THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
The SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Ballast Publicized Tuesdays and Fridays by
nationalism, from the stress of the Depart-
ment.
Entered as second-class mail matter
announced by Lawrence, under the set of
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Phones: Bell K. U. 25 and 150.
Address all communications to The Summer Session Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas.
Ralph Curry ... Editor
M. H. Read ... Associate Editor
Ethel Minger ... Associate
Henrietta McKaughan ... Associate
Whitson G. Rogers ... Associate
Paul Brindel ... News Editor
Edna Swingle ... Assistant
Walter Kauder ... Sport Editor
Henry Pegues ... Business Mgr.
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916
WHO IS TO BLAME?
Now that another member of the University faculty has resigned to accept a more remunerative position, the old question arises: "Who is to blame?"
Mr. Scott Hopkins, a former regent of the University, says that "there will be no let up in the exodus of big men from the University until the Board of Administration changes its policy."
President Hackney replies that "We would have ghdly raised the salaries of Twenhoff, Becker and Ogden if the Chancellor had recommended it."
But how could Chancellor Strong have recommended a bigger salary if the Board had no money to pay the 'increase with?' In order to keep the salaries of all the faculty proportionate, such action might call for other increases.
The whole trouble lies not with the Board, nor with the Chancellor, but with the system, or rather lack of it, by which the funds necessary to the operation of the University come from a legislature composed of politicians who are looking after their own political hides. It makes no difference to the legislator what kind of an education the young men of their communities get, as long as each legislator keep his own personal popularity.
THE DEAN'S REPORT
in the legislative hall at Topeka there are any number of unnecessary doorkeepers, and fifty second-assistant elevator boys at high salaries, while at the University large classes are being held in basement rooms under instructors and professors who, after they have spent years in study and research, receive but little more than the supernumeraries at Topeka.
Out of an enrollment of three thousand, there are certain to be many students who will carry indulgence in athletics or society to an extreme. It is those persons who do the University more harm through undesirable notoriety, than all the social and athletic activities of the ordinary student.
The paragraph in the report of Dean Templin which called attention to the fact that social activities occupy too much of the students' time at the University to make the best scholarship possible, is not to be construed as a broad slap at all University social and athletic events.
Leaving out the impression these students make for the University upon the outsider and the state at large, more important yet is the atmosphere created at the University that real scholastic work does not count and that K. U. is nothing but a four year joy ride and "finishing"
THE LITTLE THINGS
The doors in Fraser Hall are very heavy. He knew it well. She was just stepping toward the door. He quickly stepped to her side and pushed it open. It's the little things that count.
WOULD WOMEN GO TO WAR?
A few weeks ago some of the girls said the boys were not patriotic, because they were slow to enlist. They said, "if we were boys nothing could keep us from going." It is easy to tell what we would do if we were somebody else. Why not let these enthusiastic maidens go to the front to act as nurses.
If at first you don't succeed, try a gas attack.
"It is it hot enough for you," was asked of a co-ed in the library, who was industriously pouring over a huge volume, while the perspiration stood out in bends upon her forehead.
WHY WORRY?
"Oh isn't it funny?" she answered. "I am getting quite used to it,—this is my third summer."
How many of us are as cheerful and optimistic? It is so much more natural to grumble about the heat, to feel ourselves the worst abused creatures under the sun, because we have to work in Summer Session, in fact, because we are in summer school at all.
And yet, of what use is the worry, the fret, the complaint, just because we are a little uncomfortable or because we have not an electric fan apiece? It is never so bad but it might be worse, and the National Guards stationed on the Mexican border would undoubtedly appreciate some of Mount Oread's breezes.
And so, like the third timer, why not try to see the funny side, and get used to studying in hot weather, and thinking how we would enjoy some of it next winter.
Cheer up, for summer is rapidly passing and will be gone before we know it.
"PASS THE PRAIRIE DOG"
The prairie dog is to be tamed, civilized and introduced into the best carniverous society along with beef, pork, venison and mutton. A government expert, who has often partaken of fried prairie dog is going to do this service for the prairie dog and for humanity.
The expert says that there is no other animal which leads a life that fits him more exactly for human food than the prairie dog. Let us hope that the Kansas prairie dog will change his habits before fried prairie dog occupies a place on the menu of the K. U, boarding house.
THE OLDEST TEACHER
The profession of teaching may cut short many a young woman's life yet such did not happen to Louise Brayton Sawin of Madison, Wisconsin, who perhaps is the oldest ex-teacher living in the United States. She has now passed the century mark having celebrated her 100th birthday May 23.
When Madison was yet an infant city Louise B. Sawin held the position of the first teacher in its schools. In that city she has passed many years and today still clings to the memories of those early days. She still lives in Madison and takes an active interest in educational work and plans.
Wanted by the fair bathers in Potter's—an absolutely water proof bathing cap.
The largest room in the world is the room for improvement.
For our part, we would as soon deal with Meshirjetscherub on the Eastern Front as to have to read proof on Aberystwyth, Aherwyswith, or Machynlleth, should the Germans invade Wales.
If some of the atmosphere of Antarctica could have been bottled up and sent along with the wonders, Mawson's pictures would shave made a still greater hit.
Well, anyway, Henry Ford didn't locate in Battle Creek.
"The Yellow Jacket" given by the Coburn Players is preferable any time to a straight jacket.
Straw dealers report prosperity Maybe someone is getting a new kind of breakfast food ready for the market.
Lost—Reputation as a summer resort. Finder please return to Mount Oread.
Who really wants to know how to avoid being struck by lightning? Has anyone a remedy for sunstroke?
Along with crackerless Fourths, smokeless smokers, etc., we may soon come to a professorless university.
Why are women such good fighters?
Ans.They like to bear their arms.
THE GAME
Life's a game, and we, as children
Playing tag
Blindfold bump against each other,
Yet we brag
That we were trip or stumble,
And each day
Hearts are lighter. Life is brighter.
For our play.
Ah, how blind, how blind the players
No one knows
How his light and happy dancing
Bruised some toes.
—Ruth Patrick.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed on evidence of good faith but names not be published without the writer's consent.
THE GAME
THE CIGARETTE AGAIN
The abolition of any evil has been half accomplished when society recognizes the thing to be an evil. In the last half of reform has to do with method.
WHY FILL UP THE POOL?
Capitalists generally agree that the first one thousand dollars is hard
I. Putteth. Mortages on houses.
And. A quietus. To women. Wearing. Men's. Hose. It. Permitteth Modest immodesty. And driveth. Men. To booze. It cramteh. Our toes. And decreethe. New. Outfits of collars. At will. It maketh. Tights. Out of men's. Clothes. And. Fools. Of us all. It. Is the why of Poodle dogs. And. Peck-a-boo. Waists. It gives. Sane people. The stomach. Ache. And causest. Father. To Buy liniment. For. Back aches. it is ever. On. Women's lips. And Shapeth. Her. Destiny. It putteth. Proper. Words. In proper. Places. But. Driveth. Man. To the poor house. Or to the bosses' Till drawer. Thence to. Where. Stripes. Are never. Out. Of. Fashion.
Under the caption, "Out of the Mouths of the Faculty," a head that reminds us of "Out of the Mouths of Babes," the Independent tells how certain members of the Political Science Department of Columbia University investigated the causes which kept 50,000 garment workers in New York, idle for six weeks, with the result that the professors decided the rights of the dispute lay with the workers.
He was leaving the Hill at noontime. A husky canker worm dropped from a branch of a stately elm and alighted on his collar. Then she, who was a few feet behind, quickened her steps.
STYLE
Some one will have to begin to think of a new slogan for the Christmas tide for even a child's mind can no longer grasp such an idea as peace on earth.
"Pardon me but—" and the canker took a half dozen Charley Chaplin flipflops. But in giving the worm the uppercuff, she dropped her book. He picked it up. Then they were even and acquainted and walked merrily along together.
It—You ought to be good at geometry.
It. Your bend is both plain and solid.—Widow.
A report says that the swimming pool is to be filled to the top, thus making it eight or ten feet deep. In behalf of the many beginners who have not yet learned to feel safe on top of the water but continually seek the bottom of the pool either intentionally, or more often accidently this protest against more water is made. Some women have entered the pool this last week for the first time and had anticipated enjoying it the remainder of the term and this news of a full pool is not at all to their liking.
Safety first may be carried to an extreme but yet as there are so many women who come to the pool regularly who cannot even swim across it once it seems an injustice to deprive them of trying to learn. This is what deep water will mean, for, from a canvas of the women in the pool there was unanimous dissent against more water and practically every one said she would not come if the water were made deeper.
Those who like deep water and are able to swim have long since wended their way to the larger swimming hole of Potter's and in justice to the rest it seems that the indoor pool should be left at its present depth.
Editor Summer Session Kansan
Glimpses of Interesting K. U. Scenes Through the Eyes of the Jayhawker
I Don't Smoke.
A letter home—the Summer Session Kansan.
If the reader sincerely believes that smoking is a harmless habit and will state his reasons, the writer will state two reasons why a young man should not smoke for every reason stated in its defense.
Do the smokers learn to use the weed after coming to the University or did they learn it in the small town? . . . If he is a smoker when he becomes a student, is it likely that he will refrain when the habit is so popular as it is here? The writer does not regularly use tobacco until coming here, but now are as big smokers as any on the Hill. . . .
"I Smoke" in the last issue of the Kansan, grants that there are more smokers in K. U. than in the other Kansas College; but justifies this because the other institutions are denominational schools, and the church which contributes to their support, taboos the use of tobacco; while K. U. is a state institution where all such privileges are granted that do not "interfere with the welfare of others." Does he not know that a body of students are intimately related in a college setting? The influence is even not confined to the campus, but is felt in the high schools over the state? . . . Just as the college student defends his use of tobacco by citation to members of the faculty, so a high school boy points to the marigold up.
to accumulate; the next thousand,
to easier and additional ones correspondingly easier; in like manner it takes
more time to work to effect the first half of a reform
In the University of Kansas, whose purpose is, making big men with big ideas and zeal for service; it seems strange . . . . that there are students who indulge in a habit that saps physical strength by poisoning the system, weakens moral fiber, and has a depriving influence upon the victim. And yet, these tobacco friends not only use the weed, but to try to disfuse its use. Can it be that they are unaware of its injurious effects? . . . For those who contend their harmlessness upon the system, I ask that they recall, if possible, their first chew of tobacco or their first smoke. Was it enjoyed? If smoke has so clouded the brain that this first experience cannot be recalled give your little five or six year old brother a chew or a cigarette; or if you be a father, your little son will do. If it is not poisonous, why the pallid face, the twitching nerves?
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Pressing Tickets for Students.
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F. A. Owen & Son, 1024 Mass.
Phone 510 Bell.
EDOWAR BUMGARDEN, Dentist. 311
Perkin's Building, Phone. Bell 511
CANTER'S BOOK STORE—Typewriters for rent or repaired. Full line of theme and note book papers.
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