UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kentucky
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undercover student in Kansan; to go further than merely printing the image of Kansan; to the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be gagging; to be agacious; to leave, more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to be intelligent; to qualify the students of the University.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1916
WHY NOT TAKE A STRAW VOTE?
Why not take a straw vote on the presidential election at convocation Friday morning? Ballots could be given to the students as they pass in and collected at the end of the chapel service.
University men and women are supposed to be well posted on national affairs and the campaign issues of the present election. The result of such a vote would no doubt carry weight with some people over the state who have not had time to make a thorough study of the issues.
Straw votes have been taken in many other universities and colleges and much interest has been shown in it. A ballot on the candidates could be taken very easily Friday morning and it would not interfere with convocation.
WELCOME! GUARDSMEN!
A news story stated that one lecturer used as much as forty pounds of liquid air a week last year. Couldn't they approximate the amount of plain air?
Thousands of students and townpeople gathered downtown yesterday afternoon to give the returning guardsmen the kind of a reception they deserved. It was a fine display of true Kansan spirit.
Patriotism and loyalty were in the air, the stars and stripes were unfurled on every side and everyone caught the swing of the martial music. It was a grand display, demonstrating above all else that Americans are not drifting, that national pride is not dead, and that the citizens of today are just as loyal as they were in '61.
The University welcomes the student guardsmen back and there was not a student or faculty member yesterday who did not feel a surge of pride and admiration for the boys as they marched by. They demonstrated their willingness to serve their country and we are glad to have them all back with us.
The railroad companies refused to make a special excursion rate to Urbana, Illinois for the Kansas-Illinois football game last Saturday. More than three hundred students of the southern college had pledged themselves to make the trip—Daily Californian.
Perhaps the Californian has the impression that K. U. moves south for the winter.
STUDENTS AND POLITICS
Students of the University are showing unusual interest in national politics this year. Judging from the numbers in the Hughes and Wilson clubs and from the expressions of opinion the students are divided about 50-50 between the two presidential candidates.
Many of the students who are not able to go home and vote will take advantage of the law permitting them to send their ballots. More than
one-third of the students are old enough to vote and most of them are going to take advantage of the opportunity.
Every student should vote if possible because his knowledge of national and state affairs makes his vote highly desirable. It is a lamentable fact that well educated people do not take more interest in the political affairs of the nation.
The state campaign committee realize the importance of the student votes and have been sending speakers to address the students political clubs. The women will cast a large vote and judging from the interest taken in political discussions around the campus the women are just as enthusiastic over the election as the men.
RESPONSIBILITY
At some time during the college career of every student comes the opportunity to assume responsibility. How many of us have ever considered the value and training of this? Do you seek activities involving responsibility or do you assume duties merely because they are forced upon you?
The man who succeeds in the world is the fellow who is not only able to bear burdens and assume responsibility but who seeks to do so. Education is a big word and means far more than a knowledge of books; it implies an understanding of the practical affairs of life. So if we are to get the best possible education out of our university life positions of trust and responsibility should be sought for. The graduate is immediately thrown into a world of responsibilities so the experience one gains in college will not be amiss. Strive tget into student activities, work your way into the confidence of your associates by a display of trustworthiness and a willingness to assume burdens and don't shift duties onto the "other fellow."
The overcrowded condition of the University buildings is appropriately illustrated by the sign, which Prof. Sam O. Rice, of the department of journalism, has tacked to the door of his office. It reads, "Room One-Fourth."
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
From the mastland iind o'dreams.
From the mystic land and 'o dreams,
My soul is waked with the rugged
Of the morning sun's first beams.
Out of the night—Oh! Why did I sleep
'Till the dawn was well advanced?
Oh, why is my silly head so dumb.
Out of the night .Oh-Hheaven's above!
Wake at eight a.m.
To Wendy's .a history
When I planned to bug for a miser
quiz
And a notebook due in chem!
Out of the night that covers me,
To the dreadful light of day,
'I'll back to my down bed again
And sleep my cares away!'
—M. E.
"Name four kinds of sheep" was one of the questions asked in an examination on stock raising. One student at Stockridge answered, "black sheep, white sheep. Mary's little lamb and hydraulic ram."
COLLEGE RIFF RAFF
The editor received a letter from a woman out in western Kansas urging him to use his inducement to put a stop to football. She wrote, "Recently I witnessed my first game and I never imagined before how terrible it really is. All I can see to the game is that he jumped on me and bite him and kick him till he lets go. There should be a law prohibiting such cruelty."
If she didn't think we might have won that game if we had a real good kicker and she replied, Oh no, sir, she didn't thing very much of a man who would squabble with the referee over a decision—Iowa Student.
He Asked Her
Some students are born great, some have greatness forced upon them, and others join the militia when Villa begins to cut up.
Why does the man who is his mother's idol think that he is equally irresistible to the rest of the feminine sex?
"Let in the Squirr—ls, Gretchen"
A poet asks an unthink a thought;
messily, mostly
For he found a rhyme to tweedle-dum.
But was stumped on tweedle-dee.
Poor teeth make good tombstones.
-Wichita Beacon.
CAMPSUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent.
CHAPERONS AND DANCES Two women, who had recently been chaperons at a dance, were discussing school affairs.
CAMPUS OPINION
"The girls completely ignored as," one said. "They acted as though we were talking to them, but I know very well passed me right by without even a smile of recognition."
Now I don't think the students are intentionally rude, and object strongly to their being charged with lack of good training. I do not think either statement is true. We don't think we have a Varsity舞 dance where you pay admission and there are no real hosts. If we don't know the chaperons, we don't always make ourselves known but as I remember the chaperons have not come us a fair chance. They do not come around where we are, nor try to make themselves acquainted. The statement that we pass up our shoes when we enter the hall does not notice who is on the side lines when the music is playing.
"Yes" replied the other. "They are just rude, and certainly show a lack of respect."
But now since we see that some or all of you are still young and be treated more cordially, it will be a small matter for us to keep this in mind at the next dance we attend.
AN ALUMNUS' RESOLUTION
To the Kansan;
I just returned from paying my dues to the alumni association and realize more than ever that I am getting old–in years only, however. As I sit here in front of this old mill at which I have worked for three years, I wonder if I, like so many of the six thousand graduates of the University of Kansas, will get out into the old world where the Almighty Jack counts for so much and forget all about dear old Mount Orcad. For
Never to cease to be a member of the alumni association.
Never to let a grim smile of satisfaction come over my face when I read about K. U. losing a football game, but I felt so uneasy that be few—and say to those around me that the old school has gone to the dogs since I left; that the old fighting spirit is all gone; that things are not going to happen for me dancing is not cultural there as it was in the days of '16; that society is the main thought of the students—in fact, that what the University needs most is them; they used to have when "I" was there.
To me, the most disgusting experience of my whole school life has been to hear a bunch of old grad talks about how the school has gone to the place where they left. Above or 200 years ago, from the M.D. informs me that I am going to shuffle off in a short time, I believe I can die happy if they will just cart me back to Lawrence and give me a chance to stifter-up with some beer. I'll just sit on the last Jayhawk-Tiger game I will have the pleasure of witnessing.
With hopes that some of the alumni of this school who are eternally grabbing for the yellow dust and forget that their ability is due to the training they received on this famous Hill will see this and get a glimpse of what are and what they ought to be, I hope with what we know nation—that I will yell old "Rock Chalk" whenever and wherever I get the chance and that I'll never forget the words of "Crimson and the Blue." (Signed) WILLIAM S CADY.
(This communication was sent to the editor the day our former business manager, Mr. Cady, left for his position at Dodge City).
The college man is fascinatingly indifferent. He usually has lovely long cycles, and these increase the perfect calm of his expression. A professor can drone for an hour and not annoy him, because he is adored all the freetime he has.
(Signed) WILLIAM S CADY,
Dodge City, Kansas.
Here and there in modern civilization can be found definite traits of the pure and undefended stone-age man. Our modern cave man may be shorn adorning whiskers; Hart's haufer anchors a wolf; the arch of the forest may clothe his limbs; lucifers instead of flint may light his fires; yet in some other respects this modern specimen is not far removed from his ancient ances-
However, some subjects interest him. For instance, he grows quite heated about class elections and footnotes to students in the controlled two class elections; he confesses that he belongs to the only organizations in college worth recognizing, and he does not conceal the fact that the only stuff worth reading is his course paper in copy. His frankness is gratifying. Browne Collegian.
COLLEGE MAN—Bv a Freshman
CUSTOMS OF THE STONE AGE
Close in the broad foot-step of his father-paleographer the modern stone-age artist never misses the opportunity to decorate any and everything that he approaches. As a result, he has walls of college buildings, and even fresh cement, bears brilliantly the blazed cements, name or organization
of some of these relics of the past. Such practices not only deface university property, but also reflect uncreditably upon the scribe. Stoneage actions of late are called "high-school" and small-town stuff." De-Pauw men and women are out of high school, and ought not deserve the obrium "small town". Individuals may intentionally mislead themselves together in a crusade against these defacers of public property.De Pauw Daily.
Kansas, too, has a few specimens of the stone-age type and judging that there are some of the engravings that the species have existed for here a number of years.
AS IT MIGHT BE
Work has started on the tunnel leading from the foot of the hill at Fourteenth and Tennessee streets to a point directly beneath Fraser. Drivers in that area, which will carry students to any floor in the building. This will mean a great saving of time and labor for the students, and there will be no waiting and falling on the ice this winter while on the way to and from classes.
Prof. John Doe, in the department of naught, should be given credit for assigning the advance lesson at the beginning of his classes and his name should be entered on the roll of students on the pass notes minutes before the whistle blows, in order that the students may make their next classes on time.
The students of the University are very enthusiastic over the new jitney service established at the University expense. The teachers also claim that the tradiness and absences have decreased fifty per cent.
"Uncle Jimmy" Green failed to speak to a student whom he met on the street Wednesday.
THE COLLEGE MAN
The graduate of a university is supposed to be better fitted for the business of life than his less fortunate counterparts, but it is unable to gain a university education. A number of years of study and thought place a man in a more advantageous position with respect to the world than four years of work at the same age. This is true, yet at the same time we hear on all sides, within the university and without, that knowledge of mere facts, more familiarity with books, more technical knowledge of mathematics, more experience in value to the college graduate in after life.
This cannot well be denied, that the facts a college man acquires in his study do not help him greatly in the problems of his life. Such facts as he has to forget without undue delay. But it does not have gained through the study of those facts that makes his education valuable to him. A man who has studied something may later feel he has forgotten it, but he can never forget the unconscious effect it has had on him. He will never unconscious effort that education of value. A man may forget his books but he will not forget the understanding he has gained through them. He may forget the courses he studied but through them he has gained a power to appreciate, a power to understand and comprehend, a power which will remain with him. It is in this that the college man has the advantage over the man without the opportunity for education. It is because of this power of appreciation and understanding, of ability to see more clearly, true light and with more nearly human experience, a university man more often finds the world a better and a happier place than his less fortunate comrade.
In the ultimate the greatest thing a man can take with him when he graduates is understanding, an ability to appreciate himself and the different aspects of the world in their true values. The man who understands things as they are, certain causes as they are, certain effects, faces the world with a better assurance of living a valuable life than the man who must grope blindly. It is for this that we study, that we may understand. And it is for this our faculties ask us to study deeply, because superficial study fails of the purpose of education. We could not be expected to study to any great extent if a little knowledge of facts were the sole reason to study to study if we know that there is a greater reward that will last through life, true education, the ability to understand—Cornell Sun.
WITH THE POETS
THINK
There's plenty of room in the head of each human. To do that, workable outfit of brains. But they're the world suffers from thousands of duffers. Who don't know enough to come in? So when they talk plainly or grumble. And say that Success is treacherous. Just step up behind them and gently remind them. They're room in the top for the follow who thinks.
Power.
This Charming Dress
LOST—Bunch of keys between 14th and Vermont and Engineering Building. W. M. Haines, phone 1466W. 36-4*
FOR SALE A Topeca Capital paper
pack 6-7 a. e.
Masterson 2129W 37-1
ANY INFORMATION regarding my porch chairs, which have disappeared, will be very much appreciated. Mrs. Rice, 1244 La. 36-3
WANT ADS
FOR RENT—Room for boys. Inquire
1140 Tennessee. 33-5
LOST—Pair ladies white kid gloves
in campus. Return to Kansan of
LOST-PREMO gold watch, silver chain. Return to Kansan office. Reward. 36-3
fice. 37-2
WANTED—Roommate. Have nice
large front room. Price $12.00.
Call Vincent, 2648 W. 808 Ind. 37-3
FOR RENT- Inquire south west
team 1217 Ienth 307
30-4
LOST - Nu Sigma Nu pin. Call 628
Bell. Reward. 37-2
We also show a very new and clever line of Serge Dresses in Navy, Brown or Green. With Embroidered Girdles, Collars and Pockets. Priced at $10.00 to $16.50
Orms, Bulline & Nackman
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**Neckwear that is newly designed—Sailor Collars of Broadcloth, Georgette, Crepe de Chine, Net or Organdy. Separately or in sets...** 25c to $2.50
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. General Practice
13: 60 to 180. House and office phone.
24: 50 to 70.
DR. H. REDING F. A. U. Building
fitted. Hours 7 to 9. Both phone numbers 812-
Printing
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KEEELERS BOOK STORE. 239 Mass
supplies and school supplies. Paper by
the author.
Printing
B. H. DALE, job printing
Both phones 232, 1037 Mass.
FORNEY SHOE SHOP 1017 Mass. St.
Don't make a mistake. All work
is done.
WE MAKE OLD SHOSS INTO NEW
SHOSs! We put old Shoss on the
place to get results. 1342 Ohio St
Jewelers
Established 1865
A. MARKS & SON
Lawalens
Other
Betty Wales
Dresses From
$15.00 to $20.00
Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silver-
ware and Cut Glass our specialties.
work.
735 Mass. St.
of Navy Blue Serge
---is one
of a collection
of
dresses
Betty Wales
112 West 7th. St.
Griffin Coal Co.
FUEL
designed especially for College Girls. The Price is $18.00
Citizens State Bank Deposits Guaranteed The University Bank Why Not Carry Your Account Here?
Kennedy Plumbing Co.
All kinds of electrical shades
Student Lamps,
National Medals Shades,
Cord, Plugs, Sockets, Ete.
Phones 658 937 Mass.
COAL
Capital and Surplus $88,000.00.
"EVERY BANKING SERVICE"
Now is the time to order your winter's coal. A full line kept in stock.
Peoples State Bank
W. D. GWIN
Phones 370
Mrs. Ednah Morrison
Gowns and Fancy Tailoring I cater especially to the trade of women university. Prices reasonable. 1146 Tenn. St. Bell 1145J.
Kennedy & Ernst
HARDWARE and
ATHLETIC SUPPLIES
826 Mass. St. Phones 341
PROTSCH The Tailor
MRS. EMMA D. SCHULZ
Fancy dresses of all, descriptions also tailored suits and remodeling 917 Mass. St.
Between Kress' and Woolworth's.
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The Popular Drug Store
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