UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 5,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picure the students of the University of Kansas; to go further than metly print the news including for the ideals the university is striving to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be helpful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University, to qualify the students of the University.
TUESDAY, FERRUARY 5, 1918.
ARE THE CRITICISMS JUST?
Many criticisms of the University of Kansas hinge on the fact that the outsider believe the students to be frivolous and artificial. Now that the war is on, Mr. Outsider points sneeringly at the uniforms and leggings. His jeering smile becomes a loud laugh when he sees wool uniforms and leather puttees in University classrooms, usually on men too young to enlist.
The fact that some University women continue to buy clothing that is flimsy and unnecessary as well as extravagant, is not winning a reputation for sincerity for the students in school.
If, on the other hand, an article could be printed stating truthfully that every student was a member of the Red Cross, and that wouldn't be at all unreasonable; that a great majority had invested in Baby Bonds; that every student had signed the government food conservation pledge— isn't it reasonably sure to raise the opinion of the University which suffers at the reports of its weaknesses?
A WELCOME CHANGE
In their last totering years, the enrollment of the seniors has been made comfortable, and lacking the agitating, whirling haste of the past. It is a move that should be commended. But it is right that they should experience the maelstrom of a red taped and breathless enrollment. It is experience for the freshmen, and education in the application of the principle of variables or change for the sophomores and juniors, but, the weary seniors welcome a calm scene.
ALLIES VICTORIOUS, SO FAR
ALLIES VICTORIOUS, SO FAR Contrary to much of what one hears today, Germany emphatically has not won the Great War so far. This is a world war, and our consideration should extend over all the involved territory, and not be restricted to a few miles of territory along the Rhine valley, the Vistula, or the Vardar.
As one looks at a map of the globe, he sees that:
The Allies control all oceans, thereby rendering Germany in a state of siege. The Allies comprise sixteen nations. The Allies have thirty times the area, and ten times the population of the German Empire.
The Allies are in control of all neutral nations, and can cut them off from the German Empire, or the outside world. The Allies, have already conquered 82 per cent of the German Empire and 66 per cent of the Ottoman Empire, as each stood before the war. The Allies have gained 1,733,000 square miles to the Central powers gain of 158,000 square miles.
So far as material things go, the Allies have won, up to this time. But there will, of course be no victory
until our purpose in entering the war is accomplished; until the German Empire is utterly crushed, so that a new order of things can be set up.
Complete victory in inevitable, the war but continues long enough.
MILITARY TRAINING AT OREGON
A battalion, composed of four companies of University of Oregon students and a band, under the command of John Leader, drill from 1 to 2 o'clock every day at Oregon. Colonel Leader is head of the department of military science. The work has so far consisted of field formation and drill.
A typical first line trench has been dug across the University golf links, and a dugout and communication trenches are to follow soon. The work is done by the University company of engineers on Saturday mornings. Bridges of the pontoon, trestle, pile, and frame, types are to be constructed.
Camouflage, explosives, night drills, rifle practice, bird-eye drawing, and the stretching of barbed wire entanglements, are some of the phases of war in which training will be given. Three hours of theory given at 7 o'clock in the evening, accompany the five hours of compulsory drill. Men doing practice work wear overalls, and there are enough Springfield rifles for all.
Surely this is an example of a successful plan of intensive military training. Why can't it be tried at the University of Kansas.
CAMPUS OPINION
Editor Daily Kansan:
Why do you print so much destructive criticism? Just the other day a contributor to your columns complained about conditions that, at worst, are tolerable. Why not be as cheerful as possible? If you agree with me, you may be willing to print the following statement of facts:
It is interesting to know some of the many ways in which K. U. is doing its "bit." One little way is the appointing of an "Intelligence Committee" whose aim is to make available the best and latest material or the war in all its phases. A considerable sum of money has been spent for bulletin boards which are placed in prominent places in the different buildings;—unfortunately the weather has not permitted much lingering at the boards out of doors or in draughty places in the halls but one can get something even in passing. A great deal of time must be required to acquire, and place this material, and members of the committee have spent no small amount of their own money to secure maps and illustrated magazines which were not otherwise available. The committee was fortunate to get a revolving bookcase which provides a place for the war books in the back part of the main reading room in the library; the library staff was able to shift much needed war tables and provide one for pamphlets, clippings and illustrated papers which is just north of the entrance to the reading room in Spooner.
The students will show their appreciation, (and incidentally add to their "bit") by not only reading, but replacing on table and book case, in order that others may read. A reading room for war material would be a fine thing but of course an impossibility under the present overcrowded condition in all the departments of the library.
She wanted to keep within mente hailing distance of her husband who is taking a professional course, but a subordinate member of the department of physical education has ruled out the class work each week unless she also takes the prescribed one-hour-a-day physical exercise.
A young woman of the University may have to stop school because she cannot keep house for her husband, or keep it in a classroom without slighting something.
IS OUR CAMPUS SAFE FOR DE-
MOCRACY?
Is physical education the aim or merely a means of increasing mental efficiency? Is the department of physical education serving the best interests of the University when it neglects to temper with justice the unusual authority given it over all other departments of the University?
Why should one department have so
much authority? Why should it not stand or fall upon its own merits? Is this lady living in Lawrence near the University to be forced to continue her education by correspondence? Will other departments consent to such curtailing of their usefulness?
There is only one possible answer,
but will it come in time to prevent
loss to some that cannot be repaid?
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Editor's Note: Instances of this sort do not help the popularity of compulsory exercise at the University. This is a weakness in the exercise plan. Are there other similar cases? The editor would like to know of you, if there are any?
ON OTHER "HILLS"
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard football enthusiasts recently subscribed $5,500 for football to be sent to the soldiers of France. The first consignment of 500 balls is already on the way.
As another means of aiding their country, the Michigan Daily suggests that students of the university should not indulge in the post-exam trips to their homes this year on account of the present railway congestion.
Harvard will continue its plan of informal athletics in baseball this spring. The freshmen will have a regular schedule and work for the University team will begin on February 11, under Hugh Duffy, former big league player.
Seventy-five women students at Columbia School of Dentistry have of fered to serve as dentists for army recruits.
The University of Nebraska will meet Ames in a wrestling tournament February 8. The lowans will be crippled by the loss of their best 135-pound wrestler.
"Now sir," began wifey the morning after, "I want to know who your female companion was last night."
Seattle, Wash.: Students in the University of Washington who have entered national service and are stationed near Seattle will be given an opportunity to continue, in part at least, the subjects which they dropped on enlisting. Several of the faculty have consented to go to nearby cantonments and training camps to give lectures in their respective courses.
The women's activity point system has been adopted by the Women's League of Washington University, in order to develop greater efficiency in women's activities. No student is allowed to carry more than a maximum of twenty points which is equivalent to ten hours work in student activitiies per week.
MENTAL LAPSES
"Female companion?" asked hubby puzzled. "I don't quite understand I wasn't with any lady last night."
It is only a question of time. The day when they start pasting hotel labels on knitting bags is fast ap proaching — Puck.
"Then why did you say in your sleep, "those were the prettiest hands I ever held?"—Puck.
"Women," observed a matron, sagey,
"feel where men think."
"Yes," siged Cynicus, who had been married three times, "that's why men become bald."—Puck.
Superstition is always associated with ignorance, but ignorance, in the broadcast sense of the term, is never associated with a college student; yet, many K. U. students are superstitious.
Superstition Is Rife Here; See Hairpins
An old superstition has it that if a hair pinn is found and is stuck in the bark of the first tree that one comes to, the finder will make a new friend before nightfall. Young women, it is said have taken to this superstition to help children gain a smile sweetheart. If hairpins stuck in the bark of trees tell tales, many K. U. students have been, wanting friends and sweethearts.
You may exclaim at this assertion if you wish, however, tangible proof is at hand. Just observe carefully the trees along the walks from Blake Hall to Fraser Hall. Study the bark of the trees.
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