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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITO
John Gleissner
John M. Henry
Helen Hayes
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STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
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REPORTOR
Chas. S. Sturtevant
Frank Henderson
Glendon Athletic
Wm. Wheatley
Wm. S. Cady
Chester Entuition
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Loon Harsh
Guy Curtis
Guy Sayer
Charles Sweet
Elmer Arndt
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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.
Entered as second-class mail master 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.
MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1914
A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT
Do you realize what you are, Mr. Student?
You're a weak-kneed, pepless, effeminate sort of an individual, ground beneath the iron heel of a tyrannical faculty, bestrode by a faculty-controlled student government. You haven't spirit enough to support the football team or care whether K. U. wins or loses. You wear upon your unworthy shoulders the mantle of greatness woven by your predecessors, and you stumble under the load.
All this, and a whole lot more may be said of you, Mr. Student. Just read the communications of the "alumni" in the Kansas City Star if you doubt it.
Why is alumni in quotation marks?
For this reason: the opinions in the Star have been those of a very small majority, not of any great number. Because the majority of K. U. alumni can tolerate two honorable defeats without stirring up a tempest in a teapot. Because the majority of K. U. alumni, did such a condition exist, would not seek correction through the columns of a newspaper, but by a more effective way that would not give the school a bad reputation wherever the paper circulates.
And it will give K. U. a bad reputation, for it is a fact that constant reiteration brings conviction to many, no matter how little the statement resembles the truth.
The charges of the communicants have been ridiculous beyond belief. Rallies? Who of us had any sleep for ten days before the Tiger came to Lawrence? They were real rallies, too, and good old K. U. spirit flowed free. The fact that the faculty did not give us two hours off in the morning, and say: "Here's a holiday, now whoup it up for K. U." is no proof that we have not pep. Must our pep be bought?
"The Chancellor says that the 'Rock Chalk' is old-fashioned." He never said it, and doesn't believe it.
"Praternities control football." Out of a dozen men who played most this season, an even half are nonfraternity men.
"The faculty controls the Student Council." The faculty does not. Here's a little instance; the other day the Student Interests Committee of the University Senate met and passed dance regulations. The Council passed different regulations, and those of the Student Council are the ones that hold.
Nor does the University Daily Kansan refuse to print communications. Nor is it controlled by the faculty in any way, shape, or form.
But why take up all the charges. They're foolish past belief. We have as much pep as we ever had. We are successful in athletics. We won five football games, lost two, and tied the other. We had championship track, baseball, and basketball teams last year. We won a five-mile relay in K. C. the other day.
We are not effeminate. We have, however, five hundred women who had pap enough to hold a rally of their own, and one who led in a cheer on the gridiron. For that we are
"effeminate."
And the faculty. They're a bunch of crooks, dominated by a clique. They suppress all manifestations of school spirit, load up with restrictions, knock football, kill the pep. They work against the school, Alas, K. U. is developing into a seminary. Such was not the case in the good old days.
We pause to shed a tear over the woeful fate that has overtaken our noble Alma Mater.
BACK AGAIN
Hark! What strange yet familiar sound shatters the silence of the morning? Can it be—? Yes, it is—the dear old whistle!
No one who was not marooned in Lawrence during the glad Thanksgiving time can appreciate the melodious significance of the rising "bell" that calls us back to work. It does seem incredible that any sane stude could be gud to hear the whisle again, but anyone who had to stick around the Hill when everybody else had gone home will testify that there are even worse things than eight-thirty classes.
With what a thrill we saw the gang begin to trickle back in twoes and threees as long ago as Saturday, and it was worth going to the trains Sunday night to see the old bunch again. Most of them didn't seem to appreciate the glad occasion at all. Some of them even looked decidedly bored, as if they would just as soon have stayed away another day or two. Ah well, 'twas ever thus-people never know how well off they are.
Seriously, if there is in our midst one poor deluded individual who feels aggrieved because vacation is over, who isn't glad to get back to the sad, sad grind of our college life, we advise him to try spending his next vacation in Lawrence. We will positively guarantee that he will be glad to have school begin again that he will even feel moved to embrace his most unworthy prof. The library will look like home to him, and even chem lab will greet him like a friend.
THE NEW DIRECTORY
Have you got yours yet? Your what? Student directory, of course. They have been out ever since 8 o'clock this morning. Don't say you haven't seen one! Probably you just didn't recognize it, for it certainly does bear a close resemblance to some of the pamphlets issued by the Department of Agriculture and scattered broadcast by our representatives at Washington.
It is the same size and general conformation as last year's book, and has much the same sort of information, but there the resemblance ends. This little college Who's Who has thin, pale gray covers, about as distinctive as nothing, and is printed in type that can almost be seen with the naked eye. The phone numbers stand out boldly enough, but it is some job to find the name of the person you want to call up. Aside from these trifling details, the directory is sufficiently passable for everyday use. A poor book is better than none, and long waiting has put everyone in a frame of mind to welcome any sort of directory with loud whoops of joy.
SOCIAL WELFARE WORK
A new and popular branch of social welfare work is organized play. Play-group supervisors are hired by schools, municipalities, and other institutions, to take charge of public play grounds. They teach the children all sorts of games, sports and dances, and at the same time incubate the principles of social conduct and social control. Many colleges train men and women in their parttime and physical education so they are prepared to take charge of playgrounds as soon as they leave school. At our own University, Dr. James Naismith teaches this work.
This is the sixth article in the
these Valuations for Women Other
than Teaching.
All these vocations are interesting in the highest degree, because they bring one into close and familiar association with many types of the human being. Like mercy, social service is twice blessed; it works equally to the good of those who give and those who receive.
AFTER THE GAME
The football game was over, and be side the parior grate
Till Cupid puff his nose guard on and
butted in the game.
A maltien and a 'long-hong' to youth were lingering rather than dying.
Wyandotte County Club will meet Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in Room 110. Fraser. Arrangements will be made for a banquet in Kansas City during the Christmas holidays.
Were lingering rather late They talked of punts and drop-kicks
Qooth he, "it might funny" if I raised my hand to meot him. So he lifted the couple up and made "to them toe the scratch" The man grabbed the nervous neath the weight of newfound bites. And he laid of thought the scrimmage ought to end up with a kiss.
He tried in an obstruction, just an amateur affair. But lost it on a fumble, and instead Then he laided on her ear, he heard the maiden say. "You're for holding, Jim, likewise for offside play."
With牙套 set thie tried another, and this time succeeded fine. For she scored an award known on the yard yard line. And as they sat there by the grate, and as they sat there by the grate, the partner door swung open and—her father kicked for goum.
The strength of European civilization is being taken away by the war, because of the millions of young men who are dying at the command of militarism, is the belief of a London Chronicle writer, in the New York Times, on file in the department of journalism laboratory.
Browsing Around Spooner
UNIVERSITIES NOT FOR RE
CRUITING ARMIES
"Remember this," he says, "among the young soldier copilists of Europe who will die in thousands, and perhaps millions, are the very flower of our civilization; we shall forget that most men had dill covered for us in ten or twenty years easements for the worst of human pains and solutions for the worst of social dangers. We shall blot those souls out of our common existence. We shall destroy utterly spenlid burnt spirits reaching out to enlighten our darkness. Our father destroyed the creatures whom they called 'witches.' We are destroying the brightest of our angels.
"At least, then, let us not get drunk. At least, then, let us not sing boastful songs. Honor may call us to fight, self-preservation may force us into the slaughterhouse; but-let us wear on our sleeves the crepe of mourning for a civilization that had the promise of joy, and strike our enemy without a hiceough or a curse. Never shall we know again what is now perishing. And we shall want all our strength for tomorrow."
This criticism is more freely voiced just now, because recent events have shown how superficial is the feeling of amity between scholars of eminence and much experience in foreign countries, due to between nationalism and internationalism. It is argued, and with much force, that until adults that make up teaching faculties can show a higher stage of mastery of themselves as compulsory subjects, graduate students to become recruits for any form of physical combat.
Since certain undergraduates of Harvard University and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have taken steps to organize a gun corps to operate with the artillery of Massachusetts militia regiment, discussion at once has begun at Harvard as to the desirability of these institutions being committed in this way to militant national policies. A considerable body of opinion in the student ranks and in the faculty of the university is still in this time. The quasi-indorsement previously given by the university to the army's efforts to induce university and college men to enter the service, and recent pleas by military men addressed directly and verbally to the undergraduates, have run into a group of non-militants who look on a university as set apart for other uses than a recruiting ground.
The belief is general that, taking the university and colleges of the land as a group, they will count on the side of the "war against war" program, and not go with the "big army, big navy" champions. If, after a debate of this issue, undertaken on a national scale, a moderate program of a defensive sort is defined, probably neither men nor money will be lacking. But here again much depends on the outcome of the war, and of the congress of nations that will follow it. If military expansion allows eleven million men to have his voice in making it effective. But all this may come to pass without any need arising for men now in universities or colleges to begin making paths between dormitories and armories and between classrooms and drill halls—Christian Science Monitor.
The Little Schoolmaster Says:—
"Who Said Kansas Has No'Paprika'?"
It takes a thoroughbred "Jay-hawk" to recover from adversity—it is first nature of D. K. U.-ites to adhere to that old reliable motto "Ad astra per aspera." We'll be in the running when some of the rest are on "the waiting list."
At any rate—see Sam G. Clarke today at 707 Massachusetts St., for those new autumn tugs tailored to order by Ed. V. Price & Co., Coh. - 500 patterns.
Take "E Pluribus Unum" they're ALL good!
Pretty Pictures
Should have appropriate frames. Bring them here if you want your pictures to show to the best advantage. We do not charge for our good taste, only for
WOLF'S BOOK STORE
A DEGREE FOR CITY OFFICERS
Municipal League Urges University to Offer Law in Town Management
It is the business of the State University to train municipal administrative officials, according to the League of Kansas Municipalities which met in Lawrence in October. The Bureau of Administration to offer such a course at the University of Kansas.
"The proposed course would consist of economics, political science, city government, and engineering," he H. Tallot, secretary of the League.
"No other University has such a course, but there can be no doubt that it is practical and necessary. There is evident need of trained men for administrative positions in cities, and it is clearly the duty of our state institutions to train and equip men for police work. Even after the city manager plan, trouble will be had in finding the right kind of a trained engineer. A practical course in the University would remedy this."
Roy L. Bone, commissioner of finance at Topeka, offered the resolution to the League. It was unanimously adopted.
"The study of Latin in the high school is not a waste of time," said Prof. A. T. Walker of the department of Latin yesterday. "More practical English training is had from translation than from English composition. If the instructor insists on good English the translation of words is more likely to be the use of words and the weighing of synonyms. The time used in this work could not be more profitably spent on English work.
STUDY OF LATIN GIVES
STUDIES INSIGHT TO ENGLISH
"Since Latin words are so diffused in our language a knowledge of them helps us to understand the big hard word. Then from the view-point of literary appreciation, Latin is most commonly used especially English is crowded full of Latin allusions," Professor Walker concluded.
OREGON TELLS PARENTS WHEN STUDES ARE ABSENT
Parents of underclassmen will hereafter be notified of the absence of their sons and daughters at the University of Oregon.
University authorities expect at the end of this semester, to send to the parents of each freshman and each sophomore, a card showing the number of absences made by the student for that semester. Comments will not be made except as an explanation of the rule regarding the loss of one-sixteenth of a credit for each cut.
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FOR RENT—Several fine rooms,
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opposite the Court House. Phone,
Bell 314.
FOR RENT-Modern single room
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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.
WANTED -Student to wash dishes
in payment for dinner. Colored
stainless steel sink.
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