UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the university than merely printing the news by standing up for it. It plays 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. All the students of the University.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1917
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YOU'LL BE THERE
It'll be next Tuesday. Down on McCook Field. Pretty girls will trip lightly over the greenward to the sweet strains of music promulgated by Director MacCanles' University Band. Fifteen or more departments of the University will march in a mammoth pageant. Everything and everybody will be represented in the pagent—from the liquid air machine to the Gold Dust twins. After the pagent there'll be a show—an exceptionally novel show, in pantomine—staged by the students in the department of public speaking. There'll be lights, music, color. And laughing girls. And smiling boys. And happy, happy spectators.
You've guessed it—the May Fete
And of course you're going.
CONSCRIPTION
"Women In Annual Splash" writes the star head-writer of a college news staff. Why the pessimistic inference?
We hear a great deal these days to the effect that there is no necessity for a military draft in this country. Canada, we are told, with her eight millions of population, has raised nearly 500,000 volunteers to oppose the Kaiser. From this it is assumed that the President can obtain all the volunteers he desires, even up to 1,500,000 should he wish them. Therefore, conclude the opponents of conscription, it is a reflection upon the character of America's 100,000,000 citizens to assume that it will be necessary to use the draft at once.
This country is at war. It has been at war for nearly three weeks. Germany, as yet, has failed to officially recognize this fact. If our government is to make her realize it, there can be no better way by raising an immense army by conscription. Further, there can be no better way of making the citizens in this country realize what has happened to us.
With affairs in their present muddled state, and no definite talk of sending men to Europe, the great bulk of the people are not taking the military side of the war seriously enough.
Call all the young men of America, between certain ages, to the colors! Drill them carefully, thoroughly. When they are trained, another group of young men will have reached the eligible age. America will soon have an army—an immense army—ready for whatever must be done. And that army will have been raised in the fairest way known—by conscription. It is a way which makes war come home to every family; a way which, through this fact, the people will become con-
War is no child's play, to be in-
duged in by those who love it.
vined that America is in this war to do a real service.
DILATORY SENIORS
Procrastination, the yname is senior class! The eleventh hour has arrived and the Senior Memorial Fund has not yet been called out.
In less than six weeks the members of the senior class will be alumni. Is this your class going to be graduated without coming to a conclusion as to what is to be done with the memorial fund?
This is, indeed, a momentous question but can it be so important that neither the president nor the committee after a year's time can decide for what purpose the funds shall be used? Preceding classes could at least reach a conclusion even if it was only to add another tomb stone monument to the campus.
If the president and committee can not determine what should be done why not have a meeting of the members of the class and let it be decided by vote.
"The real patriot is he who sees the faults of his fatherland with an eye clearer than any eye of hatred, the eye of an irrational and irrevocable love."—Sir Gilbert Chesterton in the London "Daily Times," a dozen years ago.
Romance is the fourth dimension of life—it takes a lot of high class thinking to make it real.
A princess is a person who will si in front of a mirror for four hour worrying over whether her right eye brow matches her left one.
When Seniors Were Freshmen
Items From the Daily Kansan Files of Three Years Ago.
Sophomores win inter-class track
records. Reber and Rodkey break the
records
Bill Brown announces candidacy for president of the Men's Student Council.
The Associated Engineers elected the following officers: M. L. English, President; O. T. Potter, vice-president; W. J. Malcolmson, secretary. Engineers put ban on new fangled dances.
C. O. Buckles, Oscar Dingman,
Arthur Dunstan, C. E. Strickland,
Lella Nevin and Helen Allpin
appointed on senior memorial committee.
Ute Smith, Billy Bolinger, Floyd Nutting, Errol Welch, Deane Ackers, Bill Brown, P. K. Bunn, Paul Dyer, Leon Bocken, Joe Berwick, Sam Bollom, Mark Bortel, Bayles, Barber Bertell are appointed on committee for Engineers day.
"BUSINESS AS USUAL"
There has been a rapidly growing spirit of disorganization of University work as a result of the war excitement among the students and the faculty, in spite of all the efforts of the more levelheaded to preserve calmness of thought and sanity of action. The majority of the students are letting their routine work go, although they have not decided to continue their studies and of the year. They are simply infected with the general feeling of irresponsibility, in the fact of a catastrophe which demands individual thinking and decision in spite of the mob spirit which governs our actions.
Of course much of this sort of spirit is directly traceable to the appeal to all primitive emotions man of importance of the best of his reasoning powers. Yet the University student should have enough self-control and common sense to insulate himself from the general panic. Will it help the country if you试听 it? Will it win the war if you weep over it, or spill noble rhetoric over it, or listen to patriotic songs when you ought to be studying? If you believe that it is your duty to leave the University now and join the army, do so; if you think you can do more good by waiting until the school year is over, in the name of common sense, make your decision, leave off your sentimentality, and act like a grown-up man! There is no purpose for idolism in this work because you are called on to make sacrifices! There is no time for aimless fluttering of attention, for a listless performance of the work before you! Make your decision, do your present工作 like a man, and live up to the tradition of the American race!-Minnesota Daily.
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COLLEGE SPIRIT;
SOME HERESIES
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does the one who permits himself habits of inaccuracy, or who never studies or reflects except under the lash of some class assignment. A student who is not actively, in the class-room and out-, alert for discussion, well-informed but not dogmatic—contributes definitely to the standing of his college; he may make things have happened) have the outside world within a decade or two.
Democracy in the college has no necessary reference to any form of government; it means simply that every individual shall find his true place, according to his good breeding, education or chance to accidents of wealth or ancestry. Such democracy—merely logic and fair play—to a large degree flourishes in our colleges. But like other great ideas, it still awaits its perfect realization. Money and fine clothes sometimes give a student an importance in the eyes of his fellows. We are not expected to warrant. Nor can we speak honestly of this matter without touching upon racial caste. College Christian Associations, naming themselves from the most democratic of all religious teachers, if they exclude any one on account of race, make themselves ludicrous. Most negroes are musically talented. Many students listed to add to the effectiveness of the glee clubs? To couple great things with small, student regulations regarding the wearing of caps, and the military defense of the nation, are now being enjoined on all qualified persons, whatever their race. Locally or nationally, there is neither logic nor fair play in enforcing a citizen obedience without at the same time granting a citizen's full privileges.
Training for citizenship will largely take care of itself if the college is permeated by alert intelligence and by a spirit of democracy. Perhaps we should especially stress the former. We need a hundredfold more of interest in public affairs, of desire to be educated and of desire to appraise schemes of reform. There is widely prevalent a view that students are trained for citizenship through being forced to comply with "traditions," and through the hilarious collectivism of rallies. These things have their value. But a community is always in danger of misuse of these principles in the service of identifying the clamor of the majority for true views of public welfare. In a democracy, training for citizenship should include respect for the individual who varies from the type; the variation may prove valuable. The student who has the pluck to sit at home and listen to his professor, should be more for the university than if he allowed himself to be dragged out for a rally, leaving his work in confusion, to attend his classes next day in a sleepy daze. Now, if ever in the world, training for citizenship must mean training in thought. A student whoights academics in order to obtain aholding or what not) is prepared to swell the ranks of the thoughtless and impetuous among citizens. On another side, however, the impulse to public service needs braving: the sentiment of the college ought to tolerate nothing less than the highest standard of honor in examinations and school tests. The student who hands in a theme written by some one else does not usually become a pickpocket, nor a corrupt politician. But neither is likely to develop that sensitive and delicate sense of rectitude which is the only safeguard against the more insidious forms of public dishonesty. This skill needs toning up, it is in this matter of honorable work.
To sum up all, the finest type of colleges spirit, in individual or in group, is that which allies itself in intelligent fashion, for example, and, even at the cost of singularity, courageously adheres to them.
Fun, in this dark world, requires no advocate. The problem is to provide the due quota of fun without sacrificing other aims. There is a natural impulse in human nature, especially in youthful human nature, every now and then to throw up one's hand to give it away or to release late hours. But a love of fun (masquerading itself through the sight of bonfires built with stolen combustibles, which is too frequently vociferous, at dead of night, in residence streets, where hard-working people are trying to sleep, is training college citizens to be selfish and antisocial. In an otherwise idle college community is wilfully shut out of the fun, we impair the democracy of which we boast. Indeed, almost all the moral problems of student life are resolved by one simple rule: never to procure one's own amusement at the cost of actual or potential wrong to another. Obviously, if fun (dramatics, athletics, society) leads one to scamp one's lesson, there does not seem to be any obvious is that great discovery, which, alas some "students" never make, that there is fun in downright, hard, close study.
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It's the old truth that a thing is cheap or dear according to what you get, rather than what you pay for it.
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Such clothes as these have the quality you'd pay a good custom tailor double for; you couldn't surpass the style at any price. Fit guaranteed.
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