UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University EDITORIAL STAFF HERRRY FLINT - - - - - Editor-in-Chief GLENSON ALLYNSE - - - - - Editor/Editor JOHN C. MADBEN - - - - - Management MARTIN ROGERS - - - - - Sport Editor GLOSSENBERG - - - - High School Editor BUSINESS STAFF EDWINA AEWLA - Advertising Manager RAY EDDIBORN - Circulation Manager BENNY HOFFMAN - Advertising REPORTIAL STAFF RANDOLPH KENNEDY LUCY BARONER SAM DUMORE JEWEL MURRAY J. WIYCHO Entered as secon-1-class mail matter attorney. For more information, call Laverncoe, Kannas, under the act of March 31, 2018. Published in the afternoon five times as 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, 25. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. Lawrence, Kans. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate graduate in a far greater than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals it promotes; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be helpful; to more serious problems to user heads; to enable students of the University. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914 News Editor: John Gleisner. Assistants Jack Greenlee, Frank O' Sullivan. Editorial Assistants: Gilbert Clayton, Maurine Fawrweather, Rear Eidridge. Exchange editor, John M. Henry. Society reporter, Lutte Hildinger. Give every man thine ear but few thy voice—Shakespeare. STARTING RIGHT OFF Basketball support on the part of the students started off with a winning stride with the team's initial victory, judging from the crowd at the opening indoor contest last night. Let's keep it up! Good support to the team always brings double rewards. It keeps the team on its toes, and greatly increases thereby the chances that the team will keep on keeping us on our toes. Somehow or other that name, K. N. G., reminds us of symbols we have oft seen upon returned quiz papers. "Rain, Hail, Snow, and Riot at Soccer Match"—Newspaper headline. Riot at a soccer game? The next thing you know someone will have a fit on a handball court. "Well, good morning, Mr. Sun. Glad to see you back. Did you have a pleasant vacation?" WELCOME, MR. SUN Old Sun returned to the University yesterday after an extended vacation in the south. It is hoped he will be with us for some time now for we have missed his shining face greatly. We prepared a beautiful welcome for him this week by having Jack Frost decorate the campus, covering every tree and blade of grass with magnificent white fringe. We hope the wandering one appreciated our efforts and will remain with us at least for a few days. Welcome, Mr. Sun. According to a Harvard professor man is sweetest when angry. Those of us who have had experience with an angry father find such a doctrine pretty hard to swallow. If there is anything that makes a man feel like swearing off smoking more than the tobacco gifts of his best girl, it has so far passed unnoticed. Blood is thicker than water, but or Adamas hill, ice is slicker than brick As we take it, this "father and son" movement which is stirring parts of the country is just a new fangled way of putting into effect the old "spare the rod and spoil the child" prophecy. Scientists have recently discovered a tribe of Eskimaux with extra back-bones. Why not have an Eskimau on the Student Council? MORE LIGHT! Yes, those lamp posts on the campus are certainly ornamental, and useful, too, as far as they go. But they don't go quite far enough. If you doubt this statement, take a Mississippi car some dark night, get off at the station below Green Hall, and try to find your way to the top of the hill. It's only a few feet, but you will be surprised to find what a lot of unpleasant things can happen in so short a distance. If you are enough of a cat to be able to see in the dark, you may ascend those three flights of steps in comparative safety, but if you are of the common or garden variety of human, you will at once begin—in your mind—circulating petitions for a large bright light at that particular place. Harry Kemp, the hatless bard of Kansas, no doubt had good cause for bitterness because of the treatment he received at the hands of the English authorities. But that he should take his revenge out upon poor defenseless Rudyard Kipling was, it seems, a trifle beyond the limits of true poetical politeness. "Ooinellshe" asks Bertaeon Braley, scoring the K. U. poet for his audacity in berating the compiler of the "Jungle" stories and calling him servile and vile. GOOD NEWS, ANYHOW And yet—it makes good news. So— 'It 'im 'ard, 'Arry. Among the many Christmas tokens that came to us was one from Henry Maloy, the cartoonist on the University of Michigan's "Kansas," and the "Pacify" and "J.Hawk." It is a clever drawing—Toronto Republican. Out greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fail.—Anon. K. U. DICTIONARY Adams (Noun.) (Derived from some member of the Adams family or from Adam himself, the apostrophe of the possessive case having been lost in the heedless ages of linguistic evolution); a street in Lawrence, Kansas, U. S. A., connecting a student district with a fountain of learning; the most wonderful thing about this street is that its grade changes with the weather, being 10 per cent on dry days, 25 per cent on wet mornings, and 100 per cent last week; a fine place for development of "wind"; years 20,000 students have climbed 2,397,002 miles up the hill road, and walked, ran, hill roasted, rolled, and slid down. This street has come up from mud through macadam to brick since Senator Borah made daily use of it. (The name is now obsolescent by order of the hon. city council with a student body non-concuring.) Alumni (Pl noun) (Other forms in common use: alumnues, alumina, and old grads). Inhabitants of the studes' hereafter; those who stayed around until a sympathetic faculty gave them 120 hours so as to collect the $5 per for diplomas; the finished product of an educational mill—with corners nicely sharpened for the world to knock off; those who, having a deep sense of obligation to ward their ma mater, let her offer for want of a permanent income through a loan or to show their loyalty by springing to their guns there is opportunity to take a shot at a football coach or at somebody else connected with the institution who happens to do something counter to their pet notions; but on the whole, a body of some five thousand and fairly passable men and women. Athletics (Very important word.) The means by which a few students take exercise for the many; the way in which 2000 students keep healthy through exercise—by proxy. Useful in teaching the young that the only thing worth trying to do is to win. Regarded by all as the chief function of our modern institutions of learning. The only means yet discovered of keeping before the time the fact that schools exist, and the standard by which the public may measure the relative standing of interests. A system by which sports which pay well may be used to get money to support other sports which are too tame to draw a crowd The best thing in college life to sti up the contentions necessary to keep things from growing stale. The great inspiration for pep and "peranity." Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone; Thy credit wary keep, 'us quickly gone; Being got by many actions, lost by one. CAMPUS OPINION Randolph. NOISE IN THE LIBRARY Editor of the Daily Kansan: n. blamed on the students. In the evening, at a quarter after nine the boy at the desk begins to close up for the night. He doesn't it with an "articular 'soft pedal'" effects; either. He bangs the books back on the shelves, thrusts magazines into their places with a thud, scrapes the chairs into order with a bump against the tables. Meanwhile the rest of us are "bugging" for that quiz next week. The fraternity people do not sit far into the night discussion "The Barba," and wasting good time over the "harb" question. Why should we waste our equally good hours worrying over them? They don't and never will appreciate it. A Contented Barb. There is at least one disturbance there, which cannot be blamed on the student. "BARB" GIRL SATISFIED THE EDITION OF THE PARKS KANSAS Would it take very long after the students have left the building to straighten the library up? As it is, the library really closes, so far as efficient study is concerned at a later nine instead of 10 o'clock. Exasperated. To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: The letter of the Fraternal Spirit in the Kansas, in defense of the Kansas "frats," calls for a companion letter, I feel. As a "burb," in her second year in college, I believe that I have seen fairly well both sides of the question. At present there are many people in the University and many in the state who are strongly and loudly denouncing the fraternity system. Owing to this fact, many have come to look upon the college fraternity as a great social evil. I want to appeal to the fair minded students of the University. Is it not true that a large per cent of K. U's biggest men are fraternity men? And are not many of her worth-while women members of sororities? The per cent of the student body that is "Greek" is small, yet it is the fraternity men who oftensen become University men. It is natural for the human animal to congregate in groups. Any attempt to break up the groups of society would meet with failure. There are social, cultural, or emotional groups to be found in all society. Why not college groups? Because a crowd of congenial people take a Greek letter to distinguish themselves from the rest of society, does it make them are more hardened than the Titans' members the Mason, or the Four O'Clock Cookie Club? As a "barb" who has both "frat" and "barb" friends, who has been rushed by no K. U. sororities, and and who has studied the question from as many angles as possible, I wish to suggest that the sorority friutency question lies not with the fraternity folk but with the "barbs." Fraternities have been proved "sufficient unto themselves," yet they do more than their share keeping the school's standard where it is. The fraternity element is small, but it has found its strength in organization. The students here loudest in denouncing the Greek letter society are "barbs." Yet in almost every case they would join any fraternity that urged them. The man or woman who has been bid and has not joined raises no cry against the Greek societies. I am not defending fraternities. I am merely stating the opinion of a “barb” girl who has always been a “barb,” and is contented with her position. If the non-fraternity管干部 of Kansas would get together and “go after” things for themselves, trying to get all out of life there is for themselves and their school, the fraternity problem would be settled instantly. The knockers in much of their business to attend that would not have time to assist their fraternity neighbors to attend to theirs. The student who wishes to give every man his dues will admit that in any group where students of several colleges are represented, it is the non-fraternity people who "talk frat." If in any gathering of students from different colleges I hear several people begin to "talk frat," I know without looking have no fraternity pin. Your average fraternity man has忍辱含羞地 to refrain from "talking shout." It is the barb who does nothing for himself or his school who is loudest in denouncing occurrences. Perhaps he wishes to throw the blame of his own obscurity upon the "frats." The non-fraternity man or woman who is busy making a name and boosting the college is 400 busy getting the joy out of life to think extendedly or to worry about the fraternities. Any Suit in the House for $16.00 AT PECKHAM'S The Basketball Season Has Started The University Daily Kansan prints the real live sport dope and in order that everyone may keep in touch with the team and the number of games that will be won the price has been placed at $1.50 from now until the close of the school year, June 5.1914. This offer will be open for a limited time only and no time subscriptions will be accepted at this price. A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AT ANDERSON'S OLD STAND JOHNSON & TUTTLE 715 PROPS. Mass See the New Parker Self-Filling Fountain Pen Office Supplies, Typewriters F. I. CARTER F. 5 Mass Bell phone 1 1025 Mass. Bell phone 1061 LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. 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