UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Arizona
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JOINE C. MORDEN
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Entered as second-class mail matter
November 17, 1910, at the post office at
Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914.
No man is happy who does not think himself so -Publicus Syrus.
THE ELECTION
It was a great election. Free from mud slinging, and bad feelings, but full of intense rivalry and plenty of hard scratching for votes, the very interest taken in the fight yesterday will be a big tonic for the Student Council next year.
After a few days of "how it happened" and after a long list of "ifs" have been disposed of, the men of the University will get behind the new Council, determined to make it better respected than ever before and ready for constructive accomplishment in the immediate future.
REAL BASEBALL IS WITH US
Truly baseball is fast becoming popular at K. U. At present there is a Pan-Hellenic league, an Inter-Fraternity league, and two boarding-house circuits. The freshman team frequently wins from the Varsity and the Varsity team threatens to garner the Missouri Valley championship.
Who said the national pastime was not a college sport?
More students have been attending match games at K. U. than ever before, and the streets for the past month have been almost impassible because of the students out playing catch.
HELP DEBATERS
The plan to give intercollegiate debaters a distinctive emblem is fine as far as it goes, but why not include the debating societies when official recognition of this important activity is made a policy of the Debating Council?
By all means give out intercollege plate talkers their due but don't forget the societies which have existed at the University with more or less prosperity for the past two or three years - without a bit of material encouragement from the University or from any student organization.
A banner or a cup offered by the Debating Council to the society with the champion team each year, would furnish incentive for labor out of all proportion to the cost involved.
The organization of the Student Religious Federation for the purpose of uniting the religious activities at K. U. and providing some means of giving publicity to University religious happenings, is an excellent move.
WELCOME
Anybody who lives in Lawrence is well acquainted with the importance of the various denominational
and inter-denominational student societies, but there is always room for improvement. The greatest good the federation can accomplish will be to strengthen the efficiency of these clubs by uniting their effort.
Telling the people of the state about their work is a secondary advantage—important because these religious organizations at K. U. deserve a great deal more recognition among the churches of the state than they have ever received.
BEFORE NEXT SEASON
It is too late for a score-board a McCook to do the students much good this spring. Another year is coming, however, and the same old wants and same old demands will be made.
Why not, in this coming period of leisure, put up a score-board?
REASON FOR CANDIDATES
If it were possible to inquire into the motive which prompts so many candidates to seek the student offices which are now open it would be a comparatively easy matter to prevent many of the mistakes and failures which are bound to occur next year. Candidates think too much of the "fame" which attaches itself to the office they are seeking, and not enough of the responsibility which their election to office entails.
To be elected is their main object. When enough ballots have been counted to assume a majority over other competitors, they are shallow enough to believe that their claim to distinction is fully established. By the happy chance of a few votes they have achieved the coveted "name." They have satisfied their own vanity. The prospect of ably administering the duties of the position to which they have been trained, impresses nonconsequential and unimportant. They nonchalantly observe that they're as good as their predecessors and they have little desire to be any better.
This is the type of man which is elected to office year after year. The premature conceit which oppressed successful candidates is one of the greatest causes of inefficiency in the official administration of undergraduate affairs. And it is often this type of student which our senior society pounces upon and accepts into membership, without the faintest idea of what the man will be worth as an administrator.
It should not be our object to discourage ambition in the undergraduate, but instead to encourage ambition of the right kind. The incentive which should inspire men to seek election to office should be based not upon a selfish and foolish conception of what really constitutes fame, and distinction. Their motives should be composed of sterner stuff. We are only too ready to bestow laurel branches upon those who deserve the honor. But we prefer to reserve this ceremony until after the aspiring candidate has accomplished his work—The Daily Illini.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
DICTIONARY OF DATES
(Compiled by the Daily Kansan's official collector of worthless facts)
Banking - the first bank in Europe was the Bank of Venice, 1171. The Bank of England was established in 1694; the Bank of O'Neill was established in 1803; the Bank of unknown.
Battering-Ram was invented 441 B. C. It's use has become obsolete except with the police.
Bayonets were invented at Bayonne in 1670. First used in England in 1693. At first they had wooden handles fitting into the guns, but in 1699 the socket bayonet was introduced.
Barometers were invented in 1626; wheel barometers in 1668, phosphoric in 1675, pendant in 1695, and marine in 1700.
Bellows—Strabo informs us that the invention of bellows is due to the Scythian philosopher Anacharsa, who invented them to aid breathing in a sport and had to blow himself.
Blue (Prussian) first made in Berlin in 1704. No relation to Paris.
Bells were invented by Paulus,
bishop of Nola, in Campagna, in or
about the year 400. They were first
used in France in 550. in Greece in
864, and in the church of Europe
in Switzerland they first appeared
in 1020.
Blood—Circulation of, discovered in 1619.
Bombs were invented in Venlo in 1588, and used first in the service of France in 1634.
Hankets were first made in England in 1340 and Pullman blankets are still used by a few students.
WITH K. U. POETS
EISTER M. CLAK, former student and Assistant in the Extension Department.
TO A GIRL
An open foe may prove a curse.
But a pretended friend is worse.
Gay.
Oh, I couldn't do a thing. There's an atmosphere about her That dispels my deepest moods of black bruises
I forget that life is tragic,
In her presence, for there's magic
In the little girl with taffy-colored hair.
She's the surest sort of tonic for the blues, fresh ones or chronic. And she never seems to have the slightest
She's my perfect pannace;
Don't I wish that I might be a-
Nother little girl with taffy-colored hair
She's like wild, sweet-scented clever,
Fresh and pink; she bubbles over
With that healthy joy in living, which is
rare,
Such a face! Serene, contented,
From the round chin, dimple-dented.
To the parting of her talty-colored hair
Bless her sunny disposition!
Heaven prosper her ambition!
May the good Lord find He has some more
to spare!
For he surely knows that there is
Need of just such missionaries
As the little girl with taffy-colored hair.
CAMPUS OPINION
'NATURE LOVER' IS PLEASED To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: Congratulations once more. This time upon the two views of the Museum and also upon the editorial, "Our Back Door."
In regard to the former, Mr. Hare is certainly correct in criticizing the bare effect of most of the buildings. Undoubtedly the University will continue the planting already begun. It would be well if the students realize that the University belongs to them, in a certain sense, as an institution. It would add to their feeling of ownership (and to their affection for the University) if the students of the various schools would institute an "Ivy Day"—not necessarily another holiday—and plant ivy about their buildings. Nothing will "tie the building to the ground" quite so well as a covering of ivy. The American universities, the great English Universities and some of the American institutions which give much of the charm to the old architecture.
As to our back door, there are rumors to the effect that the bank above the trolley track on the south side will be planted with honey-suckle. This will cover much of the bareness.
Unquestionably all further development of the University grounds should be based upon a "comprehensive plan" looking to establish a Nature Lover.
Nature Lover.
STUDENTS SHOULD GOVERN?
STUDENTS
Declaring that the students in the great universities should form the governing bodies in their respective college communities, John D Witt graduate of New York, a Cornell graduate, speaking at the University Club Saturday night on "Students Should Govern Universities," advocated the placing of college and university professors on the same basis as others who depend upon the will of their clientele.
"The faculties of today contain too large a proportion of those who are holding positions as "timekeepers," declared Mr. Warner. "Only picked men should be allowed to go to universities, and they would not be the government of the professors and the government of the community be left to them?"
By so doing, Mr. Warner thinks, the faculties of our colleges and universities would gradually become made up entirely of men who are inspirational and really possessed of the ability to impart information, while the dull and hopelessly uninspired teachers would be relegated to other branches of the world's work, where they would be of greater value to the world and to themselves.
Mr. Warner traced the history of university life and government from the University of Athens to the universities of today, and showed that there have been only two methods of university government, in which everything is given to the students, and in which the teacher in which the students are enrolled in the academic faculties are considered at the service of the students, to be used as they choose.
"Outside of classrooms, our student communities practically govern themselves," concluded Mr. Warner, "or are certain soon to do so, in each of our universities that worthy the name. Even as an instruction professor, a section of students in student opinion has been lately more and more consulted—until the plan I advocate is already largely in operation. I am not, therefore, urging an innovation, but only such frank recognition of what is as shall most promptly give us the advantages of what must be to be." Our Star.
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