THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Editor-in-Chief ... Kenneth Clark
Advocate Editor ... Geneva Hunter
Assoc. Editor ... Hugh Hewlett
Campus Editor ... Grace Olean
Telegraph Editor ... M. L. Peek
Editor ... John W. Kister
Alumni Editor ... John J. Kister
Women's Editor ... William B.
Exchange Editor .. Gilbert Sloeon
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Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students in the Department of Journalism at the University of Georgia press of the Department of Journalism.
Address all communications to THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Rancho Phones, Bell K. U, 25 and 66.
The Daily Kaanan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the students and their teachers than merely printing the news by attending for the ideas the University offers. It is also intended to be clean; to be cheerful; to be cheeky; to be courageous; to be smart; to be wise; to be kind; to be wiser; Lends; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
SANS FLOWERS
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920.
For the past, few, shall we say decades or centuries, the Junior Prom has been advertised, "Sans flowers; sans taxis," and in fact sans everything else.
Perfectly legitimate advertising, you will say. So do we. The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the advertising but in the fact that at no time in the history of the Prom has the floor been absolutely without flowers nor has the unfailing call of "Taxi" failed to get results among the couples thronging from the Gymnasium at any two o'clock party.
Prom managers who derive the benefit from such advertising, should enforce these restrictions. If the flowers are taboo, then why are they not taboo in some other way than in the advertisement that precedes the dance. By the same method of inductive reasoning, taxis should also be on the black list.
dance. There may be people attend... All this the artist has taken from the university of Kansas who can a summer day and placed on his can-afford all the luxuries that go with a vass. The gazer seeing, feels, and in formal dance, but the majority of the feeling is inspired.
The idea in prohibiting the flowers and taxis is an effort to lessen to some extent the unnecessary expense of the
people who present themselves at a dance open to the entire student body cannot strain their finances enough to keep pace with the more luxurious students.
The students who cannot afford flowers and taxis should be safeguarded. It might be well also to conduct a campaign of education to the students of luxurious tastes in an effort to show them the error of their ways in spending too freely from the old family purse.
At any rate, Prom Managers should enforce the law laid down by their advertising and publicity.
Kissing is insanitary until sunshine and fresh air have sterilized the lips, a noted doctor recently told the New York State Medical Society. Which leads to the surmise that it's a good thing for the human race that courting is done in the spring time.
CONSTITUTIONALS
Students who live "next-door" to the University do not know what they are missing in the way of early morning constitutions at this time of the year. The ones who have plodded up the Hill through the cold and snow are just beginning to come into their own and to be repaid for their endurance during the long winter months.
Of course, living farther away means an earlier rising hour, but the effort is worth while, for it is well understood that the earliest part of the day is usually the most beautiful.
And then, after one is up and has raised his shades, the light makes him forget that he ever wished to waste his time lying in bed.
Then comes the walk up the Hill. It isn't the last minute rush to get there in time that draw forth appreciation of the beauties of nature which are just beginning to unfold. Nor is it a lazy stroll, with eyes blind to everything except mental pictures of the day's events, that creates a keen enjoyment of the material surroundings. It is a brisk pace with shoulders erect that makes one feel the enervating freshness of the morning air and attracts all his senses to the wonder of the early spring.
There are few prettier places in Kansas than the Valley of the Kaw, and the true appreciation of its loveliness is one of the factors which should be made to stand out in the education of the youth of the state. And the students who live the farthest from the campus are those who receive the greatest value from the opportunities which surround them.
GOLDEN SUMMER
Notable among the paintings in the Brynwood collection is a canvas depicting a summer field. In it there is a sultry atmosphere which is appreciable only to those who know the summer day of the field.
The artist has succeeded in producing in the observer an emotional mood in which he is carried away from the cement floor, away from the rough March winds outside, to a meadow where he sees the landscape before him when rains have been long delayed and the sunshine and heat laden winds have dulled the delicate pinks and greens of spring to the duller but richer tones peculiar to the summer heat.
Masses of reddish purple flowers, with here and there the contrasting flash of the cowboy's deep yellow lie, at his feet and stretch away mingled with the dull green and brown of aging grass and foliage. Beyond lies the yellow of a field of stwistle, and in the distance trees form the horizon with a city tower above, pre-limbing the activity of man.
But somehow one feels that he would
rather lie down here on the grassy cushion with the hot wind blowing the fragrance of the field flowers and the sound of the croaking of the frogs which must be holding forth in the hollow beyond. He would like to lie and watch the gray and white stacks of luminous clouds as they take each others place in endless formation. And surely in a few minutes a cotton tail will swirl by or a tiny gopher unsuspectingly raise his head and betray is hidden home.
Campus Opinion
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Many students on the Hill have witnessed the hair raising stunts of a young dare-devil, as he proclaimed himself is standing up on his machine (when all can see) going at the rate of fifty to sixty miles an hour down Fourteenth or Thirteenth streets, and at times buying his course up Tennessee Street.
Editor. Daily Kansan:
Admittedly, the show is good. But such performance should be confined within its proper place. The streets of Lawrence, crowded with students going to and from the hill, although a good place "to show off" is, nevertheless, a dangerous sport for a speed demon to unibliety with death.
It is not the risk that the self-styled dare-devil takes upon himself that the writer objects to, but the obvious danger to students walking on the side walk or crossing the streets, while the monomania is performing what the rider's nerve-chilling stunt amount to nothing more or less than an inherent love for publicity, and a cheap playing to the grandstand, goes without saying. But there are broad country roads where young men can pretend they want he wants, and where the danger will be minimized, except, perhaps,
to himself. Or, as has been suggested, a one horse circus would no doubt be glad of the chance to hire the services of a young man who is willing to commit suicide, if somebody will watch him.
Whether or not this last advice would tempt the dare-devil from the streets is a matter of conjecture how-ever, if a speed demon of super-ability persists in using the streets for feats of foolhardiness, proper authorities should be informed and a stop put to such "innovant fanatics."
Among Those Mentioned
John Erskine
(This is one of a series of sketches of the men being considered for the chancellorship of the University — Editor. )
John Erskine, professor of English at Columbia University, another of the men named as prospective chancellors for the University, was born in New York, October, 1879, and received his education at Columbia University. He received his A. B. degree in 1900, his M. A. degree in 1903, and his doctor's degree in 1903. He was married in 1910 to Miss Pauline Ives, also of New York.
C. L. T.
Dr. Erskine is a member of PhD Beta Kappa and is also a member of the Modern Language Association of Society America. He is author of a number of productions notable among which are The Elizabeth Lyric, and Selections from Faerie Queen. He has also edited Competitions. He公关 to be Intelligent, and The Shadowed Hour. He became an instructor in English n Columbia University in 1903; was made an associate professor in 1906.
DISAPPROVED OF MR. J. HAWF
Ye Good Old Days
The figure is described as bearing on its breast the words "J. Hawk," followed by "something resembling a question mark." The "J" the writer writes as a mark, the woman der of the inscription probably means "Is this a hawk?"
When the Museum was completed in 1902, it was hailed by University students as the most beautiful building on the campus. Its tower and its doorway excited great admiration, as did the sculptures just below its roof.
But the figure of the Jayhawk carved on the building excited the writer of a paper in the Kansas University Weekly, the campus paper of that day. In the issue of January 81, Mr. Hawkins wrote that on that bit of sculpture, which he says, "supposedly intended as ornament."
In conclusion, he implants a final stringer: "Well, at a distance the things look about as much like a hawk as anything else, but upon closer inspection it has more the appearance of a deformed hippopotamus and says to its prayers that it is doing and say its prayers at the same time."
On Other Hills
Kansas Aggie' students are not satisfied with their dance music. A voting contest was recently held to find out the name of the best orchestra. The decision will be kept secret.
University of Vermont is the first college to adopt the plan of insuring against baseball financial losses due to bad weather. It is said that the university has schools, although insuring other outdoor sports is not a new novelty.
Columbia University freshmen who do not know the college songs are branded with iodine dipped hands.
Hobart college is the first American educational institution to receive a 77 millimeter field piece from the French government.
M. L. Spencer, dean of the school of Journalism at the University of Washington, told the women of the Washington school that she is a graduate of Missouri of the abundance of positions open in the West. "The women who can have a sigh and shud a tear on paper will have the opportunity to be successful under the western coasts," said Mr. Spencer.
One hundred and five University of Nebraska students recently participated in the annual university week trip. More than a dozen cities of town and various programs and stunts put on for boosting the institution.
November 6, 1920, will be homecoming day at Oklahoma University. The Kansas football eleven will waltage with the Sooners on that date.
The Pratt Mirror suggests a "show your ears day." It is said that Pratt boys refuse to believe that high school girls have any ears.
Peabody Pep heads the story of the editors visit to the newspaper conference at K. U., "Went to Lawen to see what they could see."
Even the Winfield high school thought that "Bye" had too many Oracle admits that one student won a basketball basket ball tournament at K. U.
The Pratt, Kansas Mirror reports $3000 fire loss to their new high school building. The blaze was discovered in the Chemistry laboratory and was probably due to spontaneous combustion.
High School Cublets
According to the Oracle, the Winfield high school will enter every track meet *passing* Dobson, the basket ball player, who won many games and holds the state pole vault record and is a whole team team himself.
Kansas State Normal and the Emporia Chamber of Commerce will award $1000 in prizes to winners in the competition. The event will be held April 22, 2014.
The writer of "Periscope" items in the Topeka high school World is evidently a eager. He says, "If you can get it, you're going to be behind Lonborg. Horton's mighty center when he gets ready to throw the ball. Experience has taught us that one dose is enough." Lonborg brother of K. U. "Duck" Lonborg.
Make teachers healthy and happy and you enliven and inspire not the teacher only but the classroom.
For instance:
Teachers have rights like other people. It's not only fair but play they need all round; and one who merely asks for a square deal for them is not to be branded as "a stirrer-up of trouble."
The profession as a whole suffers from depleted vitality, while the teachers one by one are suffering from nutrition of body and mind as well.
TEACHERS' "REWARD"
From the Philadelphia Leagger.
A teacher who sends me a letter on the pains and penalties of her great, important, undervailed calling adds:
"I have not touched upon the starvation for books and for recreation that I know enters into the general depression of the teachership today."
"I know of young women who cannot possibly afford the price for a course at the university and who know there is no possible chance for advancement unless they can show credentiality. This means that of personal self-development is counted as over against these marks that can be looked at upon a card.
"We are facing a national calamity in losing our best women for the children in the schools."
The letter itself is a feeling reminder of facts which in the busy onrush of the market-place and the preparation of the home we often overlook.
The teacher feels she cannot afford the luxury of illness. She is expected to meet youth with a youthful spirit—to face an overcrowded schoolroom and to pursue curriculum each morning with a fresh enthusiasm, no matter how she feels.
All the deadening influences of routine, plus sometimes the friction of misunderstanding, combine to leave a teacher angrily asking of Fate whether she is doomed to lead the existence of a felon in a cell or whether there is still the joy of living to be found within the four walls of the classroom.
Is the schoolhouse a prisonhouse?
It should not be.
"The teacher cannot afford to buy nourishing food, for the price has advanced 100 per cent, while at best her salary has gone up 20 per cent.
But here are a few detached phases of the teacher's problem:
"Nearly 90 per cent of Philadelphia's teachers (for five years or more) have family responsibilities that cannot be neglected.
"To the woman who has sacrificed the rights of the family and the love of her own children it is an almost irresistible longing to help some little people. You should be such that she can satisfy this rightful human craving."
Teachers have always been given to understand that their great reward lay in the fact that they were nobly serving.
"We have come upon deadly unbelief in all of us so far as the classroom teacher is concerned.
"She is struggling in the morass of mediocrity that discounts the child and places in first rank the records, cards, schedules and reports
She has 'ideal' courses of study to follow that might be successfully interpreted for classes of twenty pupils with unlimited personal resources on the part of the teacher. "Constant and soul-straining demands are made—with no apprehension—by the swivel chair educators.
"Ideals of understanding and guiding the child as a spiritual entity are looked upon secrely by these scientific pedagogues, because they cannot be graphed and do not lend themselves to scientific measurement.
"One young woman, after eight years of beautiful service to her children left because, as she herself stated it, I grew tired of the discouragement that seemed to grow stronger each year. I wanted to grow in a world, where everything is appreciated, that I regret the days I spent trying to teach and also to please grouchy supervisors of all kinds. The business man knows how to be courteous and to show appreciation for the smallest effort, and that he was compared to my class work. I can see advance ment adjudge all the time."
The penalty of our want of perception of these things will be paid by the coming generations.
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