UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Univer-
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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.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of Journalism.
The Daily Kaanen aims to picture the world of Kaanen go to further than merely printing a Kanasn to
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1915
WINTER PRACTICE
Because they realize the weakness of their football team this fall, the Drake Bulldogs have started winter practice with a squad of twenty-seven men. They will continue out doors as long as possible, then taking to indoor work.
They have a promising bunch of material to work on, and with that kind of spirit prevalent, the Drake Bulldogs will have to be reckoned with next year when the question of championship comes up.
SHAKE, BROTHER
Daily Palo Alto: Considerable misapprehension has arisen regarding the idea and the purpose of feature stories in the columns of this paper. They are based mostly on matters of more or less trivial importance which would not be news in themselves, but which are made so through original adaptation. Whether or not they remain news is something for each one to decide for himself. It is not our place to give a definition of news. Many attempts have been made by journalistic authorities to define news, but no accurate definition has been secured which satisfies everyone. News to some would not be news to others. The idea of the feature story is not to cast a slur and not to ridicule anyone, or anything, but to create a sense of humor in certain stories that admit of such treatment. True it is that everyone cannot see the humorous side in stories of this nature. Such stories are published in good faith and their purpose is not to put anyone in an unpopular light. In the main, they are to add spice, life, and variety to the otherwise straight news items of everyday occurrence. Feature stories are not to be taken seriously.
WHERE STUDENTS CAN HELP
Getting out a Jayhawker is not a University honour but a University job. A thousand things must be attended to and the exasperating thing about it is that nine hundred and ninety-eight of a thousand things are unlooked for.
It is within the power of almost every student to assist materially in the producing of a Jayhawker. If you are a senior or a junior get your picture into the office right away. The same can be said of members of organizations. And these students and every other student can dig up some kodak snap-shot which gives a flash of the real college life.
These things should be finished before the nine hundred and ninety-eight unharalded items bob up.
CALL FOR THE PULMOTOR
It may be true that many students are weak from want of exercise, but that can not be said of those twenty years ago. There was a Walking Club then, composed of both men and women, which took trips out into the country every Saturday afternoon or
sunday—if the day was fair enough. Winter even did not stop them. Practically all of the meetings and parties were out-of-door affairs. Jaunts were taken to Cameron's Bluff, Lake View, Blue Mound, Eudora, and various other places in nature's realm, and of course they took their dinners and suppers along. Sometimes they would take the train back but usually they footed it. In the winter, to keep up exercise, skating parties were often held.
The club was a very informal organization and was formed by the consolidation of several small student clubs which had sprung up by a common interest in student life. Most of the members were non-fraunty students. These clubs promoted both friendship and intellectual interests. The Walking Club disbanded after about five years of activity.
THE CUB WROTE THIS
The Cub reporter stepped into the professor's office in search of a story. Yes, he knocked before he went in. He doesn't believe in walking into a private office as if it was a stale. Knocking before he goes in sometimes saves him from the necessity of knocking as he goes out.
"Can't think of any thing today," said the professor, "No news unless you can make some." "Say,' he added, "have you noticed how cold and forlorn that senior memorial bench looks this winter? Don't you think that the Kansan could interest some one in the idea of planting some evergreens at the back of the bench? It would dress up the spot and make it look warmer and almost cozy even in this cold weather. How much pleasantier it would be there in the fall and spring if it were snuggled around with evergreens. Fix it up that way and the class dates on the end wouldn't be the only dates on the bench.
"I don't suppose this is news," continued the professor, "but if the Kansan could start the movement to plant the evergreens that would be news."
LETTERS FROM HOME
Older students no less than the proverbially homeschick freshman have cause to appreciate the emotional effects of letters, and receive plenty of them that tend to add an atmosphere of gloom to a day already beaten by illness. As with any act as a safe axiom that the acceleration toward any state of mind communicated by a letter is in direct proportion to the inclination in that direction which already exists. On a day when a quiz book is handed back with a mark of success, it becomes the effect to the effect that the funds required for the polishing of intellect seem to be out of all proportion to the results so far obtained will probably set the student to reading "The Garden of Prosperping." And, inconsistently enough, the failure to achieve full faith and affection—if the mother is afraid her child has been studying too hard, or the father says he is expecting wonderful accomplishments, the student is just as cast down as though the spirit had been the open door to success. The right that day, the first letter will make him laugh, or the second will fill him with joyful self-confidence.
What a pity that all the vocal intonations cannot be put into a letter! Then we should have a chance to see the real meaning of the friend at home and should not translate every sentence into the meaning suggested by our own temporary feeling.
There was a man once who indigently read his wife a telegram he had just received from their son—Sam. He asked, "Who is the Father, send me money. Charles." And his wife said he had read it wrong, so she read it to him in a tender and supplicating tone, "Father! You are sending me money." And his father sent the money.
It is too bad that most of us here have no friend to do that kindly service or interpretation that they need, most keen are those whose hurt is too intimate for exhibition to roommate or other friend. Besides, how can we expect kindly sympathy with the homeowner from a person who never saw him?
So, learning that letters are subject to many and strange translations, we try to make our own so true to our feelings that misinterpretation shall be impossible. And what is the result? The important sentence is labored over until all personality is kneaded out of it, or it is left a ridiculous jumble of disproportionate emotions. It is worse
That seems, in fact, to be the only sure help—not to read a very intimate letter when we feel inclined to postpone its reading, not to postpone its reading, to re-read many times after feelings have reverted to the normal.
than the casual effort of our thoughtless correspondent, and our only hope is that it will find him less sensitive than his letter found us.
Chasing the Glooms
"I was proposed to by three."—
Ohio State Sun Dial.
"And during your stay abroad did you
have any old crises?"
Riddle—What is the difference between a sensitive person and a lawyer?
Griddle—Give it up.
"Yes, we ran across a couple of poker sharks." -Stanford Chaparral.
Riddle—The one takes things littered with
things. Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
"Did you see any big fish during your trip across?"
Stude--Gee, but I have an awful cold.
Girl—Why don't you take Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey?
Politician—Do you think spirits will be on the free list?
Stude—Aw, Kid—Michigan Gargoyle.
Funny Man—Not a ghost of a chance. Michigan Gargoyle.
Hip—Taste this.
Dad—These colleges must be pretty darned extravagant. Here Ora writes that he has to wear a fresh cap every day—Michigan Gargoyle.
Hop-Why, that is fine soup.
Hip-And that steward had the nerve to call it coffee.-Michigan Garrovle.
Yearly an expenditure of $100 is necessary to disinfect the gymnasium mats and lockers, which otherwise would be unsafe for use.
1918—Why does the prof. always look over the top of his glasses?
A sturdy rivalry has sprung up on the campus as the result of the promotion of inter-freerity and inter-club basketball and baseball. The leagues which are organized engage in a game where the best-fall—men who hitherto have received little or no exercise. The cups and pennants that are at stake are coveted to such an extent that the young athletes willingly set for themselves severest conditioning rules.
1917—He is so stingy that he is afraid of wearing them out—Yale Rials
She—Bet I can.—Stanford Chaparral.
She—If you kiss me I'll scream. He—I'll bet you can't do it.
"They told him that scholarship standards must be preserved so they canned him."
"Went out and got pickled."—Ohio Sun Dial.
The miserable dozen wooden lockers that once served the students have been added to until now there are two or three lockers, two or three men or women at the same time. The hundred new lockers to be installed this year will not begin to meet the needs of the growers in or out of the gymnasium.
IS INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORT PASSING?
Wifey—Oh dear, I feel all undone Hubby—Wish you were.—Stanford Chaparral.
"Intercollegiate sport is cuttin off its own head, and is being supersed by I. intra-mural forms," says R. G. O'Connor of the training at the University of Washington. Dr. Hall has tried since 1908 to build up inter-class activities, and now at last he feels that everyone must see the handwriting on the wall -signing the coming death of athletics where only a chosen few comete.
Dr. Hall thinks this old form of rivalty should pass. It should, he says, be classed with vaudeville, for "only a few men, specialized in their arts," and should be amusement of the masses under the guise of athletics."
Faculty opposition and inadequate equipment hindered the growth of intra-mural sports at first, but now President Landes is perhaps Dr. Hall's strongest supporter. His conception of athletics is "sport for sport's sake, where good is derived from the best, not the cent take part." The faculty has been won over, but the equipment is still desperately bad.
Long Fight Won
When the fight was first waged for the development of athletics in which the general student body might take part, cross country running was the single sport which has a foothold, a minimum of 55 students competing
Disinfect Lockers
Today the various games such as football, baseball, tennis, rowing, basketball, wrestling, boxing, volley ball, hand golf, and cross country running have a following of nearly 1,500 students without counting those who are on the various varsity teams.
Your name may never appear in the Kansan, but the folks are interested in University affairs because you are here. They will appreciate your letter telling about going to the Scrim if they have read about it in the Kansan.
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Rowing Revolutionized
Boxing and golf have not as yet gained many devotees on the campus, but one thing seems certain; when they become popular at the university they will not be the basis for further intercollegiate competition. Sports within the campus will be kept there.
Rowing as a university sport has been revolutionized. Several rowing clubs have been organized to which any student is eligible, regardless of his weight or size. From these clubs crews are picked, according to weight, and they compete among themselves. Where once but a hand-held machine, now of the highest received training in oarsmanship, an unlimited number can now profit by the facilities offered at the university.
TO A PAL
Soccer football is the surpassingly popular pastime. This game takes on an international aspect, Hindu, Japanese, Chinese, English, and Canadian students being familiar with it.
Patiently you come and sit By me in your chosen place. I've a fondness, I admit.
For your money, harry life
You will listen hours on end
To my driest monologue;
Amanda titus of your friend
Patiently you come and sit
By me in your chosen place. I've a fondness, I admit.
For your homely, hairy face. You will listen hours on end.
When in care-free mood I sing,
At my voice you never rail.
You appreciate the thing.
Ample test of any friend.
Though the friend is but a dog.
To my driest monologue, Ample test of any friend.
Beat an encore with your tail. If I'm blue you understand;
Come and lean against my knee;
Shave your head beneath my hand;
When my time has come to go
Out somewhere beyond the dark.
I'd feel far less strange, I know,
If I heard your welcome bark;
but if good Saint Peter made
I am very much afraid
Motions of rejection grim,
I am very much afraid
Whydon'tyou send them the Daily Kansan for the rest of the year?
They will not kick so much because you neglect your letters and you won't have to explain everything you have written when you go home.
You'd be apt to snap at him.
—N. Y. World.
Professor Burdick, to his class. "That
minds me of a story of——"
Loud roars of appreciation from the class.
Professor Burdick—"Now you wait a minute. I haven't told this one for twenty-five years, and it's perfectly safe."
Send the Daily Kansan home.
R. E. PROTSCH
THE STUDENTS' TAILOR.
Want Ads
FOR RENT~To young men two (2)
single rooms, $5.00 and $7.00 per
month. One double room at $10.00.
Board it desired. A room mate
phone: R. St. Phone:
1962W. Modern house, piano, parlor
and tennis court.
FOR SALE—Well located law business and library at great bargain, Ray & Ray, Tulsa, Okla.
LOST-A a botany lab, outfit in leather
case. Finder please call B. 1234.
5678901234
BOARD--For ladies and gentlemen North College Club, 1022 Ohio $3.50 per week. Stewards, H. M Rinker and C. F. Cletfer. 75-5*
LOST-Exchanged by mistake, a black fox muff with silk cord and tassel. Finder return to Alice Coors, 1245 Iress and receive their own.
LOST—Necklace with plain gold chain before Christmas. Finder return to Pattie Hart at 1408 Tennessee and receive reward. 77-3*
LOST - Ashton's Algebra text book,
somewhere on the Hill. Finder
please return to the Kansan office.
Walter German. 78-*3*
Student Help
WANTED - Energetic student to work spare hours. Free partici-
lars. Address Box 86 Pawhuska, Okla.
73-8*
The Oread Mandolin Club is open for dates. Will play any place—any time. Call W. K. Shane at Carroll or phone Home 1742—Adv.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
A LIVE WIRE MERCHANT desires the services of a few good Students who are anxious of making money while in school. The work can be arranged so that it will not interfere in the least with school work. Good proposition to the right parties. Address X. Y. Z. care Dally Kansan.
WATKINS'
NATIONAL BANK
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diases of
St. Louis.
O. Albion St., residence.
O. Albion St., Ohio.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squire's Studio. Both phones.
Professional Cards
J, F. BIRCK, Optometrist and Spec-
terior Optician 802. Mace. St., Bell Phone 998,
803. Mace. St., Bell Phone 998,
HARRY REDING, M. D. Eye, ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted. Office, F. A. A. Bldg. Phones. Bell 513, Home 512.
Jewelers
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D. D. D. O. $33
J. R. BECHTEL. Both phones, office and
address.
ED, W. PARSONS. Engraver. Watch-
tower. Bell Phone 711. 717 Mass
Classified
A. J. ANDERSON, M. D., Office 715 Vt.
St. Phones 124.
Music Studios
CORA REYNOLDS will receive special
announcement of the Cora College,
Phone K. U. 181-2-31rings
Plumbers
PHONE KENNEDY* PLUMBING CO.
for kennedy and Mazda lamps. 1955-
1960.
Barber Shops
Go where they all go
J. C. HOUCK,
913 Mass.
Millinery
WANTED—Ladies to call at Mrs. Mc-
Cormack. Please ensure you can inspect our new line of hats. $85.
Shoe Shop
PORNBY SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass. St.
worked a mistake. All work
guaranteed.
Insurance
FIRE INSURANCE, LOANS, and ab-
ductions.
Building. Bail 185. Home 309.
FRANK E. BANKS, In., and abstracts of
Title 2. Room 5. F. A. A. Building.
Ladies' Tailoring
MRS. EMMA BROWN-SCHULTE—next to Anderson's Bakery—Dress-making and Ladies' Tailoring. Remodeling of every description.