MAY 9,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY,MAY 9,1918
The war; nothing else matters.
WE SHALL MISS THEM
Today the Laws finish their work and leave the University. And those of us who are left here will notice their absence, and will miss them. The whole University will miss the crowd gathered on the steps of Green Hall, and the game of tossing pennies out in front. The capless freshman will miss them and will pass about the campus unafraid. Even the University Senate and the department of physical education will miss them, too.
Many times in the past we have laughed at the Laws for their braggadocio and their bluster and their noise, but for all that we cannot help admire them. We know that they have always had more than their share of the true University spirit, and that they have done more than anyone else to uphold the traditions of K. U. We know that as a school they have clung closer together than the other schools and have been able to accomplish things that the other schools have found impossible. And we know too that when the country called for men to serve in the present struggle the School of Law sent a larger percentage of its number than any other school or department at the University. Such things we cannot but appreciate, and for this, too, we shall miss them. And today, as we bid them goodbye and Godspeed we don't mind telling them that we shall miss them.
KEEP THE NEEDLES FLYING
The young women of the University of Kansas are intelligently loyal to their country. Through the long winter months they knitted patriotically and faithfully. Time and weather have brought a change, and, perhaps with a characteristic they share with their brothers, they have not used quite so much yarn as they did.
win the first warm days of spring came the colorful sleeveless coats, flashiest of feminine fashions, and needles were turned to produce these. Illegically the wielders of the neodies had reason that soldiers would be warm enough now, and, the soldiers comfortable, they could work the creation in bright blue for themselves, to finish their own spring wardrobes.
Now University women are expected to use logic out of class if university education is to mean anything at all to them. That pretty sweater's appeal to the fancy does not make the men of the navy or in aviation any less in need of knitted garments this summer. And sure as Christmas it is going to be cold in the next冬天. No matter
how much knitting is done, there will not be enough sweaters to go around for all the more than two million men who will be over then.
Not their bit, but their whole share and a little more is the duty of every woman of the University who can hold a needle in her hands and make it move creatively through khaki colored yarn. Their failure to do the work might be remembered. Their work, however, will not be forgotten even if they are never known in connection with it individually.
WHAT THEY DID
They went to a food conservation lecture yesterday afternoon, the women of the University did. The speaker was one substituting for Mrs. Teetor, the regular food conservation lecturer. As the lecture progressed, the rustling of papers, the scratching of pencils, the shuffling of many feet, and the constant buzz of loud whispers so drowned the speaker's voice that only a few women in the front row were able to hear.
The lecturer spoke on rapidly telling of the many ways in which college women might help win the war, but members of the audience prattled of dates, pleasure trips, dances, parties, and plans for their summer vacations. As the end of the hour approached the whisper's become audible conversations, punctuated by unsupressed giggles, and the gallery seats, one by one, were emptied.
Then came the end of the hour:
The speaker paused and spoke of the lack of time for finishing the lecture,
but before she could conclude the women in a body rose, talked out loud,
and left the speaker talking to empty seats.
IN BEHALF OF GREECE
The bored sigh used to sifte when anything Greek or anciently and liberally cultural was mentioned. But it isn't the fashion any more; the joke is gone; the customary reaction is a fauz pas. And yet to one type of student within the University who came with purpose grim enough though not broad enough appreciation of Greek drama, epic, elegale, or ode is only fashionable, hollow, hypocritical, sissified, and strictly highbrow.
Modern society and modern art as a reinforcement of society's highest and most enduring interests,—are found in and on the ideas and ideas of classical antiquity. Greek is not dead. It could not die. It animates the creative force of every century since those who first conceived it sought the Elyssium their beautiful mythology made fairer than any Calvinistic heaven. Both fascinating and educative are the annals of the Golden Age whatever form of expression they take.
"Dead stuff," the sidetracked student calls all things Greek the while he amasses statistical information and scientific data as the more pertinent material to his life. "Dead stuff," he labels it until in one last semester he delves into the very heart of modern ethics, politics, art, science, and philosophy not bounded but unbounded and brimming over from the precious content of Greek culture. Myth, folklore, parable, reflecting the cultural ancestry of the twentieth century are barely given a partial bird's eye view. The loss is felt the more keenly because it is too late to retrieve. The University had it here all the time. It will always be here
Eddie Morris, the well-known American comedian now appearing in this country, tells the story of an Irishman who came home one night with a blackened eye, a broken nose, and a split lip.
"Shame on ye!" Bridget cried; "a big beller like you to be letked by a little hard-drinkin' cockroach like Tim Sullivan! Why. he—"
"Tim Sullivan done it," he told his wife as he began to bathe the woman.
“Whist,” said Pat, from his basin; “don't speak evil of the dead.”—Tit-Bits.
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UNCLE IKE SAYS By P. Young
Lend your ear to Nature's whisper,
There's a message that she'd tell.
Listen to her mighty mountains,
To her trees that lisp an' sigh,
To her birds whose tiny fountains
10 her birds whose tiny rountains
Of sweet song will never die;
To her sun that shows his face
dest as reg'lar as can be,
An' who's run a mighty race,
Run it all for you an me.
Her mountains say: "Young man, be might,
In mind an' body an' in soul,
Lift your face to the stars above ye
That have watched the ages roll;"
An' her trees say: "Man, be stalwart,
Stand up straight an' tail an' grand,
Lisp the word of heaven's blessing,
Sig it land throughout the land."
An' her sun says: "Be ye faithful,
Oh, be faithful, never fail,
For should I forget my duty
Even ruddy earth would pale."
An' her birds say: "Free your spirit, Let it seek the realms above. In its flight let nothing veer it; Sing of that it's born of love;"
That's her message boys, jest hear it; be mighty, stalwart, faithful, free; If ye'd only listen to it.
It's fer all,fer you an' me.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
WAR-TIME DEGREES
The plan of awarding war-time degrees, as adopted recently at New Haven, appears in another column of this issue. Though there are attached many specific regulations, which are individual to Yale, the action was taken in accordance with a policy that was universally recognized last spring by the universities and colleges all over the country.
Yale is to be congratulated upon the establishment of a system of war credit, and while there are a few irregularities which seem unfair, such as the stipulation that only commissioned officers may apply for war credit, it does not pose a consistency of attitude toward the undergraduates' relation to war activity.
This policy, if we have determined it aight, has not risen from high, charitable motives on the part of the university authorities, for the awarding of credit last year to those seniors who entered the service can not be construed as an act conferring an honour. But the action was prompted by a desire of the university to recognize serious academic work.
MENTAL LAPSES
Tommy. That's cause if the groom backs out, there'll be someone to take his hand.
If the university would adopt a plan similar to the action taken last spring it would act as a stimulus to greater effort in academic work among students who perhaps are anticipating a call to service before the end of the term. War degrees and credit should be conferred only in recognition of serious application on the part of the student, and should not be withheld if a greater part of the course has been completed—Daily Princetonian.
Bessie-Wonder why they always have a best man?
EXPLAINED AT LAST
Mrs. Busbybody: "Your husband goes out a good deal, doesn't he?"
Friend: 'Why do you let those seeds lie on the ground? Why don't you cover them un?'
Uncle Ebon: "Give me a medium." —Chippings.
Ticket Agent: "Upper or lower berth?"
Mrs. Keen: "Oh, I don't know; he doesn't go out any other offer than he comes in."—Boston Transcript.
Amateur Gardener: "I'm afraid that if I do, I can't find them again."
—Puck.
An old lady was being shown over a country seat in North Wales which is famous for its fine pictures. One of these was a portrait of "Null Gwyn, after Sir Peter Lely." The old dame gazed at this picture with marked interest.
"So that's the hussy, is it? she"
remarked, presently. "But I always thought it was King Charles she was after."—Tit-Bits.
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