UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kassar EDITORIAL STAFF POTENTIAL SCHOOL STUDENTS J. C. MABRON Study in-chef LION HARDEN Associate Editor JOHN GASSNER Manager JIM HUISSON High School Editor LANDON LAIRD Sport Editor BUSINESS 34 EDWARD ABBOTT Business Manager JOHN BROOKS Correction Manager JOWY HAWKINS Business Manager REPORTORI. SAM DERON MEMBER GLENDON ALLIANCE GLENDON ALLIANCE ROE BURNBACK ROE BURNBACK LUCILE HILMAN LAWRENCE BUSH SMITH GILBERT CUATTON GILBERT CUATTON AL STAFF LOUG BAROFE J WILSON J A GREENLESS FROUF GUNN GUINT FOUW WILLIAM S. CADY WILLIAM S. CHARLES SWEET CHAS S. SURVEYRN JOSSEPH HOWARD JOSSEPH HOWARD Entered in second-class mail matter written by a lawyer in Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 1948. Published in the afternoon five times a week. Encouraged by Kankai from the press of the department or Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance, one term, $1.50 Phone, Bell K. U. 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the students in Kansas to go further than merely printing their name by staging them at play for no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful to be; to be clean; to be cheerful to be; to be more serious problems to uerk headers; to be more serious problems to uerk headn FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1914 The blessed work of helping the world forward happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.—Eliot. SCORED THREE TIMES Starting out at one o'clock this morning to serve warrants issued Wednesday afternoon may be extremely unusual as a method of procedure, but it was rather effective, for an hour or so. Such methods, however are evidently the ones which the police see fit to use in the enforcement of a law which is, in itself, excellent. MOTION TO RECONSIDER The new degree for students in the School of Medicine will take effect immediately, says a committee which will report such action to the faculty of the College in the near future. Isn't this action a little unjust to the men who have already spent two, three, and four years on Mount Oread with the understanding that they would receive the A. B. and M. D. degrees? Shouldn't the faculty give a little warning before such a radical change is put in effect? If it is not out of order the Daily Kansan would like to move that this action be reconsidered. THAT STUDENT CHAPEL The criticism of Student Day talks by "G. R. G." and "Senior" in the Campus Opinion column expresses the general dissatisfaction with the preaches on that occasion. Too much Alphonso and Gaston politeness marred an excellent opportunity for service. The audience didn't expect or desire useless fault-finding or spiteful condemnation; but it did want more constructive suggestions from the undergraduate point of view. The best talk in this regard was the speech of Rodney Reid. Students intending to enter the School of Law who cannot enroll in the courses they desire during the year of work in the College; and upper-classmen who are not given proper training in Kansas procedure, seem to have a real grievance. The faculty of the two schools which are interested should see to it that some reforms are made or give reasons for continuing the present arrangement. ACT BEFORE ADJOURNING We note with pleasure that several committees of the senior class have been at work on class memorials but have as yet accomplished nothing definite. We have heard so much and seen so little of memorials that we are growing incredulous. Are memorials ever found in a tangible, corporeal state? The trouble with too many commit- teer is that they resemble the faculty committee reported in Tuesday's news columns. "The committee on the group system met last night at the office of the dean, talked and adjourned. No action was taken on the matter." Talking and adjourning never built a memorial or revised a group. Action is necessary. The seniors have a chance to act. They have the opportunity to leave behind them some think besides "footsteps on the sands of time." Will they act before they adjourn? ENDS AND ODDLETS GEMS FROM STUDENT DAY Murphy~Over at the engineering building we have music and singing. Jenks~I'm for the S. G. A. The B. G. Reid—The laws don't have enough reason to bear him admit (R?) expected to bear him admit (R?) Levinson—We are always glad to see somebody from the outside world. . . . Come over any time and we'll show you the plant in operation. (And nobody laughed! Serves him right for punning, though.) Malcolmson—Time's up. The editor of the Arkansas City Traveler evidently hasn't formed a close acquaintance with the Greeks, or he wouldn't ball up his genders when he refers to a k. U. fraternity. He says: "A party of Phi Psis were arrested in Lawrence last week for coasting on Indiana street, which is prohibited by a city ordinance. A Phi Psi is not a new spec of a bird, but one is the delight of the university of Kansas." This department will agree that some Greeks of the masculine variety would impress a bushy 'bath' as being a trifle effeminate, but they're not as "girly" as Hon. Dick Howard would have one believe. —Parsons Daily Sun. CAMPUS OPINION AGREES WITH US To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: I feel prompted through an editorial to say a few words regarding how students should know how the students who intend to continue their work in the College are disposed toward it. I know that all the pre-medics with whom I have spoken about it consider it a bugbear on account of the amount of science and language which they are taught in school, which they wish to take before entering the School of Medicine. I now have twenty hours of physical and biological science and am taking more of each and have found the group system to be a nuisance to me. I would rather have had science and technology as an aid in philosophy groups, as long as they did not overlap the work of the School of Medicine. I also think that the new ruling regarding the A. B. degree for the medical students should not apply to those students who have already entered the University with the intention of studying medicine. Such students would like ease until the fall following or at least the semester following their publication, which in this case would be September, 1914. Interested. To the Editor of the Daily Kansan; I attended the fourth Student's day of my experience Tuesday. The first time I was a freshman and the speeches were somewhat different from the attempts we heard the other day—they seemed to me to be a wonderfully daring arrangement of the faculty of that day. Perhaps it was that familiar scene created tempt, and that we are not so easily satisfied as formerly; but at any rate, to say that these speeches lacked the pop of those of former years is to put it mildly. To me, at least, they seemed a sad perversion of the supposed function of this day (two hours) in which I must have consented to their grievances for the consideration of the powers that be. One little criticism, of the unnecessary work that is now required of the Laws, was heard. This lonely knock did not satisfy me, and if the Daily Kansan will generously allow me a few lines, I will endeavor to make sure that have especially merited criticism, and which none of our representatives of that morning saw fit to mention. HE SHOULD HAVE TALKED To begin: Two years ago we were granted ten minutes in which to find our way from one class to another, and with the announcement of the change we learned that it was henceforth to be our privilege to leave the classroom at the sound of the whistle. The innovation was received with joy-in his mind the student saw visions of himself enjoying a leisurely stroll from Fraser to the Administration Building and back, perhaps with the lady of his choice at his side. Well, I haven't enjoyed any such strolls, and never expect to. I will venture to say that there aren't a dozen students on the hill who would brave the displeasure of their professors by leaving prompt at the sound of the whistle in front of the members of the faculty habitually arrive at their classes from five to ten minutes late, and then strive to retrieve the lost time at the end of the hour, and the daring student who rises from his seat without being granted permission is thrown out of class because "these" this may seem a trivial evil, but it tends to get worse from week to week, and many students are marked late or absent from class because the preceding professor held them too long. And this suggests a criticism of those professors who mark absent anyone who Secondly: I have noticed several members of the faculty whose behavior in the library, if practiced by a student would cause him exceeding discomfiture. These gentlemen at times are in view that harry they the library without removing their hats, perhaps talk loudly to the attendants (you have all seen the librarian's wrath at the timid coeds who dare to whisper in his sacred precincts), and after conferring in a loud voice with several of their colleagues, make noisy murmurations, trivial yet it is in marked contrast to the behavior of the average student when in the library. Thirdly: The grading system in use here at the present time is an exceedingly evanescent and intangible thing—I have known two students to hand in the same work, and in a few days the papers return, one with a grade of I. the other marked III. Or take a concrete case: I have a freshman roommate; this hopeful young man enrolled under a certain teacher of English, and in that week or so he handed in two themes—he both returned marked III. He now later transferred to another class, and like most of us under the same circumstances, handed in the same themes. Both returned promptly, marked I, with the legend "Good work." The point is obvious. Again: in four years spent on this mount of enlightenment I have noticed a persistent and continual curtailment of student privileges. It seems that this is the policy of the present University Council; a few of the instances in which this tendency are manifest might be cited; One particularly objectionable instance in which the power of the beforementioned Council was shown the abrogation of the Student Council's freshman cap rule. In this case the freshman themselves showed the sentiment of the student body. Quite a far cry to the days when freshman and sophomore fought it out on the first of May, or from the later period when the obstinate infant was immersed in South Park fountain. The poignancy in such restrictions lies in the realization that our own Student Council, organized expressly to regulate such student affairs, finds itself reduced merely as a position subservient to the faculty "Doing the faculty's work" is the way I heard the duties of the Student Council defined this fall, and the definition pretty weighty fits. And the new smoking rule, that smoking will not be permitted on the campus goes too far. We have here a quarter section of land, only a small part of which is at present overrun with ladies to whom the door of focoacho is objected, yet the student and ten o'clock classes will have to wait until he is off the hill in the future. Now my point in all the foregoing is simply that there is too much rule-making, both by the Board and the University Council. The students of this school are not all young boys, and it galls them to identify over them with ideas of the proper exercise of power is to make it felt, when unnecessary. I don't expect this epistle, penned while thinking over what we didn't hear on Stunden or Sturm. I don't expect a sib brother to write me in a year or two, about as follows: Dear Brother—I have been in **K**, Nearly a month now and think I will like it just fine. They are letting us boys dance in the gymnasium every Thursday, and the girls dance Tuesday afternoons. We had a beam-bag game with the sophomore week to decide if we should wear cap or not, and we did. One of the boys was suspended for two days for smoking on Fourteenth street yesterday; a memorial of the Student Council. The Student Union is just doing fine; we had an exciting game of hide-the-thimble down there last night, but had to break it up at eight when the Curweth whistle blew. Well, hope you like the work in the store; try to make dad understand why I needed that extra tspot last week. 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