UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL STAFF RICHARD GARDNER. Editor-in-Chief HARLAN THOMPSON. Managing Ed EDWARD HACKNEY. Sporting Ed JAMES LEIGH, STRESS, Staff JOHN C. MADDEN, Circulation MGR JAMES HOUGHTON KANSAN BOARD HERBERT FLINT L. E. HOWE WAYNE WINGAT HENRY MALOY OMAR HITE ELIFAR PLOWMAN 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. Subscription price $2.00 per year, in advance; one term, $1.00; time subscriptions, $2.50 per year; one term $1.25. Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1165 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1913. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.—Steverson. Here's hoping that the Adams Street Glacier has left us to return no more. But a person can never tell. The A. S. G. is a pretty slippery proposition. Our idea of hard luck is to attend a party where no booby prizes are given. GET OUTSIDE. Comes now the time when the students would fold their hands and take a good long rest. There's something in the air that is getting into the blood and which threatens to shut off the supply of pep for which Kansas is so justly famous. Get outside. There is an infallible remedy for this spring sickness. Some persons call it spring fever —others prate about the hook worm. But whatever it is, most of us get it when the weather first begins to warm in the spring, and indeed with some persons it seems to have become chronic. It may seem somewhat cold for the river just now—but try it. It is an absolutely certainty that if you have made the ascent of Mount Oread within the last day or two and with anything approaching swiftness, you know that a walk is not going to chill you. Get rid of the idea that athletics are for the members of teams only. There is nothing more foolish. Of course rooting does a great deal of good, but if you get into the game for yourself, you will find out how great the difference really is. And the secret of personal interest in these athletic games rests with the individual. Try getting outside where you can get a real breath. We see that flunkers may pay the penalty at home hereafter. The head really read now but it was only on account of lack of space. The Daily Kansan headwriters may be trusted almost every time. Spring is surely approaching. And we may expect countless witless and pointless remarks about the chigger. Nevertheless the chigger will continue to thrive. AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL With the coming of the baseball season there must come the usual bunch of punishes to insist upon absolute fairness in athletics. That is, the student who picks up a few dollars during the summer in order to attend a university must be branded as mercenary or professional. This cry for clean and fair athletics is good. We believe in it. But we believe further that there can be too much of a good thing. The Kansas City Star seems to size the matter up in about the right manner, or it seems so to us. The Star says in part: "The code is a survival of the English feudal idea, from which, indeed, it has been directly taken. Under the aristocratic system, of a heaven born upper class, the gentleman wasn't supposed to do any useful work. He would have no association with anybody who did. A traditional woman was required take part in athletics with gentlemen." "The snobbishness of this system has been transplanted into American colleges. It came in supposedly to serve a useful purpose—fairness in competition. Of course, it would be unfair for Ty Cobb to play on a college baseball team. It would be unfair for Ty Cobb to leave to join one of its teams. For college sport is—or ought to be—an incident, and not a vocation." "But when a boy goes to college for the purpose of getting an education, why should he be barred from college sports if he earns money in the summer vacation by playing baseball? There are plenty of fellows who go to college merely to devote themselves to athletics. They are the real professionals, even though they retain technically an amateur standing. A man, Thorppe Jr., has real amateur, although he has violated one of the technical rules of amateur athletics. "The effect of the rule is to keep out of college athletes boys who have to earn their own living. If a fellow is rich enough not to have to do any work, why then he is an amateur. If the student happens to be poor, so that he needs to earn money to help him through school by playing baseball with Mansfield, O., in the summer, then he has no business in college athletics. "It is the English maxim over again: The poor boy has no business taking part in sport with gentlemen. The rule is foolish, snobish and un-American." We have this to say for the Oread Oracle—whoever he or she really is, the column seems to have the ear marks of an old hand. Considering the general latitude of the students, now would be a good time to revive the spring poem contest. Fact is, we haven't energy enough ourselves. And we should like to add that the flunkers parade either continues or is responding to an encore. Jaysquawks By Ponce One faculty member objected to having his photograph sent to him for a valentine, on the ground that it was against the faculty ruling on comics. "Painting Hides Tragedy." We never knew that they put it on that thick before. Although his name is Charles Younggreen, he is neither young nor green, as those who had the financial arrangements for the "Boys of Co. B" in hand, will testify. However, we still maintain that we would like to borrow the "goats" vacation, especially if the weather remains warm and nice. We will trade a perfectly good pair of winter trousers for a drink of real water. Coke as a steady diet is getting tiresome, and besides the flavor does not cover up the fact that it all comes out of the standpipe, anyway. As Oracle declines to answer the question, "Why is a mackinaw?" we will disclose the startling truth. An overcoat with full length tail costs twenty-five round beans; a mackinaw costs only eight, thus adding to the means of each and every student here who gets his check by mail, for though the mackinaw cost eight, its twenty-five his tale. We had a lovely little triplet written about the 2403, but now Foster has hiked the ante to 2515. The Daily Kansan will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome—The Editor. OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE LIGHT The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Let the light of a whole world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. Before you read further I should like for you to promise that if this is printed it will not bear a nonsensical head. The fact is I want nonsense and I am sincere in asking for it. Give us some more stories about Triceratops, Little Jimmie, etc. -Princeton Tiger. I venture to assert that the students appreciate such things even if they do try to act as though their dignity forbade them to be pleased. Please be foolish again. —Francis William Bourdillon. Editor Daily Kansan: THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE Cruilshank (invitingly) —Have you nothing to do tonight? She (watching the mermaid dance, pensively)—I wonder what mermaids are for? Jimmie. Doodlecalf (expectantly) —Why, no. Cruikshank (wittily)—Then how horribly bored you will be. —Harvard Lampoon. He—To make up the ocean bed, of course. —Princeton Tiger. "You had an affair with that woman?" "Certainly. I am a man of affairs." - Harvard Lampoon. "I say, waiter, do I eat this or does the orchestra play it?" Boob 1. —Those shepherdeses were a rummy bunny bunch weren't they? Boob 2.—Eh; always fooling around with some crook. "The darkness is falling," said the ink, as the bottle tipped over. "Aw, dry up," answered the blotter, in disgust.-Yale Record. —Princeton Tiger. Aunt Mary—Good gracious, Harold! What would your mother say if she saw you smoking those cigarettes? "Young man, how dare you swear before my wife?" Prof.-Here's a story of a ghost which swallowed a thermometer. What shall we title it? Crumbine Says nt. They're her cigarettes. —Judge. Bright Stude—Two hundred and twelve in the shade. Harold (calmly) -She'd have a fit. They're her cigarettes. "How did I know that your wi wanted to sweep first?" Dean —Stanford Chaparral. Polluted well water cannot be purified by painting the pump. Cardinal. ANNOUNCEMENTS All announcements for this column should be handed to the news editor before 10 a. m. Sigma Xi will meet at the home of Prof. Van der Vries Thursday evening for the purpose of electing new members. Full attendance is desired. Wanted, at French office, at once, Spanish gammaras, Hill and Ford edition. Executive Board of the University Exposition will meet at the gymnasium at chapel time Tuesday February 18. School chairmen take notice. Important. All members of the German Dramatic club are urged to attend an important business meeting in room 313 of Fraser hall next Wednesday, the 27th of February. Dr. E. C. Smith will address the Y. W. C. A. at their regular meeting Wednesday afternoon on "Ella Johnson, and her Prison Reform Work Among Women." Professor Johnson's 9:00 o'clock division in Freshman English literature will recite beginning Wednesday, February 19, in Fraser, 209 instead of Administration 102. Girls' Athletic pictures for the annual; tennis squad at 3:30; hockey at 4:00 and basket-ball at 4:30 on Tuesday, February 18. All girls are eligible who pay the association dues. The ladies of the faculty will entertain the young women of the University on the fourth Thursday of February instead of the third, owing to the conflict with a lecture on the latter date. The Christian Science society of the University of Kansas will hold its regular bi-monthly meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 7:00 p.m. in Myers hall. All members of the University are invited. U. of K. CALENDAR Tuesday. 10:00 Chapel: Prof. A. M. Wilcox Subject, "Class Memorials." Chapel: Prof. A. M. Wilcox Subject, "Class Memorials." 3-4 Chancellor's open hour to faculty. 3:30 Economics Seminar. (Spoon er library.) 4:30 Cercle Francais (306 Fraser) 4:30 Paul E. More, Lecture. 7:00 Christian Science Society (Myers hall.) Art exhibit (Adm. bldg.) Wednesday. 10:00 Chapel. 4:30 Mining journal (201 Ha.) 4:30 Paul. E.More, Lecture. 4:45 Y. W. C. A. Rev. E. C. Smith, subject, "Prison Reform." Art exhibit. Thursday. 10:00 Chapel. 4:30 El Ateneo Club (314 Fraser) 4:30 Paul. E. More, Lecture. Art exhibit. Friday. 10:00 Chapel. Paul. E. More of New York. 11:00 Zoological seminar. "The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics," Miss Irma Goldman. Art exhibit. 4:30 Paul E. More, Lecture. Art exhibit. Saturday 4:30 Vespers: Lenten Orgon Re-cital. eb. 26-27 M. U. s. K. U. at Columbi- Athletic Schedule. bia. Feb. 28 W. U. vs. K. U. at St. Louis. Mch. 1 W. U. vs. K. U. at St. Louis. Mch. 3 War. Nor. vs. K. U. at Warrenburg. Mch. 14 Indoor Track Meet: M. U. vs. K. U. at Kansas City. Mch. 19 Great relay games at Des Moines. Apr. 25-26 Baseball: M. U. vs. K. U., at Lawrence. Future Events. Mch. 4 Voice concert: Dorothea North. Mch. 6 Band concert. Mch. 7 Lecture by Prof. Wilcox. Mch. 8 Lecture by N. D. Hillis. Mch. 9 Lecture by N. D. Hillis. Mch. 14-15 Annual conference of Kansas H. S. and academies. Lecture by Prof. J. L. Henderson of U. of Texas. Apr. 4 Lecture by Prof. Wilcox. Apr. 12 French play. Apr. 24-25 Music festival. Hotel Cumberland NEW YORK NEW AND FIREPROOF Made of tender middle leaves, to which long aging has given a temptingly satisfying flavor and a velvety mellowness that wooes your senses and smoothes out the wrinkles of your brain. NEW YORK S. W. Cor. Broadway at 54th St. Bowersock Wed. Night, Feb. 19th A Splendid Supporting Cast Characters Beautifully Costumed Each Act Specially Mounted Beautiful Electric Effects Clever Stage Mechanisms A Tragedy With a Moral Messrs. Manley & Campbell present Mr. George C. 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