THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1918, at the post office at Lawrence, Kannan, under the act of March 5, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Oklahoma. Published in the department of Journalism
Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go farther than merely printing the news in newspapers; to show the dual university holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to solve; to give students the best of its ability to the UA University.
FOR TOMORROW YOU DIE
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920
In all the rounds of amusements followed by the students and inmates of the University, none can be found which can be profitably performed without a sense of humor.
One of the inalienable rights," which man sometimes fails to take advantage of, is this sense, which through misuse be ossified and unable to function. But this sense can never be worn out. Exercise never tires the owner of the sense, even though it sometimes bores others in the immediate viability. Though the sense become blunted by excessive use, never a day passes that zonequ may not profitably land with justification be gotten off.
"Count that day lost whose low descenting sun
Sees not some joker, or good joke, well done."
And, while some obscure Englishman, growing contemptuous of his contemporaries, said "A pun is the cheapest form of wit," the words of a greater poet can be remembered. If count that daw lest whose low dew
A GOOD FIGHT
A fair and upright competition, with lots of fun and excitement, as a means of settling a controversy of a nature such as the freshman cap tradition for this spring, not seldom found in as pure a form as the contexts Thursday night. Everyone enjoyed the events hugely, some even to the extent of missing their evening meal and not mending it.
It was a fine chance—for everybody. And everybody took advantage of the chance, making the freshman-sophomore Olympiad one of the most successful and enjoyable affairs of the year, even for the sophomores.
A bigger step toward the development of class spirit than from any other event that has happened at the University this year is the result of the Olympiad.
This new and important benefit to the University is the result of the new student constitution which was passed on a month ago. The by-laws provided for this settlement of the dispute. The Council which carried out these plans on such an efficient and successful basis is much to be commended by the students. Gratitude is due from the University for the settlement of this question, which in the past has caused a great deal of trouble between faculty and students.
What's next? The Men's Student Council apparently can do it, whatever it is.
LATIN AMERICA AND MUSIC
Moonlight nights, soft warm breeds caressing the plaza, and the soft strains of a guitar along the promenade that is the opinion most people have of southern countries. They pict-
aire a sonar singing La Poloma under the window of his senorita, who, coming to the window with a mantilla of her cover over her head, throws a rose to him.
The strains of music come across the plaza as of yore, the senoritas and senors are as romantic as they used to be, but the music—great shades of Pan—is now artificial, canned music. La Polona may still be played but it is rendered by the Harmony Quartet on a phonograph record, and more than likely the music will be Jazzola, or Sahara, instead of the musical Spanish ballads.
In 1918 the United States sold musical instruments, records, and piano player rolls to the southland valued at $2,630,000. These sales included over four thousand pianos, nearly two thousand player pianos, 300 organs, and over seventeen thousand photographs, graphophones, and gramophones.
S-S-S-S. SCAT!!
When a cat springs across the walk just in front of you, does your heart skip a beat and your imagination call up visions of appalling disaster which is about to be visited upon you? No? Of course not. You are not superstitious—perhaps. But nevertheless you must admit that a black cat slinking across your pathway excites an altogether different trend of thought than is called up by a big dog trotting in front of you or a squirrel frisking down from an elm tree.
What is there about her Feline Majesty which suggests the wizard and supernatural, the fienish and horrible? Is it some inherent quality, is she by nature "The Cat Who Walks by Herself" or is the impression due simply to characteristics unjustly attributed by man?
However it may be, the cat has played an important character part in literature for centuries. No which scene, from Shakespeare to modern times, has been complete unless a brindled cat mews thrice to usher in the evil spirits; and many are the ghost stories which have been enhanced by cat yowls in a dark grave yard. Numerous successful short stories of recent years have been based on variations of the reincarnation of deprived souls in the form of cats.
All this would seen to be enough infamy for one little animal specia to exist under. But something worse yet remains. It seems that a woman who is essentially slanderous and mean is termed a "cat" and all those nasty little back-biting characteristics, of which women are sometimes capable, are described by the nasty little adjective "catty".
There is another aspect of cat nature quite as characteristic. The sleek maltese curled up on the hearth rug seems the living symbol of luxury loving laziness. And yet another—the coy and playful maiden is spoken of as "kittenhiah."
Poor pussy! Why can't we let you go on your way in peace? You will indeed need the whole of your nine lives if you live out all the char' asterias accersius to you.
Mental Lapses
A clam is all stomach and no brains And there are others.—
When I finish college this June I feel that by training I am entitled to what is vulgarly known as "a fat man" and where I can pick such a job? Senior-
-McPherson Spectator
Easiest thing in the world. Apply at the first soap factory you come to. Michigan Dells
The Technique
On E. E. Exam—Give for one year, the amount of hydro-electric power produced in the United States.
Dear Noah:___
Colley, while in the service, was a regimental as it was possible for a man to be:
"Shun," he cited. "Forward,
marshall! Column left! Hait! Take
Smith's name for talking in
the wrans."
Whither—in 1492: Ann.
The Technique
Michigan Daily
"But sir, he wasn't talking," protested a corporal who was standing near.
"Wan't he?" roared Colley, "Don't matter. Cross it out then; and put him in the guardhouse for deceiving he."
The Technique
Campus Opinion
It seems a pity that the women who come to this University to attend school can come and go, and never have a chance to wear their party dress. You can't not because they wish to have a chance to "show off" their pretty frocks but because they have the idea when they go away to school that they will need a party dress that they buy one, and therefore before expect to have a chance to wear it.
Editor Daily Kansan:
For years it has been the custom for women to wear evening dresses to the Junior Prom. In old days the men were evening clothes, too, but perhaps the women were with them. But since the women do not have to rent their outfits, nor buy accessories with them, and they have their party dresses hanging up in the closet simply roting, why not have them at a special event, and then at the Junior Prom this year?
The Soph Hop was a nice party. The decorations were pretty, the music peppy, and there were eats, but otherwise the party was simply like a Saturday night nativity. The girls were the same dark dresses they have been wearing to $1.50 party all year. Why not let it be more appropriate for other parties, and start a little bit of sentiment among the women to wear their party dresses?
As some senior said the other day, "It is as much a part of your college education to acquire a little polish as it is to learn books," but you don't have much of a chance here. Party dresses will not make an ordinary party unsurpassable, but a Prom at rocky forts will certainly lend an air of formality that cannot otherwise be attained.
Indignant Sophorem.
Ed. Note—The present protest in regard to the Prom is not against the wearing of party dresses especially, but rather in regard to flowers and taxis in connection with it. Of course if taxis and flowers are judged absolutely necessary to "party" dresses, then "party" dresses would seem out of place at an informal Prom.
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Sir:
I find some dissatisfaction among the members of the freshman and sophomore classes at the kind of events chosen for the Olympic. It should have been made up of field events of a less brutal nature, it is argued, and much of the discussion has turned upon this point. Suggested events for the next Olympic are: 1. The hundred yard tiddling-wink
2. The fountain pen squirt. For distance, stock models only.
3. The frog-frog race. 1.5 leaps per yard. 2-man teams.
4. The running high spit. Here is an art that has been too long neglected as splitting is invaluable both in offensive and defensive opera.
5. Dining dress suit vs. time. This would rival the drunk scenes so popular in musical comedies but not in cinema - in constructive instead of destructive.
7. Manufacture and consumption of brain tablets. This would be a very scientific contest and would need many rules. Speed, endurance, and grace could be given points. The freshmen would undoubtedly have the advantage in this contest as they smoke as a man or as a woman. The sophomore smoke as a matter of course. This advantage might be offset by.
6. Dandy-lion hunt. Hunting is a great sport. The "kill" could be piled up and the score easily determined. Boundaries, the campus. Eight hour day, with score-and-ahalf for overtime.
7. A whisker contest. All entries to be certified (and shaved) a fortnight before the day of reckoning, not less than a fortnight afterward.
Dr. E. S. Slosson, editor of the Independent, recently gave an address at Columbia University on "Untiring the United States." Doctor Slosson is one of the men under consideration for the chancellorship at K. U.
The 1920 Sooner, the book of The University of Oklahoma will be ready for distribution about May 1, the earliest date in all its career.
A. Nocker Wood.
Mr. Editor, would you not like to see such an Olympic? I assure you that
Ye Good Old Days
Thirty-eight failures and thirty-one put on probation was the toll of the casualties of the winter term exam. The Engineering at Texas University.
The reason the University of Kansas is on a hill can be traced back almost directly to the influence of Amos A. Lawrence, founder of the College of Engineering, prominent members of the New England Emigrant Aid Society. Mr. Lawrence was much interested in the establishment of an institution of higher learning here, and used all the influence at his command to found a "Free State College." From the schools he had seen in other countries, planned a college for Lawrence and for Kansas.
WHY THE UNIVERSITY IS ON A HILL
In 1856 he wrote, "Trade will not go up the hill except to get prospect of a good bargain, and there is no risk in locating a college or a church on a hill, even in a large city. The Romanists understood this and we did not want to be punished by the pinnacles of the cities. This insures a good view and seclusion."
Tally—I think I'll go to the dance as star.
He favored the north end of Mount Oread as a location for the college, and three days after writing the foregoing, sent Charles Robinson and S. C. Pomyre as trustees, notes and stock to the amount of $112,096.14. The income from this amount he provided was to be used for the "religious and intellectual education of the young in Kansas territory." This money was later turned over to the University.
Polly—Why do that?
Tally—I haven't any doe.
    —The Technique
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"IT'S A GREAT LIFE"
Absolutely its a great life and so is the Senior Play going to be a great show. A real sparkling three act comedy, full of fun provoking situations.
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