UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, MARCH 23.1914
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive.
—Scott
ANTICIPATION — "The Student Union was thrown wide open to the visiting high school boys." A fine idea.
TWO YEARS AHEAD
How much better it would have been, however, if we had had a building on the campus about the size of Green Hall where Mr. Student Body could have been ye Royal Host Supreme.
We could have boarded our guests at the big cafeteria-commons in the basement. We could have entertained them in the parlors, lounging nooks, and game rooms of the upper floors. We might have filled that huge hall in the upper story with long rows of cots, allowing all the boys to bunk together.
REALIZATION - It's great to talk about this permanent Union but how are we actually going to get it? In order to build it at the earliest time possible, what must be done?
Unions in other schools will have to be investigated, plans drawn up, blue prints made and a site on the campus selected before the legislature meets next year. At that time a concerted effort must be made to have a plot of ground deeded by the state to the Student Council or some incorporated student body. After getting a free site the big financing question looms up.
Proably the best plan will be to issue interest bearing bonds and offer them for sale among alumni and friends of the University. This scheme has been used elsewhere. Cafeteria and Cooperative Book Store concessions might be made to pay interest on the bonds.
With reasonable good fortune the contractors could commence work during the summer of 1915 and the real brick-and-mortar Student Union would be ready for the visiting basketball players two years from this spring—before this year's sophomores are graduated.
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Any preliminary steps taken by the present Student Council toward the desired end will be appreciated by Mr. Student Body.
He has a hankering to be the right sort of a host when he has visitors.
BE A POLITICIAN
More than a month remains before the election of members for next year's Student Councils but already the "politicians" are said to be lining up their candidates. The initiative of these leaders is to be commended. It is when their motives are personal and when "pie"
Every student should be a politician of the right sort. If your roommate, your messmate, your classmate, is a student with judgment and ability, one whose personal feelings are subordinate to the interests of the undergraduate body, it is YOUR business to see that he or she becomes a candidate for office.
is their chief object, that the chronic wire pullers' should be swatted.
The governing bodies need members with broad visions next year. The legislature will be in session and the mill tax is sure to be an issue. The right kind of Council members can make possible a permanent Union and the first dormitory. They must have confidence in themselves, however, and enthusiasm, and loyalty, and unselfishness and a saving sense of humor.
It is time for each student to appoint HIMSELF to hunt out the right candidate and force him into the race. Tonight is the best time to start.
"Would Kanasa be amusing mentally to a civilized man?" asks Mr. Hutchins Hapgood, in The International, for February.
CIVILIZATION IN KANSAS
The author of the article evidently uses civilization in the sense of intellectuality, or idolic worship of Thoughtists. He likens the attempts of Kansas at safeguarding the health and morals of her citizens to endeavor to put her people on the plane of animals, which he says "have no artificial excitements." In his mind there can be nothing analogous between culture and "efficiency and decency."
"Observed," says Mr. Happgood, "have noticed the fanaticism and the intensity of the American temperament. In ultimate civilization there is an element of warm intellectual sensuousness." But, he goes on to say, in Kansas there is none of this. Kansas has gone off after the strange gods of social uplift and has forgotten the flesh pots of the intellect. There is nothing very wise, very beautiful, very right in Kansas
Kansas, in preparing the laws and rules of the state, has so hedged her people about with restrictions and limitations that the art, art, art, beauty, and literature have been crowded entirely off the stage.
"Would you go to Kanas," asks Mr. Happgood, in conclusion, "If... you were looking about for the best man been said and thought in the world?"
ENDS AND ODDLETS
"Run Steam Roller Over McCook."
—Headline. Didn't the Stiehm rolling of last fall suffice?
The joke is on us. We thought all the time that the "enforcer of a blue sky law" was the weather man.
Here's to the prof who dismisses his classes,
When he knows that the whistle has blown;
For many a prof holds another prof's classes,
By waiting to turn out his own.
—Cyrus Byron.
Michigan Daily: It is understood that the dumb belles of the Flint School for the deaf and the Indian Clubs of Carlisle are going to band together in a small society. At least this rumor has been heard at the school for the deaf.
"Dentist victim of explosion."—News note. Nothing newsy about that; every time he fills a tooth he runs that risk.
If the present semester, with all its noise ran over into July, it would be useless to predict a sane Fourth in Lawrence.
Movies may make highwaymen but they're cheaper than dances.
SMOKES FOR REST
Here's good news for the dyspeptics who thought they had to quit smoking on account of their tumines. Governor Hodges, who has had stomach trouble for years, consulted a specialist in London a few years ago. After a careful examination into the governor's blinded into the governor's habit, the specialist told the governor to smoke a cigar after every meal. It was repose not the tobacco, which was needed, the specialist said, but to form a habit of relaxing for a short time after every meal required, in the case of busy men an incontinent person probably hasn't been cured by this treatment, but he has improved enough to be governor of a state. And that's a healthy man's job, they say—Kansas Industrialist.
CAMPUS OPINION
A SENIOR MEMORIAL
The most difficult committee to serve on, according to my personal experience at college, is the senior memorial committee. This is true first, because the spirit of the class must be exemplified in the memorial selection, and second, because the aim is generally high than the task that has been set aside for the gift. Often, too, the money is not paid in on time and the chairman anxiously waits for the tardy dues, until the week of the finals; then, when the rush and excitement of commencement is in the air he calls together his allies of co-working and other of the deficiency. All vote mally on the first thing suggested that can be bought for the money that has been collected and the memorial is a a "sure thing," even though it may not represent the ideals of the majority of the class. Then the memorial will be paid for quality the censure should fall upon the class officers who were negligent in managing the entire affairs.
At the University of Illinois, an institution in several respects very similar to the University of Kansas, the memorials of late years have been a great success. The memorial is selected in the junior year, the money is collected during the first semester of the senior year, and the memorial becomes a "sure thing" the second semester.
One of the most striking of these memorials at the University of Illinois is a large rock through which a spring bubbles. The rock is situated a little to the right of the main entrance of old University Hall. During the warm days of April, May, June, and September, also during the summer session, one can always see a group of thirsty students awaiting their turn at the rock for a cool drink.
The officers of one class happened to be science students, and through their efforts a large sun-dial mounted on the roof of a pedestal was selected for a fitting gift.
Another class purchased a number of Lincoln heirlooms which are now displayed in Illinois' new Lincoln Hall.
The class of 1900 realized how convenient it would be to have a seat somewhere on the campus, so they gave a large stone seat known as the Senior Bench. It is large enough to seat eight people and is located in one of the most picturequeues spots on the campus in a clump of trees between University Hall and the Library. Here the seniors gather and ate or interact with any freshman, honoree, or junior, who sits on the senior bench. He is recognized at once, for at the University of Illinois the cap and hat system prevails.
The class of 1910 had a true literary spirit; the members of the memorial committee were influenced toward the realm of American Literature by Professor Paul of the English Department. The student gave a bust of Longfellow which has been placed near the left at the entrance to the large reading rooms on the first floor of the Library. From an aesthetic point of view, it is by far the finest memorial at the university.
Because of the damage done to both private and public property in the cities of Urbana and Campaign, after the great football victories and spring celebrations, the class of 1911 thought it wise to lessen this vandalism by having all of the celebration take place on Illinois field. A Prize for clearing dollars was accordingly, offered to the senior architect who could make the best design for a celebration urn. The design was selected, and the urn was constructed and placed on Illinois field. Now, after a great athletic victory or spring celebration, a fire is kindled in the urn and the celebration takes place on Illinois field; the boysVarsity songs, and a scene-dance, sing Varsity songs, and give Illinois yellls; steam is thus let off without the destruction of property.
The class of 1912 had a number of famous athletes. To do them homage, the class as a whole thought that an athletic memorial should be chosen. As a result a number of fine trophy cases were given.
According to my mind the finest memorial that a class can give, namely, the chimes, has not been given at the University of Illinois, although it has been brought up and discussed at many class meetings. The chimes would be so expensive that it would be necessary for several classes to put their collected funds together to carry out the work I believe that if the class were here at the University of Kansas would combine and start a memorial fund, it would be too long before the chimes would be not a hazy ideal for a "more secure" memorial. Need I say that the chimes would be not only the most fitting memorial from an aesthetic but also from a utilitarian point of view.
A. B. 1914 University of Illinois.
Edna P. Osborn.
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