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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
JONC J. MADDEN -- -- -- -- -- Editor-in-Chief
FRAKEH B. HADESSON - High School Editor
FRANK B. HADESSON - High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
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Business Manager
Joe Binnion - Adverting Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
SAM DEGON
BRIAN GALLEY
GILBERT ALLEN
GIBBLE BELSON
FRANK O'SULTAIN
FRANK P. SHELMAN
LICLEGE HILLER
LAWRENCE SMITH
LAWRENCE HAYES
LUCY BAROGER
W. J DYCHE
JOHN CHRIST
HERRBERT FUNT
LION HARBOR
JOHN CHRIST
RAY CATLAPPER
CHARLES
SCHWANZ
STUENEYANT
JOSEPH HOWARD
MARNIE FAIRWEATHER
MANNIE FAIRWEATHER
Entered as second-cheek mail matter
with the order of March 24, 1970,
WYNNSON, Kansas, under the act of March
Published in the afternoon five times a week.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN.
Lawrence, Kans.
The Daily Kansan aims to victory the underdogs, so he goes to further than merely printing the news by standing up for them. The students to be clean; to be cheerful; to learn more serious problems to user heads; to have more ability at the students of the University.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1914.
K. U. receives with regret the anouncement that Nebraska has dropped baseball; that is one subject in which the Jayhawkers have trimmed their neighbors with pleasurable regularity.
Tis looking down that makes one dizzy. Browning.
INEVITABLE FOOLHARDINESS
INEVITABLE FOOLHARDINESS
First the man who rocks the boat,
then the man who yells "fire" in a
crowded theatre, and now the student
who persists in bob-sledding down
the steep residence streets of Law-
rence in spite of the terrible ac­
dient that snuffed out a life a wee-
age.
It is almost impossible to believe that students can be so foolhardy and so thoughtless as to persist in keeping up this game of tag with death and sorrow for themselves and their parents. Yet Wednesday night the student who was willing to risk his neck and perhaps that of girls with him was again with us.
It is within the powers of the Lawrence city council to make this regulation. It should be made at once. Its speedy enactment will meet with the approval of every thinking person.
There seems only one thing to do: prohibit coasting within the city limits entirely, force the fool-killers t take to the golf links or the open country road.
MORE LAWBREAKING
Placards advertising a dance Friday night were posted on trees and telephone poles all the way up Adams street yesterday morning.
What about the city ordinance forbidding indiscriminate bill posting without the consent of property owners on whose premises the trees or poles are located?
A $10 fine is in order.
CHAMPIONS
With last night's victory over Missouri filed away Kansas is undisputed champion of the Southern division of the Missouri Valley conference.
Sproull's men deserve credit for their good work and particularly for the fact that K. U. can once again look the world, and particularly Mizou, in the face; athletically speaking.
It's great to be chief in something and basketball is next to football in importance.
USE THE SNOW PLOW ON ADAMS, TOO
What is probably the last snow of any importance this winter is now about gone, but the idea that someone should clear the walks on Adams
street after a big snow persists.
street after a big snow persists. There is a city ordinance that property owners must clear their walks, but it is never heeded on Adams street.
Why, then, couldn't the big University snow sled used on top the hill be run down the Adams street walks immediately after every snow? It is rather paradoxical to find the walks on top the hill clear after a slippery climb up Adams, when ten minutes given to Adams would bring joy to a thousand students every snowy day. Why not?
THE STUDENTS RESPONDED
The art exhibit closed yesterday after having been visited by approximately fifteen hundred persons, mostly students; thus breaking all records for attendance.
Because of the few which have visited exhibits of former years, students were admitted free to this one and the result speaks for itself. It was an entire success, for success in an enterprise such as this is not measured in monetary terms.
With the appearance of the Tulane debate team on the campus comes a realization that debating is again coming into its own. At one time it was perhaps the greatest college activity, when a debater was second to none in student circles, and a person-are much to be envied.
With the rapid growth of sport in the past few years, debating lost steadily in importance. The fusture won on the platform was entirely dimmed in the blinding light of the gridiron or track. A minor sports insignia came to have more import than the golden "P" of the 'Varsity debater.
A WORD FOR DEBATE
Debating is being revived, but on a new basis. It is no longer a clash of oratory, but of keen reasoning and logical presentation of fact. Debating is an activity that perhaps most truly represents the spirit that universities claim to stand for. A university is not a sporting oration. It is not interested in physical culture primarily. A university exists to take the mind to reasonibly and accurately. to pick salient points and to discern flaws. The training a debater receives fills a real need in the lives of future lawyers, teachers, and business men—The Pennsylvaniaian.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
Perpetual motion.—A five hour course.
Pluck plus perseverance equals progress—except up Adams when the snow is on.
Musical appreciation of Count No A. Count: Eight singers in the senior play made up the sexette which sang the ragtime selection from "Lucia."
"Towle" has been declared ineligible at Nebraska. Kansas can not "clean up" on the northerners, peaks.
COMPROMISE SUGGESTED
E. Howe has nominated Chancellor Strong for U. S. senator. Of the two education laws prevent him from accepting, why not everybody compromise on Uncle Jimmy Green? —Chanute Tribute.
We'll bet our seat checks that the author of the senior play saw "Hanky-Panky" and "The Fascinating Widow" in Kansas City a couple of years ago.
Now that the students have a Union, what will happen to the professors who hold classes after the whistle has blown?
COMPROMISE SUGGESTED
Who travels the bridge of his nose?
Can he use, when shingling the roof
PHYSILOGICALLY SPEAKING
Where can a man buy a cap for him?
The nails on the end of his toes?
knee?
Or a key for a lock of his hair?
Can his eyes be called an academy,
because there are pupils there?
In the crown of his head what gems
are set?
What does he raise from a slip of his tongue?
Single:
Who plays on the drums of his ears?
And who can tell the cut and style
of the coats his stomach wears?
Can the crook of his elbow be sent to jail.
And if so, what did it do?
How does he sharpen his shoulder
hands?
I'll be hanged if I know, do you?
—Exchange.
K. U. FIFTY YEARS LATER
To thousands of men and women now scattered far and wide, next Sunday will be an anniversary of unusual interest. For on that day will be celebrated the semi-centennial of the founding of the Kansas State University at Lawrence. It was on March 1, 1864, that the act was final, passed by members of the for the acting commission of the work of creating at Lawrence the great center of the proposed Kansas educational system.
It is doubtful if ever a territory was populated with men and women more earnestly devoted to the cause of education. The early spirit was reflected in the robust optimism of the senate committee on education that it would be "it should be the aim of the educators of Kansas to make this territory a model state in America literature. In this new territory we have all the requisite elements for building up a system of universities, colleges, schools and *seminaries of learning unequaled by those in other states who believe it is the province of the people of Kansas to inaugurate an educational system which shall perfect the English language as well as English literature." Following that report the same legislature incorporated eighteen universities and ten colleges. Of twenty-two constitutions, twenty-five perished—a mortality, says Horace E. Scudder, unparalleled in the history of education.
in 1807, by raising it. It lamented $10,000 to the city of Lawrence for school purposes. It was a princely sum in those days, and that gift became the bone of contention among many denominations that planned to establish seminaries in the city. The Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Episcopalians with each other qualified for admission. It was the original intention of all the educators to build a memorial college. "You shall have a college," wrote the Rev. Ephraim Nute of Lawrence, December 16, 1858, "which shall be a school of learning, and at the same time a monument to perpetuate the memory of those martyrs of liberty who fell during the recent struggles." It was a fortunate thing that someone nominated eye on the figure of $10,000, for it kept any of them from getting it. The income from this money was devoted to the support of the Quincy high school of Lawrence for a number of years, but the principal was untouched. On February 23, 1863, Governor Robinson wrote to Mr. Lawrence: "The legislature has passed a law looting the state university at Lawrence on condition that fifteen thousands be paid into the treasury in six months and forty acres of land be given to the university. If these conditions are not complied with, then the university will be located at Emporia."
It will be seen that the legislature, too, had its eye on Mr. Lawrence's ten thousand-dollar gift. But the city of Lawrence gathered together all the odds and ends of endowments and gifts to the various projected denominational institutions, and this made up the required $15,000. Land was cheap at that time and easily secured. Thus began the Kansas State university, formally chartered a year later.
Next Saturday night there will be a celebration here in Kansas City in commemoration of the day when the Kansas legislature accepted the land and money of Lawrence and authorized the first building of the society. The Kansas Alumni Association will present a dinner, at which will be present hundreds of men who now exultantly point to the great university of Mount Oread as their alma mater. Fifty years of life have developed in Lawrence a university that stands today in the first rank among American universities. Kansas is prized for its university, be it. It typifies all that Kansas has accomplished in the half century of its educational existence. Instead of the one small building which was built at such material sacrifice by the pioneers, there are now many great halls and magnificent structures on Mount Oread. The midst of those structures arises an institution the original "university" pointing triumphantly to the stars as a living token of the motto of Kansas—Kansas City Journal.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome—Dr. Johnson.
VAUDEVILLE THEATRE
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.—Spurgeon.
Thurs., Fri., and Sat.
4 BIG ACTS
Make it a rule not only to be prompt in all your appointments but a little ahead of time—Anon.
Harrison & Carsello, comedy impersonations and accordion music.
Drop the subject when you cannot agree there is no need to be bitter because you know you are right. —Anon.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see.
Blamphin & Hehr, comedy novelty singers, The Letter Carrier.
Warner Great Feature, Shakespeare's Winter's Tale.
Thinks what neer' was, nor is, nor shall be—Pope.
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