UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN omical student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN C. MADENN, Editor-in-Chief JOHN HARBRE, Associate Editor JOHN GRIESNER, Manager JOHN GRIESNER, High School Editor LANDON LATRID, Sport Editor BJSINESS STALE B INFINITES EBUIN ABELE Business Manager RAT EUDROGRE Circulation Manager JOE BIMBO Advertising Manager CHARLISE MAYER Advertising CARL S. STURMSTER Advertising REPORTORIAL STAFF LUCY BARBER LIVEN RADDER JON M. GREESFELD J A GREESFELD HARBERT FLINT RICK CLAPER RAY CLAPER WILLIAM S, CADY JOHN HOWARD JOHN HOWARD SAM DEGEN BROOKLYN ALLENE GALLENBURY RICHBURN BURKEWARD LUCILE HIDDINGER LAWRENCE SMITH GLUENTY CULATON JOHNSON Entered as second-class mail matter lawyer, in the Supreme Court, Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March Subscription price $2.50 per year, advance; one term, $1.50. Published in the afternoon five times a week. Published by Kanna. From the press of the department of Military Education. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Rans. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students further in their ability to clearly print the news by standing for the class, being present at meetings; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be patient; to be more serious problems to uder heads; to be able to ability the students of the University. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1914 In spring a livelier iris changes or the burnished dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.— Tennyson. SECRECY The sub-committee of the College faculty which has reported some sort of a change in the present major work regulations and group system requirements to the heads of the College departments, will not make its recommendations public. Neither will the heads of the departments say what action they took on the matter until the entire faculty has accepted or rejected the suggestions. Some day, perhaps, the students—who are more vitally interested in the matter than any other group on Mount Oread—will be granted the 'blessed privilege of finding out what has been done, but not until everything is cut and dried. Why shouldn't the students know before the matter is finally settled if the group system scheme is going to be changed? Why keep the student in ignorance of new major work requirements, faculty advisor methods or hour limitations in the various departments? Did a member of the faculty ever stop to consider that some one or two overly brilliant upperclassmen might possibly have intelligence enough to offer a constructive suggestion or two which would be valuable? And even if the faculty doesn't accept suggestions, wouldn't it be better—just for the looks of the thing—to take the students into its confidence sometimes when it is changing regulations which affect the student first of all? The Student Council has recently thrown its meetings open to the public. It seems that some of these Star Chamber methods of the faculty might be revised with an equally healthy effect. A GOOD SHOW Besides a chance to yell for Kansas, and besides an opportunity to learn something about an up-to-date public question, the debate tonight will furnish excellent amusement for the crowd—provided Colorado sends another "Daniel Webster" type of orator like one of the men who came two years ago. Student tickets admit. UNCLE JIMMY Seventy-two years young and getting less old every year, that's Uncle Jimmy. The best thing about the most popular professor on the hill is the fact that he has the love and respect of so many students and alumni. Any man on Mount Oread is lucky who can count his friends by the score as rapidly as Uncle Jimmy can by the thousand. Uncle Jimmy is not only Dean of the School of Law and patron saint of University football, he is the venerated godfather of every University student, past or present. May Uncle Jimmy Days continue to mark his birthdays for decades to come! RELIGION BY COMPULSION There is an eternal and irrepressible conflict between those who would compel others to be good in their way and those who believe that goodness of any kind never comes by compulsion. The latest skirmish in the battle is now on at the University of Pennsylvania over the question of obligatory attendance at chapel. A petition is in circulation among the students who wish to oblige the others to attend the University religious exercises every day. The benefit of the chapel exercises, reverently participated in is admitted by every one. Many a youth with no pretensions in religion has admitted in after life that he got something in college that he would have missed if it had not been before he must be in his seat in chapel every morning. There is a contagion in goodness that spreads to all who come in proximity to it, and a righteous man bowing before the Almighty and confessing his dependence on the Unseen teaches a lesson that will profit even the most thoughtless. But earnest and righteous that the youth should be compelled to learn this lesson. They used to believe in compulsion, and Yale still practice it. The students must attend chapel services six days a week, and on Sunday morning they must go to the University church unless they have been there and are not elsewhere. At Portsmouth, where greater rigor might be expected than at Yale, attendance is required only twice a week, and if the boys go to church on one-half of the Sunday mornings of the term they have done all that is obligatory. But if they fall behind the limit thus set they are liable to expulsion. At Portsmouth, when the conservatively until 1886, when the voluntary rule was adopted and they say that the religious life of the college has been more active under the voluntary rule than formerly. If all the students who sign the petition asking for a change of the rule here will attend chapel, however, as though it were compulsory, those who do not sign it may attend also. The students who sign the good example, and no change in the rule would then have to be made.—Philadelphia Inquirer. ENDS AND ODDLETS "Horse Killed Absent Boy," says a good-head. Good thing he was absent for had he been there something might have happened. "Kansas to Compete in Pool" brazenly announces a headline. The team will have to hurry, since the defense allows advance goes in effect next January. Certainly, Freshmen are required to wear caps to keep from getting tanned. You can't accuse the University authorities of trying to make light of the matter when they decided not to attend at the foot of the library cut-off. Sir Edward Grey's plan for setting the Home Rule difficulty, if successful, will entitle him to the House and may be a question that almost invariably has to be settled by everybody shortly before or shortly after marriage. Guns are being shipped into Ulster in tea chests and some say that "tea" is being shipped into Kansas in gun cases. Emerson says, "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes," but the college student's version is this: "Common sense is a Freshman with a blue cap on his head." As a rule it's the web-footed player who makes good in April. The School for the Education of Frogs continues to hold forth in the basement of the Main Administration Building. Good afternoon, have you announced your candidacy for the Student Council? Billy Sunday, the evangelist, will give a sermon to Connie Mack's World Champions at the University of Pennsylvania. He will probably put the whole bunch in the error column. Let proud Ambition pause And sicken at the vanity that prompts His little deeds - Mallett Let proud Ambition pause prompts His little deeds.—Mallett. WITH K. U. POETS ESTHER M. C. CLARK, FORMER STUDENT Assistant Professor Mission Department. Violet window. The blissful night I danced with Jennie? I begged a flower, to keep, I score, Forever. Could she spare me any? TO A VIOLET the. When, of the modest bunch she But, violet. The arch coquette. But, violet, My modest boon denied; but, finally, she stood up to my coat label. Sweet violet, Can I forget She pointed you to my tear pail. And whispered love, "Now, please, don't tell. I pinned this here," and blushed, divinely. And, violet, Her eyes were wet; stopped and kissed her—no resist- "we" And told her—well, no matter what. I think you heard it, like as not; The deed was done with your assist- So, violet, I have you yet, Your blue is now a faded yellow; and she's a trifle stout and gray. I love her just the other day;— THE SONG BEHIND THE SHUTTER By WILLIAM HERRERT CARBURT, 'So Formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Umi I save her just the other way— She's married to another fellow. To the song behind the shutter. I trust the white lights store and sputter. My feet keep time on the pavement. I walk the streets at night alone, like I have the street and shade. Behind the shatter the good folk sit; By the mird that follows after I note the burst of each sally of wet, I hear their eagle and laughter. Their plee and laughter flow unchecked By any haunting pity try any adverbial pry for the坚硬 bark that is *drifting* WHERE On the joyous shores of their city. on the joyous shores of their city. The white lights store and sputter. For hours my bicycle's recharge repeats. It doesn't stop. K. U. DICTIONARY X. Y. Z. A: unknown quantity; ten-dollar B: unknown quantity; Oread, except in algebraic form; Xecution; only adequate treatment for spring "poets," puncturs etc. Xeption; prof who doesn't give pre-holiday quizzes. Xenison Department; a lean-to built, fraser Hall. Xcuse; something not accepted from freshmen wearing hats. Year; period of time yet to elapse between sow and Easter vacation. Y. M. C. A.; perpetrators of male quartets, stag parties and other bar- Y. W. C. A.; Dispersens of tea and chocolate, sweetness and light. Zest; what the eligibility committee feels while pursuing a victim, or an upperclassman while paddling a freshman. Zephyr; M. Ordeal terminology for he called a howling blast in whose whistle Zoo; that part of Ad building devoted to Suait, Spot the Rot, and other specimens of animal psychology. Zora, amount of profit derived from studying the K. U. dictionary (to saw nothing of writing the same) "Icompatibility, want a partner and my Irishian doesn't." Punch Bowl. Punch Bowl. "On what grounds will you sue for divorce?" CLEVER THINGS THE OTHER FELLOW SAYS WE DIDN'T DO IT "There's something in that," he cried as he spied the safe. "I'm all in," said the burglar, as he vigged through the window. he reached for his nitropropylene. "I feel blue," he explained as a "I could stay here in a pinch," he said as they took him to a cell. "That lets me out," he said when he found a file in his mille piece .—Harris "Man at the front door to see you, pop." "Stockings," said the clerk, "yes, 'ma'am—what number do you wear?" "Great Guns. Has he a blue bill?" "Noppe! He has a red nose." Red. "What number!?" snapped Venus, "why, two, of course. What do you think I am—a centipede?""Nebraska Awgwan. TO be a bit personalMr. College Man,would you not consider it false economy to buy shoes at a dollar a pair or clothing at ten dollars a suit? S. G. CLARKE 707 Mass. St. Eldridge Hotel Bldg. 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