4 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF JOHN C. MADDEN — Editor-in-Chief FRANK B. HEYMERSON — High School Editor FRANK B. HEYMERSON — High School Editor RUSINESS STAFF REPORTORIAL STAFF EDWYN ARLENA Business Manager + Construction Manager JOB BINNER Advertising Manager SAM DAGEN MARCO ALLANY GLEBSON ALLIEINE GLEBSON ALLIEINE FRANK O'SULLivan FERNANDO HILSKIN LUCILE HILLKIN LAWRENCE SMITH MARCUS CLAUTON DANIEL FOX LUCY BARBER LUCY ROBERTS HERBERT LAMENT LEO WILSON HERBERT SCHMERER HERBERT SCHMERER RAT CRAFTER RAT CRAFTER CHARAS S. STUFFWART CHARAS S. STUFFWART CARLS V. LAMBERT CARLS V. LAMBERT Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism. Subscription price $2.50 per year, in advance; one term, $1.50. Phone, Bell K. U. %5. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DALLY KANSAN Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kansan dima to victory the student. The Kansan go so far backward that the Kansan go so far backward that the news by standing up and playing favorite songs; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be useful; to be curious; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; to be Phone. Bell K. U. 25. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1914. In running their race, men of birth look back too much, which is a mark of a bad runner.—Bacon THE STUDENT ERA The coming of the Student Union presages a new era for the University of Kansas—the era of the students. Students have been ignored here at the University in many ways. We have no dormitories, no cooperative book store, no huge Commons where meals are served at cost, and no general get-together place. Nobody in particular has been at fault. The faculty, the regents, the alumni and the legislature have had other more pressing matters to attend to. But at last the student is to have his turn. Students will never "run the University." They can, however, take a livelier interest in their Alma Mater. They can, when united by these all-student movements, present a solid front when K. U. is attacked. They will make better alumni when graduated. The new student era—beginning with the temporary Union—will be an excellent one for the University of Kansas. The only amateur play in English at K. U. this year is the senior production. And it is only two short years since the Chancellor pronounced the dramatic situation "absurd and impossible." CLASS SOME A. COUNT The outlook for a crowded house at the senior play Tuesday night is good and it should be. The seniors have revived a University tradition by staging a play, even though it be but semi-original. The class of 1913 after much talk and plenty of expectations "fizzled out" as far as giving a senior play is concerned, and this year's class deserves great credit for applying the pulmator to the old custom. IN MEMORIAM O tempora! O mores! What is the University coming to? Or, at least, what is the junior class coming to? Remember the Jayhawker elections of former years, the heated campaigns, the bitter contests, the intense rivalries, and then look back at last week's election! One candidate for manager of the annual and one for editor. Both declared elected by the Student Council, without the formality of a vote. Now we can look to see the anti-smoking ordinance enforced, the week-night date rule made effective, and a light put at the lower end of the library short-cut. For now indeed has the unheard-of come to pass: a Jayhawker election without a contest. Is this an indication of the spread of world peace, or does it merely mean that the plums are no longer as fat and juicy as of yore? Whatever the reason, the fact remains that the fighting junior class is no longer what it was in the good old days. Thus another of our cherished traditions, all too few at best, has passed into oblivion. Requiescat in pace! The student with the most confidence is the one who lives in a northwest room in a house heated by a gas furnace—and expects the room to be warm at 7:30 a. m. AN APOLOGY Someone handcapped by a warped sense of the ludicrous or someone overburdened with a morbid stock of misinformation has embarrassed Lucile Smith and the Daily Kansan by reporting Miss Smith's death, a four line account of which was published Friday. To say the least, as the humorist put it, the facts were greatly exaggerated. Miss Smith, a freshman in the College, has not even been ill recently. Ordinarily the Daily Kansan takes every reasonable precaution to verify its news. When reports are received at the minute of press time, however, even though the circumstances are such that the doubt of authenticity is reduced to the lowest minimum—as was the case Friday—mistakes sometimes occur. We take this opportunity, therefore, of apologizing to Miss Smith and to our readers for the error; and also to the world in general for being forced to admit that Lawrence is the home of a "practical joker" with such a misguided appetite for this sort of so-called humor. ENDS AND ODDLETS A TRAGEDY She picked her way so carefully, Her steps were quite precise— For forethought seldom has avail When walks are slick with ice! FEELS LESS RESPONSIBILITY FEELS LESS RESPONSIBILITY As the State University has now engaged a professional "advisor of women" the country editors will feel relieved of their responsibility. Blue Mound Sun. A SUGGESTED COURSE The State University will conduct a school for editors, and it is hoped that the editors will learn to cut out politics - Atchison Globe. IT LOOKED EXCITING And to think that a promising headline, "Chancellor Strong to Dodge," refers only to the fact that he is a new mayor, and address in a western Kansas town. SOMEBODY BLUNDERED Any doubt that it is possible to make a "three" and still make Phi Beta Kappa is dispelled by the recent study in which that society averaged 99.99. A. —In general, a piece of furniture must be sit on it; in Fraser Hall, an instrument of torture, directly descended from the stocks and pli- OUR DAILY QUIZ Use honor system and grade yourself Q—What is wrong with the chairs in Fraser? A. —Their backs are set on at the most uncomfortable angle imagin- Q. —Why not sit up straight and not use the chair back at all? A. —That might do—for fifteen minutes. Q. —What is a chair? A—Then it must have been some professor whose students were in it. CHAIRS Q. -Who designed such a chair? Q—If these chairs serve to keep people awake, is not their existence affected? A. —No, it shouldn't be necessary to break people's backs in order to 'seen their attention'. Q. Why doesn't the University buy some new chairs for Fraser? Q. —Certainly not! Try again. Q-What would be the next best to new chairs? A. —One cushion per back. WITH K. U. POETS right That I should tell thee how the might hinge. Of love like thine my soul doth world. (By Frances Schlegel Carruth, '80.) For these my wife knows, she is hard to hold— For these 't' is changed; I think 't' is MY WILL So heed once more the teacher bold, Whose heart hath not, with years of tears Are sweetener grows if love unfold Our being is more old; our desire to wish it more erudite grown corn, Life's lesson I will read aright For thee, my Will: Than read with lover's deeper sight The lore that's writ in living gold CONFESSIONS OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR'S WIFE For thee, my Will. (Clippings from The Saturday Evening Post, January 24, 1914.) ing Post, January 20, 2017. It is necessary to see our selves as authors we see us. in the cloistered seclusion of our universities, dedicated to high ideals, more deference is shown to masters of science than to the masters of other arts. Society itself suffers for rewarding that low order of cunning called business sense with the ultimate control of all other useful talents. It has been estimated by a member of the mathematical department that, at the present salary rate, each of the three students would be entitled to just two-fifths of a child. Does it pay Society to reward its individuals in inverse ratio to their usefulness? Should only the financially fit be allowed to survive to reproduce their species? It can be proved by the annual catalogue that the average member of the faculty has only about twelve or fourteen hours of classroom a week—the worst paid instructor more, the highest paid professor less. What a university teacher gives to his students in the classroom, however, is or ought to be but a rendering of what he acquires outside. As in every other occupation, some members of the faculty do as little work as others. I had supposed, like most outsiders, that the women of a university town would be dreadfully intellectual and modern . . . . . but, for the most part, these charming friends of mine, especially the wealthier members . . . seemed guilelessly ignorant . . . almost as ignorant as I was and as most "nice people" are everywhere. The way to advance in the teaching profession is to neglect it. It doesn't matter how poorly you teach, it doesn't matter how books for other professors to read. Scholarship . . . means finding out all there is to know about something nobody else cares about, that nobody can see such a way that nobody can find out. College culture does not care what is happened to the world, but what is mapped. American universities don't lead thought, they follow it. In Europe institutions of learning may be hotbeds of radicalism; in America our colleges are merely featherbeds for conservatism to die in respectably. I wonder why it is, that when the stronger sex wishes to appear particularly dignified and impressive, he pulls his pigtail, it likes to don female attire? K. U. DICTIONARY Porchhouse; student afflicted with a virulent "case" whose principal occupation is to infest the porches of a house, and then bring in housemates; a fusser out of funds. Pea; a green color affected by amateur public speakers; landlady's favorite accomplice in the perpetration of soup. Pinhead; he who refuses to sign the Student Union petition; instructor who grades students' papers without reading them. “P” *Physiology*; corporal introspection; that which teaches us that proteins and carbohydrates are really to eat; mapping the alimentary canal. Philosophy; the science of Why and What For; that which is called on to make student life endurable; solace of Tired Professors; the business that kept the sex of Socrates darned and filled the plate of Plato. Psychology; thinking about thoughts; laboratory course from which formaldehyde and H2S are employed in college education to kitties and pups. In all things be prompt. Get the thing done. DO IT NOW. Delay is fatal. The only way for a busy man to get through his work is to take up one thing at a time. It's easy and much through. Never mind if the work is difficult—it must be done—Walter H. Cuttingham. MY! THOSE OKLAHOMA PROFS! Twenty-eight Per Cent of Sooners Failed to Pass Last Semester Two hundred sixteen students in the University of Oklahoma, or twenty-eight per cent failed to pass in all of their work last semester according to figures obtained from the registrar's office, says the Oklahomaan. Three hundred thirty flunks and conditions were given. Estimating that there were 3,300 grades, on the assumption that every student took four courses, ten per cent of the grades were below the passing mark. And Oklahoma isn't the only school where students flunk. Three hundred and eighty-eight students at the University of Texas, failed to make a passing grade for the half term just completed. This is a gain of sixty over the report for the same time last year. The seniors of Central University are wearing monocles and carrying canes. The University publication, The Cento, remarks that the Seniors wear monocles and open adopting these marks of distinction suitable to their dignity. There has been an increase of 280 students in the University of Chicago during the last year. The total registration is 2,763. read your own KANSAN. 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. 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