UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official students paper of the University of Karaue
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JOHN C. MADDEN, Editor-In-Chair
LION HAMBERT, Associate Editor
JOHN GURINBERG, Manager Editorial
JOHN GUERINBERG, Master Editor
LANDON LAIBD, Sport Editor
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EDWIN HAYES...Business Manager
RAT EADWORDS...Circulation Manager
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YVICK SMITH...Accounting Manager
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PORCELAION
SAM DROEN
HENRY MALOY
J. A. GREENBREAKER
CHARLES GIBSON
HERNERT FUNT
LUCIE HILMERGER
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RAY CLAAPER
LAWRENCE SMITH
WILLIAM S. CADY
GILBERN CLAYTON
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate in going on to go further than merely printing the notes by standing up and playing the music; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to upper heads; to be more serious problems to university students of the University.
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1914.
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment—Emerson.
PLA-A-A-Y BA-A-A-W-L!
The first official meeting of the boarding house baseball league, the organization from which the Feds hope to pick up some material next year, the place where one finds the cream of national pastime amateurs of the Middle West, the club to which all the high and mighty batters of the lowly pill who eat Lawrence "hash house" soup ought to belong—this initial get-together session has been set for Thursday night at the Student Union.
If your club has not been organized do so at once and appoint a representative to be present Thursday.
Limber up! Forget notebooks and quizzes and show the University as well as the interested fans all over the country that your club is in the first division when it comes to baseball.
COME AGAIN
When national educators meet Kansas teachers at Lawrence each year the affair is always a success. Students like to hear from the high schools. The teachers are glad to look over the University and revisit halls familiar to many of them. The lectures are especially valuable and "a good time is always had by those who were present."
GET THAT CHECK BOOK
There are two courses open to the student who has not yet paid his Union dues. He can drop in at 1200 Tennessee some time this week and get a receipt for his dollar, or he can wait until the committee comes around.
Money will not be any cheaper a week from today, and a dollar will be just as big if paid to a collector at it will be if handed in at the Union, so why cause extra work and trouble?
The Union is there, its advantages are obvious. It is a worthy predecessor of the permanent building which is sure to come. Be a charter member, or rather—be a paid up charter member.
There is always a receipt book ready for business at the Union.
A LIFE PRESERVER
Why couldn't the augmented public speaking department be a pulmotor next year for one of the languishing student activities on Mount Oread, K. U. drama?
Experience on the stage is valuable to any man or woman in the University. It is surely a branch of
"public speaking." It gives confidence, ability to appear at ease in public, and practice in clear enunciation, which are well worth the effort expended.
If this activity were placed under the enlarged department the productions could be made more elaborate, the training would be more valuable for all who participate and no suspicious student need fear to spend the admission price because he might be afraid of a poor show.
Leland Stanford University has increased the salaries of its faculty from instructors to professors. Good. If the laborer is worthy of his hire, so is the professor. But in America, getting his the laborer, the laborer, comes near with what amounts to half or quarter pay.
PAY PROFESSORS MORE
A university is not entirely a mainly physical foundation. Many American universities are hand somely endowed or generously financed by the States. Yet too small a proportion of their incomes is absorbed by salaries paid the brains that, after all are the university's large a proportion goes to buildings, grounds athletics, and even laboratories. For the services of the best equipped laboratory, unless the teaching staff has the talent to make the most of the advantages thereof? It is true that high and distinguished talent in all ages has often received a pittance for its invaluable service, but the fact does not consort with justice. It does not consort with expedition either. For it is shortsighted to vest millions in elaborate plants, and then to need them for much higher efficiency. While the teachers in our universities may be surprisingly efficient under the conditions, it is obvious that as a whole they would become much more, were they adequately paid. Those who remain teachers despite the poor pay would be inspired, while others of high talent, who now take their talent to the market place, would be drawn by the better remuneration into the professorial American professors, who, whatever their merit, are a mediocre compared to the body of German professors. And the degree of difference can about be measured by the difference in pay.
We have been a severely utilitarian people. The managing talent has been the one we have inadequately or even inordinately paid. But the managing talent is not the only one worthy of recompense, as we are finding out. We have been forced pay the man's more and more than the chemist, the engineer. The teaching work in our colleges is as important, even from a utilitarian standpoint. The professor is an expert, his preparation has cost him much. His power of good or evil is large. The function he performs is essential to the development of the community. More and more he is furnishing society its trained minds, and upon trained minds society is becoming more and more dependent than it is the work of the professor! How important to society that such work should be performed by best talent! To secure best talent the pay must be proportionate.
The German conception of a university is an assembling of intellects. Ours is a physical plants and ours attendance. We have the plants. The thing to do is to man them with intellects and to be just to what intellects are already on the job.—Minneapolis Journal.
A Pennsylvania man broke into jail the other day in order to play cards and some K. U. students fear that if the present trend continues they will have to break into jail in order to smoke a pipe.
The height of precaution, according to the Daily Illini, is for the library science student to ask that the library be fumigated because he found scarlet fever in the dictionary.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
A. Michigan two students are contesting for the university billiard title.
Co-ed: Oh, I just love him. He gave me a B in his course and I wasn't worth a D.
HERE'S A CUE
If the pool halls really close next year
After all this serious jawing
Our knowledge will take a slump, b
For where'll we learn English and Drawing?
Our knowledge will take a slump, I fear
This latest French shooting reminds us that it is a, mighty good thing that there are no married Councilmen.
—Cy Byron.
WITH K. U. POETS
MY LADY FAIR By "An Alumnus"
Soft as silk was her golden hair,
Bright as stars were her eyes of blue.
Truly I loved my lady fair,
Truly my lady loved me, too.
Did it in my heart when my love lay
dead?
Why bless your son! she didn't die!
Time changes wrought as it onward
sped,
She another—so do I.
spea,
She loves another—so do I.
CAMPUS OPINION
LIKES CAFETERIAS
Patrons of the Oread Tea Room—and they are many—are regretting that the cafeteria system is to be done away with, since the business has changed hands. The cafeteria, under the excellent management of Mrs. L. S. Hayes, has been a boon to the student body, ever since its opening last fall. It is something "the Hill" has always on its opening day was hailed with joy on its standing day, and grown steadily in order. Just why this most convenient system of service is to be abandoned does not appear, but there has been a very general protest against it.
Barring the experiment which enjoyed a brief but popular existence in the basement of Fraser Hall two years ago, Mrs. Hayes has been the pioneer in the cafeteria business on the hill. She has tried faithfully to meet the needs of the student every way, and their well-well friends interests at heart, she has succeeded and much praise is due to her. Now that the responsibility has been transferred to others, not only the "cafeteria way" but the kindly presence of this big-hearted woman is going to be genuinely missed by the friends she made at the Tea Room. This is an expression of the warm but faithful appreciation of them feel called upon to extend to Mrs. Hayes through the columns of the Daily Kansan. Every good wish of our hearts goes with her in whatever she may undertake.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Appreciative.
By Charles M. Coats, '13.
(When the Daily Kansan asked fifty prominent alumni for a brief "Story of My Life" we did not expect to get any recent K. U. political history. Doc Coats, however, howd it I learned University Politics," rather than to follow the suggested subject.)
During my sophomore year I roomed at the Babb house, 1384 Ohio. One night as I sat leaning over my desk with a book in each hand and about asleep, I was roused with a start and looking around, beheld a couple of trusty classmates. I asked them what they wanted and was told that there was to be a caucus on the top floor and they wanted me to join them. I had never thought of mixing in school politics, but as I was tired of studying, I decided to rest my eyes for awhile and agreed to join the party on the top floor.
The caucus was composed of Sig Alphs, Betas, Sigma Nus, and barbs; a very good mixture. We decided to do a little railreading at a big meeting to be held at the Y. M. C. A. This was for the election of officers for the sophomore class. I was to hold the chair and then turn it over to Dutch Hainbach. '13, who was to be the permanent chairman.
The meeting was held as scheduled and all progressed O. K., until about the close, and then thirty or more strangers filed in. I had already turned over the chalk and I asked at Dtown how he was taking He seemed cool enough but I guess he thought it was all up with the railroad game.
He called for nominations for president and one of the strangers was given the floor and he nominated our scheduled candidate. I sure felt relieved and I saw that this new bunch of men had been as is. Our ticket was nominated and elected to run. I afterwards discovered that some of our bunch were afraid that they could not control the meeting, so they telephoned around a few fraternity houses and had them come to the meeting, and they arrived just in time to give a few of us a good scare.
Our ticket was led by Shorty Hoffman and Jack Sterling. They were all defeated except Jack, who managed to squeeze through.
I had a good time during the election. I met a bunch of men and it was proof to me that I had to stay with it. This is how I got started in school politics.
First Ag.-Have you seen the bull rush up the creek?
Second Ag-No, but I saw the catnip at its legs.-Daily Illini.
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