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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL SCHEDULE
JOHN C. LAWRENCE Editor-in-Chief
JOE LARSON Associate Editor
JOHN GOLDMAN Editor
JOHN GLIMMER Director
JOHN HALTON High School Editor
CALVIN LAMBERT Sport Editor
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REPORTOR
LUCY BAGGER
HENRY MADOT
A. GREENBULL
CHARLES Gibson
JUDY SCHINNER
LOUIS LEVINE
LOUIS RELINER
CHARLES SWEET
JOHN WILLIAM
BRIDGE Smith
GLENN CLAUTON
LANDON LARIB
BRIDGE Smith
GLENN CLAUTON
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The Daily Kaman aims to picture the undergraduate students further than merely printing the news by standing up for their opinions; to be clean, to be cheerful and no worrie
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1914
Above our life we love a steadfast friend...Marlowe.
Vote tomorrow. Help see to it that the men you consider best fitted are the ones who win.
COUNCIL STOCK ASCENDING
Each student has an unusual opportunity to derive a heap of fun and hilarity out of the election tomorrow. Join in the scrap and work for your man. Make the battle the hottest and most good natured fray that Mount Oread has witnessed for years.
Thirty-six men after eighteen places on the Student Council! Such an unusual interest in the election this year is a mighty good sign. With a big chance for choice the men selected ought to be representative and capable.
And remember that interest means efficiency for next year's Council. Nothing would kill that body quicker than ignoration. Nothing will help it more than a personal individual interest by every man on the hill.
THE "TIGHTWAD" LIST
The announced intention of the Student Council to publish the names of all Student Union pledge signers whose dues are not paid by Friday at noon, will be an effective, if not a very gentle, method of reducing such a list to the uttermost minimum.
Pay up. The Union is open at all hours for the purpose of obtaining money.
Probably the liveliest part of the University is the School of Engineering.
THE ENGINEERS
The engineers' parade, held annually, testifies to the school spirit, industry, and cleaveness of the fellows from Marvin Hall. It is the tangible expression of all the pent up enthusiasm gathered in a year's association with co-workers in that school.
Yesterday's parade was a treat to those who saw it and a pleasure to those who took part. We who are on the outside will cut classes any day to see the new floats.
Long may Engineers' Day he celebrated!
A CALL TO ARMS
Once more the time approaches when we go forth to do battle with our ancient enemy, the Tiger, this time on the baseball diamond. After having twisted the brute's tail into countless knots we have two more to tie, and we hope to do it Wednesday and Thursday.
Now everybody knows that the most approved style of tail-twisting can be done only with the aid of an
army of leather lunged rooters. The combined psychic and sound waves emanating from such a body will strike terror to the heart of the most ferocious Tiger, while inspiring the Jayhawk to his best efforts.
Of course our team could wipe up the earth with Missouri without any such accompaniment, but they can do it easier and with more pleasure if we are all there to help. Besides, it is only showing our opponents proper respect to send a large crowd to the game.
So come all you grinds and digs and tennis fiends, you politicians, fans, students and laws; leave your libraries and laboratories, your notebooks and sweet slumbers, and cheer our heroes on to victory. Help them add one more to the list of drubbings already given to our hereditary foe, tie one more double bow knot in the much twisted tail of Br'eer Tiger.
OUR BACK DOOR
With senior benches, a row of trees out towards Marvin Hall and renewed activity by the department of sodding the campus, the top of Mount Oread seems to be fairly well taken care of. But who remembers that the campus has a back yard with an unsightly, unkept look that belies the tender solicitude spent on the more frequented part?
Back of Blake Hall by the heating plant, the hillside has the appearance of a tenement alley. Cinders, ash heaps, torn up ground, and bits of cast off iron are littered over the entire slope. The south side of Blake Hall and the old Medic Building are hideously bare and ugly. A generous covering of ivy, a plot of rolling green grass, a few trees, and a bench, would create out of this unsightly spot, one of the most enjoyable bits of campus that the University possesses.
Although the view out over the valley from Blake Hall is one of the most picturesque and beautiful in all Kansas, the inspired appreciator of nature should not turn around to look at the back door of the University, or he will be shocked quite rudely.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
The most unique example of the "back to the farm" movement is that of the K. U. graduate the Sociology class found at the Kansas City Municipal Farm.
A promise isn't always what it is cracked up to be, even if it is broken.—Williams Purple Cow.
The library has added a set of Italian historiess published in Italian. Instead of putting on display, the books may be suggrz suggest, that the books be adorned with red flags.
CAMPUS OPINION
Much has been written and much more has been said concerning the Library Pest. The "Phonograph" professors, the gossiping co-ed, and the Engineers, all have had this opprobrious term cast upon them but as yet the real past has escaped all notoriety.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
"SENIOR" IS INDIGNANT
I refer to those wifful, deliberate, malicious, unloyal, violators of the mid-week date rule, who squad around the library, (on the outside) in twox and clusters and in such positions that their incessant, never-ceasing, billing and cooing can not fail to float up with the balmy air through the open windows and into the ears of those students who are classed as flankers and five-year men. (Written at 10 o'clock when all was silent.)
"Ian't this a dream of a dress?"
"Yes, but the dressmaker woke up too soon."--Williams Purple Cow.
Irate Senior.
WITH K. U. POETS
Menial--Mrs. Brown is sorry, but she is not at home.
Caller-Tell her I'm glad, but I didn't call-Harvard Lampoon.
THE INN O' LOVE
"Say, you ought to go out for track. You're skiary."
"Yes, I'm thin, all right, but no
enough to run." —Princeton
Tiger.
Kind Soph—Do you like popcorn balls?
NILLARD WATTLES in Harpers Weekly.
Fresh-I don't remember attending any.-Williams Purple Cow.
I have slept my night in the Inn O' Lance where the nook-inook is warm. And the house cat blinks by the open fire There I dreamed all night that my heart's
Lay sheltered on my arm.
It is good to lodge in the Inn o' Love Foot weary and heart sore; For an ankle-nook to those who room Afoot and friendless and far from home Shines sweet through an open door.
But ashen Morning pitiless slips To the hearth where the embers glowed; and Lore lieve white on her scarlet lips Till I shudder in touching her finger tips They kill "Ho for the Open Road."
(Extracts from an article by Sarah G. Pomeroy in the Boston Transcript.)
MAY DAY IN OUR COLLEGES
While the spontaneity of the observance of May Day has gradually died out in England and other countries where the custom originated, the day in America is fast becoming one of the fete days of the year. And to the American college girl belongs the credit of reviving its fascinating traditions and combining them with other features of ancient and modern pageantry. There is scarcely a woman's college or university day which does not observe the day in some manias. Sometimes the May Festival has been a special event introduced by one particular class for a single year; sometimes as at some of the large middle-western universities, it is a biennial or triennial celebration eagerly anticipated by every student throughout his college course and remembered long afterwards as one of the red-lettered days of student life. Oftener it is an annual observance, and each year the students tax their ingenuity to produce some new items into the celebrations. But always the centenary is the Maypole dance and the crowning of the May Queen. To be May Queen is considered a distinct honor in most colleges and many an ambitious little freshman hopes in her heart of hearts that some day she may say as did Tennyson's little heroine:
I'm to be Queen of the May, mother.
I'm to be Queen of the May.
An annual jacket is a feature of "Interscholastic" each year at the University of Illinois. "Interscholastic" is the great event of the spring term when the university throws its doors open to representatives from all the high schools of the state and, for three days, devotes its time to entertaining them. Of the 5,000 students at Illinois, less than half of them and the contribution to the program is greatly appreciated by the men. The May festival is all their own. It begins with a formal process through Burrill Avenue which extends north and south through the campus and the winding of the Maypole with Illinois orange and blue, the crowning of the May Queen, and the different historic dances, take place in the early evening, thousands of spectators, the great athletic contests, the crowd rushes into the auditorium where the Stunts-show, also in the hands of the women, takes place. Each women's organization furnishes a stunt and the most original captures the prize.
This description of the festival at Illinois is typical of the occurrence in many of our State universities, in Indiana, in Colorado, in Kansas, Iowa and many others. In many of the universities the fete it a part of the spring athletic meet, in others, as Nebraska, the Chesapeake Florida Woman's College and the Florida Woman's College and other smaller institutions, the May-Day festivals have been gradually introduced as a feature of a yet older institution, Ivy Day, when the seniors plant their ivy and give their ivy Day Oration.
At Kansas University, the May Festival is also known as Mother's Day and at Iowa State College the parents are also especially invited guests in a thought last over 1,000 guests besides the parents were invited.
The customs and traditions of American college life are legion and the peculiar associations that attach themselves to an individual institution are always interesting in themselves. It is doubtful if there is one purely symbolic celebration which is so universally popular among college students in the North, South East, the Middle, or the celebration of the Maytime. In an age of commercialism and materialism it is a hopeful sign, for it indicates that the love of the beautiful is still inherent in american youth.
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Cat—You wouldn't have a show in a fight with me. I have nine lives.
Frog—You're not in it. We cried hundreds of times—Princeton Tiger.
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