MAY 17,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1918
PURPOSE OF THE R. O. T. C.
The war; nothing else matters.
PURPOSE OF THE R. O. T. C.
The R. O. T. C system was worked out by the Government for the purpose of preparing as many university men as possible for positions as officers in the army. The trained and educated men are the types sought to officer the military forces, and the best field for securing such men is the colleges and universities. Thus the R. O. T. C is virtually an officers' training camp. That is what the University is 'applying for in making application for an R. O. T. C at the University.
LEGALIZE THE LAWS
The Kansan regretted the spectacle of law students using the talents they acquired here to bring suit against their Alma Mater. The Kansan was patient, however, and didn't go wild with righteous indignation. Time as come for adjudication now. The year is ended for them and soon will be for the rest of the University and it is just as well to balance all outstanding accounts, grudges, and controversies.
Fact review begins last September when the Senate, powerless to institute compulsory military training went about matters indirectly and did all it could do in face of the national emergency. Physical training was required of all undergraduates five hours a week, and a proviso was added that military training might be taken voluntarily in place of the regular physical exercise. This was the only way open to the Senate to get military training in. And this way has failed.
Some men, not all of them laws, after the novelty of marching wore off, deserted the K. U. army legally by taking physical training as substitution. Then as time dragged on and physical training grew onerous, they cut that off and on. The department was without definite disciplinary measures to enforce its rules and simply had to endure great gaps in the ranks of its students. When things reached an unbearable stage this spring, the department appealed to Senate action and got a drastic ruling for delinquents.
That ruling came too late to be whoally efficacious or deserve to be, for it was without warning and extremely violent. It was like mauling a five-year-old for doing something he rather knew he ought not to do but had been permitted to do by indulgent parents for a long time. It was like fracturing the youngster's skull, not at all a reasonable punishment in consideration of the circumstances.
The defaulters from military and physical training needn't be quite forgiven, but their habits of thought
and action and the tolerance for the same should mitigate their punishment. Those who are getting degrees will soon get considerable military experience. Let the naughty boys have their degrees, then. Those who are due back next fall will come with the knowledge that they get into khaki when they get here and will be under orders of U. S. army officers empowered to enforce those orders, or they newnet come back. Let next year's intelligent response to duty atone for this year's childish negligence.
The R. O, T. C. solves the whole problem. Men will meet it like men because it is a man's unquestionable privilege, right, and duty. There will be no play about it. Reveille will awaken and taps will put to bed. And the day will be so full that sleep will be sound. In the face of this sense in program and sense in response to it, the nonsense of this year's fiasco and whatever it occasioned must be wiped off the slate. The new record of another year will tell a different story.
K. U. MUST DO ITS UTMOST
K. U. MUST DO ITS UTMOST
The University is no longer content to do its bit. From now until the end of the war it will be satisfied with nothing less than its utmost. The men enrolled here as University students must sooner or later take their places in the nation's army, and if the University gives them to the country untrained and unprepared for military service it not only fails to do its utmost, but even fails to render its bit which at a time like this the Government expects from every college and university in the land.
In an attempt to fulfill its obligation to the country at this time the University has made application for an R. O. T. C. This will give the men here an opportunity to prepare themselves to go into service when their University work is completed. It will be the opportunity for the University to do its utmost by so preparing its students that they will leave the University able to render the utmost service to their country and to the world in the greatest crisis in all history.
THE PROBLEM PASSES
The troubles of the Physical Education people, faculty and students, have boiled in a shallow pan too long. Facts will shit off the heat and calm the waters. Work in the department shows a marked improvement over last semester, records showing that every activity measured up a hundred per cent better. There was a reason for this.
The improvement over the first semester is due to the make-up classes held every day to give men the opportunity to square themselves as they went along. Instructors gave almost their usual time in order to do this for the students. Those who are still in arrears are given next week in which to make up all outstanding obligations to the department; and in justice to the rest, all others who have no overcuts have been excused for the rest of the year.
Finally, the number of students who must do make-up work does not exceed five per cent of the total enrollment. This is significant. Next year there won't be even this five percent. There will be no need of make-up time for students or faculty. Things are going on a sounder basis for all. The R. O. T. C makes all the difference.
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Indignant one: Of course not.
S.Better see your dentil, then,
kick him up.
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CONTEMPORARY OPINION
AFTER THE WAR—WHAT?
A little over a year ago we entered this gigantic struggle, and now we see and feel as our best is being taken and thrown into the seething caldron at the front. As we pass along over streets and notice a star in the windows of the homes, we know another young man is giving his all. Again we wonder what will take place after this great cataclysm is over.
We know that our principles, our standard, will win, because we are going to put all we have behind it. And that right will be established among nations, but these nations who have given, sacrificed and suffered, what will they do. The great demand of the hour then will be food and work. A readjustment must take place. An abnormal condition must be brought back to normal. It won't be done all at once, but will be a gradual process. Will the result be the same after this war as all other wars? We can't measure in words or thought what the reaction will be or the conditions that will exist.
The warrior will lay down his rifle and come back to his old job. It will have to be built up again. During the war the demand has been small or nothing. So he will have to create a new demand. But maybe the people, now used to only the necessities will not care for it and will have to give up. "I fought in the mud and carrage of battle, but I am a failure here." There will be an aftermath of the war which the nation's must meet. Many new occupations, such as those for the blind, deaf, cripples and otherwise maimed. Great institutions for the helpless and incurables and the continual drain for money after the war to take care of the brave fellows who gave all for us.—University Life.
ON OTHER "HILLS"
Seven Ohio State University men have given their lives in the war.
Oklahoma A. & M. is to have two new buildings: a science hall and an armory-gymnasium.
Indiana University is sending two men to Colorado to photograph the total eclipse of the sun June 8. The telescope to be used is six feet long.
A new Handicraft Guild School on Art has been incorporated with the School of Education at the University of Minnesota.
Ceremonies for alumni day at Ohio State University center about the unfurling of the University's service flag with approximately 3,000 stars.
The university band at Indian University will hereafter be organized as a separate military drill unit. Heretofore the band has been divided up and apportioned equally to the six military drill companies.
The University of Illinois is preparing to establish a military training unit of the United States army for those above the age of eighteen who are enrolling for military drill. This plan for colleges has only recently been worked out by the War Department.
Students of the University of Michigan are carrying on an intensive war savings stamp campaign.
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Prominent professors in the several schools and colleges of the University of Michigan are preparing popular articles for the student public to explain the preparatory requirements of the various professions and vocation, as well as the special opportunities afforded by each.
The "Big Ten" universities are putting on what is perhaps to be the most elaborate field meet in the history of college athletics. Three hundred men from each school will be entered. Each man will be entered in four events: the hundred-yard dash, high jump, broad jump, and grenade throwing. The athletes from each school will perform their feats on the athletic grounds at their own school, and the total points will be added together and telegraphed to the University of Illinois for compilation.
Sergeant (taking tales of prisoners): 'An what's your name?'
Sergeant: Well, I'll just put ye down as  Heinie MareFritz-yell' answer tae that for the present.— Llfe.
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