THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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ECONOMY AND COMMON SENSE
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920
There are, among the students,
those who hesitate to break custom
and a five dollar bill in order to join
the overall army. The fad is likely
to last only a week or so, anyway,
they say.
NOTHING BUT MUSIC
The Daily Kanan is against any overall fad which will send the students rushing pell meil to the stores to buy overalls. This does not mean, however, that the Daily Kanan is in not favor of a movement to wear old clothes on the campus, not as a fad but as an economic weapon against high prices. Overalls should be no more in style than any other old or cheap clothing. The purpose of economy will be best attained by the students wearing old clothes they already have rather than by buying new, cheap clothes.
One of our prominent juniors has no use for the department of music. It takes up too much good space in the Administration building. It disturbs the college classes in the weeds wing. And "it's nothing but music, anyhow."
Men like Beethoven and Bach and Paganiian have wasted their time. Women like Schumann-Heink and Galli-Curci would better be frying beef-stew and washing dishes. Civilization and culture are merely material and commercial. They have nothing to do with the thing we call music, the highest expression of the human soul. There's nothing to it. And the sooner the Board of Administration cuts it out of the curriculum, the better it will be for all concerned. Let us put the money, even if music has made it into something really worth while.
AMBITION WINS AGAIN
Dr. John A. Brashear, America's master maker of scientific instruments, who recently died, again proved the theory that success is always "nine-tenths hard work and one-tenth genius."
Doctor Brashae in his boyhood became interested in astronomy. He completed his first telescope in 1874, in a little work room attached to his home. After ten years of experimenting, during which he worked in a glass factory, he turned his entire energy to making astronomical instruments. It was in his shops at Algeghy, after many hardships, that he perfected the spectroscope one of the greatest inventions of astronomy.
He was honored by six of the world's greatest scientific societies, among them the Societe Astronomique de France. He hold honorary membership and fellowships in several others. From 1888 to 1900 Doctor Brashael was director of the Allegheny Observatory in which many remarkable scientific researches were carried on under his supervision.
Campus Opinion
Editor, Daily Kansan:
the Niobe of Nations—there she stands
stands
Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe,
An empty urn within her withered hands
Whose holy dust was scattered language
1892.
She draws lines express the feelings of all who pass and see south of the Natural History Building that mute lonely pillar, "1890" with bruised, battered, beaten, plate from which vandal or accuser restured would point to murder or burial? should not such aim dull be restored to usefulness?
LLB. '95.
The Salary Crisis
Editor Daily Kansan:
After a question offered to his 8:30 cal. I Class Wednesday morning in regard to how many desired to take Calculus II next fall, Prof. C. H. Ashton told some of the main difficulties which confront the mathematics department and the University in general in regard to obtaining instruction; instructor or head of the departments are very seriously affected. In two departments only one instructor remained to carry on the work.
The mathematics department has increased by 60 per cent over last year's enrollment. It seems almost impossible to obtain instructors at salaries higher than university can afford them to pay under present budget.
One instructor, who is a graduate
f. K. U., when offered a certain sali-
y said that he could make more
money in the mines that a student and refuser to consider the offer. Three fourths of the instructors in the mine are of mathematicians now receiving a lower salary than the switchmen who are striking for more pay.
The only way that a shortage of instructors may be averted and the life of the school maintained is to inform the State Legislature of conditions as they exist, in such a manner that those conditions that action will be taken to rid the University of the present crisis.
Here's a chance for every student to help the University. And it is important that you be interested in the welfare of K. U. Get your shoulder to the wheel!
Loyal Jayhawk.
Thoughts on Overalls Editor Daily Kansan:
The formation of an Overall Club at the University would undoubtedly stand preeminent among the moves for conservation and economic reasons, and it started here. That the organization would succeed in its projected program of reducing clothing prices goes without saying. Conservative estimates have placed reduction at 25 per cent for the next five years and a gradual lowering after that.
Opposers of the movement have brought forward the argument that the wearing of overalls would not mean that fewer spring suits would be purchased but simply that overalls would be bought "to book." The claim is entirely accurate. But there can be no doubt but that, if public sentiment favored it, no student, no matter how fastidious, would consider having his "Sunday best" any thing but blue or brown denim. And even though, as is said, most spring clothing has already been purchased, this may be laid away for future use in the future and the year hence a saving will have been effected by wearing overalls now.
One aspect of the situation which may be overlooked is the fact that the present demand for overalls gives opportunity for the overall manufacturer to make a lot of the excess profit in the apparel industry, a period of money inflation and high wages, popular tastes, even of the workingman, have run toward silk and sealskin rather than the laborer's garb and now as we force prices down it is only fair that the overall demand for overalls raise the price of his commodity and obtain his belated share of the country's prosperity. It has taken the American public a long time to realize profiteering is merely good business, and to view it tolerably but that this mental attitude is gaining strength from the growing reality of move which will directly benefit the overall manufacturer.
And last but not least is the moral effect it would have on our country
should every citizen possess a pair of overalls. Even though a man's occupation should require his spending his entire time with books or behind the counter at a bookstore, it is not essential, nevertheless there is a spirit of democracy and fraternity about the laborer's garb which he can ill afford to lose. The nation's democratic institutions and ideals would undeniably be made strengthened by the farm's movement in wearing apparel. Thrift.
A Lawrence Cafeteria advertise dogs for sale. Is the "hot dog" season on now? ..
Aviation as a side line to earn one's way through school is not a new thing at the University. We have several "high-fyers."
Dandolliens surely will take the campus this spring since the freshmen won the Olympics and can not mustered for failure to wear their cups.
Two Cleveland Men Stole a safe. That is breaking into the big league of shop lifting.
The promised BONUS is GOOD,
say all ex-service men. And not all
of them have studied Latin ether,
but you must at the point
furnished on request.)
If the S. A. T. C. barracks had been left standing, perhaps they could have been partitioned off into a center and cent to students for $10 or $15 per
Dormitories for women seem to be as far from realization as the student union which the Men's Student Union out to build in 1010 or thereabouts.
Recent appointment by President Wilson of two men to the Tariff Commission reminds us that such a commission exits. It has been almost as useless during the war as was the K. U. Senate disciplinary committee when its powers were taken away.
On Other Hills
A Chicago University professor has enigned his position, giving for his reason that he refuses to teach math and coasting more than his年薪's salary.
According to a recent announcement of the president of the university, all sorority hosts at Leland Stanford will be dispensed with and all women attending the university be required to live in dormitories.
The Agricultural Engineering Building, one of the finest of its kind in the United States,was dedicated last week at the University of Nebraska. The building with its equipment cost about $240,000.
The annual meeting of the Missouri Writer's Guild will be held in Colum-
May 3, as part of Journalism Week at the University. Winston Churchill,
Rupert Hughes, and Fannie Hurst have been elected honorary members.
Hazing at Northwestern University is no tame thing. Miss Elizabeth Chapman, president of the freshman team, said she was forced from a fractured spine and is paralyzed below the waist as a result of having fallen three stories from an apartment in which she had been imprisoned by sophomore "kidnappers." Her arrest and proceedings were brought against the students—Iowa State Student.
Naturalist: Young man, do you know to what family this blossom belongs?
Mental Lapses
Boy; Mrs. Jones; and ye'd better beat it before she knows ye picked it.—Ex.
She (passionately)—Leave the house at once!—Yale Record.
He (fiercely)—I'm certainly going to kiss you before I go.
St. Paul looked with wonder at the two rusty coppers which the passing dress had dropped into his hand. "Why is that man?" he asked, "what is this for it?"
A series by University faculty members pointing out the good features of other universities and colleges where they have been.
One Thing I Liked
I once knew a university that held as its ideal "Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." Although the state contributed some good buildings and many poor ones, neverless glass buildings were merely shelters to house the real University and not things to be sought in themselves. I also knew that which I am thinking, also knew that students "get on the log" without undue encouragement, in fact he was getting on in embarrassing numbers; but the college knew that special attention to "Mark" was unnecessary. "Mark" included faculty, library and laboratories.
"War tax," murmured the soul gloom as it passed through the heavenly gates—San Francisco Argonaut.
This university had a library system which did not possess tons of unbound, inaccessible periodicals and which did not make students and faculty久留 from three months to three years for books that were ordered. Furthermore it sought for a faculty with the offer of fair salaries, moderate teaching schedules, and opportunities for research. It realized, and I think the students realized at least dimly, that the sources of inspiration at the university were poorly trained and inadequately organized, then the time and money of the students were practically wasted.
MORAL (if there is one)—Put K. U. first, as other universities have been put first, by demanding developments at "Mark's end of the log." It was a logical consequence of his money demand an adequate return on the investment.
Walter S. Hunter Professor of Psychology
Jayhawks Flown
After obtaining a college degree at Oberlin College, Widder S. Metcalf came to the University of Kansas to get his law education, receiving a law degree in 1897. During the Philippine war, Mr. Metcalf served as a major and colonel of the 20th Kansas infantry and for his services there, was breved brigadier general of volunteers by President McKinley. In the late war he commanded the 77th infantry and was stationed at Camp Beaupreard with the rank of brigadier gen-
Cairn Metcalf has always been one of the strongest leaders in the Kansas National Guards and is a member of various military clubs, among them being Army and Navy Club of Washington, Military Order of Caraïnes, Military Order of Foreign Wars Army of Philippines, and United
Ace, military Order of Foreign Wars Army of Philippines, and United Spanish War Veterans.
Announcement has been received of the marriage of Virginia Wilks Lueca to Mr. Ames P. Rogers, Tuesdays April 20 at Kansas City, Mo. Miss Lucas A. B. '17 was a Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Mr. Rogers A. B. '17 is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Restlessness
About this time of the year a general feeling of restlessness begins to come over a large number of students. They are tired of studying, their brain refuses to work as it should, or, to use the colloquial acronym "stay awake," and have been worn down by the steady grind of application of their minds to study day in and day out. They feel themselves losing grip of the work. They become daily more conscious of a desire to let things slip, to put them off until "to-morrow." And yet they do not seem to be able to do anything towards remedying this condition. They just go along from one day to the next without any intention in the work they are doing.
A state of affairs like this is a dangerous one at any time, but especially if it is dangerous now. The final exclamation is "go!" in proclosing, and the questions are more likely to be on the work of this term or that of the last. Any great slackening up of work as this time is likelier to be done than in the "fed up" person to do?
aminations. But for a few exceptions, the average man is unable to assimilate in one or two weeks the knowledge he should have gained from his studies. He may not mean that he could not cover the work, but rather that his brain is incapable of grasping the material in the proper manner. He has no time to spend discriminating between the things he must remember and if he had it would be impossible for him to remember correctly that part of the work which must be remembered. Therefore, those who are at present not studying as they ought would never be able to acquire as we stated above, out of long experience—McGill Daily.
"Tremendous crowd up at church last night."
Well, we do not pretend to be experts on this important subject, but we would submit our opinion born of long experience. The condition can sometimes be gradually overcome. The best way is to ease up in your work, but be sure that you keep up your daily tasks in what you consider to be the essential subject. You should not form overtaxed during the slack period, and yet at the same time keep up with the work of the class. In this manner you will tide yourself safely over the dangerous time. The thing to be avoided is thinking hard enough, thinking you can cram it all in the period immediately preceding the ex-
"No, it was burned down."—Nebraska Awgwan.
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