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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of Illinois, as part of the Department of Journalism.
Lawrence, Kansas.
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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 further than merely printing the books she teaches the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more space; to give more energy; in all, to serve the best of its ability the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1920.
Have you a little counterpane in your home?
BEDSPREADS
Every bed in Lawrence, it is safe to say, has a cover of some kind of more or less decorative material, but few and far between are the hand-embroidered and woven bredspreads our grandmothers took such pride in making and exhibiting to neighbors and friends only.
Some three or four score of these pioneer strivings after beauty are on exhibition at the art museum on the third floor of East Ad this month. Mrs. Thayer, from whose collection most of the specimens come, has been working for the past week on arranging the collection artistically, and has succeeded.
The counterpanes, quilts, and examples of fine Italian embroidery which are arranged on the walls of the art department are wonderful examples of an art and patience that will soon be as extinct as the famed dodo. The minute working out of the tiny figures on the small pieces, the care that embroidered the intricate lettering of the Old English and Colonial language on cloth, is deserving of examination, and once examined, will elicit admiration.
The hyper-civilized world of today acknowledges the beauty and charm of these creations of generations gone before, when none of the conveniences of modern life alleviated the roughness of pioneer life, and when none of the same conveniences so hurried the fairer sex through her round of clubs and politics that she could not devote her time to the making of things beautiful. The counterparts are marvels of handwork, not horrors from the art-mangling machinery of modern times, and well worth the time spent in examination.
AN ADDITIONAL ATTRACTION
AN ADDITIONAL ATTRACTION
Kansas plays Nebraska November
13 on McCook Field, and a foronoon
contest between Lawrence High School
and another strong high school team
would be a first-class attraction, both
from a financial and from a sport
point of view. A football carnival
would be welcomed by local fans,
and would be a good bit of advertising
for the University.
The Thanksgiving game in 1921 will be another good opportunity for a morning exhibition, and there is no reason why this should not become a regular feature of the "big game" here. Lawrence is practically always among the leaders for the state championship, and supporters of the game would be assured of a good showing of football talent.
The Lawrence team would invari
only prefer to play its Thanksgiving game at home than to go elsewhere Last year the eleven did not play at all on that day. Financially, a morning game on Turkey Day would be a decided success, and neither game would detract from the crowd at the other. The arousing of interest in the University among high school students is a decided asset, and such would b an arrangement of this sort.
High school schedules have not yet been decided on for the coming season, and it is still possible to make the necessary arrangements so the innovation may be made this year. If it can be put through, Lawrence sport followers should be given a chance to receive their football treat.
A WOMAN'S PROFESSION
A new profession for college women has been developed in the art museums of Boston and New York.
The old mechanical guide trailing people around and telling them by rote annotate the various features given place to a philosopher and friend who is called A doent. In this connection the word carries a little more with it than the ordinary sense of teacher or instructor. This official instructs in a more universal way. She discovers at once how to interest and delight her transient pupil, and her enthusiasm and personality must be equal to all sorts and conditions of demand.
Women are naturally better fitted for this work than men. They have an inherent predilection for any kind of a collection, their intuitive love of every line of art, their devotion to any good cause, their eagerness to help people grow, their ready appreciation of the least effort in the right direction, their ability to make people at home and wish to come again, all these things make them especially eligible. No matter how valuable its treasures may be, a museum is the dulest, nearest place on earth to the ordinary visitor who finds nowhere within it a warm human touch. Given a bit of genuine interest and understanding and first-hand information, we find the place a veritable Aladin's palace. It is the business of the locent to put the magic lamp in his hands, and he will do the rest.
The University has three fine art collections besides the Dyche Museum, small equipment for an adequate course in doctery. Our students feel he need of such service. The special raining would accomplish both artfuls. And whatever the new fee might cost, it would also bring general returns.
STANDARDIZATION NEeded
Great Britain is loath to abandon its antiquated system of currency, weights and measures because of the English tradition of holding to the heritages of ancient days. The British coinage system of guineas, sovereigns, pounds, crowns, florins, shillings, groats, pence and farthingss seems extremely cumbersome to Americans, but to citizens of other countries America's slowness to adopt the metric system seems equally to indicate a lack of progress. Practically the entire civilized world with the exception of Britain and the United States has adopted the decimal system of meters, liters and grams. Scientists everywhere make use of the system which is based on accurately measured standards.
The change to the metric system would not in the United States involve so much confusion as might be imagined. The meter is ten per cent longer than the American yard, and by changing its name to "world yard," would not unbalance American commerce if introduced. Likewise, the liter is five per cent more than the liquid quart, and could readily be introduced as the "world quart." Five hundred grams are ten per cent more than a pound avoirdupois, and would serve as a "world pound."
The elimination of the fraction in weights and measures is the second great advantage of the metric system, standardization being the first. Were ounces, inches and gills abolished, the result would be as great a step toward progress as if the British coinage were converted into the American decimal system.
Among Those Mentioned
(This is one of a series of five sketches on the men being considered for the chancellorship of the University—Editor.)
Henry J. Waters
Dr. Henry J. Waters, president of Kansas State Agricultural College from 1909 to 1918, now editor of the Kansas City Weekly Star, is a Missouriian, born in Center, Mo., Nov. 23, 1865. He attended the University of Missouri, from which he received his B.S. A degree in 1886, and did graduate work there in 1894, studying at the Universities of Leipzig and Zurich. In 1913 he got his L. L. D. from New Hampshire College.
Doctor Waters work has been primarily in agricultural fields. He has served in a number of capacities in his work and gained much prestige from the fact his work as director of the Missouri agricultural exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. He is the author of several books on the subject, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. Doctor Waters was very popular among his students while he was at the head of K. S. A. C., and due to his long experience in Kansas and his wide acquaintance with Kansas problems, he is considered to have five years start of any other man in Kansas, which would incidentally be a large asset to any man acquiring the chancellorship of the University of Kansas.
Ye Good Old Days
An Early Commencement
Nearly eleven columns of type, mostly six-point, the citizens of Lawrence of the commencement exercise of 1708, when ten students left the university. An journal of June 15 devoted that month to the event, giving in entirety all the addresses made for the occasion. Each of the ten graduates, Chancellor James Marvin, and Reverend Mr. Cockins, a Presbyterian minister, made an address and these are given in full
Ten days or more of rainy weather had preceded Commencement Day, but the day itself was clear and warm. Infantry band from Fort Leavenworth attended the occasion, and it was a gala event for townpeople as well as students. The entire student body formed in line outside the chapel and "marching to martial music, passed once about the hall" before taking their seats, according to the victorian captain, who added that "this feature was new and very pleasing."
An Early Commencement
The subjects of the addresses were of the deepest seriousness and the speeches were full of the most learned phrases. Some of them were, "Goethe the Philosopher," "Tropean," the Basis of Morality, and "The Greek Renaissance."
A very nice row seems in process of formation here, for elsewhere in the paper is a call for a mass meeting of citizens and students at the court house to protest against the action. Unfortunately no further details are given about the event and to the Alumni Society's collection of relics. It was presented by Ellis G. Noyes, now of Portsmouth, Va. a member of the class of 1875.
In the same issue of the paper is a article headed "A Starter," which contains the information that the Board of Regents at a special meeting had asked the resignation of Professor Schlegel and elected "a man from Illinois instead of Professor English" to the chair of English language. "This action seems to us an unqualified outrage to both professors, though Miss Schlegel did not request," says the editor, "and if today we find our first impression correct, we shall tell to-morrow where the outcame in."
"Tonight my name is written on the roll of dis-honor of the day. I can no longer walk around with a free conscience. I have broken one if the ten commandments. Nay, I am not so sure but that I have broken two of them. I got a book to-day out of the library.
(Note: The following, apparently extracts from a dairy, were found on the desk of the editor. They had torn from a note book—Editor.)
Confessions of a Book Thief
"It was a sneaking thing to do but I didn't have time to stop and read the assignment at the library so when no one was looking I took it out. Till the thing back to mowrows and maybe no one has missed it and how."
November 19.
Oct. 27.
"I found that book today that I awiped last month. Guess I'd better not take it back now. Some one
might see me and there is no use
December 20.
"I am at it again. I matched two books this week. The class is large and most of them have texts so they don't need them anyway. There are lots of places that I can put $2.75. "I still have the book that I took in October. There's no use is taking it back now.
running any chances.
January 15.
I am getting a fine collection of books out of the library now. Talk about being smooth. I can walk into the study with ease. I get several off of the studies study forty krots per for awhile then calmly pile a new book on with my others, put the reest back and walk out looking as innocent as a patent medicine advert-
January 19.
"Had some fun today. The professor assigned a reference in a book and there was only one book. I didn't try to get it until it was late then I walked off with it and got my lesson after. I came home from the show. Well, for when a couple of the class came in after it. Somehow they had trouble finding it. Didn't find it at all in fact. I did manage to keep the face straight but it was hard work." "What's one book more or less in a library the size of that one anyhow. There ought to be plenty more there. I guess have as much right to those books as I have to follow a year and besides I live in Kansas and my family pays taxes to help support this place.
January 29.
"Well I'm through. Every time look in the glass I see a dishonest, selfish sneak thief. That's all I've been. No I didn't get hurt, but I found out something that certainly showed me up. Bill Parker, a fellow from home and one of the best friends I had, was taking his last lost out on some last minute work in a book that I got along in December some time. The class was assigned special work and his was all in this book. He tells me that he couldn't get it and got so far she that he couldn't get back. And besides he says that he didn't have a smile or as bad off because they couldn't get stuff when they needed it.
"I'm going to get every one of those books back in that library before this week is over and if ever I get so far off again I hope that someone will be so kind as to put me on the train and send me home."
When upon a trial a man calls witnesses to his character, and those witnesses only say that they never hard or do not know anything ill or inflicts, at least, a neutral and insignificant character—Cheffielder.
I do not ask that they shall reveal to me the secret of the universe, for I do not believe, like a child, that this secret can be expressed in three words or that it can enter my brain without bursting—Ecclesiastes.
Despair makes a despairing figure and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and I never did my duty to despair unless I saw my fortune recorded in the book of fate and signed and sealed by necessity.*
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B. M. BECKLOCH, Druggis
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PROTCH The College Tailor
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And
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Tomorrow
--You will enjoy the clever work of that well liked athletic actor.
George Walsh IN "THE SHARK" AT THE BOWERSOCK
BOWERSOCK THEATRE
AMERICA'S GREATEST TOURING ORGANIZATION.
Symphony Orchestra  BOLLIANT CHORUS, STRAIGHT STAGE SETTINGS.
ONE NIGHT ONLY FRIDAY, MARCH 26
Bizet's Resplendent Masterpiece
"CARMEN"
With an ALL STAR CAST Including: STELLA D METTE,
ROSINA ZOTTI, GIUSEPPE AGOSTINI, MARIO VALLE,
PIETRO DE BIASI, NATALE CERVI. GAETANO MEROLV.
Conductor.
PRICES:
Orchestra $2.50 & $2.00 Balcony $2.00 & $1.50 Gallery $1.00
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