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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
Phones, Bell K, U 25 and 66
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate at Kansas to go further than merely printing the news for university students; to hold vicious holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind and to help others; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university and to qualify the students of the University.
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1917
"We are more inclined to hate on another for points on which we differ than to love one another for points on which we agree." Dilton
DOES IT?
She looked tired and worn, and had dark circles beneath her eyes. "I am so sleepy today," she said. "Yesterday afternoon I went kodaking; then in the evening my roommate came back from Topeka with a lot of things to eat, and we ate and talked until it was quite late. I had all my studying to do after she went to bed. It was three o'clock when I quit studying, but I didn't get to sleep until four. I am going to a picture show tonight, and don't suppose I will turn in much earlier."
Does it pay? The human body can stand only a certain amount of wear. Does it pay to crowd so many things into one day, and be irregular in habits at the expense of one's strength and health?
IN THESE ABNORMAL TIMES
Somehow there isn't much time left for rotten school politics, for graft, not pettiness and meanness. The man who has distinguished himself for cribbing and bluffing and showing himself a mere sham looks pretty small when questions of patriotism and sacrifice and ideals come up. War certainly has its horrors; but the big ideals which it encourages makes us ashamed of deceits and shams and hypocrites.
Nothing is more undesirable in these stirring times than that the educated college man should follow the crowd and cast his normal life to the winds. Nothing is less to be desired than that a man should forget that war, while a grim business indeed, is but an abnormal ripple in an otherwise smooth sea. Certainly it is not a condition under which one should "lose his head."
Without mature reflection students are too willing to let all of their life plans drop as they stand and take on a mental attitude of no-use-to-plan-the-end-is-here. Now such an attitude is decidedly unoptimistic to say the least, for tomorrow's sun will surely shine, and many a college man will return to complete his plans for the future.
Let the student be rational. Let him proceed to lay out his life plans as he would normally do, throwing aside for the instant, all thought of what may happen to disturb their completion. Then, if all goes well and he is permitted to return unscathed to a free and victorious democracy, no careers can be carried on unhampered by an army of fortunates with nothing in sight for the future.
Every semester as examination time comes round we solemnly vow that we'll never never let ourselves get so far behind again. We frantically burn the midnight oil, trying
to make up back papers and cram down all those neglected lessons. The past movies and dances which seemed such a necessity are all forgotten.
Isn't there some way of inserting in our date book for next term a few little reminders of these hours of torment when we promised ourselves to reform?
A street car is not really crowded until there is no room left for the conductor.
OTHER OPINIONS
PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR
The following letter has been sent out by the dean of Dartmouth College.
"Dear Sir:
"Since the declaration of war, the Administration and the Committee on Admissions have changed their attitude regarding the size of the next freshman class. President Hopkins, who has often stated that the College did not desire a larger freshman class, now feels that, to maintain the size and efficiency of the College, an entering class larger than usual is desirable. This is necessary to keep the teaching staff intact, to avoid the waste from unused equipment, and to utilize our full dormitory capacity. Other institutions have offered their plants to the Government for military purposes; Dartmouth finds it impracticable to do this on account of her isolated location. Accordingly, we feel certain that our most immediate and most significant contribution must be through educational service.
"Dartmouth's normal capacity today is 1500 students; about 100 have already enlisted and 300 or 400 more will leave for various forms of military or naval service. A normal number of freshmen next fall will give a student body of 1,000. Since freshmen are usual below the age of military service the best course for them to pursue is to begin their college work. Dartmouth will be able, next fall, to provide freshmen with more effective teaching than is the case usually since the more experienced teachers can give a greater portion of their time to them. The College is now offering, under an efficient officer, courses in military training which will be continued next year. Situated 150 miles from the coast, Dartmouth is absolutely free from all military and naval distractions and dangers.
"We therefore feel that Dartmouth can best serve the country in this crisis by making college, training available to the largest possible number of freshmen. To accomplish this, we seek the co-operation of all alumni and friends of the College.
"Yours sincerely,
"Yours sincerely, Craven Laycock, Dean."
WOULD-BE WIT
"We have a big knight ahead of us," said King Arthur to Guinevere as they rode behind Sir Lancelot.—Columbia Jester.
He—When I was four years old I was left an orphan.
She—I can't funny that handsome men are always disagreeable.
She—What did you do with it?—Orange Peel.
IT IS, ISN'T IT?
When on our counterte
The first blow fell
I murmured to myself
I fell—
It is, isn't it?
He—Oh, I always try to be pleasant—Punch Bowl.
When I see our boys aging
Their fair lives to sell
I gnash my teeth and holler
I even want WELL—
Is it, isn't it?
Now I see the boys a fighting
plunging forward pell mell
I bent my firsts and curse it
I wanna a worm It is, isn't it?
It is. isn't it?
But when I see the faculty drilling
'Cording to the soldier's manual
I burst out chuckling and a grinning
Well—
It is, isn't it?
—Oregon Emerald.
Daily Kansan Files of Two Years Ago
WHEN SENIORS WERE
SOME
SOPHS
Charles F. Scott, of Jola, addresses students at convocation and tells of his experiences in Europe as a member of the Belgian Relief Committee. No possible circumstances other than a direct attack should cause the United States to be precipitated into the terrible conflagration," he says.
Cement steps are built at the entrance of the two west doors or Fraser, replacing the old wood ones.
M. S. Root, custodian of towels in Gym, figures that for the last eleven years he has been dispensing 2,400 towels a year, a year, or a total of 550,400 towels.
University Band gives concert o steps of Dyche Museum.
With W. O. Brownlee (meaning "oasar") as chairman of the memorial committee, the sophomores collect letters and photographs in a memoir when they are seniors.
Phi Chi, medical fraternity, enters the University. Kansas chapter is to be known at Kappa Upsilon.
Seniors decide to repeat their play, "The Professor's Love Story," during commencement week.
Thirty students and teachers of zoology decide to spend the summer on Puget Sound, studying. Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, of the University department of zoology, is made head of the expedition.
A fat man in the seat of a disabled car in front of a hospitable garage who can watch a pretty girl mechanic change his tires is in a position to see what happens when he posed for that picture with his head down and his arms crossed.
Fate is perverse. One hair in the soup will discharge the cook; a mouthful of hair on a moonlight night will make a bargain for life.
HILLTOP PHILOSOPHY
The man who can watch a girl oll a typewriter and refrain from dictatism, but when he sings his tongue when the waffles stick to the griddle because it isn't pressed.
Her "master's voice" as it comes in gasps and gaps from a modern dictating machine has been known to drive a distracted stenographer to a quiet, restful night seeking to master the soothing game of "solitare."
Woolly pink bedroom slippers are all right in their place, but they were never mount as a substitute for tennis shoes and now we presuppose the wearer may be.
Mottoes may help to regulate the world, but they never put a man on his feet unless he's got the backbone to make them himself. M. L.
S. O. S.
Time: 11:30 p. m.
Place: A dark and lonely avenue.
Scene: A tireless Ford (also tritured) snorts impatiently in the road and asks, "Where are you at one of its posterior appendages with wrenches, jacks, patches, and a wheeze pump. Also two sweet young co-eds with rumpled hair and a pair of bored expressions wander about the street. They foolish questions to which the young men make unconventional answers.
Disposition of characters: Three to an unknown house blocks and blocks through the moonlight. One to a garage through an atmosphere both dense and blue.
Rising Action: Confined to the impatience of the tender co-eds as the bulldozer goes.
COLLEGES IN WAR
Climax: Out of gas.
Moral: He who rides wrongfully shall walk rightfully.
On account of the fact that the summer camp at Plattsburg for the training of men for commissions in the Army has been discontinued for the coming summer, there is room for every University in the United States to offer training of its own men. The undergraduates who are leaving here for the Reserve Officers' Training Camps next week include only a limited number of men who have reached a certain minimum age. This age restricts them from being immediately upon completion of their short term of training take active positions in the United States Army; but while these men are receiving this instruction, it should not be the policy of the country to neglect the training of younger merl*who will probably be called on at some later date.
The Federal Government has its hands full at the present time in maintaining the officers' training camps in all parts of the country; it is unable to devote its energies to junior schools of military instruction as well. It is, therefore, in the province of the University to take
POET'S CORNER
Of maybe the little dust-deville running
in twisted feet?
You say it's the blaze of colors that come when daylight goes.
the dessert knows;
Abby can sleep the drop of night, so you can hear the tread
and you can see the sweetness.
You come when daylight goes, then
colors that never had a name and only
colors that have been lost.
colors that never had a name and only
the desert knows;
a dozen of them, a dozen of them.
THE SPELL OF DESIGN
the spell of the dance how can a fellow say?
a blinding, burning dances of a blinding, burning day of Fireworks coiled in a clump of mosquitoes?
the spell of the swimmer
Of a coyote nosing the water hole, or
the turn of your broncho's heck.
I tell you, the spell is none of these; it's something a man can't see;
on us.
No, you will never learn from me.
I only know its branded me—this much
better than that.
I can understand.
And I must leave the easy trail to
heard.
wander that burning land.
—Amy Sebree-Smith in Poetry.
care of the men who are planning, at some later date, to try for commissions in the armed forces of the country, but who, at the present time, are not of the required age. There are a large number of such men drilling in the Cadet Corps and in other units. Of this work is discontinued during the summer, and these men return in the fall without any further practical military experience, much of the value of the time spent during this spring will be lost. It should be the policy of the University, if it is in any way established as an institution of the Plattssing plan, to which students can come, during the summer months, for practical instruction in military service.—Cornell Daily.
After fifteen years of un-military training in the Wesleyan, Dr. Harmon, the hero of the day, made a plea for said training and on the 19th day of April, 1917, was the re-organization of this great movement. Although it took world wide war to usurp up to the act, it was with old Wesley the rest of her days which we know are many and are very rich ones. No! not rich with our top-heavy, stoop-shouldered patriarchs who could not ever see beyond a text book, but rich with our straightforward business men with crest heads, chest up shoulders, back up shoulders to defend the flag and will heed the call to arms whenever it is given—Wesleyan Advance.
In the olden chivalric days Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot, Sir Percival and many other knights of King Arthur's Round Table journeyed forth in quest of the Holy Grail and all that is symbolic of truth, faith, love, might, majesty, honor, courtesy and purity.
THOSE WHO GO
This week and next many Carolina men leave to serve their country in the military training camps or elsewhere their quest is like that of the Knights of the Round Table. They go to preserve democracy and its attendant blessings, to secure the rights of small nations, to make straight the air of peace and to treat with civilization. Theirs is the noblest and purest of causes, most free from selfish motives and narrow prejudices.
And as it is a noble cause it demands from its adherents that they think broadly and justly, that they act coolly and unselfish. For a man now to think or act angry, arrogantly, selfishly is for him to fight against the very principles which he is pretending to serve—Tar Heel.
THOSE WHO STAY
Perhaps is is harder to stay than to go. Certainly it is for many men. Yet the call to the campus is as clear and insistent as the call to the cam-
to go.
Yet the call to the campus is as clear and insistent as the call to the camp.
To the war-inflamed minds of almost all of us, it now seems useless and almost farcical to study and go on to classes. "How stale, and unprofitable" to the students' science, English or other lifeless, routine class-work.
Yet now as never before it is the duty of the college student to breathe life into the lifeless work to make his knowledge of economics, history, science, and so forth so accurate, deep, clear, and alive that he can use it to serve most efficiently his community and his country. Not the man in the trenches or in the machine for the fame in the theater or the student—the faculty member pre-eminently has both the leisure and the environment best suited to enable him in the future to sense and solve the problems of his nation and of the whole world.
Those who stay in college now and fail to do the best work they can are the mental补偿者和 slackers, the country—the deserters of their country.—The Tar Heel.
A DISLOYAL CITIZEN
The call goes out to the young men to join the ranks; the farmer is urged to raise more food; women are asked to show their loyalty in various ways; all respond by doing their bit. But there are citizens whose acts in such times as this are traitorous. They are the price "hikers."
This is no time for speculation in foodstuffs and other supplies, and any one who works for his own selfish interest in the pits is certainly one of the country's most dislike citizens. Speculation in foodstuffs is bad enough in times of peace, but when the country is at war, it is nothing else than a hostile act--Daily Misaurian.
Battery Inspection
is ordered for Tuesday night. May 22nd, at 7:45, at the Robinson Gymnasium
We have the required number of men to pass this inspection if all are present, but to be sure we ought to have ten to fifteen more. We especially need three horseshoes, one saddler and more good horsemen.
Our recruiting detail will be at the office of the Railway and Light Company at 719 Massachusetts all day and until 9:30 at night.
Make It Two!
THE best things in life are the commonest. Thar's plenty of friendships — plenty of sunshine— plenty of landscape—an' yo' can get VELVET at any tobacco store.
Velvet Joe
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