UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
EDITORIAL STAFF
JOHN C. MADENN - Editor-in-Chief
FRANK A. HENDERSON - High School Edition
FRANK B. HENDERSON - High School Edition
REPORTORIAL STAFF
BROWN ABEL - Business Manager
BOY BROOKMAN - Circulation Manager
RANDOLPH KENNEDY
BROOKLYN HENRY
HENRY MALOY
GLENDON ALLINE
FRANK MURRAY
FRANK O'SULLIVAN
ROSS MUNHARK
JOHN MUNHARK
JOHN HENRY
LAWRENCE WILSON
CLAYTON
HELEN HAYES
LUCEY BARBER
J. W DYCHE
J. JERLEEN HERRERA
HERBERT FUNT
LION HARM
RICHARD RAW
RAIL CAMPER
CHARLES SWIRE
CHARLES EVEVANT
JOSEPH Howard
CALvin DAMIE
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The Daily Kansan aims to victory the undergraduate and further than merely printing the nuns by standing for the feminist, they are to be clean; to be cheerful; to be careful; to be more serious problems to upper heads; to be able to ability the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1914
It is never too late to give up your prejudices. — Thoreau.
And besides boosting a good proposition, every Student Union signer gets his name in the paper.
THAT LAST LONG LINE Are you a senior?
If so you probably stood in line at least an hour and possibly more than two hours Monday or Tuesday to have your grades checked over. And what's the use?
The records are in the office and it ought to be simple enough for the authorities to go over the books and notify each senior concerning whose work there is any question of irregularity. Students would then have the opportunity of protesting in person, if they so desired.
But this useless agony of waiting in line for an hour or so merely to be allowed the privilege of watching the registrar check over those horrible freshman and sophomore grades which one had almost forgotten—what's the use?
The trouble with these biological courses is that they make you learn names a yard long for specimens that can only be seen through a microcope.
A QUARTER BACK
Here is a mathematical problem the solution of which may mean twenty-five cents to you.
If eight hundred students sign up for the Student Union Building the price per student will be but seventy-five cents. At present there are over five hundred signers at a dollar apiece. Now if one out of every two students who has already signed can persuade another man to sign; the total will be seven hundred and fifty. The Council will have procured the other fifty in the meantime, and you will have saved a quarter. (No doubt it?)
Simple isn't it?
Freshman at the track meet; And did we take both places in the relay?
FAIRER FREEDOM
Whatever the committee from the faculty which is investigating the grouping under the College departmental system decides, it should bear in mind the fact that the student body feels unfairly restricted in the matter of elective courses.
A college training should be broad, almost any student sees the wisdom in that idea; but the college students should also be allowed to specialize in one subject. Specialization is allowed, of course, but the amount is unfairly distributed.
Some departments are so small that one can take almost all the courses offered without violating any rule—and in addition one can enroll in a large amount of related work, since these related courses are in other groups.
Two or three groups are so large, however, that when a fair degree of specialization is attained, work in related departments is barred because several departments are arbitrarily thrown together in an overgrown group and the hour limit in that particular field has been reached.
The breaking down, of the larger groups should be given consideration when the new system is evolved by the committee.
What has become of the old-fashioned student who smoked on steps of University Buildings?
PUBLICITY
The order of the Board of Administration requiring the light of publicity to be thrown on comparative scholarship statistics of University organizations will be a stimulus to better work.
Although the comparisons are not always fair because of temporary or exceptional reasons, the general averages are somewhere near correct.
It is true that conditions are not ideal at the University if students work harder for the purpose of improving the standing of a certain group or organization. In attaining this end, however, the student will necessarily derive more benefit from his courses, therefore the stimulus is a good one to that extent.
ENDS AND ODDLETS
"E, fled fldm shdi cnfw cfmyf mes."—Daily Texan. That's what we have been thinking for a long time but we couldn't express it.
IT PRECEDED QUIZ WEEK
University pauses today to ob-
serve a day of prayer."—Syracuse
baily Orange.
"O. Dammit has had his name hanged by the South Carolina Legislature."—News note. Probably ran himself sick answering false calls.
ANTHYING LIKE CUCUMBERS?
The Drake Delight Dalphic announces its Coming Events column.
Friday, 8 p. m., Berea in Barea Hall.
LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES Just when the bottom of the coal bin appears Old Sol begins to shine.
Despite the theories of the college busters, the fact that Abraham Lincoln never had a college education was not only reason he was a great man.
The average K. U. professor seems to think that all students are like Thomas A. Edison, who complains it becomes sick when he steps up work.
OUR DAILY QUIZ Use honor system and grade yourself
A. —Webster says it is the product of the practical application of esthetic principles.
ART
WITH K. U. POETS
Q. —What and why is an art exhibit?
A. —That's something else again as Potash said to Perlmutter.
Q—What purpose does it serve? it
A—One form of it is the excuse for artistic temperament. Another
is the principal ingredient of art exhibi-
A. —First, it's free; second, no bunch of pictures can hope to compete with good hard study.
O. —What is art? '
A. —A collection of pictures sent around to colleges to divert the hard working stude and improve his mind.
A. -Oh yes, all the 'drawing and painting classes, a few faculty people, and some of those individuals who think this chance to get something for nothing.
Q—Why don't they flock to the headquarters on in the Administration Building?
Q. —Students are always eager to grasp such opportunities, are they not?
JOSEPH'S LAMENT
A. —Yes they are not.
Horry Kemp, Former Student My boy, my boy and art thou dead,
Q. —I can't there any way to induce the student body to attend?
A—Might try sprinkling some good cartoons among the pictures, or serving free eats at the exit.
Q. —Why is art?
Upon the bitter leafless tree.
Would they had stretched these limbs instead
But thou wouldst pay small heed to me.
Vet hotetbat then given me hew my bou
Yet hadden that given me heed my boy
thought I had a workman's guilt. I wait
Thought known a workman's quiet joy.
To sit in the declining sun
At peace when the day's stint was done—
And a seat at the vine-clad door
Hod blessed her, happy at thy trade
A wife had sat at thy right hand:
A cot, a little piece of land
A cot, a little piece of land With one gray olive tree before
And a small son had climbed and played
With broken prattle on thy knee—
But son, thy soul was deaf to me And so thou hangst where all may see
O shameful deoth! . . . O shameful
My murdered boy! . . . . . . . . . . . Woe, woe
is me!
CAMPUS OPINION
Of late much discussion has arisen concerning the adoption of the honor system at this University. All will admit that it is the object of honest, sincere students to get their lessons fairly, and that anything rendering this condition more attainable is to be approved.
The honor system provides that each student pledge himself to give or receive no assistance in his lessons which he would be ashamed to have publied ymency to him, and promises not to crio. Many students regard cribbing as an inalienable right, a sort of game one plays with the instructor, his grades the stakes. Indeed some students become far more proficient in cribbing than in study, and more capable of guile than by hard digging. At such persons the corrective force of the honor system is directed because:
(1) Opposition arises to the honor system because the initiative must be taken to secure it. Not to have an honor system permits a dishonor system, such as present state of affairs, might be called. Would you work for a pledge to crib all the time and keep open text-books in quizzes?
(2) It is in accord with popular sentiment. Do you realize that the Eighth Commandment, "Thou shalt not steal" applies to stealing products of the brain? And even when permission is given you to appropriate them to your own use, to pass on them as a tie and discard, much the same as stealing. Would public sentiment vote to set aside the Eighth Commandment? Although there are objections to tale-bearing and informing, yet it would not be necessary to resort to such extreme measures very often as there are seldom more than three grafted animals scorn and grieve of their classmates would soon cause them to see the errors of their ways.
(3) . It would furnish a correct and comparative estimate of the students' worth. Have you not often been aggraded when you were graded two minus in connection with 'an honestly conducted language quiz, and your neighbor, who has made pony, made pony, pulled a two plus? And he went on record in the registrar's office as having learned more than you did.
(4) It would prevent dishonest and incapable students from proxuring. You know there are two or three grafters in a class, who by a little persuasion on the part of the rest of the class should come out and raise the standard of the University, or reform and lead honest lives.
(6) It would prove an incentive to study. If you knew that every one in the class was trying to be honest, and would look with disfavor upon whispered dissemination of knowledge in the classroom or other forms of cheating, you would realize that you must come prepared in advance and would therefore put in some time on honest study.
(5) It would raise the moral standard of the student and increase his self-respect. A sense and realization of confidence imposed often tends to make such a person rather proud of himself and apt to become worthy of the trust put in him.
If you would only stop to think how mean and small it is to crib and how unprofitable (you must be the loser in the end) also what peace of mind and self respect are gained by being honest about oneself, but when you consider every person would adopt a personal honor system of his own and enforce it rigidity, and when you consider the number of persons in this University, even within the narrow scope of your own personal experience, to whom the honor system should revolute in habits of study you realize the great moral uplift brought about by the successful operation of the honor system. Reform.
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High School Students
who are so fortunate as to have
Musical or Artistic Talent
Ten are holding well paid positions. Five are continuing their studies. The others did not desire positions.
and who are wondering whether the development of their abilities would place them in a remunerative profession will be interested in the experience of the 24 graduates from the School of Fine Arts last year.
The ten have positions in piano, organ, voice, organ and choir directing, painting and expression.
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