UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
JOHN C. MADDER...Associate Editor-In-Chief
JOHN HARBERT...Associate Editor
JOHN GLEISBNNER...Managing Editor
JOHN GLEISBNNER...Managing Editor
LANDON LAIBD...Sport Editor
LANDON LAIBD...Sport Editor
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BUSINESS
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RATE BAYROUGE        Circulation Manager
JEAN BOBSH.          Advertising Manager
CARA S. STOURNEY      Advertising
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REPORTORIAL STAFF
SAM DROGH
STEINER GLENSON ALLIFE
GLENSON ALLIFE
ROSE BURNERAK
LUCILE HILDINGER
LAWRENCE SMITH
LAWRENCE CLAYTON
CLAYTON
LOCTY BARBER
BURGESS J.
A. GREENLOSER
HEDREY FLINT
BAY CLAPBRER
RAY CLAPBRER
WILLIAM S. CADY
CHIPPIN HOWARD
CHOPPER
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of Journalism.
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post Piece at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 8, 1879.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN.
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The Daily Kannan aims to picture the students of Kannan to go further and more privately press the news by standing up for their jauntiness; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to user heads; to solve more serious problems to add value to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1914.
Education makes the man.—Cawthorne.
SURE, LET'S HAVE IT
The suggestion that the two senior honorary societies get together on the memorial question for the class of 1914 is a good one. If the members of both organizations push some one idea, and push it hard, there is little doubt but that it will be adopted.
A new altar would be a valuable addition to the Fraser assembly hall and if nothing more typical of student thought is suggested few seniors will oppose the plan—and a little opposition may be expected in any case.
One thing should be remembered, when the legislature presents us with a new auditorium the altar should be ostentious enough to fit the new environment; but perhaps the Daily Kansan is unduly optimistic in remembering the faint possibility of a real chapel.
GET IN THE LEAGUE
Tonight is the night for all good members of the boarding house league to send a representative down to the Student Union.
The first meeting is called for seven thirty and the manager of your club will be expected.
Help organize.
NOTHING BARRED
The Lawrence Gazette accuses us of starting the anti-week-night-date agitation. Next think you know the Daily Kansan will be blamed for the h c of l, the Mexican rebellions, boarding house hash, and the Irish war.
Come one, come all. We are getting used to anything from jail sentences in the morning to being legislated out of office at night. But the more excitement, the more fun, so step lively, gentlemen, what's next?
THE BUZZING OF THE BEE
The baseball bee is buzzing and students who last week and last month declared that they didn't care a hang whether there was a "hash-house" league or not are busily retract their statements.
The interest of the boarding-house fans is equalled if not eclipsed by the fraternities. The latter have organized into two circuits and are practicing daily.
The spirit which is back of such endeavors or enterprises or whatever you may call it, is nothing out of the ordinary. It is simply the American love for athletics in general and baseball in particular, and if you haven't got it you had better
order some swamp root or "sarpa
parilla." Your blood is bad.
"Look pretty, please."
"Scat* !* !*! *! *! . . "
SPRING EXPRESSIONS
"Lordy, this book is heavy."
"I am not prepared today profes-
sor."
"Pull down that window," "Put up that window." '!..!.!...** freeze!
!.* roast! * * **
"Yes we would like to have you join us only thirty dollars."
"Hello, is this you Gwendylon?"
"If that picture DOES go in the Annual, well——"
"Cock-a-doodle-DOO!!' Bow, wow,
wow, ye-ow-w-w-w-WOW!! Time to get up Bill."
ENDS AND ODDLETS
"Heat Values of Gas Varies"- Headline. Certainly, with the pressure.
"Gimme-a-coke."
We suggest that the national organization of Quill clubs be called the Porcupine.
A LYRIC
一
He picked up a peanut, broke open the shell.
Placed his arm around her waist and said, "Isabelle,
Did you ever consider what a very large size
Were the raisins that Grandma used to put in her pies?"
The maiden looked thoughtful, then said, "I declare.
I'll not wed a man who won't cut his hair."
So she flew up the road in the uta-
most of haste.
Thus necessitating the immediate withdrawal of his arm from her waist.
—Cyrus Byron.
The "Daily Kanan", Lawrence, in its March 12th issue, advertises for bandwatches we advise them to come to us. We overstock—Penitentiary Bulletin.
"Mr. Tait has five banquets ahead of him in one week." If we had some luck like that we, too, might weigh more than 300.
STATE COMMENT
The University Kansas, the daily paper published at the University of Kansas, has come in for a good scoring, because it stood for deciency among the student body, because it stood for respect of law and order, and an indignation meeting wrote of the student body, or a call to it, the other evening, in resolutions, declaring that the editor vacant during the election of a new editor, were passed. Of course it will all end with the resolution, but what a relief it would be to a lot of people if they could just meet and resolve the pestiferous editor out of office.—Osatawatic Graphic.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
You ask me to write the story of my life, suggesting that I refer to my "childish pranks, feats of near-ness, arrogance, political, and social ambitions."
BY HARRY BALLINGER
I graduated from high school at fourteen; was admitted to the bar at sixteen; entered the senior class of the law department of the University, and at seventeen was permitted to graduate with the class of 1886.
I suspect the dean of the department classified these facts as "childish pranks," though I prefer to consider them feats of "near-school"
Two achievements may deserve mention. One is that I delivered the first "address to the juniors" ever permitted in our department, and, I think, in the University. Viewing it from this distance, a fatherly lecture from a boy of seventeen to a bunch of teenagers, it did then, to those who selected me; but it was no joke to me nor to the juniors.
I can recall but few athletic triumphs at the University. I played some baseball a little but badly; I sang some, but though my voice was nice and loud, it attracted little of the attention it deserved. I made orations occasionally before the Oraphillian Literary Society, and at the Kent Club, which I helped to found. This last organization furnished me an audience for my address on the George Washington," which precipitated a near-riot and brought me some notoriety. Looking back upon my college career, these athletic triumphs appear inconsiderable.
I think I was the first to call on me, and then embarrassing or embarrassing to me at the time; for
WITH K. U. POETS
Out of the reek and sweller, out of the sink of shame, Shape us the perfect manhood that leaps like a living flame.
The Old World's foul corruption is poured on the naked shores, And the soul of the nation festers, ulcerate with sores.
MANHOOD
the sons of the Pilgrim Fathers, on
the hills their fathers trod, to
summon them. So he
Have reared Gomorrah and So do
Em. And the land of the bloody meadows.
And the land of the bloody meadows.
And the land of the bloody meadows of slaughtered brother and son
Have reared Gomorrah and Soon
in the face of their father's God;
is foul with the nameless vintage of the perished Babylon.
The fields of folly are ripened, red and shameless and bold;
The harvest is ready for reaping, and Esau's birthright sold.
the brave little Mayflower breasted the thundering leagues of foam.
But the people she engendered have
hulled, a modern Rape.
But the people she engendered have built a modern Rome. Edela de la Rosa
The land of Standish and Edwards,
Revere and Nathan Hale,
Better the blast of siroco and a sudden terrible death
Has changed to the claiming symbols in the hands of priests of Baal.
Than to dwell in the tents of the goddess and suckle a harlot's breath. Better a nation perish, root and plague, and branch.
Whelmed by the mighty thunder of God's great avalanche,
Than rear in their perfumed cities a brood with feeble chins
boodo
Whooho delicate fingers tickle emas-
sure virgin
Eastern seas
And People starve, while wantons
fatten on luxuries.
"bumble vannis,
Where palaces of marble rise over
Bronze."
Out of America's sorrow, out of America's shame,
Shape us, O God, the manhood that leaps like a living flame.
—Willard A. Wattles, in April Smart Set.
K. U. DICTIONARY
"v."
V—rare variety of currency known as five dollar bill; mostly confined to banks and sub-treasuries.
Vaccination—harrowing process intended to discourage the bacillus typhoidicus; good excuse for getting out of gymnasium classes.
*varsity* English version of universities or the convenience of headwriters.
Vaudeville—latest wrinkle in dramatics at K. U.
Vampire—bloodsucker; laundry grafter; book agent.
Virtue—opposite of vice, and quite as unpleasant if carried to excess; that which impels people to go to chapel.
Vigilance—distinguishes library of Lawrence police, and librarians. vice—any wicked habit, such as smoker in campus, saving week-night dates, making puns, criticizing the Student Council, writing spring poetry.
Vigilance - distinguishing, quality of Lawrence police, and librarians.
while I used the title with the real affection which now prompts his "boys" so to speak of him, yet it was an impertance and he overheard me. I believe this like name is I believe know it know him happy to be called that now.
Shallow—"Why, just read that sign, 'Dental Parlorors.' Isn't that absurd to call a dental room a parlor?" Deep—"It is probably the painter's mistake. He meant a drawing room." —Ex.
I had no social ambitions. I was anxious to raise whiskers, but my term was completed before I achieved them. If my beard had grown a year earlier no doubt I would have permitted my social dreams to crystalize into ambitions. But our girls, though very lovely to me, were young women; I was a mere boy. I hadn't the nerve to cultivate them.
Instead of a social career, I tried to read all the books in the library—the greatest treasure I had ever found. When I finished there were still a few books which I had not had time to read—not many.
I presume that for this article my later life doesn't matter. If it does, I may say, briefly, that I have practiced law since my graduation. I have been twenty-five years on the Pacific coast, of which I have spent twenty-one in the state of Washington. I have happened to be in a number of noteworthy cases. I am hard, for a sufficient living, and so I have done well." I married, and to my wife's good management is due much of my modest prosperity, and to her companionship and to that of our son, I owe much of the steady happiness which has come to me. I am young, healthy, busy and reasonably happy. I claim to be a successful man.
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