UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official student paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF RICHARD GARDNER ... Editor-in-Chief EWARD HACKNEY ... Sports Educ EWARD HACKNEY ... Sports Educ BUSINESS STAFF JAMES LEISHING, LESS STAIR. Adr. Mgr. JOHN C. MADDEN, Circulation Abg. KANSAN BOARD HERBERT FLINT L. E. HOWE WAYNE WINGAT BENNY MALOY OMAR HITE EARL FLOWMAN JAMES HOUGHTON 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. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? -Gray. The Student Councils have discovered that we do not dance between Saturday and Friday. Let them extend the kalsomining to the weeknight date and we shall be as white as the driven snow. VARSITY TRACK Now that the Varsity track team is at least tentatively picked for the season let us get behind it and give a helping shove. The men need it. Track athletics at Kansas has never received the consideration that it deserves. The team this year is facing the hardest schedule in the history of the school. It matters much whether the support it receives is red hot or only lukewarm. Few of those who have not gone through the arduous training season of the track man realize what it means to belong to the team. Unlike other sports active training begins in November or December and lasts until June. The football man works for two months in the fall, the baseball athlete starts real work after the open season for spring zephyr has begun, but the track man is perennial. The team this year is composed in the main of green material. It takes time to develop a track team and defeat may come at first. It is then that we should do the most boosting. It will help the runners as well as the jumpers and vaulters. And now we are to have a woman on the Board of Regents. We venture to suggest that it would only be just and proper to give the secretary a raise. A poll of the University now would probably give Abe a substantial lead over George for the office of U. S. A.'s papa. The twenty-second comes on Saturday. STICK TO IT, FRESHMEN! Two years ago—or was it three? —at this time we were in the same "fix" as many of you first year年 must be this first week of the new term—facing for the first time the humiliation of having "flunked" in something. We know what it is and how it goes. It is not pleasant to find yourself one of the comparatively few who have not proved themselves capable of successfully completing the first semester of "college" without failing to pass in everything, "gym" and "hygiene" included. You freshmen are, as a rule, the most earnest and sincere of all the students on the hill today. You have come, the favored few who ever succeed in getting farther along in your education than the high school, to take the next step toward becoming good citizens and educated men and women. And for the most part, you found the new world opened up here a great inspiration; you never realized before what great possibilities there were in the world for you. But now—a flunk. How easily you might have passed if you'd just "bugged" a little more here, or worked a little harder there, you tell yourself. And what a disgrace it is to find yourself the sole flunker of a dozen from your home town, perhaps. You may be oversensitive now that you realize more fully than ever before in your life the self-contempt that comes to a normal, live person for being unable to do as well as the "next one." You have already thought of quitting, convinced that you cannot get through college, or that you don't deserve further support from your parents in a losing game. Stick with it, Freshmen! Stick with it! "The world has no use for a quitter"—tritely true; but triteness is a virtue if it will serve to help point a lesson for a person trembling between giving up and going on. Stick with it, Freshmen! You'll never know what it is to work, and never fully appreciate the sweets of victory, until you have tasted ten times over the sting of defeat. It is our experience that nothing ever did us so much good as the first flunk we got. Not being blessed with that finer sense of honor—that often drives conscientious, over-sensitive students to quit school in shame or despair, we weathered our first flunk, and now say, without shame, that our first—and only—flank has paid big dividends ever since. It is no disgrace to flunk—if you get up and come back hard! The only disgrace we know of is to quit. Speaking of billiards, have you heard about the course in banking that Professor Boynton is offering this semester. "Please take your former seat," said the instructor in economics this week, after a casual glance about the room. THE CAD There seems to be a constantly increasing number of a certain type of college man at Wisconsin. True, he is only a sample of what appears everywhere, but still there might be some way to eradicate the pest before it becomes too dangerous. For example, you meet this type of man at so-and-so's house, or are introduced to him at a dance. He bows, smiles, acknowledges the introduction, and the very next one is his signature sign of recognition. It isn't as if he hadn't seen you; he simply looked through you! Now, we do not object to a person not wishing to have anything to do with us; in fact, we don't care to have any dealings with that kind of a person, either. But the truth of the matter is that if we meet this same person in a place where he supposes you are somewhere near his high social standing, he will fawn all over your shirt front. When we pass him on the hill he cannot descend to know us, we are strongly tempted to lean the end of our fist against his sloping and slender jaw, just to see whether there is a man or a tomato inside.—Wisconsin Daily News. As much as we like our shirt front and are used to having people think we are a fairly decent sort, none of us has the spunk to say: "You can't help being a cad, can you?" Get vaccinated. Says The Daily Kansan will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome... The Editor. OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE I bid you to live in peace and patience without fear or hatred, and to love others with kindness, lovely, and to be the Friends of men, so that when ye are dead at last, men may say of the earth brought down by the earth for a little whale. What say ye, children? A HEAVEN ON EARTH Thus Spake the Sage of Stevensville William Morris. Editor Daily Kansan: Tickets may come and tickets may go hang, but names hang on forever. It is with a feeling of the greatest disappointment that I notice that the two tickets in the contest for editor and business manager of next year's Jayhawker have adopted the names, "Liberal" and "Representative," respectively. We have had tickets bearing these labels since time immemorial. Every fall they reappear accompanied by other old acquaintances, such as "Square Deal," "Equal Rights," "Progressive," and others which will immediately suggest themselves. Is it not due the students of this University to be given an opportunity to vote for a ticket, the mere mention of whose name does not bring on a severe attack of emu! let me see the lettering. Why not match the "Complimentary" against the "Round-Trip" ticket? Onomatopoeia To the Daily Kansan: What has become of the movement for a Men's Student Union building? In my opinion there is one thing lacking at the University of Kansas: get-together-ness. The students are about as united and as full of the spirit of camaraderie and good fellowship as a school of oysters. We have Black Helmet and Good Sphinx clubs—for a bare, handful of students. We talk about the Kansas "spirit," and tell how democratic we are, and then let the University get a black eye simply because no one seems to care a whang how things go. Hence our inquiry—where is the Students' Union Building? In a common meeting place for all the students lies the hope of building up a spirit here that will stand for "light for Kansas," good fellowship in the true sense of the word, and fill the present gaps in our Kansas spirit. Why don't Kansas classes leave class memorials, some one asked last month? It is because the classes don't know each other, and consequently don't give a whang whether they are remembered or not. We want a Students' Union building It is a disagreeable habit that Out-In-The-Cold. Something Doing at Our Sister Colleges "Dear Miss Libbey: We are members of a national sorority at the University of Illinois and have been interested readers of your column. For some time since the beginning of the first semester of college we have been troubled by the conduct of some of our masculine friends. These men are members of fraternities, of unquestionable social standing, both locally and nationally, and we hestaked to object *o* their actions for fear that they would transfer their attentions to the other sororites, principally the Omega Chis and Theta Kappa Alphas. We object to our callers smoking in our parlor, using questionable language, and continually staging such bizarre stunts as dancing the bearcat and thus bringing us into unfavorable notoriety with the dean of women. What would you suggest as the best way to proceed upon this, shall we bring them up altogether, as do the Gamma Gamma Kappas, or shall we endure them, as do the Sigma Kappas? It is, as the Digma habit that Laura Jean Speaks. men have of smoking anywhere they please. I think the better thing to do would be to let these fellows go. They evidently are undesirable, and even though they are nationally known you can gain nothing but disrespect from being known as their friends. If women do not take a stand in regard to the moral standard of their men friends I don't know who is going to take the stand. Chiang Tse-hua. Unauditedly so The Cosmopolitan club will entertain this evening. The affair will be purely informal—Daily Iowa. Unadulteratedly So No Flowing Bowl At Indiana The sober work hour of the History club meeting is to be featured by talks—Indiana Student. Spring Poetry. Some carp at verse On spring. One might do worse About the buds upon the bough; You cannot stop it, anhow. we're getting near the time When vernal cheer In rhyme Throughout the land will be on tap. The ink starts running with the sap. —Louisville Courier-Journal. ANNOUNCEMENTS All announcements for this column should be handed to the news editor before 10 a. m. The Sunday Forum will hold Lincoln services Sunday at the Warren Street church. Secretary Stockwell of the University Y. M. C. A. will speak on "The Religion of Abraham Lincoln." 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. All students of the University who expect to teach next year must enroll with the Teachers' Appointment Bureau in room 116, Fraser hall, at 4:30 o'clock, Friday, February 14th. There will be several talks by members of the committee and it is very important that all who desire teaching positions fo next year should be present at this meeting. I—Introductory Entomology INTRODUCTION. This new course is recommended to the new graduate who is interested in biology and to the student who is preparing to teach botany, zoology, or agriculture in the high school. It is a general introduction to the life of the insect world. Its aim is to lead the student into a fuller appreciation of nature by a study of the varied and interesting life histories of insects. This course is a combination of lecture and laboratory work, in which an abundance of illustrative material will be used. It is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, who have had zoology either in high school or in College. This course is offered by Professor Hunter and Mr. Hungerford. U. of K. CALENDAR Athletics Feb. 14—Basket-ball: M. U., vs. K. Feb. 14—Basket-ball: M. U., vs. K. Feb. 13—Glee Club Concert. Feb. 17-21: Lectures: Paul E. More of New York, Editor of "The Times" Ftb. 26—Basket-ball: M. U. vs. K. U. at Columbia. Feb. 9-28—Tenth Annual Exhibit of Oil Painting (Adm. blde.) Feb. 28—Basketball: Wash. U. vs. K. U. at St. Louis. Drama, Professor Wilcox. Feb. 26—Basket-ball M. U. vs. K. Kansas State. Mch. 4—Dorothea North, epranzo. Mch. 7—Lecture: The Rise of Greek Sculpture, Professor Wilcox. Mch. 8—Lecture: N. D. Hills. Mch. 9—Lecture: N. D. Hills. Mch. 14-15—Tenth Annual Conference of Kansas Feb. 14—Epidaurus and the Greek Drama. Professor Wilcox. Mch. 14-15-Tenth Annual Conference in Kansas H. S. and A. C. fch. 14—Lecture: Prof. Jos, Lindsay Henderson, University of Texas. “A More Vital Relation Between Schools and Colleges,” 8. p. m., Chapel, Fraser hall. Apr. 4- Lecture: The High Tides of Greek Sculpture, Professor Wilcox. REMEMBER May 2—Lecture: Greek Vases, Professor Wilcox. The Place CUT PRICES ON TEXT BOOKS University Book Store 803 Mass. St. Hotel Cumberland NEW YORK S. W. Cor. Broadway at 54th St. Near 50th Street Subway Station and 53d Street Elevated Kent by a College Man from Kansas Special Races for College Trams "Broadway" Cars from Grand Central Depot Seven Avenue Cars from Penn's Station NEW AND FIREPROOF Ten Minutes Walk to Thirty Theatres Rooms with Bath, $2.50 and up HARRY P. STIMSON, Manager Union Pacific Standard Road of the West Low Round-Trip Homeseekers and All-Year Tourist Fares to the West Headquarters for Kansas require of our nearest agent or write me for rates from your station. 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