UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the noatifte at Lawrence, Kansas. under the act of March 3, 1879.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANBAM,
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The Dally Kahn aims to picture the undergraduate life of the students. He will help them learn about the stamina for the ideals the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to leave more room for themselves; in all, to serve to the best of its ability the students of the University.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913.
K. U. is said to be considering the adoption of simplified spelling, but the student orthography is frequently bad enough without added inducements—Achilson Globe
REASONS AGAINST THE GAME
(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).
Because the Daily Kansan is open to students to express opinions we are printing the following from a prominent member of the student body, favoring the return of the Missouri-Kansas game to Kansas City:
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I'm a paid subscriber to the Daily Kansan and wouldn't do without it if it was ever so much worse, but couldn't it be run on a non-partisan basis? When that vote on the K.C. game was started it seemed to be a vote to voice the sentiment of the student body. Why didn't you explain that you wished it to give you an idea so that you could rake the ones in favor of it over the coals, telling them it shouldn't be there, that the Daily Kansan say it shouldn't be there, and so that settles it? Such a candid vote as you have I think what you are voicing in that connection is entirely out of place. Hoping that you can see my point of view and not to be too highly offended I am sincerely yours.
Student.
REASONS WHY THE GAME SHOULD GO BACK TO KANSAS CITY
1. Missouri students want it there. Kansas students want it there. M. U. and K. U. alumni want it there. All votes taken since these interested parties have seen how the present plan works prove the above statement. If Missouri students are willing and anxious (and they are) to play basketball, you should be considered unfair play for us to vote to return the game to Kansas City as stated in Tuesday night's Kansan?
2. Accommodations. A Missouri graduate and a football man while at Missouri stated that the accommodations in Columbia were entirely inadequate and although augmented by enough Pullman cars to cover the trackage in Columbia, couldn't take care of those attending the game. This may also be easily verified by the students who sat up all night in Columbia. While the train service at Lawrence is much better than at Columbia, many who wished to stay over and "visit their Alma Mater" were either forced to sleep in over-crowded hotels or sit up all night.
3. Financial reasons. The net receipts of the 1910 game in Kansas City were $28,000, which was more than the gross receipts of the two games played on college grounds. While many students and alumni are ignorant of the fact that football is the only branch of athletics that pays a profit, the other branches of athletics taken as a whole show a large deficit and must, if forced to depend on their own resources, be discontinued.
4. Students, faculty and alumni say, "Uphold Traditions," yet many of our traditions have gone glimmering. The K. U.-M. U. game at Kansas City was the greatest football game of the west. If the only reason the alumni have for visiting their Alma Mater (we know it is not) is to see a football game, there are other games played here which are just as important except for tradition.
Common Stude
QUEER INSTRUCTORS
Prof. A. M. Wileox in his chapel talk spoke of the feeling among the instructors for the fellowship of the students.
I have felt many times a longing for at least a certain degree of comradeship between myself and my instructors. It seems to me as if our instructors do not care to have much to do with the students. Many a time have I met a man on the street who has been my instructor for a semester and even for a whole year and yet he appeared not to know me. I have attempted to gain at least a speaking acquaintance with many by speaking, but they return the greeting as if speaking to a stranger whom they had never seen before.
If the instructors desire fellowship with the students why don't they show it? The vast majority of the faculty in the University come to the student reception as a mere matter of form. They shake hands and smile, which makes a fellow feel as if they were really going to begin being sociable. Then when they next see you they seem indifferent about speaking.
I know that a great many of the students feel about this matter as I do. If the instructors really have a desire for closer relations to students let them show it by their actions. I am sure the students will gladly come three-fourths of the way.
A Junior.
The preference vote to be taken Friday on having seniors pledge $7 to back up the 1914 Jayhawker deserves the earnest consideration of all seniors, and all should vote, either for or against the matter.
VOTING ON THE JAYHAWKER PLAN?
O2 course the seniors don't intend to go without a book this year. No one is willing to concede that the class is willing to suffer such humiliation. Still, the matter of pledging $7 is going to be a very vital test of the class's feelings on the matter, and if all nurses don't vote one way or the other while such can be easily done, the solution of the problem will be hindered just that much.
Seniors, let's get out and every one vote on the question Friday. If you are for it, say so; if against, say so; but don't let the book die a death of indifference.
OUR LITTLE TAMMANIES
Hurray for student politics.
If there's anything we like to see it's a red-hot political campaign among students in a big University where the honors to be attained amount to something and are within the reach of everyone, theoretically speaking.
However, the theory of it doesn't always work. The man who gets out and rustles for votes gets the honors around here; the race is not for him who won't get out and buttonhole his fellow students.
Student politics at the University has its good and bad sides. On the one hand it has largely developed into a matter of the man seeking the office, not the office seeking the man, which does not conform to the theory of pure democracy and the selection ofborn leaders. On the other hand it gives students a chance to taste defeat and bear it out with grace, if they can, and to taste victory and taste of it without losing the proper perspective on their own importance, if they can.
On the whole, student politics is a great game and we like to see it go on. It was ever fun to see the devil take the hindmost, and will always continue to be so.
All this talk about the location of the Missouri football game reminds us of the old query, "What makes the wild-cat wild?" We are tempted to paraphrase that time-killing old song in this manner:
Where shall we play Mizzoo, Bill?
Where shall we play Mizzoo,
Where shall we play Mizzoo, Bill?
Where shall we play Mizzoo, Bill?
Where shall we play Mizzoo, Bill?
Will I ask you again as a personal friend
Mizzoo?
The reasons advanced by those who would take the game to Kansas City are quite as satisfactory and as logical as the reply to "What makes the wild-cat wild?" No one will deny, that
She's wild because she's wild, Bill,
She's wild because she's wild.
I tell you again as a personal friend
She's wild because she's wild.
HARRY KEMP, GENIUS
(Harry Kemp, the trump poet, who last week was found beating his way across the Atlantic, is a former student of the University of Kansas. In spite of the publicity Kemp has received since he left Kansas no one denies that he has written some striking and original verse.)
KANSAS
Let other countries glory in the past,
But Kansas glories in her days to be,
In her horizons, limitless and vast,
Her plains that storm the senses like the sea;
She has no ruins grey that men revere—
Her time is Now, her Heritage is here.
For instance, our faculty thinks the Student Council and the student body are a trifle odd at times, and the Student Council returns the favor. We think it odd that anyone should want to take the game back to Kansas City, but to our surprise we find ourselves looked at with suspicion.
Let us not poke too much fun at Harry Kemp because he has had to peel potatoes and may spent three weeks in jail while the water wrinkles in his palms dry out.
Kemp is an odd spirit, all right, but then, the rest of us are a little odd at times, aren't we?
Kemp is a genius and we are not largely because he is successful at being odd and we aren't.
The sorrowing mother of Judas knelt by the side of her son
THE MOTHER OF JUDAS
Bu: his Mother knelt beside him and closed his eyes when he
came.
His Father had left him, broken, a statue of shame and pride—
And her heart was sealed to the story of the dreadful deed he had done;
A pitiful gray-haired woman who knelt by the side of her son:
There were no mourners for Judas, there was no mourner but one.
And so she wept beside him as the others, mocking,
passed—
For God is tender with mothers... He gives them faith to the last!
Harry Kemp.
The faculty of the State University has made an order forbidding upper classmen to compel freshmen to wear a distinctive cap with a button on top. For several years the University has been governed by a board of Student Council. This board refuses to put the order of the faculty into force and the students will appeal to the state educational board. If the board sustains the faculty, the members of the Student Council say that they will resign and student government will be a thing of the past—Westmoreland Recorder.
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WHEN the "fellows" begin to gather, and college or high-school activities begin to get lively.you'll see lots of our
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suits decorating the campus; lively new models in sack suits; smart new effects in the cut of coats and waistcoats, and trousers.
The designers on these new fall models have given us some very exceptional styles, and we'd like to have all our young men see them. Special values at $25.
Some lower, some higher.
This store is the home of Hart Schaffner and Marx clothes
PECKHAM'S
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Friday, Oct. 17
BOWERSOCK THEATRE
NOTE: This is positively the only time Miss Stahl will play "Maggie Pepper" in this town.
Seats may be ordered by mail. Simply send your check with stamped envelope for the return of tickets to Sherman Wiggins, Mgr.
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“ next 14 Rows 1.50
Balcony, 1st 4 Rows 1.00
“ next 4 Rows .75
“ 2nd Balcony .50
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