THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered an second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the department of Journalism of the University of New York at St. John's in the offices of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kansas simu to picture the undergraduate life of a teacher to go far more than merely printing the news by standing for the Idahe the University holdes; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to be solved; to best of its ability the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1920\
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
William Dean Howells, who died yesterday in New York, has been one of America's leading literary men for the past half century. "The greatest living American writer and novelist" are William Howard Taft's words concerning him on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday in 1912. While Mr. Howells' ascendance in the realms of literature is mainly due to his novels, he was also a poet, essayist critic, and dramatist.
Mr. Howells justly deserves to stam beside Lincoln and other of our famous Americans. In boyhood his opportunities for schooling consisted of a few spawnborn terms in the common schools. But through the influence of a literary father and by the aid of his own initiative and the village circulating library he laid foundations for a later literary excellence attained by few. Though he never attended college, Doctor Howells held degrees from Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Columbia Universities.
Mr. Howells' first book, a volume of poems, was published just before the Civil War and his last novel appeared on the eve of his eightth year. He published seventy-two books in all.
Mr. Howells' aim in his novels is the depiction of real life—real American life mainly—and it is in the field of realism where he excels. It is generally conceded that it is he who was the leader of the forces that drew American writers away from the clouds of romance and opened a new era in American literature. But the realism of Mr. Howells has always been of the highest, purest type. He has elevated, by his art, the commonplace things of life until they stand out with vivid interest and dramatic power. But always have his works been permeated by the best of rugged American ideals and upheld and strengthened by them.
Newspapers are losing their effectiveness in putting things across, according to the Kansas Editors who were in Hutchinson last week. Editors are not caring for their editorial pages with the same zeal and affection that they look after the advertising columns.
EDITORS LOSE POWER?
If this is the case, it is a grievous fault and greviously will the newspapers of the state answer it unless they change their ways. Many of the editors of the small country papers in Kansas are well-known and respected citizens in their localities. All it would be necessary for them to do would be to sanction a thing in their columns as a good thing for the community and it would go over with enthusiasm.
Many editors of these influential organs have utterly neglected the editorial possibilities of their paper. Irmu Ziwalm speaking before the Associated Journalism students at their banquet the other night said that newspapers were like the Old Gray Mare. Too bad that the editor of today has not enough spirit and industry to defend the good things that his community possesses and condemn the poor ones.
WHO BUYS THE CHOCOLATES?
WHO IS HE?
When a man and girl eat together,
or ride in a street car, or attend a
theater, since time immorial, the
man has paid the bills. Is that fair
o him?
Some students in Boston College think not and have formed an organization which they call the "fifty-fity Coeds" pledged to equal sharing of the price of bon-bons and street car fare.
This is something of an innovation, even in this day of radicalism and revolutionary movements toward greater independence for women, and probably will gain no great number of followers, at least not for some time. But the suggested change is not without its good points.
It is a question should be a "fifty-fifty" system be instituted at the University of Kansas, whether it would be the men or women who would object to it. The women naturally fall into two groups. There are those, parasitically inclined by nature or training or both, who would neither enjoy the pecuniary responsibilities nor the independence of such a system. On the other hand, there is that women (and she is probably not so rare an individual as would be at first supposed) who prefers not to be under obligations for the eclairs she cats and the picture she attends. Some of these refuse to date while a much larger number, because of the strength of custom, watch their赉付 the bills without protest, though wishing it might be otherwise.
As for the man, how much of an evenings pleasure would be swept away if the waiter were instructed to make separate bills? It is not assumed that man naturally enjoys spending money,—unless he a b plutocrat or a spendthrift,—but is there not some sense of a sense of proprietorship that comes with picking up the bill and paying it—the bill for two. Does it not lend the aspect of masculine masterfulness which the average man enjoys?
Yet another side of the question should be considered. If women assume equal responsibilities with men in meeting the expense of an evening's entertainment, they should and doubtless would demand equal rights in choosing the partner for that evening. If men do not like the idea of it becoming a perfectly natural thing for a woman to call up for a date, they will oppose the institution of "Fifty-fifty Coeds" at other universities.
Mental Lapses
"I fear that young man to whom I gave a job in the shop last week is dishonest."
"You should not judge by appearance."
"I'm judging by disappearance in this case."—Dubuque Catholic Tribune.
"What did you discuss at the Literary Club last night?" asked Smith. "Oh, we discussed Shakespeare and Prohibition. Browning and Prose with Emerson and Cormorant," replied jersey. "The Cinema Enquirer."
"Don't you think our friend Crosson might jump up as a dark horse?" "No," declared Senator Sorgham, "record's too shady. It would require him to prove himself to qualify him as a dark horse."—The Washington Star.
"Papa, Mr. Flubdub will probably all on you tonight." "Well?"
"See here, girl, don't you send that young man to me. I owe him ten dollars."-Kansas City Journal.
"Tell him gently but firmly that I can never be his."
Passenger—"Is it raining, porter?"
Porter (with a group). "No; it's rain'in water." The Tattler (London).
Campus Opinion
Send the Daily Kansan home.
CLEAN-UP NEEDED or. Daily Kansan:
In a few years the generation of students now occupying the campus will be alumni. Little prejudices which now take on such large proportions will have diminished to their proper insignificance and will not be noticed in all special occasions with much the same respect and reverence for their Alma Mater that a young man, who has been away from home has for his mother. They will forget the many reprimands and little corrections which they did not make; they thoroughly appreciate the great kindness and unseafish services which every University gives to every student, year after year. This same generation will then have opportunity of seeing another student element in occupation and sacred ground; they will resent the gratitude of that place just as an older brother coming home resents the abuses of his older brother who does not appreciate the many services which are shown him. We are but a few weeks from Commencement and many of them are coming are comforted because this was their own life so long ago. They had and still have a right here. When they see this campus besmeasured with political posters and littered with trash, can you appreciate the resentment that will come into their hearts? What can we expect of those shoners when we ask favors of them?
Within the last few weeks the present student body seems to have lost sight of any pride in the University. This is your University as well as mine. Aren't you ashamed when you see all the trash the front door of Hall and the posters, too, entrance of the campus, announcing innumerable varieties of concerts and dances, in are excess numbers. Think it over Mr. Undergraduate and see if you don't agree with me that there will come a time when you will resent this as I do now although I am a graduate of University. I will see to someone like Alma Mater abused as I would my own. I believe there is a chance for much improvement on our campus from this angle.
On Other Hills
W. M. H.
Zeta Phi, honorary journalistic sorority of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., was granted a National charter at the convention of Theta Sigma Phi, which was held recently at Madison, Wis.
"Students Are Asked to Aid in Cleaning Lawrence Campus" is a heading in the Lawrentian, from Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.
Out of a field of twenty-four presidential candidates, Herbert Hoover captured first place in the straw ballot held at Harvard recently. The candidates obtaining the seven worst votes were Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104; Lowden, 77; McAdon, Johnson, 104;
The Y, W. C, A. of the University of North Dakota, which gives the May Fete, will give the annual May breakfast, the morning following the July breakfast is an annual event, and one of the customers of the University.
"STOP, LOOK, LIST."
The sign "Stop, Look and Listen" should be put up over every door in the land and it is the duty of the university men of America as leaders in thought and action to help hasten it, there according to Frank MVey, president of the University of Kentucky. The face of the demand of high wages, more rents, higher prices and all the phenomena now familiar to the student," he continued, "every citizen is demanding more in order that he may meet the cost of every day living.
"STOP. LOOK. AND LISTEN"
"This in itself is the natural way out of personal difficulties but when multiplied by thousands of instances the mass of people are no nearer the of their troubles than before. It hardly seems necessary in the year of grace 1920 to set forth the simple principle that production of goods for the human needs is the reason which human wants can be met. Yet all the evidence points to the conclusion that the principle has been forgotten.
"Men have money but the goods are not there in the quantity necessary for the needs of the world. Strikes are not likely to produce more greedy people; consumption will not bring them into existence. We must come to thrift, economy and hard restore the world to where it was.
more goods and extravagance in their consumption will not bring them then into existence. We must come to thrife economy and hard work to restore the world to where it was.
"What is more disturbing is the lack of habits in the new generation for hard work and thrift. The hope of the world is to be found in a productive people, who know how to produce, who appreciate the power of thrift and who willing to forego the labor of the press to obtain what they know that capital is a blind man groping in the dark. The times call for all of us to 'Stop Look and Listen' and having done that, to work and save."—Exchange
"Men have money but the goods are not there in the quantity necessary for the needs of the world. Strikes are not likely to produce
The day of the potato on the spout of the kerosene can is, past.
Kansas City's society for the extermination of policemen seems to be making great headway.
"Up in Air Over Garage"—Headline. Gasoline and a match give 'hese results admirably.
Mr. Robert, a banker in a western town, was very hard and was in the habit of wearing his hat in the ink during business hours. Every week a negro employee of the bank presented a check and drew his vages. One day, as he was putting he money in a worn and greasy wallet, the banker chanced to pass by, and asked, "Look here, John, why don't you let some of that mount tay in the bank and keep with us?" replied the owner leaning toward the banker and gacing curiously at the Panama巾 he wore, "Tee always affared. You see, sah, you look like you was already ready to start somewhere." — Saturday Evening Post.
Cochlear Miller of Missouri says that Kansas has the strongest hitting team this season he has ever seen, leading to the "Evening Missouri" ending.
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W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery, and gyno-
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