UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 24, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief. Floyd L. Hockenbull
Associate Editor.. Harold R. Hall
News Editor.. Baillie Church
Exchange Editor.. Peter T.
Exchange Editor.. Edgar Hollis
Society Editor.. Belva Shores
Sports Editor.. Charles Slawson
BUSINESS STAFF
Adrian, Manager ... Laurel McNaughton
Aldrich, Mgr ... Ally McNaughton
Greene, Director ... W Hangon
CANSAN BOARD MEMBERS
KANSAN BOARD) SELECTION
Luther Hangen    Mary Samson
Mary Smith       Peter Terry
Emily Ferris    Violet Matthews
Edith Roles      Marjorie Roby
Nadine Blitar    John Montgomery
Jessie Wyatt
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students in the Department of Journalism, from the press of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma for further than merely printing the news by standing for the awakening the University. To be clean, to be cheerful; to be compassionate, to be courageous; to have problems wiser heads; in all, to serve to the university; to identify the students of the University.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1919.
SPIRIT AND SANITY
For the men who heard Uncle Jimmy Green at the Freshman Smoker Thursday night it is hard to believe that class spirit at K. U, has for forty years been waning.
Of the good old days we have heard stirring tales. Cane rushes, class scraps, blanket tossings, black eyes, and such like, but above all, wonderful class spirit. And no one can deny that the good old days brought out real men.
Perhaps K. U. spirit instead of being on the decline is only deeper, and quieter for being deep. We admire the old outbursts of spirit but nevertheless we recognize that they were evil in some respects. The old rahrah college days are past. It is hoped that they are succeeded by something better and more substantial.
However, the present is always prone to remember only the good parts of the past. We cannot let ourselves believe that K. U. spirit is a thing of the past only, especially now when the war has brought out a spirit of help and sacrifice that has never before been equaled in the institution.
To those who favor class spirit that makes itself heard it should be pointed out that the last week has shown sentiment full of life. The best feature of the outbursts is that the students have not lost their heads. The present should be a time of sanity above all and it is to be hoped that a happy medium of sanity together with live demonstrations can be struck. Without spirit the University would be worse than dead, but college spirit must be recognized as something deeper than merely wild outbursts and noisy demonstration.
One example of misplaced ability is the man who argues about the weather and has never tried out for the debating squad.
DREAMS ON OREAD
"Some day," mused the tired student as he assumed a philosophical gaze, "some day there will be rest and quiet for us all.
"Then we shall settle down to the simple duties of our over-burdened courses with only an occasional meeting, say but two or three a week. This system of having to do a full day's work daily outside our classes and then stretching the night for three meetings and a nip of sleep, will be changed.
"We will be able to go along the campus walks unnoticed. No one will stop us and ask questions which disturb the few minutes of thought that
are the only preparation for the day's lessons. In that fair day the telephone will not call us eternally from our work.
"There will be so few meetings that the half-hour's wait for late comers will not be noticeable. Appointments will not prevent study or relaxation. Our professors will be surprised to find we have other knowledge than the customary stalls.
"The Utopian sun will be smiling when that day comes. Our grouch will turn to a grin. But until that day our only enjoyment must be the gleam of light granted in imagining the brightness of that great time."
ROAD ADVERTISEMENTS
One of the worst local advertisements of the University of Kansas is the condition of the roads and driveways on Mount Oread. To a motor car driver who has been mired in the hogs of rural Arkansas, they may hold few terrors, but to the visitor wishing to see and admire the institution they serve as an unpleasant part which will never be forgotten.
The recent snows have only emphasized the conditions which have existed for at least nearly two years. Holes and worn-out places on the surface are now miniature lakes. So much water has collected in the roads that persons on the sidewalks are spattered with mud and water by every passing motor car.
For several months the approach to the University by way of Mississippi Street has been practically impassible for automobiles. The Oread Avenue approach is full of pits and chuckholes,
With the amount of suitable rock for crushing at hand there is no reason why the driveways should be as they are. It is not necessary to have the roads paved or macadamized when a proper use of crushed rock and gravel would serve. An expenditure of a few hundred dollars in constructing curbs and improving roads would be a most profitable investment.
THE FABLE OF THE BENEVO LENT DRUGGIST AND THIRSTY STUDENTS
It was in the quiet part of the business day. In the flourishing drug store and soft drink emporium operated through benign agency of Dr. C. Astor Oile, town druggist of the little college town of Maple Hill, the cash registers had been quiet for full fifteen minutes. No one was within except the worthy doctor and his co-conspirator, John, the jerker. Suddenly a feeble tapping was heard on the door without.
The good doctor hastily opened the door, then staggered back in astonishment. For lying across the threshold, with his tongue hanging out of the corner of his mouth, lay a college student; yea, verily, a thrifty college student. And gasping he thus addressed the Christian Doctor:
"As you love me, fair sir, please part my lips and wet my patched throat with some of that wondrous elixer bednight coca cola."
"Forsooth," quoth the good doctor,
"I will, an ye possess the required amount of the Necessary."
"Two jits, or a dime," answered the doctor.
"How much is needful?" queried the thirsty one.
And quietly but firmly he shut the door in the face of the now weeping student, and retired to his office glowing with the warm satisfaction that comes from duty well done. For he was loyal to his principles — Tar Heel.
"Then answered the worthy one with resignation, "you are out of luck. This hurts me, my boy, more than it does you, but I make it a matter of course." And cent. Far be it from me to violate my business principles."
"Nay, nay, good sir—but a single jit is all I have."
RETRIBUTION A LA RUSSE
(Being Random Re-schoings and Raucus Reverberations.)
She sat there, baggard, gaunt, wan and emaciated. The rain dashed against the window in sheets and pillow cases, dripped from the rafters of the roofless dwelling, and trickled malignantly into the wistful old fire, that grew momentarily more and more feeble. A fly, a dry sob welling up in its throat—dragged itself painfully along the floor.
Readable Verse
This stold column of 'promise print'
And yet it is a glass through which
the light goes.
What is there seeming duller than this book,
On wonderland and marvels without
skind.
THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
A wand that makes the wires articulate
It is a key which will unlock the gate
Of distance and of time andcircum
Somehow there is enchantment in each
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because of wheels of whelms the murmurs of
late
With hum of trade and whisper of romance!
page-
The whit of whels, the murmurs of
earth.
The myrd mighty voices of the age,
The throbbing of the great world.
the mart,
the niyid mighty voices of the age.
Such are the sounds this volume seems to store.
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Who views the vistus it unrolls before
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As To Your Future
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Let these former K, U, students help you Are you interested in stenography?"
Mary Kellogg, '04 Bachelor of Arts, now assistant director, University Extension, University of Minnesota, gives the following suggestions concerning subjects that are useful in stenography: A general course should be acquired so that information on as subjects as possible may be received.
Miss Kellogg says that the following subjects should be added to the University curriculum: Library science, (reference, filing, indexing), office administration, stenography, typewriting. Essential personal qualification for a stenographer are, tact, patience, a desire for service and adaptability.
Pearl Kimble, A. B. 1905, now private secretary to an oil producer Tulsa. Oklahoma, offers the following suggestions:
The number of openings for stenographers are increasing, according to Miss Kellogg. A four year secretarial course is offered at the University of Minnesota.
Four complete years of work at the University of Kansas will give many points to the student who is preparing to be stenographer.
Essential personal qualifications for this work are neatness common sense, and ability to forget oneself.
The remuneration is equal to the salaries paid teachers.
English, history, sociology, and economics are good courses to take as a preparation for stenographic work.
Katherine Fogarty, A. B. '18 and Teacher's Certificate, at present filling a secretarial position in Lawrence, says:
One may get into this work by appointment. Courses in writing should be given as a preparation for the same exam, but about the same as that paid to teachers.
Margaret Hoden, A. B., 1018, secretary of the Holtz Arms School Washington, D. C., suggests the fol-
A Liberal Arts course, with as much English as possible, and any course which trains one to think quickly are the most important to hold positions of responsibility.
Lynn Beyer, A. B. 1913, secretary at the Drake University, DeaMores, Iowa, points out the following things of interest:
Stenography, and Business English should be placed in the curricular curriculum.
As part of the University curriculum Miss Beyer suggests a two year course in secretarial training, corresponding to a course in commerce and
The salary is not equal to the teacher's at the start but there is a greater chance to advance.
The salary is better than the teachers because it is on a twelve month and not a ten month basis.
The stenographer should have an agreeable personality, quick judgment, patience, organizing ability and tact
by applying to ten large universities, that is if she is well trained technically. There should be one offer from that number.
Present training for stenography may be obtained at any good business college at an approximate cost of $100.00.
Bertha Sellardise, A. B. 1912, a stenographer in Lawrence offers these help:
English, French and Spanish will be good courses to include as a preparation for this work.
The number of openings is increasing.
SCHOLARSHIP
Strange indeed is it that suddenly the boom of the scholarship bell tolls over the gay, frivolous surface of the campus life, with a piercing, rending dive into every realm of the university body. It came with a shock. Through three months of so-called army life, hidden under the guise of an S. A. T. C. cagnomen and another month of supposedly real college life has the seemingly major portion of the student body wasted its time with a resulting neglect of studies. In fact has the university had the air any time this year that a university is primarily and fundamentally an institution of learning? No! The seeming need that study is an absolute prerequisite to a successful college life has not been impressed. It should be impressed and will be impressed no doubt in the future. As to the cause for this seeming lack of the recognition of the original, primeval purpose of a college, there are several things to be considered. To a certain extent college activities have been pushed perhaps to a little extreme. They have their place, but that place is not above scholarship. Get your studies and then fill in time with activities and work. Don't assume the success-break attitude of "getting by." The man who is satisfied in college with merely getting by in his studies or slipping one over on the professor will do the same in business and his place in the hall of success will be marked with a crepe.
De Pauw Daily.
When McCormack Received Less
The announcement that the receipts of a recent recital by John McCormack in St. Louis, exceeded $12,000, recalls the interesting fact that the tenor, beginning his career in that city fifteen years ago, received $48.50 a week for singing in the Irish Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Thus the financial returns from one night's concerts were less than fifty times what McCormack was able to earn in a week in 1904. After severing relations with the Irish Village, McCormack went to Italy to study, and won his first fame in opera at Covent Garden, London—Detroit News.
Mental Lapses
The prim and proper young woman sailed into "Makem & Wearen's." "Will you kindly show me," she re-raised. "Your chinest thing you have in a blouse?"
"I'm sorry, madam," answered the assistant, who was leaving at the end of the week. "but she's just gone out to lunch."—Reedy's Mirror.
Angry Woman: My husband attempted to strike me. I want to have his arrested.
Police Captain: All right. Where will we find him?
Cactus Cal: The there new minister of our 'nin' no tenderfoot. See, he's usin 'his left hand te harake with th' members of his congrega-
Angry Woman: In the emergency hospital.-Chicago News.
Cactus Cal; It don't signify nothin',
stranger, but it leaves his gun hand
free—Reedy's Mirror.
Englishman: What does that ac tion signify?
Widower: I suppose that when you recall what a handsome man your first husband was you wouldn't consider me for a minute?
Widow; Oh, yes, I would. But I wouldn't consider you for a second.
Mrs. Riley: Are yes on callin'
terms wid our neighbor?
Mrs. Murphey: Oi am that. She called me a thafe and Oi called her another—Boston Transcript.
"How are you going to vote, Grace?"
"Depends on the weather. If it rains, I suppose I'll have to vote in a macintosh."—Judge.
When a senior girl got a telegram from New York at 10:00 a. m, which was sent from there at 10:30, she become a firm believer in miracles.—Normal Bulletin.
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