UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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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.
The Daily Kaman aims to picture the undergraduate students go further than merely printing the news by standing up for their rights; to be clear; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be clean; to be careful; to be charitable; to be clear; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be clean
MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1915.
Lawrence has been in the past few weeks the scene of an appallingly large number of holdups. This is probably due to the fact that the police force is too small to cope with present conditions, and not because it is inefficient. The city should enlarge the force, or by some other means check the numerous robberies.
Since suit was filed against Vic Bottomly students are wondering if "Vic" isn't an abbreviation for Victim.
SACRIFICING TO BEAUTY
With the return of cold weather, students who have classes in the Administration Building will be forced to throw their coats on the floor, or spend an uncomfortable hour sitting on them. Coat hooks would mar the beauty of the halls, donchaknow, therefore we will let the students continue to suffer inconvenience.
PASS IT NOW
The commissioners will get nothing but approval for their action. They should not delay.
In delaying the passage of an ordinance to prohibit coating on the city streets, the commissioners are guilty of a grave offence. It is necessary to public safety that such an ordinance be passed, and rigidly enforced. Past experience has proved that coating cannot be made safe, for some slight unforeseen incident may turn up that will upset all calculations for safety.
BEING INVESTIGATED
The investigating committee of the Kansas City Alumni Association visited Lawrence Saturday, and examined about 50 students. A report will be made later.
While the committee was wholly an extra-legal organization, and came to Lawrence vested with no authority whatever, it was accorded courteous treatment, and was met with a spirit of cooperation that must be commended.
What the committee thinks cannot be learned. It is probably safe to say, however, from what can be gathered from the witnesses, that few of the charges made in the Star at the time of the agitation were substantiated. It is probably true that the committee came to Lawrence believing that something was wrong. It is doubtful if they still hold this belief. The witnesses gave their honest opinions, but it is known that the majority of them think that nothing is the matter with K. U.
At least, let us hope the report will be constructive.
Senator Bowman has again introduced his bill to tax fraternity property, which is now exempt. The committee reported favorably, and the bill will come up for consideration today or tomorrow.
TAXING FRATERNITIES
It is unjust, since the students themselves would have to pay, and they are dependents. Their money has already been taxed once.
Many organizations, taking advantage of the exemption, acquired property, and depended on freedom from taxes to help in paying for it. Little of it—practically none, in fact—is paid for. It is hardly fair to start taxing the property now.
The fraternities and sororites provide the nucleus for a dormitory system, which is admittedly a good thing. The great majority of schools that do provide dormitories stipulate the students shall live in dormitories or fraternity houses. At Northwestern the school will finance the building of fraternity houses, and the same is true of other schools.
Popular opinion believes that the fraternity man has oodles of money, and goes to school to have a good time. Such a condition is far from true. Fraternity men are no more able to pay taxes than any other, and should not be made to.
ADVOCATES THE STUDY OF NEWSPAPER ENGLISH
When President Butler, of Columbia University, stated in his annual report that the students of the Pulitzer School of Journalism were inadequately prepared in the English branches and seemed woefully ignorant of those things with which an educated man should be familiar the Philadelphia Public Ledger asked several professors in other colleges for their views of the conditions and the causes of the great depression of the department of journalism of New York University, has made the following interesting and suggestive contribution to the discussion:
"Instead of being shocked by President Butler's words about the "utter worthlessness, judged by lasting results, of a large part of the work done, or supposed to be done, in the preparatory schools and colleges," I am surprised that students in these schools were taught under the circumstances. When I was in preparatory school and later at college it seemed to me that every instructor thought he was the only teacher the institution had—at least the length of the lesson to be prepared for the next recitation gave this impression. When one looks at the image of the very richest high school, one must wonder how the student manages to get even a smattering of so many subjects.
The shocking ignorance of Biblical allusions in English literature on the part of those who profess to know something of literary history and to have studied it, cannot, it seems to me, be placed upon the desk of the schoolmaster. The blame should be put on the doorstep of the American home. Less than another mother herding her children about her on a Sunday afternoon telling them Bible stories. The disappearance of the morning prayers with which the family of yesterday began the day's work has stopped the reading of the Scripture at the family altar, (The Wall Street Journal once had an exceptionally able pastor who was one other day a New York minister, who had grown gray in the service of his Master, complained to me that when he made pastoral calls he was no longer invited to read the Scripture and to offer a word of prayer; instead, he was entertained at a pink tea or something of the sort. It has become standard for Bibles to have a firm place on the sittingroom table? Let us render unto the schools and colleges the things that belong there and unto the homes the things that belong there.
"The thing which most interests me of all those you have brought to my attention is the assertion about 'the very limited vocabulary' that we have in our educational systematic instruction for a number of years and who are popularly supposed to have been led to read at least some of the great masters of English style.' Personally I cannot help feeling that if some good daily newspaper had been published, it would have been the masters of English style' the English of our students would be better. Whatever faults the academic and pedantic critic may attribute to newspaper English, the fact still remains that it is almost invariably clear and well-commented. We have even the greatest master of the English tongue has fifty-seven varieties of interpretations of his words. If you doubt the truth of such an assertion, consult the annotated editions of his works. Teachers of English in the West, where the newspaper has been more extensively used as a textbook in the classroom—freely admit that students do better work when they write an essay upon some topic as "The Real Purpose of Education" in the West, where the newspaper has been more extensively used as a textbook in the classroom—the time is coming when the daily newspaper will be studied in the schools. When it is, students will write better English, for then we shall have a bridge leading directly from the school to the university over to those English classics which, under the new condition, will not be only read, but also studied with pleasure."—The American Educational Review.
Why these sunny smiles, this warm greeting, or that unexpected courtesy shown you by your hitherto indifferent friends? That girl you have been calling for weeks only to find out that she is all dated tight unexpectedly grants you one of those conceived man who barely acknowledges your friendly greeting has suddenly lost his condescending manner and is actually carrying your books down the Hui for you. What can it mean? New party dresses are being planned, white gloves cleaned, and old moth-eaten from the bottom of the trunk. The time of possible "spring-parties", formals, and the junior prom is arriving! That's all!
Pandora's Box
It is a pity to mention such a thing, but could it be that your "mushroom" friends are grafting for a bid? Perhap the thought! It is only your winning chance to get two or three 'phone calls an evening when heretofore you were doing well to get one a week. It is lots of fun, any way, this uncertainty! Quite a chance, too, to bet with your room-mate that you will be excited, either, when you lose a steak-supplier for four at Brick's.
THE CHAPEL SERVICE
"The darkest place is at the foot of the light house," according to a Japanese proverb. Sometimes it would seem that this somewhat cynical statement was rather too clearly illustrated among Christian students. Occasionally we find some men and women entering with commendable earnnestness in work outside their own institution while certain others do not. We do well to see that our influence extends to the remotest point possible but this cannot be accomplished if any area near us is neglected.
During a recent visit our attention was again forcibly called to the great potential value of the chapel service and the chance it affords the undergraduate Christian forces to cooperate with those officially in charge of it, to make it an increasingly great power in the lives of all students.
We are not at present concerned with the question whether required or voluntary chapel produces the best results. But what we are interested in is in having every one of the Christian students in a given institution coach these students in use of chapel services and then throw their united effort into helping to make them of the highest possible good to all concerned.
The groups, too, that meet regularly for Bible study and other purposes will do well to make special prayer for the growing helpfulness of these services. We all recognize the necessity for very careful preparation, preparation and option for special religious meetings. Well, here we have meetings of an importance that it is impossible to estimate. What preparations do we make for them? Have we become so familiar with the daily chapel that we have lost any expectation of very great things from it? Whether we are fully aware of our great possibilities in this unique college chapel service. Are we helping to make the most of it?—The N. A. Student.
While we frequently hear generous use being made of our inalienable right to criticize the authorities by finding fault with whatever kind of chapel exists, it is true that no other feature of organized college life leaves a deeper or more favorable impulse toward students who undertake than do these regularly recurring services. Here the whole body of students have a chance to recognize their corporate unity; here the great central truth of the Christian faith and the highest ideals of Christian citizenship are held up; here every one to a limited extent, at least, is helped to unite in the common worship of God. What an opportunity may ideas of worship and high conceptions of reverence for God and all things sacred.
Some times we are inclined to think that the faculty is solely responsible for all that concerns chapel attendance and conduct. But how can Christian students escape sharing this responsibility or why should they miss this rare opportunity for largely multiplying service?
Are our chapel services as reverent, worshiful, vital and as dignified as the might be? If they are not, we may need to work with them planned effort to make them so! The cabinet of the Association might well spend the entire time of one or more of their meetings in considering these questions, especially as they relate to each individual member. We have seen recognized leaders of the undergraduate religious organizations manifesting in chapel a listlessness and irreverence that could not but reduce the value of their work; although at the end of such consideration it will be found wise to devote at least one regular Association meeting, or perhaps a special one, to a carefully prepared for discussion of what Christianism can do to increase the value of chapel.
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BOWERSOCK THEATRE TUESDAY, JANUARY 19
The Delightful Musical Comedy of Youth
"When Dreams Come True"
Book and Lyrics by Philip Bartholomaa
Music by Silvio Hein
ONE YEAR-NEW YORK and CHICAGO
SIX MONTHS-BOSTON and PHILADELPHIA
Presented with a Cast of Super-excellence
Presented with a Cast of Super-excellence Including FREDERICK SANTLE and the Dainiest, Dressiest, Singing and Dancing Chorus Ever Seen
20 NEW and TUNEFUL SONGS - 20 OF THE NEWEST DANCES
The Aviation Waltz - Sandley Tango - Cubist Glide
PRICES Evening 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 Tickets on Sale at Round Corner Drug Store Beginning Friday Morning.
FOR TAXI CALL 100 The Peerless Garage We Never Miss a Train
Particular Cleaning and Pressing FOR PARTICULAR PEOPLE Lawrence Pantatorium Phones 506
Amusements
One of the unusual features of Philip Barcholtoma's musical play of youth "When Dreams Come True," lies in the fact that the entire action of the play is absolutely free from suggestiveness in lines and action. A great deal of favorable comment has been made over this fact by dramatic reviewers, and the public reception of the comedy during the past year prove that there is a place for a clean musical play after all. At the Bowersock Tuesday, January 19—Adv.
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Good Home Cooking
Mrs. Russel Again in Charge
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Student Help
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.
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