UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kaman aims to picture the lives of students in Kansas to go further "more merely printing the news," standing by their claim that food is to be clean; to be cheerful; to be curious; to be helpful; to be more serious problems to uerk heads
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1914
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. -Euripides.
STANDARDIZE GRADES
STANDARDDEVICES GRADES
It has been evident for some time that there is urgent need for more uniformity in giving grades at the University. Although grades are not, after all, the important thing, yet so long as they are used they should be used fairly and given in accordance with some sort of a standard.
When a I in this course is practically equivalent to a III in that subject, and when twice as much work is necessary to obtain the III, something is wrong. Every professor seems to have his individual idea of the amount of work necessary for the I grade, and he seems to base his requirements on this individual assumption alone.
To get something started toward improved conditions would it not be a good idea to prepare a questionnaire to be answered by the members of the senior class, and in this way learn how much time was necessary to do the required work in the various subjects taken, and the grades received? Data of this kind would be very valuable in arriving at some general conclusion in the matter and would furnish material so that a committee of the faculty might arrange for some standard ir grading.
BE THERE!
The time for every freshman to express himself on the cap proposition is tomorrow morning in Snow Hall at eleventh-thirty.
Don't rave about the rule at your room, or endorse the custom when talking to a group of upper classmen, but think over all phases of the problem, express yourself at the meeting, and abide by the decision of the majority.
And in considering the question, remember the sentiment of the upper classes as expressed in several meetings last week; together with the fact that every freshman class for a number of years has followed the custom which was fast becoming traditional at the University.
DEFEAT AN INCIDENT We lost the meet.
A little hard luck, a little upset "dope" and a case or two of misjudgment tells the story.
Baseball, debate, and outdoor track are coming however, and any little feeling of revenge which Kansas rooters may be harboring will undoubtedly be wiped away after these contests are over.
The beauty about defeats in general is the fact that one can always get consolation by looking back at preceding victories, or by anticipating success which may confidently be expected "next time."
ARCHERY
And K. U. is to add archery to its list of games and amusements. The sport of Ancient Britain will be given honorable place among the people who lye in the central part of this great continent, which was not even discovered when Robin Hood astounded the lords and yeomanry by setting himself seemingly impossible tests of marksmanship. Thus do all good customs live—perhaps the best proof that people of one age are not radically different from people of other times.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
A few suffragists want a Bible without a man in it. Next thing will be a hymn-book without a hymn in it.
SAD NEWS
The Student Council at K. U. declared the office of editor of the Kansan vacant and made a ruling for student election of subsequent editors. Choice has formerly been by the staff.-Washburn Review.
According to reports profanity is not allowed in Cleveland. One naturally wonders if they have vowing to teach children not to hack in that Utopian municipality.
WHEN FATHER SWOONED
My father one day said to me,
"My son, here's fifty beans;
Blow every blooming corn-free-
beans." "They are beans."
Then I unto my father said,
"Dear dad, take back your pelf,
I'll never spend a doggeded roon,
That I've not earned myself."
My father earned a sickly green
his eyes they did protrude.
He smote his nose. Then fail-
tured where he stood.
Cyrus Wordsworth Byron.
*Byron*
MAKES A GUESS
The Men's Student Council at the State University was not successful in its attempt to remove Mr. Madden, editor of the Daily Kansan. The students are in sympathy with the action that the editor took in not resigning. The main trouble he faced by a private guildue Holloway has for Madden. Our guess is that Holloway is somehow papeed because he was not elected editor instead of Madden—State Normal Bulletin.
THE ENGINEER
Who comes with Faber sharpened keen
With profile long and sober mien,
With transit, level, book, and tape,
And glittering axe to swat the stake?
The Engineer.
Who sets the level, bends his spine.
Squints through the glass along
Swings both his arms at rapid rate,
Yells, "Hold that bloomin' rod up straight?"
The Engineer
The Engineer.
When'er he sees a scraper take
A whack at his most cherished
stake? The Engineer
Vhene'er he sees a scraper take
The Engineer.
Who swears he'll charge an even ten For stakes destroyed by mules and men,
Who raves and snorts like one insane Jumps in the air and claws his mane,
Who saws the air with maddened rage,
And turns with haste the figured page.
While on all fours he tries in vain.
To find the vanished stake again?
The Engineer.
And then with patience out of joint Ties in another "reference point?" The Engineer.
Who calls it your "unrivalled gall"?
Whene'er you kick for overhaul.
And gives your spine the frigid chill
When'eer you spring an "extra
bill?" The Engineer
Who deals with figures quite profuse,
Then tells you solid rock is loose,
That hard-pan's nothing more than loam?
The Engineer.
While gumbo's lighter than ses
foam?
The Engineer
The Engineer
Who. after all, commands your praise,
(In spite of his peculiar ways)
While others harvest all the gains,
Thinking from his prolific brains?
The Engineer.
-Contributed.
WITH K. U. POETS
JONES, THE BROTHER OF JESUS
BY HARRY KEMP, FORMER STUDENT.
"Is not this the carpenter's son?" — Matthew
Josez, the brother of Jesus, plodded
him a day to day
With never a vision within him to
glorify his clay;
Josez, the brother of Jesus, was one
with the heavy clud.
Bright Clue, the soul of rapture,
and soared, like a lark, with God;
Josez, the brother of Jesus, was only
a worker in wood.
And he knew to see the glory that
Jesus his brother could.
"Why stays he not in the workshop,"
he often used to complain,
"Saving the Lebanon cdon, imparting
why must he go thus roaming, for-
saking my father's trade
While hammers are busily sounding,
and there is gain to be made?"
The thing of Jesse, apt with
phamnet and rule
And deeming whover surpassed him either a knave or a fool.
For he never walked with the proph-
hesis of bliss;
And of all the mistakes of the ages the
addest, methinks, was this:
To have such a brother as Jesus,
to speak with him day by day.
Yesterday the vision which eloited his clay.
DISCUSSES THE KANSAN
The Student Council at the University of Kansas which has been dormant since its election last fall has suddenly gone on a rampage against the Daily Kansan, the student paper. The trouble all started over a dance. The Student Council, in defiance of law, order and the city police, has taken out placards advertising the "trot" on telphone poles about the city.
The Daily Kansan ventured to criticize the Council's work and therby incurred the displeasure of that body. The city attorney of Lawrence filed information against the Council members. They immediately charged that the Kansan was back of the prosecution.
To get even the Student Council held a meeting at which eleven members were present and by a vote of 6 to 5 declared the office of Editor-in-Chief of the Kansan vacant and the editor should be by the student body and not by the Kansan board as has been the case. The Kansan now maintains that the Student Council has exceeded its authority and Editor-in-Chief Madden is still at the helm of the project, though in a personal fight between a few members of the Council and the editor of the Kansan and further developments are expected—Drake Daily Delphic.
SCIENCE THE LOSER AT FIRE Some tragic features that surrounded the destruction of College Hall at Wellesley have now been made known. It appears that the fruits of years of special research on eukaryotes have adapted to which had attracted international attention, have been destroyed. All notes, specimens, and apparatus used, in original investigations in the field of eugenics, zoology, history and embryology were lost, and collisions with it is improbable that some of the experiments can ever be repeated.
For six years Professor Marion E. Hubbard had devoted her energies to research in variation and heredity in beetles. The work meant the building up of a new strain of a certain species of beetle, by breeding through a long series of generations. It involved the invention and construction of original apparatus and painstaking care as regards the conditions of light, temperature and humidity for the thousands of beetles under observation. In view of the increasing interest in eugenics, an ongoing search with keen anticipation, but all the specimens, notes and apparatus were swept away in a few moments. They were to have formed the basis of the theme by Professor Hubbard for a doctor's degree.
Another loser was Professor Robertson, head of the zoology department. She had about completed her work in the systematic identification of a large number of specimens of brycoza, rare deep-sea forms dredged from the depths of the seven seas by the famous Albatross expedition headed by the Prince of Monaco, and sent to her for identification. Not one of the specimens or notes was saved.
The fruits of three years' experiments with the brains of ants by Professor Caroline B. Thompson of the zoology department, and 4000 slide, for use in her course in history and embryology, which she had been eight years collecting, were soon to be published in connection with her work with certain deep sea forms dredged by the Bureau of Fisheries and the University of California—Boston Transcript.
Be thou the first true merit to be friend;
His praise is lost, who stays till all commend.-Pope.
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