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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Harry Morgan John Montgomery
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Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U, 25 and 66
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to go further than morely printing the news on Kansan paper; to provide library holdings; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be a student; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1917.
The complainer excites more contempt than pity.
NEW MANAGEMENT
Today there is a complete shake-up in the news and editorial management of the Kansan. Today an entire new set of editors begin their duties. But at that the Kansan stands for the exact same things that it has always stood for. The new editors get "into the harness" to see that the readers of the Kansan get all of the news of the Hill while it is news. The Kansan always stands for the best interest of the University. The new editors will see that this standard is not changed.
A WINNING TEAM
Anybody doubt whether the Kansas spirit is in good running order this year? Then drop down to McCook some afternoon and give that bunch of huskies the once over!
The good ship Jayhawker has launched itself on what points to a successful football season. Football authorities say that the Kansas team this year is much superior to that of last year. We have every reason to believe that our team will do everything that could be hoped for in the Missouri Valley race. But conceding that the team is of the right caliber there is still the question of support from the rooters.
The psychology of a team's believing they have the support of a good following was illustrated in the recent World Series baseball games when the New York team lost two consecutive games on a foreign diamond only to travel back to the "home town" to give a double defeat to their adversaries while their backers cheered.
There is no great difference between their case and our own. When the team plays at home every student that claims K. U. as an Alma Mater should join in a Rock Chalk that will thrill the team to a fighting spirit and strike terror to the opposing team. We have the team—let's support it.
The W. S. G. A. deserves praise for the prompt manner in which it has undertaken to enlist every K. U. woman in Red Cross work. The Kansas stands back of them in their efforts, and is ever ready to give the movement encouragement.
THOSE FRESHMAN CAPS
TODAY marks the first appearance of the freshman cap on Mount Oread this year. The preservation of traditions at K. U. should be of vital interest to the entire student body. The freshmen should be proud of the fact that their headgear will be a mark of distinction on the Hill.
At other schools the new man will appear on a college campus in violation to a tradition may be dealt with severely or on the other hand not a
word may be said to him. In the latter case the violation of custom is considered an insult to the school and to the students of that school. It is a matter of common duty to pass the man by without speaking to him. He is held up as an object of ignominy. No one has any use for him.
Near the end of the last year a vote was taken of the students to find the sentiment regarding the caps and the result was an overwhelming vote for the continuance of the custom. The freshmen voted almost to a man for the custom.
When a freshmen picks out this school as a place to get his education he takes it for what it is. Its traditions are a part of it. He must abide by them.
EXIT ROWDYISM
The "rah-rah" idea of college spirit is fast vanishing from the American universities.
Saturday night, when the traditional snake dance in the customary night-shirt attire ended, Lawrence heaved a sigh of relief. The whole affair was different from the occurrences of previous years. It was an ideal sort of a display of a feeling toward K. U. that was lacking in the years when the sole conception of college spirit was the coarser exhibition of rowdyism.
The parade Saturday night was not an attempt at making a Sunday-school picnic out of a football rally. It was more the getting away from the puerile showing of former years and acquiring a spirit of manhood. It did not need any great display of manhood for some spineless creature to slip down an alley and set fire to a wagon in his effort to instil enthusiasm into a football crazed crowd. It takes more of an year to manshion from it. If those who have been in school several years will recall, it was not the representative student who always took part in the old-time shows of rowdyism.
The "rah-rah" spirit is fast vanishing and it's going will not be mourned.
The Uncomfortable Few
In the flow of school life most of us drift, listlessly, borne on the sluggish current. Some of us sink, or climb out on the bank. But some of us dive, dive into the flounder, gurgle and finally swim. The floundering is often disagreeable for the faculty, who jab their pikes in us and keep us moving down the river, running of the curse, is grateful to them. The gurgling is merely incidental.
Those who swim independently constitute an uncomfortable element in the classroom. They are uncomfortable because they start us out of our lethargy. If another metaphor is permissible, it may be said that we are not acquiring culture; we are merely letting someone pour it over us, and are passively absorbing only an unavoidable quantity.
The ideas of the uncomfortable few are often unorthodox, but at least somewhat original. The rest of us frown on this class. They are not of us or rather, we are not of them. We justify our position by poking fun at them. We call them "nuts."
Progress must come through the uncomfortable few. Sometimes their movements are not directly ahead. But at least they jar loose and break them, and rest of us remain sticking, and are free for independent movement.
This is a protest against the reactionary attitude of a large proportion of the student body—Washington Daily.
ROSE SONG AT DUSK
Glitter of stars in the evening sky—
Her eyes were once two stars agile-
t
And why are the rose-cheeks pale and more
A her checks were once a riot of
roses;
And why are they cloud-overcast, and
why
Are their fanies bitter?
And she rose the roses, tears pure and more
As the twilight closes?
A sudden step makes her heartstrings start-
starting. The door swings open,
and stands away. The stairs leaves shine; in her cheeks, and in her heart.
Trembling; the door swings open,
and closes.
—Clement Wood.
In Literary Digest.
BILLS
Bill Ryan, bill of lading, bill of goods, Bill of Rights, dollar bills (we don't care to buy any higher, it's beyond us), Kaiser Bill, billboards, bill of fare, to bill and coo, and the commoner, we know, more or less the class of bills.
There are three of these bills that we care about especially and they are dollar bills (any quantity), to bill and coo (we all like to do that, or maybe you call it something different), and the bill of fare. Of course there are lots of times when you can't have all three at the same time, but we can come pretty close to it when we take a fair coo-out to dinner. We have the bill of fare all right, the bill of up to the bill of coo, the bill of coo, and you have the dollar bill, until you have to pay the check-and tip the waiter. That's about as near to the ideal triumvirate as we can get.
And then there are two bills that we haven't got much use for, Kaiser Bill and the common bill (the ones that come in on the first).
We are Americans because of the Bill of Rights, and the billboard contributes to the general education of the public, to the effect that Wholeproof hose are required on proof that Theda, the Vamp is coming next Tuesday to the Jitney Show, or rather the Two Or Three Jitneys Or More Show.
Here We Have a College Student.
He has Just Been Elected to Office.
See how His Friends Flatter Him.
His Opponent Had Friends, too, but
they Do Not Flatter He. He's Deafed.
Next Time he runs for
Office He'll Have to Get All New Friends. There'S One Advantage In Tasting Defeat—One Gets a New Set of Friends.
THE STUDENTS PRIMER
Here We Have a Freshman. He is Bow-Legged. But he cannot help it and You Must not Laugh at Him. He got Bow-Legged plowing on a Boy. He got Boy Legged. His Tailor has to Cut out his Pants with a Circular Saw.
Here we Have a College Professor.
See how Dignified he Looks. He has
Just seen his Name in the Kansan.
He held his Class Overtime. Will he
Look Dignified when he Meets his
Wife? We should Smile. There is
No Place like Home and some Professors are Glad of it. You can always tell a Professor—his Trousters have no Cuff; his Coat and Vest don't Make him his Pants, his Hair is Seamless. When his Hair is Long—When He Has Any. He is always Just Going to do Something.
Would We care to be a College Professor? Not so you Could Notice it!
Here We Have a Campus. See how green It is. Would you not Like to Roam on the Campus? But you Must Not. It is too Dangerous. Only Cows are allowed on the Campus Now. It is being Beautified with Plants and Cows. How we Envy the Cows. When the Snow comes and the Ground Freezes it will be Safe to Roam on the Campus.
Here we Have a Stone Building. How Antique it looks. Is it the Colossal of Roam? Oh no, Far from it. It is the Museum. It is Built this way in Keeping with the Freaks of Nature which it holds within. Have you been in the Museum? You should go in Just to See how Natural it Feels. We heard what you Said.
MENTAL LAPSES
He: May I touch your lips with mine?
Jim Dash.
She (indignantly): Why, that's a kiss.
DEFINITION
Hero: Dearest, will you love me always?
He: Well, I didn't ask you what it
was. Dean, Freesh.
OTHER OPINIONS
Leander: Sweetest, I have loved you all the ways I know how.—How
There was a young lady named Perkins.
OH. PICKLES!
the average man thinks so mue
about his ambitions that he doesn't
work at them as much as he should.
E. W. Howe.
Who had a great fondness for ghen
kins;
An overcrowded mind—like an over-
worked machine—kills the efficiency
of the production.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't—L. Rochefoucauld.
What a gray cold world this would be if all our friends were candid.
He gets the most out of life who puts the best into it.
WHICH IS MORE THAN SOME CAN DO
or which can we use this old piano
for kindling wood.
She went to a tea And ate twenty-three.
Which pickled her internal workin's.
— The Gimlet.
Only big men appreciate the martial arts and their power. They make them great. The recognizable gesture is a tattoo on their arm.
The world is full of opportunities,
and the advantage of at least one is indolent.
No man who is always excited can amount to a great deal—E. W. Howe.
For him who does everything in the proper time, one day is worth three.
The moment a man becomes satiated with himself every time the else becomes satiated.
Dock: You ought to be able to get a few chords out of it—Tiger.
The accident of energy has made more millionaires than the accident of money.
One's faculties are improved just as one's faculties are hardened by constant application.
The things you'll be remembered by
when you speak to which you do differ-
ent from others.
Kooping everlasting at it undoubtably
it's the right way to save a heap of time,
but it's the wrong way to save a heap of time.
Sergeant Kenneth Proctor Littauer, an American airman, has just been decimated by King Albert of Leopold for exceptional bravery in the Battle of Phlanders. France, also, has bestowed Littauer's wounding upon the Littauer is writing poems which are being widely recognized in America. His military merit. One of his latest follows:
Opportunity knocks at every man's door, but it is the fellow who knocks at opportunity's door who gets there first.
POET'S CORNER
WAR SONG OF A FREE PEOPLE
Neither in bitterness nor hate,
Rather in sorrow, must we go.
Appointed instruments of Fate,
Justly to deal the blow!
Not in the greatness of our pride,
But humbly, as oursires of yore,
We lay our weeds of peace aside
And don the pontoon of war.
Advised what kells we go to cheat,
 informed what deatha we fare t
face,
Forewarned what pitfalls wait out
feet. We come to our appointed place.
amount of nations, far-flung fame.
Such are the part of what we claim.
So such are not part of what we claim.
But as our fathers blazed their trail,
Questing the single prize of worth,
their generosity and devotion.
Freedom, the light of Peace on Earth!
randomly, randomly uniform
We hush to tend that sacred flame. We hush to tend that sacred flame. We hush to tend that sacred flame. Shall we return from whence we
Not till the lamp of Freedom blaze,
That she shall shine on us.
Shall we return, with songs or
songs?
Neither in bitterness nor hate,
rather in sorrow now we go.
Appointed instruments of Fate,
Justly to deal the blow!
The country of our sires was great of soul!
THE EAGLE
Anl. if she draws to battle, it must be
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liberty Justice her standard pure, honor her
She bares her sword for peace with liberty
Justice her standard pure, honor her goal.
She maneuvered her hand to write a later scroll,
and share with all mankind her design.
Though God has bastioned her with either sea,
Freedom has no frontiers. Where heaven doth roll,
The sixth earth. Peace, that of old
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Fly forth, great Eagle, that of diddit sit. At dull light hand beside the wakeful throne. Gazing on master working battle-lit. On master peninsula to nibber wars. Soar in the zenith, heavenly bird. And ower the storm bear in thy beak the star; George E. Woodberry.
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—George E. Woodberry
In N. Y. Tribute.
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