UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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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 time a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go for further than merely printing the news of university events; holds varsity; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be helpful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university; to study the students of the University.
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1917.
PERHAPS THIS WILL HELP
The action of the University business office in charge of Registrar Foster which has called for a reckoning with all students or organizations which handle student funds is to be commended.
The Kansan has done what it could to see this ruling made and enforced. If followed out to the letter, this plan will do away with the big grafts which it is always alleged that managers and committee chairmen make
In this way the character of managers will be protected from gossiping students and temptations will be removed from those who handle the money.
It is hoped that, with these stringent measures, next year's record will be free from graft and unfair practices.
INCONSISTENT FACULTY
Incidentally, the K. U. fair one who recently lost her twelve best men to the war had nothing on the valiant young recruit who kissed the hems of sixteen skirts before departing for Fort Riley.
There was once a faculty who taught in a University who believed that the University did not receive enough support from the people of the town and the people of the state. Not enough attention was paid to its needs or the things it was trying to do. And they tried to do everything in their power to win supporters for the University.
Now at this University a May Fete was given every year. And this particular year the fete began with a procession which marched along a street down to the field where the real program was given. The price of admission was twenty-five cents and a portion of the money went to the Red Cross. And the whole procession was lined with many faculty members who neglected to go down to the field and pay their quarters.
Consistency is as rare as it even was.
OUR GOODLY HERITAGE
It takes an outsider to really appreciate the beauty of scenery in the country around Mount Oread.
Freshmen marvel at the view, but as they become accustomed to it they never think there is anything out of the ordinary in the wide vistas of hill and valley, of farm and wood, of stream and upland.
One of the finest outlooks is that view veiled in the purple mists off across the Wakarusa toward Blue Mound. But whichever direction one looks from the Hill, there is a marvelous variety of scenery.
Many students are too busy think
ing of making Phi Beta Kappa, or how to "get by" without flunking in a certain course to enjoy these things. Students may well say with David of old: "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; ye, I have a goodly heritage."
There are faded, tattered, and drooping flags hanging from many buildings. The students of the University feel that this is a poor show of patriotism, although it probably is not due to a lack of sincerity on the part of the owners. May the Stars and Stripes take the place of the almost unrecognizable emblems.
PATRIOTISM
Patriotism is difficult to define at any time, but during the present crises it is doubly elusive. One person calls the leading dallies for war news; another hangs a flag on the front porch while some one else sings the national air defiantly. Yet have any of these a suggestion of patriotic loyalty guaranteed to outlive the first attack?
Where is the individual whose devotion to country survives when danger is immediate,—when no spectacular display of sentiment is possible? Truly, patriotism—the staple, old-fashioned brand of our fathers—is almost a lost commodity. Enthusiasm today must be whetted by handmen all in gay uniforms parading juntly down the street, or else by an eloquent lecture given preferably by a foreigner. Naturally, patriotism of the good old days seems alluring with its reserve, dignity, and potential spirit ready at command, in comparison to the erratic and almost superficial type expressed today.
The stress of the war will test each citizen's patriotism. Plato's definition of a just man might be well applied: "To do the thing that one can do best of those things that need to be done most for the nation, constitutes consistent citizenship."
According to information from a local pulpit, the mother who said she did not raise her boy to be a soldier was the one who raised him to be a sweet, little, fluttering, purple-decked butterfly of a cigarette fiend who stood at the corners and loafed in the pool halls.
When Seniors Were Freshmen
Items From the Daily Kansan Filen
of Three Years Ago.
Kansas meets Missouri in track baseball and tennis this week. Carl Pickard is elected president of the Ordeal Club.
Genevieve Walker, Blanche Mullin,
Katherine Stone, Hazel Carson, and
Cora Shinn are elected as class representatives to the W. S. G. A.
of Coleman Hall yesterday afternoon.
Ten students will get their diplomas from Oread high school this spring. They are: Bruce McKee, Arline Griffith, Rebecca Wings, Griffith, Richera Wings, Mary Pedroja, John Crowley, Earl Rankin, Alta Scaggins and Albert Schall.
To him that hath a brain and useth it shall be given; to him that hath a brain and useth it not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
The brain-sweaters ride and the back-sweaters are ridden-yesterday, too.
Here is a law of universal application. It is the Master's own saying, and it is just as true in the world of letters as in the world of spirit—News Letter.
We all go through Life in saddles or under saddles. We either ride or walk.
IN SADDLES OR UNDER
MY ROOMMATE
Who is it wears my Sunday clothes
when she will for her portrait pose?
Who is it lies in bed till eight
And then demands that I must wait
Who is it sits up half the night
And keeps the gas jet burning bright?
Who is it eats up the spread
And never makes her half the bed?
But when "that letter" didn't come
And checks are overdue from home
And teachers dear to smile refuse,
Who is it drives away the blues?
makes her hair the bed :
My roommate.
My roommate.
Fresh straw sundaes and eclairs at Wiedmann's—Adv. 150-2
V. C'19.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communication must be shared as an residence of good faith; names will not be published without the writer's consent.
BUT WHY THE COLEGE MAN?
Once more the accusing finger of scorn is raised against the college man. This time it is a serious charge—something more than maltie a petty attack against him like his molotov hazards. He is a "slacker", an object of public contempt. His spinal column is speckled with yellow configurations and he still wears his winter socks. His manhood has departed. He needs a necessity. Such is the brain-child of our native
As usual premature criticism is short-sighted. Those who would judge have done so with little evidence to substantiate their shameless abuse, and have totally ignored the most glaring preconditions of eviction from the college man. Simply because the college, by virtue of its organization and the fact that its roll embraces only men of military age, is peculiarly fitted for leadership, and they would throw upon it a responsibility which they would never dream of casting upon another branch of the college man with an expect of the college man more than his just share of the burden.
At the outset, let them go into any community and there choose a representative body of young men equal to those eligible in any university and compare the enlistment records of the two. Let them next seek out the motives that accuate the enlistment of the two bodies and calculate the element of sheer patriotism in each. Let them then find the real attitude of the two toward enlistment and see which is the noble—the officer, the driver, or that of the college man who is exercising the better patriotism of common-sense by waiting for a definite policy on the part of the government in order that he may make his services count for the most.
The university man is not "slacking"; he is thinking and preparing, and when the time comes for the proof of his patriotism, he will stand forth in his true light and none will be ashamed—College Man.
COLLEGES IN WAR
SITUATION AT OHIO
Mary Roberts Rinehart in a recent magazine article tries to express the feelings of an American mother when her country summon her sons to war.
Everything—everybody—about the campus feels keenly the vacant spots which those who have already depart have left behind them. As more leave the sense of separation will be even more keenly felt.
We wonder if a college, if she could express her feelings, wouldn't be found to experience somewhat the same sentiments as those which Mrs. Rinehart portrays for the mother—anguish over the parting with her loved ones, coupled with a surge of concern for the way in which they respond.
While we are feeling all these things, however, there yet is a sense of gladness that the men of the university have not been slow to recognize their responsibilities and that those of us who remain are doing so because we feel that our place is still here.
We have not appreciated, perhaps,
just how much our friends have
meant to us, until they begin to go
away from us to take their places in
America's line of defense. The places
that we'll be behind will not be
easily filled.
It is with no sentimentality, but with all earnestness, that the university says: "We are sorry to give you the opportunity to do otherwise."—Ohio State Lantern.
Just who will command the new company has not been definitely decided, but it is understood among Baker bays that Prof. F. P. Walker, dean of the School of Engineering of Kansas University, will captain them. Dean Walker has had military experience and is a college man. The boys feel he would be the man for the place..Baker Orange.
The Baker-Baldwin military company which has been hanging fire for several days was an assured fate late Friday evening when 72 men had signed up, in the new organization as a unit of the Third Regiment of Infantry of the Kansas National Guards, which is being organized in the state. A number of alumni have written in stating their desire to join, and it is expected the enlistment will soon begin. The alumni who are contemplating enlistment in their Alma Mater company are urged to hurry in their applications before the places are all filled. Those enlisting in the new company can go to the training camps, and later to the front, with the boys from home immediately with the conscripted bunch to be organized next summer.
THE BAKER COMPANY
STILL WORK TO BE DONE The University of Michigan has not suspended.
In all this furor and excitement incident to the war, there are many students abroad on the campus who seem to be laboring under the delusion that the serious part of the year's scholastic activities is over, even though the doors have closed for months and who continue to entertain this notion are going to be surprised and disappointed next June unless they change their tactics soon. Class room work is just as necessary now as it has ever been. To date there are no professors who have gone on retreat in the summer or one in their courses will receive a passing grade in June, irrespective of the quality of their work. Hence, it behoves those who seem to be enjoying a mid-semester vacation to awaken from their dreams of a possible leuconancy or free trip to Europe with expenses, and not just to take old textbooks and the interior decorations of the Library—Michigan Daily.
BEAUTY POSSESSED BY ALL
Has it ever occurred to you that the most beautiful things in life are the common things—things which a pauper may possess as well as a prince, things which plowman and poet may claim with equal right? For is it not the sea, the sibilant-whispering ocean, the shores and, in whose passionate embrace are nestled myriad argioseis—is not the sea with its wealth of wonder and mystery, the heritage of all? Is not the splendor of the sun yours and mine as well as Shakespeare's? Shall not the serenity of midsummer skies bring us solace as well as him who "sitteth in the seats of the mighty"? Let a man have business with the shearers. The music of the summer rains shall fill his soul with gladness, and the song of the lark shall give him kinship with the Infinite.
He shall have fellowship with the grass and the flowers and the trees, and the slow winding river and the majestic mountains be of his brotherhood. Before his eyes shall pass the scarlet-clad glory of Autumn and always for him in life—a wondrous tapestry, woven anew each day from the warp and wool of common things, but of imperishable beauty, because designed and patterned by a Weaver whose name is God.—F. L. Pinet in Kansas State Collegian.
The Cornell Ambulance Unit, comprising thirty-three men, arrived safely at Bordeaux, France last Wednesday. They left New York on Saturday, April 14 on the French steamer, Rochambeau.
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