UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL STAFF
OMAR HITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief
JAMS HOUGHTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor
HERBERT FLINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Editor
JAMES LEIDH ... Adv. Mgr.
JOHN C. MADDEN ... Circulation Mgr.
BUSINESS STAFF
KANSAN BOARD
**HENRY MALOY**
LANON LAIRD
LIANDA HOMPSON
LEUSIN E. DEMOND
LESIER E. DOMOND
L. E. HOWE
EDWARD HOFFMAN
FRANZ HENDERSON
H. B. HUTCHINGS
H. B. HUTCHINGS
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1913
A man living amid the advantages and activities of the nineteenth century is a condensed Methusaleb.
—Chanin.
Hereafter all classes wishing to publish pre-examination resolutions endorsing the work of their teachers will be charged regular advertising rates.
AN EVOLUTION
Nine years ago this spring the high schools of the state were invited to send teams to the first annual high school track and field meet to be held on McCook field. The event has continued to grow in importance until this year it is expected that fully fifty schools will be represented.
Later the tennis tournament was added and still later the finals in the high school debating series were held at this same time. This list of attractions draw practically five hundred students to Mt. Oread. Many of these are ready to continue their studies in a college or university and their contact with the University and its student body shows them what we have here. This contract can only be beneficial to the University. No doubt, the gatherings here for the last nine years have been an important factor in the rapid increase in enrollment.
This year the Exposition is the new development and if the people of the state attend as they have been urged to do, it will be a big thing for both the state and the University. To show the people what our institution really is will support and will thereby be enabled mean that it will receive hearty to do still more for the state.
Thus the track and field meet, the tennis tournament, the high school debate, and the Exposition all tend toward a common end—the development of the University for the good of the state, through the appreciation of the citizens for the worth of the institution.
The professors doubtless think that it will be an easy matter to get plenty of clowns for the Circus.
Laying all puns aside, fixing up a pleasing display for the Medical school will doubtless be a stiff proposition.
THE CIRCUS IS COMING
The billboards are covered with gaudy lithographs. The waiting multitudes thrill with expectation.
The school boys are saving their pennies. On Friday the circus will be in town.
A circus is always an interesting matter. For weeks before, crowds gather to inspect its pictured wonders and the average boy derives more pleasure from anticipation than from the enjoyable, bewildering confusion of the event itself.
One of the most pleasureable things about the circus is recognizing some event which you have seen displayed on the billboards, and such an act seems to you like an old friend. Needless to say such acts are a comparative rarity, and as a general rule the things featured on the advertising have no place in the show itself.
It may be that way with the Indoor Circus—in fact the presumption is pretty strong that some of the pictured features will be missing when the Grand Entrance is made—but we will have the added enjoyment of seeing if we can recognize the performers in their world-famed acts of dazzling, daring, dashing bravery.
Many of the best attractions are not set down on the bills. The pink lemonade, the peanuts, the grand concert and so forth must not be forgotten; and the whole is one glorious, gorgeous affair.
And back of this Indoor Circus—with its mirth, and clownishness, and good times—is the steady deterioration of the women of the University to do something, to provide themselves a suitable building.
If these Tag days continue, the boys will find it necessary to have a few button holes worked in their coats.
If the candidate who was robbed had managed to save his $2,90 for election day perhaps he would have fared better.
--make them for us, and they're just as you want them.
Phi Beta Kappa is neither a fraternity nor a sorority, as to gender. Perhaps some one will suggest that it is a sororty.
WHAT'S THE USE?
Two investigators, working at the University of Chicago, have found a new "cure of forgetting," on record because he forgot something he has learned.
They found that two or three seconds after a thing has been learned or memorized the process of forgetting begins, and that in five minutes about one-sixth has already been forgotten. In half an hour about one-fourth has slipped away, two-fifth is forgotten at the end of the day, and one-half is gone by the end of the week. From then on the process of forgetting is also slowed down because the end of hundred and twenty days the pupil still remembers a third of the lesson.
That rapid learners are just as apt to remember well as slow learners, and that for most people eight o'clock in the morning is the best time for learning, are two other conclusions these investigators have drawn from their studies. Some persons have other hours for their best work in memorizing; but, on the average, the investigators found it requires thirteen per cent more time to learn something at five o'clock in the afternoon than at eight in the morning.
The Chicago students ascribe the better memories their experiments disclosed to more accurate methods of testing in this country rather than to better memories in Americans.—Saturday Evening Post.
The method of investigators used by the two Chicago men was to have students memorize a list of nonsense syllables, of short words that have no meaning, and then see how long it took them to learn the same series again at later times. Investigations made abroad in the past have shown the process of forgetting even more rapid than the Chicago experiments indicated, one famous series of records showing that half of all the matter learned was quite forgotten at the end of the first hour.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake;
And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache—Lowell.
Students are invited to express their views through this column. The name of the writer must be signed, not necessarily for publication, but as an indication of good faith.
STUDENT OPINION
I am disposed to think that some writer for the Kansan is hard put to it when he endeavors to fill up the valuable editorial space of that author by hurting his pseudo-humorous marks at the handball tournament.
BRUTALLY ASSAULTS YE ED.
Editor Daily Kansan:
The world at large knows that nothing is easier than to sit in a comfortable swivel-chair and turn the desivers powers of a necessarily active intellect against one of the minor affairs of the passing moment. That same world knows that it takes "pep" to compete successfully in any vigorous athletic contest, and to carry on the combat successfully requires something of that indefinable quality which one strenuous American colonel has seen fit to call the "Vigor of Life."
We hereby assert that handball, when played as the men who are heading the lists in the tournament can play it, is with the exception of basket-ball, the most strenuous and exacting of all athletic games, and we take it that the men who have won out in present contest, could be held hostage by a whirlwind of ironical lines on the handball court, would be able to break his weak and fluttering heart with the most careless ease.
We are forced to the conclusion that the writer of those lines has never learned to appreciate the joy of strenuous physical exercise and that symmetry and that rational physical development which the up-to-date Kansas college girl (according to newspaper report) demands. But the painful part of all these observations, the point that to us seems to strike the deepest, to substantiate still further that inexorable doctrine (zolved by Tolstoi in which he says "with every passing generation in civilized communities, the rising generation contains more weaklings and the masculine type becomes more muni."
H. R. M.
THE OREAD ORACLE
Oread Oracle:
A yellow dog has formed the habit of barking from 3 a. m. on my backyard. As I study until one o'clock every morning, I am getting only two hours to run. How much more is the dog's life? I am already leading a dog's life.
Canine Hater.
The yellow dog doubtless thinks he is alone, and does not realize that he is violating a city ordinance. He probably has something on his mind, and is merely trying to express himself in his dumb, doggish way. The thing for you to do is to get a rope, a lath, and a corrobc. Now climb up in a tree and wait for the dog to come along. When you see him approaching, drop one end of the rope over his neck, and raise him up until his feet clear the ground. The next step is to climb down and whirl him until he is dizzy.
You now have the mongrel where you want him. Take the lath and rub it gently up and down the dog's ribs. This will probably tickle him, and he will soon begin to laugh. When you see his mouth open, rub harder, and get your corncob ready. When he is laughing so hard you can see his medulla oblongata, place the corncob upright between his jaws. In a week or ten days the yellow dog will probably die, unless something happens to him before that time. Oracle.
"What makes you think Hank is going to Chinatown to practice baseball?"
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"He told me he was learning to hit the pill."—Siren.
"Is there any truth in the saying the married men live longer than slim?"
"They don't live long. It just seems longer." - Cornell Widow.
"I saw a man in court today who, in his work, has material to burn."
"What's his speciality?" "He's a fire bug."
Indoor Circus
Reserved Seats on Sale
Wednesday and Thursday
Dick Bros:
8:00-9:30, 12:30-2:30
Fraser Hall:
10:00-12:00, 2:45-5:00
Seating arrangement same as for basketball.
Reserved Seats, - 35c General Admission, 25c
U. of K. CALENDAR
Wednesday
10:00 Chapel.
4:30 Mining Journal (201 Ha.)
4:30 Chapel.
4:30 Mining Journal (201 Ha.)
4:30 Thursday
4:30 Chapel.
4:30 El Atenco club (314 Fra.)
4:30 College Faculty Meeting,
105 Green hall.
8:00 Final Debate, H. S. Debating
League (Chapel hall).
Friday
Holiday: University Exposition.
8:00 Exhibits open in different
buildings.
9:00 Interscholastic tennis tour-
nament.
8:00 K. U. band concert on the
campus.
4:00 Annual Kansas Aggie-K. U.
Track Meet, (McCook field).
8:00 Second Annual Indoor Cir-
cus, (Gym.)
Saturday
8:00 Exhibits open in buildings.
Fine Arts recital in Fraser.
11:00 Special Display by Greek de-
partment.
1:00 K. U. Band Concert on the
Campus.
2:00 May Fete on Campus, par-
ade.
Maypole and Grecian Dances
by University girls.
Refreshment pavilions. Side
shows by student organizations.
4:00 Annual State H. S. track and
set (McCook field).
7:00 Santa Fe Trail (Pike-Mid-
wan) on Campus
Athletic Schedule.
May 2 State Interscholastic Tennis tournament.
K. S. A. C. Track Meet.
Lawrence.
May 5 Baseball: Lindsborg vs. K. U., at Lawrence.
May 7 Baseball, K. S. A. vs. K. U. at Manhattan.
May 8 Baseball, K. S. A. vs. K. U. at Manhattan.
May 3 Tenth Annual Interscholastic Track Meet.
May 9 Baseball, Nebraska vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
May 10 Baseball, Nebraska vs. Kansas, at Lincoln.
May 15 Baseball, K. S. A. C. vs. K. U. at Lawrence.
May 16 Baseball, K. S. A. C. vs. K. U. at Lawrence.
May 17 Track Meet: Missouri vs. K. U. at Lawrence.
May 21 Baseball: Wm. Jewell vs. K. U., at Liberty.
Future Events
May 1 Final Debate: H. S. Debating league.
May 2-3 University Exposition.
May 6 Recital: Gladys Henry.
May 7 Orchestra concert,
Council Election.
Lecture: Prof. Carruth.
May 9 Lecture: Professor Wilcof Sophomore Party.
May 15 Recital: Pearl Emley.
May 15 Graduate Organ Recital Miss Pearl Emley.
"Wash ish it wash flies wash has
our legs?"
"Give it up."
"Two canary birds."
—Columbia Jesu
"Wasn't the soprano in "Snooky-Ukums Susan" the tallest girl you have ever seen?"
"Yep, the longest hit of the season."—Siren.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Every freshman girl must be able to swim across the pool before freshman gym credit will be given. If this requirement can not be filled arrangements must be made with Dr. Johnson for substitute work.
There will be no Y. W. C. A. meeting on Wednesday afternoon May 30, owing to the preparations necessary for the May Fete.
K. U. Exposition, May 2 and 3.
THE FLOWER SHOP
Every sophomore girl before receiving sophomore Gym credit must be able to swim at least two of the following strokes: dog-paddle, breast-stroke, side stroke, or crawl. If this requirement can not be filled arrangements must be made with Dr. Johnson for substitute work.
All announcements for this column should be handed to the news editor before 10 a.m.
Tag money for the May Fete should be turned in tomorrow morning at chapel time at the rest room in Fraser hall.
Miss Clarissa Spencer, world's secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association will speak in chapel on Thursday May 8. Thursday will be the only long chapel next week.
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HARRY P. STIMSON, Manager
An important meeting of the Mandolin club will be held tonight in 116 Fraser.
The rehearsal of the two Glee clubs and orchestra will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 instead of tonight.
All persons to be in the May Fete parade are expected to be at the Gym, at one o'clock Saturday afternoon.
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