UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 3,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Editor-in-chief...Luther Hangen
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News Editor...Harold R. Hall
Exchange Editor...Ralph F. Holt
Editor...Mary Samson
Society Editor...Emily Ferris
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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 Biology at University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture students in the university of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news weekly; to play more worryful news weekly hold; to play no favorite; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be kind; to be a student; to have more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to serve to the students of the University.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1919
"You'll have lots of honors to place after your name in the Jayhawker." This argument used by some fraternity men to try to interest their freshmen in student activities sets as a goal and reward the highest and noblest ambition possible. Such an honor outweighs all other reasons for trying to promote University life and activities.
ONE STUDY. OR MANY?
Is there too much sectalization in University work? Do students in the colleges today specialize so much in one branch of study, that they are not the most efficient in their work after they leave the universities and colleges?
This subject is being discussed in numerous educational centers now. At a meeting of the third annual Intercollegiate Vocational Conference held in Cambridge recently Le Baron Russell Briggs, president of Radcliffe College, urged University women against too much specialization, no matter which of the various lines open to women they intended to take up: banking, employment management, secretarial and library work, store management, research, or teaching.
Mrs. Lucinda W. Prince, director of the Prince School of Education for Store Service, also urged women to get a broad and liberal education.
"The work is different every day," said Mrs. Prince, "and one must have a general knowledge in order to cope with situations as they arise."
In the universities now, specialization has come to be recognized as an important factor, but in a good man cases is it being carried to an extreme Will these students with their specialized education have a broad enough knowledge to enable them to meet an situation in every day life and get the most enjoyment out of all phases of activity?
Applying the question to yourself, is your course in the University narrowing or broadening and cultural? If it is so specialized that it does not make you a bigger, better, and happier citizen because you have taken it, then it is not balanced and should be changed.
The United States is booked for an invasion in 1919 which will rival that of the Germans in Europe. According to the Department of Agriculture, the 17-year locust is expected to appear in horses, and the invasion will probably be the worst on record.
Why limit the charging of frater nities to fire department runs? Why
not have charges for postman tripe? Establish the cost system, and make the fraternity pay the expenses on the delivery of each letter.
Soldiers overseas may marry their sweethearts in this country by mail, according to a recent War Department ruling. Three cents, ordinarily by special, ten cents extra.
SELF-ACTING CLASS PUMPS
Indications of one of the greatest effects of the war upon education In American colleges may be found in the recent utterances of college professors and other educators, to the affect that hereafter learning will be achieved more by personal initiative in the student himself than has been done before. This is simply one result that the war had in putting the nation as a whole upon its own feet.
In the past the lecture system of instruction has been used too commonly. As one critic has remarked, "the pupil has been regarded as a tub and the professor as a self-acting pump." In the future it is expected that the instructor do more to start and encourage the personal initiative of the student.
The newer method will not only promote aggressiveness in the pupil. It will also serve to unite students and faculty in a manner that heretofore has never been possible. The responsibilities of both will be accepted and faced more squarely.
THINGS THAT KILL
There is a type of student on Mount Orend who asks about everything. The species is too prevalent for the good of the University, and the comfort of persons connected with the institution. He wants information, and spends three-fourths of his time getting it. He looks squerely at a sign saying "Jayhawker Office," turns to the nearest victim, and inquires, Is this the Jayhawker office? The instructor announces that there will be a quiz on Monday, whereat the pest reaffirms and verifies the announcement by going up after class and asking if there will be a quiz on Monday.
When he reads that grades are to be given out in the registrar's office and not at the dean's office, he steps into the dean's office to ask if that report is really true. Not content with the word of professors, and printed notices, he asks every one within a half-mile radius if everything is true. If he cannot be silenced by any other way, violent means should be taken.
DO YOU KNOW
The man who stepped into fame at the men's mass meeting last week? The names of the animals on Dyche Museum?
the organization which meets but twice a year—once for initiation and training.
That a K. U. man was the first American soldier killed in France?
SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF LEISURE It was said by Helmholtz, on his seventieth birthday, according to Dr. Graham Lusk, in an address printed in Science (New York, December 27), that a great idea had never come to him when he was at his desk, nor usually when he was walking in the garden muling of other things. Dr. Lusk goes on:
The reason for the bench west of Green Hall?
The faculty woman who wears shoes?
"The scientist must have leisure to think over the problems which offer and he must have a certain discrimination in order to distinguish between the things which are worth doing and those which are not. To do this requires a certain delay in action in order that plans may be matured. The individual who can handle all the time is much full of heart the time is much less likely to accomplish successful scientific work than he who will not commence a research until he has satisfied himself that it is worth doing. It is not to be denied that this essential qualification of scientific life is frequently regarded with scorn by the busy practitioner of medicine, who gives himself no time either for thought or study."—Literary Digest.
Readable Verse
If you were in the army you would appreciate this one:
Discovered by Readers of the University Dally Kansan
"THE ULTIMARABLE BLISS."
After the war is over,
After I get back hom
(That is if I'm not dead)
I shall be happy all over.
The only trouble was that the goldenrod was artificial. But it was all there was to be had, and even from a few feet away it looked like the gentleman who did its golden robe to help make the star American- Stars and Stripes.
After the war is over
(That is if I'm not dead)
I have but one ambition Under the heaven's dome
After the war is over
I shall be happy all over
I'm going to bed in a bed!
Golden rod, the national flower of America, bloomed on the streets of Paris the day the President reached the capital. Most of it—in fact, just about the whole supply—was bought up by Aussies on leave, each of whom took a sprig of it in his unfortunate hat for all the world to see.
—Carolyn Wells in Everybody's.
Campus Opinion
This Column is Open to all Students of the University
NOSTRILS IN TREE TRUNKS To the Daily Kansan:
"Unscientific," writing in The Daily Kansan, wants to know what happens to trees when their lungs drop off. Well, dear one, the same thing happens to trees in such circumstances as would happen to you when your lungs stopped expanding or when your Ford stopped drinking gasoline. In other words, the trees would be defunct.
Mother nature, however, in her all wise provision desires not that her tree offspring cease breathing with the first frost. By means of her intricate experiments in thousands of centuries, she has developed small openings through the bark of the trunk, twigs, and roots which the trees may use as nostrils during the leafed as well as leafless seasons.
Leading away from these nosilts are communication trenches, so small that a pin point is as large as Mount Oread in their eyes. These intercellular spaces, for this is what Professor Stevens calls them, conduct the oxygen to every living cell in the tree.
Now. "Unscientific," if this treatise not your searchers after truth, upon further inquiry we will to exhaust our knowledge. Nature's Messenger.
Following is an explanation to show that the assertion, "Leaves are the lungs of treese," is aburd, taken from a communication from another scientist:
THE SALUTE OF JOAN OF ARC
Along the twig and lower branches of most trees and shrubs, there are found many dots or larger areas of rough, spongy bark, which are called lenticels. They are especially distinct on the bark of most birches, and cherry trees, and in these finally reach a rather large size. Each lenticel covers the position originally occupied by a stoma in the epidermis of the very young bark. As the stoma grew older, its characteristic cells disappeared and were replaced by spongy mass of thin walled cells. These lenticels serve for the entrance of gasses into the stem, and for their passage out of it. When once within the bark the gas or oxygen which is needed in the respiration of trees is circulated about to every cell.
In respiration every living cell is carrying on a very important part. The primary cause of the gas movement is found in diffusion, that process, whereby the molecules, driven by the energy of heat absorbed from the sun, tend always to move forward from places of lesser concentration, and therefore from places where they are being formed or released to places where they are not, and from places where they occur to places where they are being formed. The gases thus impaled along the passages by diffusion finally reach the living cells, and being soluble in water, are dissolved by the moist surfaces, and then diffuse through walls and protoplasm to the places of use.
Respiration also is carried on underground by the many small root hairs of the young roots. In the young roots, neither stomata nor lenticles are present, but the continuous epidermis here is not waterproofed, and is often actually coexposed with films of air through which the gases diffuse in solution from the air spaces in the soil to those in the root, and vice versa.
That was a very interesting endorsement of the super natural, rather long coming, but timely when it came. All her activities were the outcome of visions which inspired and instructed her. There is nothing in modern history like her story. Either her world was beyond our reach beyond, or else she was deceived about them, or else she was a successful faker.
THE SALUTE OF JOAN OF ARC
January sixth was the five hundred and seventh anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc. She is a patron in New York, and they got the approval of Secretary Daniels to their suggestion of firing a salute to Joan from guns of warships in New York harbor.
But it is a mighty good fake that lasts five hundred years and is saluted by an American battleship in New York harbor. Joan was no cheat, Mark Twain, whose judgment about fakes was fairly good, wrote' a whole book about Joan, who had captured his good heart.
"Dinah" inquired the mistress suspiciously, "did you wash this fish carefully before you baked it?"
No, the salute was for Joan of Arc and all she stood for, including the supernatural visions and free France. —Life.
"Law, ma'ma!" said Dinah. "Wot's we use de ob washin' f鸡 fish dat's lived all his life in de watah?"—Ladies Home Journal.
MerelyMental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
Mrs. Gramercy: I hear you're going to move this spring.
Mrs. Park: Yes; we just can't face our old neighbors in a last year's car. —Rocky Mountain Colleague
Doc Tower (to freshman wandering about the chem building): Well what are you, organic or inorganic? Freshman (noplussed). Inorganic
She: Why does that author go off
How does it get down?
c, sir; 1 play on the piano.
—Reserve Weekly.
WHY
He: So he can write stories about his experiences.
She: But why does he want to write about his experiences?
She: But why does he want money?
He: So as to get more money.
He: So he can go off on a tear and get drunk again—Squib.
THE PATIENT'S TESTIMONIAL
Dear Doctor: After taking two more bottles of your tumor remedy I now find that I have two more tumors—Penn State Froth.
EMERGENCIES
Ed. (in auto): This controls the brake. It is put on very quickly in case of an emergency.
Co-Ed: I see, something like a kimono—Orange Peel.
SOUP
Soup, like small children, should be seen, not heard—Widow.
Ther's a beverage with pep, that will cheer you.
When you are weary, toil-worn and dreary,
Iry it, you'll like it, I bet!
By neck:
It's Bevo!
"Well," said Uncle Sl Bruggins after a solo by a fashionable church choir tenor, "if that isn't the rudest thing I tenor. Just as soon as that young man began to sing, every other member of the chorus with it, and I must say I admire his spunk."—Boston Transcript.
ADMIRED HIS PLUCK
Ginger
"What remarkably developed arm muscles that young man has!" "No wonder. Think of the number of triumphs he lifts every day!" Ginger.
AT THE BEACH
DEFINING PARENTS
Little Alfred was asked to write a composition on parents, and wrote this:
Parents are the things which boys have to look after them. Most girls have parents. Parents consist of pas and mas. Pas talk a good deal about what they are going to do, but it's mostly the mas that make you mind. -Lalies Home Journal.
Home Journal.
A Rooter's Club has been formed at McGill University. The purpose of the club is to help McGill win her athletic contests. The club meets before each contest and has rooter's practice.
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JOB PRINTING—B. H, Dale, 1027 Mass.
St. Phone 228.
VOLUNTEE BOOK STORE
DR. H. G. CABBELL. Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284.
745 Mass. St.
THE BOOK STORE - Quiz book,
theme paper, paper by the pound,
pictures framed and picture framing,
Pictures and picture framing,
Agency for Hammond typewriters. 393 Mass. St.
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Residence Phone 267
Taxi 12 'PHONE "One-Two"
A. G. ALRICH
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Is the place to get the best in printing and engraving
ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
Rapid Quality Shoe Renairs 1017 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. St.
924 La. St.
The College Presser and Remodeler.
Phone 1434
1025 Mass. St. Phone 1051
SEE CARTER'S
PALACE BARBER SHOP
The Most Sanitary Shop in Town
FRANK VAUGHN, Prop.
730 Mass.
Quality Theme Papers and Note Book Fillers.
Hemstitching and Picotting Tailoring
Dressmaking and Alterations of every description.
MRS. WM. H. SCHULZ
Hotel Kupper
Kansas City, Mo.
Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District —especially handy for ladies. be at Eleventh and McGee. Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets.
WALTER S. MARS, Mgr.
Taxi 148
Calls Answered early or late.
Moak & Hardtarfer
ED. W. PARSONS
Repairing and engraving diamonds, watches and cut glass.
Jeweler 725 Mass. St.
TYPEWRITERS
Bought, sold, rented,
repaired, exchanged
The College Tailor 833 Mass. St.
MORRISON & BLIESNER
707 Mass. St. Phone 164
PROTCH
HOTEL SAVOY
Kansas City, Mo.
Absolutely clean
Convenient location
Good Cafes, moderate prices
SUITING YOU is my business
SCHULZ the TAILOR
917 Mass. St. Phone 914
Conklin and
L. E. Waterman
Fountain Pens
McCOLLOCH'S DRUG STORE
847 Mass.
Drop in to the
AUGUST J. PIERSON
CIGAR STORE
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902 Mass.
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Seats Selling at the Roun Corner Drug Store.