UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN C. MADDEN ------- Editor-in-Chief FRAHM K. HENDERSON ------ High School Editor FRANK A. HENDERSON ------ High School Editor BUSINESS STAFF REPORTORIAL STAFF Ewen AKAEL Business Manager BROOKS Advertising Manager JOB BENE Advertising Manager SAM DROON GIBBON GLENDON ALLINE GLENDON ALLINE FRANK O'SULLivan FRANK O'SULLivan LUCILE HILGER LUCILE HILGER LAWRENCE SMITH GLENN CAYTON GLENN CAYTON LUCY BARBER J. A. HARRIS J. A. GREENLEES LIVON HARBER LIVON HARBER RAY CLAIPER RAY CLAIPER CRAZI S. STUFFEVEN CRAZI S. STUFFEVEN CALVIN LAMERT CALVIN LAMERT Eentered as second-class mail matter by the Court of Appeal, Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 6. Published in the afternoon, five times a week. Annually. From the press of the department of agriculture. Phone, Bell K. U. 26. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. Lawrence, Kans. Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance; one term, $1.50. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the future of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by standing up for its values; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more ability to the students of the University. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25. Things ill got, have ever bad success.—Shakespeare. FOR CHAPEL WALTER JOHNSON An effort was made some time ago to obtain Walter Johnson for an assembly address on clean athletics. Johnson was too busy plowing and working around his farm near Coffeyville to respond at that time but said that "he might come some time later." Why not get after him again? He is a model athlete, the greatest pitcher in the world, and the idol of a million people. Thousands claim acquaintance with him: factory-bands, laborers, and clerks of eastern cities, people who have never heard of Walter Roscoe Stubbs, or Senator J. L. Bristow, or William Allen White, or any other Kansas. We've listened to preachers, governors, senators, and presidents, and we know how to act if we were any of these,but our education is still incomplete. We need some advice from Johnson. Sometime, perhaps, the sun will come out and the rain will fall and the snow will disappear from every Lawrence sidewalk. CELEBRATIONS But after all we wonder if the plan of "stringing out" the particular gala days for the different schools is a good one. The spirit in the College which has at last made definite plans for the big College Day March 6 possible, is to be commended. The largest school on the campus is at last to take a day off and get acquainted with itself. Suppose, for instance, we should all get together and compromise on a two day vacation including May Day, and make the celebration superlative in every respect. We could invite parents and alumni to visit at that time, stage a May Fete worth while, repeat the Exposition perhaps, and have some competition in the parade. Such a celebration as this would be long remembered and would attract the attention of colleges over the country. What do you think? Students have at last discovered how to obtain a crowd at a senior play. Limit the number of amateur productions. GOOD NEWS Students have scored another triumph. Some time ago the honor sentiment committee—a student affair—recommended to the faculty that professors who fail to read themes. theses, and quiz books be "brought to time" by the administration. Last night Dean Templin is an interview approves the recommendation, and praises the committee. "To my mind a professor who does not read the final examination papers or term themes is infinitely more censurable than the student who cribs. Both should be punished but it is easier to forgive the student," he says. If this unfair practice is really stopped, as seems likely, the students will have made another step toward strict honor conditions with the faculty as well as with the students. That fellow who drew that turtle, or polar bear, or dinosaur which appeared on the back of last night's Kansan owes apologies not only to Maloy but to all subscribers. THAT FREE WANT AD If you are out of a job get busy and find one. The Kansan will give you three free ads without cost or coupons or anything else except results. Maybe just what you want wants you and here is the chance for job and student to get together. Try it. SHAKING UP THE GROUPS Now that the faculty has chosen a committee to revise the group system some relief from student difficulties in enrolling may be expected. The group system has been changed many times as the University has grown bigger. Two or three groups becoming unnaturally large have caused students and professors to agree that the time for another shakeup is at hand. ENDS AND ODDLETS AVOIDING THE SMOKING RULE The students at Fort Collins (Colo.) Normal School are planning a "smokeless smoker." "Check Declared Ineligible." - University Missouri. Speaking of what? GOOD ADVICE TO FRESHMEN Notice in University of Washington Daily: Kla-how-yahs—Sign up with one of the girls before the tenth. A foreign professor suggests that dishes should be washed in milk. We have seen some dishes that needed even a little water. The Daily Nebraskan has started a campaign for new subscribers in order that they may put out a larger newspaper. Professor Dill is to remain at the University of Iowa because they would be in a pickle without him. "D. J. Mallory went to Grinell to get shaved."—Exchange. D. J. is getting to be quite a cut up in his old age. "To our great regret, we are compelled to dispense with the services of our society reporter, who would insist on coming to the office without a shirt and a tie. Our cleanliness in dress was giving our paper a very bad name." "Senior Caught at Library."-Exchange. Better lock him up or his classmates will lynch him. FRENCH JOURNALISM The provincial paper Le Cri De Toulouse makes the following announcement: Quack; noise heard when the K. U. football team goes to Des Moines; physician who tells us our favorite food disfigures with us. Quilter; vile term of opprobrium, as one who refuses to pay his Student Union pledge; athletic pest rare in Kansas. K. U. DICTIONARY Quiz; stuffed club wielded by faculty; semi-annual reigned of terror; plague intended for wicked students, but dangerous to the good allike. “Q;” hirsute adornment of K. U correspondence students in Pekin that which induces stage fright. "0." Quill; literary heaven for freshmen; business end of a feather. **Quotation; despair in rhetoric I;** *Students and professors who are* *interviewed; that which is to be denied,* *in the next edition.* WITH K. U. POETS TO GOD, THE ARCHITECT But this much I know. Thou hast set the Pleiades In a silver row; (By Harry Kemp, former student) Who thou art I know not, Thou hast reared a colored wall 'Twixt the night and day; Who thou art I know not, But this much I know: Twixt the night and day; Thor has sent the trackless winds through the valley. Thou hast made the flowers to blow And the stems to chime. Thou hast made the nails to blow And the stars to shine. Hid rare gems and richest ore In the tunneled mine; But, chief of all thy wondrous works Supreme of all thy plan— Thou hast put an upward reach In the heart of man! (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.) THE STORY OF MY LIFE I was born at Leavenworth, Kan. 1872 and entered the University of Kansas from Hiawatha, and graduated in 1895. J. C. KELSEY, E '95 My ambition while in the University was to be a professional baseball player. The utter ruin of my thumb by a stray foul tip in a game at Emporia turned my ambitions elsewhere. I began my engineering experience as a lineman, constructing electric light and street railway plants. I nearly lost my life in 1897, falling forty feet, breaking arms, legs and twisting my spine. Early activities and a resulting good constitution brought about recovery. Then I went to work for the Bell Company at Minneapolis, operating in Minnesota and the Dakotas. In 1901 I was general superintendent of the Duluth Bell Telephone Company. In 1901 I resigned to become professor of telephone engineering at Purdue University. While there I began to practice as a Public Utility expert. I was a member of the jury of award at the World's Fair at St. Louis. I became saies manager of the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company of Chicago in 1905, and today sell telephone apparatus all over the world. I am financial editor of Telephony, a weekly trade paper, reaching every civilized country, and have been contributing a three thousand word story for practically ten years. I have earned $12,000 with my lead pencil alone and am most proud of this fact as my themes were unanimously rejected by the English Department. To show what a reformed baseball player can do. I am trustee of the Rogers Park Congregational Church, a national bank director, and also a director in three other busy industrial enterprises. My proudest achievement was marrying a K. U. girl, Anna Edwards of the class of '96. At Other Colleges An innovation in Missouri Valley track circles is being tested this week. Nebraska and Drake are holding a meet by telegraph. Announcement of the plan was made by Guy E. Reed, athletic manager of Nebraska, after conferring with John Griffith, athletic manager of Drake. The plan is this: Each day a reg- ular track event will be run off at each school; records will be kept; comparison will be made daily by telegraph; and, at the conclusion, the winning学校 will be found by counting the totals. The incentive of actual man-to-man competition will be absent, however, and this is expected to prevent the lowering of any records. Governor S. V. Stewart of Montana recently addressed the students of the University of Montana. Mrs. Helen Johnson, wife of the first president of the University of Oregon, died recently in Portland. The sororities at the University of Washington announce twenty new pledges. Former President William H. Taft was the honor guest at a banquet at Boston University recently. Fifteen men at Washington State College received football letters this year. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE The women at Stevens Hall, the women's dormitory at Washington State College, have initiated a movement for student self-government. There will be no Junior Prom at Phillips Andover this year. The Wonder Film, Victory in 5 reels. Mon., Tues. and Wed. The World's Greatest Spectacular War Drama, Permission of U. S. Govt. Also Devere and Lewis in a Musical and Singing Act. SAM S. SHUBERT SAM S. SHUBERT Matinee Wednesday and Saturday “BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.” SPRING SUITINGS FRANK KOCH TAILOR 727 Mass. Inspiring to The Young Man are the stories of achievement in Civil Engineering Graduates of the School of Engineering of the University of Kansas have had an important part in many of the modern marvels of engineering work, from the carrying through of the greatest irrigation projects to the planning and construction of the unique sea-going railroad on the Florida Keys. Address Vocation Editor UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas New Students! 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