UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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John Gleason Editor-In-Chief
John M. Henry Managing Editor
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Gordon Gaylord
Guy Scriwner
Charles Sweet
Ihmad Hussain
Rex Miller
Frank Henderson
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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.
The Daily Kannon aims to picture the lives of students in his University. The Kannon to go further than merely print materials; she wants students to hold no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to chant hymns; to solve problems to wear headphones; in all, to serve and to ability the students of the University.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914.
The Glee Club may sing at Nebraska. Revenge at last.
And now they criticize the women of Kansas for their feminism, and Mrs. Eustace Brown says the criticism is just. Next thing the University men will be accused of being manly, and scholars of being scholarly.
WE WANT GOOD WATER
The water supply of Lawrence is a disgrace. The stuff we are forced to drink under the guise of water is hardly fit for the purpose of sprinkling the streets. And there isn't enough to go around.
The citizens of Lawrence must be a peaceful lot of people to submit to any such conditions.
Lawrence deserves to have the University removed, were such a thing possible.
It is an outrage that a state institution like the University, with 2500 students, and the thousands of dollars they bring, cannot be provided with good water.
If the condition were new, or the supply only temporarily bad, there would be no room for complaint. But it's the same old story and has been for a long time.
We are entitled to good water, and ought to start a howl that would be heard all over Kansas, that would force the city to supply us with water fit to drink.
COME ON, JUNIORS!
The sophomore class deserves praise for its efforts in behalf of the Student Union. The committee appointed by the president has listed the names of all members of the class who are not members of the Union, and will make a personal canvass. The plan is a good one. The seniors will begin the work as soon as the Jayhawker is out of the way. The freshmen have good intentions, and will work.
But the juniors are doing nothing. The president of the class says that it is the business of the Student Council to take care of the Union. That is a mistake. It is the business of all of us. The Council is not paid for its efforts—it works for us, and gets nothing for it except wholesale criticism. If the Union is to be made a success it can be only through the efforts of all who are in a position to help. If this Union is not supported we have little ground on which to expect a permanent Union building.
When a class organization can do something else besides hold a mixer or two during the year there is some excuse for its existence, otherwise there is not. The juniors should not be at all proud of their position.
THE KNOCKER'S PRAYER
Lord, please don't let this University grow. I've been here for four years, and during that time I've fought every advance of any kind. I've knocked everything and everybody. No faculty man or adminis-
FUNSTON
Fighter since he learned to taddle
pale blue an' steely bright,
Not afraid of men or devils--that is
Never any style about him, not impose-
couldn't make him look heroic with
no end of golden braid.
He was hard to dumpy, hair
but he's kind of nervous forward when
their trouble on ahead.
When he's an 'aelyn' carlin', eyes
pale blue an 'aelyn' bright,
not a lovely blond.
soldier since he got his growth;
Fknows the Spaniard and the savage—
for he's fought and licked 'em
Not much figure in the balloon, not
Rotten ringer for Apollo, but right
Just a bunch of brain and muscle,
but you always feel, somehow.
Then he goes after when he mimes up in a
Weyland found all out about him, set a wicket. He looked over him, filled him nearly full o' lead, then cut off his career. He had tried to cut off his career. He had tried to cut off his career. He has slipped a gear. And the heart of all the nation gives a patriot a grip. At the time that Kansas Funston has again gone on his job.
trative policy or student activity has escaped my hammer. I've jumped up and down on the Student Council, the Chancellor, the Chapel Committee, the Athletic Board, the Senate, the Dean of Women, the Football Coach, the Cheerleader, the Women, the Librarians, the Water, the Lights, the Climate, the Hill, the Student Union, the Board of Administration, the Kansan, and everything else that has come to my notice. I have done everything I could to quench that foolishness known as college spirit.
It hurts me to see how many students still have a mistaken notion that this is a pretty good school that things might be worse than they are. I fear that in spite of my efforts, something like college spirit may survive and that the University may continue to grow, and to become an increasing expense to the tax-payers. I fear that more students will come every year and that I shall have to meet more competition when I get out of school. Oh Lord, don't let this University grow any more. Keep it at a standstill. Incline everybody to listen to the kickers and not be fooled by those who insist that the school is not going to rack and ruin. Bless the outside newspapers, the alumni, and all knackers, and prosper them in their destructive criticism. And above all, destroy the absurd fetish known as loyalty to Alma Mater which causes people to put up with so many things that I have pointer out as fatal. Amen.
THE REASON WHY
There is some discussion in the Kansas City Star by Kansas University alumni as to why the Kansas football team was licked by the Missouri team. As one of those who saw the outrage, we report that it was because the Missouri team played better than the Kansas team. —Lieutenant-Governor-Elect "Billy" Morgan.
Ever notice those pseudo-humorous students who breeze in and out, tossing around sentences and phrases of cheap wit that pass for humor, but are really silly? When a person makes a statement, the "funny" man takes it up, and makes it the excuse for chatter that would make a blue Jay's conversation sound like one of Bacon's essays.
BEING SO FUNNY
Be careful about your use of cheap puns and slang. Frequent jests and an "infinite deal of nothing" get one into a habit that is hard to break. He finds that he cannot ask a question in class without bringing into view something unexpected. Students never expect him to say anything worth while, because they expect only that he will "pull something."—Ohio State Lantern.
It isn't that the few people mentioned are bores that we make mention of the characteristics, but that when such a person continues being "funny," he gets a reputation that he is being quite as good as being quite a joke and nothing that he can say in a serious tone will be taken seriously.
In the last two games played at the University of Kansas, the women students for the first time in the history of the institution participated in a sequence of following football victories--Indiana Daily Student.
WHADYA MEAN, SERPENTINET?
Mr. Willard Wattles, of the Kansas State University, has collected and published a volume of Kansas verses entitled, "Sunflowers," and a most attractive little book it is. It is verses from the various song-makers of the elder day in Kansas, Richard Realf—though not his best composer—and John Milton Ellen Allerton. The singers of the nineties—Carruth, Albert Bigelow Paine, Walt Mason, Amanda Jones, Ware, Florence L. Snow, Kate Stephens, Will Simpson, and Ingalls—carol their roundels, and then voices from the younger ones as, for instance, Harry Kemp, Esther Clark, C.L. Edson and Mr. Wattles himself are heard. It is a bannie hook from the 1920s, and now she should buy and own. For we are singing people, and many songs worth singing have sprung from our Kansas hearts.
A SINGING STATE
Mr. Wattles's selections have been good; the verse are all of them lyrical, and though few of the selections is a fit companion for Miss Clark's "The Call of Kansas," still the verse has many more beautiful states have so many fine folk songs. Lawrence, by the way, has been the publishing place of more collections of Kansas verse than any other Kansas town. "K. U. Verse," published in 1899, "Songs from the Hill," in 1912, and now these Sunflowers, with their sunny names, naming that beautiful hill west of the old town Oread. For there is the home of the high gods—Emporia Gazette.
come page,
out in rhyme:
You can always tell a senior,
For he's so sedately gowned;
You can always tell a junior,
By the way he jumps around.
You can always tell a freshie
From his verdant looks and such;
You can always tell a sophomore
But you cannot tell him much.
It's the same old story, but one color editor, has ground it out in paper.
How much the students at Smith College spend during the academic year on bonbons, theatre parties and other personal entertainment is the subject of an investigation begun today by Dean Ada Comstock. Each student has been asked to keep an account of such expenses and report at the close of the year. The information is required to obtain the minimum and maximum expenditure.
New electric lights have been installed along the pathways at Oklahoma University. Authorities are also threatening to put a searchlight on one of the buildings for the new batwatchman in patrolling the bleachers.
MISSOURI LIBRARY WILL NOT BE READY THIS YEAR
MISSOURI LIBRARY WILL
University of Missouri can not count on the completion of its new library during the coming year. The main building of the new library, toilets one-fourth million dollars, will be completed within a few months.
The plans calls for the erection of a wing on each end at a cost of one half million more. T. J. Wormall, chairman of the executive board, has announced that the next state legislature will not be asked for the necessary appropriation for its completion.
It was thought that the funds for this additional construction would be in the current university budget, but, according to Mr. Wormall, the school will probably wait two years before having an entire library building.
To replace the Baptist Central Tabernacle, destroyed at Tokyo, Japan, by fire in February 1913, the alumni of the Divinity School (Boston) plan to raise $30,000. Of this amount $9,000 has already been subscribed. Destruction of the old tabernacle left the missionaries in that district without a place to continue their work.
Alumni had always been interested in this institution and the graduates of the Divinity School took up the matter at once of providing a place to continue the work. It is hoped that a substantial fireproof building can be erected from the amount raised.
BOSTON STUDENTS PLAN
ERECTION OF TABERNACLE
Street car service on the Hill will remain as it now is until the company can get a satisfactory test on the results received from the present routing. The Missouri game and the Thanksgiving holiday interfered with getting an accurate test of the new schedule.
Will Run Cars One Way
Three complete counterfeiting outfits, knows to be at elast 1600 kys, old, were recently purchased by the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. They were used by the Egyptians in the time of the Roman Empire in making unauthorized coins by a molding process.
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The Little Schoolmaster Says:
"You'll feel as proud as Tony James!"
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A KODAK
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SAYS EDWARDS WAS PUNY
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS
"This kiddie didn't look as if he would last very long when he was two years old," said E. W. Steele of Junction City last week. Steele is a former university track captain, and was for many years Edwards' legal guardian.
According to Mr. Steele, Edwards was a piny youngster and the physician gave his case up as hopeless on one occasion. Lots of fresh air and an outdoor life however soon built the younger up or "Eddie" would not be occupying his present place in the college world.
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Pretty Pictures
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FOR RENT - To young men two (2)
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FOR RENT—Several fine rooms, heated and lighted; with bath. These rooms are airy with south exposures. or with north exposures. J. M. Neville, Stubbs Bldg., opposite the Court House. Phone. Bell 314.
FOR RENT—Front room upstairs; close to University. Board if desired. 1704 Tennessee street.
FOR SALE—L. C. Smith All, visit typewriter, all improvements. W. H. McClure, 1146¹/² Tenn. Bell 2312W. 59*8³
FOR RENT--Girls, 1 desirable south double room, individual heat. Bell phone 2313. Gumbiner House, 1234 Miss. 59-6
Student Help
The Oread Mandolin Club is open for dates. Will play any place—any time. Call W. K. Shane at Carroll's or phone Home 1742—Adv.