MAY 22,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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The Daily Kaanan aims to picture the undergraduate in his role so he can go further than merely printing the news by standing for the people. He has no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courageous; to be wise; to be wiser heads; to be灵敏; in all, to serve to the best of the family's students at Kaanan.
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1919
THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and Fridays; slightly warmer tonight west and central portions.
VIEWING THE PAST THRU MAGIC GLASSES
Oh, those good old days! The high cost of living in 1919! The old time pep! The lack of spirit today! The necessity of rejuvenation of the attitude of a few years ago
Who started this funeral dirge any way? A perfect epidemic of it seems to have started not only in the University but all over the United States. Some lean pessimist started the tune and every one joined in the chorus.
Can't some one think of a happier and more truthful melody?
Everyone knows that there is more regard for the big and good things of life than there ever was before. The University gets better every year. The enrollment is much better than ever before. Very few people after once coming to the University of Kansas ever want to go any place else.
The people who are kicking about everything in general are very similar to the old timers in the village store who tell us that the last generation had it all over the present one, not remembering that they had none of the advantages of the telephone or automobile and that if they wanted to go anywhere they had to spend a day or so getting there, so that poor Dobbin wouldn't be overworked.
The people who were in the University five years ago were probably wishing that they had the advantages of the ones who came before them. Let's quit eulogizing the past! We ought to be glad to be in the University in this year 1919. It's been a pretty good year after all, now hasn't it?
At the University of Wisconsin they have courses in "Heating and Ventilating Public Buildings" and "The Gasoline Engine." If practical courses are all the rage, the University of Kansas could institute one in "Regulating the Safety Catch of the Fraternity Pin" to a good advantage, especially during the third quarter.
NEW NOVEL CRITICIZES
UNIVERSITY HONOR
The powerful novel "Salt" which has been attracting so much attention lately and which deals with the conditions of University life, contains the following statement. Is it true? "Exactly," Griffith spoke eagerly, "但 if board schools are bad, colleges are worse. I do not quarrel with the immorality that exists at college—though Heaven knows it's bad enough, nor have I anything to say about the kind of book learning
that is taught there. I leave it to the educators to decide whether Latin should or should not be inculcated into the undergraduate mind. I attack the mental attitude, the code and the point-of-view of the students themselves in our great state colleges and big universities of the West with which I am familiar. In nearly all the institutions cheating in recitation and in examination prevails. The adoption of the honor system such as exists at Princeton and Williams was put up to the student body at St. Cloud when I was a sophomore. It was defeated three to one. Fifty-five per cent of the undergraduates were women; think how many 'co-ads' must have voted against the measure to defeat it. The fraternities foster this loose sense of honor. The club men went up in a body and cast their votes against the proposition. It should be the fraternities, in whose ranks are the men that stand for the sacredness of the given word for honesty and integrity. Yet I was urged and persuaded by the fraternity I joined to break my pledge word to another club; I was told such pledges were constantly broken, and I found it to be the fact. One freshman I knew, who had promised to join another society, was deliberately bothered and when he didn't know what he was doing was initiated into a fraternity. . . . . . . I was taught to lie at boarding school and to regard my pledged word as valueless at college Cheating was practised by everyone I respected and petty thieving was considered an amusing escapade. When it came to accepting a bribe after I graduated, taking what did not be long to me, it never occurred to me that these were repreenshaping things to do. Our universities are making thousand of such loose-principled men year after year and turning them out all over the country."
That "keen date" doesn't look so keen when it starts raining just thirty minutes before the party. The days of the umbrella are past and the taxi has its turn.
SEPARATE LEAGUE AND TREATY
Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, is attempting to have the Senate consider the League of Nations plan separately from the rest of the Peace Treaty on the grounds that it is a distinct plan having no direct bearing on the rest of the peace terms. He also contends that the President was arbitrary and wrong in incorporating the League into the Peace Treaty.
The two plans may have been distinct from each other originally but they are at present so tightly bound together that it would be impossible to separate them. Having in mind a closer union of the Allies, the delegates to the Peace Conference framed the League of Nations plan first. Then, with this as a foundation, the Peace Terms were formulated. To attempt to separate the League from the rest of the treaty would be like trying to remove the foundation from under a building. It would not be accomplished without destroying the whole structure.
Most of the opposition to the League arises from the fear of foreign entanglements as manifested by the desire of many Americans to have their country keep aloof from the politics of the rest of the world. However, we forwelfare our right to isolation when we entered the world war so we must now concern ourselves with world politics as embodied in the League of Nations plan.
Readable Verse
THE MATING CALL OF SPRING
The book stores are unloading their winter supply of pennants and novelties on the frush who in turn gladdens the heart of the high school stude who is just ready to graduate. Yes, pennants are going out—of Lawrence.
Wouldn't it be real sport for a S. A. T. C. man to get to paddle an overseas veteran for disobeying freshmen traditions? Such may happen next fall at K. U.
Do you feel above the world's tumult and strife? - It's the Spring!
Men!
Are you all a quiver with pulsating life?—It's the Spring.
Does your face just tingle
Because you're young and single?
Do you want to make each pretty girl
your wife? - It's the Spring!
Are words like "Dearest" with you
not to alim? "It's the Spring!
Do you long to use your arms and then your lips?" It's the Spring! To each girl do you say, "Be mine! I love you May?"
you find it hard to keep yourself in grip?—It's the Spring!
Girls!
Do you want to flirt with every man you meet? - It's the Spring!
Do you want to kiss them—all the friends you greet? 7- It's the snow.
Could you fall in love with any man at all?—it's the Spring!
Does your heart just sing and throb? Do you want to laugh and sob? Do you want to cry?
ve you dreamt a dream of youthful love so sweet?—It's the Spring!
you like to raise Yooh's Spet; then tell them fall?—It's the singing! Let them fall! Your blood's alarm. Your blood's just young and warm! And you're saying to the mating
Campus Opinion
call of Spring!-Norma Noe Knight, From The Miami Student.
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Editor Daily Kansan:—
The group requirements of the Kansas University whereby at the close of the sophomore year the student must have completed at least eight groups of courses offered, may have a few disadvantages, but I believe the advantages far outweigh them, both in number and value.
Before the end of the sophomore year, every few college students have decided definitely upon their major. To avoid this, the majority to be required to select their subjects from a wide range of courses, not only to give them a broader education, but to give them the opportunity to be the major in which they are best fitted.
In filling my group requirements, I selected a few subjects that I probably never would have chosen, had this system not been in vogue. One of these I have chosen as my major, and the others, apparently of no practical value at the time, have proven very beneficial in my later work.
One could never estimate the value that this system has been to me since it has changed by career entirely, and wroodened by view of life immensely.
I have talked with other students, and find that this attitude is taken by the greatest number. Some of them fail to see the advantage in their college life, but realize it soon afterwards, and usually wish the requirements were carried out even further.
Also the requirement of junior and senior work that not more than twelve hours of your major group can be taken at one time, is a wise scheme. This will cause you to spend a good share of your time to other fields of work, so at all else of your college for which you will have a liberal education which the degree of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences stands.
Twelve years ago there was no bannoworthy of the name at K.U. The bandsmans had no uniforms, no instruments and no equipment of any kind. Director McCanles took charge and at the present time our band ranks as one of the three best college bands in the whole country, the University of Illinois and the University of Florida contain mining operations that track mineralization. All the bandsmans have uniforms now and their instruments are valued at more than $3,000.
In this age the need is for broad minded men and women with a liberal education in fact, as well as in name, as a basis for more specialized work.
director of any ability can be obtained for the low salary now paid so let's pay Mac what he asks and keep him. C. G.
Editor Daily Kansan:-
For twelve years Mr. McCainles has directed the band on a salary of $1,000 a year and sometimes less. Now more time is needed to continue at this price and has resigned. Our teachers of the violin and of the piano receive from $2400 to $3000 a year, yet Mr. McCainles has been responsibleasks for directing the whole band.
H. S.
Mr. McCanales is a graduate of this University, he is personally very popular with both the band and the audience. You can see that he has made the band a success. No
Regardless of what your idea is of a suitable memorial for the University, it is interesting to note that some nearby school has adopted practically every one of the ideas suggested for K. U.
Names are the first things we get when we come into the world. Everybody has one. Considering this, it is important to make the greatest humboldt about them.
NAMES
We think our own names the best that has been devised since the system of naming was started. For example, we have beer, with exactly the same title.
The first time our name appears it is print an occasion long to be rememored. We look and gaze in raptures. Whether it is as guests at a banquet, under-secretary of some minor office or as a criminal, it causes a peculiar thrill, which can never again be duplicated.
Our greatest ambition is to see our name live in history for some great deed done by us, though whether it is for the sake of the deed or just to see our name before the world is a matter for debate.
Then there are the “pet” names—the name our mother has for us, or our pals, or our school-mates, or best of all perhaps, our best girl. These are the names we remember best long after they have gone out of use.
After all, a name is the best thing we get in life. We have it at the very start, and it is up to us to make it mean something—either big or little. And when we quit this life, it is the time we leave behind—The Michigan Daily.
HE JOINS A FRAT
I have joined at frat. I won't tell you the name; it would be Greek to you. It's great. I have thirty brothers who will stick by me through thick and thin. Which I bet they don't.
It takes about thirty to make a frat. It is something of an economic proposition. Every college fraternity was founded on the theory that thirty men were rented in the house was rented which would accommodate thirty. Then the thirty became an absolute necessity and the fraternity started out frantically to find twenty-seven others to help pay for seven-white elephant house built for thirty.
I got in on one of the subsequent seven-seven. I am a rent payer and they pay me.
We all use the same safety razor, shirts, collars, and socks. We have a common socialistic haberdashery. I see a lot of chance for parasitism, and secretly I think I shall hide my trunk key.
The frat meets once a week. These meetings are of a more or less sacred nature. We have a lot of ritualistic work and burn alcohol and ask students to drink, for example, of such subjects as: how late at night shall brother Hawley play the piano, or is such and such a fellow "our kind," or how much profanity shall be permitted in the dining room, or how often grace be said and who shall
The whole proceeding is tinted with a strong feeling of brotherly
Then we sing the fraternity song, which is the worst thing in the way of national music that was ever written.
Sometimes on Saturday evening we wax the floors, sweep all the dirt into the closets, press our clothes and have a dance. If it were not for these dances it would be too hard to get the house to get all caked up, I don't see. Too many hens.
I like my fraternity and I think it will do me a lot of good. It will teach me how to get along with the human race. Yours.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
From The Rocky Mountain Colle-
genian.
Aunt Elva rushed into the house, hysterical.
"I've lost my hearing!" she shouted.
"You have?!" he frightened slightly,
"I didn't see you."
"See that man out there playing that hand-organ? Well, I can hear a
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If there should be another flood,
For refuze hither fly;
This book would still be dry.— The Simpsonian.
Though all the world should be submerged.
The most polite man in the world has been found. When a woman apologized for gouging him in the eye with a parasol he said: "Don't mention it, damam; I have another one."—
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