UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
HERBERT FLINT - - - - - Editor-in-Chief
GLENSON ALLIVE - - - - Associate Editors
JOHN C. MADDEN - - - Manager Editors
JOHN C. GASSNER - - High School Editors
GLENSON GLASSEER - - - conference, 3531 Fourteenth street,
Washington, D. C., not later than
March 15, 1914.
BUSINESS STAFF
EDWARDS ENGLISH Advertising Manager
CRANLEY Crescent Advertising
JOE BINSON Advertising
REPORTIAL STAFF
HANDLER KENNEDY LUCY BARBER
SAM DROGEN FRANK HANDEKEN
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Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March
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Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
Address all communications to
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN,
Lawrence, Kansas.
The Daily Kerman aims to picture the undergraduate in a different way, going further than merely printing the news by standing up for them. To play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; to have an ability at the students of the University.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.
The Department of Journalism is assisting the editors of the Daily Kansan in news gathering, head writing and feature creation from the department today are:
Editorial Assistants: Glendon Allvine
John Henry.
News Editor. Charles Gibson. Assistants Lucy Burger, Joe Howard, Jack Greenleins.
Society reporter, Lucile Hildinger
Discontent is the want of self-reliance,
it is infirmly of will.-EMERSON.
AN APOLOGY NEEDED
AN APOLLOY NEEDS
The matter of getting students to sign petitions asking for one thing is en entirely different matter from using signatures so gained for other and personal ends not mentioned in the petitions. Students who signed the petitions favoring the return of Kennedy as head coach should not overlook the misuse of their signatures in the handbills distributed on the hill Friday.
The truth is, the personal attacks made in the handbills did not represent the sentiments of the signers of the petitions, but only of those who framed the body matter of the hand-bill. The names of the signers of the petitions who honestly desire Kennedy's return were therefore virtually forged to attack the Kansas and University authorities.
The handbills charged that the Dally Kansan could not be used adequately to express student sentiment, and University authorities were belied in a veiled allusion at the end of the bill, all with the effect that apparently every signer of the Kennedy petitions was expressing his sentiments in the handbills.
Students who signed the Kennedy petitions have an apology coming from the authors of the handbill who misused honest student signatures for personal ends.
COMMUNICATIONS
The Dally Kansan is in receipt of several communications which came in this morning too late to get into tonight's paper. They will appear tomorrow and on succeeding days as fast as they can be used.
Only ten more school days before Christmas vacation. Let's give the University of Kansas faculty a Christmas surprise by doing ten days of I work!
The typographical artist of the Kansas City Post is certainly in the contest for the prize as the meantest man on earth. In the line-up of the All-Star Missouri Valley football team he puts down our stalwart captain of last season as right TICKLE.
FOURTEENTH INDEED!
Having noted the power of petitions the Daily Kanman is tempted to circulate for students' signatures a petition to restrain the city council from changing the name of Adams street to Fourteenth street.
But in this case we know that no number of petitions would have any effect, since the numbering of streets is in line with civic progress. And there is really no danger that Adams street will disappear from the earth. The traditions of forty years can not be wiped out in a month by a mere city ordinance.
Adams street is a University institution. It is the approach, par excellence, to human knowledge. Not a graduate lives but cherished old Adams as one of the strenuous features of his young life.
We may not know which Adams was honored in the naming—or was it a Dam who started the thing and then lost his apostrophe? but it is our Adams street just the same, and Adams street it shall remain.
LET THEM SEE K. U.
The visit to the University of Kansas of the seniors of one of the largest high schools in the state is an innovation which should be made a custom. High school students would thus get an insight into the methods of higher education and by contact with the University students have a chance to observe the advantages offered.
What better thing could the various county clubs do than send invitations to the high school seniors of their respective counties to come to Lawrence on their visiting day and go through the University?
John D. Rockefeller is quoted as saying that the damp weather at Chicago affects the morals of the inhabitants. We hasten to explain that the alleged improper conduct of certain students who went to the Missouri' game at Columbia was due entirely to the wet atmospheric conditions.
IS THIS TO YOU?
Some students have been waiting for the football season to end so they could commence studying. Others put their work off, especially such things as semester til after which they finish. Then there are those who always wait until the last hour of any semester to dig into their work.
To all three classes it might be hinted that the studying time has arrived. A low average can be helped a great deal before the semester. And there's a chance for the lowest if he will apply himself.
Excuses for loafing are out of the question now. There aren't any. It it time to work—University Missouri.
The truth which another man has won from nature or from life is not our truth until we have lived it. Only that becomes real or helpful to any man which makes the heart of his brain, the anguish of his soul. He who would be wise must daily earn his wisdom.
David Starr Jordan.
OUR DAILY QUIZ
Use honor system and grade yourself
THE STREET CARS
Q —Describe the Lawrence street ar system.
Q—Name its component parts.
A. About six miles of track and seven or eight vehicles bearing the same resemblance to a street car that a wheelbarrow has to an automobile.
A. —It is a delusion and a snare, a device for obtaining money under false pretenses, an abomination on the face of the earth.
Q. —When and why was the system extended to the top of Mt. Oread?
A.—Three years ago, to delude students into thinking there was a quick and easy way to get to the hill.
Why not be successful?
Q—How often do cars go around the hill?
A. Yes, once, when No. 6 was
four hours later.
A. —The car jumps the track at
the corner of Tennessee and Ontario.
Q. —Do the cars ever run over any-
body?
A. —That the arrival of cars should coincide as little as possible with the time when classes take up O. —How does the plan work?
A—According to the schedule,
makes it too late to wait, whenever
the motorists make a no-entry
Q — If by any chance more than a dozen people board a University car
A. —Yes, a few freshmen bite every year.
A. —Perfectly. It is the only part of a whole system of which that is most important.
Q—On what theory was the schedule arranged?
Q—Why should anybody say you live really fine street our system?
A. —Hardly. A Lawrence can could not be said to RUN over anything, even over its own track.
Q—Did anyone ever succeed in
a train by taking a car to
he detroit.
A. —Just missed a car because the clock was slow.
The almond-bloom is overpast, the
shower blossoms blow;
An Old Song
A little, cold, and lonely thing, and I have naught beside.
I never loved, but one man, and I
never told him so.
My flowers will never come to fruit,
but I have kept my pride—
The spring wind caught my flowering dreams, they lightly blew away.
I never had but one true love, and he
died yesterday.
Dorothea Mackellar.
CAMPUS OPINION
Too late I stayed—forgive the crime—
Editor the Daily Kansan:
There seems to be some misunderstanding of the agitation for honest work, owing perhaps to the use of the expression "honor system," when honor sentiment is meant, and owing to the idea that an honor system involves telling on anyone whom you see cheating.
An honor system means the establishment of some mode of trial and punishment for those who have cheated. This system is worked out according to the needs and conditions of the school and does essentially your job." Personally, we do not believe that we are ready for such a system here.
But honor sentiment is another thing. Honor sentiment means the development of a demand for honest work by the students themselves—the condemnation of one who cheats by the very force of student opinion—a sentiment for square, honorable work all the time and not merely during quiz week. It means that students may voluntarily pledge themselves to honesty and may urge others to do so.
Please don't let a false idea of the difference between telling on someone and the honor sentiment keep you from pushing such a sentiment with all your might and incidentally—by your example.
THE SANTA FE ENGINEERS Editor of Daily Kansan:
Unheeded news.
How noiseless calls the foot of time
breads on flowers.
Student.
I fear that the news article in your columns relative to the work to be offered for the Santa Fe engineers is open to misinterpretation. I beg leave to state the plan in some detail.
In the first place it may be taken for granted that no easy road to a degree is beng placed for any one. Men will find that the correspondence method involves more labor as well as more time than resident study. Many of the Santa Fe men have attended some technical school for from one year to four years, and for from one year had two or more years it may be possible to complete the course in one semester more of residence.
The method of instruction to be used will be that usually followed in University extension work. In this correspondence is the base. Assignments of work are made and the student sends in his written report, exactly as if no other element were involved. But the engineering faculty has ruled that only a small fraction of the work done for a degree may be done by correspondence. Hence it is necessary to introduce a fair amount of direct personal instruction to supplement the correspondence. To this end classes will be met by instructors, once a week in most cases. It has not been decided whether these classes will be held in Lawrence Topeka. For some of the work laboratory facilities must be secured. In view of the fact that Santa Fe men in Arkansas City, Marseille, Mo., and other division points are interested, it is likely that the instructors will be sent out, in accordance with the usual extension methods.
A point to be remembered is that these plans now in the forming are with reference to men experienced in practical engineering work. In safeguarding our professional degrees it may be taken into consideration that these men have stood the test of a rigid standard of service and may be depended upon to uphold our standards. While the people of the state must not we are giving favors to railroad employee alone, we are assured that they will willingly meet any other need at any point, it will be understood that we can admit to many of these classes for credit work only such men as are engaged in some line of practical engineering.
Present plans refer to this one course of study of full university grade. There is no reason why others should not be included in the expansion center development properly. Vocational programs about to be started will profit similarly by the establishment of conters of personal instruction.
That only treads on flowers.
—W. R. Spencer.
P. F. Walker Dean, School of Engineering.
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Get your presents for the little folks from Hoadley's, where prices are reasonable.—Adv.
Do your Christmas shopping to-
tomorrow at Ober's. Christmas things
are there ready for your inspection.
—Adv.
A kodak tank will save development money. Get one for Christmas from Woodward's.-Adv. 56-3 Adv.
Mechanical toys at Hoadley's.— Adv.