UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1915
The filter in the Gym for the swimming pool has been out of commission for some time, and loads of new gravel had to be provided. Probably it was over-worked extracting the mud from L. C. W.
Swimming had to be delayed while the mud was scraped from the pipes leading to the pool. And yet the water company is supposed, by the terms of its contract, to supply good water.
SOMEBODY LOVES 'EM
"In addition to their regular work many faculty members are spending many extra hours in preparation of special addresses for delivery throughout the state. They give their Saturdays and their holidays to an unselfish service in research laboratories and on lecture platforms. The people do not realize how much of this gratuitous work is done by our faculty members. We can not too highly commend them for this valuable and generous service. Modestly they toil on, often without sufficient popular appreciation, and nearly always upon salaries proverbially below the compensation of other learned professions. They are the salt of the earth. The state can not too highly value them."—Report of the Board of Administration to the Governor.
UNWARRANTED INTERFERENCE
Who, we rise to inquire, is supposed to attend to buildings and grounds, John M. Shea, the superintendent, and the man who gets paid for it, or the faculty, whose duties, we have very recently been told, are supposed to end with instruction? There is but one logical answer.
Come now some members of the faculty and object to the installation of coat hooks in the Administration Building because it would mar the beauty of the halls. Certainly, miser beauty-loving prof, you don't need coat hooks. You have an office in which you can put your coat. You don't have to throw it on a dirty floor, or sit on it for an hour.
And again, we ask, whose duty is it to attend to such matters?
And why should hooks mar the beauty of the halls? They can be erected in such a manner as to detract not at all.
What we need is a little less aesthetic and more utilitarianism. Come on down where the rest of us live.
Mr. Shea should go ahead and put up the hooks—at least he shouldn't stop because a bunch of profs started kicking for a reason that has no reason.
NEEDED LEGISLATION
The state legislature should pass an act at this session that will permit the erection of a $100,000 Medical Building with the money realized from the estate of Doctor Robinson, first governor of the state. It was his wish that the money from the
The Board of Administration has suggested an excellent plan for financing the erection of a building, and has asked that the legislature empower it to go ahead.
estate which he bequeathed to the University be so used, and there is no reason why it should not be.
The plan calls for the issuance of $100,000 of University bonds—the present value of the Robinson estate—endorsed by the state. Rents and profits from the estate would pay the interest, and within 20 years the principal. At the end of that time the land will have greatly increased in value. The University can in the meantime have the use of the building, which it needs and ought to have.
SOLDIER-STUDENTS.
President Jacob Gould Schurman, of Cornell, said before a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of the university that it devolves upon the universities and colleges of America to uphold the civilization of the world. At the same time he spoke of the value of military training in the schools both to the individual and to the Republic. Just how he can harmonize the two ideas is not quite clear.
Militarism and civilization are not bedfellows and never can be. The introduction of military training into the schools is but a step toward militarism, and one that every one interested in the furtherment of universal peace will oppose. Preparedness, which the advocates of university military drill say will be brought about if their plan is followed, is likewise dangerous to peace. The European cataclysm is ample proof of that.
Speaking of the task of the schools of America, President Schurman said:
"Valuable as a military training is for the individual himself and for the Republic, it is of course only an incident in the main work and business of the university. And today, when the greatest war the world has ever seen is convulsing Europe and disturbing all the continents and oceans of the globe, so that men's minds are everywhere absorbed with the varying spectacle of contending physical forces, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that civilization consists in peaceful industry, in the physical well-being of the people. In good government, in virtuous character and righteousness, in education and intelligence, and in the activities of art, science, and the highest functions of the human spirit. To these intellectual and spiritual objects colleges and universities are dedicated. They are the artthesis of brute force and in their essential idea the everlasting protest against it."
"FOOD DISTRIBUTION"
Jack Spratt ate naught but protein,
His wife could no lean
him, and they both
they licked the platter clean.
No doubt 'twas very much wort! while
To have the platter clean,
Mrs. Spratt waxed the large and fat
bread loaf and loan.
If Mrs. Spratt, ere she was fat,
Had gone to old K. U.
And he was fat.
And for her breakfast learned so serve
Five hundred calories.
Two hundred for the luncheon
Within her pie and cheese.
Had learned to bake and stew;
And if her dinner did contain
Six hundred calories.
Her form would now be shapely,
And her husband's eye she'd please.
And had Jack's food been served to him.
By calorie and gram,
He now would be a handsome
And well-proportioned man.
Now this is just a warning
To all the K. U. lasses.
To learn for herself in
Miss Downey's cooking classes.
A *Mowdow* be Mrs. Spratt.
ermont Almouston women
Freshman at Vermont women
at Vermont have voted an annual
athletic tax of five dollars upon themselves.
Vermont Athletics Cost $5
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REQUIESCAT IN PACE
DIED—Student Union, youngest child of last year's Student Council. The Union was born March 5, 1914 and died January 14, 1915 aged ten months and nine days. It was a bright and smiling infant, the pet of all the students who knew it. But the dry cold air and high altitude of Lawrence were not favorable to its tender constitution, and in spite of all its friends could do, it passed away last night at 4:30 o'clock. The doctors diagnosed the case as innocuous desutec, complicated infantile paralysis
In spite of the shortness of its life and the shadow under which its last few weeks were spent, it will be sorely missed by many who had learned to love it. Especially will it be mourned by the freshmen and a few discerning upperclassmen who were able to appreciate it. Even some of the faculty will miss it, and the next door neighbors. In the few months it stayed with us, it shed cheer and brightness in many lives and accomplished a great deal of good.
The funeral, which was a very quiet one, was conducted this morning by the county. There were no flowers.
"Everybody ought to see Gertrude Hoffman at the new Kansas City Orpheum this week."
Missed by the Oread Board of Censorship L. H. G. A.
"I feel immense," said William H. Taft and we doubt not but what Daddy Haworth feels ditto.
Wish Billy Sunday was here to ex-
pose feeling over this quiz
week protoplaning.
"Simply as a matter of form."
"Why so?"
**Result:** former
"The Kurucus are hard pressed in the
Caucasus."—News item.
Result : Butter
To a young lady who was ill, one of the boys sent a bunch of roses. Her temperature dropped two degrees at once, and the doctor refused to allow him to visit her, for fear it would produce a chill.
"Two thousand chickens in Convention Hall," says a news item. Take your choice of two comments, equally likely to be a hen party, or "Some chickens."
In an obituary notice about one of the town's prominent citizens, the editor makes this biographical comment: "To this union five children were born, two having preceded their father."
The boy stood on the burning deck;
His cards and he must part.
His bracer was a ring.
He didn't have the heart.
His cards and he must part.
But though he'd meant to burn then
Browsing Around Spooner
"Plaintiff alleges that defendant's cattle broke into his pasture and ate his corn," was the beginning of a hypothetical case given in a recent book about the problem of students, city born, assumed that corn really did grow in pastures.
Several of the boarding houses have accounts with Strong Brothers who supply the butter.
The ignorance of the Bible is to be deplored for other than religious reasons. Its cultural value is very great. We have been learning during the last half century that a knowledge of English literature is an indispensable element in public education; that "in getting to know," as we speak, "the English language best that has been said and thought in the world," we broaden our horizon and purify our ideals, and thus prepare ourselves for the duties of citizenship. Our colleges and universities have been enforcing this
In order to keep the Germans out of Steinbach, France had better change its name to something less attractive.
He laughs best,
Who laughest last.
And now the stude
Just "dasn't dast."
THE BIBLE'S PLACE IN THE STUDY, OF LITERATURE.
"Harvard Buys Five Ambulances."
-Headline. Must be quiz season.
It's a Daily Letter
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.
On Saturday afternoon she will hunt up the freshman to whom the name belongs and proceed to make friends with her. Later all the seniors will conduct the younger women to the Women's Building, where a frolic, the first of a series, will take place.
A movement is started at Illinois to bring the senior and freshmen women into closer companionship. To this end each senior woman has just received a post-card, on which is the name of one or two freshmen.
SENIOR WOMEN TO FROLI
WITH ILLINOIS FRESHMEN
Using a dry goods box for a platform, he pointed his hand heavenward and began. "God has done great things for this beautiful city." He paused. "God has done great things for this city—but man, darn little."
$1.50 now until June 5
It was when Jim Lane was touring the state making dozens of political speeches that he stopped at a little hamlet over Sunday to rest. The people, who had come to see him, and would not take no for an answer., Finally he consented.
Here is a story one of the prefs
in class as an illustration for
something.
truth upon us by their requirements for admission.
It is ridiculous for any one to undertake to teach English literature who does not know his Bible at least as well as he does his Shakespeare. On the pages he will be undertaking to elucidate he will meet the Bible five times where he will meet Shakespeare once, for or with artillery, and in it certainly is quite necessary for him to understand Jacob as to understand Shylock; familiarity with Job is of greater practical value than familiarity with "Paradise Lost."—Washington Gladden in the Atlantic Monthly.
Women Chemists Have Club Women chemical students at Syracuse University have organized a society and fitted up a club room, which they have thrown open to all the women of the college.
But if a knowledge of literature is indispensable to the education of a citizen, acquaintance with the English Bible is surely fundamental for that knowledge. All our best English literature is shot through and through with English quotations, metaphors, characters, allusions; the one book with which a reader needs to have familiar acquaintance is the English Bible.
The University Daily Kansan
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.
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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 if desired. A room mate
required. W. St. Room 1962W.
1962W. Modern house, piano, parlor
and tennis court.
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LOST-A botany lab. outfit in leather
case. Finder please call B. L.
74:3
BOARD~For ladies and gentlemen.
North College Club, 1022 Ohio.
$3.50 per week. Stewards, H. M.
Rinker and C. C. Fletcher. 75-*
LOST-Exchanged by mistake, a black fox muff with silk cord and tassel. Finder return to Alice Coors, 1245 And receive their own.
Student Help
The Oread Mandolin Club is open or dates. Will play any place—any time. Call W. K. Shane at Carroll"r or phone Home 1742—Adv.
WANTED—Energetic student to work spare hours. Free partici-
ulars. Address Box 86 Pawhusk,
Okla. 73-3*
It is so handy to drop in to Wilson's for a hot lunch, always hot and appetizing.—Adv.
WATKINS'
NATIONAL BANK
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository.
J. F. BROCK, Optometrist and Spe-
cialist 802 Mass. St. Bell Phone 695.
Professional Cards
MARRY REDING. M. D. Eye, ear, nose
BIG. Bigg. Phones. Bell 131. Home
Bigg. Phones. Bell 131. Home
J. R. BECHTEIL, M. D. D. D. 823
J. R. BECHTEIL. Both phones, office and
phone.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squire's Studio. Both phones.
A. J. ANDERSON, M. D., Office 715 Vt.
St. Phones 124.
Classified
ED. W. PANSONS, Engraver, Watch-
chaser, Bell Phone 711, 717. Mass.
Bell Phone 711, 717. Mass.
Jewelers
Music Studios
CORA REYNOLDIS will receive special
offer from the College. Phone K. U. 10-2-2 in rings.
Plumbers
PHONE KENNEDY PLUMING CO.
PHONE KENNEDY Mazda lamps. MAZDA lamps.
Mazda Phones. 658. 658.
Barber Shops
Go where they all go J. C. HOUCK, 913 Mass.
Millinery
Shoe Shop
WANTED—Ladies to call at Mrs. McCormick to inspect our new line of hats. 831
FORNEY SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass. St.
guaranteed. A mistake. All work
guaranteed.
Insurance
FIRE INSURANCE, LOANS, and abstracts.
E. BANKING, Bank of America,
Bell 1615 Home 2093
FRANK E. BANKS, Ins., and abstracts
of Title. Room 2. F. A. Building.
Ladies' Tailoring
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