UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Illinois EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN C. MADENN Editor-in-Chairs HARBON HLSON Associate Editor B. HENDERSON High School Editor FRANK B. HENDERSON High School Editor LANDON LAUB Sport Editor REPORTORIAL STAFF BUSINESS EDWIN ANELLI Business Manager RAT EYEHORN Circulation Manager JOB BISHOP Advertising JOB CHEF Advertising CARL PARKER Advertising CARL SAPPEN Advertising POKERCITY SAM DORNEY HENRY MALEY JAY GREENBERD CHARLES Gibson HENRICH CROWNER LUCIE HILMERGER RUCE CLAYER LAWRENCE SMITH WILLIAM S. CADY CLARETON GREG HENN CALVIN LAMBERT entered by second-class mail matter in reference to the above case. Reference, Kansas, under the list of March Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kanaas, from the press of the department of Journalism. Subscription price $2.50 per year, discount: 10% term, $1.90 Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate at work to go further. The nearly printing the news by standing up for the injustices; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to user heads; to be able to graduate; to the students of the University. All your strength is in your union. All your danger is in discord.—Long fellow. WHO GOES? TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1914 The call for junior prom fees should make every loyal 1915 man dig for his check book and congratulate himself on his resolution to be a real sport for once, at least. For six years K. U. debaters have met Colorado representatives and been defeated each time. It has been monotonous, to suggest the more obvious comment. Wednesday night we meet them again and it is our guess that the worm is about due for that occasional lurp. The debate will be held in Fraser Hall, enterprise tickets will admit, and a goodly number of students will probably regret the fact that they stayed at home and thus missed seeing the usually victorious Colorado men defeated. ANOTHER WINNER COMING Wednesday will be a mighty good time to attend a real debate. THE OPENING of the baseball season was auspicious. With all the material developed by the various leagues last spring and with all the hard hitting Varsity men, the list of Kansas victories should lengthen rapidly. AN ACTUAL BEGINNING The permanent Union committee from the Council seems to acquire a notion from somewhere that it should really work out a plan to present to the incoming Council next month. All hall! Waiting another decade or so far a Union was never necessary and such an idea should not be tolerated. Work is the prerequisite for the big building, and the next Council should be as anxious to push the plans to completion as the present committee is to prepare the tentative scheme. K. U. PRESENTS TO K. U.— Speaking of memorials, the University authorities are planting one of the best remembrances possible along the walk to Marvin Hall. Along in 1956 when the engineers gather around the totem pole Commencement week, the classmates of 1914 will wonder why they didn't think of the shade tree plan first—and leave a little memorial of their own to the University. THE "BIG SISTER" MOVEMENT If there is any one time that a student feels in need of friends, advice, and companionship, it is during the first week of school in September. The "big sister" movement has a great work before it in trying to take away that homesick feeling. University women should be sure that they do not intend to shirk any responsibilities before they enroll in the "big sister" cause, but at that there should be no trouble in finding seventy-five women who are willing and anxious to make the freshman girls feel at home in Lawrence next fall. In join. It always make one feel good to do good. The word has a familiar sound but when and where was it last heard, and what does it mean, anyway? Ah yes, it was three months ago—three long and weary months. We packed our suit cases and started home for a two weeks session of mother's cooking, family reunions, skating, and sweet idleness. Since then we have lived through quiz week, enrollment day, College day (requests in pace!) an encounter with the Lawrence city government, the opening of a Student Union, spring fever, vindication of the week-night date rule, and goodness knows how many other exciting and exhausting events. And just when it seems as if we simply couldn't bear our manifold and increasing burdens another day, along comes a beneficient faculty at whose actions we are sometimes prone to tail in our peevish, ungrateful way, easing the strain with a little vacation by way of an Easter gift. VACATION It is not, to be sure, a magnificent half-month affair, such as is required to prepare for and recover from the merry Yule tide, but it is something, four days in all—a sort of augmented week-end, so to speak. It will give us time to get over the effects of the inevitable pre-vacation quizzes, without, however letting us forget everything we ever knew, so that it would take us a week to get started again. Spring has generally come to stay by this time (better knock wood when you read this) and all conditions are favorable for a pleasant time to be had by all, as the country correspondents puts it. In short, since we can't hope for anything better for some months, let us give thanks for Easter vacation. Why not a woman's contest? We have woman's athletics and woman's dramatics. Why not woman's oratorv? SPEECHES FOR WOMEN! A university oratorical contest for women would solve every real problem in the present difficulty situation. It would give university women a fair opportunity for platform success, an opportunity which they do not possess today in competition. It would place the present contests on a fair basis of judgment without impossible comparisons. Bottle green clothes is the doped color of style for this spring, but how in tarnation can a Kansan find out what that is? Among the names of couples licensed to wed in Joplin in a last week's paper are the appropriate ones, Manlove and Carassa. Every college in Michigan has a successful woman's oratorical contest. Why not the university?—Michigan Daily. One of the meantest persons in the world is the landlady who plays "Home Sweet Home" along about eight when a fellow has his bribe. Who cares about the Panama canal so long as the h. c. of l. is cutting capers with the alimentary canal? ENDS AND ODDLETS The time is at hand when Dandelion Greens bats for Hash in the "86" league. Champ Clark to President Wilson alluding to his antagonism for toll repeal: "Now there is nothing personal in this matter." "Mr. Mann continues to present a solid front to the enemy."—Headline. Stiff bosomed shirt probably. PESTHER M. CLARK, FORMER STUDENT Assistant in the Extension Department. WITH K. U. POETS 4 PRAYER With their poor toys; while I have some stepstall still. Lord God, use I shall cease to be of usc In this world, where the Fates play taste and loose To shield the weak, when men would do them ill: While still the blood within my veins runs red. And I can serve with hand, and heart, and head. While I have still my senses, and some tell To use for God and man, as I see fit— Then let it the Shadow fall upon So I may go in peace to mine owe Ice I grow, old and helpless, to depend Upon the charity of some good friend MEDALS FOR SCHOLARS the world forgetting, as the word forates. Leaving this life's joy with no vain re- sults. The ever greater recognition, that is accorded to those who engage in the so-called outside activities, is undoubtedly one of the strong factors attracting students to these in preference to their studies. In order to be effective for a man or woman to enter athletics, debating, dramatics, and most other activities, in the shape of W's, fobs, medals, prizes and the like; but attempts to stimulate scholarship in this fashion are few and far between. Without doubt, it is a sad commonality that such means should be necessary to secure interest in scholarship. But we must face conditions as they exist; we must acknowledge the fact that recognition is one of the strongest stimuli to effort on the part of the average American student, usually attracting men and women to outside activities to the detriment of their studies. In a certain sense Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pta, and other honorary societies recognize and reward excellence in intellectual pursuits, but they are private organizations by their elections official recognition of scholarship. What we then propose is that the University institute a number of medals and prizes of various kinds to be conferred upon those, who by their work in various fields of undergraduate scholarship have won. Were the elections to be made by the faculty and prominence given to the awards, we feel certain that a greater interest in scholarship would be reawakened. The English universities and some of our Eastern universities have long offered medals and awards to colleent results. Should our faculty understand this, it will achieve a double result the recognition of true scholarship and the stimulation of interest and enthusiasm in intellectual pursuits—Wisconsin Cardinal. THEY. Year after year the criticism has been made that too many News editorials and communications are destructive and not constructive—that faults existing here and there in the University are pointed out a damned, but not confused. A stir demanded, but not convinced of some error is met with praise, but not with results. A plea for an intellectual awakening brings much commendation, and as many empty concert and lecture seats as before. This state of affairs may be ascribed very largely to a certain peculiarity of human nature that makes every man deeply impressed with the value of criticisms or suggestions—to every one else except himself. What should be done such and through others reads or hears. Very true, he says earnestly to himself, and I hope They do it. He believes that it is the right thing to do, but feels somehow that it can be done without him. This is the trait that prompts a man to run an automobile recklessly, to drive an airplane with his hands off the control, to swim far out in a rough sea, with the absolute assurance that some miraculous power will preserve him in trouble throughout another danger, although they perish. He hears that the scholarship standard is low, and sincerely believes that. They should raise it. He learns that the attendance at the baseball games has been poor, and is indignant that They have not been more enthusiastic. He is told that a world-famous lecturer has received scant attention, and hopes that They will not behave so shabbiily in future. With the sublime egotism in their meers the college college, by the need of Their conversion. There are things to be done here at Yale. There are conditions to be improved, ideas to be spread abroad, ideals to be cherished. THEY cannot do it. "Thou are the man."-Yale News A married man and his money are soon parted.-Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. Applications for the scholarships open to women students for 1914-15 should be made to the committee before April 15. Scholarships for Women The Marecella Howland Memorial Scholarship, $87.50. Open to young women of the junior and senior classes of the College. The scholarships offered are: The Eliza Mathesson Innes Memorial Scholarship, $100. Open to women students of the College above and to students of the Graduate School. The Daughters of the American Revolution Scholarship, $110. Open to women students of the College above the freshman year and to women students of the Graduate School. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae Scholarship, $50.00. Open to women of the junior and senior years of the College. The Caroline Mumford Winston memorial scholarship of $35 is open to women students of the College of classes above the freshman. The Lucinda Smith Buchan Memorial Scholarship maintained by the alumnae of the Pi Beta Phi sorority is a loan scholarship of $200. It is open to women students of the College. Committee: E. Galloo. Ida H. Hyde. Hannah Oliver Limeade, 5c. at Barber & Son's fountain. We use Wiedemann's ice cream and serve every drink in a clean glass.—Ady Bert Wadham THE COLLEGE BARBER On 14th Street You Can Earn a Good Living and lay up some money too, on graduation from the Lawrence Business College. Enrol at once: Employment Bureau; Employment Bureau at your service. Write for catalog to Karsen's oldest and best names. LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. PROTSCH The Tailor THEY ARE HERE WATKINS NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000 Surplus and profits $100,000 The Student Depository ANDERSON'S OLD STAND A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AT JOHNSON & TUTTLE 715 PROPS. Mass. 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