UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
LION C. MADDEN...Railroad STATES
JONN HARBET...Editor-in-Chief
JONN HARBET...Associate Editor
JONN GERLMANNER...Managing Editor
JOHN LANDFORD...Landlord
LANDFORD LANDLORD...Sport Editor
REPORTOR
BUSINESS STAFF
EENA MAYER Management Manager
RAY EAVESMAN Creativity Manager
JAMES HILL Operations Manager
SAM DRUGN
SAM DROGN
GOLDEN ALLOYNE
ROB BURRER
ROB BURRER
LACQUER HIDFURN
JONES LACQUER
BRÉMINE SMITH
GILBERT, CLAYTON
GILBERT, CLAYTON
GIAL STAFF
BACHER J. HAMMER
LUCY DICKS
J. A. GREENLEES
J. A. HENKINS
GASER SERVIER
WILLIAM S. CADDY
CHARLES SWEET
CRAZS S. STURTWANVIL
COUNTRY LUCKIN
COUNTRY LUCKIN
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Larraine, Kansas, under the act of March
Lawrence.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of Journalism.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students go further than merely proring the notes with by standing in front of the libraries; to be clean; to be careful; to be more serious problems to user heads; to solve more serious problems at the university; and the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1914
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.—Bacon.
TOO MUCH SECRECY
TOO MUCH STUDENT
Why are the sessions of the Men's
Student Council held behind closed
doors?
A GOOD START
Local, state, and national legislative bodies are open to the public except on special occasions and it is proper that the students should be more familiar with the way their representatives act and vote.
Our old rivals, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, had athletes there, but the K. U. men outclassed them time after time.
Kansas held her own at the track meet in Convention Hall. No other school represented at the annual contest of the Kansas City Athletic Club could consistently compete with the University of Kansas and be successful.
If any comparison can be made from the representatives of the two schools at the meet last week, we have little to fear from Missouri in the annual dual indoor meet in Convention Hall week after next.
The coaches, as well as the men are upholding the honor of the University in first rate style.
IN THE MEANTIME-
Prof. E. M. Briggs' suggestion for the removal of the pulmotor to the gymnasium is a good one.
The pulmotor, being on the outside, will be accessible in times of necessity and there will be no need of carrying an axe along when a searcher starts out for it again.
However, the Board of Administration must pass on the change before it is made and in the meantime if you want the pulmotor you had better bring that axe along or sit down on the steps of Fraser and wait for the nightwatchman.
CHUCKLES AND THE WHISTL
CHUCKLES AND THE WHISTLE
The incubation of a group of faculty humorists seems the only logical result now that many professors are persistently holding their classes from three to five minutes after the whistle blows.
Dean Templin says students should get up and leave when the whistle blows. Nevertheless, few students take advantage of this privilege. Q. E. D. therefore, the professor must be mysteriously exercising some influence over his students to hold them, and the only reasonable conclusion is that they are telling their classes funny stories.
How funny are these stories; how worthy each and every one must be of an undergraduate chuckle! Apparently it is only a question of time until Will Irwins and Al. Jennings
will be as common as dandellons on
mT. Oread. Viva la faculty humorists;
down with the whistle!
The ridiculous attempt to have the Student Council declare the office of editor of the Daily Kansan vacant is highly ludicrous when one considers the fact that the Student Council has about as much control over the Daily Kansan Board as it has over the International Hashslingers' Association.
A SUGGESTION
It would be a good idea if the athletic management would furnish base balls for the boarding house league. More students get exercise and recreation from it, probably, than from any other sport, and it is only just that it should receive some material support from the men higher up.
The furnishing of the baseballs would make the league look more like business to the players and would prove that others than the players are interested.
The "thank you" editorial for the clock and picture which Mr. Gustafson and the University Book Store presented to the Student Union, be construed as a gentle hint to other equally loyal Lawrence merchants.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
"State warrants are expected Thursday," says the teacher's and employees bulletin in Fraser Hall. Councilmen please take notice.
Will the manipulator of the Squirrel Print print run off a few more of those joking red placards. We failed to get one for our "K" book.
Have you noticed now that the professor who erases the quiz questions when the whittle blows usually overtakes you in minutes overtime with his lectures?
AN EPIDEMIC
"Wormy Worthington is sporting a girl. Shorty is trying to do the same. Davis and Seago both have strong cases. John J. is drowsy with love-sickness."-High school correspondent in Argiona Argyos.
What perplexed the editors who were visiting the University Tuesday, was where the editor of the Daily Kansan got his $9.85 of bail money...Contributed.
Fifty years—that's the age of the University of Kansas. But each year it lives it takes on a new vigor. And so, as a matter of fact, it is a youth, despite its years, a youth with loins that are strong and with brains that are keen, a power of well-nigh measurable proportions in the development and progress of Kansas.—Topeka State Journal.
Londoners are complaining that baseball is monotonous and one naturally wonders what they would think of handball.
It cost New York City a million and a half dollars to clean the snow off her streets and walks. She should be progressive like Lawrence and let the sun do it.
"One thousand people turned away from our show last year." says an ad of the K. U. Vaudeville Co. Well, it all depends on the way you look at it, of course.
tegetent (a board, now obsolete)
See Board of Administration.
K. U. DICTIONARY
Rooming Houses; A place to stay
Main argument in favor of Universi-
ties
Recommendation; Something desired by seniors; a human act performed by a professor as a farewell to outgoing students.
Report (causes of NX's, con' s,
banks); See the thesis, theme,
or note-books.
"R"
Requirements; More fully explained by University catalog, advisors, heads of departments, etc., etc. A hindrance to graduation.
Registrar (see Foster); The hardest worked man in the University; Derived from Registration, the sys tem that cannot be perfected.
PROFESSOR AT THE DANCE "Where is your wife?"
Responsibility; "The individual student will be held responsible for the election of his courses," taken from the University catalog, but never fully understood until the senior year.
"By Jove. I knew I had left something at home."—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
WITH K. U. POETS
WHISPERING A SECRET
WHISPERING A SECRET
BY ARTHUR G. CANFIELD
Formerly Head of the Department of French.
Her lips were so red
"Twas in vain to reasst them.
I forgot what she said
It was red to reasst her.
With head close to head,
Who wouldn't have kissed them?
"Twas vin to resist them."
CAMPUS OPINION
EVERYBODY IN
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Are you a sophomore? What does fifty cents mean to you now?
What will a class memorial mean to you ten years from now? Think this over. Then you'll get possession of fifty cents, the assessment voted by the class, bring it up on the hill tomorrow morning, and present it to the first memorial fund collector, see. They will present you collection, and your name will among the list of names will be published in the Daily Kansan next Tuesday. The names of the committeemen are collecting are posted on all the bulletin boards, so you may know whom to pay. Will you do it? Decidedly yes.
WIDER CHOICE OF COURSES
To the Edition of the Daily Kansas:
A Soph Who Wants a Memorial.
The purpose of the Group System. I take it, is to prevent premature and immature specialization among the students, which is unquestionably a wise purpose. Likewise, it would probably be well if all students could keep to general work throughout their undergraduate course, and specialize in the Graduate School. But not all can do so; many must get their special work in their two upperclass years or do without them. The present group carries many to do with some courses they need. Would it not be better, leaving in force the present group scheme for the underclassmen, either to forget it entirely for the upper classmen, or to trv something like this:
Permit the upperclassman to take up to ten hours in his major department, but, in case he does not use this privilege, leave it in effect as to other groups and to the rest of the group in which his major has been required to take alternate-year and other last-chance courses which elude him as yet.
These schemes should be combined with the present or a better "major and minor" rule, to prevent their abuse. Fix the major department requirement at from thirty to forty-five hours, say, of which from fifteen to twenty-five should be upperclass work; and permit the chief minor department to go up to thirty hours, unrestricted as to catalogue number.
Aside from all the preceding, Group VII needs remodeling. If there are objections to making four departments and two groups of its members, at least give students a chance to get a full major in History without having to forego Political Science as a minor, and vice versa.
CLEVER THINGS THE OTHER FELLOW SAYS
"These colleges must be pretty darn extravagant. My son says he has to wear a fresh cap every day." Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Dubb—Why is it so distastful for you to see a lady satisfy her thirst at one of these sanitary fountains? Clubb—Because I hate to see a woman stoop to drink—Harvard Lampoon.
Sound travels at the rate of 400
yards per second.
Exceptions to the rule:
Scandal: 1000 yards.
Platterty: 500 yards.
Truth: 2.46 yards.
Alarm clock——, —Pennsylvania
Punch Bowl.
"Hey Mutt, lend me your crow-bar."
"What do you want with it?" "I want to use it to turn over a new leaf."—Youngstown Telegram.
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It was a beautiful New Year
meeting in the Stone Age.
Pat-Tim, why do they celebrate the birthday of Lincoln?
Tim-I don't know, unless it is because William Jennings Bryan came from there—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
"Have you spoken to father yet?" "Yes. I just now said 'Good Evening' to him as I passed him in the ball."-Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Agent-I would like to sell you a combination carper-sweeper, letter-opener, cash receiver, and talking machine.
Business Man—No use. I am al-
ready married—Columbia Jester.
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Instruction of University Grade Instruction of Vocational Subjects Instruction of Practical Subjects,such as Salesmanship and Store Management
The Department of General Information
Furnishes Package Libraries Prepares Outlines of Study for Clubs Supplies Material for Debates Gives Information on Matters of General Interest Provides Lecturers
The Department of Municipal Reference Supplies Information and Help of All Sorts in Municipal Affairs
The Department of Child Welfare
Assists Schools, Parents, Organizations, in All Matters Pertaining to the Welfare of the Child
Address:
The University Extension Division, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
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