UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kagus
EDITORIAL STAFF
RICHARD GARDNER    Editor-in-Chief
WAYNE WINGANT    Managing Editor
WAND MARIE    Campus Editor
EDWARD HACENEY    Sporting Editor
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BUSINESS SAYING
JAMES LEIDIOR Advertising Mgr
REPORTORIAL STAFF
STANLEY PINKEERON JAMES HOCTONUM
JOHN C. MADDEN RAY ELDRIEDEM
ROBERT SELLERS HERRNBRT FLINT
HARLAN THOMPSON
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1912.
in misfortune, gold is dull; in basal iron is bright—From the Chinese.
FOOTBALL SONGS
There surely are no students or faculty members who will contend that the University does not need a new football song, but it is probably true also that there are dozens who do not care enough about the matter to make an effort to write one or to persuade another to write.
It should not be necessary to have to offer a reward for a good battle song, but such seems to be the case. Year after year the students go on singing "Booa" and the "Crimson and the Blue," seemingly content.
"Boola" has the life all right, but it is not a distinctively Kansas song. In fact it is not Kansas at all but a plain importation. "The Crimson and the Blue" meets the requirements as far as distinctive goes, but most persons will admit that it is a trifle too slow to stir up fight at a football game.
The question might be rested here but the Daily Kansan believes that a good song will soon be forthcoming. From twenty-five hundred students, surely there ought to be some one found with a Kansas song in his heart. The spirit of every one ought to be stirred, and a rousing song written, not for the prize, but for the glory of the institution.
Meanwhile, you who have any skill in verse, don't wait for the other fellow, but get busy with pen and paper at once.
The contest will end October 25. Every song will be given a fair trial, and prize or not, every loyal Kansas should make an effort to write the song that will be accepted.
Election is over, but this happened on the way up the hill.
1. "Going to vote t' Barba ticket?"
2. "Er- shy, I don't know him. Do you?"
Who would have guesses that the Giants would prove such an obedient bunch? Why Joe Wood.—We couldn't help it, honest.
FEMININE "K's."
The athletic "K" has always been one of the most cherished honors of this and other universities. It signifies not only exceptional ability in athletics but representation of the University in contests with other schools of equal rank. It is an emblem to mark the men who have fought for K. U. against her rivals. Because of the meaning that has become attached to the letter the proposed awarding of it to the woman of the University should be carefully considered. Might not such action on the part of the Woman's Athletic Association result in a change in the significance of the letter?
Not that the wearing of a "K" by a woman student would have any such effect, but that the real meaning of the emblem would be lost. Under the proposed plan the letters will be awarded those girls who excel in three different sports. They
will not meet teams from other institutions, but will play games among themselves.
There is no doubt that the women should have the same privileges as the men but how many supporters could be found of a plan to award to the class football players, for instance. Will not the proposed plant tend to lower the bars to participants in other contests held within the school?
No objection could be made to any other emblem, which would be equally as distinctive and yet not a modification of the Varsity "K." Surely something of this sort would serve the purpose as well while the significance of the "K" was preserved entire.
--bid me say good by!
For the seas call and the stars call,
Volume 1, Number 1 of the Mirror,
a semi-monthly paper published
by the students of Pratt
County High School, has reached
the office of the Daily Kansan. It is one of the best high school publications
of its kind we have ever seen.
Books and authors have been re-ferred to as well-springs, fountains of knowledge and wisdom, etc., yet here is a student writing under the non-de-plume, I. M. Thirsty, who is not content with satisfying his thirst for knowledge but must kick because there is no common water on the third floor of the library. Surely he is unreasonable.
FOOTBALL RALLIES.
If the Daily Kansan remembers the circumstances correctly, there used to be at least two, and sometimes three football rallies before a big game. And the old time rallies used to take up but about four hours' time on Friday about three times a year.
Usually there was one at chapel time, another in the afternoon when the rooters marched to the field to see the team, and often the monster meeting was at night, with speeches, prophecies and bon fires.
Many of the older students are wondering how all this can be done after 4:30, especially what will happen to the faculty speeches that once were made during the chapel rally. Of course if the faculty joins in the evening session, as but exceedingly few of its members have done in the past, the students will have no right to criticize it.
New fossils, millions of years old have been received by the geology department. Most anything seems new when compared to the seats in chapel.
So the Nebraskans are real bears. This may cause some of the rooters to regard the Jayhawkers' prospects as rather grisly.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
There isn't much doing Sunday afternoon, not even fussing unless you are an exceptional fusser. You may buck a little. You may talk a little. You may read, or write letters, or just plain loaf. Every week the Y. M. C. A. has something going on Sunday afternoon. Something worth while going on — not a wishy-washy play with a straight man-to-man thing. It is worth while. It is good enough to take a man away from any busy afternoon during the week. But it is given Sundays when there is so little to do. Just one of the miried splendid opportunities offered a man around school. What are you doing with your Sunday afternoon?—Wisconsin Daily News.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
OUT OF THE MOUTHS
OF WISE OLD BOYS
Generally when truth is communicated polemically (that is, not as it exists in its own inner simplicity, but as it exists in external relations to the same person) or when use these arguments which will tell at the moment upon the crowd of bystanders, in preference to those which will approve themselves ultimately to enlightened disciples. If the character of a speaker is also arguments and all articles of dialectic subtlety, he must renounce the hopes of a present triumph; for the light of absolute truth, on moral or spiritual matters, cannot be obtained by the diseased options of those habituated to darkness, etc.-Blackwood.
POLEMICS
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
WANDERLUST.
Beyond the East, the sunrise, beyond
the West, the sea.
The Daily Kanan will publish in
the various indexes of wrangers
Contributions needed
that will not let me be;
It works in me like madness, near, to
And East and West, the Wandlerust
that will not let me be;
or the sens call and the stars call
and oh the call of the sky.
I know not where the white road runs
and for its love,
And there's no end of voyaging when
it is boiled.
nor what the blue hills are,
But a man can have the sun for friend
But a man can have a star and for his guide a star.
CHINESE ADVERTISERS
Yonder the long horizon lies and there by night and day.
once.
For the door calls and the road calls
and ob the call of a bird!
You may put the blame on the stars and the sun, and the white
The old ships sails away;
And come I may, but go I must, and
STUDENT OPINION
And come I may, but go I must, and
if men ask you why.
road and the sky.
—Gerald Gould.
If a student were to be disloyal to K. U. an easy way and enjoyable, also, would be to get passage to Des Moines, Topeka or Lincoln by bunking with a member of the team or squad. No, he can't refuse you. However, he won't go into the game so well the next day if he has had to sleep double the night before. You are not cheating the railroad, you are cheating the man whose friend you pretend to be and the University to which you should be loyal.
by night said. The old ships had to home again, the
ships were still busy.
WALKS WANTED
Tradesmen in China have quite as high appreciation of the value of advertising as any other people in the world. In China the biscuits bear the imprint of the baker and ducks bought in the Cebu market. In China they their backs a big red stamp bearing the name of the seller.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.—Gothe.
Editor Daily Kansan:
GOING TO DRAKE?
Great improvements have been made at McCook field since last June, but there is one more that greatly appreciated by the students.
The editor is not responsible for views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
"Shop of Heaven-sent Luck," "Tea Shop of Celestial Principles," "The Nine Felicities Prolonged," "Mutton Chops of Morning Twilight," "The Ten Virtues All Complete," "Flowers. Rise to the Milky Way."
Good sidewalks should be constructed from the street car station on Mississippi street to the gates of the field. The condition of the paths last Saturday indicated the trouble that will be experienced later.
Why not have better walks to Mc Cook?
A WAIL
W. H. C.
Chinese shops have large signboards which show an odd mixture of the poetic and the commercial of the people. Here are a few examples.
Will you kindly tell me what is wrong with this University? The class election last week was an exemplary one. The Daily Kansan tells all the news and its jokes are new ones. Everyone likes Coach Mosse. The football outlook is bright. It looks as though Kansas will get the Tiger's hide. Exceptionally fine courses are offered this year. The faculty seem equal to any situation that arises. The gymnasium is supplied with hot water and it is no where near Thanksgiving time. Something must be wrong, or is about to be. What is it?
Editor Daily Kansan:
Pessimist.
A charcoal shop in Canton calls itself the "Fountain of Beauty," and a place for the sale of coal indulges the title of "Heavenly Embroidery."
An oil and wine establishment is the "Neighborhood of Chief Beauty," and "The Honest Pen Shop of Li" implies that some pen shops are not honest.—New York Sun.
All announcements for this col-
lection will be posted to the news
ditor before 11 A.M.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Meeting of Woodrow Wilson club Wednesday at 7:30 in Fraser, 116.
The official University Directory will this year contain a list of all student organizations, with names of officers. This will include all class organizations, and important committees, associations, societies, clubs, publications, honor fraternities, fraternities, and sororities, etc. In order that this information may be quickly compiled (The Directory is now going to press) the secretary of every such organization is requested to write on a card the official name of the organization and the names of its officers for the year 1912-13. Drop this card into any University mail box or leave at room 105 Fraser.
A meeting of all men enrolled in the School of Education will be held on Thursday evening, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p. m. in room 116, Fraser. Dean Johnston will talk.
Holiday University. Opens at Westminster hall Friday evening, Oct. 18, at 8 o'clock. A complete college course in one evening. Clean athletics, strong faculty, astounding curriculum. All K. U. students accredited for entrance.
Woman's Athletic Association—Meeting of W. A. A. at 4:30 Tuesday, October 22 in the gymnasium to vote on amendments to the constitution. All girls who have signed the roll of the association and have paid the fee of fifty cents are eligible to vote.
The K. U. Debating society will meet at 8 o'clock Thursday evening in room 501 Fraser hall. Important election of officers. One debate will be held.
Prof. D. C. Croissant, speaks in chapel Tuesday, Oct. 22, on "Our Nation's Band."
Chemists—The Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society will meet in the chemistry building, University of Kansas, Lawrence, on Saturday evening, Oct. 19, at 4:30. Mr. F. P. Breneman will talk on the "Manufacture of Sugar."
Congregational Students- Plymouth Guild and the Christian Endeavor society will entertain at the church for all students of Congregational preference Friday, October 11.
CALENDAR.
Thursday, October 17.
Thursday, October 7
7:30 p. m. Greek Symposium a
1605 Vermont Street.
Chapel, W. Y. Morgan, editor or Hutchinson News.
Friday, October 18.
Saturday, October 19.
Kansas vs. Drake, at Des Moines.
Saturday, October 26.
Kansas vs. K. S. A. C., at Law-
rence.
The U. S. Marine Band will play for benefit of woman's dormitory fund.
Kansas vs. Oklahoma, at Law rence.
Friday, November 8.
"The Fight Against War," David Starr Jordan in Robinson gymnast.
Saturday, November 2.
Sunday, November President Frank K. Sanders of Washburn College will address the Y. M. C. A.
Saturday, November 9.
Kansas vs. Washburn, at Topeka.
Saturday, November 23. Kansas vs. Missouri, at Lawrence.
Saturday, November 16.
Kansas vs. Nebraska, at Lincoln.
London, Newmanha 17.
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THE DAILY KANSAN.
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Program for Wednesday and Thursday
Wednesday and Thursday
Kalem—The Girl Reporter's Big Scoop. Clever Story of a Girl's Wit.
Strong Pathe Drama—Anguished Hours.
Essanay—The Listeners' Lesson. A unique comedy of two spinsters who "rubber" over the phone.
All For Five Cents.
Remember That Here Is Where You Always See Good Pictures
Do you want a nice, quiet ornament for your room?
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Special Ladies Tailoring for Uni-
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KEELER'S BOOK STORE,
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Did You Quit Schoo Too Soon
Did you fail to complete your high school course? Do you find that the equivalent of a high school course is necessary for your career? In either case, or if you lack certain units required for entrance to the University, the Department of Correspondence Study of the
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
offers for your benefit, many courses of high school grade.
This department also offers regular college or university courses in such subjects as Chemistry, Education, Engineering, English, Languages, History, Mathematics, Journalism and more. Students are required to one-half the unit hours required for a University degree is granted.
There are also vocational Courses for teachers, artisans or shop workers in the various trades and crafts.
All these courses are prepared by the members of the University Faculty, and are open to non-residents as well as residents of Kansas. The fee is very small.
For further information, address Richard Price, A. M., Director of Extension Department, Lawrence, Kansas.
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