UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JANUARY 15.1919.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor in chief ... Helen Peffer
News Editor ... Luther Hunger
P. T. Editor ... Wesley
Sports Editor ... Mary Sanson
Sports Editor ... Edgar Hollis
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The Daffy Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideas she favors, to be clean; to be cheerful; to be leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to serve to the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1919
WHY NOT THE GOVERNOR?
The governor of Kansas has told the story of the fighting Thirty-fifth to most of the state of Kansas through the newspapers, and to a distinguished part of it in a lecture at Topeka. Why can't he, some time after the ceremonies of inauguration and changing the administration are over, tell the same story to a University convoction?
The University has more than a passing interest in the Thirty-fifth. It's own company is with the 137th Infantry and many former students are scattered through its ranks. The Thirty-fifth fills a big place in the University's thoughts.
Such an address would impress the first convocation of the school year with a quality not often found in University gatherers. The University has been too scattered in its interests. Each part of it has been going its own separate way. It has lost its perspective on many things. It needs to get together on something. It wants the governor.
At a meeting of the Board of Administration of the University on January 23, 1915, a resolution was adopted to name the museum "The Dyche Museum of Natural History" and to have that name carved into the door of the building. The contract for the carving has never been let, but on Monday, January 13, 1919, work was begun on painting "Dyche Museum," on the glass of the door. Which is getting around in a little less than four years. Not so bad!
The students are grieved to note that few professors realize the importance of Inauguration and dismissed class to attend. The inaugural ball was an occasion at which they might have won great political victories for the University by appearing in their frayed dress suits of the vintage of '84.
AID TO THE ARMENIANS
Fifty-one cents, an amount sufficient to maintain the lives of three Armenians for one day, is the sum each member of the sororities and fraternities in the University is asked to contribute to the Jewish-Armenian Relief fund.
Fifty-one cents will not make a great dent in the allowance of any of the members of social organizations. But it will save a human life. Four million Armenians are on the verge or starvation and food must be furnished at once.
No drive for this fund will be made on the Hill, but students should do their part through the social organizations, to aid in this relief work.
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
One would suppose that the day of destruction is past, now that the war is over and hostilities have ceased. Another vandal, as irritating, if not as deadly in intention as the Hun, still exists and is at large. He is the freshman who breaks the large globes which light the campus, and appropriates the electric bulbs for use in his own room.
Some fraternities have given their freshmen instructions to do this sort of thing. Their purpose is unknown, since no stretch of the imagination could lead one to believe that such activities are humorous or clever. The only explanation is that the older men are unable to buy electric lights, and are forced to use those purchased by the University.
University property should be protected, and persons destroying or appropriating it should suffer exactly the same penalties as if they had broken a plate glass window down town. Citizens of Kansas have no extra funds to spend for lights for the few remaining specimens of the practically extinct species—the rah-rah boy. Especially since the man who takes an electric bulb off the street is not likely to take it home and use it for studying.
ARE YOU AN I W. W. ?
Do not laugh at the student who picks up a handful of snow and consumes it avidly. He belongs to the large organization of Mount Oread people who are calling it "I Want Water" these days. For an organization with a socialistic title it is not getting very far. Its object, aims and ideals are to have drinking water on the Hill. Its plan of action and working program have not yet been arranged, or at least, not yet perfected.
There is the thirsty worker in the laboratory who stoops to imbibe moisture at the faucet and there is the faint journalist who makes a paper cup and drinks at the sink where the pressamen wash their hands. Most pathetic is the strenuous student who gets to the point where he drinks his shower after an hour of lively gym work.
If we must drink city water, let's have it in the fountains. The methods of getting it which are being used now are picturesque, but inconvenient. While we drink the city water, we can remember the promise of the city commissioners that the new filtration plant will be installed within four or six weeks. Within three or five weeks, to be exact, since the promise was made last week.
Recent novelties among inventions are advertised as follows;
Fluid Driven Motor - Utilizes water and wind as its power. New marvelous invention offers great possibilities.
Toy submarine that will submerge and emerge continually, from half to an hour, without being recharged. A camera specially devised for making pictures of finger prints left by yegrenmen on looted safes. It is supplied with electric lamps which provide illumination to make the exposure, and requires no focusing—Outlook.
The dangers of sea travel are not yet entirely over, owing to floating mines. A recent Admiralty order according to "Shipping," warms people against the sinking of these mines by rifle fire near the coasts. Sunk in this way, it seems, the mines are liable to remain as an underwater danger close to the bottom of the ocean as of this order." says "Shipping" "should serve to remind us that there are still thousands of mines at large, and that the task of clearing the seas will prove no light one."—Outlook.
The Woman: That's just like a contemptible man! You sit there and think mean things.-Detroit Free Press
The Man: Well, it takes two to make a quarrel. So I'll shut up.
HIS MEANNESS
Miss Muddle: Do you know any- thing is really good to preserve the compliments.
THOSE DEAR GIRLS AGAIN
Miss Knox: Why, dear? Are you interested in somebody who has one?
—Boston Transcript.
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A strand of golden sound
Weaves a design.
Discovered by Readers of the University Daily Kansan
Readable Verse
TAPS
Life woven in sound Is night and song.
Pathos—of n soul—
Inspires the darkness.
—Baker Brownell.
Campus Opinion
This Column is Open to all Students of the University
The world expects leadership from its great institutions of learning. It expects graduates of its great schools to have thought their way out through the maze of the incidental into the realm of the absolute. They are to be masters, not creatures of history; they are point to the lode-star of man's self.
THE RELIGIOUS FUNCTION OF
THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION
True greatness, true poise and power are conditioned upon a mastery of the problems not simply of matter, but also of soul. The most dynamic graduates of an institution are those who have mastered the art of vitalizing scientific love by saturating it with the urge of a spirit that has caught the vision of the things beyond.
H. C. THURNAU.
From this point of view the institution which strives to encourage the experimental development of religious consciousness among the young women of a great institution deserves the most whole-hearted recognition and unqualified support of both the students and well wishers of the new generation.
There can be no question but what the Young Women's Christian Association in the University of Kansas is performing in the religious field a service second to no other organization that touches the life of women students because in the midst of the many sided demands which are made upon the time and strength of the student population it reiterates and reemphasizes the eternal values in terms of which life succeeds or fails. The unanimous opinion of those who have felt the benign touch of the ideals which animate this organization coincides with the thought just expressed that the University of Kansas is incalculably richer and is able to render a more vitally human service to the young women of the student body because of the activities of this organization.
Raymond A. Schwegler.
To the Daily Kansan:
COLLEGES FILL GAP
The Kansan was mistaken in its statement that the eligibility committee should enforce the point system, since the point system is not a Senate ruling at the present time. It was not mistaken however, in its assertion that the committee should notify students of their eligibility while they are candidates, and not after they are elected, if it is to serve any purpose. The committee should not under the jurisdiction of the eligibility committee now, but if it is to be enforced at all, it should be a part of the work of that same committee. The committee should have the authority of the Senate to enforce it.
Furthermore, it is unnecessary for the Senate to adopt any point system governing student activities, as both student organizations, the W. S. G. A. and the Men's Student Council, have approved sets of rules fully covering the situation and can enforce these rules if they consider them worth while. However, if they feel unable to do so and care to report to the chairman of the eligibility committee, with the names of all students holding too many offices under the point system, he will be glad to co-operate with them in their effort to relieve offenders of their surplus "honors."
In the Kansan of yesterday there appeared an editorial attacking the Senate eligibility committee for its failure "to enforce the point system." As chairman of this committee I should like to state that it has never enforced any point system and has never been asked by the Senate to do. The eligibility committee is concerned only with scholarship, its function being to enforce the rules of the Missouri Valley Conference in so far as they may be applied to non-admitted students. Of the editorial statement to the contrary, the committee has been performing its duties during the past two years, as several former members of the Kansan Board are able to testify.
Great as has been the work which the colleges did during the period of the war, they are destined to perform an even larger work in the era of reconstruction which is now upon us. The colleges have already given their best. They gave by the thousands, but the period of reconstruction is going to demand tens of thousands. Leaders are going to be needed in every department of the social, the judicial, political, and educational life of the world.
It is the duty of colleges to train leaders to take the place of those who sleep on the battlefields. It is the duty of every lover of education to help support these institutions in the accomplishment of this heoric task.
The trained leadership of our allies in the world war was sacrificed. One writer says, "There are no young men left in France except the cripples and incompetents." The same statement can be made of both Italy and England.
At the outbreak of the war it was the college men of the allied countries who first rushed to the colors. The Universities of Rome, Paris Oxford, Cambridge, Cambridge, and Oxford. During the first three years Cambridge sent 11,000 men and Oxford sent 12,000 men into the armies of Great Britain.-The World Call.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO THE PROF
Who wants the school paper to print just what he deems advisable about his department and nothing else?
Who relies upon his laboratory assistant for all accurate information about his experiments?
Who always meets you on the campus just after you have cut his class?
Who sees you at the picture show the night before the quiz and spends an hour explaining to the class that you funked it because you went to the deadly movie?
Who insists on going to the sorority houses nearly every evening under the pretense of admiring the tone of the pians?
Who wears knitted gray socks and low-cuts all winter?
Who makes an appointment for a conference, and then, without notifying the student with whom he made the appointment, goes to the matinee with a date?
Who, when interviewed by a reporter, always says that his stories are not printed as he gives them, and that from now on he wants his stories to go in as he writes them. (And this regardless of his lack of news sense).
WHAT would you do with the prof.
Who whistles during quizzes?
Merely Mental Lapses Jokes and Alleged Jokes
UP AGAINST IT
"How's things?
"Breaking badly."
"Never mind. We must not repine as the slings and arrows of miforlone."
"But she's using a machine gun on me."
"What are you taking that medicine for?"
"I've forgotten now. Some time ago I had an ailment that called for it. Ran across the bottle and thought I'd just use it up."
FOR INSTANCE
"Well-I—I don't—know," replied the sweet young thing, thoughtfully.
"I have five thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds, ten thousand invested in good paying stock—"
"Do you think you could learn to love me?" asked the young man.
GOT HER LESSON
"And fifty thousand dollars in well paying, real estate."
"Go on; I'm learning."
"All right, dear; I've learned. Be believe me, you're some teacher!"— Yonkers Statesman.
"The world must have been very foggy in the old days."
"Why so?"
"You constantly read about the mists of antiquity."
"How's things?"
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