UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University than merely printing the news, but rather more importantly verifying holders; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind. We want students to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1917
GOING TONIGHT?
The man that makes a character makes foes.—Young
It's at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Fraser Hall Chapel.
The last big concert by the K. U. band this year. And of course you're going. The director will interpret one of his own compositions on the cornet. Another big feature of the concert is a march song, the "University of Kansas," composed by the director. A professor will play on a bass horn and there will be a harp solo.
"PROFESSORS, BE MERCIFUL"
K. U. is proud—and justly so—of the University band and that is the reason why a "full house" will greet "Mac's boys" tonight.
Life in the University is more normal again since the excitement caused by the declaration of war has subsided somewhat. Students are seen going to the library and are heard discussing assignments and note books and term reports as they did before the president delivered his message.
But the effects of the thrill of war and of waving flags are still with us. Phi Beta Kappas, grids and sliders all fell victims to the spirit of "what's the use" and became "slackers." Now that the routine of college life has resumed its old importance students are finding that their work is not satisfactory.
In the midst of the return to the old order it might not be out of place to ask the faculty to "have a heart." During this exciting time, many of the professors forgot to announce that a 2,000 word thesis would be required or that a report of library reading of 5,000 pages must be handed in by the middle of May.
Most students are working hard now to "catch up" with their work. It is hoped that the professors will remember these weeks of excitement that have passed and give the students a fair chance to "make" good.
Add to the growing list of uncertainties: Women, War, Weather, Fountain Pens, Student Council Elections.
STEALING TIME
Everywhere one hears save and conserve on food and on dress, but why not save and conserve on time? If people would get to places promptly so that meetings could begin on time, perhaps University students would not be compelled continually to rush from one place to another and always feel that they haven't a moment of their own.
At a meeting of the Red Cross in First Aid the other night, for every minute that the meeting was delayed by "late comers" each of the 250 women enrolled, lost a minute. The meeting was twenty minutes late. Just
5,000 minutes or nearly 83 hours were wasted. Think of the quizzes that might have been boned for, or the term papers that might have been written in that wasted time.
Of course, for one person it was only twenty minutes, lost—twenty minutes that were taken away by thoughtless persons. Only twenty minutes but they will never come back again.
Is it fair that you should take twenty minutes of one individual's time to say nothing of a hundred or more of others who are waiting on you and the other "tardies"? One wouldn't think of stealing twenty cents from each person who has got to the meeting at the time scheduled; then why should one steal twenty minutes of time from the punctual ones?
In preparing for the distinguished French envoys, be ready with your tricolor and your "Marseillaise."—K. C Star.
We must here at the University as elsewhere throughout the nation, become members of the "I Won't Waste" movement. We must resolve to live simply and with reasonable economy.
No form of organization is necessary. No particular pledge to anybody is required. All that the situation demands is that patriotic students, who want to serve their country, should realize how much they can do by cutting down on waste and extravagance of every kind.
If the university student can set the example of plain living and sane thinking in such a time as this, it will be to his own honor and to that of the institution he represents.
Are you willing to do your share?
W. J. Bryan, Jess Willard, etc., etc,
should make their offer to enlist to the
recruiting stations, and not to the
newspapers.
The other afternoon at the reading table in Spooner Library, eight students sat waiting for one other student to finish reading the Unpopular Review, too impatient even to study. Near by were the last two numbers of Life, untouched. What! you say? Of course, gentle reader, this story belongs to the "As It Might Be" column.
When Seniors Were Freshmen Items From The Daily Kansan Files of Three Years Ago.
Kansas track squad defeats Nebraska
Hazen and Hazen Bonger break
Bonger break
The office and Rest Room in
Fraser Hall is nearing completion.
Phi Beta Pi defended Sigma Delta Phi 13 to 2. The batteries for the rafters were Shank and Miller; Sigma Delta Phi, Marsh, Sammons and Thorne.
L. E. Jackson has announced his canvass for membership on the Men's Study Center.
Ruth Burnham and Ruth Diebert give their graduating recital.
All arrangements made for Engineer's Day. Ball games, tog-waf and track meet arranged for the afternoon and a dance in the evening.
Nephew—You don't, eh? Just wait till you see her with the bridesmaids she has selected—Nashville Tennessean.
Aunt—Your bride, my dear boy, is wealthy and all that, but I don't think she'll make much of a beauty show at the altar.
TO SHINE BY COMPARISON
A cockey angler, thinking his Highland boatman was not treating him with the respect due to his station, exostosed thus:
"Look here, my good man, you don't seem to grasp who I am. Do you know that my family has been married for the last two hundred years?"
A MAN'S CHARACTER
Edith--They say a man's character is divulged by the manner in which he proposes. I suppose your mother has been asking when he pounced the question to you!
"Hoots! that nothing!" was the reply. "My ancestors have been entitled to bare legs for the last two thousand years."—Tit-Bits.
Mabel—'No', dear, he couldn't-
sit on sitting them—Chicago. Her-
eld
HIS FAMILY STANDING
CAPACITY.
Spank—I don't see how he could—Life.
Spink-Jones told me today that he isn't drinking any more.
POET'S CORNER
As the homeless long for home, I am
weary for the sight of it.
THE OPEN ROAD
shadow dappled white of it.
The moonlight, the gloomlight, the pine
wood.
The ring of frost touched highway.
The bush of leaf strewn byway.
The fence post on the street.
bookcases
the far horizon's rim;
As the homeless, long for home, I am
Little Boy—Ain't there going to be no circus today?
The dure of it, the lure of it, the thorny miles and all of it.
dusk fragrance dim;
The ring of frost touched highway,
"I wouldn't say that exactly, but he takes a night away from home regularly every week for that purpose."-Detroit Free Press.
"Good morning! I came to tune your piano."
"Is your husband a regular attendant at lodge?"
KIND NEIGHBORS
"Piano? But I didn't send for you."
"I am, but the neighbors said
I ought to."
The star gream, and the far gleam of beechland kindled fire.
Burns, Kansas
Circus Man—No; youngster the elephant swallowed the coffee pot, and we can't find the grounds—Lampon.
Earl W. Shinn,
Burns, Kansas
the gray mask shadow wrinkling.
And the calm of pine breathured upland
The dim hills distant lifting.
The gray mists shadow drifting.
HIS EXCUSE
hungered for the touch of it.
The length of it, the strength of it, the
As the homeless long for home, I am
hungered for the touch of it.
The dim hills distant lifting,
the gray mists shadow drifting.
hongmei or, the town of it,
the length of it, the strength of it, the
on the ache of old desire,
As the homeless long for home, I am
steel and velvet clutch of it.
The known ways, the lone ways, from
the book.
The solution lies in the hands on the students, especially the fraternity men, who direct most of the policies and activities of the school, and perhaps if they would devote more time to studying this unfortunate situation and less time in cheap-screw politics, than in academic work, the program. I say this, not in a criticizing spirit, but in consideration of the school I love and for which I have fought, — hoping that perhaps some one may think twice before he speaks, and if he can't say anything good of his school, will say nothing; or, that another, when contemplating getting by with something under cover of the name of K. U. that he couldn't do in college, should be willing to some willing brother to be kicked in a spot where it hurts most to be thus summarally dealt with.
The scent of rain sweet heather.
The cloud white, woven weather.
Mr. Willard Watties is correct when he says there is an underlying distrust of K. U. over the state, irrespective of his reasons. I did not realize it so much as a student there, but now that I am in the position of the onlooker I get a better view of the situation, and I mention the conversation above as an example of the prevailing sentiment. I know of several men in this small community who have refused to send their sons to K.C., or fear of the influence that it will have upon their moral character. It has been my opportunity to visit a large number of Kansas towns and communities and I have found the same expression of distrust and opposition.
That this is humiliating to those who are students of the University, and to its alumni or to any one connected with it, is putting it in mild form; and, in my opinion, much of the real cause lies in the student body. Some may say that the pranks, gimcracks, and flapdoodle of the various classes and fraternities at the University are their own business. I agree heartily, but at the same time the people of Kansas are making them their business, and, coupled with stories, both true and false, almost always started by a weeping tongue, of a little well-meant teaching in the class-room, are cutting down our State University's enrollment, dwarfing her prestige and influence, and cutting a hole in her pocketbook.
This morning, as I was standing in the drug store, the common loafing place of the country town in which I live, I overheard a conversation between two elderly gentlemen in which they were commenting upon the archeology of Hard Wattles on What is the Matter of What in the Topeka Daily Capital. Speaker Number One "lowed that it was a fact, too," climbing it with a forceful word or two by way of emphasis. That man's knowledge of Lawrence and the University is limited to the fact that the name of the town is painted in black on the background in front of the depot. Speaker Number Two agreed, adding that "K. U. turns out nothing but infidels, and no matter how good a boy is when he goes there, he never comes unblemished." That man has had a son at K. U. When he made such an offer to the couple, and shifting gears, drifted into the conversation on third speed. But that's another story.
Editor of Kansan:
The cloud white wander-weather,
And the hawk free eyewill will of it.
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still a vagrant heart.
*Martha Haskell Clark.*
CAMPUS OPINION
With over twelve hundred men, mainly seniors, already gone from the University and with more leaving daily, it becomes apparent that the reduced as nearly as possible to matters of formality. According to present indications, more than half of the senior class will have left before graduation day. The men remaining in the University will be but little less than a quarter of theendar usually planned for graduation time. And, with the country at war, social functions entailing large expense are hardly in order. For these reasons it seems wise to eliminate from the usual Senior Week calendar the similarly social mature and reduce graduation time to the simplest possible terms.
Of the usual items on the Senior Week calendar, the Senior Ball, Class Day, the Masque play, and the Musical Clubs' concert will be better disaffairs than those which such affaires be of little interest in times, but they would under the present circumstances be not only of inferior character but of possible serious financial loss. The baccalaureate sermon and the formal graduation are more likely to be graduation week which under the circumstances are advisable to retain.
AT OTHER SCHOOLS
With so many members of the University away on patriotic duties, many of them involving great personal danger, it is also apparent that Senior Week will hardly be a time for entertainment or merry-making of like nature. While these may not involve the same item of expense as the larger functions, they nevertheless partake of a spirit hardly fitting the graduation of a class a large per cent. Unfortunately if you are Unfortunate as the loss will be, unfortunate as is the entire war, in proper respect to the circumstances Senior Week should this year be reduced to its two most formal functions, the baccalaureate sermon and the commencement of a thing beyond this would be but a skeleton and a farce—Cornell Daily Sun.
UNIFORMS? No!
The girls in a Texas school have decided to wear a uniform dress. Their action has received the compulsory seal of the house of its economy and democracy.
We are strong for democracy, but personally, we would not wish to see the girls at this University adopt this method of showing their democracy. The bright colors on the campus these days are a joy to the eye. Garments of blue, red, yellow, green—we do not pretend to name the many half-tonés—mixed together as they are at baseball games or on the walks add a city to our own's comber spring. Yes, we would much prefer to have the girls economize or democratize in some other way than by substituting a sober hue and a uniform design for the rich colors in which we now relocate.
However, we suppose there is little need to worry. If the movement for uniforms starts here, we venture that its original impetus will not come from the campus, but from the man who pays the bills—Montana Kaimin.
SITUATION AT CORNELL
The University of Maine freshmen are beaming a recent ruling which bars them from the Sophomore Hop, and the Senior Reception — Sagebrush.
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