UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the Univer- EDITORIAL STAFF Wilbur A. Fischer Editor Matt Hullinger News Reporter Don Davis Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF NEWS STAFF william Cady...Business Manager William Allen...Assistant William Allen...Assistant Jack Carter Eugene Dyer F. William Koester Hickory Dorothy Dorothy Cole Paul Flagg Ruth Gardner Jacques Harry Morgan Marjorie Rickard Henry Pegues Helen Patterson Subscription price $3.60 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Published. In the afterward five volumes of Kansas from the press or variety of Kansas, from the press or variety of Kansas. Entered as second-class mail, mis- offered by authorities. Kansas, under the Federal law. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students, further than merely printing the names of their professors. 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 help them succeed; to the students of the University. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1916 He who would have a thing done quickly must do it himself."Ital. OUR OLD-TIME FRIEND Our City Dads are certainly good to us. When the students complained of broken shins, blackened eyes, and torn clothes from falling off the sidewalks when there were no lights on Massachusetts Street, our dads put in a "Great White Way." When some of the students were injured while "jay walking" they drew white lines on the sidewalks to steer the young men and women of the University across the congested streets of the city and protect them from harm. LEARN GOOD-FELLOWSHIP Yes, they've done all this and more for us—but we're still chewing the same old brown water. Just a few days ago a freshman refused an invitation to an entertainment. "No," he said, "I don't want to get into the habit of 'doing society'. I came to the University to work." Now, this freshman had a good idea in his head—but perhaps he carried it too far. Of course, everyone should come to the University with the idea of working hard; but no one should be a grind. One of the best things in the University is the good-fellowship, the know- eachother spirit of the school. On the other hand, too often social life far overbalances a student's class work. One must equalize his time to get the most out of University life. There are few students in K. U. who could not learn a lesson from this overenthusiastic freshman. It is the duty of every student to attend to his studies—and it is also his duty to make friends, enter the fellowship of K. U., take interest in the welfare of his Alma Mater and—well, even Chancellor Strong says that each one needs his play time! THE HUMAN VEGETABLE Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his book, "English Traits," ascribed the high average of scholarship in English universities to the fact that every English university student takes a proper amount of daily exercise. He noted also the fact that the average American university student does not. Emerson's observation on this matter is worth much thought. It is true that there are few university students who are not interested in athletics; but it is also true that many of these prefer to take their exercise by sitting on the bleachers watching the other man kick the ball. The English custom by which every man is seriously but not intemperately engaged in some sport, is unknown in America. The bearing of all this on scholarship is obvious. An active mind can't get along in the same house with a sluggish liver. Many a man curses himself daily for his inability to put his mind on his studies, and for the fact that he does so badly the tasks which, with vigorous application, he could accomplish perfectly with only a reasonable expenditure of time. Generally he puts his unnatural condition down to the theory that he must have an inactive mind which never was made for use—particularly on books; and so resigns himself to intellectual mediocrity. The real trouble, if he only knew it, often lies in a system of effortless living which results in auto-intoxication. His body never gets a chance to rid itself of poisons which act like an opiate on the mind, and which make even physical exertion more and more difficult. This is a bad way to begin life, and it is just as bad, if not worse, for the women of the university than it is for the men. And yet scores are going their way to future ill health and disease indifferent to the significance of that dull headache, and of that heavy drowsiness that comes upon them at unnatural times of the day. The worst of it is that dislike for physical exertion can become a stronger and stronger habit so that in time the victim of it never feels a spontaneous dwelling so as to go for an ail in these days of irresistible weather. But worse even than the effect of such physical idleness on the mind and body is the effect of it on character. A man who uses his mind hard, but not his body, is at least utilizing a lot of nervous force, an expenditure which calls indirectly at least upon his physical powers, and which may for that reason keep him in reasonably good health. But most of the physically idle are mentally idle too. They don't study; they don't work; they do nothing at all as industriously as they can. This is the road to spiritual deterioration. There is just one word that describes these lovers of ease and haters of effort—they are human vegetables. They need to be put to work on a rock pile first and given a course in Browning afterward. The combination might regenerate them. Now that there are three thousand of us in the University, like the "Fighting Five Hundred," the "Thundering Thousand" will have to thrown into the discard. What next? The "Terrible Two Thousand"? ON SWINBURNE Often you wonder, as you read on and on, whether his habit was not to start a poem with some fragment that occurred of itself, and then to make more fragments in the same metre, until his ear desired another one. You might tell that he had written, choose a first stanza and a last, and let the others arrange themselves. What are they like, these long and structureless poems, as empty of meaning as of movement from mood to mood? They are like blown fires that spread among arriving children, swat hot worms away in the same place, like huge elusive bellyling sails that the mind cannot furl. The emptiness is filled with lines that call and clang, with a rushing wind of rhythm, with a musical movement repeated and repeated until it gets into one's blood, and the pulse beats in sync with the rhythm, the wind has blown itself out the waves keep up their rolling and washing.—The New Republic. The young men's THERE is every reason to call Varsity Fifty Five the young men's favorite. It is made by favorite suit Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx HartSchaffner&Marx Kaiser (shaving)—Blanket blank blank this razor! They have throned her upon a hill-top and her sceptre swaits afar; the ends of the earth acknowledge her wherever her children are. Never in pride of her glory may those she has nourished forget her, but in their absence she purposely the purge. 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