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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Karas
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Bryan Gray
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Plain Tale Editor
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Mary Smith H. C. Hangen
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Entered as second-class mail matter
to the United States, under the set of
March 8, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times
from the office of Kansas, from the press of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66
The Daily Kansan aims to pique the curiosity of students at University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news from Kansas; to versify holdings; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be compassionate; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the education of the students at the University.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1917.
FOR FRESHMEN
Two events on the University Calendar this week should have the attention of every freshman on the Hill.
One is the All-University Convocation in the gym Friday morning. The other is the freshman blow out in Mvers Hall Saturday evening
Every student is expected to attend the convocation Friday. At that time Chancellor Strong will give his annual address of welcome, and there will be the usual program of music and prayer. At that meeting, almost a thousand and a half young Kansans who are at K. U. for the first time this week, will have an opportunity to hear about the school, its history, its methods, and its ideals, direct from the lips of the Chancellor himself. In a way, it will be like a personal visit with Mr. Strong—because he will tell every man and every woman what is expected of them during the coming year. No student with the real Kansan spirit will miss it.
The blowout Saturday is an annual affair, given by the Y. M. C. A. for freshmen men. There will be speeches, stunts, and music—and the hundreds of men who are expected to attend will have a lively time during every minute of an evening crammed full of peppery entertainment.
A senior on the Hill says he has never yet missed a freshman blowout, and that when he is here in the future years and one is being given, he will attend. Dutch Wedell—whom every K. U. man knows, and who is the friend of every K. U. man—is a live Y. M. secretary who does live things, and one of those things is the annual freshman blowout.
Be there, Mr. Freshman!
IT'S OVER
"Pledge Night" for the fraternities is now a thing of the past, and several hundred proud young freshmen are strutting about Mount Oread this morning wearing the colors of the "Only fraternity." Doubtless a good many of the hard-pushed rushes are glad it's all over—for most probably they didn't enjoy being inspected by various and sundry fraternity men, held up for criticism, and then forced to abide by the verdict of forty-eight hours acquaintanceship. Nor did the fraternity men themselves particularly enjoy the "annual scramble"—though the ones that succeeded in getting the richest prizes are of course "telling the world" about it today.
Nevertheless, it's over now—and the fraternity population of K. U. is glad. There will be a few additional pledgings, of course—strugglers who couldn't see their way clear to make a decision last night. But within a few days most of the excitement will have died down, and even the new Greeks themselves will forget the
strenuousness of the "rush" after they take up the routine of their new school duties.
THREE TO ONE
Three women to one man at the University this year!
Gosh!
The dance hall managers will look forward to only slight profits from their rentals this season; the clothiers will get "cold feet" on the size of the stock they should attempt to carry; and the restaurant folks will wonder who's going to buy the smooths and the cokes for the sweet young things all year.
But will they?
One Lawrence clothier says his business to date has exceeded by several thousand dollars the sales up to this time last year; and that before the fall advance in price went into effect. A restaurant proprietor is worrying nights about how he's going to handle the crowds at his cafe and a hurry-call for soda dispensers has been necessary. And in all other lines of business activity wherein students are concerned, there seems to be nothing but prosperity.
And why not?
Kansas folks have plenty of money—both to spend and to save. They can spend all that they ought to spend and still have plenty to save.
Prosperity and high prices are two inevitable accompaniments of war-time.
A l's o—thank goodness—“business as usual.”
OTHER OPINIONS
A PLEDGE TO MANHOOD
Twelve hundred young men training at San Francisco to become officers in the National Army have signed a pledge. It is not "the pledge" in the old blue ribbon sense, but a broader, more comprehensive, more positive declaration. It commits them not merely to abstention but to constructive personal effort. It reads thus:
"We undertake to maintain our part of the war free from hatred, brutality or graft, true to the American purpose and ideals.
"Aware of the temptations inci-
dental to camp life and the moral and
social wreckage involved, we covet-
ent together to live the clean life
and to establish the American
uniform as a symbol and guarantee
of real manhood.
"We pledge our example and our influence to make these ideals dominate."
Army life, especially in time of war, is beset by grievous pitfalls. The prime protection against falling into them is personal determination, especially when it is buttressed by the power of community example.
The Y. M. C. A. is doing splendid work in thus co-ordinating the impulses toward decease of the young children under the new army —The Independent.
The cultural-vocational controversy in education is going to have its innings again this winter, war or no war. We have no idea of settling the problem for our students summer by Rowland E. Prothero, British President of the Board of Agriculture: "It is not a man's calling to be a laborer or a lawyer or even a land agent. In the wider sense of the word, a man's calling is a job, a occupation issue sight of it, that it is no longer education—Collier's.
ON AN OLD THEME
A man who neglects his health, even though not in the military service, is in this time of war, something of a slacker. Physical fitness helps towards efficiency, and efficiency must be manifest all over the country if we are to win the war. "If you cannot fight, keep fit," is a good motto for our civilian population.—The Outlook.
KEEP FIT IN WAR TIME
He: Yes, I know, but I'm only doering for the week-end—Boston Transitier.
She: Good gracious! Why, we've only just become acquainted.
He; Darling, I love you.
POET'S CORNER
There's always a chance in the world my son, for the teller with "snap
The path to success is rugged an' rough; there's obstacles strenu in
An 'a' a fellow can look for some good hard knocks an troubles from day to night.
But the feller who sighs an' who never
tries don't stand a ghost of a
"THE FELLER WITH GRIT"
mind, an air stoll at a carliss pace.
mind, an air stoll at a carliss pace.
called Ease don't come in ahead
called Ease don't come in ahead
This proverb ripe put into your pipe,
an' let it through life apply:
You can't lay back in these huts! You can't have you there. You can't show I, would have you you. You don't know how to show I, would have you you.
Is the feller with grit who is bound to git the biggest plum in the pie!"
stop
An arm hangs in the lap of Ease, to
be cried on, `nurzed`, `nurzed`
putty the other object as well with
patty the other object as well with
man who tackles patient with
man who tackles patient with
An 'lets folks know there is nothin'
slow or lazy a lair' him;
in
'f'a homely tale, but 'twil never fail
if you only have nerve to try;
's the feller with grit who is bound to git the biggest plum in the pie."
if you only have nerve to try:
"It's the teller with grit who is harmed."
Some day you'll creep to the top of the heap, an 'all' of your foes de(y—
Ot to you You M'bilt RIGS here MAKE
life; in salin' along through
life;
For the man with sand is bound to command the respect of the world man.
it's theeller with grit who is bound to git the biggest plum in the
Some folks won't agree with you art'-
me—you've got to expect some
keep digging away with, with a heart of
fear for you. Success in work well done to
Success in work well done to
fourve got to fight some battles
severe, but stay with the foe to
win.
-E. A. Brinninstool.
Two English workmen were discussing the war.
MENTAL LAPSES
"It'll be an awful long job, Sam," said one.
HOW MARY LOST A TIP
"Mary," he said to the Irish waitress at the hotel where he was stopping, "you've been in this country how long?"
"But, Mary," the judge continued, "you have many privileges in this country which you'd not have in Ireland. Now at home you would never be in a room with a justification of the suction, and chatting familiarly with him."
Soon after a certain judge of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island had been appointed he went down into one of the southern counties to sit for a week. He was well satisfied with himself.
PROLONGING THE WAR
"But, sure, sir," said Mary, quite in earnest, "you'd never be a judge at h o m c."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
"It will." replied the other.
"You see, these Germans is takin' thousands and thousands of Russians prisoners, and the Russians is takin' thousands and thousands of German prisoners. If it keeps on, all the Germans will join us." And then they'll start all over again, fightin' to get back their "omes." -Tit-Bits.
One of the minor tasks of the British soldier is to learn the language of initials. All departments, offices, and suboffices are, of course, known by their initials, and as these departments and offices are added to, and necessarily call for more precise definition, the mystic titles steadily increase in number and complexity.
NEW LANGUAGE FOR SOLDIERS
One of the latest achievements is the A.D. I.M. D.S.F. P.D. B.A.F. or, in other words, the Assistant Director, Implements and Machinery Department Section, Food Production Department, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries—Christian Science Monitor.
During the cross-examination of a young physician in a lawsuit, the plaintiff's lawyer made disagreeable remarks to the witness's youth and inexperience.
"You claim to be acquainted with the various symptoms attending conclusion of the brain?" asked the lawyer.
HARD KNOCK
"I do."
"We will take a concrete case," continued the lawyer. "If my learned friend, counsel for the defence, and
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