UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the university rather than merely print the news in a way that is more universally holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courageous; to leave more serious wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, APRIL. 16, 1917
WAR AND RESPONSIBILITY
Poor Richard Says:
Handle your tools without mittens the cat in gloves catches no mice.
The action of University organizations in doing away with spring festivities because of the war is to be commended. It is not that giving up one party or festivity would be of any consequence but the principle of economy in time of war is praiseworthy.
People of the nation do not yet realize that we are at war—in what appears to be the most stupendous conflict of the country's history. The resources and food supply are to be tested and each person must feel a sense of personal responsibility and "do his bit" at home if he cannot go to the front.
Curtailing of certain University affairs will do more than anything else to make students get this attitude of responsibility. Trivial traditions and customs of a few years standing are not to be considered in the face of such a national crisis.
WORK OF THE RED CROSS
One of the greatest benefits to be deprived from the first aid course which is being given to the girls of the University by Doctor Child, is the manner in which the interest in Red Cross work will be spread over the state by the girls who go to their homes at the close of school. Many people are eager to do their share in case of war, but have no idea what to do.
When the course of ten lesions is completed, every girl who is enrolled will have a complete knowledge of the preparation of field supplies. In the small towns throughout the state some one is needed to talk up his work, and a great deal can be accomplished if only the movement is started. In this manner it is hoped great results will be derived from the course that is being given.
The women will merely be graduates of a first aid course, and not Red Cross nurses, because two years of practical experience is required before one can be drafted as a Red Cross nurse.
PRESERVE THE TRADITION
Violators of the freshman cap rule are already starting to appear on the campus although it is but a week since the University Senate said "No" on the paddling question. With fear of the paddle removed certain freshmen are taking advantage of the absence of punishment and are ignoring one of the most cherished of K. U. traditions.
No substitute for the paddle was suggested by the Senate and the students, subservient to the higher power, can merely await developments or seek to preserve the tradition by arbitration.
This year's freshmen will soon be sophomores and for the remainder of
the school year they can do a great service to their alma mater by wearing caps with the utmost diligence. It is possible to create such an atmosphere in regard to the cap tradition that no one would dare to break the rule. Such an atmosphere exists in other big universities and freshmen who do not wear the prescribed caps are socially ostracized by their fellow classmen.
The freshman, more than any other class can bring about such a means of enforcing the tradition.
HILLTOP PHILOSOPHY
Some students take about as much interest in their studies as the average husband does in his mother-in-law.
In picturing the 1917 K. U. Follies why not add the straw vote of the students on the paddling question.
Some students believe they can
practice semester's work; others
enlist now.
Strength may win the football games and speed track meets but what does it take to win beauty contests?
Heads of some people remind us of a silver dollar—one bone.
Is there a prof with soul so dead who not unto himself hath said, "Can I win the $5.00 prize in the College Spirit contest?"
Roll Bodie says he wonders why they don't have a hair-cut week.
When Seniors Were Freshmen
Items From the Daily Kansan Files
of Three Years Ago.
Fred Rodkey, of the freshman track squad, broke the University half mile record Wednesday when he completed the circuit in two and two-fifths seconds. Coach Moose kept time on the sprinter.
Con Hoffman, Y. M. C. A. secretary,
reports that he has several jobs open
for men now. He wants a newspaper
and a restaurant, and fountain man,
and a restaurant man.
As a result of the denial of Judge C. A. Smart of a new trial in the fraternity tax case, the county will carry the case to the supreme court.
Three freshmen in the College aspire to a place on the Council and there is a ruling that only one may serve. The plan of eliminating some of them will be decided in the next few days.
Four proposals for memorials were made by the seniors. Some wanted to get a new pulpit for the chapel in Fraser. Others thought it would be a good stunt to plant some trees along the side of the church. The Phi house. The sentiment of the girls present seemed to be for a bench or which only seniors could sit.
Director J. C. McCannis is in favor of steps or any other convenient plan.
HOW-DO-YOU-DO?
Shud or should not the instructor or professor speak to his students when he mets them on the street? Some will say that he should; some will say that he should not; and still others will say that he should but cannot.
The University has professors and instructors who try to speak to their students, even at the risk of speaking to a stranger now and then. The university also has faculty members who plow down the street with their heads in the air, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, and saluting nobody.
Often it is that the student fails to consider the difficulty which confronts the instructor when he attempts to speak to all of his students. He reasons that the instructor by ignoring him is holding himself aloof from the student body. This is one of the things which contributes to the failure of students to have toward their teachers. It is one of the things which makes some students draw a distinction between people and professors.
For the professor who has two or three hundred students in his classes daily, the task of singling out his students from the remainder of the class is to recognize one, and in many cases it is next thing to impossible. But for the instructor who has three or four classes with from twenty to thirty in each, the tawan believes, it is his duty to recognize students outside the classroom.
Granting that the task of speaking to all your students, Mr. Faculty Member, is no light one, we still maintain that there is too much light in the room by professors. If you will put yourself to the trouble of noticing your students on the street, we believe your efforts will be richly rewarded with a more intimate and personal touch with them. —The Daily Iowa.
You find his faults are trivial and there is not so much to blame
You are quick to see the bleemish in the distant neighbor's style.
the way they are thinking and the troubles in their mind. When they are both is different than what I thought they were, so it might be that they thought they were.
ELEVEN When you get to know a fellow, know his jeans and know his caretaker.
is not so much to pimble
in the brother that you jeered at when
POET'S CORNER
When you've come to understand him and the burdens that he bears,
"What do you call your machine?" he allen, as I have named it the Foot-steam.
WHEN YOU KNOW A FELLOW
You can point to all his errors and may sneer at him the while,
A BLUE JAY
And your prejudices fatten and your hates more violent grow
"While I was watching the ticker
point of my stock went up twenty
points.
He—"We're coming to a tunnel. Are you afraid?"
As you talk about the failures of the man you do not know,
She-"Not if you take that cigar out of your mouth!" -Awgwant
your hands and shoulders touch.
You find the traits you hated really
man you do not know.
But when drawn a little closer and
When you get to know a fellow know his every mood and whim.
"Then you made a lot of money?" "No. I came out about even. You see, my wife was at the milliner's at the same time." - The Lamb.
don't amount to much.
BREAKING EVEN
You begin to find the texture of the splendid side of him
texture of the splendid side of him
You begin to understand him and you
You begin to understand him and you grow to love him. For with understanding always prettier.
If understanding always prepares you to find his virtue and his You begin to find his virtue and his
your phrases turn to blame
Know more of him you censure than
You begin to find his virtues and his faults you cease to tell.
Ethel—"Too long. He hasn't got a cent left." —Boston Transcript.
For it is likely that acquaintance wouts your prejudices dispel
When you next start in sneering and your phrases turn to blame
For you seldom hate a fellow when you know him very well.
Know more of him you censure than his business and his name;
your prejudices班
And you'd really come to like him if
He-- You want my brother; he has St. Vitus' Dance-- Princeton Tiger.
She -I like a man of few words and many actions.
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"I suppose you know all the new
things...what was the latest dance
this year?"
Why military training at K. U.? Because it solves the problem of the freshman cap. Instead of a small cap which is inadequate protection against elements, a whole uniform would be weaker than the cap and more completely than with the cap.
so take him if you know him very well. When you get to know a fellow and
Because before the present war is over it is certain that some sort of compulsory universal military training will be in force. If this is so it is likely that students of military schools in which regular army officers are instructors, will be credited for such service and the actual service greatly shortened. Thus, a military training will prove a means of attracting students to our school.
Edith—"Haven't you and Jack been engaged long enough to get married?"
Because it affords a means of practical instruction in the handling of men. The one great objection against the majority of college men is that they are lacking in capability for handling weapons and women would act as officers and noncommissioned officers and would have a chance to demonstrate their supposed superiority over the freshman. Further, these men would be fitted into the arms of commissioned officers of the national army and of the universal service units.
CAMPUS OPINION
Because every man would receive instruction in neatness, sanitation, punctuality, obedience to the proper authority, respect for the flag and what it represents, and in military history. Military training would develop the men physically and men- tically required in every man the sturdy qualities which fathers had and which seem to be disappearing in the present generations.
The plan to be followed would be training for every freshman three or more hours a week during the whole school year to take the place of the present "gym" work. During the sophomore year the men who so desired and could qualify would act as corporals, sergeants, and lieutenants. Summer camp could be held in conjunction with the regular army forces.
Engineer.
"What do you think of a man who will constantly deceive his wife?"
"Oh, about 4 a. m."—The Widow.
Then his faults won't really matter,
—Edgar Guest in Wesleyan Advance.
"Why can't you give me more than a thousand frances at a time?" wailed the title foreigner to his American heiress wife.
"Because," she returned, "it was distinctly understood when we married that I was to buy you on the installment plan."—The Lamb.
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