JANUARY 27, 1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Pune
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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1919.
"BEAUTY CONTEST" WANES
The long-endured "Beauty Contest," favorite device of the editors of college annual to sell books, has come to a show-down, along with a few more pre-war activities. A. the University it has been named indispensable, along with several other things it has been found possible, to get along without. It has run its course from high tragedy to farce.
This year a salutary change was made. It was named a popularity contest and voting was put upon a reasonable basis with few opportunities for graft. It has run along calmly, many students not even knowing the time and place of voting. Yet they have bought Jayhawkers, apparently proving that they have some real interest in a college year-book. Many have expressed their intention of not voting. Several popular women have withdrawn from the contest. Other students have announced their intention of not buying their books until the contest is over or until their next check comes from home. They are buying a book, not space for a woman's photograph.
The show-down will come when the total number of votes cast is compared with the total number of Jaya-hawkers sold. On that evidence the fate of the contest in future years will doubtless be determined.
It is almost necessary to carry a notebook of information now-a-days to determine just how long he has been in the service, when he wears a gold stripe, a silver stripe, a red stripe and some corporal's chevrons.
METICULOSITY
A student went over to the library the other day to get a reference book in a certain course. When she located the book on one of the shelves, she found that it was locked up in a glass case and that the key was not to be found.
Another student, a junior, desiring some general information and not knowing just what book she needed, asked permission to browse around in the stacks. She was allowed to do this after signing a pledge promising 'not to consult the books too frequently' and 'not to remain in the stack room too long.'
A great deal of fun is poked at the housekeeper who arranges her books and magazines in a certain artistic design and then has a fit if anyone disturbs the pattern. But is she any worse than the professor who is so fond of his reference books that, while he realizes they should be in the library, cannot bring himself to the point of letting them be used?
There are many clever students in this University, but few of them can absorb knowledge from a book by standing ten feet away and looking at the cover.
THE WEEK-END DESERTER
A considerable portion of the enrollment of the University turns traitor on Friday afternoon, and is absent without leave until Monday morning or noon. The fortunate, or fortunate, persons live in Kansas City, Topeka, or towns nearby, and are prone to descend upon their parents at frequent intervals.
There is the person who rises in the midst of an 11:30 class and leaves, politely but firmly. She figures that she might just as well catch the 12:08 and be home all afternoon, as stay for the last two-thirds of the lecture. The freshman who is out-of-town on Saturday does not have to shovel snow off the walks, nor does the feminine variety have to assist with cleaning the house.
The week-end deserter hates to miss the lecture on Friday and regrets that he is unable to do any library work on Saturday, but he has to go home, and that's simply all there is to it.
If this care-free class would return in due season, it would not be so bad. But once they are home, why should they come back Sunday night and get in late, when they might as well wait until Monday morning? Especially when it only means cutting two classes. The professor is always interested to hear that the student has been home for the week-end, and is pleased to receive that statement as an alibi for work turned in late.
The week-end deserter does not have to eat the dismal Saturday lunch. He does not have to work on the Hill when things look down-cast and quiet. He is a community less for nearly half the week. He does not stay by the ship. Would it be a bald assertion to suggest that he might well spend a week-end in the library some time before the end of the quarter?
A WORD HE HADN'T LEARNED
WORD HE HADN'T LEARNED
An international incident in the way of a failure to understand American colloquialisms is reported in a medical journal. French biologist, it says, who was taking this study recently asked: "What is this word 'Yeh' which is used so much by your people?" — Outlook
Conclusive evidence that all social restrictions occasioned by the war have been relaxed was advanced by the new reporter who guessed they must be going to wear full-dress suits at the opening of the peace conference, because he noticed in his favorite newspaper yesterday where the conference was "to be formally opened." Ohio St. Lantern.
We have, heard of students who studied a lesson and claimed it had been energy wasted because they had failed to master the subject, and now we are at a loss to know how to classify the fellow who burrowed for two hours in a monstrous-appearing volume only to discover that he had been grinding out the wrong assignment. —Ohio State Lantern.
"Are you of the opinion, James?" asked a slim-looking man of his companion, "that Dr. Smith's medicine does any good?"
COULDN'T BE OTHERWISE
are the directions?" "Keep the bottle tightly corked." Tit-Bits.
"Not unless you follow the directions."
"What are the directions?"
Readable Verse
To get back home again—and there to see
*Old friends and faces of long vanished days*
TO GET BACK HOME
ed days.
To hear some friendly voice call out to
Discovered by Readers of the University Dally Kansan
me
From street or corner or remen;er
Where rain or shine or wind-blown
winter snow
The lights of home hold up the, golden shield.
With soft, warm arms from out the long ago
In waiting welcome from the silent field.
The guns are still from Flanders to
To 'get back home again—to know at last
The days of slogging through the mud is past.
The night of terror in the driving rain
Lies hidden in the midst of Argonne drifts.
"A grim, yet holy spectre of the years,
That wait ahead, where ever shadow
Before the smile that welcomes
Through its tears.
To get back home again—O, dream of dreams
Too radian to last for a breath.
The drift of purple nights and singing.
beyond black dawns, still rife with
shoots and doubt.
Beyond the dreamless sleep of those who wait
To hold the line they fought for to the end.
To get back home again—yes, that is all.
Eternal sentinels at treedom's gate,
Where none shall pass, save those
of thee.
The rest is less than nothing down the world;
Do bear no more the bugle's walking call—
The trump of marching feel—all standards furred—
To hold the guard across the endless years.
And only silent thoughts of those who stay
Who will not come again the ancient way
Nor know the "smile that welcomes"
—Lleut, Grantland Rice, Third Army
AUS, in Kansas City Star.
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
CONVENIENT
A farmer had come up to town for a few days. Before he started he had promised to bring his daughter a present, so he went into a jeweler's shop and said to the assistant: "I will give you pair of earrings, cheap but pretty."
"Yes, air," said the jeweler; "you want something loud. I suppose?"
"What are they moving the chure for?"
"Well, I don't mind if one of them is a little loud," replied the farmer. "My girl is slightly deaf in one ear." Tit-Bits.
“Well, stranger, I’m mayor of these diggin’s, am’I’m for law enforcement. We’ve got an ordinance what says no saloon shall be nearer than three hundred feet from a church. I give‘em three days to move the church.” Grit
RICH ENOUGH
"Then, my dear, you had better get a runabout."—Baltimore American.
"Yes, it is well supplied with worms." — Boston Transcript.
"When I get a car, I want one which will suit me."
BASSEALY JOBS* REAPERYS
Would You leave your home
for me?
A GOOD MATCH
"This fish is very rich."
He: I'd leave a baseball game in
the innings with the score a
"tie." Phil's score is "tie."
A Galveston widow says the latest proposal she has received was from a Houston insurance agent who said he had loved her since her first husband stung the company for $10,000.—Galveston News.
"It says here that a Missouri man boasts that he has an umbrella that has been in his possession for twenty years," said Smith.
“Well,” replied Jones, “that’s long enough. He ought to return it.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
CUPID AND CUPIDITY
BASEBALL JOKES REAPPEARS
TIME CONSCIENCE WORKED
"Does Wilkins own his house o; does he rent it?" inquired one neighbor of another.
"Renta it," was the decided response.
"He strikes matches on the paint.' Lades Home Journal.
ponse.
"How do you know?"
The moon and the stars still hold way if the enrollment of women in he astronomy courses proves anything.
A flannel shirt, any old tie, unpressed trousers, and unshinned army shoes, will do for Nicodemus, the toch, but not so with Johnny Tiecke-Tiech.
FASHION HINTS
Just as our little beauty feels lost when she forgets her vanity box, so does the young chap who leaves off his wrist watch for the day. Little
MAKEABLE REMARKS
Many a sailor lad, used to slipping his faffy trousers over his shoes, finds himself in a predicament when he attempts to pull on his "cits" over his No. 11's. (And the funny part of it all is that he usually does this when he is hurriedly dressing for that date at 8:30 p. m.)
The McGill Daily of Montreal, Canada, has distinguished the female of the species as the "Freshette."
CAMPUS BREVITIES A Freshman Theme. Skirts.
CAMPUS BREVITIE
DAILY HEALTH HINT
Never take the side of the street on which the candy shop is located when walking with your date. 'Take our advice and conserve.'
The motto of the Campus Whistle,
the colum of the Dally Maroon, is:
"Un neu indicaret." . . .
Whom would you have voted for- if these men had been running for president of your class:
SOPHOMORE CLASS
—President—
Paul Kaiser
W. Lincoln Nocole
SOPHOMORE CLASS
The sophomores of the University of Illinois had to decide between the man with the unfriendly name, and the Christmas title.
The Jay-Hawk is a vigorous advocate of free verse. We love to think it, breath it, and write it, and now we enjoy a little line or two, possibly.
With pale
Heart and
Beating face
I rushed into the
Class room 15 minutes
Lay
And oh! It was for nought,
Prof. hadn't yet arrived.
It is better to have hurried an
wied, for he might have been then
THE TWELVE-MONTH COLLEGE YEAR
The demobilization of the Student's Army Training Corps in all collegiate institutions at the end of the first quarter is a disappointment to some of the young men who had counted on getting at least a year of university training by the aid of the Government. For those sincerely ambitious for college training, the promised twelve-month college year has some merit. By this arrangement the student can pack a four-year course into three years. This gets him to his life work a year earlier than otherwise; but it puts the financing of his course on a somewhat different basis.
The student who plans to work his way through college usually begins with some small savings and earns what he can during the summer vacations. Or he does short-hour tasks as he goes along, working as chauffeur, waiter, barber or handy house man in afternoon or evening hours.
The condensed three-year course will eliminate his summer earnings; but it will make the borrowing of money to finance the course a more hopeful alternative. He will be in school for two years, and one year earlier and his power to earn will be increased by his school training just that much earlier.
There are advantages to be gained by working one's way through college, the greatest being the confidence one may acquire in one's power to overcome obstacles and the habit of economy that is formed. But such self-support limits the student's time for study. He it often forced to be more or less superficial in his preparation for recitation and in his research and laboratory work. It limits his opportunities for social intercourse, a large
factor in a liberal education. The self-supported student runs the risk of acquiring habits that are fatal to thoroughness in his life work.
The student able to borrow money to finance his course, and sincere enough to pay his debt promptly after graduation, stands to get more out of a college course than the student able to attend classes such a student, the three-year course of twelve-month years comes as an opportunity—Minneapolis Journal.
WOULD BE REPRESENTED
A couple of old codgers got into a quarrel and landed before the local magistrate. The loser, turning to his opponent in a combative frame of mind, cried: "I'll law you to the 'Brigit Court.'"
"I'm willin,'" said the other.
"I'll be thar."
"An' I'll law you to the Supreme Court."
"An' I'll law to 'ell!"
"my attorney'll be there," was the
ralm reply--Boston Transcript.
"OKEH"
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WANT ADS
FOR RENA—Two large furnished rooms for boys, in modern house 217 Tenn. Phone 1818 Red.
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LOST—Schaffer Fountain Pen on campus. L. W. Decewall, Tel. 1977.
Reward. 63-5-84
LOST: Tortoise-shell glasses and cosey yesterday morning. Call 295.
FOR RENT: Newly furnished rooms for boys. Modern furnace heat. 1215 Tenn. Call 2738 Black. 63-5-84
WANTED—A copy of Putnam's Practical Problems. Call 1237 Miss, or Phone 1783 Blue. 65-2*-87
FOR RENT- Two large rooms, single or double. Strictly modern house with privilege of sleeping porch and oak heat. Phone 2344 Blue. 65-3-8-3
FOR RENT—Nice front room, mod-
ern house for men, 1319 Tenn.
1243 Red. 65-5-88
Order aerated distilled water from McNish Bottling Works. Phone 198.
—Adv.
PROFESSIONAL
LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. (Exclusive)
Lawrence Optical Co. (Exclusive)
grown & furnished. Offered. 1035 Sesame
Avenue.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynaecology suite 1, F.A. A. U Hldg, residence and hospital, 1201 Ohio St. Both phones, $5.
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D. Rooms $ and
4 over Mccollach C., 847 Mass, S.
DR. H. REDING — F. A. U. Bidg, Eyes
DR. H. REDING — Classes Hitted
Phone 5131
JOB PRINTING—B.-H. Dale, 1027 Mass.
St. Phone 228.
DR. H, G. CARBELL, Physician and surgeon. Telephone 1284. 745 Mass. St.
KEELIERS BOOK STORE - Quik books
theme paper, paper by the pound,
paintings by the pound,
Pictures and picture frame,
Agency for Hammond typographers. 939 Mass. St.
G.W. Steeper
The College Presser and Remodeler.
C. F. WILTH
Page Sedan Service
Residence Phone 267
C. F. WIRTH
Phone 1434
Hotel Kupper
TAXI 68
Kansas City, Mo.
being at Eleventh and McGee Cafe in connection paving
Convenient to the shopping and Theatre District
Cafe in connection paying special attention to banquets.
—especially handy for ladies, being at Eleventh and McGee.
WALTER S. MARS, Mgr.
Calls Answered early or late. Moak & Hardtarfer
TYPEWRITERS
ED.W. PARSONS
Repairing and engraving diamonds, watches and cut glass.
Jeweler 725 Mass. St.
Bought, sold, rented,
repaired, exchanged
WISON & WIDE
MORRISON & BLIESNER
707 Mass. St. Phone 164
The College Tailor 833 Mass. St.
HOTEL SAVOY
Kansas City, Mo.
Absolutely clean
Convenient location
Good Cafes, moderate prices
S CH U L Z the T A I L O R
917 Mass. St. Phone 914
Conklin and L. E. Waterman Fountain Pens
1cCOLLOCH'S DRUG STORE 847 Mass.
LARK
LEANS
LOTHES
730 Mass.
Phone 355
Aotel Musclebach
BALCTHORNE AVENUE AND THEFT STREET
Kansas City, Mo.
A. G. ALRICH 736 Mass. St.
Is the place to get the best in printing and engraving
Drop in to the
AUGUST J. PIERSON CIGAR STORE
CIGAR STORE
A full line of cigars, tobacco and pipes, also pipe repairs. 902 Moss
"ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP"
Rapid Quality Shoe Renairs 1017 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. St.
Taxi 12
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"One-Two"