UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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CITY OF CALIFORNIA
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SAM DEGEN
BLEMER
GLENDON ALLINE
BLEMER
ROSE BURNENARK
LUCILE HILDINOR
LAWRENCE SMITH
GLENN CALATON
CLAYTON
WESTERN
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BROOKS
J. A. GREENWATER
GUY SCHVIMER
GUS SCHVIMER
CHEESE WILLET
CHEESE WILLET
JILL LAMBERT
LANDON LAIRD
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 18197.
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TUESDAY, MAY 26.1914
The wise man must be wise be fore, not after, the event.—Epicharmus.
A REAL MEMORIAL?
Last year the senior class went so far toward erecting a senior memorial that they collected ten dollars—or was it twenty—and later turned over the cash to help pay off the Jayhawk deficit.
This year the memorial fund is collected—with the exception of twenty dollars, and the College men are yet to be heard from.
The conclusion is obvious
WHAT'S THE MATTER, SENIORS
The seniors seem to be a little bit too low to keep up with' the sophomores.
Remember the senior class meeting about a month ago when a freshman cap burning day was proposed? A parade was to be formed on the campus headed by the fourth year classmates in their caps and gowns. The pageant would proceed to the golf links where a huge bonfire, fed by freshman caps and sophomore paddles was scheduled to succeed a storm of oratory—good old "rally" round K. U." oratory. But the freshman cap sacrifice was the central feature—the climacial stroke. The seniors were so pleased with the suggested plan that the president was empowered to appoint a committee to carry the proposal through to reality.
And then came the sophomores, modestly but obtrusively. The sophomore class was the official self-appointed enforcers of the cap wearing rule so why shouldn't the class of 1916 be the body to officially stop the practice—such was the reasoning.
With the sophomores, desire is followed by result. The last "bum" of the season was given and paddles, caps, et cetera, no longer adorn the campus.
In the meantime the senior committee—if it was ever appointed—sleeps on.
TRADITIONS.
Traditions grow up like Topsy and are not manufactured like a new suit of clothes or a ten penny nail. For this reason no tradition, in all probability, was ever "started" in cold blood at this or any other University, but such a fact doesn't make the initiation of new customs any less desirable.
The formal presentation of the Jayhawker to the University is a pleasing innovation. Burying the sophomore paddle in the same grave with the freshman cap will help unite these two classes to a degree seldom attained.
Traditions, however, are different.
If these two customs appeal to suc-
seeking classes and seem to fill a real need they may become traditional—but they will be so changed at that time that a graduate of the University in 1914 will hardly be able to recognize them without eyeglasses. The University already has traditions—the View, the Yell, the Hill the Missouri game, and others, but the traditional part, the indefinable something about these conditions and events which fastens them to the memory of an alumnus, was born, not made.
Two customs with the ability to grow into traditions were born within the past week. No one can say how long they will survive or how they will look if they reach maturity.
HONOR STUDENTS FROM SMALL SCHOOLS.
Some interesting data has been pre prepared concerning the 1917 honor students of Oberlin College. The information was compiled in answer to the following query: In what ways do a college student's high school preparation, his former studiousness, and the education of his parents affect his work during his first year at college? The replies showed five things: First, that the smaller high schools had the greatest number of the students the teachers themselves had been on the honor lists in high school. Third, that the majority did not consider their preparation to be better than that of the other freshmen. Fourth, that the greatest number came from homes where neither father nor mother were college graduates. Fifth, that a large percentage were earning part of their own way.-Boston Transcript.
"ALMOST. BUT—"
The student who can "almost, but not quite," recall the necessary formula for the solution of his quiz problem is in the same unhappy predicament as the senior who "almost, but not quite," gains his degree.
Have you ever been fortunate enough to be in the plight of almost remembering a thing, and yet not quite able to recall it? When you were studying for the quiz you doubtless came across something that you glanced at, and yet did not quite learn, and when you came across the question or quiz that could be answered only by recalling the very thing that you failed to memorize, just how did you feel?
If you are a candidate for a degree this year, and at the last moment find that you will not be graduated, you would better learn to puzzler. If you were puzzling over that quiz.
It is better to get "almost there" and then fail, than never to try at all; but it is much better to get all the way. If you are in the habit of stopping just a little short of accomplishing the things that you undertake, if you fail, then you also get there, but fails." see if you can't overcome this weakness.
There is but one way to do this. When you start out to learn a thing, don't stop until you learn it. Get it absolutely. Just so, when you start out to accomplish a thing, don't stop until you learn it. Don't work part of the way and trust to luck for the balance. Stay with it until you get all the way.—Daily Texan.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
Several students of the State Agricultural College at Manhattan, were arrested last week for shooting craps and playing poker. Three University men were arrested this year for belonging to the Student Council.
"Huerta in Hiding?" asks the headline. Maybe they could find him if they knew Huerta look.
CRIME WAVES.
"PROFESSOR."
IF LBS. MEANS POUNDS—
IF LBS. MEANS POUNDS—
Fair Sadie,
Milady,
Weight, 300 lbs.
Keeled over
On Rover,
Goodnight! or Zbs!
What's over
Of Rover
Lies with other dead hbs.
—Lim Erick-
A "professor" is a polyglot. He is a learned scientist—or a whip-craker in a one ring circus. He is a dignified scholar—or a curb stone vendor of patent medicines. He is a leader of the age—or a bumptious pounder of the side show piano. He is a magnificent dreamer—or an end man in blacks and whites. He is a Muppet of Idaeas—or a fiddler at a country side shuffle. He is an idealist, the minister of a coming generation—or a dancing master.
Everyone is a "professor" in America. None is too high and none too low, to enter.—Michigan Daily.
WHERE "A LOVELY TIME WAS
WADY
William Allen White, former student
Was the likelihood — together that old man McCoy could not.
Bill Hucks, the item-chaser on the Waller Creek Gagette.
By
As a write up of runaways, an' funerals on' shops.
Bill never had an equal nor a rival,
^goodness
'ginnies shows'
so we sent him up a invite to a dooms
And he wri't a piece about it that was fine, as sure's you line.
But all I bin remember is, "We hardly need to add.
The guests agreed at leaving that a lovely time was bad."
Oh, yes—now come to think of it—her
mown cooked on some cake
And pigs and floatin' island truck that
Swiss helped to make
Sure helped to make.
And they was pillery-lic, too, and beets
and they were picture-you, you, and bees
and jell and jam,
and crows and owls.
And slav, and chicken salad, and some sameticks of ham.
sameeleches of ham.
that Dill and was "snowde" which
And them Bill said was "wands" which,
in writen up, he owned.
in writin' up, he owned,
Made a tempting feast of good things.
*Made a tempting feast of good things,
and the table fairly arranged.*
and the table fairly grubbed.
And when the two said "hours" were
The guests agreed at leaving that a
'last time, yes bad'.
Old Bill has gone from Willer Crick; the Billage is no more.
For Old McCray has stole away to find the Goldy Shore.
And Susie has been married off for late
those many years,
And some of them that come that night
hare out this sale of tears;
have put this val of tears;
But mum has in her scrapbook—'long
with nice baby clothes,
And the pome about the baby and the
The piece about the doins, and today it makes us glad
And the poke about the dairy and the accident to Seth—
To road at Susie's party "that a lovely time was bad."
CLEVER THINGS THE
OTHER FELLOW SAYS
First Stude-What makes the red spot on your nose?
Mrs. Krogg—I if I were to die, you would never get another wife like me.
F. S. -Glasses of what?—Williams' Painted Cow.
Pastor—I hear we got a diamond pin in the collection plate this moen-
Treasurer—You are mistaken, sir.
It was a dime and pin. "Yale Record."
Kroegs—It is very kind of you to say that, my dear—London Opinion.
Pa (reading aloud from paper) "and I diggers strike layer of peet in WAYYA"
Ma- Poor Pete,—Minneapolis Minne-
ha. ha.
A farmer in the Chem. lab. strayed And (oh, 'tis sad to tell) Mixed glycerine with NO2. blew the J2L. —Nebraska Ankwan.
We have an annual address to the freshmen to teach them the ways of the University. Why not an annual address to the seniors to teach them the way of ideal alumnhood? -Cornell Daily Sun.
Wifoy—1 see by the paper that a
friend of Wifoy gave three dollars
in Sumatra. 'I can't tell.'
SENIORS.
Hubby—Oh, I don't know. A really good wife is worth that. Cornelius
Less than a month from now will came a day when the Class of 1914 will suddenly cease to be undergraduate. They will join the great body of Cornell alumni. Not so rapidly as their actual status, but none the less surely, their point of view is that university teachers will undergo a change. In some this change will be radical, in others it will make no real difference.
Professor Woodruff spoke recently to the senior class in the College of Law on the alumni point of view toward the University and warned them of the ease with which they drift into the way of unreflecting criticism. If the seniors in every college in the University could be given such a staircase of the ease, that was that of Professor Woodruff, the army of sympathetic alumni supporters would absorb all but the abnormal graduate.
Ten or twenty years from now these men of 1914 will return to Ithaca and will see new institutions, new customs and new regulations and new men on the faculty and in the administrative offices. With a true understanding of changed conditions, some of these alumni will approve of these changes and support them. Others will see merely that things are not done as they were in their undergraduate days and they will condemn the new order.
There is no intentional disloyalty on the part of the latter class. Their attitude is due mainly to lack of reflection. They have drifted.
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