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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Oriental student paper of the Universitty 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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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66
The Daily Kansan aims to picture students of the University of Kansas, to go further than merely mertify the new faculty; to hold varsity holds; to play no favorites; to charities; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to serve to the students of the University.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.
SOUR MILK PHILOSOPHY
Better than anything else sour mill philosophy typifies the tirade that appeared in the communication column of yesterday's Kansan under the heading, "Diatribe Against Laws." Such attacks, actuated by no worthy desire and capable of accomplishing no good, do nothing but defeat the purpose of the accuser and question the writer's judgment and his conviction.
It is unfortunate that such vittu-ate, disparaging charges should be made upon the good name of the University or any of its component parts. Had any deference or condescension been exercised in presenting the criticism, or had the letter been formulated from a constructive point of view, the matter might not raise such a lump in the throats of K. U. students.
As it is, the University and those persons who go to make it up can only pass over the outburst, be thankful the charges themselves prove the absurd and narrow viewpoint of the writer, and again bemoan that ever so often some individual considers it his sacred duty to doe out such a bit of sour milk philosophy.
GET A LAWYER
You are all wrong Coach Hamilton, all wrong. You seem to feel athletics today is based upon sportsmanship and gentlemen's agreements, and therefore cannot understand the action of Coach Germany Schulz of Manhattan in breaking a personal compact.
Do you not realize athletics is suffering from an overdose of this gentlemanly stuff. What it lacks is law and this is the contention of the Manhattan coach. We need a few lawyers to draw up athletic contracts, forfeits should be posted, men should be weighed in before meets, everything possible should be done to increase the red tape and above all to do away with this gentlemen's agreement bosh. Sportsmanship is mere theory. It is absurd to believe a manager of athletics should attempt to schedule contests and dictate rules for such contests. Athletic lawyers should be employed, judges should be secured to hear controversies, the athletes should fight, the managers fight, but hang this gentleman's agreements tuff. It's all wrong Coach Hamilton, all wrong.
COSTLY ABSENCE
The Portmanteau Theater, with its winsome grace and its charming simplicity—the Portmanteau Theater, with its wonderful, yet not-so-very strange illusions—has gone! The few wooden crates which held it are no longer strewn about the campus; the actors and actresses have disappeared from our midst—and only
memory, perhaps the sweetest part of all good things, lingers. The magic of the Portmanteau Players will not soon be forgotten.
And today, hundreds of students, as they learn of the excellencies of yesterday's performances, are bewailing the ill fate or the carelessness or the overlooking of an opportunity that caused them to miss seeing the Players. They realize now—those who missed it—what really excellent entertainment it must have been.
Students were conspicuous by their absence at the performances yesterday. The Theater was brought here on the advance guarantee of several faculty members; and it was the faculty members and the townpeople—not the student body at large—who supported the undertaking. To say that the students should have turned out in large numbers is useless. If but a few more had come, Fraser Chapel would have been filled to the limit. It is not lamentable that the students did not give the theater better support. It is lamentable that they missed two such charming entertainments.
If the legislature ever arranges to house the Fine Arts vocalists within the confines of the Administration Building, one body politic is in for a terrible trimming. More classroom space would never reconcile some of the other students who have classes in the Ad building.
CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith in name and published without that's coming.
Editor of the Kansan:
There appeared in yesterday's Kansan, under the title of "Ditribe against Laws," an effusion of nonsensical and idiotic rot signed by a person calling himself "Everett L. Jillson." No body on the Hill ever heard of "Everett L. Jillson" before, and this may be the means he seeks to obtain "his place in the sun" and to let the University know that he has arrived. His communication shows such remarkable ignorance, is so ridiculous, so egostic, so unworthy of a teacher, so utterly wrong for Kansas that it does not deserve serious notice, and this letter is sent to the Kansan merely out of respect for the same and sensible students of the College who, unlike "Everett L. Jillson," are not in the habit of maligning their fellow students.
Among other of Mr. Jillson's inane vaporings are found the following: "Why do not the University authorities see that a lawyer is something else besides an explorer and a social irritant before he is permitted to graduate?"; "most of them are receiving a hundred years behind the times in economic and social fields and most other fields of knowledge"; "They are the source of most of the ill-will engendered in the state against the University"; "The only way society can make progress in government or social institutions is to ride over the barrier," above all to blame the better." "Most of them are attracted to the status quo ante as a man's eyes to the present style in ladies' hosiery"; "it is irritating to watch their conduct on the campus"? These, and other empty silly babbling do not come from the intelligent brain of an able, thinking man, but rather, one would be surprised at how much the mind of some crack-bladed idiot who is running amok here in a University of the State, showering anthemets upon all who incur his displeasure, when he should be confined in the Asylum for the Weakminded at Osawatime, where with God's help and the kindness of people again learn the first rudiments of politeness and civility that are the earmarks of the mentally competent.
The men with the real University spirit at this great institution, whether they hail from the College, the Engineering School, the Pharmacy School, the School of Journalism or the School of Law. The Law School. They know that the School of Law has furnished more than its quota of the brilliant men of the University. They know that the Law School has given to the University some of its greatest athletes, some of its most efficient debaters, and its most able actors. And they move on to it at lowest, the place where it was regenerated was at the Law School. And the Law School paid the bill. The Law School needs no defender from the assinine attack of "Everett L. Jillson." Long after the name of Jillson will in, sham, be forgotten, the students of the University of Kansas, the Law School will proudly raise its columns toward Mt. Oread's blue sky and thank the stars above that there are no more traitors in the student body; Kansas and the great University of Kansas repudiates all such men as they do all cowards.
One word more as to "Everett L. Jillson's" proper classification. Says this "marvel," referring to the Laws: "They are going forth upon the state to foet* a living from society. Certainly, I have come from one who has taken upon himself the labor of criticizing the University Law School, to so murder the King's English. Certainly he should, at least, have been able to write our mother tongue before he had been in his present Herculean labor.
The Law School is not perfect; it knows that fact, and it welcomes counsel and advice--but it does not seek its future, thank God, from "Everett L. Jilson," who, we must remember, is only a junior in the College and who just came here this year from Emporia.
Over at the Law School, Uncle Jimmy Green is Dean, Dr. W. L. Burdick is there, too. Also Dr. H. W. Humble, Prof. Edward Osborne, ex-dean at Washburn, and Prof. Alex Kavanagh are temporarily in Colorado. These are the man who, "Everett L. Jillson says, are giving their students training that will leave those students "one hundred years behind the times in economic and social fields and most other fields of knowledge." But, reading again after the same place last night's Kansan, I believe that I would rather go forth a "non-religious, cynical, unsocial element," *foisting* my living (whatever that means) from society, and know that I was one of Uncle Jimmy's boys; I would rather blindly follow the courses of Dr. Burdick and Dr. Humble that I had been teaching years behind the times, trusting their judgment to that of a junior in the College, strange as it may seem; I would rather keep my eyes on the on the status quo ante" instead of on the present style of ladies' hosiery, as "our hero" subly and poorly attempts to punish a young friend from a loyal student, hopes in the knowledge that I had never thrown mud at another school, that my hands were clean, that my friends were not confined to a certain school but were of the whole University, that K. U. could never say that I was a traitor, and knowing that I had never made a silly assault against me, I regard to something about which I knew nothing, than to fill the uncertain shoes of any "Everett L. Jillson" that ever lived.
The University, and the Law School in particular, have suffered from many l bills, but the University and the Law School will outlive them all, including "Everett L. J. Lillson," even as Egypt outlived her plagues.
Respectfully submitted,
Alton Gumbiner,
Senior Law.
A. B. Mitchell,
Pres. of Law School.
SELF KNOWLEDGE
The average person is too little acquainted with himself. He may know his own business, and possibly the business of his neighbors; he may know politics, manners, music, science and the arts, but he does not know
Know thyself! These two words summarize the whole teachings of the great philosopher Socrates. He recognized the fundamental value knowing one's inner self before trying to embrace other knowledge.
Man rarely studies himself. He seldom places himself in an attitude for self-reflection. Indeed, he hardly wants to survey his own character and conduct in relation to cause and effect.
Yet it seems a pity that others should know us better than we know ourselves. They are blind who think of themselves more highly than they ought to think, and who refuse to observe the mental and moral conditions in themselves for which others concern them. We are fitted neither for life nor death.
"I am Pontanus, beloved by the powers of literature, admired by men of worth, and dignified by the monarchs of the world. Thou knowest now who I am, more properly, who I was. For thee, stranger, I who am in darkness cannot know thee, but I entreat thee to know thyself."
Pontanus, an old scholar, considered self-knowledge of so much consequence that he formulated an epiphath of advice for his own tomb, thus:
"penth," says Senea, "falls heavily on him who is too much known to tqh others."
Self-knowledge enables us better to choose our vocation, map out plans, adjust ourselves to our surroundings, fit into our environments and gauge ourselves for necessary duties.—Washington Daily.
The Modern Age
Wine without alcohol,
Plays without plots,
Innocent criminals,
Colorless blots,
Indulent industry,
Pervious, pathology,
Obvious mystery,
Counterfeit health,
Cellars in attics,
Foundations above,
Judicious fanatics,
Affection love.
Purdue has formed a ukulele orchestra—Ex.
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THE KAW VALLEY INTERURBAN
will take you to Tenth and Main streets, Kansas City—in the heart of the theatre and shopping district.
Cars leave Lawrence every hour—thirty-five minutes after the hour
Hotel Muehlebach
BALKRON AVENUE AND TWENTY STREET
Tennessee City, Mo.
500 New Fireproof Room Rate from 120
Under the Personal Direction of S.J. Whitmore and Joseph Reichl
Matinee 2:20 Nights 8:20
BELL GRAND 695 MAIN HOME
ALWAYS THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN
"Prince of Minstrels," EDDIE LEONARD & CO., in "The Minstrel's Return." Assisted by Anthony Howard and Fred Mayo.
Homer B. MASON and Marguerite KEELER presenting the One-Act Play, "Married" by Porter Emerson Browne.
MIIRIAM AND IRENE MARMEIN Partinnicin and Decorative Dancers.
Third Episode of MRS. VER-NON CASTLE In "Patrin" the Serial Supreme.
Joe MORRIS and Flossie Campbell, "The Avi-Ate-Her."
ERNIE POTTS & CO.
OHIO ORPHANE PLAY
THE Work at World and Play
ANNA. CHANDLER as
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A Song of Study.
Mabel RUSSELL and Marty WARD & CO., in "Call It What You Like."
Next Week—MR, LOUIS MANN
In "Some Warlords."
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HOTEL KUPPER
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Convenient to all theatres. Excellent cafe in connection.
Let us figure on that next banquet.
ALL THIS WEEK
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