UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas sity of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF THIS ISSUE Paul J. Kirchhoff Paul J. Kirchhoff William F. Illnesses News Editor William Cody Manager From: More Assistant William T. Hirsch Manager NEWS STAFF NEW Don Davia Jack Carter Harry Morgan Jugs Dyer Jim Porter Neeson Majorie Rickard E. H Kendrick Allen Bowley Henry Pogue Phil Flag Henry Pogue Bob Heed Ruth Gardiner Matterson Wilbur Fischer Subscription price $2.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail, mail-master at the post office in Carson, CA, under the attendance of March 18. Published in the afterparty, five weeks later, a copy from the press weekly by Kara Kramer, from the press of The New York Times. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1916. OUR PURPOSE The University Daily Kansan aims to serve its readers; By furnishing accurate information of the varied activities of the University—announcement of special lectures, changes in schedule of classes, news of social gatherings, concise reports of curriculum and extra-curriculum doings, together with occasional expressions of men of gifted personality; keeping in mind that the lighter side of our campus life is necessary to the faithful picture. By commenting intelligently not only on local events but also on general subjects of special interest to the student body. By publishing merchandizing news of Lawrence, and realizing that our 3,000 and more readers will spend at least one million dollars during the year, and that therefore this paper ought to give them information that is at once reliable and trustworthy. THOSE BIG SISTERS Just how much the Big Sister movement means to the University has been seen these first few days of the school year. If it was registration there was a Big Sister there to explain the "why" of the many cards with their confusing questions. If it was a selection of courses, again the Big Sister was on the Job quietly giving the advice the experience of one, two or three years on Mount Oread had taught her. But there is another side of the movement that strikes home even stronger to the newcomer on the Hill. If she doesn't know a soul when she gets off the train, before night her big sister has her in hand and her head is in a whirl of introductions and friendly greetings. Everything is beautiful, and her old perspective of the new school is different. MIXERS Mixer: A gathering where you mix. That may not be the way the dictionary puts it, but that's what it means at K. U. anyway. At K. U. a mixer is an affair where you mix yourself with hundreds of other men. It is a gathering where you shake hands with dozens of fellows who have just as much pep as you have and maybe more. You meet others with as much intelligence, wit and individuality. You will find that they have been places where you haven't and have had experiences that you haven't had. In short the theory of the mixer is that by exchanging experiences each fellow gets a little of the point of view of the other. This is one of the pleasant and broadening things that college life the opportunity to talk and laugh with fine young men, and to develop the art of conversation by association with gentlemen. These mixers provide that opportunity. SCHOOL MORALITY They are men of truth and honor. They have but yielded to one of those conventions, those topsy-turvy ideas, which prevalently prevail in most— No, reader, not in most countries, or in most armies, or in most Foreign Offices, but in most schools and col- ages of today. For the New York Sun, from which we quote, is now speaking of Annapolis and of the fact that virtually two entire classes, comprising more than three hundred men, did not disdain to cheat in their examinations. Young men of truth and honor in all other respects, they bowed without demur to the convention of school morality which made the conventions of general morality quite unconventional. Thus it may be seen that men may go through life untouched in truth and honor, provided they do their lying and cheating under sanction of a special code; in the world has plenty. As a student one may cheat under the school ethic. Out of school, a man may play the bully under the militaristic code, as at Zabern, or cheat under the "business is business" convention, or ib under the polite society convention, or play general havoc and lie like a gentleman under the great sex convention. By belonging to a sufficient number of schools, clubs, casts, and social spheres, one should find it fairly easy to adjust the practical to the moral life—The Nation. Little Egypt mild 5e cigar, Try one. Packed in tine—Adv. Send the Daily Kansan home This I behold, or dreamed it in a dream— that harden a cloud of dust along a plain; And undertested the cloud, or in it. A furious battle, and men yelled, and Shocked upon swords and shields. A Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A creeping thrill at the battle's edge. And though, "Had I a sword of keener that blue blade that the king's son bears—but this Blunt from his hand, and flung it from his hand, and left the field. Then the king's son, wounded sore beaten And weaponless, and saw the broken Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden And ran and snatched it, and with lattice-shaken He bewed his enemy down. And asked a great cause that heroic day. 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Varsity Fifty Five Models for young men are designed with the utmost care to all details of correct style. Peckhams Charles Warren Fairbanks REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Speaks Tomorrow Thursday Afternoon at 2:30 at the BOWERSOCK THEATRE All University Students are invited to hear one of the nation's big men