UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture students of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news or publish it in a veracity holds; to play no favorities; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be polite; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all to serve to the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1917.
Poor Richard Says:
Employify time well, if then means
not of a minute. throw not away
noface of a minute, throw not away
TO THE FIRST
During the Easter vacation many K. U. men enlisted in Uncle Sam's service to help through the present crisis. These have gone into every branch of the service, and stand ready to respond to the call whenever it comes.
Praise is due these men who have taken the first step that nearly every man in the University may take before many months pass. The University will ever honor the men who have taken the lead.
RAG-TIME VS. MUSIC
In this age of nationalism in music it is not especially gratifying to note the position which America still maintains in this line. Music teachers may talk all they want to about MacDowell, Gottschalk, or Stephen Foster representing the national music of America, but they dare not overlook the fact that the great mass of our music comes not from brilliant musicians such as these, but rather from a group of rag-time composers in Chicago and New York who pick tunes from the piano key-board like a high-school girl picks letters from a typewriter, and whose lives are so insignificant that not one person in twenty is familiar with the name of a single one of the personages, although he hears their music played day in and day out.
This is the main reason why music containing.real art is not appreciated, even by the majority of University students, who, by the way, are supposed to be cultured. Regardless of this, no one can be really cultured unless he has an artistic taste; and he cannot have an artistic taste unless he enjoys the worth of good music. A student musician was asked the other day if he played Tachaikowsky "Nope," he replied; "I've sworn off card playing, except solitaire." Girls also can show their ignorance. In an ice cream parlor the other night one was asked if she liked Chaminate. "Oh, it's just too delicious for anything!" was the answer.
ON STUDENT GOVERNMENT
No, Schubert's songs did not remain in oblivion because they were of poor quality. They failed to become popular because they ran in competition with "Will the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night?"
Just what part do the students play in their own government at the University.
This question has been asked by many, especially since the action of the Senate in regards to paddling. A vote of the students was taken to determine their attitude on the question. It was naturally supposed that
since the disciplinary committee asked for an expression of student opinion, that it would have some weight with the Senate.
Since the students voted a few years back to return the student government to the faculty, this is the only way of getting the opinion of the undergraduate body. The poll showed an overwelming majority in favor of the retention of paddling. It was taken seriously as was shown by the thoughtful suggestions written on the ballots.
The Senate has seen fit to take away the students' means of enforcing the cap tradition, what means are they going to suggest to take the place of the paddle?
From the number of Greek letters carved on the arms of the class-room chairs one would think that the three thousand students were all enrolled in Greek courses.
Some professors ought to make good U-Boat commanders. They are always trying to create an impression that they are such deep thinkers.
WHY WE ARE IN WAR
It is a natural alliance for the United States to join the liberal coalition. We can find a fundamental cause for war in the present issue, one that is important to the United States and to the world.
"We believe that it is essential to the democratic idea expressed in the United States that the democracy of France and Great Britain and, as newly established in Russia, be not the only source of triumph autocracy in Germany.
The United States could not safely face the military power of that autocracy, which needs only a decided triumph to be firm in the esteem of the German people themselves. If it is to be denied a triumph the government can change, and form of government, substantially if not violently.
The United States, we are sure, is not interested in aggression against Germany. It is interested in preventing aggression by Germany.
The war we enter is one of the highest practicality to the American republic. We enter on the side which we have come to believe in the security of the United States. We shall be stronger and more reliant when we come out. We must develop the use case and rout of our force without needless ruur but with needed determination.
A very high ideal can guide the United States, and it will comfort most Americans to know that the nation is doing what is needed for the guarding of the present and the security of the future American republic.
It is a war with a big cause to be undertaken with much devotion and with all the power the republic can raise.—Chicago Tribune.
SCIENCE OF NOTE-TAKING
Like the stenographer who concentrates all of her attention upon her words, the average note-taker in our study attempts to get every word verbatim.
Note-taking is a science. It is a science based upon judgment and governed by close attention. Just what is extraneous and what is gist must be distinguished by close attention; subordination of material must be arranged by exercise of judgment.
The student who gives his closest attention, jotting down only dates and statistics, gets more out of a course than the person who covers pages with notes. The most important message in the lecture while trying to get more words, and when preparing for an examination, finds it hard to separate what is important from what is superficial. Close mental attention is vastly to be preferred to attention to words, the results are often beneficial but a collection of closely written pages which must be studied again before the reviewer can get the real meaning of the lecture—Michigan Daily.
Leila Nevin, Bertha Mix, Ralph Wiley, Mary Bossi, Remington Kellog, and Clarence Smith, students in Sociology, made a survey of Wakar-
When Seniors Were Freshmen
Hems From the Dally Kansan Files of Three Years Ago.
Kansas defeats Colorado, but
bombs Oklahoma, in the triangular
debate.
Men's Student Council and the Kansan Board play ball.
University Glee Club gives concert at Topeka.
When seniors were freshmen
PSYCHOLOGICALLY- SPEAKING
First Studi: How do you tell when a
speaker has difficulty speaking?
POET'S CORNER
Second Stude: By the spokes that come out of his mouth. -Awgwan.
A schoolman versed in books, who,
Hamlet-like,
fleshes, fades powerless
Showed but heat-harness powers to strike.
Hitched. Lighted in the bus.
His resolution brightened in the bus.
This is the man they deemed of languag blood.
THE LEADER
him him, hot—nor we, who trusted him.
See how his brooding appearance, taking form,
Falls like swift lightning from
They knew him not—nor we, who trusted him.
See! how his brooding purpose, taking form,
lightens. Lightens. From
While fateful thunder shakes the round world's rim.
His country, stirred by him to lofty
states.
Sharing his vision, with high passion thrills;
sion thrills;
It climbs, renouncing minor goods
and lils,
And stands beside him at the crown of
life.
To a new knighthood he ordains the
on earth
None shall be master, none shall be m
slave
woolly mouth of a treehouse
birth
Not for our wrongs alone, but that
To be soul-worthy of a freeman's birth—
Not for our wrongs alone, but that on earth shall be that
But yesterday a secret of his heart,
His welcome message floods the
globe like light;
it cheers the farthest darkness by
It checks the farther darkness of my mind its boldness makes the undiscovered its boldness makes the undiscovered
Where it has spread, by sea or mount-ate side.
And stands erect with newly-wakened pride.
Or by the bivouac of the caravan,
The lowliest feels a part of
leaguered Liberty takes heart again.
Hearing afar the rescuing bugles
blow;
And even in the strongholds of the
His name becomes the whispered hope
of many.
men.
—Robert Underwood Johnson.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be staged as evidence of good conduct in a publishing without the writer's consent.
UNIVERSAL SONG LEARNING To the Editor of the Kansan:
The Kansan is always up and doing. Vhy not establish the custom of requiring all Freshmen to learn certain University songs by a specified date?
The disciplinary forces of the upper classman could determine a suitable punishment.
In one college I know the delinquents must perform on the chapel steps for the entertainment of the throng. After the date set, any Junior or Senior may stop a Freshman and 'est his knowledge of the songs.
Should you adopt a similar plan, you would have a fair beginning of University's singles. There's a custom that will produce unity, and loyalty to the school. This is a virtue in thusiasm and a cordiality that few other common interests can touch.
By the way—I wonder how many Kate and I know your unfriendly relative alumni but
But to return to my point—to induce present upper classmen to join the movement, you might propose that "Member of the All-University Sing" be inscribed beneath their names in the Jawshaker.
Nellie Barnes, c'16.
Monmouth, Illinois.
HE IS "SORE"
To the Editor of the Kansan:
Here's to the Senat!
I suppose, it is all right. The Senate is the "Emperor" of the University and the student body has about as much force in the control of its interests as the average peasant has in the affairs of state in Germany.
In spite of the overwhelming vote of the students in favor of the retention of paddling as a means of enforcing tradition, the Senate has published
The Kansan of Thursday says "It is left to the students to decide what shall be done to enforce the wearing of the caps." But I would like to ask "What's the use?" when it is a foregone conclusion that the Senate can and will overrule any suggestion that would effect the desired end.
Perhaps I am pessimistic but this looks just like the thin edge of a wedge to me. The abolishing of the caps themselves will follow the anti-paddling rule, then comes the turn of the night shirt parade, next rallies and student meetings of all kinds, and finally athletes. And then K.U. will have reached their city—a school in which there are no "disbursement" interests and students can spend their entire time in the grind, grind, grind.
COLUMBIA MOBILIZES ALUMNI
Columbia has mobilized the services of about 10,000 of her $3,500 graduates and students for the national high school program, and has divided her Faculty into eight different corps, with President Nicholas Murray Butler as chief of staff corps to supervise the mobilization. Returns from the remaining graduates are still pouring in, and many of the personal index registration cards showing the services for which the graduates are specially fitted.
So, here's to the Senate which start
of the hell railing
The Grouch.
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