THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UN IVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Universi
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... Marvin Harmon
Associate Editor ... Herb Little
Campus Editor ... Catherine Oden
Telegram Editor ... Harbor Tibbett
Telgraph Editor ... Harbor Tibbett
Sport Editor ... Walter Heren
Plain Titans ... Grace Owen
U.S. News ... John F. Kennedy
BUSINESS STAFF
Harold R. Hall ... Business Mgr.
Floyd Hockenhull ... Circulation Mgr
KANSAN BOARD MEMBERS
Gilbert O. SweennanAdolde Klips
Ferdinand Gottich Ormond P. Hill
James Watson
Luther Hershner
Josie Wyatt
Charles J. Shawen John J. Kutler
Christopher W. Wheeler
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanada, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students in the Department of Journalism of the University of New York at St. John's or the Department of Journalism.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas,
Phones: Kill U. 712. 56 and 66.
The Daily Kansaas aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University, and to teach her than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals of the University. She will be able to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be smart; to be wise; to wiser. Leads; in all, to serve to the best of its ability the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1920
CLASS SPIRIT
The second semester is on us, but there has not been a single class meeting. Just before elections last fall, there was much talk of having real class spirit, and giving such affairs as exclusive class parties, class mixers and smokers, and meetings where the affairs of the class could be talked over. Yet the only thing that has been done, is to elect officers, appoint committees and sit back and forget that there is such a thing as a class.
One of the chief principles that the University is trying to get back to is to have class and school spirit. Before there can be enthusiasm in general it must be generated in smaller groups, and here is where the class unit should serve a distinct purpose. Perhaps this may be done this semester, but it looks as if class spirit and class unity is a ting of the past, that cannot be revived. There hasn't been a meeting of the Senior class this year, yet it has all of the important problems of graduation to settle. Maybe this will be done by efficient committees, but there should be some little show of the class as a whole.
AN OPPORTUNITY
There are a great many students on the campus who have forgotten all about the Bible and religion since they have gotten away from the influence of home and the days when mother saw to it that children were started for Sunday School. It is with the attitude that now I have gotten away from home, I might as well forget some of the duties I had to perform while there.
Here at the University there is a School of Religion. There are several interesting courses given, such as The Bible and the Spade, Our Bible, The Social Principles of Jesus, and so on. These are offered as regular class at Myers and Westminster Halls by Rev. J. W. Boyer and Dr. Arthur Braden. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn of religion from good teachers, to revive interest in the greatest of books and to cultivate that third side of our life, other than mental and physical, the spiritual.
However, as much as a *student wants to* he can never get entirely away from the Bible, for it is too great a book, to great a classic, and it is too often quoted. If but one notices as he reads it will be found that the Bible is mentioned everywhere, and is quoted to a great extent
A NEW MAGAZINE
There appeared on the campus Monday a new magazine. In art work cleverness, humor and cleanliness the new magazine differed from anything that has appeared on the Hill than fur. In only one way did it resemble any
former publication,—the name wi "The Sour Owl."
To the Owl Board much credit due for their efforts in taking the magazine from the ranks of the squirrel-prints, and placing it among the real college publications.
This issue did not cause the wide gaps of horror and amazement that formerly accompanied the publication of the Sour Owl. None of the University wickedness was revealed, and probably the only gaps that it occasioned were of disappointment at not seeing one's neighbors names held up to ridicule.
But it is worthy, this new magazine and with the patronage of the entire school, will help a whole lot in putting K. U. into a place in the sun of national notice.
THE OUTLAW
Members of a special committee from the University of Nebraska will call on every school in the Missouri Valley Conference within a short time in an effort to learn the true status of opinion in the Valley concerning Nebraska and to get a line on whether or not the Lincoln institution should present a petition to the officials for readmission into the conference at the next meeting.
Early last fall Nebraska decided to withdraw from the Conference because the Valley rules would not permit the Huskers to play one football game each year in Omaha. The Lincoln school was then accused of taking the action with the real view in mind of applying to the Big Ten for admission to that conference. It has been rumored that Nebraska has been bidding her time for years with that definite purpose in mind.
But the northern school has now been virtually "outlawed" for six months and has apparently made no effort to get into the Big Ten. At any rate, the Lincoln outlaw has certainly made no serious effort to get in with Illinois, Cheapey, Northwestern, Michigan and the rest.
And now Nebraska is on the fence. The athletic board apparently is uncertain as to its course. One day a story comes from lineinco to the effect that Nebraska will probably immediately apply for readmission to the Valley Conference and the next day, a denial comes from the same place, or possibly from Omaha, saying that there was no foundation for so definite a statement.
Undoubtedly it is the Omaha alumni that is keeping the Huskers away from the Valley. Omaha is strong for their annual game and it will take a real fight to take it away from the metropolis city. The big cattle interest of that city are willing to stand back of the game financially and the alumnai want that one game. Recently a committee from Omaha was sent to Lincoln to protest against the proposed action of the Huskers applying for re-admission to the Valley. And so it goes.
Nebraska is up against the same proposition that Michigan faced several years ago, after withdrawing from the Big Nine for some petty grievance. Michigan remained out of the conference for many years, an outlaw school, in reality, while the Big Nine suffered very little from the withdrawal. It was Michigan who suffered. And finally the inevitable happened and the Ann Arbor school relented and came back to the conference.
It is to be hoped that Nebraska will decide to come back into the fold without holding out and remaining in the "outlaw" class for several years. The absence of Nebraska will not hurt the Missouri Valley Conference a great deal, since the admission of Oklahoma and Grinnell has rounded out the Valley Conference into a really strong organization. But the outlaw stuff is bound to hurt Nebraska and sooner or later, that school will want to come back.
THE SO-CALLED EPIDEMIC
Hysteria is a mild form of insanity.
It makes people see and think and feel unreal and imaginary things. It makes babies out of us, cowards. It loces us; it makes us lose our nerve, our courage, our determination.
It is a great question as to whether it is the flu or not; it is very much
Now here are the facts about the so-called flu that is prevalent over the country:
as more like an epidemic of colds and
grip. Apparently it is without any special danger because the death rate has not been increased very greatly by this little furry.
So the Post bleg us to you possess your soul in patience and tranquility and courage. Go on in your normal journey, let yourself be as you can; don't be a coward; don't see strange visions and hear unusual sounds and have peculiar feelings; in other words, just be a real man and a real woman and do a whole lot less thinking about it and a whole lot less thinking about it and it will be forgotten in a few days.
It seems that the whole world now is like some nervous, flighty horse— it is looking for something to get scared at all the time. Now let's quit! Be normal and sensible and sane and unafraid. The K. C. Post.
Campus Opinion
Sir: Eating, like penmanship, should be accompanied by a free arm movement. This basic truth being off my chest, may I not require a few of your precious moments in which to dilate on certain lits which, my observations
To the Editor of The Kansan:
The boarding clubs which flourish on the slippery slopes of Mt. Oread are I believe not only great institutions of succer, but also great education. I know the students were worthy. I would not deign to waste constructive criticism on them.
on certain ills which, my observer tell me, are rampant on Mt. Oread?
When, in the course of inhumanity, a boarding club waitress is constrained to strew plates and chairs with such untwisted thickness along the perimeter of the festive box, that, when the eaters are seated, one boarders borders upon another and laps nearly overlap; when one's elbow must cleave assiduously to one's or deve mysterious, and hammeringly, among those of the lady beside one (and probably also beside herself); then, and is that event, I sumit that it is time to call a halt.
What may be the purpose of this unseemly proximity I have not been able to determine, like it may be thought that, unlike the obstacles in an obstacle race, the condition tends to lessen the progress made by the several entries during the twelve minute free-for-all immediately preceding pie. (I mention pie, indicating that I should avoid but not be overly familiar) I might continue indefinitely to expand on these conditions but they are already too widely and painfully known. The fault is grievous, the remedy obvious.
True freedom, sir, can only obtain when one has room to wave one's fork as well as one's flag.
Your epicurean friend. A. Neaker Wood
A. Nocker Wood.
Weekly Calendar
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAYVarsity and Bowersock
Douglas Fairbanks in his latest play, "When the Clouds Roll By." Also Christie comedy and
University Concert Courtn number.
Thursday at University
Douglas McLean and Dorrr May in "What's Your Husband Doing." Patha news.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAYVarsity
Will Rodgers in "Almost a Hu band." Also a good comedy. University
It made healthy people sick—there by inculcating the value of health.
It kept late hours—thereby curing insomnia.
Doing." Pathe news. lowersock
It filled the jails Sunday morning—thereby saving thousands from the movie mania.
It interfered with work-therefore it promoted the play instinct.
Charles King party for Pharmies Friday night.
Rum's Seven Cardinal Virtues—
It wrecked homes—in that way hastening the happiness of those unhappily wedded.
A Large Difference.—"Say Bill, you know de diffence b'tween a prophet and a profiler?"
igher next week he knows what he alkin' about." -New York World.
"Well, when a prophet de says world
"Will, when a gain' to end last Thursday at
a bar, when a witch takes talm' about, when proftfer
says soap, sugar, an' shoes will be
It gave some men "Dutch Courage"
which is better than none.
Benjamin De Casseres in the New York Evening Sun.
it promoted the play instinct.
It made healthy people sick—there
It caused the tongue to wag—thereby promoting truth-telling.
Thou wind of the wintry way.
The snap, the tingle, the joy, the light
of the far-flung day.
Through wind and street and rough land.
To the top of the coed hung hill,
And bring me back on your wings of flight.
Through wind and sleep and frozen rain
Two ain't one of the good honeys
O let the out to the open air.
And let me swing as I will.
THE WINTER WORLD
I love the power of the little man
in face of a wintry streak—
Can know the prize of a morn
With the majesty of a thousand kings
In the bugle of winds reborn
From the dark and dawn of the frosty
O let me out to the open lane And let me swing as I will.
That his soul possesses seeing—
That his heart can treasure a gift of
things.
The way that his eye can peek and
And the red blod mount his cheek.
The way he ca nlift his head to the sky
And glory in beauty of being
A creature of joy with a joyous cry
A creature of joy with a joyous cry
That his soul possesses seeing—
From the dusk and deeps of the frosty night.
light.
And the air a crackle of weather
That turns the heaviest heart so light
It is like a feather.
THE BEST MEMORIAL
like a reather.
— B. E. in the Baltimore Sun.
Newport News, Va., plans a center of civic life on an even more extensive scale.
Birmingham, Ala., is on the way to secure as a war memorial a comprehensive civic center which will require years for complete realization.
The ancient form and tradition is to building something useless. History is thick with status, shafts, pyramids, and mausoleums.
It is with satisfaction, therefore, that we learn from the bureau of war buildings of the war camp community service that 280 communities have decided upon the building type of memorial "monument" type, the conventional "monument" type.
There is quite a general feeling however, that such memoirs fail in their purpose. A useful Hyeucht he be commemorated by a uneless thing.
The best monument for the noble dead is something that shall develop nobility in the living.
Of these some have gone still further, and have had a still better vision. For they have conceived of a civic center a magnificent group of structures to be the ruling point of city life, as the most worthy form in which to do honor to those who died for their country.
Portsmouth, Va., has conceived the plan of Colonial classic structures, to contain all the offices of the city government, an open plaza, where thousands may assemble, and a memorial tower dominating all. The tower, or campanile, will contain a clock and chimes, a great pipe organ will be used for community choirs and a huge bronze book will enshine the names of the citizens who entered the army.
Dry Verse
Seattle, Wash., proposes an immense auditorium seating twenty thousand persons, the usual city buildings and a magnificent victory square having as its center a monument.
Father, dear father.
—Kansas City Star
The most pretentious plan, however, is of Portland, Ore., whose mayor and committee have conceived a memorial that will extend through the city and connect with a highway reaching through the state.
Come home with me now
You can't get any more
The clock in the steeple Strikes nine
Has brewed raisin wine.
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Beer, anyhow,
And mother
He had up in bed.
"Yes, he drank some hair tonic,
"They tell me poor Blithers
Which went to his head!"
Louisville. Times.
D. how we don't airflow the egg,
M. much less the egg's grog.
Over the Top
How cheaply in the olden days
Over the Top
Is a lucky guy.
Sing a song of sixpence.
Holding that there rye,
Dry, Dry Again
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye Owner of that pocket
New York World.
Holding that there rye it will make him very
Beginning and End.—Mrs. Bacon—
Do you remember the night you pro-
posed marriage to me. Henry?"
"Yes."
___ Louisville Times.
E. now we can't afford the
Mr. Bacon—"Oh, yes, very well in deed."
"I just hung my head and said nothing, didn't I?"
"You did; and that was the last time I ever saw you that way."—Yonkers Statesman.
Useful Swain.—"Darling, my heart is a volcano!"
"Say, that's lucky!" The furnace isn't working today."—La Balonnette.
t will make him very
Wesleyhy by and hy
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WM SCHULZ
917 Mass. St.
C. E. ORELUP, M. D., Eye, ear, nose and throat. Glass work guaranteed.
Phone 445. Dick Building—Adv.
PROTCH The College Tailor
Dress Suit for Sale
Equipment is complete and all in good condition. For particulars write, Box 137,
Rantoul, Kansas.
For Rent
For Sale
Lost
Found
Help Wanted
Venation Wanted
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WANT ADS
FOUNTAIN PEN LOST-Waterman's pen without top about one inch ago between Garrett Club and 1022 Ohio. Return to Kannah office
81-5-187.
FOR SALE - Entirely new
used set of Howard Classics of 51
volumes. Inquire of Kansan Office.
81-2182
LOST-Sigma Kappa pledge pin between Westminster Hall and Ad Building Wednesday afternoon. Finder please call 1198. 82-21-85.
FOUND—Jewelled bar pin—F. A. U.
Hall Saturday night. Owner call
1875. 82-2-186.
WANTED—University girl student wishes half of double room or single room. Call 2513 White.
WANTED—University girl to work in private family for room and board. Call 7291. 79-5-177.
79-5-177
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LAWRENCE OPTICAL COMPANY (Ex-
examined, optometrist). Eyes exam-
med; glasses made. Office 1025 Mass.
DRHL. REDING, F. A. U. Bidg. Eye, ear, nose, and mouth. Special attention to fitting glasses and tonsil work. Phone 512.
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS, Suite 2, Jackson Building Building General practice Special attention to nose, throat and ear. Telephone 217.
H. W. HUTCHINSON, Dentist. Bell phone 185, 138. Perkins Bldg.
I. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. Disease of the stomach, surgery, and gynecolic I. P. A. U. V. Ulcer. Residence and hospital. 1301 Oblie Streat. Both homes $5.
B. RICHELT, M. D. Rooms 3 and 4
over McCulloch's. Residence 1151
ann. St. Office. Phone 343.
ann. St. Office. Phone 1343.
CHIROPRACTORS
JOB PRINTING—B. H. Dale, 1027 Mass.
DRS. WELCH AND WELCH-Palmer
Graduates. Office 804 Vermont St.
Phones, Office 115, Residence, 115K2.
R. C. B. ALRIGHT—chiropractic adjustments and massage, Office Stubba Bldg. 1101 Mass. St. Phone 1531, Residence Phone 1761.
VARSITY Today---Thursday
BOWERSOCK Today Only
"When the Clouds Roll By"
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
BIG NEW PICTURE
is a genuine novelty. We have come to expect great things from Doug Fairbanks; we sometimes wonder where he can possibly get any more new ideas from. Yet he comes along with a picture like this and simply carries us off our feet. "When the Clouds Roll By" is so new and original in story and action, so far away from anything that has been attempted before, that we go on record now with the prediction that every laugh-loving, thrill-loving man, woman and child in town will be talking about Fairbanks and his picture before the week is half over.
War-Tax Included Pathe News
Adults 28e
Christie Comedy
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