A G E M A N T H Y M E R S U L T O W I N G . N O M E B A C T D E R E
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily, Koman arms to picture the undergraduate in a game of go to just another merely printing the news by standing for the ideals of our school. The students' sites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be fair; to have more serious problems to water heads; to be less violent; to show the students of the University.
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1924
THE BIRTH OF A NATION
THE BIRTH OF A NATION
The hatred of the Civil war has died. Free speech in Kansas has been granted and we are permitted to view the Birth of a Nation for the first time. It tells a story of a dark time. It must be remembered that D. W. Griffith is the son of a Confederate general. The story brigs home a truth to those of us of the north, and it is a bitter truth. To those of us of southern parentage, it simply tells an old, old story.
The film is not overdrawn, but it is a continuous presentation of tragedies grouped in one setting. And you can deny the grandeur of the tragedy that stalked in the wake of Civil war or the pain in the North and the South? It was a tragedy and a romance that took the blood of brothers and turned men into marbling fiends that glory in death, destruction, and hate. But above it all are the ideals of a separated people, the love of parted woofers, and the freedom of a down-trodden race.
The Negro—a man with a great heart loosed suddenly to the mercies of the fiends of war, unturtled, misunderstood, and even cursed by the greatest religion a world ever had, he is thrust into the power of a king. He only put into execution what had been taught him by four years of conflict after two centuries of slavery—conflict that shook the nation to its depths. He was a child and clay in the hands of unscrupulous adventurers, but was he worse than the white man would have been in his place? The Birth of a Nation shows the Negro at his best and at his worst. What more does it do to the white?
But there is the Ku Klux Klan, not of today but of 60 years ago—a Tiger backed to the wall will fight, and so will man. His home was destroyed and his existence crushed by the power of the war gods. The North was war-torn and anxious to return to its former basis. The South was in the grip of terrorism. It was fight or die; it fought, by what means it could.
That is the Birth of a Nation. It discredits nothing but war, curses nothing but greed. Honest patriotism does not hide from the truth. We glory in our past, but we shun the mistakes of our nation. That is why the Americans do not always look on a question as it is presented by facts, but so often fall for sentimentalism. D. W. Griffith has at least made us look at facts.
People who would not drink their coffee from the saucer at home will eat peanuts by the bushel in a crowded theater.
"LIFT THE CHORUS
The second day of music week has passed and still some people don't know it's here. The Kanasan has been talking about it for some time, the Fine Arts faculty has been announcing it, and the Community Chorus and the St. Louis Symphony have done their best to show us that "music hath powers to charm the wild beast and soothe the savage soul."
The trouble surely is that the Uni verosity as a whole in sitting around listening for music instead of setting out to make some. Why don't we have a grand chorus on Mount Oread some day this week. The journalists could abandon their clattering type-writers to loose their lusty lungs in song, and the laws could change their raucous rumour of passivity to sweet
Official Daily University Bulletin
LECTURE on "RECENT INTERNATIONAL READJUSTMENTS"
Lecture by Dr. George Crafton Wilson, professor of international law
Harvard University, in room 302, central Administration, 4:30 Wednesday
April 30.
Copy received at the Chancellor's Office unite 11:00 a.m.
Vol. III.
Tuesday, April 29, 1924
No. 163
H. B. CHUBB.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB REHEARSAL:
MENN GLEEP CLOE BREWERMAN
April 30, at 5 o'clock, in Fraser chapel. All members must be present if
appropriate.
If we aren't allowed to develop a little judgment, self-reliance, and independence of supervision in the University, in Heaven's name will we ever develop it?
T. A. LARREMORE, Director.
Paddock's showing at Drake made the East foam.
BOOK EXCHANGE:
FOOK b. k. k. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v.
The book exchange will be open Wednesday morning, April 30, from
1:30 pm to 12:30 pm.
And the East was hopelessly outclassed by the West. Kliping was right. They couldn't meet on a track.
50 uniter 12,360 ESTHER OTT, Manager.
PHI SIGMA:
What miraculous metamorphosis is supposed to be effected by commencement that a woman who, two weeks before she was incapable of determining or herself whether or not she could pare time from her school work to go to the picture show with a man friend suddenly becomes a mature, rational being, ready to face the problems of life.
The Olympics will throw aside the theory of the poet, however. They will meet when the West goes East to catch a steamer to Paris.
There will be a very important Philsigma business meeting at 7:30 p. m., Thursday evening, May 11, in room 204 Sesha hall.
The R. O. T. C. unit will drill Wednesday, April 30. It is the impression of some members of the unit that the review and field exercise held Friday afternoon and Saturday, would take the place of the regular Wednesday drill. This assumption is incorrect. The formation will be applied to the last two Wednesdays of the year, May 21 and 28, will be applied as a staff role for the rest of the year, the last formation being held Wednesday, May 14.
R. O. T. C.：
ZOOLOGY CLUB:
RHADAMANTHI:
There will be a meeting of Snow Zoology Club, at 7:15 Wednesday evening, April, 20, room 304 snow hall.
EDWARD W, TURNER, P. M. S. & T.
strains of harmony, beating time with their canes.
CHARLES A. SISSON, President.
Rhadamanthi bike, which was to have been Wednesday evening, is post-
NINA CATHARINE HOWE. President.
And the engineers—well, they might have to depend on volume on or melody, but they could probably make themselves heard from Marvin hill to Spooner, where the Phi Beta Kappa could assemble on the steps to sing their chapter anthem.
The School of Fine Arts could be depended on to give the pitch correctly, and the scientists could join in and carry it consciously if they were furnished a formula.
MAMA CAN I GO OUT TO PLAY?
After all, why don't we take music week to heart—"lift the chorus ever onward" and all that?
"Paternalism" is a word that makes workmen see red, and it won't be long until it has almost the same effect on the students of K. U. The *U* is not a boarding school—it is, in name at least, a university where men and women—not girls and boys—come to accumulate a college degree. The authorities of the University are here to aid in this work, not to supervise the personal affairs of individual students.
Almost everybody knows that the date rule doesn't prevent dates. It merely necessitates a little more caution—adds the game of 'Dodge the Dean of Women' to the list of pleasing pastimes open to K. U. students. At the women's dormitory if a woman signs out to attend the picture show on Saturday night and later decides to go to a University dance authorized by the University authorities, she is penalized for being late when she doesn't come in at 11 o'clock. The remedy is simple—always sign out for the舞和be free to do anything you like until 12:45.
Do you have to hunt shelter from the spring rains and raw winds? Better get one of our smart Gabardine Topcoats and be well dressed for rain or shine!
IS HE JOKING?
--kansas, a pioneer, in establishment, new traditions—so the story goes has another one to add to her list.
A candidate for sheriff out at Pittsburgh has turned over a new leaf in his political adventures and is campaigning on truth. His slogan, he declares, is true. The following is what he had published over his signature on formal announcements to distribute to his voters: "I am a candidate for office on the Democratic ticket. I appreciate your support
$ 19.^{75} up
and not disappoint you with a clean office."
Now, his supporters don't know whether he is poking fun at them or not. They are side-steping the situation for awhile until they can make up their minds to one of two things. Shall they take a dirty office with frankness from a man who brags about his poor housekeeping, or shall they choose the sugar coated pill proffered by the candidate who keeps his weaknesses a secret as long as possible?
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