UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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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 Phoena, Bell K, U. 25 and 66
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our university, but rather than merely printing the news by standing for the idea, it prints on a few favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be wise; to be wiser heads; in all, to serve to the best of our students at University.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917.
The wicked are wicked no doubt, and they go astray and they get away. The wicked are smart, but who can tell the mischief that the virtuous do?—Thackeray.
WHERE TWO VISTAS MEET
WHENEVER a curious mixture of memories and hopes. Memories of successes, half-successes, and failures, of duties performed and obligations neglected, ambitions achieved and yearnings still hanging fire, days into which experiences of weeks were compressed and days as colorless as the gray of fog, of new friends gained and old associations broken off. With these come new hopes, new resolutions, and new ambitions.
It is an occasion of conflicting emotions, when the thoughtful man pauses to take stock of himself and consider his preparedness for that which he believes is ahead of him; when he cashes in past and present credits against probable future liabilities.
It is an impressive reminder of the external change in things and conditions, and of the encouraging existence of "another chance."
New Year's is where two perspectives meet and merge—the vista of the past and the gleam of the future.
Perchance was that good old stand-by, "How's college, John?" hurled at you during vacation?
EVIDENCE, PLEASE, DR.
HARDING?
K. U. is an incubator of crime, in the opinion of Dr. Eva Harding of Topeka. Doctor Harding ran for representative in Congress from the First District last November. She was defeated. We note this, not because it has any particular connection with the incident under discussion, but simply for the sake of completeness in introducing the author of the criticism.
"The University is ten to one the worst nest of crime in the state," Doctor Harding says. "It turns out more criminals than the jails ever furnished. Almost every day I read of some K. U., graduate who went wrong. If Professor Blackmar really wants to improve conditions let him clean up his back yard."
Again for the sake of completeness he it said that the excuse made for this effusion was a report recently submitted to the legislature by Professor Blackmar, pointing out what he regarded as extremely unfortunate conditions in Kansas prisons. The report appears to have aroused Doctor Harding's dander.
Her charge—if it could be dignified by that name—against the University is so absurd it scarcely seems worth while to waste paper and ink on it. Nor would we were it not for the fact that, appearing as it did in a newspaper with a state-wide circulation, the assertion will be read by many who know nothing about actual conditions.
In the first place, we should like to
ask Doctor Harding to produce some of those newspaper accounts she has been reading "almost every day" telling of the criminal activities of K. U. graduate." It would be interesting to see how big a bundle the clippings would make. And then, granted that she could produce them, we should like to ask her how large a percentage of the total number graduated from K. U. they represent.
After she has answered these questions we wish to invite the critic to visit this "nest of crime", investigate things on the Hill and make suggestions that might help us to "clean up our backyard" and graduate a few others besides criminals.
A little knowledge at first hand is some times good for the soul.
Doubtless Doctor Harding had something else in mind besides a little free publicity when she made those assertions but she certainly did not demonstrate that she had taken much trouble to get at the facts before speaking.
THE HOME STRETCH
Break your New Year Resolutions early and avoid the rush.
At last we are on the home stretch. The finals are only three weeks off. Not quite a month hence the final gong will have sounded and so far as we are concerned the term will be over. We then will have won or lost, depending upon whether we have worked or dalled. "The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on," and nothing can alter a line of what is written.
It behooves us, then, to run this last lap with our eyes open and our brains alert. While the steady runner is generally safe, many a man in the rear of the field has saved himself from defeat by a good stiff sprint at the finish.
If you have bond faithfully throughout the semester, now's your chance to cinch your grade.
If, on the other hand, you may have allowed yourself the luxury of diluting your labors with an occasional cut and half-done assignment, now's your last chance to bring your work up to the point of safety.
There is still time. A man can do a miraculous amount of studying even in three weeks if he has to.
Don't repeat the mistake of missing another opportunity.
The visit at home is the safety-valve of the college student: it reduces the steam pressure of his inflation, lets the air out of some of his new foibles gained (since the last vacation) under the enthusiasm of some foolish moment, and brings his habits of thought back to the safety level of sanity. All this is achieved automatically and frequently so quietly that the benefice hardly realizes it.
The Prom decorations will be cleared away just in time for the opening of the basketball season. And we hardly realized it! The Kansas squad worked every day last week to get into condition for the first game with Washburn one week from today.
BASKETBALL
When we were home "feedin' up" on mother's cooking or recovering from the effects of a hearty Christmas dinner on the day after Christmas the entire basketball squad was bound for Lawrence to put in a week of hard practice before school opened. And they put in a week that will mean much in measuring the success of the team later in the season.
But like football, basketball cannot be a big success without student support. We have a team that's got the stuff to bring home Valley Championships as they used to do in "the good old days." But the "good old days" will have nothing on ours if we make the effort to get that "stuff" out of the boys.
Let's pack the gym for the first game.
A turkey is noisy, and he gets it in the neck. An oyster is noisy, and he gets in the soup. Either way you lose.
Resolutions are all right. But have a heart. Think of the cigar store man's wife and children.
And just because you're going to write 1917 instead of 1916 when you can remember it—is nothing to get excited about.
Just when we get used to writing 19! we have to change over to 1917.
"I say, what's a rabbit gun?"
"What's a hair trigger?"
"Harry Lavandula."
"Goodness," cried the gas engine to the crank as they became engaged, "what a turn you gave me." -Widow.
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Jan. 9, 8 o'clock
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