UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
HERBERT FAINY • **Editor-in-Chief**
JOHN C. MADENIN • **Managing Editor**
JOHN C. MADENIN • **Managing Editor**
BUSINESS STAFF
EDWEN ARIKA . . . Advertising Manager
BARRY HOLLINS . . . Circulation
JOHN KOON . . . Advertising
JOSH KOO
REPORTIAL STAFF
NANDOLLE KENNEDY LUCY BARGER
SAM DEGEN J.W. DYNE
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The Daily Kannan aims to picture the undergraduate in how he goes further than merely printing the news by standing for the favorites; to be elicent; to be cheerful; to be more serious problems to user heads; to be more serious problems to usability the students of the University.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914
Now Editor; Charles Gibson.
Editorial Assistants: Ryd Eldridge, John Henry.
Exchange editor, John M. Henry.
Society reporter, Lucie Lukidienne.
I'll bind myself to that which, once being right will not be less right when I shrink from it.—Kingsley.
WHERE PUT THE UNION BUILD
ING?
Where are we going to build the new Student Union building?
It is generally agreed that a building not located near the student district and entirely "up" Mt. Oread would have first of all a great natural disadvantage to overcome. And the argument that a Union "on top of the hill" would hurt a Student Union is not invalid, for when one leases around or "drops in," he does so because it's handy and easy first of all.
Why not locate the Union north of the Chancellor's residence on Louisiana street, thus putting the building on the campus and yet a fair distance from the growing room district north of the University? Moreover, this site might readily be donated to the Union by the University, thus eliminating at the start the expense of buying a site on privately owned ground.
If a man strikek thee on thy left arm, turn thy right one to him, lest he hit thy vaccination again.
FLUNKING COCA-COLA
A University chemist lectured the other day on the evils of excessive coca-cola drinking, characterizing it in no uncertain terms as a pernicious and harmful practice.
One "coke," he showed by analysis, contained in caffein ten times the amount of stimulant contained in a cup of tea. In other words, the student who drinks five or ten "cokes" to keep awake some night cramming before examinations gets the same amount of stimulant he would get from fifty to one hundred cups of tea. But of course he would never think of drinking that much tea to keep going.
Perhaps some students who drink "eokes" to excess don't realize how great the effect and danger of the stimulation-and-consequently-depression is. It is time they should know; also, that the best sort of preparation for a quiz is sleep, and plenty of it, the night before.
KANSAS DAY
Today is Kansas Day; but did you know it?
When, for instance, was Kansas Day established? Could you give, if necessary, the main points in the state's history since its admission into the Union?
In spite of the chances two to one that most students would flunk in the above quiz, that failure should not keep them from realizing that all over the country, today, former
Kansans who will always be Kansans are celebrating the day. They probably can't pass the quiz either, but they are all good Kansans, just the same.
UNFAIR
DEPARTMENTAL GROUPING
Group seven of the schedule of college courses is composed of three separate and distinct departments. A student may specialize in any one and make that course a basis for his life work. Moreover, the average student is taking college work as a foundation for some profession or perhaps a business career. If he is planning for a business career every course in the history group can be used to an advantage.
However, there is a ruling of the University that "before graduation the student must complete a major course of not less than thirty hours nor more than sixty hours in one group. Not less than twenty hours nor more than forty hours of his major course may be taken in one department."
This ruling works a hardship on many students because of the broad field that each department covers. Is it fair that students are not permitted to take all the work that would be of real benefit to them from any one of these departments?
The University Daily Kansan invites communications from the students and from the faculty upon the matter. If injustice is being done to the student, the matter should be taken up by the proper authorities.
Now that flunks and conditions can be removed by correspondence study, will these students use parcels post or express their thoughts?
SELF-ASSERTION
The Student Council's vigorous campaign toward a Student Union on a small but secure basis at first, and the announcement of its determination to handle the no-smoking regulation, are good signs.
Self-assertion: that is where the most talented often fall down, and the Council has not always kept from stumbling over the obstacles in its path. But things are looking up; and in the light of the possible work the Council can do, its new attitude of self-assertion is worthy of notice.
ECHOES
Either the men are too busy or the women talk too much at the University of Kansas. For some time the Kansan has been foshing the student council to an extent that probably would not be tolerated by some sensitive friends of the Delaware. We get the impression that they have been in need of a reform down there. Perhaps they have it now. We see they have established two student councils, one for men and one for women, in order to facilitate student government. Let the women rule!—Drake Delphic.
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
If a man has nothing to reproach himself with he can bear anything—Phillips Brooks.
THE WHO'S WHO OF K. U. ALUMNI
Wisdom is humble that he knows' no more...Cowper.
Whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing well—Lord Chesterfield.
Judge Charles W. Smith of Stockton is an appreciative alumnus if there ever was one. After graduating from the College in 1876 and taking his A. M. five years later, he showed his a good sense by marrying a K. U. graduate, and some twenty years after, he began sending his children to the University. They have been graduating for about fifteen years, and one of them is in the College this year. The judge has had two victories against Michigan since he been a faithful Kansan ever since. His career, while not what could be called spectacular, has been long and honored—one of the longest indeed, in the judiciary of Kansas, he having been judge of the thirty-fourth district for twenty-five years. Judge Smith is a candidate for a justice of the Supreme Court in Kansas.
Judge C. W. Smith
LOVE OF LIFE
Love you not the tall trees spread
your wide, their branches.
Cooling with their green shade the sunny days of June?
sunny days of June?
Love you not the little bird lost
to your heart.
Is there not joy in the waste windy
places:
Dreamly repeating a quaint, brief tune?
Is there not a song by the long dusty wav?
Is there not a glory in the sudden hour of struggle;
dour or grungy.
Is there no peace in the long quiet
—Teritius Van Dyke in Literary Digest.
CAMPUS OPINION
NEW DANCE FOR "A DANCER"
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan;
I have attended one or two dances when I was able to gather together the necessary shekels, and I want to say that I have heard very few complaints in regard to the "Gallery Gods" except from members of some so-called committee who take admission through their ability as graffiti.
Some of these social committee members were never known to attend even the class parties, let alone the other dances, before they grafted their way in on the strength of the Social Committee." It was even possibly due to the "Cheap Skate's" vote that the kicker got his commission, so why should that distinguished personage not show his appreciation of the support of the Cheap Skate's high school of sitting in a dark secluded corner of the gallery furthering his education?
It is not always from the onlooker that scandal spreads about the new dances.
"Come-Back."
Hungarian Table Manners (W. Y. Morgan in "The Near East.") From the boat I saw fields of corn such as we have in America, the first I ever saw in Europe. Indian corn was introduced into this country by the government. At dinner we had "corn on the creek" and the Huns were the good American style, burying the face in the corn until the butter ran down the sides of the mouth. Table manners are much the same in polite society the world over, but there are often local peculiarities. A charming Hungarian lady sat opposite the corn, washed it down with a glass of beer, picked her teeth, and lighted a cigarette. None of these would have been considered proper in Kansas, but they are the correct etiquette in Hungary. When a woman can eat corn on the cob, drink beer, pipe tobacco, and still charming, it is proof that she is pretty and attractive, so I introduce that fact as evidence on the looks of the lady Hunts.
The Hungarian language can be worshipped, for it is like nothing else on the earth or in the waters. All the west-European languages are based on the Latin and German and the printed words look like English. But the Hungarian language is a job lot of consonants without roots, and a printed line looks like, a head-end collision between two French another word for Hungarians is Magyar, but doesn't help the language. There have been great poets, and musicians in Hungary, and one of the wonders of the world to me is how they did it in the Magyar. The folks themselves pronounce their words rather softly, but when an American makes the attempt you think he is practicing for a swearing match.
"A COLLEGE JOKE TO CURE THE DUMPS" Smith, Cassius and Peter
While bristles left there were upon
The toothbrush, getting soft as but
but.
We used it till they all were gone,
And now it is a paper cutter.
It smoothes the moon.
-Swift, Cassinus and Peter
"What'll I write?" I asked the Ed, Bein' as my weak brain was dead.
"Write sumpin'满心," he said to me, And here's what I wrote:
"Gargoyle."
Dignity is a good thing, but don't assume too much of it or you will be mistaken for the butler--Gargoyle.
a here's what I wrote
Hee, hee."
—Gargoyle.
"Your teeth are like the stars," he said.
The maiden's face grew bright. "Your teeth are like the stars," he
said,
"They all come out at night."
—Ye Crabbe.
A tea kettle sings when it is full,
but no one wants to be a tea
kettle?
Is she a good dancer?
Yes. She knows when to quit."—Detroit Free Press.
"Ask the Extension Division"
CHEER UP.
It may not be as bad as it seems. The Extension Division will help you.
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Address:
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