UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MAY 12. 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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The Daily Kansan aims to pique the interest of students at the University of Kansas; to groom them than merely printing the news in the school newspaper; to versify holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be attentive; to have serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, MAY 12, 1919
THE WEATHER
WHY SCORN THE CAP AND GOWN?
Usettled tonight and Tuesday; probable showers in east and central portion; somewhat warmer in east and central portion.
The turning down by the University Senate of the petition of the senior class that members of the faculty wear caps and gowns for commencement exercises is one of the many expressions of the commercialization of the University. Our great universities in the middle West are being changed from institutions of higher learning to corporations turning out men and women who can make great amounts of money, be social leaders, or be good mixers.
Caps and gowns are emblematical of real college learning. We cast them aside. Soon, if the present tendency is continued, the proverbial college professor will not be dressed in cap and gown but in the cold grey of business or the black broadcloth of society. How far shall we let this movement go?
College education is giving away to college training. To achieve the highest success in business, to gain power over other people, or to be looked upon as the society leader are now the motives of a college education. To learn to enjoy the natural world, to love books, to appreciate art, to learn the real inner life of your fellows, and to make life most joyous for yourself, are but history to the middle Western colleges.
Languages are studied to sell merchandise to foreign countries, rather than to read the famous old classics. We study science in order to make trains run faster and not to search out its mysteries for science's sake. Business law takes the place of Shakespeare. Poetry gives way to light magazine stories.
While training in college to com bat with the world an ability to get the most pleasure out of life should be learned. An equal mixture of education should be had with the training
Kansas towns are missing an opportunity. So far none of them have passed a city ordinance to the effect that no woman shall fall into the arms of more than one soldier on each train going through the town, unless he is related to her.
IT'S EASY TO CRITICIZE
At a time when criticism of the work of the Y.M.C.A. overseas seems to be the order, it would be well for every fair minded person to ask the question of the men who have been in service themselves, just what would the soldiers have done in training and in the trenches without the "Y" at all. Many of the critics of the Assoc-
ation do not seem to consider the wonderful work of the Y.M.C.A. in keeping up the morale of the men, but apparently take for granted that the work should have been perfect, and consequently lay stress on the imperfections which in every large organization are bound to exist.
The Y.M.C.A. lays no claim to perfection. Some of the evils did exist. It is only natural that they should in an abnormal time of great emergency when the call of service for practically every man was so urgent that the Y had difficulty in choosing its secretaries. But any fair minded soldier will say that the imperfections were far in the minority, and that in most cases criticism should be directed at every activity incidental to the great war, even to the Army itself, just as criticism is being directed at the Army.
It should be borne in mind that in its own defense the Y.M.C.A. is defenseless. Every word it says in answering the charges directed against it will be construed as hypocritical by its attackers. The best and fairest means of defense the Association can have will be from the soldiers, sailors, and marines themselves.
In this defense all prejudice should be laid aside, and ill feeling that the artificialities of the service cause. The proposition should be considered open mindedly and frankly and then the question asked again. What would the boys have done without the Y. M. C. A.?
With the price of hair cuts steadily increasing, the hairless optimist is wondering if bald heads will be so unpopular in a few years after all.
FIVE RULES FOR CLASS
ROOM ETIGUETTE
1. Always make it a special point to come into a class at least ten minutes late. By doing this you will attract the attention of the professor who will soon learn to know you by your time of arrival.
2. Whenever possible, engage in a violent argument with your instructor over some trivial matter. It does not matter whether he is in the wrong or not as he will enjoy being corrected and your grades will benefit thereby.
3. It is usually a very poor policy to pay attention to what the instructor is saying. Much more benefit can be derived from social conversation with the student sitting next you.
4. Keep the vacant seat in front of you in constant motion during the recitation period. The sound thus produced is very soothing and agreeable to the nerves of the class and tends to lessen the monotony of the occasion.
5. At the close of the hour never spend less than ten minutes in conference with instructor over some matter not connected with the lesson. He won't mind being made late for his next class and you will soon become a great favorite of his.
- Negro is the only name of a race that is not commonly begun with a capital. Why not capitalize Negro and lower case German?
A year ago the University was reading headlines like this: "Nerves of Submarines Lie in Conning Tower, Writes Former Teacher." "Crowd of 2000 People Make Farewell Parade For Departing Soldiers." "Soft Leather Wanted for Aviators' Jackets" "Heard at Food Lecture," "The War —Here and Over There." "Red Cross Auction Will be Held."
An army man wonders how Commanding Officers like to have the letters C, O. also stand for conscientious objector.
THEN AND NOW
And now they go like "Five Hundred Veterans Paraded on Masa-suchetsus Street Today," "Dough-boys Will Attend Sophomore Hop," "Hopfer-Shaw Trial Postponed," "Pan-hellenic Pitchers Work Hard," an' everything just as great as it was before the war, only a lot greater. Oh, Boy!
The Muse Rampant
Ventures in Original Verse
The soda fountain art
Works of
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His pale orange
And creamy brown
Grip right
Onto your heart.
And rival all
The beauties
Of any great sunset.
And better because
No human
Has eaten a sunset
Yet.
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Memorial Comment
Editor of the Daily Kansan:-
I have been surprised at the frequent statements in the Kansan of the attitude of the Board of Alumni Visitors as being in favor of a stadium for the University memorial. When the subject was discussed at their meeting, the members seemed to think very seriously of another plan; and in my hearing only one of them mentioned a stadium.
But the following assertion, clipped from the Kansan of May 6 is so misleading that I feel that a correction is imperative:
It is quite possible, however, that a reporter for the Kansan got such a statement from them as individuals at sometime when I was not present.
"The committee of visiting alumni, representatives of the body who will furnish most of the money for the erection of a memorial, and who therefore should have the final decision about this proposition, reported favorably on a stadium at the same time that the senate committee first met to consider the same problem. The committee has never seriously considered a stadium, although both the majority of the student body and the alumni are in favor of it."
The Board of Alumni Visitors makes no report until the annual meeting of the Alumni Association in June, and until that report is accepted by the Association the Board cannot be considered as voicing the sentiment of the body of alumni. As a matter of fact no one of the returned questionnaires that has come into the alumni office unequivocally favors the sta-
Agnes Thompson, Alumni Secretary.
Campus Opinion
All communications to this column must be signed by the writer as evidence. Since the since date, the name of the author will be the author specific. Communications are welcome.
A few days ago one of the University men interested in University affairs came to me and said, "In your recent meeting entitled 'Need for Reform in University Athletics,' you included the subject of gambling. It seems to me you should not have done this, as gambling is not limited to athletics, and from that standpoint your remarks on gambling under that heading were an injustice to athletics."
"Gambling on athletic contests will kill athletics. The man who gambles on athletic contests is an enemy to athletics, not necessarily consciously but most always unconscionally. Gambling is one of the things that is causing the antagonism gambling createss ward athletics and is at the present time a matter of grave concern for athletes. We know that we permit this basis for antagonism to exist makes us, to that extent, enemies of the athletic system. When a man once knows the effect of gambling upon athletics and continues the practice, it means that he is more concerned about gambling
He is right. The statement in the Kansan, however, was clearly unintentional misquotation. In this talk on athletic reform it was made especially clear that the gambling proposition was not limited to athletics and was not a matter of athletic reform but that it was so closely related with the whole athletic situation, in so far as athletic contests are being used for gambling purposes so frequently, that I felt it the duty of a friend of athletics to explain why that subject. What I did anyway was this, and I gladly repeat it, as one who believes with all his heart in the value of athletics and as one who desires to see it not only maintained but strengthened.
Editor Daily Kansan:—
than he is about athletics. We have had in the past and possibly still have at K. U. a few men who, knowing the antagonism gambling creates against athletics, would still continue the practice even at the expense of the complete ruination of the entire system, but these men can be classed as professional gamblers and certainly are not representatives of the student body. This gambling on athletic contests hurts athletics is beyond question. Gambling on horse racing is an example of the range in some places has killed is completely. We certainly don't want to do that sort of thing with athletics at K. U. either through ignorance or thoughtlessness."
Hugo T. Wedell.
Editor Daily Kansan:—
Under Campus Opinion of last Tuesday's Kanan, appeared an article in regard to "Dad" Elliott's meetings, which came as a surprise to me, and I believe to many others. It came more as a surprise because it was written by one of the most prominent men on the Hill, a man whose opinion would ordinarily be rated more highly than that of the average student.
It is not my purpose to criticize a fellow student, but to correct a wrong impression that might have been formed because of the aforesaid article.
In the first place it seems to me that most of the students felt that "Dad" was telling the truth, and heartily agreed with him in everything he said. Certainly the way the students so readily responded in the last meeting, to give expression of their opinion as to what should be done in K.U., one would imagine such was the case.
The writer also told how Y.M.C.A. men have a habit of painting up conditions in a worse light than they really I arrived that they may start the condition to thinking. That's putting it up pre-strong, indeed: But I believe and I think it is the consen-sus of opinion that "Dad" put over the truth just as he had found it in actual experience. Of course he gave us some of the extremes, but extremes are found in the life of every school, and are the very things that impress us and start us to thinking. It seems that he don't give us enough of the extremes, so speeches apparently failed to make everyone think. If the writer thinks that this is not the kind of appeal that has the maximum effect upon the student body, it behooves him to give Y.M.C.A. speaks a few suggestions. I'm sure they would be welcome.
It would seem strange if all the extremes he presented could be found in K.U., and such could hardly be the case, but it certainly is a wise thing for some one to hold up the danger of poisonous pesticides while blindly over the precipice. I have always, been taught that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
If we ever expect to make K.U. the best school of the middle west, it is our duty to take some of these things seriously, and act upon them.
Harry Stewart
Sermonettes
Written by K. U. Studen and Lawrence Pastors.
One of the grandest of all the teachings of the Bible is the idea of doing towards others as you would have them do towards you—watching the little things which perhaps do not mean much to you but which might cause the other fellow a lot of anguish. The little sneer when his idea happens not to coincide with yours, the thoughtless remark which you make in his hearing or behind his back when he is not there to defend himself. You know that it is not fair to him and you would hate to have him do it to you. Maybe you take an unfair advantage of some of your fellows or do them an injustice which you do not approve of even in your own heart simply because you happen to have the upper hand and feel uncharitable towards them at the moment.
How much more smoothly and cheerfully the world would go its way if we all followed this little teaching which we learned so long ago. Maybe you don't get 'the momentary satisfaction that you get out of giving the enemy a thrust but the lasting and enduring satisfaction comes from ding what you know to be the square thing and the thing which you would wish to be done to you.
Living up to the Golden Rule is the one way to gain happiness and a carefree heart.
A. J. B. "What did you students think of the quizz I gave Monday?" One student. "It was too long, sir." A. J. B. "Compared with what?" Student. "The time."
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