UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
DIPLOMATICAL SCHOOL
JOHN C. HABBERT  Associate Editor
JONC HABBERT  Associate Editor
JOHN GERINGNER  Management Editor
JONN GERINGNER  High School Editor
LANCOX LANBET  Sport Editor
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REPORTORIAL STAT
SAN DIEGO JOHN HENLEY
HENRY MALTOJ J. W. DITCHEN
GLEMOND ALTINE J. A. GREENBEE
ROBB EARLING J. ROGER
BOB ROBINBANK GWYNER
FRANK O'SULLivan WILLIAM S. ADY
KRISTINA KLUNGING JOHN HENLEY
JOHN HENLEY
LAWRENCE SMITH CHARLES SWETTER
CHARLES SWETTER
CHARLES SWETTER
HOLMAN HOWARD
HULEN HAVEN CALVIN LAMBER
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the students of Kansas go further than merely printing the news by standing in front of their友侏ers; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be curious; to more serious problems to user heads; to make use of the ability of the students of the University.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1914
Fashion wears out more apparel than man.—Shakespeare.
STILL TIME
Evidences of life on the part of the Hawk Club are gratifying indeed.
There is still plenty of time for this organization to stage a play at the University, a play which would probably be successful from every point of view.
Dramatics as a student activity has fallen far short of filling its accustomed niche at the University this year. A senior play and the offerings of the language departments are all that have been given. Just because the home talent market was flooded in previous years is no reason why it should slump so decidedly this year.
But luckily, it is not too late yet for a ripping good production before final quiz time in June.
The combination of the different dramatic clubs into one organization was a move which promised much for the improvement of the old situation and nobody supposed that such a change would result as it has up to the present time this year.
BEST MEMORIAL POSSIBLE
in looking around for a suitable memorial to leave at the University the junior class, or any other class, would be wise to consider the Student Union and its needs.
A piano, large rooftop leather chairs, paintings—the list of possibilities is an extended one. As much or as little money as the class desires could be spent, and every article could be properly marked so that future generations of students would know who was responsible for the donation.
The only possible objection would come from the women of the class and why shouldn't they contribute their share of the memorial money to another K. U. institution whose completion is only a matter of time—the woman's Dormitory?
OUTTALK MISSOURI!
The news that the "debate teams are working" gives every loyal Jayhawk a premonition that more twists in the Tiger's tail, more hard knocks for Colorado, and more beindered sliding for Oklahoma are about due.
The victory over the Missourians last year gave the forensic art a decided boost at the University. This renaissance, in fact, is now several years old. A revival of debating clubs three years ago was a prominent factor in creating the new interest.
One record, however, remains to be broken—winning all three de-
bater in one year. Here's hoping that the teams this year may have that success.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Sixty years ago this month University of Missouri students were holding mass meetings at which Kansas was the chief subject of discussion. The "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" providing for "squatter sovereignty" in the proposed new states had just been passed. That is, the question of whether Kansas and Nebraska should come in as free states or slave states, was to be decided by popular vote in those states.
The students at the University were, almost all, sons of slaveholders. Many of them brought their body servants to college with them. The students and citizens of Columbia held a mass meeting immediately after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and raised money to send two men to Kansas to lecture on slavery and its advantages—The Missouri Alumnus.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
This trio will march on forever Until all the dollar watches shall stop In "K books," in albums, in scrap books.
The Council, the Kansan, the Cop.
"Will Be Fine Night For Cara Tackers," says the headwriter commenting on the eclipse of the moon as he watches a plane that ys minimum fine be assessed.
SILILOQUE OF A FRESHMAN
To cut or not to cut; that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler, "the morning after the night previous"
To mount Oread and doze through an eight o'clock class
Or to turn a deaf ear to the seventh whistle
And by so doing pull a zero; to rest; to sleep;
No more; and by this sleep to know we end
The headache and the thousand little pains that accompany it;
Tis a satisfaction devoutly to be wished;
To snoeze; to rest; to sleep;
Perchance to dream; aye there's the rub;
For in that hour what dreams may come
When we have throttled the buzzing gong,
Must make us groan; the Prof.
Who makes a record of that one sad the
Which helps to remove the eye from that IV
We've been pulling.
And how we fear the pangs of despised love,
The insolence of Sophs and the haughty glances
Which proud Seniors of the Freshire take
When said Freshie draws a wine-colored F.
And that colored decoration which makes us to grunt
And sweat under a weary grind
Of "Chem, again" and "review" in "Math."
In dread of great calamity after quiz week
Causes us rather to climb the hill at schedule time
Than take a chance on something we know not of.
(A anonymous communications will not be published in this column, although the name of the writer will be withheld if desired. Contributions should be in the hands of the editor by six o'clock on the day before publication. A communication box has been placed in Fraser Hall near the Home telephone booth for the convenience of contributors.)
CAMPUS OPINION
Will you kindly tell me just where an approach to a building begins. The new rule adopted by the Board of Administration forbids smoking in buildings and on approaches to them. Do I have to quit smoking when ever I start to the hill, (approaching a certain building) or can I smoke until I hit a certain place where the approach begins?
WHO KNOWS?
Editor University Daily Kansan:
WEBSTER IS DISAPPOINTED
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I was sincerely disappointed in the attitude which you saw fit to assume toward a recent communication addressed you by myself. You comment on the message, with attended sarcasm and bristling with personal insults, lacked wholly the edification and dignity with which it is commonly the habit of publications to meet criticism and to reply to open expressions of public disapproval.
Nick-O-Tine.
I want it distinctly understood that my remarks are in no way intended to voice my private opinion alone, nor have I any ambition to pos as
a "self appointed critic," but what I said was prompted by the similar sentiment of some three hundred students, who saw fit to send me to the Student Council as their representative, and to whom I feel responsible.
Is it to be expected that the Men's Student Council, which last week suffered considerable indignity and no little public ridicule through a situation attributed directly to your efforts, is to suffer in silence and with out the right to voice its protest or indignation? Do you regard it as a pleasant task for the parents of the members of the Men's Student Council to explain to them naturally interested institutions that their sons "spend their time" violating city ordinances and dodging city officials while at the University? When duties such as these are thrust upon suprised and unwilling parents as the result of the insatiable appetite of a University paper for "news" real or manufactured and who's greatest pleasure is secured in "scooping" another publication even at the sacrifice of the University and private reputation, the time has arrived not only for protest but for action. Fortunately enough I have "never" suffered an arrest in less than the Daily a Kansan cease in its firing on a random, any memoir of the student body may expect to be at any time dragged from his midnight slumbers to the police station without the slightest provocation.
In conclusion I want it plain that I am merely expressing the sentiment of my supporters, in contending that the editorial policy and viewpoint of the Daily Kansan must be reconstructed; that a change must be effected in its conception as to what constitutes news; that it must be made a thoroughly democratic and general student publication voicing the sentiments and issues in the ideals of the active student body, and responding to those of a small controlling "clique" unamenable to popular control and unreached by just criticism. This end can alone be attained by choosing the editor in chief of this so called "student" publication from among the student body at large at a general election. This is demanded by a great many representative students and is sure to come.
Webster Holloway.
ORIGINAL AT LAST
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Oh lawyers! O mores!
We have heard that everybody knows more about running the paper than the editor, but until recently we had not heard that the most eminent Student Council, the prize bonehead bunch of the hill were thinking of running the Daily Kan-
Some of its membership propose to declare the editorship vacant and elect a successor by popular vote. Why don't they petition to have the job placed on the state ballot and have the people of the state elect him? We are told that the Kansan is read all over the state. As a matter of fact the subcribers to the paper should not have a bit more says in the election than the non-subcribers and moochers, and so we precise they would select half a sayso for only half the students subcriber. Besides good politicians are invariably good editors and would run the Kansan far better than it has been run in the past, no doubt.
Then, too, the Council has reason to be proud of this new move because of its originality. It is the first thing that body has done this year that has not been started and pushed all the way through by the Kansan. Take the Student Union. Had it not been for the Kansan there would not now be a student club house. The whole proposition was pushed so hard by the Kansan that the Council was afraid to let it drop. Then there's the pantatorium bonding proposition.
Well, we should worry! Nine rahs for the new Council editor, whoever he is.
CONSISTENCY
E. E. Plowman,'15.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I am glad to see in another newspaper that your self-appointed critic who wants the editorship of the Kansan thrown open to political cliques and the person you promote prominent university elections to insist that his criticism is in no way personal.
But I am to be convinced. If the leader of the Daily Kansan is the general election why should our "impersonal" criticism not be consistent and demand that the elections of the captains of the track team, baseball team, football team, tennis team, soccer team, the head of the dramatic organist or president of the tidd-dewkins all be chosen by popular election?
But I am to be convinced.
Surely the two thousand students who attend the football games are more than the members of the team, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
Consistency, you are a jewel!
Chas. Gibson '14.
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