, for everyone seems pledged to a new phase of the communistic idea of existence.
If all the New Year vases that are broken could be sold as junk, we would have enough money for ten stadiums.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
John Drinkwatson's Abraham Lincoln is the latest addition to Lincoln literature, and the first successful attempt to put the pathos and drama of the great President on the stage. This play is one of the most popular of the recent productions, and is marked by admirable restraint, simplicity, and dignity.
The action covers the period from Lincoln's acceptance of the invitation to stand for the Persistence to his assassination by the fanatic Booth. Covering so wide a period and so many events, it is of necessity a series of incidents. These are set out in six scenes, and to link the incidents together the author has adopted the classic method of the chorus, recited by two chroniclers.
Mr. Drinkwater's conception of Lincoln's character follows very much the lines of Lord Charwood's Life of Linceh. Though the play shows Lincoln's invincible honesty: his detestation of cant, his devoutness of mind, he is by no means a plaster saint. There is a glimpse of his humour, his abrupt methods, and his peculiarities. His uncouth appearance and manners are dwell upon but he is not permitted to become buffoon.
A sense of tragedy, of necessity, pervades the play, since it is known that the assassin's knife is waiting at the close. The scene of the murder ends with Secretary of War Stanton's reverent words, "Now he belongs to the ages."
Kanans particularly find the play interesting in its presentation of John Brown. Some critics have said that the unseen, marching soul of John Brown is the real hare of the play. One scene is effectively concluded by an off-stage crowd singing:
A campaign to eliminate bizarre and suggestive dance steps at the University of Illinois has been instituted by the Illinois Union and the Women's League. It has received the unanimous approval of students, faculty members and University officials. Letters of warning have been malled to all men's and women's organizations in the campus.
A loan fund accessible to any student needing money to complete his education has been raised by the students of the University of Arkansas. No interest charge is made on the 'bans.
"But his soul goes marching on."
"John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave.
House mothers of the fraternite and sororites of the University of Arkansas have organized a club, "The Greek Letter Mothers."
The debating team, of K. S. A. C. will meet that of the Iowa Agawgs at Ames, January 15, to argue on the Japanese Immigration Law.
Princeton University, through its board of trustees, has announced the establishment of 120 prize memorial scholarships of an annual value of two hundred dollars which, with 29 scholarships, will memorize the memory of 149 Princeton men who died in the military or naval service during the war.
The Student Board of Columbia University has voted in favor of discontinuing the annual flag rush between the sophomores and freshmen, which has been the traditional under-class scrap at Columbia. The second season when the two sides clashed, four men were hurt rather severely.
Horseback riding as a sport is regaining its popularity among the students of the University of Missouri and local colleges. Formerly, students settled back in their cars for a spin at a race track, but horseback riding has become so much a habit that the younger generation turns to horses for something new.
Resolutions censuring the A. H. Blank interests, in control of the three local theatres at Ames, Iowa, were passed at a joint meeting of the engineering, agricultural, veterinary and home economics councils of the Iowa State College. The boards are obsolete and are inferior quality. The vaudeville is characterized as "rottet" and of a character unit for presentation.
The general endowment fund of Cornell University has been increased $475,000 this fall. This brings the total up to approximately $821,000 with the closing of the Semi-Centennial Endowment fund drive.
An active campaign against rouge
lip-sticks and eyebrow pencils is being
started by the head of the Department
of Anatomy, Dr. Robert James in
the University of Arkansas.
Columbia University is reviving ice hockey this year. The sport has lain dormant at Columbia since 1912 when the Blue and White resigned from the Inter-collegiate league because of a dispute over eligibility. Other teams have been unsuccessful, due to an inability to obtain rink facilities.
Plans have been completed for the launching go fa $4,000,000 endowment campaign at Carleton College, in Minnesota. Each class is out to see which will raise the highest subscription per capita.
The emergency request of the University of Minnesota has been reduced from the original estimate of $1,610,000 to $1,097,935, and will be asked for in addition to the $2,822,838 requested for the 1921-23 biennium.
The University of Pennsylvania has adopted measures regulating the conduct of students in regard to kidnapping and class fights. The Council forbids kidnapping previous to any function other than that offered by the manner in which kidnapping may be effected in the case of regular fights.
The Cornell University Pistol and Revolver Club recently voted to enter the United States Revolver Association indoor matches to be held during the winter months of 1921. These matches are twelve in number, one being held each week, bignining this month.
VICTORY MEETS 2014
The War Department announced recently that it had issued 554,000 victory medals and no requests outstanding. These medals are given to the United States Army in the world war. There was a large increase in the number of applications shortly before the second anniversary of Armistice Day, 20,000 having come within three days.
Victory Medals Awarded.
The navy also announced the distribution of more than 2500 medals and letters of commendation for distinguished seafarers. S. Sinsu, who refused to accept a medal last winter on the alleged grounds of discrimination in the awards, appears in the list for a second time, but it is understood that no medal has been sent to him. His action lead to him being invited to the number of awards announced is considerably larger than that on the former occasion. No names have been removed from the original list, it is announced. Many meritorious cases had been discovered since the first announcement of award, in 1961 and 1962, and 663 letters of commendation are awarded, instead of 1261 medals and 312 letters, as originally decided upon. Vice Admiral H. P. Jones, who did not consider a Navy Cross adequate recognition in services, now receives a Distinguished Medal — Christian Science Monitor.
Jooshan Allan Lippincott, professor of mathematics in Dickinson College, Carlsbad. Pa. succeeded James Marriott and the University of the States, September, 1883.
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