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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of more students further than merely printing the news from a newspaper, but its serious security holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be virtuous; to be sensitive; to leave no serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1917
POLITICS
The Politician is with us this week Already he has plastered the campus with his posters; and during the remainder of the week he will force upon his classmates all varieties of cards urging support for the "only" ticket.
It's a great struggle—this annual fall scramble for class offices. The trouble with it is that after it's all over, folks forget about the candidates, and their promises, and all the reforms that were planned—and things go on pretty much as usual, with the winning side enjoying what ever "grapes" happened to accom pany victory.
This year, there seems to be the usual amount of political jobbing. Issues and problems are forgotten in scraps over which "organization" behind the ticket is to get the plums.
That such a situation must be tolerated here is lamentable; but unless the student council sees fit to do away with the "ticket system" of nominations the "organization" will always be able to control elections.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
How much better would the system be if each candidate ran on his own merits, backed by his personal friends—and not by a "gang" of political schemes, most of whom the candidate does not even know!
Have you made your donation to the soldiers' library fund yet?
Campus pests: The world's worst who continually drolls about his high school and the slick things they used to do up there.
The contribution box on the delivery desk in Spooner stands ready to receive your donation—whether it be large or small.
This week you have an opportunity to take an active part in the great task of supplying America's soldiers with reading matter. The money you contribute will help buy books for the men who are doing your fighting.
It's your duty to give to this fund—a large donation if you can; but at least a small one—say the price of a movie show.
Imagine how you'd feel in a lonely camp, absolutely without anything to read—book, magazine, or even a newspaper. Try it out on yourself; and you'll quickly see that it isn't at all pleasing.
Your duty!
If each of us had the privilege of sending to war a few persons we don't like, there wouldn't be so much regret over the great loss of life.
MILITARY DRILL
The announcement that a retired army officer will come to K. U, to become professor of military science and tactics has been welcomed by those students who, in this hour of
need, realize that military training for the men students of the University is highly desirable.
That military drill will be substituted for gymnasium work is the hope of those who are following the plans here. Freshmen and sophomores are required to take gym, and it would be an easy matter to convert the gym classes into drill squads. The course in military drill ought also to be open to upperclassmen.
The Kansan Board, at its meeting last week, passed a resolution favoring compulsory military drill for freshmen and sophomores, and voluntary orrill for upperclassmen, with University credit for the time thus spent. This is the plan in force at many other institutions where drill is a regular part of the curriculum; and it is reasonable to suppose that the faculty, if it decides in favor of drill, will give credit for it.
Why is it that whenever we observe Theda Bara in a movie-ization of Tolstoi's works or Kiplinger's "Vampire" the crucial moment is inevitably accompanied by a fade-out?
When Seniors were Sophs
The junior Laws elect the following officers: President, Ross Davenport; vice-president, Floyd Livengoods and chairman, Hawkovard; secretary, Karl Jones.
The Kansan finds evidence of fraudulent election practices at sophomore polls. If this means that elections are manipulated by a few interested students, the students of the students are ignored, then it must be admitted that self-government at K. U. is a farce. The Kansan gives this information to the students of the University in the hope of getting the attention of the Student Council.
Hugo Wedell 'is chosen as secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. to fill the place left vacant by Con Hoffman. Mr. Wedell is enrolled as a middle law, and received his degree from the college last year.
McCook bleachers break, and drop Jack Bond fifteen feet to the ground unhurt, at the conclusion of the K. J. William Jewell game. Although W. O. Hamilton, athletic manager, had inspected the bleachers but a few days before the game, conditions will be investigated again.
Helen R. Hoopes talks at W. Y. C., meeting Tuesday on "I wish myself could talk to myself, as I left 'im year ago."
Ray Spencer, freshman college last year, enrolls after spending last week contemplating attendance at the Pittsburg Normal. Spencer wanted more than the Normal could offer, and so came back to K. U.
The Sigma Nu fraternity entertains the Pi Phi pledges with a dinner-dance at the Sigma Nu chapter house.
Aleta Brownlee, sophomore last year, is enrolled at Kansas Wesleyan this year, but expects to return to K. U. to graduate.
Harold Jones, of the Engineering School, has a distinction not all harvest hands can boast. Jones returned to the University besides riding back on the cushions.
The W. S. G. A. has decreed that hereafter all aspirants for membership must get out a petition and be elected in the regular way. "For *Klein* or *Klein-Klein*, the prevailing system has been beautiful in its simplicity, and very effective. But the honest, though untaught, aspirant for political honors, who attempted to 'Buck the System' (wives have bad habits), was elected on a popularity basis, and not through a machine.
A crowd of ten Baker University students came to Lawrence to see "Jick" Fast, ex-Baker star, play his first game for K. U.
POET'S CORNER
Half closed, his eyes lay passive with the pain
won some.
The ball was back toward the field.
The hair banded of a bat that landed in line in bitter lines had
melted.
There hangs in mute appeal—his empty sleeve.
THE EMPTY SLEEVE
fance,
Clarice against the Hoehneolen
that tramples down the breasts which
are the sunscreen.
concealed,
Which sends its foreign accents to re-
veal
And, show why he must hate
and grieve,
    in mute agree—his
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The mission of the Stars and Stripes in France.
An ardent voice with feeling half concealed.
throb and heave,
And swells the plaint, against—the
The lowering hatred of a hating race.
His hair is in bitter lines laid
steeled.
empty news
Clifford Archer Furst.
In University News.
The Hash House
The term "hash house" doesn't mean that the student is fed hash every day at his boarding club, for it is only a term which has been applied to boarding houses in general. And then the boy standing near pipes that it isn't a term, but a sentence. That is, to be specific for the student. So he will be signed his own sentence when he attached his name to a boarding contract.
No one is ever reluctant when the dinner bell in a hash house rings, for he who stops to guess its meaning goes hungry. A rush, a scrapping of meats and a spoonful of soup (the soup course) except for the contact of knife against plate. Some meals are partaken of leisurely—but never the hash house meal. If it were, it wouldn't be partaked of. One might eat with the knife and butter) and that would be all.
A hash house, in common English, is a place where the hungry student is able to partially satisfy his enormous appetite. The founders of K. U. had little judgment when they put our school up on this steep hill, or else they had our health in mind, for it certainly does make us feel the pangs of hunger about three times a day to climb these hills. Or possibly they let the bodies cool down before we were rambling again, for Mt. Orden has nothing to do with hash houses except possibly that a few are located on it.
Hash house meals have done one thing for the student—to make him
OTHER OPINIONS
ACTIVITIES
There is always a question in the minds of all new students and many older students in regard to activities to be followed in college. Just how long will it take to work outside of the studies in the regular schedule is an open question.
Since we come to school primarily for as education in one of the technical lines of work offered studies should receive primary consideration. College work should not be neglected, and particularly is this true of the freshman year and the beginning of every year.
In spite of this the student who passes up 17 or 18 hours' work a semester and does nothing else is not making the most of his or her opportunities nor getting the full benefit out of their college course. Outside time must be utilized in some wav.
Just what activities should be chosen is an individual matter. No one can tell another just what work he or she must choose that for his individual case.
Iowa State has opportunities for the following of nearly any line of outside work that the student would want to follow. Debate, dramatics, athletics, music, "Y" work, "lit" society work, student reporting, are only a partial list of the activities that develop that side of a student which is never brought out in the routine of class and laboratory.
So much has been said and written about the college loafer that any one reading all the articles on that subject would hardly expect to find anything but loafer at a school of this kind. There are, however, very few loafer at a college, and especially is this true of this year. Most students are here to work and work under pressure—Iowa Student.
I am a shirker. My intentions have been good, but I have never backed them up with hard work. I go to class with half-prepared lessons, and I think hopefully that the instructor has taught me that last week the chapter, although yesterday he flunked me cold. I take lecture notes of fifteen minutes, and then close my book, for surely I will never have use for all that stuff! When书 report books are assigned, to be two to five pages in size, to be printed on a page write a scant two pages of bluff; they can't expect a student to read ALL of those tong, prosy novels. When I do take up a book to study, the time drags terribly, I get sleepy, and I jump up eagerly at the slightest interruption—I welcome the break. I write again when I am siddlerate time by scrimping along with the least possible studying.
And yet I am not happy! With plenty of time out of school, I do not get the pleasure I thought I would. Fellows ask me how the work is going, and I feel like a hypocrite, for I haven't done any real work. I meet with an editor who has warned I begin to wonder what kind of an opinion he can have of me; I know the opinion he should have, if his mental eyes are open! When I go to a show, my enjoyment of it is obscured by the thought of tomorrow's
TAKE YOUR CHOICE
I am a worker. I'm not boastful, but a person knows how most of his hours are spent. It has taken a lot of effort to accomplish the things I want. My students are worth it. The courses have been interesting. I have made several friends in classes, and two instructors are now good chums of mine. I don't have much time to call my own, of course, so I'm school for work—not a vacation.
work unprepared. I call up a fellow to bowl, and he replies that he too much work to do; then I feel cheap and wish I had the stamina to go for it. I am always in my school work. I am constantly dissatisfied with myself—my conscience at least isn't dead—and I am only contented when I can mix in a crowd that I don't like. I can't stand it. I am blue; the other half I form every thing by being sily.
OR
I never was so contented in any previous semester. Once in a while, when I get particularly tired or my work is caught up, I take in a show or a dance, and I always enjoy my work. I don't need a dance might seem mediocre to the student who goes every week. And when I do go to a social affair my mind is free to enjoy it. The fellows are more interesting; we have many things in common, and I feel as if I were living in a world where life, I have too much to think of, and with the grades I received there is no reason for it anyway.
WHAT THEY SAY
There is no question of the logical choice, if you stop to think.
W. W. Hawkins, formerly instructor in German: There are no spare minutes at Fort Sheridan. And most of the men are six feet six inches tall.
Ernest Stadtier! I had figured this was the popular year for any man who stayed on the Hill but one sweet young thing told me it was possible that all the popular men had joined the army.
Prof. Gordon LaFayette Cram; I never imagined when I was in New York that there was any place as pleasant as Lawrence, Kansas.
High Anderson: I just came back to see whether I wanted to come back or not. And now that I'm here I think I do. The old Hill looks good to me—so good that I'm getting over my desire to enlist. Maybe I'll stick it out up here another year, and graduate.
Snake Cowill: I can't help it because Prof. John Ise mistakes my name "Evelyn" for "Evelyn" and calls me "Miss." But what I do object to is the way in which he pronounces it "cow-gill" with the acetate ending of the word, are asking me whose Sigma Chi pin "Miss Cow-gill" is wearing.
A FEMINIST
The dull boy in the class unexpectedly distinguished himself in a recent history examination. The question ran, "How and when was slavery introduced into America?" To this he replied: "No women had come over to the early Virginia colony. The planters wanted wives to help them work. The company sent over a ship-load of girls. The planters gladly married them, and slavery was introduced into America." - Youth's Companion.
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