MAY 8, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Official student paper of the University
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate, to go to gownier than merely printing the news that he is holding, to hold a student body, to play no favorities; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be friendly; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919.
THE WEATHER
Showers tonight and Thursday; warmer in Eastern portion.
HOORAY! NO EXAMS
Notwithstanding the fact that the rule passed the Senate allowing seniors who are making A and B grades to be exempt from final examinations, there is much opposition in the faculty to the custom, as some members of the faculty say that seniors let up in their work during the last of the year, when they know that they do not have to take examinations. Some of the professors also contend that in their lecture courses, it is very difficult to determine just which students are doing A and B work until after the final quizzes.
There is probably some ground for these objections. It now remains with this year's seniors to prove that they are willing to do good work, even though they do not have the finals to spur them on. If the seniors this year take advantage of this rule by slumping in their work, it is an almost decided fact that next year's seniors will not have the privilege that the present ones now have. Therefore, for the benefit of the seniors-to-be, you A and B graduates of 1919, postpone your spring fever until June 17.
The University has gone back to the old plan of having final quizzes extend over a whole week. At first thought the student groans at the idea of an entire week spent in cramming, but when he remembers the mental agony caused during the last two quiz weeks when he was trying to study for three or four courses in the same night, he looks gratefully to the Senate for this last ruling.
According to Professor Ise's theory of taxing students the only one who benefits from his college career is the A student.
THE ENGINEERS BALK
The senior engineers object to wearing their caps and gowns at commencement. Are they not just a little inconsistent in their likes and dislikes? No one has been any more active in their idea that the freshmen men should wear their caps as a distinguishing mark of their class than the engineers. They have gone to great length to name the advantages of upholding class traditions and customs, and now when one of these customs interferes with their personal happiness, they advocate doing away with the custom. Their attitude toward the freshman cap would be much more consistent if they, themselves, were willing to uphold the old traditions of the school at commencement time.
THE CUTTING HABIT
The warm spring days have come and most of us have the spring fever, more or less. It manifests itself in that lazy, restless, don't-care feeling, that constant urging within you to forget all about books, profs, library dates and get away and just forget everything for a while.
We are just well started on our last quarter of this year, a year that has had a very checkered career. It will seem like a very long quarter for it will extend till the middle of June, and the days are going to be still warmer and the ice cream parlor still more attractive in spite of the new war tax. You will then regret the euts you are taking now, facing a deficit in grades. Beware of the cutting habit!
What we liked about "Dad" Elliott was the fact that he didn't try to camouflage the truth. We didn't always agreed with him, perhaps, but we did like his frankness and his fairness.
With this spring fever there also comes the cutting habit which grows on you slowly and unconsciously at first, but finally becomes so attractive that you cannot shake it off.
This is a day when we do like to cover up the truth with statements like, "It isn't nearly as bad as many people think it is." Such camouflage-aging as this is sure to have disastrous results and we are going to find it out sooner or later. "Dad" cannot be with us all the time, but you could certainly appreciate the truth of his statements while he was here.
NO CAMOUFLAGE NEEDED
Let us not forget the inspiration that he left with us. "We cannot evade the truth."
From the looks of the gate receipts in the recent track meet and basketball tourney the boys are not the only things that are coming back. K. U. athletic spirit is coming back with the boys.
Readable Verse
BALLADE OF LACK OF TIME By Cuthbert Collins
There is a store of little scraps of things
Hid in dim, cobwebbed aisles within my head—
A dusty pile of half-rememberings,
the doubloons and the silks of books
Most precious goods well wrought by men long dead,
Or follows who still struggle with life's skein.
The all should be ranged neatly there, instead
A dusty treasure chest lies in my brain.
Here is jeweled token Homer brings,
and there a ruby phrase of Wilde
glows red;
In the far corner, glints of seabird's
wings
Which Conrad garnered as a slim
craft sped;
A bright, keen diamond word which
Johnson said,
Sweet, perfumed tapestries from old
Montaigne—
The cloths are faded and the gems
lack thread;
A dusty treasure-chest lies in my
brain.
There are the silver sounds of silver
strings
Which Swinburne's ringing touch to
music led;
There glimmer Dumas' heavy signet
tie
The thoughts which flamed through
Henley's hours of dread;
The great ideals for which men
lived and bled;
Odd pieces of great joy and bitter
pain.
Mixed with the cheer upon which
smiles are fed—
A dusty treasure-chest lies in my
A dusty treasure-chest lies in my brain.
L'envoi
Heigh ho! These things are in disorder spread;
But some day I will sort them out again;
Meanwhile, as I have got to earn my bread.
A dusty treasure-chest lies in m. brain.-The Literary Digest.
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