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JANUARY 20,1919.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 20,1919.
K.U. NEEDS CONVOCATIONS
"The second All-University Convocation held this morning was a decided success, from the standpoint of enthusiasm shown on the part of those attending. Standing room was at a premium, every seat being occupied."
The above paragraph was taken from the files of the Daily Kansan for October 8, 1915, when bi-weekly convocations were established at the University. revioPu to this time, morning prayers were held from eight to eight-thirty o'clock in the morning and occasional convocations at tenthirty o'clock. These forms of gatherings gave way to the convocations given regularly every two weeks, not because they were unsuccessful but because the bi-weekly plan was more successful.
These gatherings developed a unity of spirit throughout the entire University which is impossible to gain in any other manner. They brought the students of all of the schools together and developed a united school spirit. These meetings were a regular family affair and students became acquainted with the administrative officers as well as the members of the faculty of the other schools in the University.
The disorganization and lack of unity of spirit brought about by war conditions is more evident in the University this year than ever before. All-University convocations are imperative if this condition be remedied. Convocations have been generally abandoned this year due to peculiar conditions, but now that the University is entering into the stable pre-war regime, these general gatherings should be revived.
The bi-weekly convocation was the most successful in previous years, and that plan should be resumed now. It would mean but two hours a month taken from regular schoolwork, and in return entertainment, instruction, and a united purpose for the whole University would be gained.
--down the Atlas job, and that the world is constantly getting to be more and more of a strain to him. We wait anxiously for next week to come so he will be himself again.
Fourteen professors at the University of Kansas are listed in "Who's Who. This is a fair percentage considering the fact that just as soon as a man makes a name for himself, another university grabs him.
BOWED DOWN WITH CARE
Do you know the person who is always wishing that this week were over, that that event had happened, and that he were through with something he had to do tomorrow?
He gives you the impression that next week he will have an amiable disposition and a happy smile for everyone, but that just now he is holding
But when next week rolls around, something unexpected and quite unforeseen comes into his otherwise peaceful life, and he is forced to sing the same old tune. "Oh, how I wish tomorrow were over."
He has ever heard that mournful ballad to the effect that "All the to-morrows will be as today." He is the unspeakable bore.
Webster says that a "nuisance is that which annoys or gives trouble or vexation." The K. U. version goes this way: "Nuisances in college are those students who come to ask you to do for them what they could have done twice for themselves while they were asking it."
FOWLER SHOP A CAFE TERIA?
When a family outgrows its home it moves into another. As the years roll by, the modest equipment with which the family set up housekeeping is increased, repaired, and replaced. The analogy between the home which shelters and the institution which shelteris plain. Years ago the University of Kansas set up housekeeping. As the years rolled around and its family increased an endeavor was made to enlarge its boundaries and to increase its equipment in order that it might accommodate the sons and daughters of a prosperous and rapidly growing state. That these efforts were not always successful is too well known to bear repetition. The point is that now the needs of state institutions may be met promptly without the humiliating appeals used in former years.
The permanent income bill has made possible new buildings, and among these are listed auditoriums, dining halls, cafeterias and dormitories.
The completion of the Administration Building at the University of Kansas will greatly improve conditions. However, there still remains the need of an auditorium, dormitories, and a suitable building for the use of the department of home economics. A building and house for the department of home economics is, perhaps the most urgent needs of the University at the present time.
For years this department has carried on its work in the basement of Fraser Hall. Despite the handicap of its own inconvenient location, the department has succeeded in securing temporary, cheerful quarters in Myers Hall, which have been fitted up as a cafeteria. It now feeds several hundred students daily. The department has assumed this new responsibility cheerfully. It is doing its best, with the meager means at hand, to serve the students. It has served the state loyally and has complained only occasionally of its underground workshop.
Recently it was suggested that the work now carried on in Fowler Shops should be more closely related to the power plant of the University and to the School of Engineering and that if a suitable building or annex could be erected for this purpose it would greatly simplify the work of the shops and promote economy. This, according to a recommendation made recently by the Board, would vacate the Fowler Shop building which could then be converted into a modern, up-to-date cafeteria and home economics department. The cost would be small. The present temporary quarters of the cafeteria, are not large enough to accommodate the crowds of students who patronize it.
"I told you to call me for the 7 o'clock train. Now I have to lose 24 hours' time. Why didn't you call me?"
It was nearly noon when the rattle traveling man found the night clerk of the little hotel in a North Carolina town.
"I couldn't very well," explained the clerk cheerfully; "I just got up myself."—St. Louis Times.
Readable Verse
THE WRONG ATTITUDE
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
In a dolorous vein
In a dolorous old man Noseman:
"If it isn't the 'fu'
It's something else.
So he plods along
Life's weary way.
Convined in his heart
That comes what may
There isn't much chance
For a man to win
Over troubles that vex
And the hosts of sin.
So long as a chap
Wont work or fight,
Why, old man Nelle
Is about to die.
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Holders of United States war savings stamps who may have incomplete books need feel no anxiety for that reason. They will have value at maturity. The Assistant Director of Government Savings, Vernon Monroe, advises that these stamps be held and carefully preserved until they mature in 1923. The counsel often given with regard to the war savings stamps that may be lost are forgotten, holds good also with relation to Liberty Bonds. There is an evident and concerted movement among promoters of questionable enterprises to separate holders from these engravings, and this movement should be determined resisted—Christian Science Monitor.
WAR AND COLLEGE ATHLETICS
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Who has influenza four weeks, a cold for two weeks longer, and then is called home because sister is ill, and who insists on telling the prof all
Who comes up after-class and disserves at length on matters about which he knows nothing, obviously to "set in róod?"
Who say she has read all of Scott, Dickens, and Thackery?
Who complains about her flunk, and weeps copiously in the office of the man prof, making him appear to be a tyrant?
Who does not know how many hours of his major he has had, or just what he is taking this quarter?
Among the American institutions which the war may help us to reform is college athletics. The abuses of the competitive system, which were not so plain to all eyes when the great intercollegiate contests were on, now loom large because of clearer vision brought by the war suspension.
Who insists on talking in class t make up for having read nothing o the subject?
There are great benefits to be derived, no doubt, from intercollegiate contests, but far greater are those to students in the system upon the whole student body.
It all comes down to the question, What is the aim and purpose of college athletics? Is it to advertise the collegiate institution, to build up a tradition and a practice of college spirit, to furnish excitement for the alumni and the public as well as for the student body? Or is it to endow the individual members of the student body with health and strength?
Doubtless both these objectives might well be aimed at, but the benefit to the individual student should be paramount. The great fault of college athletics before the war was that is magnified the institution, glorified the prowess of its "teams," professionalized the participants, made their number, made of itself a painful business—and all at the expense of the individual student's health and strength, which were not benefited at all unless he was susceptible of being developed into a super-athlete.
This fact has been strikingly illustrated by the results of physical exercise in the military training camps. Every soldier, marine and sailor has partaken of these benefits, and a striking improvement in physical fitness has invariably ensued. There have been some competitive contests between teams representing various camps, but these have been properly subordinated to the rule that every man in training must be developed to the utmost physically. Is it not possible, now that war has all but washed the slate clean, to resume college athletics on a plan that will look first of all to the physical well being of every student, and will reduce competitions to their proper role in college life?
WHEN MONARCHS WERE
With no intention to strike a man when he is down, by the indirect method of taking a jab at his ancestors, it may not be amiss to consider the decline of the Hohenzollerns from the time when one of them brought suit in Missouri, in 1849.
Insanity drove Frederick William IV from the Prussian throne in 1858. Shortly before that a fizzled German revolution came near accomplishing the same result. But Frederick William had his merry little fling before he signed the throne over to his son. He felt his people the same. "He had a recent wilted offshoot of the family tree, and he got away with some of the same kingly exuberance in the United States.
"The plaintiff (Frederick William IV, King of Prussia) states that he is the absolute monarch of the Kingdom of Prussia, and as king thereof is the sole government of that country; that he is unrestrained by any constitution or law, and that his laws are not binding on his behalf of that country and is the only legal power there known to exist as law." —Glendon Allvine.
In 1849 a St. Louis court was called upon to consider this petition:
MerelyMental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
President Wilson is fond of telling a story about an old teamster. This old fellow said to the treasurer of the concern one day:
"Just so, Winterbottom, just so," said the treasurer, and he cleared his throat and added: "Both treated well, I hope?"
"Me and that off horse has been workin for the company for seventeen years, sir."
The old teamster looked dubious. "Well," he said, "we was both tooken down sick last month, and they got a doctor for the hoss, while they docked my pay."—Los Angeles Times
ABOUT OVER
One week in clover
Turkey and plover
And then a few pills,
Christmas is over
All but the bills.
One week in clover
With presents and thrill
Christmas is over
All but the bills.
Turkey and plover
A young bridegroom, after the wedding was over and the bride's father had gone to his club, began to search excitedly among the wedding gifts.
"What are you looking for, dear?" asked the bride. •
"That $5,000 check of your fathers," he replied anxiously. I don't see it anywhere."
"Poor papa is so absentminded," said the bride. "He lit his cigar with it."
neighbor has a daughter who is taking painting lessons, and washes her paint brushes in the bath room.
That's all there to it, except that her father mistook a tube of oil paint for his tube of tooth paste. —Cleveland Press.
TOO SENSITIVE FOR SCIENCE
The teacher of the class in physiology put to Tommy this question:
"How many ribs have you?"
"I don't know, ma'm", said Tommy, squirming at the very thought. "I am so awful ticklish I never could count 'em."—Harpers.
NO LACK OF OPPORTUNITY
"Mammy, she'll be pleased," wrote Caroline Jess. "She done said it!"
He's not the *tab*er grit git no place in New Yawk—an here it's done had seven places de fust month!" -Harpers
NO LACK OF OPPORTUNITY
The teacher had been telling her class about the rhinoceros family. "Now name something," she said, "that a yak that gets to near an alpaca."
"Automobiles!" promptly answered
Johnny - Harpers.
DANGEROUS BEASTS
Summing up a lengthy review of the life and character of Theodore Roosevelt, the Christian Science Monitor says: He made some serious mistakes, but, side by side with them, must be recorded some splendid successes; he invited some failures, but he deserved and won some striking victories. He was a typical American, a man of broad outlook, of wide sympathies, a tireless student, and an inveterate lover of history, one a practical and courageous reformer, a shrewd and daring politician, a scholar, a historian, a naturalist, an explorer, a maker of remarkable speeches, a writer of good literature, and always a patriot"—Topeka State Journal.
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