UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matr
market 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.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate as to go further than merely printing the text of the University. University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be courageous; to be more serious problems to wiser heads in all, and to ensure that the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1915.
SMILE!
A stranger on Mount Oread this week would think from the multitude of long faces wandering about that the Hessian-fly was eating all of father's crops, that the mill tax had failed, and hat the millenium was doe at midnight.
Why the worry? It's only quiz week. Students look more melancholy than they did last autumn when Missouri walloped our football team. Then they had some reason to be glum, but it is inexcusable now.
Just because a few professors are giving a few measly little quizzes is no reasy why the students should fill up this glorious atmosphere with dark, green gloom.
"US AND THE STAR"
The Daily Kansas sport man has been asked by the sport editor of the Kansas City Star to furnish that paper with a column of sport news from the University each week. This should do much to give the alumni of Kansas City an understanding of sport affairs at the University, and at the same time let the young blood of K.C. know where to come for real athletics.
Miss Helen Keller, who may come to the University for convocation, is blind, but can tell by intuition when she is approaching some obstruction, as a tree or post. She is more gifted than some note-book neglecting students who cannot see the quiz in the way.
The word "jitney" is Russian and is the name of the smallest piece of money in circulation in that country. Here it is the name of the smallest piece of money for which one can take a ride or have a repeat date.
One of the staff thinks the reason so many students worked out for the Kansan Board is the fact that a part of the examination questions were printed in the Kansan office.
Many a woman who can carry a suffrage banner before insulting crowds has not the nerve to tell an election judge her age.
Another advantage of the combination of all the larger state educational institutions would be the fact that they could all use the same whistle.
We'll bet a good note-book that the investigating committee that comes to look over the University tomorrow makes a report.
How wide is the world? The other day a middle Law asked if the Quill Club didn't publish the Daily Kansan?
A naughty word gone astray is like a punk haircut. You can't take it back.
ROTTEN POLITICS
In this age of efficiency when the general trend of modern life is to ward rewarding the man who can do things best, the University of Kansas might well look at the life of the student and make a sort of so-ia survey.
If this was done, one of the first things that would cause the social surveyors totop and wonder, would be that insidious college evil, "politics." It is present in more or less virulent form in all colleges and universities, but those who know other institutions say that it is in its worst form at the University of Kansas.
In our institution, the reformers contend that practically no office is ever acquired strictly on merit. The politician's game, side stepping, double-crossing and similar artifices all must be counted in whenever an election is held.
As a result, too often only mediocre men—and sometimes, not even that—are elected to the various offices. When this kind of man is boosted into office, his hands are tied in the matter of making good appointments for the offices under him, because the political debts contracted in getting in, must be paid. This results in the appointment of good political henchmen without due regard to qualifications.
It is useless to say that this practice keeps from the betterment of the institution. Besides giving the University a poor reputation among prospective students—and this is the case—it stands for poor, unefficient methods of class and school administration. Many good men are left comparatively undiscovered because they would rather "hide their candle under a bushel" than get into office through the only means at their disposal, "politics."
While the campaigning, secret causeses, the eternal jockeying of candidates may afford excellent practice for the embryotic politician who may use this knowledge later in life, it must be conceded that it is rather hard on the University.
Chasing the Glooms
Did you ever know a college student going home who was not called "blaze"?
The individual Mexican presidents should be able to take the United States' motto to themselves, "E pluribus Unum,"—"one out of many."
BASEBALL A LA TIPPERARY It's a long time till April fourteenth It's a long time to wait;
It's a long time till April fourteenth,
it is bashed up with opening data.
Farewell.
Which is baseball's opening date?
Farewell frost and snowballs.
You've got us on the course.
Farewell frost and snow!
You're no use—on the square;
Welcome to spring and sunshine!
You're no use—on the square;
We long for spring and sunshine,
For our hearts lie there.
Tip to the Advertiser
If we had a yellow dog and he was trying to do something to help the community we would throw him a bowl and then—gaffarm. 8. C. Ledger
This is examination time at the old college and we suppose some eccentric students are studying—State.
THE REASON
For months he'd called three times a week,
She wondered why he didn't speak
The words that she had long
died.
week,
But still the young man hesitated.
she told him.
That if he said the word she'd take him.
She'd done her best to let him see
that she lived, enough life, would not
suspect that she had a problem.
ing;
His salary was "twelve a week"
On that no lover does much talking.
—Detroit Free Press.
She wondered why he didn't speak.
When they together went out walk
And he had very often shown
His love was not a passing notion,
nor a memory.
The Daily Kansan claims to be in a class by itself in that it has never carried a top head, front page, on Theodore Roosevelt.
but still whEN're they sat alone
He never spoke of his devotion.
Condensed news for student:
School of Engineering
School of Law
Fraser Hall
The Shops
Library
North College
School of Pharmacy
Condensed news for the cramming student:
taking quizzes
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL
O beautiful and spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain!
America's mother,
America's great
father, the
and crownly gift of good
brotherhood
And crownly gift of good
brotherhood
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
O wonderful for pilgrim heart.
A thoroughfare for freedom best
Acorns America; American
America; American
American
O beautiful for glorious tale!
Tale of a sea witch.
When valiantly for man's avail,
Men lavished joyful fea!
American America!
May God thy gold refine,
Thine alabaster business,
And every grain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream!
Tale of an island seer.
Thine alabaster gleams like
Unshakeable sunburn
American America!
Ghed shed this good taste,
Amen to brotherhoo-
From sea to shining sea
Lie Bates.
KANSAS, THEMET MUSEUM
"Think of the more serious 'to be gained in the better knowledge of American life, by the traveler who will break journey for a few days in that State of moral courage and high conviction that is bounded by Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado, with its fields of wheat and corn, and to mingle with its people while reading the newspapers of Governor Capitol Warren Allen, Vic. Another captive William Allen White, and twenty other notable leaders of public opinion—this, indeed, is to be acquiring a really liberary American education."—From editorial in February Review of Reviews.
KANSAS, THEY MEAN US
KANSAS UNIVERSITY NEWS
The following items were written up by * * * * * * * * * * , a student at the Kansas University, in Lawrence, and will be of interest to our readers:
KANSAS UNIVERSITY NEWS
Even the there are numerous jokes extant concerning the student that reads his home-town paper, I am glad to have "the News" on my phone.
The University basketball team has made an excellent start for a victorious season. They have defeated the Ames Aggies of Iowa in two games. On the thirteenth inst, they humbled the Warensburg Normals on our court, and last Friday night they played William Jewell to the tune of fifty-five to twenty-one in our favor. Our men have a very noticeable advantage in other teams. Their place over six other teams, forward stands perpendicular, six feet four inches in his shoes. The majority of our players could appropriately be nicknamed "stats" if that name surgesed speed also.
The Minges Evangelistic company is conducting revival meetings in Lawrence since January first. It is evident that Minges has heard of Billy Sunday's achievements in the usage of course expressed in his book, a considerable trouble in imitating that noted evangelist in that line. It is a discouraging fact that the theology of this type of evangelist contains nothing that can possibly appeal to the best in a man. Anyone that seeks the advantage of a virtuous conduct without loving virtue is vicious. Another important need the myth of a future reward to become desirable. Any same man should be noble enough to seek virtue for its own sake—Hillsboro News.
IN THE NEWSPAPER ROOM AT THE LIBRARY
With travel stained feet
Stands the lonesome youth
One hour long
The library booth.
Bending, homesick,
All the while
Over a blessed
Newspaper file.
Homely old paper,
Looks to me;
Banal and trite,
seems to be.
But watch his eyes scan it,
Up and down.
Blessed old paper
NOTHING MUST CONFLICT
**Type** in snabby,
And is ink poor,
Has a colored supplement
For a lure;
Gives advice to girls
And hints on dress,
Steers new married couples
To happiness;
Yet in the rite sheet
A vists a tie
Of the Somewhere Else
To those homesick eyes.
Of the Somewhere Else
With its memories sweet
To the lonesome youth
With the travel stained fee
—H. S. Hasil
To enter a university is a privilege; a college education is an opportunity. President Wilson, of the United States, once said it is "the training of men who are to rise above the ranks." University education above the ranks gation on college graduates falls to robe the common ruck, he fails to pay his debt.
Next Friday Dr. John R. Mott is to be here. The undergraduate who does not avail himself of the opportunity of being successful falling terribly in his effort to fulfil his obligations. It is the chance of hearing such noted men as
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Mots that doubles and triples the advantages of a college education. It may come but once. Make sure that it is taken when it is offered. Remember a week from tonight! All drills and conflicting college functions have been removed, don't let any private ones interfere—McGill Daily.
Doctor Mott will be to the University of Kansas from March 2 to 8.
An Oratorical Climax
Make your date now for the Union Debt Dance.
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