UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
HERBERT FLAINT — Editor-in-Chief
GLEONDSON ALYLINE — Associate Editor
JOHN C. MADDDEN — Manager
GOVERNOR — Sport Editor
JOHN GLEONDERE — High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
EDWEN EAKIN #... Advertising Manager
RAY EDWINE #... Circulation Manager
BAY EDWINE #... Advertising Manager
REPORTIAL STAFF
RANDOLPH KENNETH LUCY BARBER
FRIEND HANKEED
K. GREENEES
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in which the State of Missouri
Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March
1982.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN,
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students of Georgetown going so further than merely printing the news by standing with them and playing no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be helpful; to be more serious problems to user heads; to have an ability to the students of the University.
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1914
Editorial assistant; Leon Horn.
News editor; John Glesner.
Exxonage editor, John M. Henry.
Society reporter, Lucie Hildinger.
It isn't what you earn that counts,
it's what your wife saves—Life.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONAIRE Every student in the University should answer the questionnaire on fraternities sent out by the sociology department shortly before Christmas.
Realizing the important part the fraternity plays in the life of the University, the sociology department is attempting to make a truly scientific investigation of the relation between the fraternity and school life. Naturally the proper field of its investigation lies within the experiences of fraternity folks themselves, the faculty, and those not members—in all, with the entire University.
To enable the investigators to se cure results that will benefit the University, every one of us, fraternity or non-fraternity should answer the questionnaire in full, giving careful consideration to the questions asked, putting fact before prejudice, and doing all in our power to make the investigation a full and successful one.
"Harrassing Villa Upon Both Sides."—Newspaper headline. Bet he's tickled.
A THREATENING COMPLIMENT
The recent mention of Cancellor Strong as a possible head for a great university of the Northwest revives the disquieting question: what if he should accept such a possible offer?
That one University should be so poor that its executive officer is open to temptation from other more heavily endowed schools is the constant compliment-threat that the University of Kansas lives under. The compliment in the mention of its best men in connection with bigger and more profitable positions elsewhere is exceeded only by the threat to the efficiency of the University involved in such possible losses.
Fortunately, it takes more than money alone to secure some things at the University of Kansas.
"Why does the University not offer a course in Mexican History?"—Ambitious Inquirer. Because it is impossible to find a professor who can name all of the Mexican presidents.
"All America cries out for settlement."—Wilson to Lind. And Lawrence landlady are the lustiest of the lot.
Local pawnshops are now preparing for their annual rush season in red neckties and lavender socks.
Oh joy! Only 354½ more days until Christmas.
It is said that all students went to chapel once in a while when exercises were held daily; but now there is complaint that some students never go.
HOW ABOUT CHAPEL?
Just when and how often chapel exercises should be held is indeed a problem. There are those who would go back to the old ten o'clock exercises five times a week. Then there are those who would change the present twice-a-week chapel to ten o'clock instead of eleven o'clock. By keeping many students on the hill this would induce them, it is thought, to attend chapel at this hour better than at the eleven o'clock hour.
The question is, how can the students be persuaded to attend chapel? Shall the exercises 'be made more entertaining, or shall the time be changed? The Daily Kansan invites communications on the subject.
The urban citizen with a pig pen in his back yard hasn't anything on the man in the floor below who bought each of his four youngsters either a harmonica or a drum.
Last year one woman rented a house in Lawrence for the purpose of taking K. U. student rooms. She filled her rooms, 60 days later the frats had stolen 8 of them. She was not able to refill her rooms and lost on her investment. Ask this woman's opinion of the fraternities.-Progressive Herald.
We venture that the sociology department, which is making a survey of fraternities at the University has already secured her opinion, without having to ask for it, either.
THE WORST CRIME
If I were to meet you face to face this morning and say to you as impressively as I know how:
The worst crime Is waste of time,
you probably would look at me and say "Are you crazy?"
This wouldn't bother me, because I know—even as you ought to know—that the very heart and soul of wisdom and sanity is aborrence of waste, and that the worst of all forms of waste is that which has to do with the ONE THING WE NEVER CAN GET BACK!
Soil that has lost its fertility can be made fertile again. Dendued hillsides can be re-forested. Houses gone to ruin can be rebuilt.
But Time gone is Time forever lost.
Nothing can bring it back.
Yet every day you and I and every one are wasting this most precious of all the things we have in this world.
Some of us are wasting a little, but that small waste could be converted into wealth and usefulness with great profit. — Philadelphia North American
OUR DAILY QUIZ
Your honors system and grade yours
CHRISTMAS VACATION
Q. —How does it affect the ordinary student?
A. —Somewhat as it affects poor old Dad.
Q. —How often does it come?
A. —It is the time of melancholy days for the home folks, especially the fatted calf.
Q—What do the professors do then?
A. Once too often, usually.
Q. —What does Christmas vacation mean for the Eligibility Committee?
A. —It is a season of joyous anticipation.
A. —Yes, if they are in Kansas City.
A — Nothing, unless you call "visiting" something.
Q. —Does the Student Council stir out during this blessed yuletide season?
Q. —What do the girls do?
A.—Alternate between the fur
nace and the vaudele shows.
Q—Do the students like to see the New Year come?
A. —No, it continues dormant.
Q—Are we glad vacation is over?
A—Decidely, yes.
And why are your cheeks so red?" "Oh, mother, the berry I ate in the lane
Back she came through the flaming awns; and her mother spoke and said:
"What gives your eyes that dancing light, what makes your lips so strangely bright,
Jack she came through the faltering dusk. And her mother spoke and said, "I'm here, it's been so long." It is known
FOLK-SONG
And her mother spoke and said:
"You are weeping, your footstep is heavy
- on are weeping, yourJOSEPH is hea-
with care.
    on our toilet and clint to the
And why no you take them?
Ooh, mother—oh, mother, you never can
What makes you lotter and citing to the stair,
what makes you have your head?"
—BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER
MY FIRST LIE
I loved him so!"
Mark Twain thus tells how he got out of it;
As I understand it, what you desire is information about "my first lie, and how I got out of it." I was born in 1835; I am well along, and my memory is not as good as it was. If you had asked about my first truth it would have been a lot for me. If I remember that fairly well, I remember it as if it were last week. The family think it was week before, but that is flattery and probably has a selfish project back of it. When a person has become seasoned by experience and has reached the age sixty-four, he likes a family compliment as well as ever, but he does not lose his head over it as in the old innocent days.
I do not remember my first lie, it is too far back; but I remember my second one very well. I was nine days old at the time, and had noticed that if a pin was sticking in me and I advertised it in the usual fashion, I was lovingly peted and coddied and pitied in a most agreeable way and got a ration between meals besides. It was human nature and to get these riches, or to advertise one when there wasn't one. You would have done it; George Washington did it; anybody would have done it. During the first half of my life I never knew a child that was able to rise above that temptation and keep from telling that lie. Up to 1867 all the civilized children that were ever born into the world were liars—including George. Then the safety-pin came in and blocked the game. But is that reform worth anything? No; for it is reform has no voice in it; merely stops the form of lying; it doesn't impair the disposition to lie, by a shade. It is the cradle application of conversion by fire and sword, or of the temperance principle through prohibition.
To return to that early lie. They found no pin, and they realized that another liar had been added to the world's supply. For by grace of a common place but seldom noticed fact was borne in upon their understandings—that almost all lies are acts, and speech has no part in them.
MCUH CREDIT DUE BETTY?
"Hello, Betty Freshman!"
"Why, of course, I always do."
""...!"
"Going to school?"
"Well, so am I."
"it does look like it, doesn't it?" (A longer pause.)
(A pause.)
"Car's late, I guess."
"Say, Betty. I'm sorry you ain't going to the banquet."
going to the museum
"Well, who said I wasn't?"
"Are you, Betty?"
"No, I'm not! I wouldn't go for anything."
"Honest, now, are you going,
Betty?"
"Aw, you'd better go; you'd en-joy it. I'm going."
"Are you? I hope you have a good time."
the withered leaves lie dead,
They rustle to the eddying gust, an
"What do you want to know for?"
"Oh, just for fun."
"go say I—er—oh, shucks! That is I'm going if you'll go with me. I'm tired of askin' girls—Oh, honest, I didn't mean that! I mean I'm tired of trying to ask girls. Will you vo? "
She had a voice like a siren, and when she sang, “Mid play sure, sand palaces, the heam a rome. Be sand palaces, the heam a rome. Play play sy comp, and so on to the conclusion, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room—United Presbyterian.
Why, oh, I just love you.
"All right. I guess thats all I have to say. Here comes the car Hooray!"—The Sunflower.
'Why, Jim, I'd just love to!'
The melancholy days are here, the saddest of the year,
Of Wailing winds and naked woods,
and meadows brown and sere.
—La Rouchefoucauld.
to the rabbit's treat. —W. C. Bryant.
Fortune is ever deemed blind by those upon whom she bestows no favors.
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We have a few of the Wilhelm campus pictures left for Xmas presents. We save you money on framing.
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Hudnuts, Azure, LaTtriffe Palmus
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HASKELL INDIANS PLAY
NOTRE DAME NEXT YEAR
Manager Venne of the Haskell Indian school announced that Notre Dame university has agreed to play football with the Indians next fall in Kansas City.
The game probably will be played Thanksgiving day unless the Kansas-Missouri game is played there then. In that case it will be played earlier.
Professor Swift of the University of Minnesota said in a recent address that he deemed it appropriate to help all popular songs, including college songs.
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Lectures--
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Have you asked the Extension Division to help you with your winter lecture course?
The Extension Division will be glad to suggest a course, or to furnish a single lecture.
Correspondence-Study--
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Municipal Reference Bureau--
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Lantern Slides--
The express is the one cost.
Address--
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