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FRIDAY, MAY 15. 1925
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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BORROWING
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1925
"Nothera a borrower nor a lender be" would be a good maxim for all of us at this time of the year. It's so easy to be borrowing books, notebooks, fountain pen, money, and even clothing—and then in the last-minute rush forgetting to return them.
Of course we all rushed to death just now and it's convenient to be borrowing from your roommate or your classmates and friends. And of course they hate to refuse you, realizing how busy you are and remembering that they may need something you can loan them. But it isn't nearly so convenient to remember to return that little thing you borrowed.
When you ask for for the desired loan of course you expect to return it just as soon you are through with it, but then you get busy with something else and put it off. Soon you have forgotten that you ever borrowed it, and by the time you get ready to pack your trunk and go home you have probably *forgetten* where the thing came from. You may decide it is worth taking home; if not you discard it.
This happens to the things people borrow of you, and it isn't surprising that you miss things all summer that you loaned and someone forgot to return.
Now is the time of year to decide that you didn't want a degree anyway, that it's much better to take your place in the world as one of the great unclassified."
NIGHT AIR
An open window. White bedroom
curtains brush gently against
the dark screen. Moonbeams, rusty
and silvery, dance on the floor.
"Honey, honey, bless your heart."
Masculine voices, some on, some off the pitch harmonize on the old familiar tune. Girl's heads peer out the window. The curtain is pushed back. Vague outlines of curlers, and there some water waves combs. The last pristine chord dies out.
Clapping, somehow making one think of blurted palms. A feminine squeal, thin and high. Girlish laughter tingling on the air. A second outburst of song, more intense after the applause. More applause, more squealing and laughter. A song or two in farewell.
The chug of a motor starting.
S-saat! K-chug! With a wheeze sputter, a car leaves the driveway.
The screnaders are gone. Girls tumbling over one another in the dark. "I could fall in love with that tenor!" "They dragged everything too much." "That one Carroo was certainly off key." "I'm hopefully sleepy." A few more remarks. A few yawning good-nights.
Curtains fluttering again. Pools of moonlight. A night of romance, and then,—a more!
BIG SISTERS
Every fall, on our campus, tragedies are enacted—not the grim kind of newspaper fame, but tragedies, nevertheless, which mean real suffering. They are the griefs of disappointed freshmen.
Often, prospective University students receive letters from K. U. women in the summer time-letters
which seem friendly, which impire future students with admiration for women who actually are interested in their welfare. Then, when these freshmen come to the Hill, they find that these same upper-classmen are too busy with activities to pay any personal attention to the girls whom they have made so hopeful.
100. 099.0999
Big sisters for nert year are now being chosen. Perhaps many girls inspired with a sudden feeling of benevolence will volunteer to be big sisters. Just one more achievement to add to the list! But few of them think that in taking such an obligation, they are contracting to be responsible for one new student at the University—that they are guaranteeing to assist in her orientation, and that they are promising to give to her a first impression of this University which will bear fruits in a sincere attitude of loyalty and love.
Being a big sister in the true sense of the word is a joyous thing, but it is a serious thing. It is a real honor to be chosen as worthy of the responsibility. It is a real disgrace to prove unworthy of it.
Some diamond rings look like a nickel's worth of ice set in a pair of tongs.
IONOR TO HONORS
The whole of the class to be graduated at the end of the present term has very little interest in the legitimate drama. At least the interest it has (if it has any) is so reticient that it fails to show at all.
Four years of university education should have developed a mild curiosity about the stage. But it did not. The senior class failed to produce a east have enough for its annual play
Perhaps there is no one in the class who considers netsting in the class play an honor. Perhaps that is the trouble. For after all honors are the thing with a great many senior classes. Yes, they are to be found in the recent Jayhawker under the names of almost every senior.
But acting in the senior play is an honor. Even if credit is not given in the Javahaker, no doubt programs
will be printed, and no doubt the names of the cast will be in the print. The senior play bas honors connected with it. Whether the senior class has honor connected with it is a question.
The warning look on a woman's face is like the hell on a typewriter, it warns you when you come to the end of your line.
THAT SENIOR PLAY
Because no few seniors tried out for the senior play it has been necessary to use underclassmen and one of the instructors in the department of public speaking to make up the cast. Yes, it is too bad; but it is not altogether because of the lack of interest of the seniors. It is because of poor organization in general.
In the first place, how much better it would have been to have had the play earlier in the semester when people had more time to work on it and greater enthusiasm in things outside of the academic work. Now, almost everyone is busy with term papers and reviewing. Next year let these take warning who set the deadline for manuscripts and make the date much earlier in the semester.
Also there were no specifications given to the writers of the plays this year. They were told to write a comedy. Several people wrote excellent plays, but because of the limited stage arrangements here it was impossible to consider the plays. Such a content was unfair to the prospective playwrights. With all due respect to the author of the play chosen, it should have been possible at least to consider several plays.
Although the cast is working under disadvantages this year, we wish them luck and hope that the poor organization will stand out as an example for next year. There's no reason why the senior play should not be put over with as much enthusiasm as any of the other dramatic events of the year, and out of 700 seniors there are no doubt a half dozen or more people who can do it if they are given a fair chance.
WHAT OF THE REST OF THE WORLD?
It is often said that one half the world doesn't know what the other half is doing. This was much more true fifty or one years ago than at the present day, with the rapidity with which news is carried and the speed of transportation. Our daily newspapers record for us the important events of the most distant point on the globe within twelve hours after it has occurred.
With all these opportunities of in forming car ourselves it seems strange that students know so little of what is going on in the rest of the world. Are we so satisfied with our own little sphere that we are not interested in matters which so greatly concern other people much like car ourselves? Or is it just that we are too lazy to read the daily newspapers and to try to keep up on what is going on around us?
When we have finished school and get out in the business and professional world, what excuse are we going to offer for not being well informed? It's true we are very busy, but we can always find time to read the funnies or College Humor and to take in the movies. How about taking time to read the daily newspapers?
MANGIN
The battle of Verdun proved many things. Outstanding among those was the fact that a city belegued on three sides in modern warfare does not have to trust to a railroad to bring supplies, especially when the country is filled with good roads as France is.
It also proved that common men, whom different nations were thought temperamental, and effeminate, could demonstrate an unbelievable heroism in time of great danger. The hairy polistas that swept up the sacred read to Verlon and then stormed the ditches of Fort Document and the slope of Le Morte Homme or Dead Man's Hill showed that the hearts of the French were metals of purest aloy when tested in that twelve month crucible. Mangin was one of those men. He rise through his ability to lead and directed the efforts of others. All were of the same stock and fought for the same cause.
As long as the names Duonant or Verdum last they will be a monument to Mangin and to those who fell under him in the defense of the city hidden among Mouse heights.
WATERMELONS
Americans have long been trying to get ahead of themselves. As soon as the first snow has fallen, and everything is frozen with no chance of springing back to life, women discard their winter hats and don straws and bright silk. As soon as the summer heat has become thoroughly unbearable, and leed lemonade has been declared inadequate as a cooling agency, women discard their straw hats, and swelter in velvets.
Now, even the fruits are trying to get ahead of themselves. Watermelons are on sale in Kansas City. Of course, they are very, very expensive, but that is to be expected of out-of-season delicacies, whether they be bats or desserts.
In all animate objects in this country of uries is a prepossessing idea of getting ahead of life. When even the innate objects begin it, won't America beat herself in the race some day?
TOP Q' THE WORLD
Cool wind came up and touched my chee
And lingered in my hair;
I climbed to the top of a towering hill
To watch the death of day.
That hour, redoubled, in the western ak.
With it.
That hung, red-gold, in the western sky With its colors in silent play.
The skies grew deep like was above.
With clear, cold尘片 of light.
That cloak glowed as skies grew dim
And depended into night.
And night came on and drifted down While I was standing there.
The world lay down below my feet,
Except one lonely beam, him.
That winked and twinkled up at me
Like far light in a dream.
Twice space above and world below
With not a moving thing,
save for the breeze that brushed my cheek
Like a light and gaudy wing.
And I, alone between two worlds,
Was thankful I had seen.
-Virgil Ensign, c.28
The Cosmopolitan Club will meet tonight at the Cosmopolitan house, 1653 Indiana street, at 7:00, for the election of officers and other important business. All members should be present. STEVE MERRILL, Pres.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
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HOME ECONOMICS CLUB:
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COSMOPOLITAN CLUB:
--and Call Her Before Someone Else Does
The Home Economics Club will hold its annual picnic at Woodland Park, k-120 Monday, May 18. Member plesee plane meet at the end entrance to the library on Friday and KAIRT on Saturday.
What though I now no drear, dear,
with nought but sweat so solitable,
There is no tear, no bitter tear,
I have not cause for sulple noun.
I have not cause for sulple noun.
REMEMBRANCE
What thouch no more you ever pass
but rather choose another street,
You came one day, one golden day,
and normury is sweetness.
Ruth Warren Jeffries.
"Tailor Leaves Shop to Wife." Headline. Probably a and iron was in the equipment.
Plain Tales From the Hill
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Suggestive
Below each of the following head lines on a bulletin board in West Ack is a list of six university students. 1. Children without parent care
2. Unadjusted girls.
After this there should be no doubt about the University being a state institution.
Lost—Most any kind of can.
Found—Choice variety of caps
hally on Uncle Jimmy's Boy.
4. Child labor.
5. Fatigue and hours of labor.
6. English minded.
3. Homeless men.
If the English women lost pounds like the K. U. women track teams, Parliament would have to pass an anchor "poor law."
A freshman's dad was visiting the University and while walking on the campus asked his son, "Who is this person?" He heard love-heavy talk about?"
The freshman, not knowing, grasping at a straw, replied, "I don't know for sure, papa, but I think she goes with a fellow named K. S. Yea. The boys are always singing a song about hail to them."
Dr. H, P. Cady told a chemistry class that he is not aggrivated by persons who scratch their names on glass windows with their dumond jewelry for he knows that the cut themselves there are thereby ruined.
A lengthy report recently made public by one of the Hill organizations closed its ponderous resume thus: "Respectfully submitted." Information is lacking as to whether "heeledly" or "carefully" was meant as Webster, or whether it was supposed to be "respectfully."
About This Week's Shows:
He: Have you seen "Charley's Aunt?"
Another: Charley who?
He: Have you seen "My Son?"
She: Why, I didn't know you were married.
On Other Hills
A "cow college" carnival will be held at Colorado Agricultural College next week. The main feature of the carnival is which all students will take part.
An anti-racism word *pure society has been formed at McGill University, Montreal. Their object is to eliminate the racism in them as they are monopolizers of time.
A law student at Stanford University picked up a bearer at a harpain and took seven of his friends to the beach. Angles to spend spring vacation.
University of Oklahoma women have started the idea of flavored lipsticks, and this weapon of womankind, in flavors ranging from lemon to tuti-frutti, has literally swept the university town.
The University of Minnesota is giving it a trip to California with all expenses paid, to the student selling the most year books.
Seven dollars per month will send a man through school in China, board and room included.
Statistics in the Delaware Review show that college enrollments annually increase 6.1-2 per cent more than the increase in population.
Certain instructors at Ohio State are in favor of having student-grade their own examination papers.
Afternoon classes are being resumed at Princeton University. It has been 20 years since any afternoon classes were held there.
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