UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University of Kansas
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HERBERT FLINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor-In-Chief
GLENSON ALVINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor
JOHN C. MADDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Editor
LANDON LAIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sport Editor
JOHN LAREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High School Editor
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published a memoir in the
weeks after March 1, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the
University of Pennsylvania, at the age of 36.
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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The Daily Kannan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely promote its students; to be clearer about no fraternities; to be clean; to be cheerful, to be charitable; to be courageous; to learn more; to be students in all; to serve to the best of its ability to students of the University.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6.1913
"When oil is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a flowered child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." William Temple.
FARCE IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
That our two student government associations have been existing this fall in name only at the pleasure (and pro-castination) of the University Council shows in brief the status of student government at the University. Practically there is none; the two associations are figureheads. Yet we believe that there is a good field open here that a student disciplinary body with the proper powers can fill with great benefit to the University.
If the faculty is sincere in thinking student governing bodies are worth while, these bodies must be given a certain inviolable authority which cannot be taken away haphazard as one function has been this fall. On the other hand, considering the shifting population of student bodies, an element of permanence that can come only from the faculty must also be made a part of their organization. The needs of a student discipline body with any strength are, therefore, final authority in anything it takes up, and an element of permanence to carry it on from year to year with high ideals and clear alms.
from year to year.
At present the two student bodies are the disowned children of the University, lacking power and self poise, they tend to keep up largely because students instinctively tend to form such bodies, but lacking full knowledge of the problems before them are unable to push ahead to efficiency. The councils are tied with strings to the faculty, yet the faculty otherwise doesn't care much what becomes of them.
Both sides are at fault and student government here will continue to be a farce until the faculty gives the two councils power and permanence.
"Life is a great bundle of little things."—O. W. Holmes.
—John Gay.
"Life is a jest, and all thinks show it;
I thought so once, and now I know it."
THE PRIVATE SCHOOL
A private school is a place where parents send their children when they do not wish to associate with them. Also a private school is a place where children learn things which the parents would be ashamed to tell them about at home.
The private school is the best substitute for an education that money can buy. —Life.
Every private school for girls is presided over by a perfect lady, assisted by several other perfect ladies. Every pupil who goes to a private school always improves steadily . The reputation of the school depends upon this improvement and the social standing of the parents.
The man who put the brass in Nobraska should have been more saving with his resources—Daily Delphic.
"There are in the capacities of men three varieties; one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained to him; a third, neither of himself nor when it is put clearly before him."
Machiavelli.
FRESH FROM HIGH SCHOOL
We are wondering whether the freshman who wrote was not more interested in preparing four hundred words the theme claiming that the Kansas spirit was a farce for rhetoric class than in painting a vivid picture of students at the University of Kansas.
The fact that the whole student body does not turn out to football games and nightshirt parades as perhaps high school students would have done does not prove that there is a lack of spirit here. University students are affected by such a diversity of interests that it is impossible for all of them to get together on one thing at the same time.
Surely the high school elections in which the writer may have participated must have been bloody affrays if the recent class election are to be characterized as tame. If all the cancuses, campaign literature, handbills, newspaper advertising, sample ballots, and personal workers of the last election show that very little interest was taken by the students, then we would like to see an election in which the student body really became interested. Perhaps our freshman friend's ear was not close to notice the upheavals which took
Perhaps our freshman friend's ear was not close enough to the ground to notice the upheavals which took place.
ALL ABOUT LIFE
"Whether in Naishapo or Babylon,
Whether the cup with sweet or bitter runs
The Wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."
—Omar Khayyam.
communications to the Daily Kansan must be signed as an evidence of good faith, though not necessarily for publication. The column is open to all Daily Kansan readers).
COMMUNICATIONS
Dear Sir:- In reply to the "Exasperated Stude" who lays the entire responsibility for library disturbances, on the Co-ed, I would like to say that he has very evidently not been at the library on several nights. If he has, why did he not mention the young man who came in one night to audibly inquire of a co-ed, who was not making a disturbance how soon she would be ready to go? Why did he forget to tell of the boy who stopped in the doorway and coughed in order to attract the attention of a co-ed until he had attracted the attention of every one else in the room? The librarian was obliged to speak to the first young man because of the noise he was making. He must be冷
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Of course the co-eds do talk, but let us at least be consistent enough to give the boys their share of the blame.
To the Editor of the Kansan:
Many different views have been stated in the "comments" column of the Kansan upon the question of "cheating" and "crooking" in the class room—possibly so much that further comments will be unwelcome. Yet I can't pass the question satisfactorily without stating a few differences which, to me, seem very plausible.
"Freshman" complains, in no uncertain language, that it is all the fault of the upperclassmen. In retaliation the upperclassmen contends that the first-year men are unacustomed to being placed "on their honor," and overlook the responsibility which "senior" says rests with them. Again, "common stude" blames them both in saying, "we are losing our pride in honesty."
Really, as a matter of fact, are conditions as serious as that? Are we not bringing our institution into disrepute by just such agitation? Even under as elaborate an honor system as Columbia University maintains and boasts of, there is a certain amount of "underhand cheating."
Unbiased critics of the University are ever ready to take at issue just such criticisms as are made by the few dissatisfied ones, who are not representative of the entire student body. Is it as just or as fair an estimate of the University of Kansas, to judge it by the small percent who do unfair work as to judge it by the very large percent who are square and above-board?
The benefits, derived by society from an institution are decided, not by the smaller percent, but by the larger. To say the least, public censure of the deficient will not bring us as far in the eyes of the uninformed as praise for the students in general. We are too prone to see and expose the mistakes of others to the embarrassment and consternation of the whole, than we are to approve of the good, to the advancement of the University—in the eyes of the people at large, at least.
Much better, it seems to me, to make of the "comments" column a space for praise than for lamenting, especially when we have so much more good to praise, than we have bad to lament.
Satisfied Soph.
Going One Better.
"Bang!" went the rifles at the maneuvers. "Oo-oo," screamed the pretty girl—a nice, decorous, surprised Rttie scream. She stept backward into the surprised arms of a young man.
"Oh," said she, blushing. "I was frightened by the viles. I beg your pardon."
riles. I beg your pardon,"
"Not at all," said the young man, "Let's go over and watch the art!"
—Cincinnati Times-Star.
This is Awful—"I met my fiancee in a department store."
store. Eye first met Adams."
"That's where Eve first met Adams." "Not all all. It's just been discovered that Adam met Eva at the rib encounter. —Boston Transcript.
The Lady and the Diploma*
When a diplomat says "yes," he means "perhaps."
When a diplomat says "perhaps," he means "no" and when a diplomat says "no," he is no diplomat.
When a lady says "no," she means "perhaps."
When a lady says "perhaps," she means "yes"; and when a lady says "yes," she is no la-
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Unfamiliar Verses
THE SECRET
Ere I had come to three feet high,
My father said to me:
"You soon will be as tall as I!"
Whereat we laughed in glee.
"Soon you will grow, soon you will know
The things I know!" said he;
It seemed so long a while to grow—
Ah, might it ever be!
Within a year my father died;
So very young was I,
I did not know just why they cried;
I sat and wondered why.
Now years have flown and I have grown
...a poet as, tall as; he:
Could I have known! He must have known,
That day he laughed with me!
He F Mapple
—Charles F. Mapple.
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