UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Leuven
Henry S. Pogues  Editor-in-Chief
Henry Coester  Center
Dorothy M. Coffey  Editorial Editor
EDITORIAL STAFF
HUSINESS STAFF
Vernon A. Moore...Business Mgr.
John A. Weightman...Assistant
NEWS STAFF
Edwin W. Hullinger Wilbur Flacher
Don Davis
Dennis Kearn
Marcie Lagan
Mikio Katsuhara
Helen Patterson
Alice Holby
Bryce Doyer
Ruth Gardiner
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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
Phones, Bell K. U. 25 and 66
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go further than merely print the news by standing up for them, playing cards; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be friendly; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University.
MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1917.
SERVICE AND BUILDINGS
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth—Bulwer.
The connection between ample room and a high standard of work in a University seems hardly well defined in the minds of the efficiency committee appointed by the last legislature. They find classes of ten or twelve reciting in rooms with a seating capacity of fifty, and rooms that are occupied only five or six hours a day. Why, asks the committee, cannot the University be run on at least an eight hour basis the same as is found in the industrial world.
To the ordinary citizen, not versed in the necessary work and activities of a great University, these seem fair enough questions, and accordingly we have been hampered because of this understanding of our needs. A century ago the function of a college was to shit its students up with a lot of books and tell them to dig. And practically all that was done was to dig from books the knowledge that had been declared necessary by a few sages of previous generations for a literary education. Colleges were preparatory schools for ministers, lawyers, teachers and authors. Today colleges are schools for scientists, engineers, merchants, bankers, statesmen and men of affairs as well as for men who require chiefly literary ability, and consequently their equipment was to be larger in proportion to fulfill the greater function.
Here at the University of Kansas the work that is being done in the plain sight of the casual observer is only a minor part of the real work done. In every department special laboratory work that is of actual service—or can be made of actual service to the state, is being performed. Students are learning more than the more dogmatic somethings from books, and consequently they are better prepared for all walks of life than the University graduates of former days. A century ago where one man was getting a high school education, ten men are getting college educations today, and their work is of the practical nature that enables them to do the work for which they have studied immediately after leaving college.
So there is a connection between ample room and a standard of excellence in University work. To one who sees K. U. in its every day working clothes it is only too evident that more room is necessary to maintain a high standard of work. When classes are working in basements and fifth noors that are poorly lighted, heated and ventilated—when laboratory classes are not working to their full efficiency because of lack of room for necessary equipment, and working at night to make use of the equipment they have—when classes are being dismissed every time the wind blows for fear the building will fall on in their heads—when a single building is used
for teaching classes in seven branches of University work—can it be soundly argued that we do not need more room to carry on the necessary functions of the University?
As is the shape of every law, it is natural to see his University in the first rank among American schools, and an increase in enrollment of over 1200 in the last three years has shown that the citizens of the state have an increasing confidence in their University. In the last ten years the University has doubled in enrollment, and not a single building has been added for University classes or laboratory work. If the University is to increase its enrollment in the smallest degree during the next few years we must have additional room, and even more of it than the Board of Administration has asked for.
The Board of Administration has asked this legislature for two new buildings—the completion of the middle section of the Administration Building and a new Fine Arts building. Undoubtedly the legislature will not do any more than the board has asked for, but if the University is to maintain its present high standing among the state institutions of this country we must have these two buildings this year, and a definite promise for more buildings in the near future.
The engineering school, the medica school, the chemical and pharmacy schools, the law school, the graduate school, and the college are all working at full capacity at present, and future increases will call for more equipment.
If the University is to continue its state work in engineering, medical, biological, journalistic, and analytical departments, not to speak of the work of the extension division, special provision must be made for that both in the line of increased room and more liberal appropriations.
It seems that some of the speakers at the meeting of scientists in New York recently were after publicity more than anything else. Conservatism is more of a mark of real science than radicalism.
A SENSE OF HUMOR
A true sense of humor is the saving quality in character. Without it, one would most assuredly be put in that catalog of bores, pests and failures from which all are anxious to be excluded.
The grind lacks it, as does the snob and the all important person who sees my one's faults but his own. These people haven't enough humor to see what the really funny things are.
It is the sense of humor which saves the true artist from being a sentimentalist. Again it is this sense of humor which lets some see their own faults as well as those of others and makes them laugh these faults out of existence, as well as the buffets and opposition of this world. With a smile of real philosophy they take life as it is, and push on to better things.
ESSAYS IN TABLOID
Sorority calls. Are. The most unpleasant things. Frat men. En encounter with the. Exception. Of. Bill collectors and. Chapter meetings. Each year the. Frats call. On the sororities. To look. Over. The new pledges and. Any of last. Year's. Cellar gang that. Have. Event. Are. Hours. Are spent in slicking. Up the Frosh. And removing any bartender's Friend. Collars. That some enterprising clerk. Has pawned off on. The Yearling. For a late. Creation. After they get to the. House. And remove their. Coats they go. Down the. Receiving line and. Wonder why in Sam. Hill somebody has not. Conceived a Spoon. Or is it pleasure. To Meet you." The rest of the hour is. Uneventful except that. It. Keeps an upperclassman. Busy. Preventing the Frost from. Leaning up against the. Wall or ganging up in corners. After. The. Cheap. Eats are served and. They have. Gone down the line. Again and. Still remember these men. Cannot. Remember. That they are. Glad they. Met them they. Go home and talk. Over. The. Keen ones. Then they get busy and make some. Spring. Party dates. Next week. They visit some. Other house and. Wish they. Had waited to. Make. That. Date. Sometimes so does. The. Woman.
SORORITY CALLS
JES' FILLER
And now comes the news that North College is unstable. Then it is slammed.
Dad Gumm says, "Tagorey criterizes our cutcher, wealth an' such;"
"the best, the most."
but he can't kick on our barbers
so awfulrol-doll much."
The Arts user
Cavort around,
And sail on the high Cs
Crescendo
Con poco tobacco.
But Gosh!
They can't do it no more.
Once a student
Soprano,
Criminally inclined
Reared up and smacked
The "Sick Cat From Loochea"
She screams thorax.
Vocally speaking—
And the plaster fell from the
Ceiling
So they ain't
Doin' that way no more.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be staged as evidence of good faith but names will be dismissed without the writer's consent.
A BETTER "SOUR OWL"
Editor, Daily Kansan:
And he carries the ball like a Tiger,
In an attempt to parallel the University of Kansas with other great American scholastic institutions in the matter of a humorous publication, the Owl Society has banished the old Sour Owl and raised up in its place a radically different sort of periodical of unlimited promise. For such an action just praise is due to the Owl Society.
But the new Sour Owl exists in a maze of limitations, chief among which is the fact that the Owl Society is not a literary organization. Within itself it cannot contain all of the best literary talent of the University. Nor is it in the best possible condition to be a member, or to muster its cause; many men and women of the University who would be of great value to the publication if they could be induced to contribute their talent to it.
There are on the Hill, however, organizations well suited to foster the publication of a humorous magazine of merit. Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi are honorary journalistic fraternities boasting memberships of 120,000 alumni. They are in writing; and yet, neither organization has an organ of expression; a periodical in which to show its colors and prove its worth.
The Sour Owl, in order to be truly representative of the University, should not be published by a class organization to whose membership its editors and contributors, for the most part, are members. It is lished by a body of men representative of the school, and not of one class. In its evolution, the periodical has outgrown its infantile bounds. It has become of universal interest on Mount Peak, and for the good of the paper its editorial staff should be bound up with the limits of a group of twenty-five representatives of the junior class.
The Owl Society is to be commended for its excellent work in the matter of starting a humorous magazine, and no matter what changes might take place in the choosing of the editorial board and editorial policies of the Sour Owl, the name of the periodical should remain unchanged, and the light and offered to the student body a magazine with a definite purpose and a promising standard of excellence.
As an institution of the University, however, the Sour Owl must have a more comprehensive field from which to choose its publishing staff. The putting of the magazine into the hands of the honorary journalistic organizations would be a practical means of eliminating most of the limitations with which the publication at the present time is harmed.
Of course, Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi do not incorporate all of the literary ability of the University, but they do have more members of talent than the Owl Society; and further, these honorary societies are in a better position to muster desirable students to their cause.
It isn't often that the Kansan enters the fields of comparative journalism, but we would take a shot at challenging the athletic editor of the college-deutsche Tiger™ to identify of tiddle-de-winks or drop-the-hand-kerchief.
(Signed.) Agitator.
MOTHER GOOSE JOURNALISM
The Christmas edition of the "Tiger" is a dandy until the athletic section is reached, and then the tone changes to that of the high school journal. A fine football team is pictured individually on a two-page cover; each player is honored with a verse something along this line:
We can imagine that Captain Buc and his teammates were tickled to death over the little bits of Mother Earth indicated to their work on the sound.
"Interference and runner would stop with a thud
too." or even this.
When they crossed the train of our Captain Bud."
The "Tiger" publishes a very good paper ordinarily, and there are only two possible ways in which we can explain such stuff on a sporting page. In addition, the book includes a woman or a freshman green from the fields of high school journalism.
and—
WANT ADS
"It took a man of some renown To throw this scrappy half-back down."
Hot coffee, hot chocolate, chili and sandwiches at Wiedemann's...Adv.
"On whom we always can depend—
A peerless punter, fearless end."
and this—
LOST—On campus, pair of glasses with chain in Dr. Reding case. Call B. 2544. 76-3
FOR RENT--Double front room for boys, also wanted a roommate for bedrooms. Kitchen and dining room for rooms of rooms. 1038 Ohio St. 65th. 2056W. 65th-ff.
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"His kicks are straight, his eye is true,
RENT—Underwood Typewriters of quality with service at the least cost direct from the Underwood Typewriter Company, Topeka, Kansas.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOST A large door-key, on Monday morning, January 15, in Administrative Finder will allow great favor to call up A. Mitchell, Bell 1455W, 77-2^
DR. M. L. CHAMBERS. General Practice.
2100 S. 15th St. to 1600 Houses and office phone,
914-723-8000.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of
Suite 1, F. A. U. Blug. Residence 1291
H. H. REDIN, F. A. U. Building.
Eye. Ears and Cheeks. F. A. U. Building.
Both phone 2131.
KEELEIKIS BOOK STORE, 232 Mass
Museum and school supplies. Paper by
John J. Becker
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Printing
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work a mistake. All work
guardians.
Shoe Shon
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place to get results. 1342 Ohio St
Little Egypt 5c Cigar. All Dealers.
—Adv.        tf
Trosper Jitney Station
730 Mass.
Phones 970.
Calls Answered Day and Night.
Joy Riding and
Country Driving.
BERT WADHAM'S
FOR
BARBER WORK At the foot of the 14th St. hill in the student district.
We are long on Slide-rules and Theme Paper.
If you are short come down.
CARTERS
Stationery & Typewriters
CONKLIN PENS
ars sold at
McCulloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
Remember
SCHULZ
makes clothes
You can find him at
917 Mass. St.
Peoples State Bank
Capital and Surplus $88,000.00
"EVERY BANKING SERVICE"
Fruit salad, whipped cream and wafers, 10 cents a plate at Wiedemann's.—Adv.
A. G. ALRICH
Printing, Binding, Engraving
K Books, Loose Leaf Supplies
Pountain Pens, Inks,
Typewritten Pen Stamps
744 Mass. St.
Mrs. M. A. Morgan
Fancy dresses of all description
Also
Tailored Suits and Remodeling.
1313 VERMONT ST.
Bell Phone 1107W.
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Lawrence Pantatorium
Kennedy Plumbing Co.
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Both Phone 506 12 W. 9th St.
Tailors, Cleaners, and Dyers of
Ladies' and Gents' Fine Clothing.
All kinds of electrical shades
Student Lamps,
National School Lamps,
Cord, Plugs, Sockets, Etc.
Phones 658      937 Mass.
THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE BOWLING ALLEYS
for KANSAS MEN Across From Carroll's.
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The Popular Drug Store
Toilet Articles
Good Things to Eat and Drink
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