THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
The SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Philadelphia malian, from the press of the Department.
Entered as second-class mail matter
Lawrence, 1953, under the set of
Lawrence.
Phones: Bell K. U, 25 and 150.
Address all communications to The Summer Session Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas.
Paul Brindel...Editor
Ernest R Mowrer ...Assistant Ed.
Sam Pickard...News Editor
Helen Patterson ...Associate
Henry Pegues ...Business Mgr.
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1916.
"GOODBYE ROYS!"
"Troops loaded to go"—Off?
Our boys in the K. N. G. are going.
Only a fortnight age preparedness was being argued pro and con in the columns of the Kansan. And many boohed at the idea of a show down with Mexico.
Of course its just a matter of going to be a romp and there isn't a chance for anyone to get hurt unless they shoot themselves. The same attitude prevailed the invading Prussians as they started through Belgium in August 1914.
Of course the situation is different. Mexico isn't Belgium or the United States a wanton invader.
But the idea of taking the situation as a joke is similar. And it is this that is to be deplored.
For Mexico, full of anarchy and famine as it is will not be subdued in a day, a month or a year. And having started the business of cleaning house for our southern neighbor it isn't likely that anything less than a good job will be satisfying.
So when you say goodbye to some friend in kakhi say it as if you meant it. They face even a harder task than did the volunteers of '98.
THE LITTLE THINGS
And thank your stars that some one else prepared while others talked peace so that we have at least a few trained soldiers to throw across the border.
It was raining. A group of young women without raincoats or umbrellas, stood in the entrance of one of the buildings gazing woefully at their light garments and white shoes, and then at the dismal prospect without.
Down the stairs came another young woman, umbrella in hand, a stranger to the group, who took in the situation at a glance.
One of the party gratefully accepted her offer. It's the little things that count.
"Would one of you care to share my umbrella with me, or are you waiting for the street car," she asked with a smile.
THE NEEDS OF A "COMMONS"
A cafeteria or restaurant under control of the University is the greatest boon that awaits the student body.
A stranger, visiting the Hill for the first time, is likely to be more impressed by the need (especially after he has tried to satisfy even a meagre appetite) than those who have become accustomed to conditions.
The Alumni were impressed this year as strongly as the stranger, so strongly in fact that when they made a list of recommendations for the University they laid strong emphasis on the need of such a place for eating.
Other schools, both public and private, have discovered that the individual when in monopoly of eating houses is not especially charitable. The Stanford University provides a restaurant called The College Inn, which is given over to a responsible student with prices regulated. The University of Utah furnishes a cateria, operated by the Y. W. C. A. At the University of Valparaiso, there are school boarding halls where more than a thousand persons eat regularly.
In the above list there is an endowed school, a state school, and a private school. It has been pointed out by those who favor this plan that the students may be provided with nutritious and well served meals at prices reduced at least forty per cent in cost. A school restaurant alone, properly managed, would draw several hundred students. It is the drawing card of many schools.
THIRTY—THEN WHAT?
The jinx is with us in athletics, in politics, and now we learn there is apparently a jinx age for men and women—thirty.
Kipling made famous the woman of thirty. From childhood we have been told that one does not achieve really worth while until after thirty reading drops off and by forty aged. But to discover that "af: af: thirty reading drops on an abdy fortie is confined to each person's special subject, newspapers and magazines" is truly dismaying. We think regretfully of our pictured vision of those years beyond the forties, the quiet hours when we would read, just read. But again, as with the ardent childhood dreams of swift leaps to fane, the fateful thirty interferes.
COSTLY CARELESSNESS
Often the most insignificant piece of carelessness has produced results which have shaken continents. The misplacement of a period by a careless writer was the cause it is said of the Jameson raid. A careless officer at the Savatan forts who had not taken the trouble to inquire the range of some new guns was responsible for the deaths which they caused in a near-by village. Carelessness introduced the gypsy mash into New England and allowed it to establish itself there at the cost of a million dollars to the people of that section.
Carelessness was the cause of an irreparable loss to the art world when ten paintings, including two of the finest of Van Dykes and two of Grido Renis, all of an immense value from an artistic as well as monetary point of view—were cleaned with an alkaline solution and were entirely destroyed.
An American banker has said that the chief danger to the banking profession is not the professional swindler and the careless methods of customers in writing checks thus giving the dishonest person an opportunity to insert more figures.
Carelessness is costly.
HIS POPULARITY EXPLAINED
According to a writer in the Bookman, Harold Bell Wright is our most popular novelist, because of the "Want of a Literary Column," and Ty Cobb, is our most popular ball player, not only because he is the best all around man in the game today, but because the newspaper column raised baseball to the dignity of a national institution.
The writer, asks, consistently enough, why can't the newspaper do the same for literature, and wonders if such a column would raise an army of literary fans? He adds, though, if literature were baseball, Harold Bell Wright would be lucky to get a job in the Southern League."
If the literary column can do anything to stamp out the popularity of Harold Bell Wright in Kansas, then let every newspaper in Kansas start such a column at once so that the future freshmen in the University will not give the name of H. B. Wright, as their favorite novelist.
"Third nearly ready to go." The next thing we know some one will want to get rid of the Fourth.
Many members of the senior class in Princeton University and some of those just graduated will serve during the summer as Pullman car conductors. More than forty students and graduates applied for positions when a representative of the company came here seeking men. Several were rejected because they were less than 23 years old.
A letter home—the Summer Session Kansan.
The fiddlers homeward plod their weary way.
POET'S CORNER
ECSTASY WRITTEN IN A CITY
RESTAURANT
The taxis take the tangoists from their tea.
The waiters with their tips are blithe and gay,
If some people would move a little faster the grass would have more chance to grow.
The place is left to silence and to me.
I'll have a steak without a turkey trot,
Hashed brown potatoes with no grizzly bear,
Lawrence is beginning to feel the effect of the war. Kaw River water is up.
Some waitzits coffee in a silver pot,
A some smoky smoke to drive away my care
Full many a man is born to sit unfed.
While restaurants make room for
Praise heaven for the grace that kindly led
My footsteps where I'd sit in peace and eat!
AGAINST PUBLIC SCHOOL DRILI
Editor Summer Session Kaanan:
CAMPUS OPINION
Communication must be signed as evidence of good faith but notames will not be published.
Replying to M. K, who pictures in the Kansan a few days ago the sort of party or picnic which would be enjoyed by the Summer Session students, I say "fine." Furthermore, I appoint M. K, chairman of a committee with power to name the other student members of the committee who will plan such an event and carry it out, I feel safe in assuring the committee hearty co-operation on the part of the faculty.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
Naturally I assume that the students will feel very free to plan their social life while in the Summer S-session. The initiative in such matters should come from students because the chief delight comes to those who have part in preparing for such a function. Therefore M, K. do not wait for us.
—W. D. Nesbit, in Judge.
Why not a Fourth of July picnic?
F. J. Kelly,
Director
VHY NOT A PENCI SHARPENER
editor Summer Session Kaanu;
Why is it that the library can 300
have a paint penker?
It appears by the last issue of the Kansan that you are supporting military training not only in the University but in the public schools as well. I favor voluntary military drill in the University although as Dr. Naismith has said it is a poor substitute for physical exercise. But I do not favor such an obnoxious element in the common schools.
When a co-ed breaks her penicil not one of three men in the library has his knife with him. There are the notes which must be written but where can she find a means of repairing the broken pencil? One mere man suggested that in place of carrying a vanity case attached to a chain the women of the Summer Session might carry a knife. But what about the knifeless man? Where will he sharpen his pencil?
A Co-ed.
In numerous offices of the various departments at the University pencil sharpeners are to be found. They are easily operated cheap and serviceable. Why is it that the library has now? How does it get to share one but one that does. Is it the institution or an oversight of the powers that be?
The school boy is in the adolescent period of his life at the time that the advocates of military training would give it in the schools. It would be a big mistake to take the youth who without any assistance is in the fighting age and train that fighting spirit—that lust for blood. The American people do not want their sons to look upon war as inevitable. They do not want all the young men thirsting for blood. Therefore if we are to have a peace-living people citizens who are willing at any time to give up their lives that America may live and the land of peace and love, we cannot allow the fanatic of the East, the manufacturer of munitions of warfare, and the hot-headed politician, to bring such an objectionable and dangerous element into our public school system.
Glimpses of Interesting K. U. Scenes Through the Eyes of the Jayhawker
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A Letter Home—The Summer Session Kansan.
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