UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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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 a picture of the University of Kansas, to go further than merely print the news from Kansan; to take the University holds; to play no fancy to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind and caring; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1917.
Virtue is honor, and the noblest ores are love. To ascertain its value to mankind,
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
The reputation of K. U. as a host will again be at stage when, on the 10th and 17th of March, basketball artists from all over Kansas assemble in Lawrence to take part in the annual state tournament. Approximately sixty teams of boys and girls will depend upon the hospitality of K. U. for a good, sociable time.
Now it is a matter of great moment to the University that these young athletes should receive a favorable impression of K. U. as a college. If for nothing more than the sake of courtesy, we should give them the "glad hand" and make them feel as though they were temporarily' parts of the big student body.
Then too, they are all potential college students, and, as such, should be drawn into closer touch with the University in such a manner that they will acquire a lasting interest in its affairs which will later bring them to us as students.
Likewise, these athletes constitute the prime source from which the University draws the men which later uphold its honor in all the athletic activities of Missouri Valley. To them we look for future Rodkeys, Statelers, and Trewekies. If we fail to interest them in K. U. on first impression, they will go elsewhere, and Kansas will slowly, but surely take a back seat among the schools of the Valley. Let the welcome we give them this year be unusual in its heartiness and sincerity.
And finally, it behoves every member of the student body to prevent a repetition of last year's unfortunate occurrence when a few ill-mannered students took occasion to make uncomplimentary remarks about the visitors. These visiting youths are from high schools and though their mode of dress and action may not tally with those of the University, it offers no excuse for jesting remarks. Local students should bear in mind that they offered no picture of highly polished intellectual when they first set foot on Mt. Oread.
Sherman wasn't the fellow who discovered war was hell. He was merely the first one with the nerve to say it
WHY NOT A CHANGE?
Lots of us like to dance. Strangely enough too, perhaps, the same "lots" of us who dance like to study. Occasionally—say about as often as once a week—we like to do some studying on Saturday.
Now, anyone who has attended a Friday night dance finds himself decidedly used-up the next day, if he happens to try to study. Words on the printed page are mere words; and only the slowest, most ponderous read-
ong will cause them to make sense. The mind is dull; it fails to grasp quickly the purport of anything it grapples with. Further, the body is tired; legs long to stretch out beneath the library table. And, gradually, a feeling of weariness—only natural after four hours of dancing on the night before—envelopes one, and he slips off almost unconciously into a doze.
And study is impossible after just one little nap!
The social chairman of the Men's Student Council has evidently failed to realize all this, if one judges from the dates on which the Varsity parties are ordinarily given. Friday night seems always the popular night, due perhaps to a feeling that there is a longer time for dancing than on Sundays. This is obviously not so; for on both nights dancing must, by a University ruling, cease at midnight. Saturday, in fact, really has the advantage in that Sunday morning—with its unrivalled opportunities for sleep before church time—follows.
Perhaps the dates for the coming Varsity parties have already been chosen, and a hall engaged. In that case, nothing can be done about the matter. But if arrangements have not been made, the Kansan would like to see a change in date from Friday to Saturday nights.
What do its readers think?
The storm of criticism going the rounds about the University might make the average student wonder if the, "Why Enlist" cards did not mean "Why Enroll—you have everything to lose and nothing to gain."
VARIETY, SPICE OF, ETC.
In the violent March gales that have swept Mount Oread this week, it has required a struggle for students to climb the hill and reach their classes. But after the effort, everyone seemed to feel better, even though hats were awry and hair out of order. Any struggle in which a person comes out all right in the end, leaves him with an elated feeling, a feeling that he has mastered something difficult. And what variety these winds add to the zest of living. How monotonous the climate on the hill would be if it were ever enveloped in a placid calm. And how much more we enjoy the quiet days after a few windy ones.
Thus, is excitement, difficulties and struggles a necessary part of ones every day existence. But the furried person chasing his hat over the campus does not often think of this.
TRY A TONIC
"Take that tonic now—or the spring fever'll git yuh if yuh don't watch out."
Thus runs a placard in a downtown drug store window; a placard advertising a certain well known "spring tonic." The student reads and reflects; sniffs the warm, spring air about him; and then explodes: "Verily, spring has come!"
Then come days of colder weather; and a warm room is once more a comfort. But the memory of that fleeting smell of spring is a warning to the wise student: He fears its return. "I'm behind in my work," he reflects, "and I can't study when the weather is warm."
Take heed then! Six weeks of the semester are gone. Spring will be here soon—spring, with its freshness and greennees and pleasant sunshine. And when it comes, study will be next to impossible. The task of bringing that note-book up to date will become insufferable.
A movement on foot at the other schools and universities of the country is fast gaining ground to do away with officers in the freshman class. The idea is a good one. There is no need to begin the revolution here than now.
So "Take that tonic now—or the spring fever'll git yuh if yuh don't watch out."
DO AWAY WITH FROSH POLITICS?
the polls to vote as having had his hair cut recently.
It is reasonable that the yearlings from every corner of the state are not capable of choosing one of their kind when they perhaps never saw the individual they are voting for or recognize their candidate as they go to
In several recent instances we have seen how the worthy frush president lingered 'round a while intoxicated with the pride of his newly acquired honor, fails in his work, and some one else has to take the position. Put off the election of the frush officers until the freshmen can become acquainted and know the men who represent them. Reformer.
WITH THE POETS
AND I AINT THERE
The whistle's blunt morning song,
Hustlin' lazy studies along;
From class to class, the "hello" thron
AND I AIN'T THERE
And I ain't there to hear it.
Track team wins a victory,—
Feeds the Aggies' misery;
Normals feel the hickory;
And I ain't there to cheer it.
Grass is green on Oread
Or will be in a month, bedad;
Each lassie strolling with her lad,
HILLTOP PHILOSOPHY
And I ain't no ways near it.
Mid-term quizzes coming soon—
Harbingsing of worse next June;
Profs dividiin' shark from loon,
But I ain't there to fear it! H P
Not that we wish any one hard luck, but aren't we always glad when some one else doesn't know the question we've just passed up.
Bowe. New Mexico. H. R.
It is the fellow who sits around on the front steps during convolution that kicks the most when we don't have it.
The biggest Har on the Hill—the physics clock.
"Looking upward" may sound elevating, but the person who tries it is apt to stub his toe.
Great is the loss of a notebook to the student who carries all his knowledge therein.
When a professor lets a little freshman fuss him, it proves that he is still human.
A word to the wise is often sufficient—but to some professors it is like dynamite.
When a bachelor professor draws all the fair damselfly to the front and an old-men instructor sends the young men scurrying to the rear, there seems to be something to the economic theory of demand and supply.
An original witkism on the part
of a professor acts like an inspiration
to students.
What is so rare as a patriotic United States citizen? If an individual advocates preparedness he is accused of being in league with the Germans, and is preparedness he is accused of being a catapt of the Germans. And if he fails to form an opinion he is called an intellectual mollycoddle. Apparently the only way out of the crisis would be old oid Rip Van Winkle's example.
THE COLLEGE LOAFER
Usually, but not always, this fellow is fairly well dressed, but is not too careful about the little details. He is always tired, often too tired to read more than the sporting news of the daily paper, and too phlegmatic to engage in a spirited argument. Just yesterday he was seen sitting in the drug store, smoking his inseparable "pill," and gazing at the ceiling. He did not intend to buy refreshment at the soda fountain, he was not waiting for the car, nor his friend, he showed no signs of deep thought over some proposition, he was not reading nor even gossiping; he was just sitting. And he remained so for an hour and a half. This morning he stood on the street corner, leaning against the bank building, and gaping with his eyes, expressing such as you might expect of a goldfish. If only a dog had bitten him in passing, he would have been furnished something worth while to do.
That apathetic fellow with a cigarette hangling limply over his lower lip—you see him sitting or standing in approximately the same place every time you pass the drug store, cigar store, or pool room—he is the man we want to hit. He is the college loafer, a sponge without interest, pep, or ambition. You cannot fail to notice him, for he is an inevitable fixture of every resort which college men frequent, and he is not coerced. He is the nothing who has no other function than to form a part of the chaff of the college, and incidentally, the sum of the student body.
Sometimes our hero or repose meets friends of like disposition, and the restful ensemble then furnishes a wooeful picture of stagnation of human energy. The objects of our pity sit in a row, or stand about in groups, in one of the places above mentioned, and if nothing better happens to them, we fervently wish they would get into a fight among themselves and lay each other up, so the eyesore would be removed.-Rocky Mountain Collegian.
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