UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kappan
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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.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the university than merely printing the news by standing on the stage and playing no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charismatic; to serve the students; to more serious problems to wiser heds; in all, to serve to the university. We study the students of the University.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1917
Then I commend mith, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry—Old Testament.
OUTSIDE HELP NEEDED?
Hit a dog with a bone and usually it is the dog that howls. That is, if he was hurt by the blow. Steal a man's money and generally the loser bewaits the loss. Paddle unruly freshmen however, and a handful of reformers raise an objection.
It is too bad. From childhood up the average youth is taught to take care of his own backyard. If he sees an opportunity to help a fellow man no doubt his training tells him to proffer assistance, providing his council or help is not objected to by the other party. However, tales related by his elders convince him how foolish it is to interfere in matters of no concern to him. Probably, he has heard his father tell of trying to stop a family fight, and instead of accomplishing his end, having been trounced himself. Unquestionably the youth is instructed to mind his own business insofar as he does not neglect his duty to society.
Regardless of a decision made several years ago, by freshmen themselves, to retain the institution of paddling, as a means of enforcing the Freshman Cap tradition, a few individuals are now seeking to occupy the limelight by fostering a movement, which has as its purpose, the abolition of paddling. The freshmen have not been kicking. The student body seems satisfied. Everything is serene among those persons really concerned. But the reform element must be reckoned with. Three thousand students cannot think for themselves; either as individuals, or as a group. Instead, some self appointed Moseses have colored to the colors and are determined to lead the wandering tribes back to civilization.
As we said before, hit a dog with a bone and the dog, etc., etc.
CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
THE ETHICS OF PADDLE
THE ETHICS OF MAN
Since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary the question of the raison d'être of the cap and paddle has been a bone of contention between the student body and certain chicken-hearted pseudo-champions of the "poor" freshmen.
Every year some aggrieved parent, some crabbed freshman, or some lay citizen with less regard for other people's business than desire for free advertising has dragged forth this question for a public airing, and each time the storm has blown itself out without any more than a momentary bluster.
This time, however, the paddling and cap rule is in serious danger. The faculty has girded itself for battle, and has its weather eye to the periscope. When it wights the various angles of the paddle rule it will be a question of "To be or not to be."
Last fall this question came up in such proportions that many columns of communications and a few columns of news were printed in the Kansan gang vent to the expression of the views of both sides of the affair. A petition purported to come from "mothers who have lost sons" was sent to the Lawrence ministers requesting the abolishment of the "brutal practices of football and paddling." This gave an impetus to an anti-paddling movement, which had apparently bloomed over, but which has been reopened by the University Senate with the idea of formulating a definite rule as opposed to, or in favor of, paddling freshmen who refused to wear their caps.
The actual discussion of the question was referred to the disciplinary committee with instructions to report on a definite paddle rule. As far as can be learned no instructions were given to ascertain or to express the student viewpoint on the matter.
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Two years ago this spring the students voted to return the disciplinary power to the Senate. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of this step, which apparently was an acknowledgment on the part of the men of the University that self-government was a failure, and that they wished to be removed from all responsibility for student behavior.
In a measure this was true, but the real reason for the acknowledgment was not apparent. It was not because the men were unable to determine what rules should govern their conduct, nor was it because they were indifferent. It was because it had been proved that student government was a failure when administered under the lash of the faculty. The forced suspension of two students for participation in a rally was the stroke that proved to the students that it was better to submit to faculty rule outright than to go on, supposedly making their own rules, but in reality ruling under the thumb of the Senate.
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Now the Senate has instructed the Disciplinary committee to make a report in regard to padding. The disciplinary committee has done the right thing and its chairman has agreed to express the sentiment of the student body as that of the committee.
This is the real student government. Petitions are out on the hill for every man to sign in regard to the paddling rule. As one of the real traditions of the University that every upper-classman remembers as one of the real benefits of his freshman year it is probable that the paddle rule will receive the unlimited support of the student body.
But the real victory will not be in the retention of the right to paddle the freshmen. It will be in the re-awakened recognition of the right of the student body to have a voice in making the rules that apply to its own affairs.
Where were the illustrious reformers, now engaged in saving the downtridden fresh, during the recent campaign for the Permanent Income Bill? The University's needs were unquestioned; those persons to be affected were united in their desire for the measure. But did the local reform element accomplish wonders in putting the bill across?
A MATTER OF ABILITY
Jayhawker.
Hardly. Those persons who made it possible for a greater and better K. U. were of a different type. They were not seeking free advertising or cheap publicity. The knowledge that the University of Kansas was on its road to prosperity sufficed. No greater reward could they ask.
All of which shows ability gener ally can be measured by what it seek to accomplish.
Frank.
POET'S CORNER
make amends
try backing her looks with their dough.
But Vanity Fair will soon pass by.
There fair beauty, don't cry.
VANITY FAIR?
There, fair beauty, don't cry—
'Tis the popular girl you know,
'the one who needs friends to help
There my beauty, don't cry—
You've lost the laurels I know,
But beauty so vain that 'twil wash off
in swim.
in rain
Just has to be backed up with dough.
And Vanity Fair will soon pass by,
Don't cry, fair beauty, don't cry.
THE BRAIN FACTORY
The romance of college life is dead, but it has left a few remnants of the old order to mourn its departure. These few would bring back the glory of the older times, but every day as they strive to stir up a spark of life in that which was, they realize more and more that theirs' is a losing fight, a hopeless fight. The old order has changed even before our very eyes, and now the new is upon us, pressing us down, choking us with the pleasure life every semblance of romance and sentiment, they say, living in a practical age, they say, and the old tradition must be cast aside, we must be strictly modern, and this precludes the possibility of giving any time or attention to the "foolish" sentiments with which college life of a generation ago was so enriched.
William James has said that we can form the most accurate conclusions either by studying exaggerated forms of life, or by studying a very minute portion through a microscope. Here at Illinois we see the exaggerated form of college life stripped of remance. There was very frequent connection with the founding of the University on legends nor training in matters of glorious and self-sacrificing founders; natural conditions deprived us of places about which traditions might easily be formed. In the years which have followed since 1867 the whole tendency has been away from the sentimental—toward the practical. The study of Latin and Greek, never encouraged, has also entirely disappeared, and in their place we find economics, sociology, politics once. The very day that classics began to be neglected for the more modern studies was the day that marked the beginning of the end of romance in college.
The glory of the Dutch renaissance sprang from the privilege accorded to every man of pursuing his own damnation, Van Noppen told us. But here the individual is nothing; the group is everything. Individuality is restrained; personal freedom is reduced to the minimum—and being accordscribe to the degree of pursuing his own damnation or his own saliva at will, the individual has no choice but to conform to a set of rules, arbitrarily provided.
The University of Illinois is being Prussianized. "The largest chemical laboratory in the United States," physiology, physics, science, science and more science—the largest student bride in America—has to be taught in our minds and of which we boast. They are also the things which we commonly associate with modern Germany. What room for romance in such a system? To it all, we are expected to exhibit a loyalty, to feel safe, to the sort of friendships and always associated with the words Alma Mater. Naturally we do not do it.
If our situation is exaggerated, the same causes are operating, the same symptoms are apparent, and the same results are certain throughout the college world. The only question is, How soon? How soon will that force or those forces which have robbed college life of its color, of its softness, of its traditions, complete its work; It is useless to oppose these forces, and unless do we is to look back regrettably, longingly, at the glory of the days which were. Romance is dead—its resurrection a forlorn hope, Daily illini.
A young woman enrolled in a course in physical science recently wore eagle to a friend, describing one of her professors. She took up in detail his hair, his voice, his mustache and his accent. A short time afterward she asked a reply in form and wrote: "I don't expect to tell about his white teeth and his long legs." It turned out that her friend had him for an instructor in Wellesley.
Fraternity men at the University of Wisconsin are planning to form a co-operative suit-pressing establishment and do their own cleaning and pressing as a result of the recent rise in prices of work done by Madison tailors. The plan is to have all of the fraternity ties and sororites in attendance and run a pressing establishment under the direction of the inter-fraternity council. The matter is at present under consideration by the council.Ex.
De Paulk University is offering a course called "How to Study" to her freshmen. It is said that the standing of the class has advanced greatly since the installation of this course, and excuse that freshmen often give about "I flunked because I did not know how to study." —Ex.
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Now on display in our south window. The assortment comprises flower holders, fern dishes, vases, candlesticks, bowls, decorated birds and butterflies and many other novelties representing the utmost in the potter's skill.
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Let us figure on that next banquet.
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You're welcome
Mr. High School Student we're glad to see you. Old K. U. is a great place and maybe this little visit on Mt. Oread will have a great deal to do in bringing you here next year to school.
Don't forget that there's one place you must not fail to visit while here and that's
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