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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 4. 1026
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, JANUARY 4. 1926
THE LAST LAP
The race that started in September is nearing the end. The tape is almost in sight. It is the last lap and it started when the 8:20 whistle sounded this morning, calling back to classes the four thousand students from two weeks vacation.
As in all races, the entire way is hard, but the last lap is the hurdle. With the goal in sight all the runners need that extra ounce of strength to carry them to the tape. Four thousand students tired with four months study are starting on the last lap of the first semester race. The effort put forth now determines who shall, and who shall not, be in school next semester.
On the individual rest his chances of success. What is done within the next ten days may change a failure to a passing grade or cut a good grade to a poor one. Many that are now on the dangerline, the line between passing and failure, will slip to the undesirable side; some will move toward success. Term papers, book reviews, reports, counts pages of outside reading, and back work, that have all been left to the last minute must be finished now.
The last lap is a testing period. Those that complete their work satisfactorily in the short time between the time school opens after the Christmas recess and the final exams, have a good chance of coming out of the final examination week with colors flying.
This is no time for letting down Everything must be done now; there can be no delay until tomorrow.
THE GREAT SAHARA
In a leading Kansas City cafe, a city detective attired in immaculate evening attire sipped meditatively at a highball and read the evening paper. The headline struck him forlycly "Glasses Shall not Clink Tonight During Kansas City's Dryest New Year."
It was New Year's eve. Around him swirled a crowd who were reveling in the most plenitful supply of wettness that they had found since Volstead said "Let it be Dry" and it was dry. A girl with a voice unnaturally high from too many drinks of "ginger ale" swung a bottle of boned whisky in one hand and a cigarette in the other as she rocked in the sway of the Charleston.
Overworked waiters brought in trays of whiskey and spiked beer but the strong right arm of the law was blind. He was too deeply interested in a picture of a city detective attired in evening clothes and telling how the clever old chief was going to put it all over the bootleggers by attiring his men in evening clothes so they could mix freely with the revelers and with little or no trouble arrest every party that showed the least sign of having imbibed the potent beverages.
A reporter swayed up to the table and sat down heavily beside him. "It's a great night, eh Joe? Everybody's happy and the liquor's good. Wish I had time for a couple more highballs, but I gotta get in my story for the buildog and she's got to be dry, so it'll take a while to think her up. How's this sound for a lead?" "For the first time since prohibition Kanasas City will awaken New Years morning without its customary dark brown taste!"
The strong right arm of the law finished his drink and crunched a bit
if ice in his teeth. "It's all right, but don't forget the "due to the efficient efforts of the police."
TO THINK OR NOT TO THINK
A hint on the process of international and inter-racial friendship was one of the contributions of the first biennial convention of the Compostion clubs of the fifth district which was held at the Chelsea College holidays. This process seems to be think, and yet not to think,
There's a lot in knowing just when to do even the best of works, apparently. Even so with the "intellectual," "reasoning" approach, of the intelligent, who point to the way out of racial prejudices through rational and reasonable thought and action. Perhaps, as we get into race prejudice, so we may get out—unconsciously. We need to forget frequently that there are such distinctions as races.
The delegates to the convention, foreign and American, succeeded in doing this forgetting. In and out of the meetings it was common to see young men and women talk about interesting things—politics, religion, parties—not as Chinese or Japanese or Hindustanese or Filipino or Negro or white American, but as alert and identifiable youth. The delegates worked and played together not as representatives of India, Korea or Hawaii, promoting their national interests, but as young people aspiring for genuine world co-operation and good will among the men of the nations of the earth.
However, the energy that was saved by the delegates in not thinking about their differences was still spent in thinking. But it was thinking on the problems of international and interracial relations in the world and on the campus. In considering the political, economic and historical basis for international relations the opportunity to shine was given to the "intellectual." And there were many stars shining in the firmament, for one distinguishing characteristic of Cosmopolitan clubs is their thinking students, foreign and American.
A plea from the merchants—Only 905 more shopping days until Christmas.
THE GREAT GOD ACTIVITY
"They pledged her because she will make the honor roll and is a friend for activities." That was the comment when one of the oldest sororities at K. U. pledged Jane Blank. As an activity girl and a grade-giver she would be a prize and it was well known that the sorority could use both.
In high school Jane had been the pride of her class, an honor student, vice-president of the senior class and the leading spirit in the high school activities. In K. U. she prepared to be the same. Soon her name began to appear in the Kansas as a member of this or that committee. She was an active worker in the W. S. G. A. and the Y. W. C. A., also the W. A. A. Her sisters were elated. Never in history had such a student been found. Two years more and she would be the leader in all women's activities. No one questioned but that her grades were on a par with her activities. And then one day the crash came. She had flunked out. It seemed unbelievable. Jane Blank, who had been an honor student as long as any of her school mates could remember!
A rather stupid story, you are thinking, and why tell it anyway? It is stupid, but the it is a simple story of fact. Later, the truth was discovered. It is the same story we have all been told before by students on whom the bolt fell with less force. She has been swept along by the easy-growing current of high school where a reputation as a student is an insurance of good grades and where instructors are only too glad to make an allowance for this or that. Too late she had come to the realization that things are different on the Hill. She had tried to drop out, but the calls on her combined with the urging of her sorority sisters had been too much. No, she didn't come back to school. Along with her ability she has what is perhaps a distorted but a very strong pride. She is another sacrifice on the altar of the great god Activity.
Prompt and attendance is necessary at the first orchestra rehearsal in Marvin hall at 3:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 5.
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA;
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The regular payroll for the faculty and employees is now ready for director of the business office.
REGULAR PAYROLL:
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 11:00 a. m.
VIH Monday, January 4, 1925 N.
SENATE MEETING:
There will be a meeting of the University Senate in the auditorium of the Administration building at 1:30 Tuesday, Jan. 5.
BETHANY CIRCLE:
The Bethany Circle picture for the Jayhawk will be taken Tuesday
Jan. 5, at 12:36, at Squire's studio. Monaura plays your dark dresses
and you play your bright ones.
Plain Tales From the Hill
E. II. LINDLEY.
If the professor hadn't said this in a Nar. and Dea, class, it would have been pretty good. its remark was better than to handle women if you don't try.
It was the last day of Christmas vacation. It was raining. "Fire day!" one student hailed another.
"Yeh! fine for reindeer," was the unhappy rejoinder.
The Venetian Glass Nephew, by Elinor Wylie; Glycerie H. Doran Company, New York.
There was a lad from Arizona.
Whose name by the way was Bill
Jonah.
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"Whatcha drinkin' all that water for?"
He once asked a Miss Mary I have a kiss?
Book Notes
For those who love the innem,
there is much charm in this narrative of
Venice of the 18th century. The story iturjiff is simple in theme but is enlightening.
The ornate manner that gives it a beauty
all too softfound in recent fiction.
Cardinal Peter Innocent Ben, precisely an innocent and childlike as his name indicates, desired above all
his power to create a lamentable fact to him that he,
 among all the cardinals, did not possess such a desirable connection. However, the cardinal accidentally comes into contact with a skilled phlebothemist,
an intelligent human appearing examples of his art.
Peter Innocent meets also the magician Chastelnew, who with the glassblower's aid creates a nephew of Venice for his own private musical directive through his magic arts. Virtrion, as the nephew, is named in, entirely human but is very delicate and fragile because of his origin.
From the blow he deduced 'twas ;
bonah.
"Me? —Aw, I'm goin' to an awfu. dry class."
It is this tendency that later comes all the trouble. Virgilio, falling in love with the lovely poetess, Rosalba, he said, was a girl who has as expected been Rosalba's playful ways prove too strenuous. So to prove her love, Rosalba agrees to undergo the horrible experience of being changed into porcelain by the muri-
The monthly record of books pubsuring by Robert M. McBride and in the summary numbers of the Publisher's Weekly, reveals the fact that the total number of new books increased materially for the first half of the year. The largest gains were in fiction, poetry and drama, law and philology.
The characters are all well-drawn, especially those of Cardinal Bon and Chastelette; but it is the sheer beauty of her hair that strongly to the reader—A. V. M.
A new book by James Branch Cahall, "The Silver Stallion; A Comedy of Redemption," is to be published in the book by Robert McBride and Company.
Dr. George A. Dorsely's "Why Behave Like Human Being" is in suchdem and that Harper and Brothers have had difficulty in keeping the book in stock. Three printings were ex- hanced in the first month after publication.
A limited, autographed edition of "The Perennial Bachelor" has been issued by Harper and Brothers, an authoritative source of all four of Anne Parrish's novels.
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