UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
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RANDOLPH KENNEDY LUCY BARGER
SAM DEGEN J.W. DYCHE
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The Daily Kaman atma to victure the news of his fateful encounter with Kansas, to go further than merely printing the new story; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be a leader; to learn more serious problems to wiser heads; to learn more about ability of the students of the University.
MONDAY, JANUARY 26,1914
News Editor; Charles Gibson.
Editorial Assistants: Helen Hayes, John Henry, Ray Edlridge.
Exchange editor, John M. Henry.
Society reporter, Lucie Hildinger.
It needs brains to be a real fool—
G. MacDonald.
PRETTY WELL, THANK YOU
The semi-annual report of the Athletic Association shows a balance of $12,000. Discouraging, isn't it? The figures show that the receipts from football and the general funds will support all the rest of our athletics and leave a comfortable margin besides. As long as this is the case—and no one who saw the crowds at the last two Missouri games can doubt that it will continue to be so—we should all be consumed with anxiety.
The financial status of University athletics as shown by this report is such as to remove the last if not the only valid excuse for taking the big football games away from where they belong and dragging them around over the country. Certainly with a net profit of a hundred per cent in six months it would seem that our poor little athletic association ought to be able to struggle along.
The Student Union will be one Union that will not go on a strike.
A COURSE IN COL. WATERS
What a treat it was to have
"Colonel Waters" at the University
Friday. He is of a type that is passing
in Kansas—blunt, vigorous, picturesque,
the typical old-time Kansas orator of Cinder-Beetle and Grasshopper days.
And with what attention a scant half-dozen old white-haired men in the front rows followed him—"old soldiers" leaning forward, hand to ear, enjoying thoroughly the shower of crackling consonants and explosive vowels that play so important a part in the out-and-out speech of the past generation.
Colonel Waters should be made part of the curriculum in the education of every Kansan.
Dean Blackmar favors a regional bank at Kansas City, but most students favor something to put in the bank at Lawrence.
Now that the water in the city well at Girard is hot enough for bathing, every small boy in the state will want to move to Girard.
BETTER PLAY SAFE
Whether or not smallpox spreads so as to become a matter of serious concern, it is every student's duty, both to himself and the community, to be vaccinated. Lack of conviction as to the efficacy of vaccination as a preventative measure is no excuse for not taking it. Experience has
shown that wholesale vaccination is effective in stamping out incipient epidemics, and personal prejudice ought not to stand in the way of a measure for public safety.
This is not merely a personal matter, for every person who does not take this way of making himself immune is liable not only to get the disease himself, but to give it to other people. This consideration alone should suffice to show every thinking person his duty in the matter.
Four of the University physicians are giving their services free and it is up to everyone who has not already been vaccinated to do so at once.
There will be no chapel during quiz week. What a relief this will be to the faculty who can then use that hour for—the same things they have been using it for.
WANTED--YOUR IDEAS ON THE
STUDENT UNION
What should the coming Student Union consist of, how big should the building be, where should it be located, and how may it best be attained?
Such are questions which should furnish ever member of the student body material for careful consideration. Just what is it we are working for? Shall the Union include a Student Commons or cafeteria? Where shall the building be located? What sort of equipment should it have, and how many students should it accommodate?
The movement for a Union is now on a sane and practical working basis, but it will take comparison of ideas and pulling together to turn the trick. The Kansan invites discussion of the matter in its communication columns.
Reports from Nebraska say the Cornhusker squad is dissatisfied with its "N" sweaters and has asked for new ones. But no one has heard about dissatisfaction over their Towle.
THE "BONEHEAD"
For years and probably for centuries society has made fun of the person who cannot take a hint. His lead would supply enough marble to furnish a cemetery, or enough bone to start a collar button works, but, wonderful as it may seem, he has his good points too.
He is never angry without having mighty good reasons; he does not jump at conclusions and quit a girl without good cause. When she playfully offers him his hat along about 11:30 p.m. m. he, the "bonehead" that he is, merely thinks that she is joking and stays till twelve no more times out in the light in his. He doesn't imagine that the professor has it in for him or that the fellows are making sport of him.
This poor being rarely has any misunderstandings because he always gives himself the benefit of the doubt; he doesn't have any petty grievances and but few worries. Gossip doesn't affect him because his head is too thick. He's cracked but he also is happy.—Jamestown Kaw.
"Dat Tango, Boss, am sort of a easy motion. Ye jis jig a stealing along easy like ye didn't have any knee joint and wuz walkin' on eggs that cost 'toty cents a dozen."—Arkansas City Daily News.
Honesty; something to be brushed up or about quiz week; something which some professors try to get by policing their classes, others by leaving them, during exams; see honor system.
K. U. DICTIONARY
SOME MOTION
Hill; (see climb, 8 o'clock class);
superlative of mound; another name for Mt. Oread; a clod raised to the Nth power.
Hope; a sentimental yearning that assumes gigantic proportions twice a year about quiz week; see "hope deferred."
Hat (see freshman, paddle).
H.
**Hack** (synonym, cab); something popular in Lawrence for funerals.
Hurrah (interjection); see cheer
eader; Simp. spelling, "rah rah";
applied to wearers of Ice Cream
clothes.
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, to add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-
ing
lignrT
To seek the beautiful eye of heaven
nish.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily.
EXCESS
Is wastful and ridiculous excess.
—Shakespeare
Names Unchangeable
A lot of unwise councilmen at Lawrence, who have become inoculated with the booster idea, believe they can add prestige to the staid old University town by obliterating the historical names of Lawrence and instigating them numerically running north and south. What piffe! Just as if all the population of Lawrence could efface the familiar names of the leafy old lanes leading up to Mt. Oread! They will remain of the old "grade" as Fraser Hall, Uncle "Jimmie" Green or
When an alumnus returns to Lawrence he is going to walk out Massachusetts to Adams—not Fifth street or Thirteenth or whatever nondescript number they are pleased to call it by now. He will pass the college book store and the chancellor's house and on to the summit of the "hill," where there is a cool breeze even on the warmest day in summer and where he can obtain one of the most alluring landscape views in this or any other state—up North. Wakarua, where the mists and woodland meet and form a blur twenty miles and more away.
And after he has retraced in part the steps he used to take in going from class to class in the different buildings, he will start down the long steep incline by stepping over the road again, yes, Lee. Not Eleventh, or Twelfth, or Thirteenth street, or whatever designation it may have now, but well-remembered Old Lee from the intersection of which, with Ohio, high on the side of the hill, and so far down the hillside on frosty, moonlight nights defying the Fates.
Passing on down these friendly old thoroughfares the alumnus will recall the streets of this old New England town transplanted in Kansas, not by their new appellations brazenly obtruded into the names she so familiar to him in the years when he was successfully freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. Quincy and Berkeley and Henry and Lee, and all the rest of the "north and south" streets, can be numbered among the observations of Kansas, who are now climbing the "hill," but not for the old.
As well think of effacing the records of the two "ever-victorious" football teams or move Snow Hall down on the golf links. Neither new city councils nor time, they have made themselves indies impressed on the minds of the alumni—Frank Matz, former K. U. Student, in Parsons Sun.
Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracul lo tongue, and a nice derangement graphis* by Sheridan (Mrs. Malaprop).
GANG WAY!
Let tangois's on tangents fly,
And their aesthetic bubbles blow.
The busy quiz week drawthnigh,
And all such tommyrot must go.
Jamestown Kaw.
He—Have you seen our new altar?
She—Lead me to it.
"A COLLEGE JOKE TO CURE THE DUMPS"
—Swift, Cassinus and Peter
'Lazy's no name for it. Why, he'll go into a revolving door and then wait for somebody to come in and turn it around.
"Is Jones lazy?"
—Puck.
Mary Lee—How do gymnasts keep their muscles so clastic?
Junior... "Why is it that stout people rarely are guilty of meanness or
We Rollo Long-They practice hours at a stretch.
Freshman—"Well, it's so difficult them to stoop to anything as 'ow.'
—Princeton Tiger.
—Judge.
"Really, Tommy, I'm ashamed of you! You must think a bit; what-ever is your head for?" "You are with Mum."
—Illinois Prom Siren.
"To eat with, Mum.
—Yale Record.
—Yale Record.
"Why don't you go to the dance tonight. Harold?  Haven't you any
"Yes, dad," said the Harvard stu dent; "a flame, but no fuel." Present.
"Ask the Extension Division"
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It may not be as bad as it seems. The Extension Division will help you.
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