DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 18,1918
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the life of a university of Kansan; further than merely printing the news, it tries to make sure that its veracity holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charming; to be kind; to have more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918.
CHRISTIANITY IN THE WAR
The campaign to get all University students into the nation-wide movement of enrolling college students in bible classes has started on the campus. Before the convoction Friday, many organizations at the University had already started their Bible study classes. But why should the students take an interest in the movement?
World leaders claim that there must be Christianity in the world before there can be the Democracy for which we are fighting in the present world struggle. It is hoped that the doctrines taught in these classes will make clearer the issues for which we are fighting, as well as applying their teachings to the social problems that face the world.
It is the desire of the men behind the movement now to get the college men and women, and faculty to start discussing the principles of Christianity and find out if they have any application to the world Democracy. College men and women should know what Christianity is if they are to take part in the big program of reconstruction in Europe and in this country. They will not be fitted for this work if they have no conception of the meaning of Christianity.
Is Kansas to be a leader in this work or only among the colleges who also supported the movement? The next few days, should tell.
We notice that Kansas jackrabbits are feeling sad when they think of how their fond relatives are disappearing as chicken croquettes. One consolation, Kansas law forbids snake eating exhibitions.
UNIVERSALITY OF TRACK
Kansas goes into the Kansas Aggie track meet tonight an uncertain quantity dependent almost entirely on material untried in Varsity track experience. Few students realize that it is an enormous task to build up from a new and small squad with a basis of only two veterans, a team of sixteen or twenty men. For this reason if the Jayhawker team does not show the proper strength at Manhattan in this first meeting, it will be because few men have come out for the team.
All Missouri Valley schools will be weakened by the loss of their athletes going into the military service the same as Kansas has been. It will depend on the support these schools get from their new men what sort of a showing they will make this year. When the loyal Jayhawker calls to memory the many defeats at the hands of Missouri which were lost because Kansas did not have four athletes to beat the Tiger in the final and deciding event, the relay, he knows that something is lacking in the support given, that track team.
At Missouri a drive is started in December to get men out for the relay team. The call is answered by fifteen to twenty runners. Competition is intense. The result of such active interest is a Missouri victory.
College athletics in its best sens at the University of Kansas does no mean the exclusive training of a few men who are specialists in sport and nothing else. The aim is not to pit chosen gladiators against chosen gladiators with a Rock-Chalk, Jay-Hawk for victory. Especially is this untrue of track, for track is near the ideal.
Essentially track is everybody's athletics. Many may come and many can be chosen. The element of victory is incidental; the fundamental principle is universal participation. The victory is personal, and its reward is lasting in physical strength and consequent mental alertness. A man who is unresponsive this year might be called an unpleasant name if he is indifferent and lazy. Underclassmen have unusual opportunities because of the scarcity of upperclassmen. The concrete opportunities are in the K. C. A. C. and Missouri-Kansas meet. The men who will persist in twiddling his thumbs and growing soft, fills an unenviable though easy chair in the spring of 1918.
USE YOUR SPOON
Now leave no sugar in your cup-
*Twoble to the worst of crimes*
Take just enough, and melt it up—
For those be stirring times.
—Life.
A REAL BAND
"You have a real band here."
The easterner had been listening to the University of Kansas band playing at a basketball game. It was the closing game of a rather disastrous home season. A small crowd was out to watch what appeared to be an easy victory for Kansas. The music of J. C. McCanies' band broke the silence with "Crimson and the Blue." Then "Boola, Boola," started the second half.
The result was eight points scored in less than three minutes. The band was surely doing its share to make the season successful.
But that music was not learned in a day or a week or a month. Many practices every week from two to three hours in length with a capable leader devoting all of his energies to the advancement of the musicians made the finished product heard in public, a thing of admiration.
And these men in the band who want to keep up their musical work after they leave the University, find many open for them. Today, here are many old University bandmen playing in the navy and army pands while they are serving their country. Such an institution is worthwhile at any rate.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
LITTLE THINGS HAPPEN
She was sick with measles. He had plenty of things to keep himself busy and to think about, yet he remembered her with a small parcel of flowers.
Harvard's Bureau of Vocational Guidance has just completed an important investigation for the Federal Government. The results are published in a book giving essential data on the training required by men in the shipbuilding trades
ON OTHER "HILLS"
Vassar is now added to the list of women's colleges which will send a reconstructed unit to France. A Smith unit is already abroad and Wellesley's will probably be there sometime in the spring.
More than 550 women undergraduates have registered for volunteer war work at Cornell. Courses for women are conducted in surgical dressing, and comfort kit making, in knitting, garment making and dietetics, and allied subjects. A campaign to enroll every woman in the university in some war work is now nearing completion.
The graduate councils of Smith, Simmons and Mount Holyoke will hold their annual meeting next week.
The Harvard summer engineering camp at Squam Lake, N. H., has been abandoned again on account of the war. This decision is announced by the university school of engineering and mining after attempts had been made to draw up plans by which the campus could be maintained, and after thirty students had petitioned to enroll in the summer work.
The total enrollment of the University of Wisconsin is 4,064, or 956 less than last fall. The number of women students has increased from 1690 to 1757, and the number of men has decreased from 3330 to 2307.
A signal corps has been organized at the University of Rochester, and practical work begun.
More than a hundred scientific schools and colleges have volunteered to offer courses to train drafted men for special service in the army.
Arrangements have been made with the state adjutant general's department, by Colonel John Leader, for the University of Oregon battalion to use the equipment of the Eugene armory.
Vasco da Gama was a bull fighter Copernicus was the wife of Julius Caesar, Kipling wrote the Three Musketeers, Prussian Blue is a dye and Russian Yellow is the Baskeli sveki. This revised history was gleaned from a class of seniors and graduate students, who were given a survey of French culture of Kansas the other day in an advanced class in chemistry. The only member of the class to make "excellent" in the quiz was a mere youth.
Graduates In Dark Concerning Odyssey
"This quiz hasn't much to do with chemistry and is entirely irregular," the instructor announced, "but I'm going to test your general knowledge. You came here this morning expectant to learn about it, first lesson and then be dismissed. Instead I'm going to begin this semester's work with a quiz."
What is sublimation, corrosive sublimate, sublimed white lead and the sublime porte? was asked in the quiz.
The entire class missed the "sul lime port" part of the question, but practically all answered the remain der.
What effect has salt on a cow; on a hen? Why?
One student could answer that. Another said Marco Polo "made a map of the world and named America after himself," while two described Cortez as a Spanish who explored Mexico and came north as for..."
you came north as far as Kansas.
What is the Odyssey?
"Odyssey is a popular Latin novel
lived Homer." one man answered.
"Who was Mohammed and when did he live?"
"Mohammed was an Arab who had visions in a cave."
So much for the assimilation of information dispensed at the University.
MENTAL LAPSES
BONA FIDE
"Does your grocer attempt to explain high prices?"
“He always keeps his word.”
“Well, gabe tells it,” Purr.
"Well, nobody'll take it!"—Burr.
"He did at first. Now he merely shudders as he accepts the money, and I grean." Louisville Courier-Journal.
--at
First Squirrel: That chap has been hanging around here for days. Won't do that.
Second Squirrel; I suspect he is a
controller, and wants to jug to
us for them.
A trainroad of newly-drafted men reached their cantonment late in the afternoon. By the time they had passed through the Receiving Station and the hands of the doctors, it was nearly midnight. Several of them were awakened at two o'clock the following morning to assist the cook in preparing lunch; sleepy drafted man got to his feet he stretched and yawned: "It doesn't take long to spend a night in the army."—Everybody's.
SOME SPEED
SUSPICIOUS
Old Lady: Why can't the admiralty tell us how many submarines have been sunk?
Jack: Well, y' so, mum, we can't spare enough divers to walk about the bottom of the sea and count 'em.— Passing Show.
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