UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kavarna.
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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.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 65
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the class, but it is better than merely printing the news in bulletin boards and posting worthy holds; to play no favorities; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to leave more serious ones wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1917.
Let they speech be better than silence—or be silent .Dionysius.
FAREWELL DANCE TONIGHT
Take advantage of the one great opportunity to have a Wednesday night dance date.
Yes, it's really true.
You can have a date for a dance to-night—in short the Men's Student Council, the Woman's Student Government Association and the Kansas are urging you to do so.
The dance is for the benefit of Company M. Get your date immediately. She won't care if it is a bit late, because the money goes for a company fund for Company M.
The dance tonight may be the last time that all of the K. U. family will be together, for each day many are leaving and the reserve corps goes to Ft. Riley Monday.
It will be a farewell dance. It will be a benefit舞. By your presence Company M will be better equipped when it is called out.
Make your date while there is still time.
BEWARE!
It's time now for the appearance of the agents for aluminium utensils, books, maps, periodicals, and whatnot, who will try to interest the gullible student in pedelling his wares. Upperclassmen will need no warning but the freshman have yet their trust in human nature to be shattered if they invest in one of these many phases of summer work without due investigation.
Every year has brought its crop of clever graft and the consequential hard feeling. Watch what you sign and be sure you are on safe ground before you contract to put in the summer months in something that will net you nothing but grief.
University vandals are not content with destroying the beauty of the lilac hedge, but they must go one step farther.
K. U. VANDALS
Miss Kate Stephens, an alumna of the University has generously given a bench to the University which has been placed between Green Hall and the Museum. The "newness" has not yet worn off of the bench but the vandals could not wait. No indeed! Some one with an idle brain has left his mark on the bench, regardless of the beauty of the gift which is near the Redbud tree.
Even the stone dedicating Spooner Library shows where another vandal has carved some letters. Then there are the walls, the chairs and even the statues in the various buildings which have initials carved or written upon them.
Social pathologists say that the student who carves his initial or otherwise defaces university property
has taken a step toward becoming a criminal.
If you have any love for your Alma Mater; if you are loyal to the state which has made your education possible; or if you have any respect for yourself, will you not refrain from taking the criminal step?
It is to be hoped that each one will not only see to it that he does not mar in any way the University property but that each student will help create a strong sentiment against "vandalism."
Next to the bore who delights in telling us of his trip to the war zone, is the one who informs us, "That's the way I got my start, sonny."
THE STUDENT'S "BIT"
"Don't waste! Save and Conserve"
—These words embody the sentiment of the nation in the present crisis.
From the President, the administration, the press, down through governors, state official circles, and local organizations the sentiment rings clear. It is a warning;—a remedy.
It must touch every man and woman in the country. It must influence every home, and in so doing, it must affect each student of this University.
The question now arises, how shall it affect the student? How can the student do his bit? At the outset the student occupies a peculiar position. In the vast majority of cases he is not entirely upon his own resources. He doesn't pay the bills. He eats, sleeps, smokes, attends the剧院, and dad does the rest. Moreover the little economies which perforce may fall upon the paternal roof may never touch him. The sacrifice is all too liable to fall at home.
Now is it fair? Shouldn't a student do his duty as much as the folks at home? He is a citizen and he owes it to his home and to his country to do all within his power to conserve and help bear the burden. How shall he do it?
To begin with there is the student tobacco bill, the fountain bill and the dance bill. There are little bills of all descriptions which do not go toward the payment of the necessities of life Consider what a saving would result if only all the money spent for tobacco was turned to better use. Then add another item and watch the total grow. Viewed from the individual standpoint it seems insignificant, but considered in a collective sense it is no small matter.
When Seniors Were Freshmen Items From the Daily Kansas Files of Three Years Ago.
Kansas wins the last baseball games, of the season. George Smee pitched
W. S. G. A. under the management of Maude Lourey, president will give Pinafore at Robinson Gymnasium tomorrow after winnow. Winona McCoskrie will be crowned Queen of the May. She will be attended by Eidh Case, Hazel Day, Mildred Cole and Helene Thomas.
"Do you really think all that exclusiveness is necessary for the consumption of a single ice cream soda?" a visiting father asked his daughter as he watched a man and a girl dishear and bind the curtains of a booth in a cafe.
Vic Bottomly is elected president of the Men's Student Council; Bill Brown, vice-president and Russell Gear, secretary. The representatives are: A. E. Creighton, Henry A. Shinn, D. S. Bechtle, Jonathan Ritter, P Miller, Warner Rockwell, J. C. Greenstreet, T. J. Horsely, Deane Arckers, Art Stacey, L. E. Jackson, F. L. Nutting, Frank McCaffery, Horace Boone and Charles Green.
A LITTLE THOUGHT NEEDED
To the Editor of the Kansan:
A little thought may persuade many that an ice cream soda may be eaten in the sight of all who enter the restaurant. It is one of those small actions from which much is made, of course, but one which can be dispensed with to the general advantage of the student population.
That question has been asked more than once, and often the questioners have followed it up with unpleasant remarks about University students.
An Observer
Wordsworth thought the greatest education was that which we gain from an intimate association with nature. Wonder if they wore paths across the campus where he went to college?—Daily Illini.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
"I know that many of the things we go after here are not worth while, but the competition is so keen!" I quote from one of the best knitting books popular. Fraternity man of the University, one not in school at present.
CONCERNING DEMOCRACY AT ..
Editor of the Kansan:
Surely, now at a time when most of the men of the University are ready and even likely to lay down their lives on European battle-fields for the sake of democracy, out of place to take stock of ourselves at home. For the absurdity of trying to enforce upon Europe what we may not possess ourselves is its own commentary. Democracy half as good is worse than no democracy at all.
Certainly, there is much cause to distrust what one of my students has so aptly phrased, as "ostentatious democracy." After all, your students must elect a trustee to represent the trust. It was the Son of God who brought the Golden Rule.
Now, to come to K. U. Whatever artificiality we have here, whatever restraint, cheapness, wasted energy, is due to the perfectly natural but often mis-directed ambition to "belong" to things not for what one can put into them or even get out of them, but because "not to belong to something" is according to present valuations the seal of failure.
I do not think our deficiencies he are due to the fraternities, but I do think our failures are in part due to our attitude toward fraternities. It is an attitude that the fraternity men themselves in most cases do all that they can to discourage, but so far they have not succeeded any more than have succeeded in some instances. (In referring to this matter of fraternities, may I say that I do not believe there are many fraternity men East or West who have had more than I the confidence and friendship of Greek letter men, nor have I once opened the subject myself. I suppose there is not a fraternity on Mount Oread which does not contain at least two or three men who at their own initiation have discussed with me the matters I bring up. I am not sure I will collate not a single confidence entrusted to me. I have not cared publicly to make this statement before, yet it can be tested true by any one who desires to do so. And the men who are my friends are with practically no exception East or West the leaders of their organizations.) Any initiate knows the high principles which he is sworn to observe in the Constitution of his fraternity; and I believe that with 'ew exceptions' the rules of the fraternity, every man and woman know how much of significance there is in the expression of my friend, the competition is so keen!
One of the instincts of humanity is gregariousness, the formation of mutually congenial groups of common interests. The fraternity is only one such group of human beings. Guides, protects, supports, and develops its members. It reduces a somewhat differentiated membership to a common standard, so that one begins to hear about a "fraternity type" just as one hears of the "colleague type." One develops out of the other. Both are in inevitable and interdependent.
In certain Eastern men's colleges like Amherst College the chapter houses were long ago paid for, and in bidding a member it is not so necessary as here at present to consider the financial means of the candidate. Because Eastern people are in general well to do, they have learned that there are some special needs, personality, ability, Horace Greeley, if living today, would reverse his sentence and say, "Go East, young man, go East." In the smaller Eastern colleges the aim of the average student is to know every
1. There are fraternities which discipline their members because they do not stick closely enough to be in touch but cultivate outside friendships.
Here, however, are some of the charges against K. U., no matter whether
3. There are too many men and women in school spending more money than their home circumstances justify.
5. There are men in each fraternity who regret that they ever became fraternity men; for after they are in, they sometimes find that in conforming to type they have forfeited their honors, but unusually gifted fellow whose personality does not in time absorb into the common type.
4. Too many sorority women must pay such high fees to maintain and equip new and large sorority houses that they can afford to stay in school only one or two years, rather than several years of a normal college course.
2. There are sororities whose unwritten law it is that a sorority girl may not go with a non-fraternity man.
What is the solution? Dormitories,
A Commons, and Co-operation not
Congregated.
man in college worth the knowing.
It is easier to do than here because the men do not take their meals in their chapter houses but in village boarding-houses or at the Commons. They often prefer the conveniences of the church and the opportunities of intimate acquaintance with campus life to the isolation of luxuriously appointed fraternity houses. The absence of co-education throws a larger number of men into intra-mural athletic. You do not in the East overhear on the street where men have had a date last night with Emily." Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst men, have even appeared in Greek and Latin classes wearing a flannel shirt. Men have been known to have had conversations with members long after the details of Analytics or Rhetoric were forgotten. There are long hikes that men may take on snowshoes into the mountains, there are trails on Toby, and sugar-camps, and brook trout, and ruffed grouse, and wild deer, and country otters, and a few other things that some of us in Kansas never heard of.
And girls at Smith and Holyoye seem likewise able to start off on flat-heeled shoes to climb Mount Tom, or walk the Range, or look for a girl in school without an apparent lack of Tom and Dick and Harry. And there are even slightly well known women's colleges, like Vassar or Bryn Mawr, or Wellesley, over dresseming in the class-room is considered in bad taste. There aren't so unchivutous as hint here in Kansas that the competition is so keen?
But it is not co-education that is responsible, for Leland Stanford is a co-educational institution. There, of course, the dormitories and the commones are as old as the university itself, and there at the head is a president who in his opening address last autumn uphold the ideals of democracy for which his university is supposed to stand, and suggested that the keeping of touring cars by students is possible to be dispensed with. Here in Lawrence the other day I overheard this remark between two young ladies, "Why, has she got a car? I didn't know she was anybody."
What then, is responsible for the criticism that is rightly or wrongly directed against the University of Kansas? Here we have a manhood and womanhood inferior to none in the world, a comradeship, a heartfelt sense of humor, a sense of humor, an integrity that makes one take off his hat whenever he thinks of it. One cannot watch day after day these healthy, ruddy, firm-footed, clean-eyed lads and girls without feeling it is an inestimable privilege to be, if only for a short time, among them and to have won their faith and friendship. Their faith and friendship they shall be the men and women of the Commonwealth, and they will not forget those who loved them and labored for them.
But it is perhaps the not unpropthetic hope of those of us now here who in a few years will be here no more, that those who come after us will weave their lives over us and like they have had, a truer sense it may be of values, and a more genuine democracy than we for all our endeavor were able to establish. The true democarchy cannot be with-held; it is part of the march of progress, part of the Infinite plan of which we are but the soon-forgotten agents. For a day or two some one will be much of bittersion, a little too much of hope, has called himself to account as well as his fellows, has blundered perhaps more awkwardly than they, and yet has been unable to withhold his hand from writing what to him is the truth for his day and his understanding, hoping that, whatever his blame, may in some way affect him, and State he loves into closer companionship and common democratic aim.
WANT ADS
There is no power under heaven to equal that of an idea. Christianity itself once existed as an idea in the mind of a humble carpenter in an obscure Judean village. The railroad and the steamboat once boarded out of a tea-kettle. Potetsburg address has become the battle-hymn of President Obama of the World. We in Kansas may do worse than here to highly resolve that in the finest and best sense,—that of the true aristocracy of the Golden Rule, Democracy for us shall begin at home. These means we have to our end; athletics, religion, music, journalism, professional fraternities, and class societies,—but best and of all, the memory of the church back home. Wilfred Wattles.
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