UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MARCH 1, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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The Daily Kansan aims, to picture University of Kansas; to go for further than merely printing the news of University of Kansas; to play very versatility holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be helpful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve the students of the University.
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.
ATMOSPHERE CONSERVED
The compulsory ruling which brought 900 women to the food lecture in Fraser Hall Wednesday was a matter of present national necessity. But with all the saving coincident to the waging of war there was no necessity for conserving the atmosphere in a crowded room.
Every woman at that lecture had to breathe again and again the same air breathed and rebreathed by the other 899. There was no attempt at ventilation; every door was closed, every fire exit was guaranteed against intrusion of outer air, every window was tight in its frame save one—and that one window stuck helplessly six inches above its sill.
This is the season when, The University Health Board keeps its warnings solemnly intoning. Precautions against sore throat, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and so on—are shouted from the hilltop and pasted on every available wall. Wise doctors advise vaccination, calomel, salts, gargles, diets, and—most of all—FRESH AIR.
Then 900 women, some of them like as not a bit feverish with incipient colds, are herded in one stifling compound, are fastened in for an hour of vile ventilation. And 900 brains stultified by stale air, corrupted by carbon dioxide, are expected to absorb sufficient knowledge about the food question to go home and tell the folks about it.
OUR K. U. VENEER
Conventional manners are not necessarily the outward evidence of true courtesy and innate good breeding. Conventional manners are too deliberate, too self-conscious. At least they are in the University of Kannas.
Freshmen come here from all sorts of homes. The average freshman is to a greater or less extent diffident, uncertain of him, or herself, hesitant in the University's cosmopolitan field. His content, true kindness of heart and good intent, is good, but his self expression is feeble and jerky. University life has a strong tendency to mold him into good form, letting his content degenerate.
Jimmy arrives at the University. He may say "Yes, sir" to waiters, possess no idea at all when he should remove his hat, and have immoderate affection for orange colored sweaters, but he is modest, wants to be "nice to everybody," and is totally unskilled in the "getting-by" art so widely practiced at the University. A fraternity notices that Jimmy is a nice boy, and needing men, they invite him to their chapter house constantly for two weeks, treating him in a princely fashion. Just as poor Jimmy decides that they are the world's choicest collection of fine fellows they decide they had letter take the other
man, and all consistently "pass up" Jimmy when they meet him on the Hill. Jimmy is temporarily crushed and wonders how he has blundered.
Later he joins some other frat, improves his taste in nectaries, acquires a "line," learns to discriminate between the "keen" and the unseen "date," accepts favors without returning them. He has learned how to "get by." Little freshman Mary learns to supplement her small wardrobe with her sorority sister's clothes, browr their cold creams. She acquires skill in shifting the uninteresting or more humble guest off on some one else, in contriving to be always near the most striking, or popular person in the room, in manouvering for really "keen" dates to parties, and to get herself into the limelight whenever possible. She comes to be conventionally, but obviously mechanically, courteous to guests at dinner and to pass them without speaking the next morning; to talk enthusiastically to a fellow student at a reception at her own home and afterward to silently disclaim the acquaintance by unblushing accepting an introduction to her.
Like Jimmy, she too, learns to "get by." Both because deliberately and consciously courteous, superficially well bred, but not spontaneously and innately so. It's a matter of acquiring veneer, with a loss of quality of heart.
Freshmen themselves are not so much to blame. They come here at an impressionable age and merely fall in line. They would fall in line on a higher level just as readily. It is up to the present generation of upper-classmen to establish the new line, one based on genuineness, more sincerity and true good breeding.
Many DePauw Men Bear Arms. Headline.
But that's nothing. We venture to say that the women have been baring their arms for some time.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
The lecture was only half finished. A steady stream of seemingly weary students and others filed through the door. But each one opened the swinging door and then let it swing back and forth until it stopped of its own accord. The speaker could not help being annoyed. A little care in opening and closing the door would have eliminated the noise. It's the little things that count.
UNPAID OBLIGATIONS
Unpaid pledges amounting to $4,689.15 prevent the University of Kansas from the fulfillment of her promise to give $12,000 to the Student Friendship War Fund. Unforeseen difficulties have delayed many individual payments, no doubt. The original enthusiasm of the campaign has diminished. The chief reason for this failure, probably, is that the unpaid pledges are small, ranging from one to five dollars. Individually it has been easy to forget. The University of Kansas will be judged, however, in the light of individual action. About half the faculty and undergraduate pledges are still unpaid. Payments may be made at the Registrar's office, anytime.
A man's field of endeavor is his own mind. The so-called big man may not be as big as the fisherman in the obscure village. Just because a man is connected with a big job, does not prove how a real big man. It's not the size of the job you tackle, but how well you do it. Many men have apparently no ambition in life and are content with minding their own business and making the wife and babies happy. Maybe they're little men, but we doubt it. A man can do a neater piece of work with a pocket knife than he can with a circular saw, but the saw will make more noise and more dust. Bigness lies in one's own soul and a man does more good by living one day right than by spending ten telling others how to do it.—Ex.
A MAN'S FIELD
POET'S CORNER
Rosaleil Dunlap, the niece of Prof. C. G. Dunlap, of the department of English wrote the following poem, Wednesday night after hearing of the gassing of American soldiers in the trenches of France. Miss Dunlap is a student in the Hyde Park high school of American arms an angle with Mrs. Dunlap; Father, the world has bled today! Blood cannot wash our hurts away—Lo—the widening crimson stain—Wounds of sorrow that throb with
A PRAYER
Take, or take them, our mother's
sons—
Wounds of sorrow that throb with pain!
Guards, oh guard them, our cherished
own!
Many suffer along the way— Father, thy world has bled today!
Father, thy world has welt today!
Tears cannot wipe our hurts away—
Where is peace for a troubled breast?
Where is solace and where is rest?
Bring, oh bring us, the cooling balm
Still, small voice of eternal calm!
Many fainter along the way—
Father, thy world has wept today!
Father, thy children pray today.
Nothing can take the hurt away—
Weared, broken, the childen kneel—
Lifting hearts for our God to heal!
Great Physician, dispel our fears—
Stainch the bleeding and dry the
tears Father thy children pray today.
MENTAL LAPSES
-Rosalie Dunlap
Wife: You know, Henry, I speak as I think.
Husband: Yes, my love; only oftener. —Topeka Journal.
"Mr. Duubwaite, I have been talking to you for the past half-hour."
"Umph!"
"I was vaguely aware of it, my ear."
"If you will keep on talking for about five minutes I will be in a position to give you close attention. I've nearly finished this magazine article I'm reading."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Yes, really—they're watching everyone these days—why, even my stockings are clocked!—The Minnesota Daily.:
Go tell Aunt Rhoda
Go tell Aunt Rhoda,
Go tell Aunt Rhoda,
Go tell Aunt Rhoda,
Her old Gray Goose is dead;
She died on Friday,
She died on Friday,
She died on Friday,
To make a meatless spread.
—Indiana Daily Student
There ain't anything with more precocity than the first robin, unless it is a woman with a new spring hat. —Indiana Daily Student.
The campus of Nebraska University is at present being decorated with four new buildings. These buildings, Nebraska Hall, Chemistry Hall, Bassey Hall, and a Social Service Building, will be completed by the second semester. -Daily Texan.
Some of these days you will hear if Miss Jeanette Rankin, congresswoman from Montana, being married; not for her money, but for her notiter;—E. W. Howe's Monthly.
"More necessary even than to in-close poetry," responded the experienced author—New York Sun.
Vona's home made candies, daily, at the Candy Shop.-Adv.
"Is it necessary to inclose stamps,' asked the poet.
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TEACHERS WANTED—War conditions cause many good positions to be open. We must be prepared to fill them. Write for our blank and institutional Bureau, W. J. Hawkins, Mgr., Metropolitan Blige, L.S., Louis, Mo.
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Dick Building.
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO
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DR. H. REDING—F A. U. Building;
Hours 10 to 5. Phone 813.
Hours 9 to 5. Phone 813.
JOB PRINTING—B. H. DALE, 1027
Mass. St. Phone 228.
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D., Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology and hospital, N. A. U. Bldg., residence and hospital, 1201 Ohio St. Both phones, 1201.
KEELEES BOOK STORE—Quiz books,
artist materials, drawing supplies,
Pictures and picture framing. Agency
and armond Typewriters. 393 Maa.
Street.
Fresh limades at the Candy Shop.
Adv.
HOTEL
KUPPER
Kansas City, Mo.
Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District especially handy for ladies, being on Petticoat Lane. Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets. WALTER S. MARS, Mgr.
DR. BRADEN'S BIBLE CLASS FOR UNIVERSITY MEN AND WOMEN Meets at
MYER'S HALL
Sunday Mornings 9:30
9:30
UNSECTARIAN AND UNDENOMINATIONAL
If you are not already a member of a Sunday Morning Bible Class—here is your opportunity.
Class dismissed in time for Church Services.
A MESSAGE TO YOUNG MEN on Spring Stetsons
HERE is the "Rocket," a top liner among the new Spring Stetons, just out of boxes and now ready for your inspection in this busy store.
YOU men who think twice about the style of your hats will find solid satisfaction in having this complete line of Spring Stetsons to select from.
And you're always welcome at our shop— whether you are ready to buy or just looking around.
Then, too, there the matter of quality—the sound Stetson value, doubly welcome today when every man is alive to the duty of making every dollar do its best for him.
PECKHAM'S
Why The Dates Go To Bricks
They go to Brick's because they not only get eats of the highest class but also because of the excellent service which is a feature of the Oread Cafe.
Spotless linen adds an air of satisfaction when you sit down to a table at Brick's. Fresh vegetables every day.
Call 592 for a reservation for Sunday night dinner, but
It's just a step from the campus"
The Oread Cafe
E. D. Bricken, Prop.
A. G. ALRICH
736 Mass. St.
Is the place to get the best in printing and engraving.
PALACE BARBER SHOP
A first class shop for K. U. men.
ELECTRIC massage
FRANK VAUGHN, Prop.
730 Mass. St.
LANDER
CARTER'S
PROTCH
THE JEWELLER
Makes Watches Run Right
917. MASS. ST.
The College Tailor SPRING SUITS
Typewriter Supplies, Stationery University Supplies Agent for CORONA typewriter
Spring is here!—so are the new fabrics for Spring Suits.
SCHULZ The TAILOR
917 Mass. St.
CONKLIN PENS are sold at McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
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