V UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kumasi EDITORIAL STAFF Alfred G. Hill ... Editor-in-Chief Helen Patterson ... Associate Editor Robert H. Reed ... News Editor Sarah Schwartz ... Social Media Don D. Davis ... Plain Tales Editor BUSINESS STAFF Vernon A. Moore ... Business Mgr Mary J. Brightman ... Assistant Fred Bigly ... Assistent NEWS STAFF William Koester Clifford Butcher Harry Morgan Judith Gardiner Harry Morgan Mildred Wear John Montgomery Henry Pogues John Montgomery D. L. Hartley Poor Richard Says: TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1917. Subscription price $2.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. The Daily Kansan aims to picture University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news with university varsity holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be careful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University of the University. Entered as second-class mail matter lawrence.james, under the set of lawrence.james, under the set of If you were a servant, would you no be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own friend, be ashamed to catch yourself idle. SENATE HUMOR 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 Phones, Bell K, U. 25 and 66 The University Senate is humorous sometimes. The Senate agreed to the inviting of Bryan to deliver the 1917 commencement address. Then the Senate made commencement attendance compulsory to grad uates. Criticism has been aroused at the selection of Bryan, a promoter of the "fillbuster" against President Wilson's armed neutrality program. An attempt to withdraw the invitation was stopped by the declaration of Chancellor Strong that such action would be in "bad taste." Now the senate might compromise. Members of the class of 1917 should not be forced to hear Bryan. They had no voice in the selection of a speaker. The Senate might rescind the compulsory attendance provision if a strong student petition is presented THE HONOR SYSTEM Don Davis has been selected to revive interest in the Plain Tales column in the Daily Kansan. Davis wants out-of-the-ordinary happenings. A glance at the stories Davis and his assistants have written, will convey the idea. Funny, gossip, harmless items concerning Mount Oread inhabitants are wanted. Three prominent alumni of the University are quoted as favorable to the honor system in examinations, by the March number of the Graduate Magazine. The Senate recently has decided that the adoption of the system is not feasible at the present time. A strong student sentiment agrees with this verdict. Can a student morale that would back the honor system, be created at K. U.? Says Allen S. Wilber, '13, in his letter to the Graduate Magazine; "As an alumnus who is impressed with the peculiar difficulty that besets the honor system in a large university, may I add the hope and confidence that Kansas can work out for herself this problem of student democracy." "Ist Mr. Wilber's hope a more dream or a possibility? You haven't time to eat your break fast, you haven't time to sleep, and you never have time to take a walk. Remember living is like eating a sack of candy. You can devour the candy all at once and make yourself sick, or you can go slow and have a good time out of it. It doesn't put to try to become famous in ten minutes. You can accomplish more in eight years of sight living than you can in forty of speeding. The radical governmental change in Russia from an obnoxious absolute monarchy to a democratic form of government shows that nations are influenced as much by their allies as students are by their companions. THE PRIZE WINNER From The Graduate Magazine From The G.O.R.D.A. (Herewien) to essay on college recently won the prize recently offered by the Magazine to students now in school. The Magazine hopes to offer other prizes later and to make this an annual occasion.) spirit, offered by the now in school. The other one make this one an annual occasion. College spirit! What does it mean? What is the difference of those two words that have sounded and resounded through all the generations of college people of all the universities and colleges that have ever existed, either in reality or in fiction? Is it something that can be analyzed as a student acquire it, merely with the donning of his freshman cap and the purchase of an athletic ticket—or two? Is it something reserved only for special occasions such as a ballgame, or a track-meet, or a "pep-meeting"? Or something that is mentioned in every commencement address as "that indefinable thing that will thrill our hearts in after years." Amen Matter?" No, all this is not college spirit. This is merely a dwarfed noon-day shadow of the real substance. This artificial, hollow Something that we have been talking about bears the same relation to real college spirit as camp-meeting, shouting conversion bears to real rebellion; it hides itself in all the big things of our life, is not easy to define. It is like any other spirit - elusive, intangible, subtle, evasive, yet none the less powerful a force in our lives. It is not visible to the careless observer, nor is it manifested by insincere rowdy uprisings and rebellions;—the breaking up of classes; the rudeness to professors; gay songs on the "law steps," such as an anti-war song for the four of us"; nor joy-riding at night while yelling "Rock Chalk" hilariously. True college spirit to the college students is internal, not surface deep only. It grows with their growth, and becomes so ingrained within them that it is, in reality, "bone of their bone." It is something too deeply rooted to be expressed by more exuberance of voice and manner. Long after the students have forgotten how to "twist the tiger's tail" they will if they possess the proper college improvement in their old college—the building of a dormitory, or the addition of some valuable books to the library, or the enlargement of Potter's Lake. Well, we have talked all around the subject of college spirit, stating what it is not, hinting at what it is. But we really haven't touched "solid ground" yet. Perhaps the best way to do this is to give examples of two people who possess that rare gift of college spirit. Here is a man—an upper classman. He is neither Phi Beta Kappa nor president of his class, nor the editor of the college paper, nor the foot-ball captain; neither is he the ring-leader or "naughty rallies" leader, but there will be no long list of honors won. But when the Chancellor wants some beneficial measure "put through" and supported by the student body, he sends for this senior, and the two of them talk it over and decide how best to start about doing it. If the present is an older man in a man of discipline who likewise possesses college spirit—needs some one to help in some big project, he calls upon this same man, certain that he will not be too busy in his own petty affairs to attend to the bigger thing. No, he isn't one of those virtuous, ever-ready people, either, that every person he is made to interact with has the personal personality for leadership, and does not have to make a big noise, or "blow his own horn" to show it. There is a parallel example found in the girl with college spirit. She is the girl who puts her college above everything—the girl who realizes that exclusive crowds, and exclusive friendships are selfish, and powerless for anything except pleasure. She is not able to give up an especially good movie to attend a mixer or a chapel lecture, or a class meeting. She may be a Y.M.C.A. girl, but she isn't one of those smirking "holier-than-thou" people, and she never goes around talking about all she does and all she has to do. But she does do a lot nevertheless to lead a group or support a measure or spread a sentiment she is called for among the first. She is never-failing. I've written along now through several pages, and never once defined my subject. That is, in fact, what I have been really trying to avoid doing since there is no need for it. I've hunted all the dictionaries and encyclopedias in the library. I have even asked some of my friends what their idea of college spirit is, but the results are not a satisfactory. One of them said, "Oh, it is the thing that makes you want to take off your hat whenever you hear 'Far above the golden valley.'" Another said, "it is that which one acquires after three or four years at school where one has a great little time." Another said, rather vaguely, "Oh, you know! It's what makes every one feel kindly to every one you meet on the campus." I suppose it is not right for me to dodge the issue, so in closing I shall attempt to manufacture my own definition: College spirit, to me, is that important constituent in the makeup of every loyal student that compels him to put the good of his college before everything else; politetics, scholarship, personal guidance; giving it is a bigness within him that hinds him close to his Alma Mater in a never-dying friendship with her sons and daughters; it is a determination within him to give to his college all that he has to have given without thought of what his college is giving to him. But the old, trite words of that much-quoted poem will apply when he students the student in college and college spirit: "Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." the world the best you have best will come back to you. Carolyn McNutt, '17. Students should talk Michigan at home in order to induce capable athletes to enter. Bringing these athletes to Ann Arbor during the football season, or for a track meet and baseball game, would be better. The future college star is in this way brought into personal contact with the University. When Seniors Were Freshmen Items From the Daily Kansan Files of Three Years Ago. The greatest force for obtaining athletes lies with the students themselves. Michigan's probable re-entry into the western conference will prove one of the most effective talking points.-Michigan Daily. Julian Street, writer, and Wallace Morgan, illustrator, representing Collier's, visit K. U. Student Cartoonist Maloy depicts the Men's Student Council as a donkey, following its action of "resoluting" Eggman and Madden of the Kankan group of offenses. Sophomores selling "Hop" tickets are: G. A. Rathert, W. M. Beall, Helen Trant, Olive Braden, John Ryan, Ruth Pearls, Ruth Lillis, A. V. Templin and Bertha Smith. James McNaught, chairman of the Hop farce committee promises an excellent entertainment. The athletic authorities are at a disadvantage in securing material for prospective teams. Personal contact with high school men of ability, which a majority of them possess, is an effective way of drawing athletes than the use of correspondence through which the athletic association must work. Announcement is made that Arthur MacMurray, a K. U. graduate, will come in the fall to become head of the department of public speaking. Citizens State Bank Deposits Guaranteed HILLTOP PHILOSOPHY Sigmia Xi initiates are the following: Aute Richards, an alumnus living in Texas, F. E. Wood, Edmund Brown, a graduate, M. V. Holmes, and Joseph Sengel. The man who leaves the porch swinging on a moonlight night because the dog barks, the cock crowds and the landlady puts her head out for a look. The man himself is a poor hero. His courage should at least be equal to the landlady's convictions. Shall we starve the Ford in order to send son a cheek to cover his new spring riggings? That is the question that is making dad forget the crops and the weather and stirs mother to the point of wringing the dish cloth just a little bit harder when she thinks of it. The man who motors up a quiet residence street on a still night at the rate of sixty miles an hour with his cut-out open, is only a baby with a rattle, grown in size but not in intellect. Michigan's field from which to draw athletes lies mainly in the middle west. The states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois must, in addition to the Wolverine state, furnish most of the material for the athletic teams. 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