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.
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Address all communications to The Summer Session Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas.
Sam Pickard ... Editor
Mrs. C, R. Douglass. Associate Editor
Ralph Curry ... Associate Editor
Ernest R. Mrower ... News Editor
Marjorie Rickard ... Assistant
Henry Pegues ... Business Mgr
FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1916.
Sidney Smith, said he'd like to take off his flesh and sit on his bones. And Sid, my boy, you spoke a prayer.
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE?
Lord Byron said,
For thee tobacco, I.
Would do anything, but die." but Byron, a victim of his own pessimism, found no deception in the goblet, either. It does not take a broad mind, thinking man to comprehend the evil effects of the tobacco habit but until human nature is shed of the "Adam" taint, men will yield to the temptation and continue to roll out huge volumes of smoke.
The tobacco habit once formed is seldom entirely given up. Since physicians, who have made a life's study of the effect of nicotine upon the system, tell us that it makes little difference as to the manner in which it is taken into the blood, it would seem most profitable that reformers turn their concentrated attention from the extermination of the cigarette to the educating of boys of high school age against the habit.
Very few students cultivate the smoking habit after entrance to a University or college. Statistics prove that the habit is formed by the high school boys, who at this susceptible age often lack sufficient judgment. In the small towns the boys smoke in the barber shops, pool rooms and alley. In a college town, with parents miles away, the streets and public places are not shunned.
The moral atmosphere at the University of Kansas has the unchallenged nation-wide reputation of being of a higher standard than that of other state institutions. Denominational colleges are classed with high schools in respect to the strict discipline of school "dads," and the wayward son dares not play "above board" and retain his good standing. On Mount Oread it has been estimated that about fifteen per cent of the men students have the cigarette habit. About twice that per cent smoke to tobacco in some form.
IF YOU CAN'T SING—HUM
One of the getting acquainted furnished by the Summer Session to its students is the Community Sing. This session will be remembered both for its large enrollment and for the things it is doing.
Last year was the birth of the Community Sing, which has become so popular in Kansas. At the University as many as five hundred students and their friends gathered together and under the leadership of Dean Butler sang and worked up a bit of Summer Session pup.
June evenings have been more wonderful than ever before. The stars are clearer and the air is sweeter. The campus is covered with a sod of velvety grass and you can see for miles around from the hill. Who could suggest a better way to spend an hour or two one evening a week than to meet here on Mt. Oread and fill the air with music that would harmonize with the natural setting?
"BLOW, BREEZES, BLOW!"
There is one time when Kansas wind is a welcome visitor, and that is during the Summer Session. When cool breezes sweep over Mount Oread and drive away the fiery heat, summer students sigh with content and get down to real work. On the strength of those soft zephyrs depends the success of the Summer Session.
What need is there to go to the seashore, mountains or the green hills, if the breezes on Mount Oread just behave? What need to leap away a whole summer, when you could be cooler and happier and more comfortable if you did something and did not have time to mope around and fret about the heat? What need to seek the heights of Colorado's seat of learning, if only those Kansas breezes blow as they promise to do?
It's nice to get up in the morning,
but—ah, pshaw! that's old. What we mean is why turn the clocks ahead and get up before morning?
KEEPING UP TO DATE
By offering a course in wireless telegraphy for the fall semester, the University again demonstrates the fact that it is abreast of the demands of the times.
The Stone Age, the sickle, the stage coach, and the panting courier have become relics; but ours is the day of compressed air, the traction engine, the de Luxe Transcontinental Limited, the de—wireless.
This morning Newfoundland knew almost before it happened the news from the drive on the German trenches, and the key at the government at Washington called the officials at Houlolulu.
Yes, Ariel's experiments with the spark-gap are now fully understood; and Puck's world-girling record of forty minutes has received such a challenge that the score is almost won.
A gratifying enrollment and a rich career of useful service for Kansas, the nation, and—why not?—the globe, to this latest plan of the department of physics!
Anyway, we've a spicy lot of alumni. Mr. Mustard and Miss Pepper, for instance.
A PICNIC OR "BUST"
Picnic day, the Fourth, the sane, the seasonable, the sensible day of all days for a picnic. That some demonstration seems almost imperative to the American soul on this national holiday is only one reason why University faculty and students should celebrate with a good, jolly, rollicking picnic. As Dean Kelly favors the proposition no effort should be spared in immediately bringing about the necessary arrangements and plans and making definite announcements.
To think of the green fields and former picnic days will bring enthusiasm to even the most learned and bookish toilers and trailers after learning. Talk picnic, plan picnic and help make the picnic.
Don't blame the war if registration is smaller next fall. The catalog is being issued in thirteen sections.
JUST CAN'T STICK THE LAWS The Law students at the University have always borne the reputation of being infallible when questioned on the technicalities of the law. With the possibility of "catching some one up" a catch question was sprung at the Bar Examination. The way one budding lawyer responded is commented upon by the Kansas City Times.
There is one young man among those who took the examination to become lawyers in Kansas last week the committee believes will be chief justice of the supreme court some day. They refuse to divulge his name. Here is a catch question and the way he answered it:
Every University student who goes to help patrol those little towns with their strange mixture of old and new civilization, their heterogeneous population, clinging fast to old beliefs and customs, will feel that for the first time perhaps, he is in touch with a new vitalizing flame, Life.
The examiners decided this student well understood the division between real and personal property.
Q—When if ever, does a fish become real property?
A. —When it is stuck in the mud.
Ah Hha, good bye and greetings. The million little affectionate canker vorms are coming back a hundred old stronger next year for a grand inale.
TO JUNE TWENTY-FIRST
By Aunt Walt, The Prosica Filoso.
1416 Tenn. St.
(With Apologies to Walt Mason)
When comes the day old Sol stands high up in skies so blue, don't fret and squirm, but mop the rill that trickles as you stew. For heat must be kept warm, and for hungry hoggy and; many a day we'll think we're born on Equator's steaming bog. But Sol in kindness sends the heat; move slow at times; be brave, and think full of how cool the treat of winter's frigid wave. No soaring bill钙 now are made—this thought alone is balm; so doff your coat, seek seat of shade, and keep an inner calm. Be weatherwise and pathetic. You're going to fire your friend in salient: "I't not enough for you?" So on the day old Sol stands still let's sing a soothing tune; thus summer students on the Hill we'll make the most of June.
TRANSPARENT GOWNS
Transparent gowns are. Popular with, Coeds in the. Summer Session. And at times one. Can hardly blame. Them. For summer on Mount Oread isn't always as. Cool as the catalogue would. Have us. Believe. A transparent gown. Is so-called because one. Can see through it. Almost. Especially when the Sun is setting. In the. West. Possibly translucent would be a. More accurate word. To describe them. But it not. Thrilling. Enough. In color these. Gowns are usually. White and are. Made of different kinds. Of cloth. White shoes are. Worn with them. Usually. In order to complete the. Picture. The front lawn. Of the Sigma Nu. House is a pretty. Good place to. Get a worm's eye view of. a maid in a. Transparent. Gown. Five o'clock is the Best hour. Admission free. Women who. Wear transparent gowns. Should. Keep the. Sun at their Front.
Two is bliss; three's a blister.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Editor Summer Session Kansas:
Kansas University need not look for any immediate increase in appropriations, so long as sixty to seventy-five per cent of the men students occupies, and the girls encourage the use of the "wool!" cigarettes at the loungehouse, when they entertain the boys. Neither will the reputation for having the best dancers and card players of the state, in its fold, enhance the financial future of the state's greatest school. (Yes, the writer is one of those individuals that the University "sports" would call "a narrow-minded superintendent of schools, from a 'onehorse town'). But I have been outside my own county a few times and I know something of the sentiment of the Kansas people (outside of the largest cities) against the, not necessarily immoral, but the too commonly immoral conditions that prevail at KU, at present.
GLEN L. WYCOFF.
It is an appalling fact that the best customer of the cigarette business in this country today, is the American college man. This fact is all the more inexplainable, in the face of the increasing opposition to the use of the cigarette, on the part of "big business," and other men who employ young fellows; and this opposition is from unemotional, economic reasons, which bid fair before long to put the cigarette fiend "out of the running" when he competes with the non-user for a job.
The writer is not a preacher in any sense of the word; nor does he moralize to seek notoriety; indeed this is the first time he has ever tried to "break into print." But he invites you to print this article, if you dare. Then make a canvass of the other scholars in Summer Session and find out if they almost without exception, in up arms against "the Little White Shaver."
"Do you like history, Johnny?" "Sure! That's the reason we have so many holidays."—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
It is deplorable that the boarding clubs, rooming houses, and business places in Lawrence have so universally accepted the use of the cigarette amphiphae. It is not so elsewhere, it is pretty generally an outlaw.
Personally, I do not expect to recommend that any of *my* students come to K. U. before they are Post Graduates; and I don't see how other students consciously can, until the University has "cleaned house."
Glimpses of Interesting K. U. Scenes Through the Eyes of the Jayhawker
M. K. YOU PIKED
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
In this day of suffragettes and suffragettes the average person would scarcely believe that there was a coed on Mount Oread or even one in existence that was afraid, yes, afraid to act as chairman of a Varsity picnic.
A Would Be Picnicker.
But such seems to be the case for one interested person went to the meeting—which was to be, but was not—in Fraser, Tuesday afternoon, and even the "mysterious M. K.," the newly appointed chairman, was not in spirit wasn't it? Why does she not practice what she preaches?
All because of one timid chairman, many a Summer Sessionist away from home and friends may be compelled to celebrate the anniversary of his country's independence by spending a lonely day in the solitude of his room instead of joining a merry crowd for an "All Varity Picnic."
"BORDER," A STUDY OF LIFE Editor Summer Session Kansas;
On the border, that is, in the towns of Arizona and Texas, separated from old Mexico by the Rio Grande river and the desert is one of the most interesting places imaginable; a place that could never be lonesome for a minute to any man interested in life and people.
"Fort Riley may not be a lonesome place, but the border certainly is; especially to a man accustomed to university life."
University Life! Why, if their university training has not, in a measure at least, prepared these boys who talk so blithely of the border, to respect, to understand, and to sympathize with the men and women of the world, that university life is a pitiful, weak thing, unworthy of the name Life in any sense.
If the writer of this statement had ever spent an hour on the border, he would never have said anything even remotely resembling such a remark.
But we call his attention to the fact that "E" is never in war and always in peace. It is in the beginning of existence, the commencement of ease and the end of trouble. Without it there would be no meat, no life and no heaven. It is the center of honesty, makes love perfect and without it there would be no editors, devils, nor news.—Anon.
THE LETTER "F"
Some one had advanced the opinion that the letter "E" is the most unfortunate character in the English alphabet, because it is always out of cash, forever in debt, never out of danger, and in hell all the time.
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