MAY 13. 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY. MAY 13. 1919
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; probable showers in southern portion.
The University of Kansas is going to have a chance in the near future to vote on whether or not it wants an honor system. The Senate is to vote Wednesday on the plan that has been submitted to them by the joint committee of men and women electe from the student body at large.
The final decision, however, will rest with the student body, and it is up to them to either accept or reject this plan. Before these students are capable to vote on the matter, they should have investigated the way the honor system has worked in other Universities. The plan should not be accepted or rejected on the basis of personal prejudice, but on its workability, as demonstrated in other institutions
The joint committee has corresponded with over fifty colleges and Universities where the honor system is in operation, and has selected what it considers the best phase of each plan. If this plan is accepted by the students of the University, it will be adopted before the end of this semester.
Is K. U. big enough to support a movement like the honor system1 Certainly this is one of the largest steps toward student government that has been taken this year, if students are permitted to govern all dishonesty or cheating that occurs in their midst. The movement is an important one, however, and students should understand the dangers as well as the great benefits, before deciding to start an honor system at K.U.
There will be a convocation soon at which the plan will be explained for the benefit of the students. The Daily Kansan will have articles from time to time, telling how the honor system works at other institutions.
It is the duty of every loyal K.U. student to learn all that he can about the honor system, so that his vote in favor or against it will be an intelligent decision.
The rainy weather is the only thing that keeps our campus cutters on the walks.
DO WE DESERVE IT?
What K. U. student, having the interest of his Alma Mater at heart, did not experience a strangely humiliating sensation gripping him when he read J. L. L.'s, article in The Star Sunday morning? Every sentence of it stung because it sounded remorselessly true.
When the press of a great city gives time and space to internal matters of a University, then about time that University wakes up. Than
paper did not "blame the Jayhawker track man for breaking training, or not having any, if that's the average reception their student body gives them." Neither did it hesitate about giving "Old K. U." a perfect standing in the "Social League."
The writer is unmistakely a for mer K. U. man. Though the article is written with a tinge of bravado, nevertheless the reader of it instinctively feels that it was written with regret, and at a time when the writer had vision of a K. U. of old-visions of a K. U. that once overflowed with that immortal vivacity known as K. U. Spirit.
Surely, there must be something wrong when an outlier, after a two hours' visit to a track meet, can go back to the city and publish an article on the Sporting Page in which he gives the sport readers interesting pointers on K.U.'s standing in the "Social League" as well as pointers on its dates.
This article, coming on top of "Dad" Elliott's insinuating talks, is a matter the students should take seriously—seriously, because the sporting column of a city newspaper, having a circulation of a quarter-million, is making sport of the social affairs of our university!
This, obviously, is of such importance that K.U. cannot afford to pass drowsily over during this drowsy spring weather. It is a matter which concerns the very vitals of our AlmMater, and we shall all be unworthy of her in the event we fail to redeem her.
It comes to this: Our University is branded as being spiritless, and as having the dance and date craze, and so such an extent that a two-hour hsis, it writes a PRETTY INTERESTING ARTICLE about it. The Kansan, as the University's organ, should start something. And the Chancellor, as its head, should call a general convaction for the purpose of determining whether or not we deserve this sort of publicity.
A. J. Granoff.
Honorary war emblems can be purchased very easily in most large cities but the citation papers which go with them are hard to obtain.
START SOMETHING
FRESHMEN
Exclusive class parties have been noticeable absent from the social activities of the University this year. The upper classes have been afraid to hold them because of the few men in the classes. The freshmen class now is considering giving a dance. Why not make it a party for freshman only?
Here is a chance for the freshman class to set a precedent which probably would be followed by the other classes next year. This year there are enough members of the class to make a dance for the freshman class only pay expenses. Many freshmen would go to their exclusive class party who would not if it were merely a Varsity dance concealed under the name of freshman class.
Such a party would do much to add unity and spirit to the class. Freshmen would meet freshmen in a social way as the members of the same class. A general equality gained by being members of the same class would add pleasure to the party. An exclusive freshman party is a chance for respleneer work by the freshman class this year.
Directors of the summer session have the right idea when they plan to use local talent for entertainment of the students. This will give the students the chance to learn what their schoolmates and instructors can do in a public way, and is what students in winter sessions have been wanting largely when they ask for regular convocations once a week or every two weeks.
Perhaps the students would turn out better if dances could be held and the track events run in between dances.
Readable Verse
The day was dark, the pathway rough
And clouds o'respread the sky,
But aray of light dispelled the gloom
For you amplied as you mashed by.
YOUR SMILE
Sad was my heart; my hope had fled,
Despair was how ring nigh;
Sorely was no need.
But my heart grew light and hope returned
When you smiled as you passed by.
I caught your smile, your cherry smile
smile.
It bid me grin and try.
I did the task I'd failed to do.
Till you smiled as you passed by.
Just a friendly smile or a cheery wort. May still on the lips the sigh Of a weary soul on life's long road, Ah! you smiled as you passed by--
Memorial Comment
Editor Daily Kansan:—
The question of a Student Council building as a memorial has been approached from nearly every angle. Yet, I don't believe that sufficient emphasis has been laid on the benefits such a building would bring to those men and women students who are not so fortunate as to belong to the fraternities and the sororites. These students, comprising two-thirds of the student body, seem to have been overlooked when the fine buildings and the social centers were erected. If these students ever expect to have a building in which to hold their meetings and have social good times, they ought to start agitating for such a building now. We can get along without a new stadium for a while longer at least, but there is absolutely no substitute at present for a Student Union building.
Did you ever stop to consider what a great number of needs such a building would fill? A well-built Commons like that at the University of Michigan which, by the way, is one of the most popular and beautiful of the buildings there, provides? 1. A cafeteria where food, well-cooked by experts, is furnished to the students at cost. 2. A dormitory with well lighted and well furnished rooms which are also rented to the students at actual cost. 3. Large reading and writing rooms open to all the students at all times, and, 4. Best of all, a meeting place where students can meet to talk over and discuss the various phases of student life. Contractors say that such a building can be erected at present for $200,000.
Our soldiers fought to make the world safe for democracy. Wouldn't the most fitting memorial to them be a building, such as a Commons, which would be of the greatest benefit to the greatest number of students?
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Campus Opinion
Junior
The Kansas City Star had a special correspondent at the Missouri-Kansas dual meet. He was a K.U. graduate of '13. This grad had heard of the lack of spirit and the failure of the school to support athletics. He came down to find the reason. He found that the school did not support track but did not find the reason. He found the reason for the loss of the meet to the Tigers in one word which is the bie word in track—condition.
Editor Daily Kansan:—
It is a known fact that our athletes do little real training with few exceptions. It is bad publicity to have stories of our athletes smoking cigarettes between races and ruining their chances by dancing late. However, it is the truth that hurts and something should be done to change conditions here. He had blunt spoke the truth he bought in. School's school man exaggerated. Now we have the same truth from an experienced sport writer.
In his story in the Star, (and every KU. man and woman should read it) he criticises the Kansas track stars for being at the Soph Hop and being out until the woe hours of the morning. He again says he does not blame the athletes for not training if the students will not support track better than they did the Saturday meet. Are the students totally to blame? The institution should make the students. KU. is wrong somewhere.
The writer feels that K. U. would have won the Missouri meet here Saturday had the athletes been trained down to the fine point Schulte keeps his men. Why do the students ask for a stadium and then give their teams such receptions as has been the case heretofore.
A Fan.
K. U. spirit is slowly coming back and we can look for a good peppery school next fall if advance indications are to be considered. In the recent track meet, the meet paid for itself which shows that athletics are coming back strong. In the basket ball tourney this spring the gate receipts pay for the tourney. These events are usually losers here.
Editor Daily Kansan:—
The students got up a fund to pay for the defense of Shaw and Hopfer in their trial. All of these things go to show that K.U. is coming back as well as the boys.
Fan
A COLLEGE EDUCATION
Only one percent of American men are college graduates, but this one per cent has furnished 55 per cent of the presidents of the United States, three per cent of all congressmen, 47 per cent of the speakers of the House, 54 per cent of the secretaries of the treasury, 67 per cent of the auditors and one per cent of the justices of the United States Supreme Court.
These figures are contained in a bulletin recently issued by the bureau of education of the United States department of the interior.
D. Arthur Holmes, dean of the faculty of Pennsylvania State College, asserts a college education is worth $20,000 to the average man<sub>m</sub>. He reaches these figures by comparing the average yearly income of the college graduate, $1187, and the average yearly income of the man without college education, which is $650. Leaves a difference of $630 yearly for the college man.
The average college man is 22 years old at the time of graduation. He has an expectancy of 30 years, which at $650 a year means a total profit to him of $19,500 as a result of his college education — Ohio State Lantern.
Mental Lapses
AFTER THE WHIPPING
"I punished you merely to show my love for you," said the fond father after the chastisement.
"T-That's all right," sobbed the small boy, "but it'a g-g-wgood thing for you i ain't b-b big enough to reach my love, 'that's all'—Dallas News
A little girl was rather given to exaggerating, and would tell wild stories of her adventures. One day after her walk in the park she ran to her mother, exclaiming: "Oh, mummy, as nurse, and I were walking in the park a great bunch sprink out and wound me down if nurse had not pulled me aside!"
"You naughty child," said the mother. "Go to your room and ask your good angel to forgive you for telling such a naughty story about the lion." Half an hour later her mother went up and found her looking very penitent.
"Yes, mummy," was the reply; "I did ask, and he said, 'Don't mention it, Miss Snythe; I've often mistaken those big yellow poodles for lions myself."—London Opinion.
"Well," she said, "have you asked your good angel to forgive you?"
Questions to right of me,
Questions to left of me,
Questions in front of me,
Written and thundered.
Stormed at with "why" and "tell"
But in the death of,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode mw 100.
QUIZ WEEK
The Beamans had just, had their first quarrel, and the bride sobbed softly to herself as the male brute whistled the air of a popular tune.
A WASTE OF TIME
"Don't you think," asked the fair young thing plantively, "that a husband should occasionally tell his wife that she's beautiful?"
"No!" replied the soulless beast.
"It's wholly superfluous! If she is beautiful she knows she is, and if she isn't beautiful she thinks she is."—Country Gentleman.
Is there a loose brick in your foundation?
You are the foundation of your future life. If you know of a weak spot in your character, correct it now. As a loose brick in a structure will cause more loose bricks and finally cause the whole to topple down, bad habits if not corrected now, will weaken our future life—Manualite.
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