THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
The SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesdays and Fridays by students in the Department of Journalism, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
Entered as second-class mail matter
between Washington and Baltimore,
January 18, 1875, under the act of
Maryland.
Phones: Belf K. U, 25 and 150.
Address all communications to The Summer Session Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas.
Sam Pickard ... Editor
Sam Swingle ... Associate Editor
Ethal Minger ... News Editor
Henry Powder ... News Editor
Henry Pegasus ... Business Mgr.
TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916.
IT'S GOOD BYE AGAIN
With growing concern we watch the exodus of some of our best faculty members. Last week it was Professor Millis. Who is to be the next?
The University is developing good men each year. A certain percentage of them are expected to step into bigger positions in larger universities and their advancement is welcomed by all. The deplorable fact connected with their departure from the University of Kansas is that many obtain smaller positions elsewhere at sometimes twice the salary they received here. A few have become high school teachers at much higher pay.
Does the state expect charity work from men who have spent nearly a generation in preparing for the teaching profession? Does the state think that there is some mysterious magnetism about Mount Oread, that will hold valuable men here, when other schools offer them money for their services? Maybe our progressive commonwealth is laboring under the impression that all of the faculty members can afford to be philanthropists.
The University's high standing among other state institutions is gradually being lowered. Soon it will become a matter to blush about. Are such jolts as the one last week going to wake up the legislature or will it take the shock of striking the bottom of the list?
THE LITTLE THINGS
It has been said that a book is the noblest work of man and that even a Quaker ought to take off his hat in a library.
If one will observe the readers in Spooner Library marking the books which are not their own, or carelessly tearing a page or turning down the corner of the leaf, he is inclined to believe that they have had but little real association with books.
It's the little things that count.
BE AN OPTIMIST
Live in the active voice; intent on what you can do rather than on what happens to you; in the indicative mood; concerned with facts as they are rather than as they might be: in the present tense; concentrated on the duty in hand, without regard for the past or worry about the future: in the first person; criticizing yourself rather than condemning others: in the singular number; seeking the approval of your own conscience rather than that of many. Who ever lives the life of much unselfish devotion to the good of others and of all, and lives it in the active voice, indicative mood, present tense, first person, singular number, is bound to find his life full and rich and glad and free; is bound, in other words, to be an optimist.
A regulator that needs regulating is a sorry spectacle.
How complacently the unsophisticated school-ma'am summer student, whose private regulator is in the hands of the third consecutive tinkerer whose schedule is a new one, whose itinerary is an untradden maze, and whose bewildered ears have heard varying and conflicting whistles at intervals of seven minutes—discrepancies doubtless due to points of departures dating from the Flood, the Fall of Rome, to the Gregorian Calendar—how complicately we say does this pedestrian, out of breath from the unusual Mt. Oread climb, glance toward the benign face of the University clock and receive the assurance that she has a full half an hour to the good.
Balm of Gilead to the panting spirit is this on-time sensation. On she moves up the steps of Fraser Hall
A STUDENT'S SOLIOQUY
(Apologies to William Shakespeare).
To dig, or not to dig—that is the question—
Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer,
Th' unending burdens of unkind professors
Or to take arms against a sea of labors,
And by neglecting, end them. To loaf—to rest—
No more and by a rest to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
The dig is heir to," Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To loaf—to rest—
To rest—perchance to flunk—aye there's the rub;
For in that carefree state what grades may come
When we have cast aside this mournful toil
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes us forget him.
For who would stand the loss of all his time,
The professor's jokes, grafter's bluff in class,
The pangs of disprized love, the proud "Laws" leisure,
The insolence of office, and the spurs
That patient merit of the unjust prof, takes
When he himself might his quietus make
By a withdrawal. Who would this anguish bear
To grant and sweat under a book-worm life,
But that the dread of something after finals,
The registrar's office, from whose bourne,
No loafer returns, smiling, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all
And thus our moving picture expectations
Are sickled o'er with the pale cast of that',
And romance of great pith and moment,
Doth from the dig its curious turn away,
And leave a sad reincarnation, G, O, P.
GERTRUDE O. PALMER, '18
and passes admiringly the portraits in the hall of fame. Instinctively, and sure of a double corboration, she naively bestows a passing eye upon the hall clock—George Washington—Thomas Jefferson—Persimmons—Henry Clay-What's the matter with that pendulum?
THE JOB AT HAND
"Opportunity comes but once, size it before it is too late." The above quotation has been used extensively by popular lecturers and writers who strive to urge young folks to action by the use of many high sounding words expressive of very little common sense.
It is refreshing to know that all people do not hold to the one opportunity belief. If we look back over the many incidents in our lives we can easily see that such a view is an absolute fallacy. Never a day passes in which some little opportunity to do good does not present itself to us. If we fail to see these opportunities, it is due largely to our own lack of intelligence and to the fact that we do not keep our eyes open.
Most human beings are possessed with the insane desire to do big things. In their wild scramble after fame, they blind their eyes to the little things of every day life. They fail to see the importance of the common place. Forgetting that it is the little things that conut, they try to start their foundation to success at the roof of the house.
To see the possibilities that lie all around him, and to make the most of his daily opportunities, is a big task for any man. And he is indeed fortunate if he realizes that greatness is not to be acquired in a single step. If he would have his picture hung in the hall of fame, he must first show the world that he is able to stick to the job at hand, and to put his energy and enthusiasm to a practical test in the daily grind of life.
China sends us one student, Honduras one, the Philippine Islands two, Missouri twenty-two, Oklahoma thirteen, Illinois four; yhile New York, California, Colorado, Arizona, Indiana, Nebraska, Texas, and Idaho are represented by one respectively.
The University of Kansas Summer Session is a cosmopolitan assembly, gathered from Asia, the Philippine Islands, Honduras, and eleven states other than Kansas.
Chas. Sword and Everett Gunn, who are attending Summer Session have not yet enlisted. Mr. Ise and Miss Ice are still here, also.
This swim-or-smother, sleep-on-the-roof or buy-an-electric-fan weather is said to be good for the wheat and making the corn.
Wanted:—Dead or alive. The author of the article in the Summer Session catalog entitled, "Cool, Breezy Mount Oread."
CAMPUS OPINION
To the Editor:
communications must be staged as evidence of good faith and will be witnessed without the witness's consent.
What constitutes getting acquainted? We have seen a great deal in the Kansan about the Summer School students getting acquainted, Dean Kelly said that the Community Sings, the play hour, and the moving pictures were provided for this purpose. Do people really get acquainted at these places? Or do those who have friends go with those friends and not make an effort to get acquainted with anyone else?
How is a person who has no friends to get acquainted? Must he wait till he is introduced to someone. Are men supposed to speak to women they have not met, at such places, or to men? If a girl dances the Virginia Reel with a man she has never seen before and whose name she does not know nor whether he's married or single, does he expect her to speak to him when she passes him in the library the next day? People are so different that you never know whether your advances are welcome or not. Some, like Carlyle, never tire of their own company. Some want only old or especially congenial friends. And you cannot blame anyone for preferring to see the Colurus (or do you hear them) by himself so he can laugh when he wants to and not be obliged to make conversation, rather than to be with some one who spoils his enjoyment by unnecessary comments. There are people who must have some one to talk to and do not care whether they talk to friends or strangers. There are times too when everyone gets so lonesome that he is thankful for even a stranger to talk to. How shall we know then, not only how, but when to get acquainted?
Lone Some.
To the Editor;
The state law requires that no one under sixteen years of age be permitted to drive an automobile alone. But nearly every day one notices boys and girls not more than twelve or fourteen cars and doing about in big touring cars. Some of their scarcely are so small that they can scarcely see over the wheel.
Is there any law or tradition against overhead ventilation in the Summer Session class rooms? No aphysiations were reported from chapel last Friday, but the preserved condition for such bphenomena.
Why is it that the officials of this city do not enforce the ordinance governing the driving of automobiles within the city limits?
Yesterday, a basket of clothes was knocked from a boy's shoulder and the boy sent sprawling by such a car, and every day there are hair breadth escapes. Maybe tomorrow some baby will be killed and a mother's heart broken. But then it will be too late.
The speed limit is twelve miles per hour on Massachusetts and twenty in out-lying districts. Despite this fact at nearly every hour of the day, power lines often unaccompanied by older children, speed up and down the streets.
ISN'T IT FREE?
A. J.
To the Editor:
Kansas cannot, of course, offer the mountain air that Colorado's Summer Session can, or the lake breezes in Chicago; yet she might be a little
Glimpses of Interesting K. U. Scenes Through the Eyes of the Jayhawker
more generous with her home product Who has the window-stick? A Breathing Animal.
SHORTEST SHORT STORIES
Chapter I—Ill.
Chapter II—Pill.
Chapter III—Bill.
—Cinematma Enquirer.
Chapter I —Beau.
Chapter II —Dough.
Chapter III —Show.
-Zanesville Signal.
—Zahesvive Signa
Chapter I—D. T.'s.
Chapter II—M. D.'s.
Chapter III—D. D.'s.
Boston Advertiser.
Columbia State.
Chapter I—Jug
Chapter II—Jag.
Chapter III—Jugged.
The following poem was taken from a journal published in the trenches. It is anonymous:
THE SOLDER TO HIS KNAPSACK
You feel he's a friend, he weighs down your back;
You call him a scourge in the day's wear and tear;
You'd find him behind in the long duty track.
Yet when there's a halt he provides you a chair.
Beyond on the line where the sower of death
Flings wide over all his pestilent seed,
And nerve oozes out with each next-to-last breath,
He serves as a guard to your very life's need.
At times he's your buffet, your larder, your chest,
A furniture suite you can lift in your hand.
Or lay 'neath your head as you curl up to rest
And march in your dreams to a happier land.
"Old fellow, what grueling days we go through.
What names have I flung at your innocent skin! . . .
I take them all back and swear by the blue
We're pals to the finish through thick and thin"}
Harlow Tibbets of Blue Rapids, is attending the Summer Session and taking work in journalism in order, he says, "to go back home and show
Real new, live tennis balls, the kind you like to play with at Carroll's... Adv.
You can get more satisfaction out of that swimming suit if you get it at Carroll's.'—Adv.
WANT ADS.
Food sale at McColloch's Drug Store, Plymouth Congregational Christian Endearach, Saturday, July 1, 2 to 5 p.m.—Adv.
LOST—Bar pin containing three large pearls. Finder please call Bell 1243J. Reward. 9-4
LOST—Phi Psi fraternity pin. Leave at Kansan Office and receive reward.
HOUSE TO RENT—To a frat. A large dining room and new floors on all down stairs. Call Bell 2568J.
ROOMS—Cheap for second term, large cool, south exposure. Hot water. Electricity. Kappa house, 1602 Ln., Bell phone 340.
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CONKLIN FOUNTAIN PENS Non-Leakable and Self-Filling Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass. St.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
Pressing Tickets for Students.
10 presses for $1.00
35 presses for $3.00
F. A. Owen & Son, 1024 Mass.
Phone 510 Bell.
EDWARD BUMGARNER, Dentist. 311
Perkin's Building, Phone. Bell 511.
CARTER'S BOOK STORE—Typewriters for rent or repaired. Full line of theme and note book papers.
B. H. DALE, Artistic Job Printing Both phones 288,1027 Mass.
FORNEY SHOP SHOP, 1017 Mass. St.
Don't make a mistake. All work
guaranteed.
PROTSCH, The College Tailor.
THE IMPERIAL HAT WORKS AND SHINE PARLOR. Straw hats cleaned and blocked. First class shines. 737 Mass. St.
DR. H. W. HUTCHINSON, Dentist, 308
Parkins Bldg., Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E, ORELUP, M, D., Dick Bldg, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist. All glass work guaranteed. Successor to Dr. Hamman.
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D., D. O., 833 Mass.
Street. Both phones, office and
residence.
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. *Diseases of the stomach, surgery, and gynecology*. Suite 1, F. A. U. Building. Residence 1201 Ohio St. Phones 35.
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