UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Harry H. Morgan...Editor-in-Chief Helen Peterson...Society Editor Helen Peterson...Society Editor BUSINESS STAFF Vernor A. Moore Business Mgr. Michael R. Rightman Admin. William H. Assistant NEWS STAFF Wilbur Fischer Marjorie Rickard Marlotte Rickard Bob Reed Jacarter Alfred Enguerrer Koster E H. Kendick E H. Kendick Paul Flage Bull Gardiner Bull Gardiner Subscription price $3.00 per year if advance, one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1916, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published in the afternoon five twenty-five minutes from the press of Khmoune from the press of Khmoune. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university as a Kaussar, to go further than merely printing the name of Kaussar; to go further than merely holding the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be generous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to avoid being guilty of the students of the University. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1916. THE STATE TEACHERS MEETING A big state convention is to be held at Topeka Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. The program is filled with addresses by men and women of national importance and plans are being made for entertaining the largest number of visitors that have ever attended the state teachers' convention. It is only twenty seven miles away and is too big an opportunity for any prospective teacher at the University to miss if it is possible to attend. The annual reunion of K. U. people Thursday night and the Kansas-Washburn football game Saturday should be added attractions. A PLEA FOR VENTILATION A FLEE FOR IT: Good health tends toward efficiency. Everyone admits that a student must be in a good condition physically, before he can attain any mental capacity. Yet there are many unhealthful conditions existing on Mt. Oread of which hot, unventilated rooms are certainly among the foremost. Can anyone expect a class of more than 100 students crowded together in a room, which has not a particle of fresh air in it, to do efficient work? This condition breeds not only sluggish minds, but sluggish bodies. Some means should be taken to do away with this evil, which certainly should not be tolerated in a modern, up-to-date educational institution. To those who do not believe that the world is getting better every day we cite the fact that only recently the Sour Owl has come out of its ugly, duckling ways. ___ ARE WE PROGRESSIVE? Kansas boasts of her progressive ness and "up-to-now" spirit in all matters political and governmental. We wonder if she ever considers that her languishing educational institutions make a mighty poor advertisement of this progressive spirit. We hesitate to knock, but anyone can see that the progressive states of the west along all lines are Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nebraska, the states that now have a permanent in come for educational purposes. THE PROBLEM OF ATHLETICS THE PROBLEM OF ATHLETICS Yale University is trying to solve the problem of salaries for football coaches, and, incidentally in involve the whole question of intercollegiate athletics. The "powers that be" in the eastern university believe that $12,000 for a few weeks work is too much to spend on a form of athletics in which so few can participate, and one of the solutions suggested is to abolish intercollegiate sports altogether. The question is not new, but is each year becoming more pressing, and to the observer it is evident that a radical change of policy in regard to sports must be made soon, or inter-collegiate athletics will become a matter of history. Large salaries to coaches, hired players, betting, and concentration on a desire to win at any cost—these things savor too much of commercialism, and commercialized sport is not the sport of the class called gentleman, the class to which college men are supposed to belong. Not intercollegiate athletics, but the spirit in which they are taken in this country is to blame for the protest against this form of college activities, and true sportsmen will hail with delight any solution of the difficulty which, while retaining athletics, will purge it of the metallic ring it has assumed in America. "Ain'tchu-goin" was heard from a crowd of students, and the speaker was a senior. A plan is wanted whereby the freshman class may be made to include those whose language, manners, and disposition put them in that classification. COLLEGE ATMOSPHERE The atmosphere most university people live in may be compared to that of a large party of people whirling through space at terrific speed. They take no time to tor rest themselves in the shady places and no time to observe roadside scenery. Gripping their hats and clutching at almost anything for a support, they hurry through life with jaws set. The mere matter of having time to stop to think no longer counts in the excessive "kultur"; the object is to "get there first!" YOUR WORD How much is it worth? That is the question that was asked of your father, and of your father's father—back to the time of the beginning of language. That is the question friends teachers and employers are asking o you today. The home folks know tha value of your word—the knowledge may be a comfort or it may give un easiness—there is usually room fo improvement in the majority of cases None of us has yet reached a state o perfection. We do not pretend to b models of accuracy and promptness in all things. We slip frequently o the pavement of progress. When you say a thing, do you mean it? A slip after a good intention is not so dangerous as a long skid down a slope of wrong endeavor, or no endeavor at all. Are you always in the place where you say you will be at the appointed time. Do you always do what you say you will do. Minor little points, these—but they either get you there—or nowhere. To "arrive" means either up or down, success or failure—it's the direction that counts. LEVITY WITH THE GRIND His Queen —"Now, just because I allow you to what，我don't think you can do." Sunday night in a delightful home. Sophie:"Does your mother object to kiki's If you are musical—don't be bashful. We can stand a whole lot from a person with confidence, What has become of the old fashioned student who used to study his lessons and go to bed at night?—Ex. Teacher (explaining the use of the tenses in a grammar lesson)—"Now, Johnny, tell me the tense of this sentence on the blackboard, 'I am pretty'." Professor (Materia Medica quiz)- Assessing is very deadly State the disease. Johnny (without hesitation)- "Past tense."—Ex. Student—One drop will kill you. Hya Yaka. Just Two Rooters Sitting on the Wall "This is sure a rotten college, ain' it." "Lo, Herman." "Lo, Julius." "Yeh. no spirit." "None of the guys out here know anything about college spirit." "D'Juh see the rotten crowd at the Barbecue?" "Nope. I didn't go." "Neither did I." "What's the use, there ain't no spirit." "No spirit." "S'long, Herman." "Slong, Julius."—Drake Delphic. Much knowledge is flaunted. Iken, much of it, has been used. When the man who is, has been? Of the man who was and the man who is, I've read the books on primeval days, and the inspiration array of these. I SING OF THE MAN TO BE Dr Hugh Robert Orr My faith was stretched to the thinnest thread, But, by faith, I've taken them in. I ever was loosed on a gossip-fed ladder. He's probably mostly property owner. The kind o' the stock and the worth o' the breed, Better 'n any your paper and fees. for my aunt amoeba I have great respect. And for all infusorian kin; but I'm wanting to know what I shall be When the I that is, has been. If today man is more than in ages must... `development's certain, the' o' slow;` `it is swept up to climb the to' o' `the 'o' scale.` And there's nowhere further to go? What the past has revealed but prophecies more, prophecies more, For growth is life's habit, I ken; own, in town, So I lost the meaning of the man to be, When the man that is, has been. CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent SMOKING AGAIN To the Kansan; We should be ashamed of ourselves. Such actions as these help give K. U, the bad name it has with many people of the state. Let's quit. In the editorial section of the Sunday Kansas City Star is given an article on Baker University. Near the end of the story is found this reference to K. U.: "Chancellor Strong asked that no cigarettes be smoked on the campus. They're careful now not to smoke under his window." OPPOSES PADDLING To the Kansan: In common with a great majority of your readers, I am proud and jealous of the good name of the University. I am proud of the rest on good actions and practices. There are practices in the University that tend to compromise its good name. I want to register my opposition to one kind—I am opposed to all kinds of hazing and I include under them "hazing" all forms of paddling. I should like to have this subject discussed in the communication column of the Kansan. If those who practice paddling have any argument to support their actions except joy in the whack of the paddle, let us hear If joy in the whack of the paddle is its greatest concern, let us suppress the whole business. M. W. Sterling UPPERCLASS RESPONSIBILITY PERCULAR. A researcher at a Western university said that the faculty is a subordinate element in a college and that the greatest influence upon new students is This is probably an extreme statement but it is true that the upper-classman is an important factor in governing the course of the freshman. He has a great power and responsibility in his hands. How often, however, does the average upperclassman realize his own importance in this regard? How often does he stop to think that he may be more likely to influence in the lives of the youngsters with whom he comes in contact? The average freshman is an impressional youth, quite likely away from home for the first time. The new environment, with its unfamiliar setting, makes it more capable to suggestions from men more familiar with University ways. It's a big weight on a man's conscience to know that he has influenced another to take even the slightest wrong step. And it's just as great a joy to have turned him in the right direction—Ohio State Lantern The two classes of good manners are those which are used in good society, such as at home, and those that appear at boarding house tables. Good manners help you have company and leave with haste when the majority passes them by. BOARDING HOUSE MANNERS Boarding house manners are hard to define because there are so few of them. The ring leaders among boarding house manners may be said to be, "Get everything and get it!" Gobble lot and talk little. Gobble little and repeat loudly. "Every one obeys these rules of boarding house etiquette." To eat at a boarding house means "leave all hope of polish behind, all ye who enter here." And it is left behind, so far indeed that weeks and even months are spent in tacking together the almost hopelessly shattered set of manners when one does get back to civilization. Boarding house manners are poor, and are joked and laughed about, but they give the user much more nourishment in any allotted time than the other. Boarding houses fork-and-eight-spoon style—Indiana Daily Student. Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx Which way does the wind blow? IT'S pretty hard to tell in politics these days; but where the "weather man" is concerned, you can be sure of one thing: whichever way it blows, it's bound to be cold. This Hart Schaffner & Marx belt back Varsity Six Hundred is one of the best overcoats you can wear-stylish, warm, comfortable. Above the short half-belt at the back are two plaits, and below the belt is one large inverted box plait-the effect is stunning. 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