UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN C. MADDEN Editor-in-Chief FRANK E. HINDERSON High school Editor PAKKE B. HANDERSON BUSINESS STAFF EDWYN ABLEB Business Manager RAY EIDGEDGE Circulation Manager JOHN BIRMHOP Advertising CHARLES S. STURTENY Advertising/ CHARLE S. STURTENY REPORTORIAL STAFF SAM DEGEN BROTHERT GALLONY GELENONY ALLEN ROBBE BURNERKE LUCILE HILDINGER LAWRENCE SMITH HULEN HAYN LOT BADGER HOLT GREEN J. A. GREENBROTH GUT SCRIMER NICK CALIFORNIA CAROLA SCREW WILLIAM KATHY LANDON LANDON LAIRD Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3,1879. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas. From the press of the department of Journalism. Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance, one term, $1.50. The Daily Kanan aims to picture the undergraduate students further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideas of the class. To be clear, it is to be cleremt; to be cheerful; to be careful; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; and to be able to adapt the students of the University. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1914. NEXT. A WOMAN'S UNION There's many a slip 'twix the cup and the lip—Aristotle. NEXT, A WOMAN'S UNION The announcement of the new officers of the W. S. G. A. that they will work for a Woman's Union next year sounds like business. K. U. women seem to be as ambitious and as anxious for a general meeting place as are the men. If the new association desires actually to accomplish results however, it can begin work today. A campaign started this spring would not only interest the seniors who soon will be graduated, but it would bring the tentative plans to the attention of every under classwomen on Mount Oread, thereby making an appeal for support next fall six times easier. EXCELLENT BIRDS Unity and combined effort were long needed in K. U. dramatics. The Hawks deserve to live long and prosper excessively. The united Hawk Club, with on successful performance at its back and with possible faculty assistance from the department of public speaking next year, promises to furnish the student body with dramatic productions which will rank higher than any amateur plays the University has ever witnessed. THE CONFERENCE The University has enjoyed the visits from so many prominent men during the newspaper conference. Lectures by really big men are valuable to every college student as a part of his education and K. U. has helped educate every man or woman who was wise enough to hear Captain Henry King, Hamilton Holt, Barrat O'Hara, Roy Howard, Oswald Garrison Villard, Richard Waldo, Washington Gladden, or the other prominent men who spoke at one or more sessions during the week. THE NEW COUNCIL The incoming Student Council has a big chance for service at the University next year. It can continue the reforms already accomplished by the outgoing Council—supervision of student dances, the temporary Union, open meeting, bonded pantatoriums. It can complete improvements already begun—bulletin boards for students on the approaches to the Hill, a perfected and more permanent organization, saner relations with the faculty. It can be ready, with the money in its pocket, to break sod for a permanent Union by this time next year if it wants to. It can accomplish a world of good for the students in these and other respects next year if it has a vision, the right sort of desires, and a capacity for hard work. TO NEXT YEAR'S PROGRAM. With this issue, the Daily Kansas takes the high school libraries of the state from its mailing list. A great many of the state schools have already closed and half half of the remainder quit work this week. By furnishing a method for students in preparatory schools to keep in touch with the state University, the Daily Kansan has been trying to make narrower the breach between high school and college. To any and all of our readers over Kansas who will enroll at the University next year the Daily Kansan sends a sincere greeting and promises a warm welcome in September. ENDS AND ODDLETS Pity the poor journalism stude; nothing but common professors talk from now on. --which it directly meets are subsidiary or incidental, the student's pride in outfighting the instructor in a duel of wits, and his indignation at the reflection on his probity implied in the exercise of vigilance. It is clear that if the instructor extracts the challenge by deserting the duel counsel and but both the courage and the prevalence of this motive are readily overrated; it acts chiefly on clever and undisciplined minds, to whom college life in the mass is a mumming or makebelieve, and who rejoice to add their private jugle to the gay intricacies of the masquerade. The second motive has more outward plausibility, but I doubt whether any individual instance appears commonly among students, except possibly as an exotic growth propagated and pampered by the vogue of the honor system. WHEN ENGINEERS INDULGE The following dialog in jingle between Prof. H. A. Rice and P. K. Bunn of the School of Engineering has occurred at the attention of the on-board leaders in Marvin Hall this week: There is a professor, H. A. Who said to his class yesterday If you want to get married If you want to get married Just wait till you've tarried Just wait till you you've tarried Ten years 'tere you love you and obey. There was a young man named P. K. Who loved a fair mald so they say, "You're the most beautiful." He worked a 400. When the prof told him not To get married for many a day. If Mr. Villard is to be believed W. Randolph Hearst is the perpetrator of those "Squirrel prints." DICTIONARY OF DATES. (Compiled by the Daily Kansan's official collector of worthless facts). Calico Printing and the Dutch loom engine were first used in 1670 This information reaches the zero in usefulness. Camera Obsera was invented by him, who still says that time. It has taken him well since that time. Canal—The first English navigable canal was finished in 1134. Shortly after this the Panama canal was began and was finished 780 years ago. Candles of tallow took the places of prepared splinteres of wood in 1290. This revolution was brought about by the splinteries in the birthday cake. Cannons were invented in 1330. They were first used by the English in 1346; used first in England 1445 in Denmark in 1554; by the Spanish in 1572; and by the Dutch not yet in.) The first iron cannons were made in England in 1547. Caps were worn in 1449. They were popular with all classes, college and otherwise, at that time. Cards were invented for the amusement of Viola VI 1390-1396. In the poker we see an evidence of his affection for his jester. Carriages were introduced in Eng- lish in 1850; Vienna saw them first in 1862. Chicago Fire. Oct. 8-11, 1871 Loss $290,000,000. About 250 persons perished and 92,000 rendered destitute; 25,000 buildings destroyed. (This is put in to keep the column from being too funny.) Chain Shots were invented by De Wit, Dutch Admiral, in 1666. Chess was invented 608 years be fore Christ. Honesty by Purchase. (Extracts from an article by O. W, Firkins in a recent issue of the National Carrier Villard, president of the National Airway, a visitor in Lawrence this week.) The worth of the so-called "honor system" must be judged in the light of the motives that impel students to cheat, and of the effectiveness of the system in opposing these motives. The main incentive may be the fear of disgrace, the fear of work, the titulum of review, the aversion to the loss of a place in the institution, a class, or a degree. The deceit is only the crest of culmination of lazy and parasitic habits; the addiction to scant weight and short measure; the eagerness to make up for the羞愧 by easy transitions into the willingness to get something for nothing, which sap the marrow and drain the vitality of our spineless academic life. The honor system does not grample with these motives; the motives By whom would this indignation be felt? Shall we sanction the paradox that a potentially dishonest student would be pushed into misdoing by his teacher's recognition of the displeasing possibility—that he would resent the accusation by substantiating it? The upright collegian, on the other hand, is no more insulted by his teacher's presence in the room on examination-day than the honest citizen is on the presence of an officer at the desk of the block. The citizen knows that the officer is there quite as much to protect his pocket as to restrain his hand, and the honest student knows that one effect of his teacher's watchfulness is to insure to him that margin of superiority over the imbecile and the idler to which he has an unquestionable claim. Precautions, the maintenance of which would be amply justified by the existence of the game every hundred diplomas, of one game every annual class of twenty-five or fifty students, should leave no place for the sting of a personal application in the feelings with which the honest majority contemplate the presence of the officer in the street or the instructor in his classroom. If precautions were exaggerated or abnormal, ifgendarmes were called in, pockets emptied, mirrors or telescopes planted in the angles of the room, the room, the defense would be subdued; but an honour that cannot stomach the extension to the fifty-first exercise in a course of an arrangement which during fifty previous meetings has been accepted as harmless and recognized as necessary, is of a sensitivity so extreme as to argue fragility. The naive, yet eccentric, psychology that underlies the system comes out clearly in the very usual demand that the student shall give a pledge that he has neither given nor received aid in the progress of the examination. How can the tongue be made voucher for the hand, the word for the act, even even can perform that the two must equally in the soundness or degradation of the moral centres to which each is alike tributary? To ask an honest man to affirm his honesty is contumelious; to ask a cheat to affirm a like proposition is grotesque. Two questions might well occur to the thoughtful student in the hour of examination under the suggested system: who is trusted, and who trusts? They confide in my honor; they confide equally in the honor of this skulking man in the aid of the head and the saurian eye; every biped in sight that wears clothes is embraced in the comprehensive sweep of this undiscriminating reliance. Have I reason to thank my college for a trust whose basis is anatomical? My trust entitled to his share in the compliment to human nature implicit in the adoption of the system, but, when the number and quality of the other shareholders are duly weighed, the satisfaction derived must be of the sort reaped Birdofprehum Saxon of 1578 Hall sardonicly itemized by that gentleman in his account with Glory for the Mexican War. Front 2% In. Back 1% In. A New Barker Warranted Linen PECKHAM'S There remains the other question. Who trusts? Is it the instructor who conducts this class? Suppose he were asked to leave his watch upon the table when he closes the door, resigning himself to the tugelation of that honor on which the upholders of the system so magnanimously rely? Is there anything spontaneous, that is to say, anything real, in his trust? In these ostentations of generosity, he merely obeys the mandate of the teacher, and thereby merely copied the precedent of bolder institutions, in the tentative hope rather than the robust confidence that the experiment may prove successful. If by trust is meant a feeling as distinct from a practice, the system is the most cases a pretender cannot must, because cannot trust by schedule; the teacher virtually says to his students: "I feign trust in the hope that you, pledged to courteous emulation, may feign honesty." Front 2% In. Back 1% In. A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AT ANDERSON'S OLD STAND JOHNSON & TUTTLE 715 PROPS. Mass. WATKINS NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000 Surplus and profits $100,000 The Student Depository R. E. Protsch TAILOR A. G. ALRICH Thesis Binding Engraved Cards 744 Mass. Put it up to Us— Why not consider this live store in the same light as any other professional you might wish to consult—Doctor, Lawyer or Banker. 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