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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Davis Meyer ... Author
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Harry Morgan
John Montgomery
Smith
H. G. Hanken
Mary Smith
H. G. Hanken
R. E. Hemphill
H. E. Holden
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M. L. Peek
T. Rowe Roby
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture students at the University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news on paper, it desires university varsity holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to leave more serious heads; to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students the students of the University.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it—David Starr Jordan.
A WORD OF WELCOME
The Kansan is glad to welcome to the University the hundreds of students who are on Mount Oread today for the first time. On the strength of the freshman class depends the strength of the University—for whatever of goodness and ability there is among the entering class is sure to be expanded and enlarged upon as the students grow older. Freshmen today are seniors tomorrow; and needless to say, the better those freshmen are, the better the seniors will be.
This year, with every part of our educational system, from the high schools to the biggest universities, being subjected to such uncertainties as only war can bring about, the situation is indeed critical. Upon the quality of the freshman class—its ability to settle down at once and begin work without waste of time or effort—its ability to see clearly and think clearly—its spirit of optimism in taking up the cares of University life—and most, of all, its ability to become a part of the big K. U. family—on these things, we say, will depend in large measure the success of the year.
The Kansan, let us repeat, is glad to welcome all new students to the University. It wants them to become really and truly K. U. folks—and it wants to help them in every way it can by printing for them the news of the University and by telling them of the ideals the University holds.
And now they've gone and raised the price of "smoothes" to a dime. As if this war wasn't bringing us enough trouble!
"THERE'S A REASON"
Ask any twenty people why they're here and you'll get twenty different answers. Let any twenty people ask one person why he's here, and they'll get twenty different answers, depending upon which of the questioners is the person's chum, minister, Sunday School teacher, prof, or relative.
The following answers to the pesky "Why are you here?" have all done faithful service in the years gone by, and a student who uses them with caution and tact can convince anyone that he did the right thing in coming to the University. Look 'em over;
"My father wants to die poor
This is the easiest way."
"I think I have the possibilities of a great man."
"My draft number? Say! I won't be twenty-one till October. And I want to graduate this year if I can."
"Marie's going and I guess my father makes as much money as hers."
"I had to come back to see if those shrubs and trees really grew."
"I'm going to study law" (Emphasize the "study")
"It's too blamed lonesome home. Town's dead in winter."
"One meets so many fine fellows."
"If I didn't come I'd have to work for dad."
"I love to study." (Note: This answer must be used with great caution.)
BUT SERIOUSLY—
Just why do we come to college?
To most students a University course is expensive. It means sacrifice for the students in a great many cases, and always for the parents. Very few pay the price an education costs just for the fun of it.
What is it, then, that one gets out of his University career?
Perhaps it isn't any one definite thing. Each student is affected in many ways, and no two in just the same way. What a student gets from his four years work is a hazy, indefinite thing which we call culture. In addition, he doubtless gets a few specific rules for use in law, or medicine, or engineering, or teaching.
It is the acquiring of that culture—or rather, the failure to acquire it—that stimulates the critics of higher education. For it is a fact that the college man is not criticised because he fails to qualify for his profession.
It is for that lack of larger culture that college men are criticized by selfmade men who have acquired some of it.
Educators center their criticism on this point. They realize that the student doesn't get what he ought to from his school experience. Books and articles on the subject, enough to fill a dozen five-foot shelves, have been laboriously written and painfully read.
The trouble is this; We expect a "system," a mechanical contrivance, to do something which cannot be done without thought. We expect a machine to have a mind if we expect to force students to acquire culture.
Getting a college education is a human thing. Freshmen don't jump in at one end and roll out of the other—educated! You don't pour concrete, steel, blue prints, and fire escapes into a mixer and get a skyscraper. It requires the action of brains to arrange these materials.
Likewise, you can't bring a freshman in from high school, cram rhetoric, English Lit., hygiene, and French into him and have an educated man. It that were possible the world would be full of them. That is just the reason it isn't. Individual thinking is required to assimilate properly the huge chunks of wisdom dealt out in University courses.
The whole background of a student's life contributes to the instruction he receives in the University. The many things he learns reacts. Then the few things he remembers out of the jumbled mass constitute his cultural equipment. That seems to be the way the educators out it.
The sweet young thing who plans on taking domestic science this year says she never has learned the difference between calories and lentils.
The point is: Culture cannot possibly be gotten without hard mental work. So many things enter into it and it comes from so many sources that a man ought to be able to go to a nightshirt parade and a football rally, join a fraternity, get a warm letter from home, fall in love, join church, dabble in class politics, subscribe to the Daily Kansan, and—yes, even study once in a while, and still be adding constantly to his cultural equipment.
It has become so that about the only things that may be had at reasonable prices are the luxuries.
Personally, we don't have any difficulty in going to college. Our difficulty is in paying our bills.
POET'S CORNER
The following strikingly pro-
claimed essay was called from Paris to the New York Times of August 26, 1954. The writer and two lines of the fifth line of the poem under the folds for the oppressed or the earth, brilliantly answered by paragraphed answer words decorated with the Union Jack, the Tricolor; and, in the second line, spond to the appeal in a sudden change of mood: "it wakes and
"Come unto me," said the flag,
"We ye震动 and sore oppressed
For I am no shot riddled rag,
But a great blue tent of rest.
--home,
From your tortured and your dead.
THE GREAT BLUE TENT
On the aching feet of dread.
From ravaged towns, from mu
"Ye heavy laden, come
moon bars
Shall enter without demur.
Though the round earth rock with the
smooth rocky surface.
See, here is warmth and sleep.
Not one of my folds shall stir
And for gravestones I give bread.
And a table largely spread,
I give garments to them that w
"Where did you learn that bread a life,
"But what, through my imminent fold,
Are you grown so old, or are you grow-
ed
O flag that was once our star?
As an eagle takes the storm?
And where that fire is warm—
You, that took the van of a worldwide
Where'd you learn that men are bred.
bred, backstayers, harrigan, and
"Come up come into the stormy sky,
When our fierce folds rattle and
crack."
gorge;
And where that down makes a/softer
bed
Than the snows of Valley Forge?
For Lexington taught US how to fly.
And WE dance to Concord's drum."
"O flag of freedom," said the flag
"Brother of wind and sky;
And I wake and shake at your cry
"I tug and tug at the anchoring place
I strain to be off on the old here
I strain to be off on the old here
Of the foe we have always fought.
O people I made, said the flag,
"And welded from sea to sea.
I am still the shot riddled rag.
I am still the shot riddled rag
That shrieks to be free, to be free.
"O people I made," said the flag,
"and wedd'd from sea to sea.
"Oh, cut my silken ties
From the roof of the palace o
Give back my stars to the skies,
My stripes to the storm stripee
"o咯, if you bid me yield,
and over all my acquiree bars,
And over all my acquiree bars."
"It will be a fight for business the world around and each nation will succeed in exact proportion to the individual efficiency of its citizens. Therefore, it stands us well in hand today to look to our future—to see if we are adequately equipped for this great era of business rivalry.
"After the war will come a long era of rebuilding and readjustment. The nations that are fighting today will bind up their wounds and will go forth to further conquests not of shrapnel and bayonets, but of gold." This is made by S. W. Straus president of the American Society for Thrift.
THE NEED FOR THRIFT
"America's record in all matters pertaining to individual thrift has been disgraced. We have been known throughout the world as a naive country, but we have had commercial struggle between the nations of the earth that is to follow
"After the war, we shall have a great merchant marine and we shall be in a stronger financial position than any nation now at war. In many regards, we shall have a tremendous advantage over all rivals.
"But when it comes to the matter of utilitarian thrift, we shall be at a disadvantage."
the dawn of peace, the rigid practices of individual thrift will be necessary if we hope to hold our own in this world-wide struggle.
"When we reach the end of military warfare, we shall have gained the threshold of international business conflict.
"The survival of the fittest is law of nature that never will be repealed. Peace protocols do not eliminate rivalry among the nations of men."
MENTAL LAPSES
or "Ourselves."
Tummy: "Do you believe in con-
scription?"
Rot: "No! I've no faith in those druggist. I always use all the old-fashioned remedies."—The Passing Show.
"Why is it that truth will rise when crushed to earth?" "Because of its elasticity, of course. Don't you know how easy it is to stretch the truth?"—Boston Tranerint.
WHY IS IT?
That a legless man can "put his foot in it?"
That persons who are "consumed by curiosity" still survive?
That frequently a sinking fund is used to meet a floating debt?
That straining the voice is not the proper way to make it clearer?
That we speak 'of a stream running dry when the only way it can run'
That wives should expect their husband to foot the bills without kicking?
That we talk of some one "going straight to the door, when he has to be arrested."
Boston Transcript.
EPITAPHS YOU NEVER SEE
At Rest.
REGINA D. DEURGE
REGINALD PFUDGE
He went out in the kitchen and to cook that one of them would have to cook it.
HE WENT
In this spot JONAS M'FUDDLE
Would have been buried in due time.
He tossed a match in a tank of benzol to see if it would ignite.
To the memory of ANNIE CHUMP
Who ate five pounds of arsenic tablets because she was worried about her complexion.
SHE HAS_STOPPED WORRYING.
Buried here is DOCTOR SPEEDER
He was in a hurry to attend a coroner's inquest and tried to bunt a locomotive off the crossing with his finger.
HE WAS AT THE INQUEST.
Here lies HAROLD SHIRKE
To escape going to war he married a large red-headed lady. HE WAS KILLED IN BATTLE. Krocite, News
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How'dy Frank-
Hello Joe-
how's everybody—just arrived No. 6 was two hours late Same old house=same old University-
Oh Boys! seems good to get back—goin't to try for "the team" this fall—been working at Camp Funston all summer—good wages too—
Don't stop me—see you later going down to 905 Mass. St. right now—and buy myself a new suit, overcoat, raincoat, hat, cap, some shirts and stuff—Say when I get back I'll be "blossomed out," Like a "whitewashed fence on a Foggy Night."
So long fellows—
Bill! Eh Bill! Save me some dinner—
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