UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DECMBER 4,1917.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kentucky
EDITORIAL STAFF
Dorothy Cole...Editor-in-Chief
Halden Holden...Military Editor
Mary West...Assistant
Marlou Royle...Hartley Editor
John Montgomery...Society Editor
Joshua Mitchell...Military Editor
Fred Rigby Business Manager
Arthur Nold Assistant
Arthur Nold Assistant
BUSINESS STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Eugene Dyer Everett Palmer
Vivian Sturgeon H. C. H. Hangen
Harry Morgan Don David
Alice Bowley Donald Davin
Louise May
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Motion Picture Arts.
Published in the afternoon, five times
of Kansas, from the press of the De-
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate of Kansan; to go for longer than merely printing the news; to provide a variety of versatility holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to help people leave more serious problems to be solved; to serve to the best of his ability the students of the University.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917
MODIFICATION IS SUFFICIENT
MODIFICATION IS SUFFICIENT
The suggestion that all dances and parties should be abolished at K. U. for the period of the war opens up a question which has been settled from the first of the year insofar as the University is concerned. The persons advocating no social activities no doubt are sincere and inspired by worthy motives, but do they really mean all they say? Is not the correct answer to the question the one which the University has given that K. U. should have fewer and less expensive dances?
From the beginning of the school year the sentiment at K. U. has been against social excesses. This is the spirit that should be fostered. If there is objection on the ground that social functions are needless, it can only be pointed out that social life is a necessary part of education. And the matter of education; it may as well be said, is one of the few things in America today in which the maintenance of normal conditions seems imperative.
But at K. U., effort in this direction has been in vain. The war is being felt by the University. Various forms of war work have crept in to modify the usual routine. Normal life has necessarily been abandoned, but it still remains the ideal. It has seemed expedient to introduce military drill; for men to enlist, and for women to knit; it has seemed wise to curtail amusements, just as in a sense education itself has been curtailed. But as long as there is a semblance of educational work on the Hill, amusement in moderation, whether it be picture shows, parties, or dances, will continue to be in vogue, and in good taste.
THE RIGHTFUL ATTITUDE
What then should be the attitude of educational institutions to the war? They are the single means of securing healthy activity of mind and body. Whatever causes anxiety, subjective states of mind, stimulation of what one might call the "war imagination," should be reduced to the minimum. Objective studies—sciences, mathematics, literature, linguistics, art, history, with wholesome examination of dull records—anything, in short, that will take the student out of himself and away from present imaginings, should be cultivated as never before. Sharp discipline in exacting tasks will do no harm. Save in military instruction, the ulterior aims of the soldier should be taboo. To impose on young men from eighteen to twenty-one the doubts, anxieties, theories, or even the enthusiasms, of older men, is not so well as complete concentration on the subject of study. Patriotism in a teacher is really more subtle than enthusiasm. To arouse interest in the unheard of, to fasten attention upon the processes of thought removed from
the accidents of daily life; this is the kind of patriotism making for the health of mind, for the independent power to think, without which service can be merely impulsive.—Unpopular Review.
SPOONER'S VACATION
Students who remained in Lawrence over the Thanksgiving vacation were met with the problem of having to study in only half of the time that they had planned on, for Spooner Library, where most of the work had to be done, was open only occasionally.
The big K. U. library was closed all day Thursday; the student who was sacrificing his vacation for study did not complain at that. The library opened Friday, but closed promptly at 6 o'clock, so that the student who had planned to study three hours after supper was unable to use his valuable time to do the work. The student saw that he was losing. Saturday was a repetition of another day of restricted hours; the library was closed during the entire afternoon and at night as well.
Surely at a time when the student is doing all he can to keep up his work under extreme difficulties, handicapped by poor working conditions, it would have been just had the library hours been more extended. It was the student who is working his way through the University who suffered most, the student had to console himself with a meager day and a half of part time study, and trust to luck that he would have time at Christmas to make up back work.
THAT BABY BOND
It takes Uncle Sam to provide for those who can not do as much as the other fellow. Several weeks ago the second issue of Liberty Bonds went on sale, the cheapest of which was $50 to be paid cash down or paid in installments. The average student did not have $50 nor a surety of the required $5 a month for installments. Now comes the Baby Bond, put on the market today. It takes $4.12, cash down, or by applying at the postoffice installments will be received. In 1923 that bond costing $4.12 will be worth $5.00. Where else can the University student invest money with better interest and a two-fold purpose?
Students may go to Wednesday night dances, says our adviser of women, if they can't already dance, in short, if the students go there to work and not to play. But the conditions are rather abstruse. Since styles of dancing have changed, and forced the official measuring tape out of business, why not get out a successor to it in the form of a handbook of conditions?
Since most of the trouble in this country is popularly ascribed to German agents, some of the K. U. students are wondering what about certain professors who will "hold over."
"Jayhawker Men Open Office Today,"-Kansan. The annual prelude to the fifty good stories beginning "Annual editors extend time for prints one week—"
Who will break the news to the University Club that formal affairs are out of order at the University of Kansas during the period of the war?
THE MOON OF THE HOUR We came from the Land of the Setting
To the Land of the rurting Moon,
And a hush was over the earth, while
A bush was over the earth, while
usual!
one
Lone little star peeped out too soon.
Behind, the sky was all afame;
Before, — now — "our aim—
that is a majestic queen.
and I
Steer from the Land of Things
Gone By
An orange moon in a purple sky.
Slowly she rose from the sea
My love
In a boat with silver sails we came,
On a sea of aquamarine;
To the Land of What is to Be.
—Valley Flower.
In Boston Transcript.
We don't want to break in on our Editor's favorite, the Campus Pest, but yesterday she spoke of the prof. who wished the students a joyous holiday last week and then assigned a quiz for the following Monday. Monday some of the students were greeted with an unannounced quiz. That's not only a pest but an infliction.
Thankgiving is past, and still we may be thankful that we aren't students at Manhattan. Parties or meetings of any sort are taboo on account of the various contagious diseases breaking in Camp Funster
Someone on the Hill said that after the lovely Thanksgiving holidays, it would take a week to get settled down to study, a week to study, and then a week to get ready to go home. Worked out pretty nice, maybe.
When you try to tell the truth, people won't believe you; and when you really are putting out a line that says "I got your getting by," you score 100 per cent.
The student who takes a squint at his watch about every five minutes in class shows the Prof. that he is interested in a timely subject.
We are deciding now what hints to drop the folks so far as Christmas is concerned.
There is many a student who wishes there was such a thing as a camofluaged notebook.
The Yaka Hula Dance was even more so limited than the Journalism Jazz.
MENTAL LAPSES
“Do you dislike to have a man go to sleep when you are talking?”
"don't mind," replied Senator Sorghum. "At least it assures me nothing I'm saying is giving him any particular offense." - Washington Star.
ADVICE
Learn to say "No," young fellow,
Learn to say "No"-and then
You won't in the cold gray morning
Be saying: "Never again!"
Boston Transcript
"What about the people who are secreting hordes of sugar?"
"They are liable to get themselves in a sweet mess." - Baltimore America.
"Tommy was such a hard boy to manage. How did they make him the star pupil at school?"
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ROOMS FOR GIRLIS~Some fine rooms on the Hill, one-half block the campus. No hill to climb "The Bush," 1245 La. 105.5-*9*1243 White
KEELEER'S BOOK STORE. 939 Mass.
Typewriters for sale or rent. Typewriter and school supplies. Paper by the pound.
FOUND—In Robinson gymnasium
AWRENCE OF HIGH CITY
(Exclusive Optometrists) Eyes
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G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology and hospital, 1901 Ohio St. Inside and hospital, 1901 Ohio St. Both phones, 35.
"Sure, ms'm, they cut out his as steroids."—Baltimore American.
THE PHILOSOPHER
Now that leather is so high why not use banana skins. They are said to be soft.
No use in talking, sox and graph-
come records can't be changed too
open.
It's very trying to have to talk to a slacker when you're knitting for a soup.
Many an old boy can look back with pride at the time he helped hold a balloon once while it was being inflated.-Florida Times-Union.
Twinkle, twinkle, service star;
We don't wonder what you are.
In this world of bloody strife
You're a diamond, bet your life.
STELLAR CERTAINTY
Jayhawks We Hear About
W. S. Kinnear, A. B. '84, has achieved national fame as an engineer. While an engineer with the Michigan and Central Railroad he built an electrically operated tunnel that spanned a long and connecting Detroit and Windshor. Canada. It has the largest cross section area of any sub-aqueous tunnel in the world. His method was so novel and daring that its successful completion tended to revolutionize sub-aqueous tunnel construction.
Mr. Klnear was president of the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company at the time it projected the building of the new Union Station and terminal improvements totalling 44 million dollars. He moved to New York to head one of the greatest contracting firms and now has offices on Broadway. He is a director in several large corporations including the National Surety Company, Seaboard Construction Company, A Fulner Construction Company, which erected the new 'cantonment at Camp Funston. He is a member of the Lawyers Club, White Hall, Metropolitan and Slice Hollow Clubs.
His son, Larry Kinear, also attended the University.
Few students know that Ed. T. Hackney, former president of the Board of Administration, is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard. In an A. B. degree in 1895 and was a
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member of the law firm of Hackney & Shinn before he became interested in educational problems.
12 W. 9th St. Phone 506
Mr. Hackney is one of the directors in the Alumni Association.
Vernon Kellogg after graduating from the College in 1889 studied several years at the University of Leipzig. Before the war broke out he was professor of entomology at the University of California. He gave up his position there and sailed to Europe where he worked as a journalist for Belgians and French. He was a member of the American Committee for Relief in Belgium.
He is author of several books and articles on entomology and biomics anatomy.
He was a diplomatic agent and consular general to Egypt from 1892 to 1893 and while there received the message of Coptic aid to Elijah from the Sultan of Turkey.
Edward C. Little's record as a scholar, soldier and diplomat won for him the nomination and election to Congress from the Second Kansas District. Mr. Little served in the Spanish-American War and was a member of the 20th Kansas Volunteers and received the Congressional medal of honor for his services.
Colonel Little holds an A. B., A. M., and L.L. B. degree. Immediately after graduating from the School of Law he read law for a few years with John P. Uster, Secretary of Interior in Lincoln's cabinet. Mr. Uster lived in Lawrence, owning the home now occupied by the Beta fraternity.
Brigadier General Wilder S. Metail first got his education in Oberin College but came to K. U. for his raining in law. He is a graduate of
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BRINKMANN'S WAR BREAD
Bowersock Theatre
"NEARLY MARRIED"
Thursday and Friday
Goldwyn Presents
MADGE KENNEDY
A story of an almost bride and not quite bridegroom in a roadhouse where they serve nothing but chicken.
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Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing
Coods Called for a Student
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PROTCH The College Tailor
CONKLIN PENS are sold at
McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
CHRISTMAS STOCK
Stationery, Engraving, Loose Leaf
Supplies, Leather Goods.
Printing by any Process
A. G. ALRICH
736 Mass. Street.
We sell paper at prices that interest
We sell paper at prices that interest CARTER'S
Typewriter Supplies, Stationery University Supplies Agent for CORONA typewriter
Across from the Court House WILSON'S The Students' Drug Store Soda Drugs Toilet Articles
Taxi 12
the School of Law, General Metcalf,
for his distinguished bravery in the
Philippines, was breaved brigadier
general of volunteers by President
McKinley. He was also a member of
the National Military Board, serving
by appointment of the Secretary of
War, Metcalf's military knowledge
and judgment are highly valued in
administration circles. He has been
a member of the Army and Navy Club
of which he is a member. He also
belongs to the Order of Carabao.
General Metcalf was engaged in the farm mortgage business in Lawrence before the outbreak of the war. He was also connected with the Pendleton University campus eight years. He is now stationed at Camp Bureaugard, Louisiana.
The New Coats
With the
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