6 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF Edwin W. Hullinger. Editor-in-Chair William Koester. News Editor Henry Pegues. Assistant Mitterson. Society Editor Don Duyt. Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF Vernon A. Moore... Business Mgr. Freddy Rightman... Assistant Fred Richay... Assistant NEWS STAFF Wilbur Fleischer Alfred Hill Paul Brinder E. Kendrick Binkard E. Kendrick Alice Bowley Dovothy Cole Pearl Carter Cargill Jack Carter Cargill Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail postmaster, move forward to 123-456-7890, under the act of Maryland. 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 life of its students further than merely printing the news that they enjoy; he holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be quiet; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve the students of the University. MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1916. WE'RE PROUD OF 'EM All K. U, and all Kansas is proud of the men who battled with the Missouri Tigers on McCook field last Thursday—proud of them even though the victory did go to the rivals—because the men were doing their best for their alma mater and fought their hardest to uphold the honor of the Crimson and the Blue. We offer no alibis. Missouri won the game and won it fairly. But while the Tigers outplayed the Jayhawkers Thanksgiving Day we do not grant the Missourians the better team. They could not have beaten the fighting machine that inflicted defeat on Nebraska ten days before. But that does not erase the record of the defeat last Thursday. To see a repetition of the season of 1909, when Kansas won from Nebraska and then lost to Missouri was a hard blow to Kansas followers. But all took the defeat like good sports. They dolf their hats to the boys who played their best and offer no regrets. Kansas is not only proud of her team and the remarkable showing made this year, which is by far the best in many years; she is proud of her coaches. To Coaches Olcott and Clark the University owes much and holds them in the highest respect. So let's join Coach Olcott in his football motto, "Go the Kansas." In view of the fine showing of this year's team over last year's eleven, the abundance of good material on this year's freshman team and a continuation of the Olcett-Clark coaching regime next year, the prospects look fine. "Now that winter is approaching," says a certain freshman, "and we have respite from the familiar 'Swat the Fly,' we might turn our attention to getting rid of the eternal 'Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula.'" THE MOB, THE MOB Mob spirit is a characteristic of the human race in general. In students in particular it shows no sign of becoming extinct. Let someone exhibit a paddle on the Hill, and within three minute scores of sticks are in evidence. Let a crowd start a rally, especially a naughty rally, and a following springs up from all sides. Let someone suggest that studies be "ditched" for a trip to Lee's or to Brick's, and it takes real character to resist. Again note the flow of students among boarding clubs. When a few leave a club, the rest will follow like sheep; when a club gains in membership, it gains rapidly. Then take dates! let a girl have a few dates at the beginning of the college year, and she is assured of social success throughout the term. Let her pass the first two or three weeks with no dates, and she is assured of an excellent opportunity to accumulate a It is mob spirit pure and simple, from the student body down to the herd of stamped cattle. Phi Beta Kappa standing for that year. The threatened return of the waltz and two-step will mark the Waterloo of the mediocre dancer. KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN There are many good things and so many new things right at hand that we fail to see because we do not keep our eyes open. We complain how dull and uninteresting a place or thing may be, ye when someone hits upon a new idea, or sees a new possibility in an old theme, we wonder why we did not think of it ourselves. We have simply closed our eyes to the outside world. We have been so intent on our own affairs and troubles that we have failed to catch the broader things of life. So let us keep our eyes open. Let us learn to observe and interest ourselves in the real things that are everywhere about us. It is never the Closed Eye that achieves success by thinking of the new thing first. ON WITH THE PADDLE Once upon a time there was a man named Plato who conceived the idea that all men of the upper class were created equal. Natural enough, isn't it? Plato should have made his house, eat from a common table, enjoy common property, have wives and children in common, and think common thoughts. Thus one of the wisest men of history advanced one of the most foolish ideas, simply to believe that man did not realize that variation is a necessity in every phase of life. Once upon a time there were some ministers who conceived the idea that freshmen and upperclassmen were created equal. Sure! that's all right. So they said, "Let's have no more paddling." Thus it goes. It is a mighty difficult thing to do away with tradition, however easy it is to talk about it. Paddling is like the movies, dancing, card playing, and every other form of amusement. You can't do away with it, but you can lead it into the proper channels where it will make for betterment rather than for evil. The small boy, in playing, has his hands away with it; as the hired man teaches the farmer's daughter; as the business man plays a joke on his friend; so the upper-classman paddles the freshman. Of course playing, teasing, joking and paddling may all be carried too far and entail serious consequence, but as long as they are kept within proper bounds they are one of the greatest means for the promotion of friendship. You can regulate paddling; but abolish it, never. Jayhawk Squawks K. U.'s first team didn't come up to student and alumni expectations last Thursday by several thousand students. My job can't never tell nothin' about dope. By the way, if Kansas had won, how much bigger do you suppose the headlines in today's Kansan would be? After all, it's a crime to think that a real red-blooded man enjoys a football game more being polite to a kid than playing with "whoopin' it up" for the boys. Kansas rooting Thursday was the biggest argument yet for dateless football. You know that's only natural. Then there's the case of the professor who still holds his classes overtime. Why not reverse some of the stringent measures of the disciplinary committee on the consistent robbers student time called faculty members. When a real man gets worked up to the pitch where he can help win a few football games he's got to have more than "PShaw!" or "Oh My!" If you were to take a vote on any man in the University you would find that he would poll a few being a "sister." He, and the other professor who has a monopoly on the only course on the Hill are about due for their annual investigation. They call Minneapolis, Minn They can't say. And also Annapolis Ann If you can't tell the reason why I'll bet that Lawrence Kan. But Kansas spirit is picking up. The return of ten thousand alumni from the Big Ten will be No man has as yet ever definitely defined the word "sister" as applied to the sterner sex. He couldn't do it without getting personal. —Ex. The efficient fire marshal does not spend all his time devising some means to put out fires after they have started. He devotes considerable time to preventing fires. Likewise the health officer does not assume that because he warned the public a year ago against typhoid fever he need not take steps to prevent the spread of the disease this year. In other words he must be more necessary and advisability of prevention instead of cure. PREVENTION OR CURE? To The Kansan: CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed ae evidence of good, faithful but names will not be published without the writer's consent This is the point against the University Senate in the action taken by that body following the recent naughty rally. The Senate knew the rally might occur and instead of taking steps to prevent it, they slept on the job. Therefore it seems rather far fetched for them to attempt to put their hand on the door, penalty which cuts off eight students from school and imposes upon their parents a financial loss of approximately two thousand dollars. Unauthorized rallies absolutely must stop and the sane students realize that point full well. But when it is considered that there have been no mistakes in matters, that only a few of the guilty parties were caught, that the penalty enacted hits the parents and not the student, and finally that the disciplinary body was asleep at the post, it seems that the action is too drastic. Sarcasm is a polite way of becoming angry. Rather than lose one's temper, one takes refuge in that cold, self-passed air, and with a few pointed remarks to make the observer realize he has been "cursed." A genuinely sarcastic person, cannot be unselfish. The unselfish person thinks of the other fellow, the sarcastic individual thinks only of the effect he is making. He never thinks of the other person, or how many good times he spoils. Never are the scornful welcome." SARCASM The best definition I can frame of an alumnus is that he is the devoted son of a good mother. A devoted son best serves a goodmother by living a high and good life, in the first place, and in the second place, by remembering her in his strength and in her weakness. Alma Mater, our institutional mother, unlike our dear mother of flesh and blood, is always needing strength. She is a creature of immortal youth and deathless function and endless needs. There is about her an eternal fecundity. Youth scolls play about her knees in ever-increasing numbers while great-grandchildren come on pilgrimages in her honor—Ohio State Monthly. A DEFINITION AT OTHER SCHOOLS The interfraternity council at the University of Nebraska has voted to accept a plan for co-operative buying of commodities. Twenty-five organizations have signified their intentions of taking advantage of the plan during the price list and other arrangements prove to be satisfactory. One thousand new rides for the cadets at Purdue have just been ordered from the government, together with complete equipment. To replace the lot which was destroyed when the army burned last year. The campus of the University of Minnesota has been nearly doubled by some recent purchases of land and through endowments. Last Friday two darkies were observed scanning the straw vote results in the window of a local drug store. In all class elections at Yale all ballots must be signed by the voters or they will be thrown out when the count is made. For the purpose of limiting the activities of individual students, the University of Minnesota has adopted a point system attaching a numerical weight to all leading university positions. A maximum number of points is set which the students are not permitted to exceed. Fifty foreign students from ten countries are enrolled this semester at Oberlin. Twenty-five are Chinese. Usually the foreigners are greater in number, but the war is ascribed as the cause of the decrease. MR. TOTAL John R. Mott, evangelist worker, has recently finished a series of lectures at Dartmouth under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. He visited every fraternity house on the Dartmouth campus. Literary societies at Purdue University are making a systematic effort to organize intersociety dramatics this year. "Wilson, 55,000; Hughes, 53,000; Total. 108,000," read the first. "Huh," replied the other, "Who am dat man Total, anyway?" Comfortable Formal Clothes Designed, cut and tailored to your individual measure by our Chicago tailors, ED. V. PRICE & CO To test their high character we ask only your first order. We'll be your tailors after that. Let us prove it. 707 Mass. St. SAMUEL G. CLARKE Local Dealer of Ed. V. Price & Co. 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