UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Edwin W. Hullinger...Editor-in-Chief
William Koester...New Editor
Jessues...Assistant
Dorothy Mcle...Society Editor
Don Davis...Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Vernon A. Moore... Business Mgr
Brian Righstman... Assistant
Fred Richy... Assistant
NEWS STAFF
Alfred Hill
Eugene Dyer
E. H. Kendrick
Paul Flagg
Cargill Sproull
Burk Gardner
Burd Gardner
Wilbur Fischer
Marjorie Rickard
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Bob Reeve
Helen Jefferson
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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 four more than merely printing the news from a printer; more verity holds; to play no favorities; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be helpful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the University, to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.
Hear every man upon his favorite theme.
And ever be more knowing than you
the lowest genius will afford some light.
Or give a hint that has escaped your sight—stilltingfeet.
THAT EFFICIENCY QUESTION AGAIN
Two reports on University conditions and the appropriation problem have been filed with the legislature. One was made by a business man who has been in more or less constant touch with the University for six years; the other by two men whose acquaintance with the institution embraces a few twelve-hour visits on the Hill a year for possibly one or two years.
These three men were selected by the state to investigate its schools with the view of ascertaining how much would be required to run the institutions. A difference of opinion, however, necessitated two separate reports.
The majority report severely criticized the University for alleged inefficiency and waste of money and facilities. The principal offense seems to have been that of failing to utilize class rooms between 4:30 and 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The minority report strongly urged increased appropriations and deplored the congestion on the Hill, unavoidable under present conditions.
This illustrates the difference between giving a technical investigation into the hands of men out of touch and unfamiliar with the thing they investigate and an investigation by a man familiar with the subject and the work given him to do.
And speaking of efficiency, gentlemen—isn't there such a thing as efficiency in investigation committees?
"I don't see any use in a state department of hygiene for babies," remarked a Kansas mother the other day. "I am sure I know more about babies than any old M. D." Then she went on to say she had had ten children and buried nine.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SUN
February fifth to ninth the merchants of Kansas will come to school at K. U. They won't come here and spend a week because they don't know their business. They will be here because they want to know more about it, and they realize that their fellow merchants from big and little towns will have new ideas to share with them. They will come to give and take, and he who gets the most out of the meetings will be the man whose interest leads him to come prepared to take the ideas that fit his business most, and to give ideas that will be of interest to others in his line of business.
How like a session of the great University is the Merchants' Short Course! Some of the Merchants will come to have a "time" for a week with perhaps a trip or two to K.C. Others will come to attend a few lectures
merely to hear a few noted men. Some will come with the idea of stealing some secret that may make them rich quick, but unwilling to air their ideas of merchandising. Others will come because business is dull and they didn't have anything else to do.
But some will come to be real students for a week, to study the ideas of men of authority whose speeches they hear, and to discuss their own problems with these men. They will separate the wheat from the chaff in the short week they are here, meet their fellow merchants, gain a broader knowledge of business conditions in all parts of the country, have a good time, and go home richer for their experiences.
And here we have every typical college student—those who come for the good time, those who come because they have to, those who fail to see anything of value in their college experiences, those who loaf along through their college course, and those who come for the purpose of gaining the many things that are to be found by the alert and interested man or woman.
Look over your merchant visitor and fellow student. You can pick out the successful ones by the way they approach their studies. After all, reading the past and the future is much the same. It isn't so hard to make a fairly accurate guess who will be the successes in later life.
Strange, isn't it, how much worse we need a vacation at the end of the Christmas holidays than at the beginning?
Jayhawk Squawks
This is the open season on ideal courses. Get one of the big schedules and make out yours.
The idea is to plan one that will keep you busy according to your New Year's resolution, and give you just enough money to prepare you for "your life's work."
It won't be hard to pick out the snaps later on when you see how near you came to flunking this somester. So too, it will go well with the urofa.
The man who causes us the least
corry is the calamity howler who
ays that Snow Hall is going to fall
n upon our heads some day.
It is estimated that the old "Hello,
is this one-nine-one-seven" telephone
joke was pulled 4,576,384 times in
2012 and still remains on one
o'clock New Year's morning.
It is also estimated that ninety-eight per cent of the number got away with it. All of which only goes on to show that the highest people bite on the old goggles.
Weren't those fresh eggs and that sweet country butter that we had at home during Christmas vacation mighty good?
And what about the thick pies and beefsteaks? Pancakes? Well, I should say so. And hot biscuits and beefsteaks isn't such a bad life after a Think event. We enjoy the home "eats" when we haven't had any for a few months.
Jim Dash wants to know why somebody doesn't start an investigation to find out if allowances have increased or whether a year in proportion to the cost of living?
Which brings in an incidental question. We bet you didn't even see your legislator when you were home Christ-in-law. Then why not drop him a line today.
We know. As surely as somebody did every newspaper in the state would take a whack at the "fast liv-ing study" prevalent at the University.
He: Yes? Well, I got an invitation, too—from the steamship company.
It may mean victory or defeat for the Permanent Income Bill and a bigger and better University of Kansas. H. P.
She: I have an invitation to go to
Jacob's this spring with Mr. and Mrs.
So&Ro
Studie( facetiously)—This steak is lit a day in June, Mrs. Bordery, very much.
"The opportunity afforded to every undergraduate to break into the aristocracy," replied the non-fraternity who read Chesterton—Yale Record.
Landlady (crustily)—And your
boy here, in the house, always
nastened —Punch Brown
"A MOST INGENIOUS PARADAX"
"What is, Yale Democracy?" in
text.
POET'S CORNER
Longe years ago a comunité enclave gov-
ship, built the first old Ad-
Jam foundation.
TO THE AD BASEMENT
till lies the basement by old Ad,
c submerged bi-plane seeming;
around it still the sunflowers grow,
and blue stem thick is teeming.
They're sorry now they built the thing
Because, their blindness but not see
Because, their blindness but not see
Still memory to the gray old shell
The grand progressive showing.
Dear me! the grasses on its form
Have forty years been growing!
We live to learn in this cramped school
room. We've triumph and our loss,
our grief, our remembrance.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as residence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
VENTILATION VS. STUDY Editor Daily Kansan:
Spooner Library is poorly ventilated. Why is it that every afternoon and night one can go into the library with their heads lying on a study table? The library is not place to sleep but nevertheless students who go there to study become away in fear, even even among the track and football men. This drowsiness is not caused from over exercise or lack of exercise.
When one goes into the library a stifling, dusty odor strikes him in the face similar to the smell to a room familiar to the swept and desolated with a coal-ill rag.
When it is cold one would think the library would be cool. But this is not true. The windows are closed tight and the steam heat is allowed to fill the room until the men have to unbutton their vests. In a short time some of them begin to fall asleep. Or if they do succeed in staying awake they cannot keep their minds on their studies.
The only reason the librarian does not notice the air is foul is because he is constantly on his feet, looking for fire. The exercise keeps him awake. The exercise keeps him awake.
If the librarian becomes aware that the room is too hot he lowers some windows and the cold wind comes in on the nearest student until he is going through the room and every student is looking for his cont.
Now the students are not chronic kickers, nor are they hard to please. But they do have to put up with a lot.
The history seminar is also hot and stuffy. When the windows are raised the room soon becomes too cold for comfort. The same is true of the English, German, and Latin Seminar rooms.
What can be done to provide better ventilation in the library?
When the library is closed at night, all the windows are shut down and the same air stays through the night that has been in there the day before—to be heated again the following day.
Why not have fresh, cool air through the library, heated in the mornings, instead of the foul air that is heated over and over again?
In the business world, punctuality is a primary requisit for success. Firms would as willingly lack capital in their business empire than they did in the substratum upon which all the railroads of the country are built; without it newspapers go to the wall in a few months; in military affairs its abounding marvelous system, and lack of it in a student begets carelessness.
PUNCTUALITY
One Who Sleeps.
Youth is the time to form punctuality. Don't wait until maturity to attempt to come out of the rut; it will then be too late, your habits will been formed, and as long as you may you will not be able to correct them.
TRANSPOSITIONAL POTRY
Once a little loo poy
Ate some sicken choup,
Ate some stinky tibbit
't him
An' so he whae a goop!
Given a professor who does not call the roll at the commencement of a lecture, a cold morning with the water in which you are to wash having a tendency to freeze, blankets that for warmth you'll swear were never equaled, and the temptation is one which might have caused even St. Anthony to fall. It isn't a cheerful prospect to crawl out of bed on such a morning, but if you stay for those inevitable few minutes, the chances are well, will be few when they are handing out the degrees, a few minutes later when the man for the big position is chosen, a few minutes late when Gabriel blows his horn, and a few minutes late when St. Peter padlocks the golden gates for the last time.—McGill Daily.
He started in an' yaffed an' lelled Until he crad th' houp; Because, ysee, it hickled tim, There was were seathers in th' foup—Daily Illini.
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