UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 3,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1918.
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The Daily Kansan aims to pleasenewly print the news by meaning for the ideals the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by beating them for the ideals the University of Kansas; to be cheerful; to be be clean; to be cheerful; to be cheerful; to be leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university; in all, to serve the students of the University.
FRESHMAN CAPS AS USUAL
According to tradition freshman caps were due to reappear Tuesday morning after the Easter vacation.
Upperclassmen watching for the conventional head gear Tuesday morning were not disappointed; men of the class of '21 had not forgotten their postage stamps.
The reappearance of those freshman caps is particularly glading to the hearts of the old guard this spring. They are a welcome evidence that in a time of difficulties and trials, when many traditions are topping and conventions growing slack, that the freshman class appreciates the traditions of the University, and are getting in line. This spirit is a healthy sign of a class of strong caliber.
BUT-
It was the day after vacation. She had been home to rest. But there had been many parties and other engagements to take up her time. Although she realized that there were lessons to prepare for the coming Tuesday, she arrived at class with her mind a blank, and no recitation prepared. She was not a loafer, but—
COLLEGE BASEBALL FADING
Is college baseball fading out? This year only three teams in the Missouri Valley Conference are playing the game. Last season Nebraska, Ames, Missouri, the Kansas Aggies, Kansas and several of the smaller schools of the valley had teams in the title race, but this spring only Missouri, Kansas and Ames have nines.
The action of those three teams in keeping up the national sport of this country is to be commended as a manifestation of the spirit of these institutions. They have shown a desire to keep the University man in trim so he can fight the right sort of a fight for his country when he leaves school. The number of real men trying for the nine this spring at the University justifies the retention of baseball here.
Thirty men are trying to make the team at the Jayhawker institution—no mean gathering of athletes. Few old men are back; they are in the service. But the younger man is filling the ranks left open by the departure of the veterans. This nine has the chance to make a showing in the triangular conference. The only regret is that there are only three teams to play.
To make up for the decrease in the number of teams there has been an increase in the number of games which each team is to play this year. Kansas will play three games here with Ames to start the season on April 22, 23, and 24. The same number of contests will be played both at home and away from home to save
expense and give each team the best chance to show its ability. But still there is a dearth of teams.
Why should other schools in the conference do away with baseball? They know that government medical authorities say it is essential to keep going all athletics in the schools if the nation is to be fit. A few colleges have given up all sports except those by the extremely informal teams, but even these colleges have seen the folly of their views and are expected soon to resume all athletic team work.
But in spite of this, baseball fades in the Missouri Valley. Football, track and basketball as usual, but the national pastime game—never. It is too expensive.
So it is that only Missouri, Kansas, and Ames will uphold the grand old game in the Missouri Valley this year while the other schools are content to read the scores. Nice easy time for them, but do they feel good about it?
Vacation is a variation of emotions. The vacationist is glad beforehand and sorry afterwards.
COLD SHOWERS FOR ATHLETES
The water was cold. The men had just finished playing basketball, baseball, doing wrestling, boxing, gymnasium and track work, and were hot from their hard work-outs. They found only cold water in the Robinson Gymnasium showers. Only a little lack of heat in under the boilers, but it was bad for the athletes.
A race horse owner would never allow his prize horse to get into cold water after running a race, but these University athletes, many of them out for the Varsity teams and trying to get into the best sort of trim and stay that way, had a choice of using the icy cold water or doing without their daily showers. Cold water has been the cause of many of the sore and stiff muscles of the baseball players trying for the team this season. Now they are using the McCook Field showers, but this little neglect of having hot water will still be hard on the men who use the Robinson Gymnasium showers. With the many University men taking exercise this year such a condition is intolerable. A little attention is needed.
MY CAPTAIN
It was good to look into his face If he is the American officer—and he is—every last man who goes from this University into the ranks of the army is glad to go.
Captain Garlinghouse loves men. Men can't help coming back to him with all their hearts of youth. He did not talk about himself. He did not need to. He was there, right there every minute. And every onl in front of him when he spoke here just before the University closed for the Easter recess was thrilled by his presence, his personality, his inborn gift of leadership.
The captain talked of other captains and their men. He told what the captains thought of their men, of what the men thought of their captains. They will go on together, one in spirit and in deed. They will rejoice that they thus can go for what they do go, even should they never come back.
Captain Garlinghouse will not soon be forgotten at the University of Kansas. He was to all who heard him the living exemplification of the very things he came to tell about. "My captain!"—is the greatest salute in all the world. He has it. Every captain has it. Such men are made of American stuff in the American army. They are the hope of the world.
She always came to class with a highly developed grouch. Nobody in the class noticed her except for the grouch. The professor was not a driver and did not make the work unpleasant but the social strain was disconcerting to her class work. She realized that she came to the University to study, but—
BUT—
The Philologist
A Few Words With Him Every Day
"You see, it's like this," said the Phillologist, as he swung his desk chair around with a squawk, "the reason that the word 'T-C-H-K' still persists is that it is an automatic reflex, and you can't change it without changing the human mouth. Ordinary words change pretty fast, and these stories of a man who hops into his time-machine and goes forward or back a thousand years or so and interviews the natives are manifestly absurd and impossible. For instance, do you think that Julius Caesar would recognize the word 'palrefy' that originated about his time?
"You know the word,—we used not long ago for a lady's riding horse. Originally it meant 'an extra horse.' In the days of chivalry it was the night's riding-horse as distinguished from his charger of battle-horse. The word began when the Romans started their postal system in Gaul. They adopted the Gallic light wagon called 'rheda.' The horse that drew it they called 'veredum,' the 've' coming from the verb 'veh' which means 'I draw.' If the Roman postman, or R. F. D. man, needed an extra horse, he called it 'paraveredum.' Then as they all used the word the extra syllables were off and the word became successively: 'paravred', 'parafret', 'pafralet', 'palfrei,' and the modern French 'palfroi' and the eventual English 'palfrey.' I'll explain the other changes in the word if you'll come around during the holidays when I have lots of time.
"I'm afraid Julius would think the word was about worn out, and probably he'd have a still poor opinion of the German word 'Pferd,'" said the Philologist as he turned to his desk again and absentmindedly as usual stuck his pencil in the ink-bottle.
POET'S CORNER
PRAIRIE NIGHT
The night went out on the prairie Far and far yet clear
The wind came in from the prairie Gentle and new and slow,
The night went out on the prairie Nor shadowed a firmament sheer.
The wind came in from the prairie And drew from the heart a glow.
The stars shone down on the prairie
Sifting from heaven's crest,
The stars shone down on the prairie
Then sleep swept over the prairie— Closing the drowsy eyes,
The stars shone down on the prairie Their light was the light of rest.
Then sleep spread over the prairie.
And opened the starlit sky.
Meredith
MENTAL LAPSES
"Alice?"
"You use entirely too much pain, on your face. Remember, a blush on the cheek is worth two in the drug store."—Florida Times-Union.
One cold and wet, wink night, a farmer came upon a negro shivering in the doorway of an Atlanta store. Wondering what the negro could be doing, standing in such a drafty position, the farmer said:
"What is it, grandma, dear?"
"Jim, what are you doing here?" "Scuse me, sir!" said Jim, "but I'm gwine to sing bass tomorrow mornin' at church, an' I am tryin' to catch cold," Dallas News.
Mr. Butterworth, the grocer, was looking over the credit sales slips one day. Suddenly he called to the new clerk:
"Why, I did," retorted the clerk, who was an earnest young fellow. "I did get a report. The agency said he owed money to every grocer in town, and, of course, if his credit was that good I knew that you would like to have him open an account here!"—Rehobeth Herald.
"Sure," said the clerk. "I—"
"Didn't I tell you to get a report on any and every man asking for credit?"
"Did you give George Callahan credit?"
"Can you meet this bill today?" "Not today; this is a meatless day." —Life.
Wife (returned from overnight visit)—"Did you get yourself a good dinner last evening, dear?" Hub—"Yes, there was a bit of steak in the ice box and I cooked it with a few ones I found in the cellar." Wife—"Onions? Jack, you've eaten my bulbs."—Boston Transcript.
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