UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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SAM DENNY
BAM HAWYOL
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1914
Men, while teaching, learn.— Seneca.
The secret things belong unto the Lord—Deuteronomy 29:29.
THE MID-WEEK DATES
The women of the University are not merely expressing a favorable or an unfavorable opinion on the mid-week date question at the election tomorrow. The effect of the vote will be a little deeper than that.
If a majority vote "yes" the women not only confirm the rule and pledge their honor to support it, but they also say, in effect, that the enforcement of the rule shall remain in the hands of the Woman's Student Government Association; or as some of the supporters look at it, they will affirm that they endorse the regulation as a standard of conduct necessary to the upholding of certain ideals, and that they want to see the Council have unquestioned authority in maintaining that standard.
The W. S. G. A. has been greatly handicapped this year because the faculty Council gave them no authority toward enforcing the regulation until November. The precedent of non-enforcement had been established and the student association has had little chance to have effective enforcement since that time. A "yes" vote will tell the W. S. G. A. that the women of the University are behind the rule and its enforcement by students.
The Council declares that it will do its best to see that mid-week dates are abolished if a majority of the women vote favorably.
A "no" vote by a majority means that the rule will be stricken out of the constitution of the W. S. G. A. and the association will have nothing to do with the rule and its enforcement. The faculty might pass such a regulation at any time however.
In either case present conditions will be changed. The W. S. G. A. will either proceed to stop violations (if the vote is "yes"), or students will wash their hands of the entire affair and put the matter up to the faculty (if the vote is "no").
FORECAST: ONE TWISTED TAIL
“Of course, I’d rather like to see the events but what’s the use of going down—we always get beat?”
This was the remark of a junior last year when asked to attend the Missouri-Kansas indoor track meet. And that same junior has been kicking himself constantly, even though figuratively, ever since.
Friday night there will be another meet in Kansas City. The chances for a Kansas victory seem excellent. Even the Tigers admit that we have
the edge on them as far as dope is concerned—but such admissions must be taken with a grain of salt because K. U. most certainly will have no walkway.
A large and noisy rooting section will help the team and you are a rooster, so scrape together enough cash to pay expenses and come along to get revenge for the football tragedy last fall. And don't forget that you will see one of the classiest battles for track supremacy ever fought in Convention Hall.
The freshmen should think twice, or three or four times, before they decide finally to abolish such an established custom as the wearing of freshman caps after April 1.
FRESHMAN CAPS
An expression of sentiment from more freshmen than attended the meeting yesterday should be obtained at once—by a special meeting if necessary.
CAN YOU BLAME HIM?
A sweet young thing went forth to
ENDS! AND ODDLETS
Her dog he gazed up after The joy of life was in her soul
e joe of life was in her seat.
As she these here words did chatter:
"Oh, I love to hear the birds sing. They please me with their twitter, What joy doth come with gentle Spring—"
"Arkansas City Girls, Lawrence Boys Win." Headline. Sounds like a matrimonial invasion.
The dog he up and bitter.
-Cy Byron.
The Y. M. C. A. conducts a morning watch Bible class. Why not call it an alarm clock class?
THE DAY OF BARGAINS
Oh, woman she was cheap I wiss,
Back in the Age of Stone
For we read along in Genesis How Eve cost Ad one bone.
But she's cheaper now by far, I wot Here in this modern day;
Ere the parson ties the nuptial knot.
Paw gives the bride away.
一
-Cy Byron.
"Give me the presidency or give me death," says Villa. From this distance they both look alike.
一
Weather forecast for the week:
Fair and warmer, if it doesn't snow,
rain, hail, blow, or freeze.
NO, NOT WALT MASON
The Baker Glee Club starts next week
To sing their way beyond Pike's Peak.
They have been told to be very good,
And yet we know they always should.
Yet each one will take along his grip.
They get no pay for this jaunty trip
On Oranges and steaks—but who can tell.
But the Santa Fe will feed them well.
They will travel in a private car,
so they all can ride without a jar.
They'll even have a porter there.
They'll then from going on a
tear.
And eat their dinner just at noon.
They就吃 their Sundays going to
night.
Of course they'll always sing in tune,
So the prexy won't use on them the birch.
They'll cross the desert, waste and wild.
And take the applause as meek as a child.
They'll sing of Baker far and near.
and endeavors or enterprises or what-cheer.
it'll be a great trip on which they go.
O'er the land of sunshine and the land of snow,
They'll watch the sun set in the west
Then every man'll "pull down his vest."
But when their eyes turn from the foollight's glare,
And when they reach the ocean wide,
For they're coming back to the Baker girl.
footlight's glare,
They'll give every girl the stony
With the sparkling eye and the shining curl,
They never sing here in the minor key,
For we're all as happy as happy
can be.    -Baldwin Ledger.
OUR DAILY QUIZ
Use honor system and grade yourself
SPRING
Q. When does it take it a notion.
Sometimes it drops in for a day in January and then disappears for three or six months.
A. —A fleeting, uncertain variable season, supposed to occur some time between March and May.
time between March and May.
Q...When does it really come?
Q.—What is this beautiful spring
read of so much and see so little?
Q—How can you tell when it has really come?
A. —Mere delusions, designed to cheer the fainting heart.
Q—Then what are all these so-called harbingers of spring?
cheer the fainting heart.
There are any dependable sign of spring?
A.—Well spring fever is as good
as any.
Q. —And what is that?
Q. And what is it?
A. If you ever have it, you'll know what it is; if not, you couldn't understand.
Q. —What is the best way to insure an early spring?
A. —Invest in ten tons of coal and a new winter suit.
Q—Can spring be delayed?
A.—It gets a set-back every time an answer is given.
Q.—Why is spring, anyway?
A.—Chiefly to justify spring hats.
Incidentally to provide scenery for plenies, Varsity baseball, moonlight junior proms, and other sports.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Willard A. Wattles
I have thought for some time that I should like to write a record of the prairie and call it, "The Autobiography of An Unknown Man." I was born June 8, 1888 at Bayneville, Kansas, and have spent practically every summer in Nebraska ranch. From such bare-footed intimacy with the grass-roots, from acquaintance with good books on modest but well-selected shelves, and from the unseilfishes lived I saw lived about me, I early formed the resolution to help put Kansas in literature ever knew enough to do so. I knew it is my hope some day to fulfil
I graduated from the Wichita high school in 1905, took my A. B. degree at the University of Kansas in 1909, taught one year in the Leavenworth high school, returned on a teaching fellowship and received my M. A. from the University in 1911, and am now completing my third year of service as an instructor in English at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the town of Amherst.
I consider life to be an adventure for friendship, and that the home-best things in life are the most beautiful, that misunderstanding is responsible for more evil than sincerity is the surrest of damnations, and that many people would be happier if they were willing to regard Jesus of Nazareth as their personal and immortal friend. I think that many of the mysteries of life, as of the ancient old people are much wiser than the young, and that God walks in his universe daily and does not dwell apart.
I am glad to have my verses make friends, though I regret that my best work seldom reaches the people who would like it. Within the next year I shall publish two volumes which I have been long preparing, one called "Sunflowers" in which I shall print the best lyrical Kansas verses I can find. And only a two volume edition and the others by William Herbert Carruth, Esther M. Clark, Biglow Biglow Paine, Eugene Ware, Harry Kemp, and Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. The illustrations are already prepared.
The second volume, "An Altar in Athens," will be limited to my own series of forty religious poems, chiefly in blank verse, and presenting what I believe to be a reverent and loving poem. In my life I write verse because I have no time at present for other methods of expression, and I feel that as yet I have made no more than a beginning. I have always liked Macaulay's comment on Milton that "he who with truth would write noble poems of great value lived a noble poem." I believe that the finest poetry is lived, not written, and that the people of Kansas may, if they are wise, build a new Athens where men as yet are poor. The clean hearts and strong lives of the central west are of more importance than even many westerners understand, and the future of Kansas is the future of America.
At Boulder the students had to raise $75 before the baseball team could take a trip to Texas.
The faculty at Ottawa has ruled against football games on Thanksgiving.
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