UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official student paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
RICHARD GARDEN. . . . . Editor-in-Chief
HARLAN THROMPON. . . . . Managing Ed.
JAMES LEINNESS STAPE
JAMES L. LEINNESS *Adv. Mgr.
JOHN C. MADDEN *Adv. Mgr.
KANSAN BOARD
HERBERT FLINT JAMES HOUGHTON
L. E. HOWE HENRY MAJOV
OMAR HITE EARL PLOWMAN
EDWARD FOHPMAN
BUSINESS STAFF
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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Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26.
Choose that which is best and cus-
tionate. Dr. J. W. Scott
Dr. J. W. Scott
TO OUR READERS.
The Daily Kansan was made the victim of an alleged practical joke in its columns the other day. If the investigation now under way should implicate any member of the staff the editor promises that he will be summarily discharged from all connection with this paper.
SPRING FOOTBALL
RICHARD GARDNER,
Missouri is already hard at work shaping her football machine for next fall. Thirty men reported for practice after the first call and every effort will be made from now until next Thanksgiving time to humble the dreaded Jayhawk.
Missouri is desperate. Year after year her gridiron warriors are sent against us and year after year victory is denied them. But Missouri does not give up. The calling of spring practice before the snow has left the gridiron shows that her efforts to win next fall will be more strenuous than ever. Ten "M" men are eligible for the 1913 team.
In all this marshaling of forces there is a lesson for us. Before many days spring practice will begin on McCook. It is then that the football men can show their loyalty to the school by coming out early and often. Spring practice is essential to the formation of a championship eleven, as the few weeks of preliminary practice in the fall are not sufficient to whip a collegiate aggregation into shape.
Last fall Kansas did not get started until the Nebraska game, mainly because most of the men were inexperienced and were not used to working together. It is to overcome this difficulty that spring practice is held.
It therefore behooves every man who had any ambition or any ability to become a football player to turn out at the first call of the coaches and keep coming out as long as they deem it necessary.
Missouri is after Jeyhawk meat this year. It is up to us to see that she continues to go hungry.
Only the declaration of Prof. Rogers that there is power in suggestion leads us to suggest once more that a walk be built to connect the Daily Kansan office with the outside world.
BASEBALL
Comes now the time when the coach calls frantically for the men to come out and limber up their old pegs, wings, propellers, or whatever the most up-to-date appellation for the throwing arm happens to be this year.
Baseball is the one great sport that does not get the support it deserves at K. U. Year after year we
have a winning team, and yet there seems to be but little importance attached to it.
This state of affairs cannot continue long, and we believe will cease altogether when so much milk and water agitation con-professionalism ceases. Speed the time when this will be so, and at any rate, get out and help give the coach a good bunch to pick from.
The percentage of women elected to Phi Beta Kappa leads to the question whether this will long continue to be a co-educational institution.
"Emporia Students Work For K. U. Scholarship" says the headline. Some of us need the assistance.
A certain professor writes into the Daily Kansan concerning the editorial that appeared in Monday's issue which urged that chapel be held in the open air one day in the week at least.
WE MEANT IT
In his communication the professor talks somewhat cryptically (for us at least), and intimates that we were facetious when we mentioned the twittering of the birds, and that we had a double meaning when we said it.
We wish to assure the professor that the editorial was on the square. We meant it. We really like to hear the birds twitter.
We hereby prophesy that the proposed snowball fight between the Laws and Engineers will be a failure from the standpoint of the College.
The catalogue says that the Daily Kansan is the official organ of the student body. Correct. We also believe in tooting our own horn and playing second fiddle to no one.
We see that the Legislature is going to pass on the budget tomorrow. Wonder if we bid fair to be treated kindly?
WHY DO YOU ALLOW IT?
Do you know why cheating exist in this university? It is because YOU sanction it.
Every time someone boasts to you of having "cribbled" cleverly and you let the confidence pass unreprimanded, you are unconsciously supporting that person in his or her action. You are countenancing the development of standards in your Alma Mater that are a disgrace to your students. If you are ratifying behavior that leads to positive moral degeneracy. You are letting your self-respect slip from you by allowing anyone to presume that such a statement will not provoke violent reaction in you.
Every act of cheating is a reflection on YOUR attitude toward dishonor—YOUR tolerance of it. It is a personal insult to YOUR moral calibre. It is an implication assuming laxness of moral standards and clean judgment on YOUR past.
It is high time that Wisconsin men and women take a definite stand in regard to this matter. It is time that we not only condemn where condemnation is fitting, but that we set to work to establish a positive standard of honor that will be worthy of the greatest university in the country—Wisconsin Daily Cardinal.
"American Landscapes are true to nature," says Prof. Griffith. But even American landscapes have their faults.
Dean
Crumbine
Says
A light overcant is better than a heavy cold.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
Or like the snow flake on the river-
A moment white, then gone. Beverage.
Raven
The Daily Kansan will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome—The Editor.
--deny As words of friendly advice.
Pleasures are like poppies spread:
Wipe up the flower the bloom is
dead.
Editor Daily Kansan:
ORLIN WEEDE
I should like to ask a question concerning the University exposition that is to take place in May. I am very much interested in this affair and want to do everything I can to help make it a success.
As I am not on any of the committees I am at a loss to know what to do. I don't want any of the fellows to think I am fresh and butting in and yet I wish to get into the activity. Whom should I see to get some pointers?
The following bit of exquisite verse is taken from the Freshman Number of the Orange and Black, a weekly student paper of the Agricultural Water Department. His water, Oklahoma. It was signed originally by the president of the freshman class, and is his message. After reading this we may expect Daily Kansas Spring Poem contexts to hang their heads in shame.
A Freshman.
Something Doing at Our Sister Colleges
A MESSAGE
I have been asked to write a message.
A message to the Freshman class:
"Hello, I am your student."
And in writing to you this message,
I will relate a few things of the
In all of our class meetings,
We have not been organized
And, in order to accomplish things Our thoughts must harmonize.
And make our class the best; But. in order to do this.
Each member must stand the test When you are asked to serve,
But the way they licked the Sopho- mores
When you are ashamed
Then get up and do your best;
Snow piles up one you have the heroes
And others will take care of the rest.
In football our boys were organized,
And played the championship
In all the things we undertake Let us go into it with fight;
The chance for our class looks bright,
With the basket-ball season be-gun.
And we have good chances for
other.
We haven't beat hell soon.
Let us take the interests at heart,
Strive even to promote these inter-
ests.
Jaysquawks By Ponce
But always be sure we are right. Then, in other college athletics,
Students of French Verification may find the following example of a Rondeau of interest. To fully appreciate the rhyme scheme, you should attempt a similar effusion. One hundred years ago today.
I was requested to write this message.
Accept these lines from your president,
And always do our part.
One hundred years ago today, With wildernesses here, they say
By our editor I was enticed;
as changed the thing the other way.
- The (same) order for the
The dear (your pardons for the pun)—
with wilderness here, they say
That man with powder in his gun
The debt has changed.
So she goes and gets a man to play
The game, and pay for all the fun,
And when she's tired away she'll
swim.
Went out and got the venison.
The deer was very easy prey.
But now—but now—the present day,
Has changed the thing, the other
The game has changed since yesterday—
The dear has changed.
The game, and pay for all the fun.
Wanted, at French office, at once. Spanish gammars, Hill and Ford edition.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
All announcements for this column should be handed to the news editor before 10 a. m.
The meeting of Sigma Delta Chi called for Thursday night has been postponed.
The entire annual board will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7:15 o'clock in room 8, Green hall
Saturday. March 1, is the last day that senior or organization pictures will be accepted by the Jayhawk.
. The Good Government club will meet at the Sigma Delta Phi house, 1541 Kentucky on Thursday evening.
The Plymouth Guild will give an entertainment at the church parlorS Saturday evening, March 1. All students are invited.
There will be a business meeting of the Graduate club Friday afternoon, 4:30, in room 205 Fraser.
The ladies of the faculty will be at home to all women students of the University Thursday afternoon, Feb. 27 from 3 to 5:30 in Worthing hall.
All seniors who expect to take degrees, either now or in June, should make application at once at the registrar's office on blanks provided for the purpose.
Rev. Frank H. Smith, missionary in Japan, will speak at a joint Y. M.Y. W. meeting in Myers hall Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock on "Why Has Japan Not Accepted Christianity."
Next Friday evening, at Myers hall the Y. M. C. A. will hold open house for the Y. W. C. A. Program and refreshments. Every student on the hill heartily welcomed. Eight o'clock. Bring somebody.
All members of the Oread Debating Society who desire to try out for the debate to be held with the K. U. Debating Society, should notify J. M. Johnson or F. N. Anderson at once in order to find out the particulars of the try-out.
The first session of the class on "The Chinese Revolution" under Dr. W. C. Payne will be held Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, March 2, in the West Building of six studies with a text and class discussions. For both men and women. Given under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"Here's where I deliver the goods," remarked the skipper as he unloaded a cargo of missionaries on the coast of Africa—California Jester.
'14—How did you get your stolen watch back so quickly?
'13—The poor idiot of a thief took it to a pawn shop, where they at once recognized it as mine.
—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Simple Sibyl—Do they wear fraternity caps at Harvard?
Stag; he did you sleep last night?
Mr. Stag (meaningly)—Like a top.
The difference between (1) a gardener, (2) a billiard player, (3) a gentleman and (4) a sexton; is the first minds his peas; the second minds his cues; the third minds his P's and Q's, and the fourth minds his keys and pews. Now, Reginald Von Hotenburg, strike if you dare!
Nervy Natalie—No, but some wear union suits.—Harrard Lampoon.
Widow—Wait, I'll get you some glue with which to fasten his wig. Undertaker—that's not necessary, just use that on a stacks—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Mrs. Jarmuch—There'd be fewer family quarrels if there were more men like Mr. Jones.
Mr. Jarmuch—How's that?
Mrs. J.—He's dead.
—Michigan Gargoyle.
Professor—Vacation will be a re-
lief after holding this class.
Student—I wish I could find some class to hold—Yale Record.
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1913. The one way second-class tickets from Lawrence to Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and to many other points in California will be sold for $30. Correspondence fare from points on other lines in connection with the Santa Fe. Liberal stopper privileges.
Three fast trains daily from Kansas City carry tourist sleepers and free chair cars. Harvey meals.
For tickets, reservations atation.
For tickets, reservations, information and copy of "San Joaquin Valley" folder, apply to
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