UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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EDITIONAL STAT
JON C. MIDDEN
John C. Midden
Associate Editor in-Chief
JOHN GLEISNER
John Gleisner
Managing Editor
HIGH HILL
High Hill
Sport Editor
LANDON LARIEB
Landon Larieb
Sport Editor
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The Daily Kannan aims to picture the students in his classroom at Kanawas to go further "mainly perusing the men's by standing for the ideals of the school; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be careful; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more intelligent; to be ability the students of the University.
FRIDAY MARCH 27,1914
GRAB YOUR HAT
It is easy to imagine that the result of the track meet tonight will turn upon the relay.
It is entirely possible for victory in this race to depend upon the spur of the Kansas man in the last fifty yards.
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And men say that enough volume behind a Rock Chalk at the psychological moment helps that Kansas runner to forge ahead.
Wouldn't it be a crime if your absence were responsible for too little volume in the rooting?
Come on down. Catch the 5:44.
Santa Fe or the 1:50 U. P., and
remember there is a special back to
Lawrence after the meet.
IN THE SPRING-
Baseball is in the air.
GOOD WORK
Who said that the "national sport" is unpopular at college?
Thirty-five men, representing sixteen boarding clubs met at the Union last night and organized the "hash house" league. Two other leagues have already published schedules, to say nothing of the men trying out for the Varsity and freshman teams.
The Hawk Club has unanimously resolved to put on a play this spring and the students unanimously favor the move.
A dramatic club is a necessary part of a university and we need the Hawk Club and a Hawk Club play.
HOW ABOUT THE '17 CLASS?
HOW ABOUT THE 17 CLASS?
Because of the lack of concerted action on the part of the present senior class, its memorial may yet fade into the distance and become a dream instead of a reality.
This should be a lesson to the freshmen.
Start your memorial fund NOW.
When you are seniors this fund will have grown to such an extent that little additional effort will be necessary to get a real memorial.
Once the custom is established the duty becomes easier. It is up to the freshmen to make this custom live. Begin at once
Begin at once.
BOARD WALKS
The rainy season approaches. With rain comes mud, and every one knows what Douglas county mud can do.
A sack or two of cement, some sand, a little lumber for forms, plus the energy of a man or two—and a neat walk of concrete could be built
around the northeast corner of the journalism building.
Two people cannot pass each other on the present board walk. One or the other must step off into the mud. The present walk might do very well for some shanty in the bottoms but it certainly looks out of place on a university campus.
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Did you know that the plan for a national University which is now located in Congress was the pivot hobby of George Washington and his death he left a site on his estate for the campus of the university which was equal to an endowment of $25,000?
Edmund James, president of the University of Illinois, has found an account of the early plans for a national University in an old publication which he has printed with the results of other research in an article in a recent issue of the Independent.
How General Washington conceived the idea of a National University is interestingly told in an excerpt from the "Economica" of Samuel Blodgegret, jr., published in 1806, who was present at the time:
"It was in the camp at Cambridge, in October 1775, when Major William Bloedget (a relative of the writer) went to the quarter of the university to explain the ruinous state of the colleges from the conduct of the then militia quartere therein. The writer of this being in company with his friend and relative and hearing General Greene join in lamenting the death of the officer, the seminary of Massachusetts observed merely to console the company of friends, that to make amends for these injuries after our war, he hoped, we should erect a noble national university, at which the youth would receive instruction. What was thus pleasantly said, Washington immediately replied to with that intimately expressive and truly interesting look for which he was sometimes so remarkable: "Young man, you are prophet" inspired to speak what I should not will some day be realized."
The idea was widely discussed for several years. Washington included the plan for a national university if a message to Congress in 1792.
Extracts From K. U.
Congressional Record
(Now that we have a University Senate instead of a University Council on Mount Oread, the Daily Kansan considers that it is fulfilling its duty to its readers by publishing verbatim reports of the congressional proceedings from time to time. Only the most interesting and important discussions will be reprinted.)
The Senate met at 4:30 o'clock
p. m.
The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of the proceedings of the last meeting, when on the request of the Senator from the Department of Entomology and by unanimous consent further reading was dispensed with and the Journal approved.
Senator Haworth: It has been been called to my attention that the freshmen have announced themselves as against the wearing of small caps. I wish to go on record that when we were asked the demand made at the Junior Mixer on Tuesday last that these caps be worn. (Great applause.)
Senator Haworth: Mr. President.
Vice-President Strong: The Senator from the Department of Geology
Senator Griffith: I wish only to inquire if the Senator from the Department of Geology thinks that these caps are artistic? (Laughter). Does the Senator from the Department have headpieces present a pleasing appearance upon the cranii of yearlings? (Hearty laughter.)
The Vice-President: (After a pause to allow laughter to subside): If there is no objection the matter on Infant Industries.
Senator Griffith; Mr. President.
Vice-President Strong; Does the
Senator from the department of
George Washington to the Senator from
the Department of Design.
Senator Haworth: I yield only for a question from the donor from the design. See Design.
From this distance the Freshmen resolution not to wear caps looks very much like the Council's recent resolution on editorial matters.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
A sparrow gay did happily sing Upon a cedar limb;
A passing tomcat nailed him—bim
I'm glad I wasn't him.
THE POOR SPARROW
TO A FRIEND
WITH K. U. POETS
By JOHN P. SHEA, '10.
BY JOHN P. SHEA, IO.
As once from that grey town of dull content,
Where buckling waves unvoyaged long
unfurled,
Columbus in his craft with sails unfurled,
Taut-bulging in the wind that heaven sent,
Set out a a-sail—and when the mists were rent,
There lay before him not his olden world,
But, crushed in its early tints and furred.
With morning dews, a strange new continent;
So thus, dear Friend, did our companionship.
Set freely out upon unanticipated taws,
With scorn a thought to seek a strange
But, as to that rapt sailor on his trip,
that is bound to me from out the
mountain.
mist and mist
Fair continents I never knew before.
CAMPUS OPINION
DOESN'T LIKE THE NAME
DOESN'T LIKE THE NAME
Good friend Council, you have left the lowly walks of student life and ascended to the creaking senatorial benches. No longer will the erring undergrad confess his sins in simple, plaintive, college phrases before an assembly and symbolic jury of wise faculty heads. Henceforth will the guilty offender be dragged forth in chains into the forum of the mighty magistrates of a University Senate.
Supplications and burnt offerings to gods and man may move the hoary-headed members of the tri-religious community in unfortunate who kneels before them. The Board of Administrators may be seen hovering in the distance holding aloft a bronze scale in order to measure their meted out full share of justice.
The only reply of the persecuted one when he is led out, is a low, broken hearted moan of "Et tu, facultate!" C.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS AND MORALS
"Knowledge without goodness is dangerous," was the statement in the Athletic Monthly for February of two college professors when they were asked what the moral effect of athletics is on the college man. One of them is Alfred E. Stearns, Head of the Academy at Anderson. The other is C. E. Stewart, an eminent geologist who is a graduate of Columbia University where he played on two teams and managed one other.
Both men have taken the broader view as to the real purpose of athletics and its effect on the individual. Professor Stewart laid particular emphasis on the fact that "the real menace lies not in the ignorant and uneducated member of society but in the intelligent and clever croc; not in the illiterate mass but in the shrewd and unscrupulous leader who can play on their emotions and mould them to his will."
Football is the game that seems to be the most conducive to foul tactics. For some unexplained reason, football seems to have developed a code of ethics in athletic code practices which in plain language can be called nothing less than base, deceitful and dishonorable, have been born and have grown with mushroom activity. The practices are well known to all close followers of football. That mutual holding unfair use of arms in blocking and needless roughness of various kinds.
"There are two primary causes," says Professor Stearns, "why these evils are practiced. One is the coach, but he excuses himself by saying that what he teaches is not only expected of him but it is demanded by the student body. Student sentiment will defend itself on the ground that what is universally practiced must be largely right."
The biggest complaint that Professor Stewart had to make was that the colleges make liars out of their men on the score of being professionals. There are very few country lads who ever wore at a golf tournament no shirt at some time get a small cash prize for winning a three-legged race or got his share of the gate receipts for playing short-stop on the home ball team. In the technical sense he is a professional and should not be allowed to compete for his college team. If he is offered a good price to play ball in the summer he will forever be excluded from the Varsity tournaments. A bona fide member of the institution which he wants to represent there should be no distinction between the professional and the amateur.
Professor Stewart like Professor Stearns maintains that men interested in the ethical aspects of college file should not rest until college meet in sports as do other gentlemen.
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