UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news in newspapers, she reserves virality holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be helpful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University of the University.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1917.
Poor Richard Says:
UNIVERSITY SLACKERS
If you would know the value of
a borrowing goes a order
be that a borrowing goes a order
In the present time of uncertainty and excitement, the tendency is to "slack" on studies. This was discussed at the University Senate meeting this week. Of course, it is hard to follow the usual routine. Faculty members recognize the fact. They have been correspondingly lenient.
Those students remaining in the University can show their caliber by doing their work as well as possible, and in this manner help to carry out the work of the school year as it was planned.
The University Senate is to be commended in its action in retaining University athletics for the rest of the school year in accordance with the Chancellor's wish. The students are glad to know that the Senate has some members who are not carried away by the excitement of the moment and who do not disregard the interests of those who want to continue in the University in order to be better fitted to serve their country in whatever way they can.
KEEP COOL AND THINK
During these strenuous times, it is essential for the welfare of both the individual and the University that the students maintain a calm state of mind. Regardless of events which ordinarily are conducive of feverish excitement, we must remain placid, cool, and wide-awake in order that our faculties and judgment will be best qualified to settle the problems which confront us.
The excited man may enlist when he should remain at home and look after dependents. He may withdraw from the University and rush into a situation which does not require his presence or demand the sacrifice he is making. On the other hand, the highly enthusiled person may jump at conclusions, hold off from preparing himself for an emergency, and later regret that he did not think the matter out clearly, keep wide-awake to his opportunities, and do what really would have been the best for him.
We must keep cool and think well.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT
One of the most commendable things of the year was done when the manager of the Sophomore Hop, announced that the proceeds of this year's party would go to the Red Cross fund.
In the present war in Europe the Red Cross has been of great service. The amount of good this organization has done cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Now as our country is on the verge of entering actively into the war, the Red Cross is trying to keep up with other branches of the great military organization. It depends largely on volunteers to carry on the work and on contributions to be it up.
It is such contributions as this that make the work possible. The managers are certainly to be congratulated on their choice of the disposition of the proceeds of the party.
THAT BULLETIN BOARD
The gaudy poster-bedecked bulletin board at the entrance to the campus in front of Green Hall looks like the sign board for a burlesque show and it is at a place where it will be the first thing to meet the eyes of the visitor as he comes on the campus. A little more care and the bulletin board would be a neat, business-like arrangement instead of the dilapidated confusion of notices that it is.
When Seniors Were Freshmen
Items From the Daily Kansan Flies of Three Years Ago.
K. U. mililia is ready for the Mexicans but Captain Jones' Company has had no orders from the front vet.
Clyde Van DerLip, manager of the
homophor moke, began the ticket sale
with 60,000.
Hash House League opens with eight games.
Dorothy Hackbusch, president of the W. S. G. A. goes to Bloomington, Illinois to attend a College Women's Councils.
THE REAL UNIVERSITY
Once there was a college man who tried to write a story typical only of his own institution. In studying the matter of stories typical to certain schools, he could find only one or two which seemed real, and one was the other. Finally in the annals of his own institution in this college man found an unsubstantiated legend to the effect that in the dim past students had the right to vote; the students at one time ran the city council, and the students from gold bricks. He seemed on the right track, but a graduate of another university told him the legend in the east of a student controlled town wherein the students once ordered the erection of a town hall one mile long and two inches thick. Thus there was similar evidence and none seemed to have a basis of fact. But rumors were not what he wanted.
In investigating the systems of voting, of societies, of freshmen cups, and of athletic meets, he found that there were no fundamental differences between these two societies inique. Whenever one college strikes upon a tradition, a dozen other schools will seize upon it. Individuality of college traditions, then may simply mean the trying out of all new, feewest colleges, so that the college gets whatever credit is deserved.
About the only things typical purely of his own college, were the peculiar conditions of the campus buildings, and the town and country surrounding it. But many schools have their own access systems, their institutions, their followers, their contests, their winning spirit, and so on. Most writers of college life have presented flippant, untrue atmospheres to the reading public. Thus the particular college man in this story could not conclude more than that all American universities and colleges are, altogether, the most visions of the great American University. Surely the world is in need of a writer who can conjure up the main cross-lines which form the complex of his own particular school, and at the same time show these deep, vital and earnest facts which are truly a part of college life, but which are also blinded by the superfluous externals of rah-rah-dom, fail completely to realize. The Michigan Daily.
"Well, you brought me a cold storage egg and oleomargarine."—Washington Star.
Our idea of a soft snap: Being
high on air cattle - Topical Hokkien
School World.
"Excuse me," said the waiter, "but the quarter you gave me for a tip lays in front."
QUID PRO QUO
EVIDENCE
"Yes, she tells her mother everything."
"Well, I thought that the old lady was degenerating rapidly." -Life.
Freshie—"I don't like those shavings for breakfast."
Sophomore – "It beats the board w used to get last year." - Awgwan.
Let me be a little Blinder
To the faults of others, about me,
Let me be a little more;
Let me be when I am weary,
Let me serve a little better
Let me serve a little better
POET'S CORNER
"Let me be a little braver,
When temptation bid me waver,
Let me strive a little harder
"MY CREED."
Let me arrive a little harder!
Let me listen to the noise.
Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker,
Let me think more of my neighbor
And a little less of me.
"Let me be a little sweeter, Make my life a bit compter By doing what I should do
Every minute of the day:
Let me toil, without complaining,
A not humble task disclaiming,
Let me out, the summons capably.
When death beckons me away."
—The Mirror
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
THE WRONG PRINCIPLE Editor Daily Kansan;
I wish to vehemently protest against the desecration of the institution of the time-honored and sastified custom of wielding the lusty and personified Paddle against the neither parts of the wearing apparel of the neophyte of our great and famous institution of learning and education, although somewhat inappropriately—called the Freshman.
Tis not conserving and protecting the rights of the notable students, to allow or permit the dineering and brow-beating Senate, composed of uncut, irresponsible, unthinking, irreverent, near sighted, domineering, and wholly destructive members of the faculty, to tear down and raise to the ground the basis of the power of the upper classmatter to chastise, obliterate, shuide, censure and repulse the too buoyant spirits of the freshmen. We cannot allow this class, this group of beginners, to dominate the University, to run over its sacred campus rough shod and unsanctiononiously.
Against the wishes, the rights, the vote, the approval of the student body, that part of the great and growing business among which rests on the brow of Mount Oread, the illustrific faculty cast aside all concern for others than themselves and abolished the right of the underline classmen of K. U.
With utmost reverence toward the faculty.
'Tis not the act alone—'tis the principle of the thing. Shall the faculty be allowed to cast off the teacher? 'No, we desire—as though the noble University were made for them and not for the students? Shall they continue to wrest away the rights of those who are for education?—No, by Jiggers!
Sincerely,
I. M. Highlowbrow
THE NEW GEOGRAPHY
Hist Prof—What is the name of the world's greatest empire?
Stude (hiding a copy of the Photos-
the) Theda Hara, of course—The Papi-
n.
HER OWN FAULT
Mistress—Mary, don't let me catch you kissing the grocer's boy again.
Mary—Lor*, mum, I don't mean to, but hone around as—Boston transcript.
"I want," said the earnest college
woman, be associated with the
things that corresponded.
"Good!" cried the accommodating employer. "Walert, take the young man and show him how to work the adding machine." - Widow.
THE SOCIETY WHIRL
"I once moved in the same circle with Mrs. DeStyle."
Drug Clerk—"Now what kind of a tooth-rush do you want?"
"When is a tie not a tie?" "Shoot!"
"Fact. We got on the same merry go-round."—Kansas City Journal.
"When it becomes your roommate."
'Yale Record.
"Just twenty, every one a beauty!" "There must be some mistake. The dealer has only charged for a half dozen!" -Punch Bowl.
"It must be a strong woman, seven ave a ma fames."—The Widow.
"John dear, do you remember how many sea bass you caught last Sunday
He—There is an awful rumbling in
the room, and I can see going over a
cobblestone pavement.
"That's all right. I walk on 'em myself." - Ohio Sun Dial.
She-It's probably that truck you ate for dinner—Orange Peel.
Advice to hungry fraternity men "Eat the chapter roll."—Sun Dial.
Prisoner—"Alright, how much do I owe you?"—Brunonian.
Judge-"I must charge you for murder."
"Tiz?"—Sun Dial.
"I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to step on your foot."
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