UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
JOHN C. MADDEN -- -- -- - Editor-in-Chief
FRANK E. HUMMER -- -- -- - High School Editor
FRANK B. HUMMER -- -- -- - High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
BROWN ARCASE Business Manager
ARNOLD APPLECROFT CityCenter
JIM HIRSCH Marketing Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
SAM DROGEN
BROCKMAN ALLIE
GARRISON ALMOND
FRANK O'SULLivan
FRENCH HILARY
LANGLE HILLER
LAWRENCE GILENT
SILENT CLAITON
HOPKINS
LAWRENCE
LUCY BARGERS
J. A. GREENLESS
HERBERT FIINT
J. A. GREENLESS
GUY SCHUMPER
RAY CLAIPER
CRAIS S. STURTIVANT
JOSEPH HOWARD
MACHINE FAIRWEAT
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Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March
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The Daily Kansan aims to victory the students of the University, by helping the Kansanus to go further than merely printing the news in the newspaper. Students of the Kansanus will play no favorites; to be clean, to be cheerful; to be curious; to be curious about more serious problems to wiser heads; to be intelligent; to ability the students of the University.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914.
Success in life is not so much a matter of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.—Anon.
HELP IMPROVE GROUP SYSTEMS
Are you enrolled in the courses you want?
Did you ever get "caught up" by some "group system" rule ?
Is your major work arranged sat isfaforily?
A committee from the faculty is now considering methods of changing the present College rulings in regard to major courses, restricted work in certain departments and similar matters.
These questions concern students primarily.
Students who have had experience with the present system ought to be able to give recommendations regarding improvement.
The committee will give consideration to any and all constructive suggestion. It will meet at odd times however, so if you have had any difficulty so far, or if you anticipate trouble in getting the work you want before you graduate, send your suggestions, as long and detailed as you desire, to the Daily Kansan. We will see that they are presented to the committee.
Leave your letter at the Kansas office or use the Fraser Hall communication box. Your views will not be published if you object, but they will be presented in proper form.
Changes in the present system will not be made in a week but if you want your suggestions to receive the fullest consideration, the time to act is NOW.
A CLUE FOR THE COPS
After two days work the Lawrence detective force is unable to find the culprit who posted the bills on Adams street. Shucks! We make no pretentions as to our detective ability, but we once had a course in logic and would reason something like this:
The bills advertised a dance. Find out who gives the dance. This organization has some sort of a committee in charge of its parties. Find out the names of the members of the committee. Look up the names in the student directory. "Und so weiter."
But what's the use. The Lawrence police have methods all their own. What they lack in speed they undoubtedly plan to make up in efficiency.
THE "DAYS."
The electricals celebrated on Wednesday, the chemicals are enjoying today and plans have already been
announced for College Day and Uncle Jimmy Day.
It is no exaggeration to say that the engineers learn more on the days set aside for a discussion of their particular problems than they do in a week of regular classroom work. The advantage of closer association and of becoming better acquainted are important additional advantages. In the College and the School of Law the "get acquainted" spirit is primary and the College especially needs a unifying influence of this sort.
The "Days" will be among the college events longest remembered by students. Here's wishing them a happy and prosperous existence.
If Hon. Quigley, who referenced the Kansas-Missouri basketball games should seek any other employment than baseball umpire in the National league and college basketball referee, we venture to say he could made good on the stage. No one more dramatic has been in Lawrence since Faversham played here.
THOSE HUNDRED SENIORS
THOSE HUNDRED SENIORS
It is hard to understand how a senior is willing to pass up the opportunity of having his picture in the annual, and how he is willing to leave K. U. after graduating without an annual tucked away in his trunk, yet there are a hundred of this kind of seniors according to Editor Clark, of this year's Jayhawker.
The senior graduates from the University but once, has this Jayhawker opportunity but once, and still he doesn't think it worth the money.
It appears sometimes that for some students the University should offer a course such as "Alma Mater Appreciation."
ENDS AND ODDLETS
The number of students who stood ready to represent the University at the Chile convention was materially reduced by the announcement that delegates must pay their own traveling expenses.
We wonder why Professor Haworth restricted his list of what is not found in Kansas to radium. Neither are esquimaux, diamonds, shales, battleships, kangarooos or ricket players—in fact the list might be extended almost indefinitely.
HAS THEY?
The Indiana Student prints the following literary gem under the caption: "Was They?"
The baseball squad were given their first workout since they signed up at Saturday, yesterday after each Nikol—Purdue Exponent.
Yes, we are guilty. It was poor,
but we can conspire to comb to
find this line in the Student.
"Hurrah, hurrah, dear string will soon be nere."—Purdue Exponent.
"The girls hasn't stopped running yet." Also note:
At the game Thursday night two young ladies sat in the balcony. One was crocheting and one tatting. On the floor didn't these basketball games exciting.
Once there was a freshman with an ambition. He yearned to subdue knowledge. Even when a child he had scorned to dwarf, he never gave up. Now, amusing himself with readings from the foremost writers of the world.
A LEGEND
In college his work was always just ahead of the assignment. His themes were gems of profundity and his note books were the joy of his roommate. He entered the library, the ponderous tomes opened at his approach, of their own volition. Venily, he was There.
But the law of compensation had its little fling with our hero. He gained so many laps on Wisdom that by the time he reached his senior year there was nothing left to be learned. Henceforth until his graduation he was compelled to debase his intellect by scanning the pages of the popular magazines and the World Almanac. Finally he grew desperate and attempted to read the college newspaper. He died.
Moral: Let the professors do the heavy thinking. They are paid for it.
CAMPUS OPINION
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
May I be pardoned to encoach upon your time or space, or both,
that I may unburden me of the immediate subsequent.
"POLITICUS" IS PEEVED
Yestermorn at some indefinite hour I realized that I desired very much the publication in your obliging periodical a short but moving notice as to an impending assembly projected to occur on this Friday afternoon. I had forgotten to prepare copy for on my mind, and I wanted to attend at home and I have long since learned that my handwriting is of no avail when I want anything to be understood, however excellently it serveth on quizz-books. Therefore I went to your office. I entered with appropriate awe in my heart, and confusion, alas, in my head. As no one molested me the next, I straightway impounded a typewriter, which I otherwise wrote, and strove from it the announcement I desired. This particular machine was a new acquaintance to me, and from it I learned many interesting things in those short ten minutes of close communion. I do not at all distinctly recall what finally remained intelligible on the sheet of recently good paper which I justly celebrated placed on the desk just celebrated on the call basket which sits on the desk and departed—I did the departing I should explain. Suffice it that what I wrote was not a work of art. It had none of the earmarks of stylistic genius so fetchingly manipulated by the great Mastiffs of English prose. It was, perhaps incoherent, and lame in its punctuation, but if it is suffering now that wherever it may be. For sir, when it was properly edited, it had to be entirely replaced, as witness the "announcement" space in last evening's Kansas.
The original conception and intent of the notice was to summon all and sundry, faculty and students, women and men, whoever should be interested in the political fortunes of our senior U. S. Senator, to consider if they cared to organize in the interests of his candidacy. The notice published was unquestioned and so juried in all ways but one to the copy turned in. There is a clear implied that such an organization is already an organized fact. It is as yet only in prospect and for this reason only I pray you to permit me that I submit yet another attempt, which I hope may be able to sustain editing artistically and yet faithfully convey my proper intentions.
Politicu
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
(The Daily Kansan recently asked fifty prominent alumni of the University to write a short autobiography for publication under this heading. Nothing was barred, not even frivolity. One of the replies is printed below. Others will appear from time to time.)
W. Y. MORGAN
(Written by his closest friend.)
W. Y. Morgan entered the University of Kansas in the fall of 1880 and managed to graduate in five years, a remarkable record considering the number of studies he pursued which were not in the curriculum, and the further fact that he was editor of the Course in the University paper in those days. When he became a student of the University had an enrollment of only 400, and when he graduated the number had increased to 500, but he modestly declines to take the entire credit for this advance and other progressive features of those eventful years.
He was active as an advocate of the Students Union, the Honor System, and the attendance of the faculty at chapel, questions which were then agitated. He took a prominent part in athletics and by shrewd political work was elected scorer for the baseball team of 1884, a position he filled to the satisfaction of every one except the players.
In student activities none were more ardent. He was sergeant-arms of the Oread Literary Society, member of the program committee of the Gradatim dancing club, associate member of the Y. M. C. A., usher at the faculty reception number of the commission that decorated the graduation of his class. Other honors naturally came to him but those named show his standing with his fellow students and the University authorities.
Since graduation Mr. Morgan has been working on a paper and is now with the Hutchinson News. A number of charges have been made in connection with recent events but few were proven and those are buttressed, he hopes.
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