MAY 15,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the University of Kansas; to go further than merely print the news he needs, he ideals the versatility lend to his newspaper; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to serve; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1919.
THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and Friday; warmer in northeast portion tonight.
TRUE SELF-GOVERNMENT
Do students really desire self-government, or are they merely desirous of having the name of governing themselves?
During the last year, probably there has been no other subject that has been discussed as much as student government. The opinion has been almost unanimously in favor of it in the University. The honor system is certainly one of the biggest steps toward the realization of this end that has been taken at K. U. It represents self-government of the students in all matters of cheating and dishonest work.
It is hoped, of course, that no student will sign a pledge and then deliberately break that pledge by cheating. However, the world is not perfect yet, and K. U. is no exception to the general rule. There will be students under this new system who will cheat. Heretofore, it has been up to the professor to take care of these offenders. If the honor system is adopted, the students will have this responsibility.
Yet, now, the very students who are most anxious for student government, are objecting to the clause in the plan for the honor system, which says that every student must not only pledge himself to abide by the honor system, but to report all students whom he knows are doing dishonest work in quizzes.
No one thought any less of the professor under the present system for reporting dishonest work and thus protecting the rest of the class. In fact, it would be apoor professor who would not perform this duty which now rests upon him.
If the honor system is adopted, however, it will be up to the students to assume this duty. If he is not ready to do this, he is not ready for student government. It is not a question of playing detective or sneak. It is merely a matter of protecting the rest of the class from dishonesty of a very small per cent of students.
Every student must realize that the honor system, as well as every other form of student government, requires the student to take an added responsibility. We must realize this when we vote for it, but let's show by our vote that we are willing to assume some responsibilities, which may not be pleasant, for the good of the school and to show that we are capable of student government.
Where are the Red Vigils? They must have yelled "King's Ex" when the recent trial started.
PROSPECTS FOR NEXT YEAR
The Tide is out. It is coming back. The War, the great under-mining factor in college spirit, with the aid of the influenza in the year of 1918, carried college spirit to the lowest ebb of its existence. The year of 1917 was spiritless enough, but with the advent of the S. A. T. C. and of the terrible influenza in 1918, the University went dead—flat dead.
Men had other things to think about. Grim battle was staring them in the face, and the University and its life went out of their lives. They thought only of learning to fight, and perhaps to kill. Then the armistice and the awful reaction.
The University opened December 31, with an attempt at rejuvenated spirit—very weakly at first, but with a gradual return of strength. Student activities began to flourish. But it takes more than a mere handful of students to bring back a revived spirit. It takes a game that will send the blood coursing through the veins. It takes thousands upon thousands in the stands to give that old Rock Chalk that has made Kansas so famous.
That is why K. U. spirit cannot and will not be revived until next fall. It takes more than a basketball game, a track meet, or a baseball game. Football—the game that makes you have the pep, the spirit, the fight—that is what starts every school year off on the right track. With such a start spirit never dies out. It keeps going, even into the warm spring months, when the lazy days are not inductive to much pep.
So let us not be discouraged with the poor showing of spirit so early in the return of normal college life. We have just had time to adjust ourselves. By next fall we will be back. Our boys from across the way will be back. It is predicted that four thousand students will enroll. If this is so, then no one will have any reason to criticize old Kansas.
WOMEN ARE ALLOWED
Many University women are enthusiastic baseball fans, but are staying away from the Varsity games simply because so few other women attend. It's something that just isn't being alone, apparently, and all the women who enjoy baseball are waiting for such other to lead the march to McCook.
There is no reason why women should not support baseball as well as they do football and basketball. Hundreds of women take in the football games, and those who follow baseball ardently should certainly make the most of their, inilenable right to watch the games. The intra-mural and hash-house games would also be greatly improved if supported by a crowd of women spectators.
It is surely correct and conventional for women to watch baseball in this enlightened era. When the Aggies are here next week, all the women fans should attend en masse. Then none of them will notice the absence of the others. It's a fine way to help University spirit and support athletics.
Apropos of Irvin Cobb's small-town hotel with "hot and running cook-roaches" on every floor, let it be known that there are sorority homes on Mount Oread with wear-ever, heavytread mice in every wastebaset.
After workmen get done mowing the dandelions on the campus, the seed should be carefully rolled into the ground. This will insure a sturdy growth that will fit in well with the University's landscape gardening project.
Almost everyone can talk and some people can even say something.
The ballad which follows appears in Denx Mots, a periodical published by American students in the University of Clermont-Ferrond;
And yet I cannot put from me
A thought of Mary 'oer the sea
OH, MARY, BE CAREFUL!
And yet I have a hunch that then, I'll think of Madelon again.
When Madelon, with eyes so bright,
Doth gaze upon me lovingly.
But when I strike that Swanee shore
I know I'll see awaiting there.
My true love, Mary, evermore. The very fairest of the fair.
Perhaps many of our own heroes have not been back long enough to reminisce extensively on Madelon, but from their facial expressions and general bearing, one may safely assert that the odds are on Mary, for the time being at least.
ARE YOU LETTING DOWN?
It seems to me the summer night Is never half so fair as she.
According to literature recently circulated by the War Department, people of the United States are urged to guard against a "back fire" as a result of the war. It says every other war has brought about such a result and an extra effort will have to be put forth to prevent the action at this time.
That such a condition as a "back fire" or a reaction may occur seems only reasonable when we consider the facts. Men who have been leading a most active and exciting life are suddenly relieved of this responsibility by being discharged from the army, navy, or marine corps. Industries that have been running full blast night and day can now reduce their efforts to normal. Practically the entire population now being devoid of a patriotic stimulus has let down in its work Certainly the prospect would point to just such a reaction as the war department mentions.
Because of this simple, cold theory every loyal citizen should see to it that he does all in his power to aid his government in this, a post-war effort.
The R. O. T. C. on the Hill should make good their opportunity to enroll men now. If the papers are taken as the "positive truth," argument can be made strong that another war will be waged soon.
With no returning troops or interesting court proceedings, this week has presented nothing more attractive than the opportunity to catch up with one's work.
Readable Verse
"Wait till I get into business; then I'll do something." The college student who expresses this sentiment is overlooking the fact that he is at present engaged in one of the biggest businesses in his life. Surely the foundation for the success and happiness of life is a business important enough to be worth the work of "doing something." As to monetary value alone, a college education has been estimated to be worth $20,000.
"I don't believe in makin' such exertions after pleasure. I don't believe in chasin' of her up." Says I, "Let her come of her own free will." Says J, "You can can't eat me, but you can fetch a shower up in a drewth, by goin' out doors, and runnin' after a cloud up in the heavens above you. Sit down, and be patient, and when it gets ready the refreshin' raindrops will begin to fall just so with Pleasure, Josiah Allen: you may chase her up all over the oceans and big mountains of the world, but she'll keep ahead of you all the time; but set down, and not fatigue you in vain, but sink about in the water, and not she we care right into your house unbeknown to you"—From "Josiah Allen's Wife."
STAND BY YOUR SCHOOL
ON CHASING PLEASURE
If you're used to giving knocks, Change your style;
Throw boquets instead of rocks,
For awhile;
If you think your school's the best,
Tell 'em so!
It won't land the rest,
Help it grow.
When there's anything to do,
Let the others count on you.
You'll feel bully when it's through.
Let the other person roast,
Shum him as you would a ghost,
Meet his hammer with a boast,
And smile.
We belong.—Exchange.
when a stranger from afar
Come
Tell him who and what we are—
Make it strong.
Needn't flatter, never bluff,
Tell the truth, for that's enough;
Join the crowd, that's the stut
behavior being exhibited.
Campus Opinion
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Editor Daily Kansan:-
Any cleverly written article severely criticising an institution will attract wide attention, and of course one is not surprised over the comment aroused by a recent writen in the Kansas City Star of the Missouri-Kansas track meet, presumably a news article, but containing a large amount of editorial matter. There is no doubt that most people love athletics, but for one I do not believe the clever Star correspondent hit the right place.
The correspondent blamed the K. U. social activities for the lack of interest of the men in the team and for the pepless attitude of the crowd. To him, it was not like the "good old meets." But the reason was not because of the uppermost importance of the university. The University of Kansas indulges in no more social recreation than any other institution of equal size and standing, and still other schools manage to put out pretty good athletic organizations. Regardless of the opinion of certain of the uninformed, life at the University is in no sense a riot of frivolity. No doubt the Missouri track team has been able to conquer the men of Kansas did. The place deserving the criticism, in my opinion, is the athletic department of the University.
Kansas has not had a winning track team for a long time. Neither has it had a winning basketball team, or a winning baseball nine. It does not have a winning golf tournament to get all the good material, or that social affairs at other institutions are more restricted. The difference obviously seems to lie in the training methods, because as soon as a school wins an academic athletic events will draw support.
It is hard to tell just where the blame should be placed, but the athletic department should try to find it. Kansas has a dearth of conches, the awarding of letters and sweaters was deferred for an inexcessively long term; only halfway interested, and as a result the student body is uninterested.
Criticism of the department is not as easy as criticism of the student body at large, but improvement in the department will gain more results than criticism of conditions that existed in the "good old days" as well as in the present, and exist at schools who put out good athletic organizations. Athletic spirit works both with interest and support and interest and support of the students at large make good teams out of otherwise medicine material; but the place where such interest is started is the training field, and satisfactory conditions connected with the training field.
DOING
Another Fan.
When you have a thing to do, you will do it right in proportion to your love of right. But do the right, and you will love the right; for by doing it you will see it in a measure as it is and no one can see the truth as it is without loving it. The more you talk about what is right, or even about the doing of it, the more you are in danger of exemplifying how loosely theory may be allied to practice. Talk with someone who signs the key will. What you have to do is waiting undone all the time, and getting more and more undone. The only refuge is to do—George Macdonald in S. C. Monitor.
Mr. William Huber Jr., of Hamilton, Ohio, has recently given the University of Chicago his entire library, consisting chiefly of music. The collection of twenty-two thousand selves in this library is probably the University and will probably be unpacked and placed on the library shelves within the next six months.
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