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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EDITORIAL STAFF THIS ISSUE
Paul Brindel ... Editor
Sam Pickard ... News Editor
Dorothy Cole ... Associate
Henry Pegues ... Business Manager
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916.
ARE YOU IN IT?
Have you joined in the seven o'clock recreation hour on the campus? This feature was started for you, are you going to miss its benefits?
There are twenty-four hours in a day; you sleep nine hours, spend three at your meals and doing various little things; you attend classes three hours, study six hours, and still have three hours for recreation and reading the newspaper. Do you get them?
You owe it to yourself to come up the Hill these evenings and get acquainted and play.
You should learn to co-operate with everyone in the University and here is your chance. Come out and help make the recreation hour a *success*, you will enjoy it and your summer term will mean more to you.
SPUNK
Of all expressive words in the English language, there are few or none that describe so well a quality of human nature as: that little word, "spunk."
In more dignified language, some try to say the same thing by referring to it as "pluck." Others say "grit, sand, spirit, determination" and various other things. But all of these are inadequate. There is only one term that will give an accurate description. That one is spunk.
To the man or woman who is possessed of this attribute, scarcely anything is impossible. The samples of men who have become rich and famous through its agency are too well known to need review. But it is not necessary to go abroad to get examples. Right here in our own University there are men and women who are preparing for their lifework under handicaps that would discourage anyone who had not a generous supply of spunk. Though we may not be aware of it, there are professors in our classrooms that have received their education through sheer exercise of this all-conquering spirit. Some of them have worked their way through Eastern universities that are commonly known as rich man's schools.
Spunk is not necessarily an inborn characteristic. It may be acquired, and frequently is. But there is no set of rules of procedure for the man who would acquire spunk, even as there is no adequate definition of the quality itself.
Without it, the world might still be in the dark age.
THE CALL OF THE WILD
The call of nature, the call of the woods, the call of the wild—has your spirit heard the plea?
This very evening, just before sunset, step off the cement and the brick walk, away from the man-made walls, and softly press the slope, curving green to the grove. Brotherly elms await you, and neighborly shrubs speak cheerfully.
The black-headed, tan-billed, red-breasted robin hops in a straight line almost to you, but stops, stretches his body up to cast a furfive glance, all the time aware of the long, wriggling worm he is planning to pull from the soft earth. That gaudy blue-and-white jay subdues his discordant screech—in your honor—as he lifts himself from the ground to hang sidewise a few feet up the trunk of a tree. The yellow hammer, proud both of black crescent and blood-red patch, erects his head from the grass.
whirs from the ground, and you see the dart of white rump and gold under wings, as he sails straight for the top of a branching walnut tree, there to drum and clack for his mate. His coming has checked the alternate tapping and whis-s-king of a red-headed woodpecker on a scraggy limb.
From the thicket a few yards to your left the rare woodthrush, an exotic from Wisconsin shades, rolls and rattles his spheres of sound; a bit higher up, the clear, liquid carol of a cardinal starts an access of joy in the paling day; and as if in refrain, from the still farther distance, quiver the sustained minors of the mourning dove.
Out you come now into the open path at the foot of the grove, invited by a dear mite of a checkered song sparrow, half hopping and half running ahead in the trail, in an almost human overture of intercourse.
To your right, up on yonder wire, bunches, relaxed, the soft, elegant bluebird, glinting patches of heaven's blue from back and wing. In soft tones he is musing—yet asking you, perchance, to share with him the bars of western gray, through whose rirts are breaking the glowing waves of the setting sun.
The call of the woods, the call of wings of blue and gold, the call of God's healing out-of-doors, is to you —to you!
YOUR ADDRESS CORRECT?
Did you give your address and your telephone number when you enrolled? Have you moved since then? If you did not give this information, or if you have changed since, you should make the correction immediately.
ITS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
A directory will be published next week in the Summer Session Kansan for the benefit of the students. If you wish to know the address or telephone number of a friend a directory with correct information will be invaluable and you can do your part to make it correct.
It has been said by a professor of social pathology that the university student who carves his initial on the arm of the class room chair has taken a step toward becoming a criminal. If this is true, the evidences on the furniture, walls and even the statues in the various buildings on the Hill show that the University will be sending more than its share to prison.
One cannot go into a class room but that he can find some evidence of an empty brain which probably has done nothing more to be remembered by in the University than carve his name or initials in some conspicuous place. The statues placed in the various buildings were put there to represent ideals by which we might be inspired to greater things—they were not put there to be used as autograph albums.
Defacing public property? Yes, it is a little thing and perhaps another scratch on that old chair will not mar its appearance much more but what about the new chair? We are all loyal to the University. There is not a student who would refuse to do that which would help K. U. in any way. It's the little things that count.
"Flunkers" will hereafter be unknow at Princeton and the university will become a "non-flunkers" Utopia. Students who fail will be divided into two classes, Class F to include all failures removal by exams and Class R students who must repeat the "flunked" course before continuing other work. Another year of the two thirds ones and two rule at K. U may necessitate a similar arrangement on Mount Oread or find a remarkably large number of students going to other institutions for degrees the last year, where the rule is not in effect.
TON
NO MORE "FLUNKS" AT PRINCE-
More than 50 per cent of all the graduates of the academic department of Oberlin college are teachers.
America! America! America!
Land of
The partially free,
And, so to speak,
Brave,
(Not to mention
Hyphems, suffragists,
Vivisectionists and
Byzantine logothetes),
I chant my praise!
'Tis true, alas!
We are too proud to fight,
But, you know,
Our motto is
Safety first!
ODE TO AMERICA—VERSE LIBRE
CAMPUS OPINION
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
—Life.
Nothing makes one feel so good as eating, especially in the open, and when this is combined with good cheer and excitement, your strangers or home-sick people left.
Editor Summer Session Kansan:
One week gone—nearly seven hundred enrolled and lots of talk about getting acquainted. But no action.
Let's have a picnic supown in Midway on the whole season of us, with the faculty included.
Each Summer Session student could bring his lunch and we could group together and have one grand, hilarious time.
Afterwards we could all join in the games of recreation hour and end up the evenings with one of Dean Butler's famous "Sings."
How about it Dean Kelly?
THOSE LUCKY EASTERNERS
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
Eastern college students have a bonanza offered to them this summer in a recent offer made by the War Department. Two hundred waiters will be required to serve all of the hungry business men who attend the military training camps at Plattsburg and other points of rendezvous this summer, and thinking to "kill two birds with one stone," the department has offered the jobs to college men. Besides receiving twenty dollars per month and having all expenses paid, the students will be allowed to enroll in practically full courses of military training.
A laboratory for research work in the possibilities of coal tar products is to be established at Johns Honkins University, with the co-operation of gas companies of Philadelphia and Baltimore. The purpose is to develop the aniline dye industry.
YES. YOUNG BUT—
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
One of the commencement speakers remarked that the crowd looked young. Naturally. This is a young institution. For sentimental purposes an alumni body somewhat aged and decrepit is useful on commencement day to lend venerability to the institution. But after all, the greater promise for the future is in the young crowd.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
What is a National Convention. A National. Convention is a. Body of Men. Or women who. Meet for the Purpose of. Nominating a candidate National. Conventions may. Or may not be. Very exciting. And interesting. The Republican. Convention. Was of. Interest because. There was a. Little quarrel. Over the Candidate. And because. Some mean members. Of the. Convention. Did not. Want. Teddy. The Democratic Meeting will not. Be interesting. Because all of. The delegates. Do. Want Wilson. So fights and. Quarrels are to. Be. Recommended if. National conventions. Are to. Serve Their purpose. And line. Up Votes.
So we nee dnot mourn that our commencement crowd looked young. As a matter of fact, however, there are not a few alumni who have passed the half-way house and who might have been here this week but for the fact that they were needed too badly by the world in looking after some of its affairs. Some of the most constant attendants at commencement were at Chicago fighting on one side or another of the questions being worked into history by political conventions.
Varsity Magazine Shop has the latest magazines...Adv.
A letter home—the Summer Session Kansan.
A fine place to stop after the picture show - Reynolds. - Adv.
Four kinds of ice cream served every day at Reynolds. -Adv.
Swimming suits, get yours today at Carroll's..Adv.
New tennis balls at Carroll's.- Adv.
McClure's for July here today, Carroll's. - Adv.
ROOMS FOR RENT—Modern furnished, at 1108 Tenn. Either for one or two.
FOR RENT - A cool room in a mod
ern house. Bell 1823W.
Summer students are invited to make our place their headquarters for all kodak work. Eastman films always on hand. Squires Studio, 1035 Mass.-Adv.
Wm. Schulz
Gents Tailor
FOR RENT--For two young women or single, cool south room at 1220 Louisiana street, within one block of Hill. Private bath, free use of piano, and thousand volume library. Mrs. Kennedy, 1220 La., Bell phone 1442 J. 3-3.
BOARD AND ROOM—Board $3 and
$4. Rooms for girls. Bell 1236J.
1230 Oread.
Glimpses of Interesting K. U. Scenes Through the Eyes of the Jayhawker
Ice cream and ices—any kind, any amount, any time at Reynolds. Adv.
FOR RENT to responsible parties during Summer School furnished rooms in Plank Apartments, 1201 Oread. Bath, electric lights, Bell furniture and at disposal of renters. Two double beds, North porch. Call Warrill Wattles.
WANTED-Dish washer and take room in house. Bell 2469J.
WANT ADS.
Cleaning
Repairing
Alterations
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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 BUMGARDEN. 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 SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass. St.
Don't make a mistake. All work
guaranteed.
PROTSCH, The College Tailor.
THE CITIZENS STATE BANK. We are handling all University accounts, and we solicit your business.
THE IMPERIAL HAT WORKS AND SHINE PARLOR. Straw hats cleaned and blocked. First class shines. 737 Mass. St.
Dr. H. W. HUTCHINSON Dentist, 308
Perkins Bldg. Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E. ORLUP, M. D., Dick Bldg, Eye Ear, Nose, 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.
All Deposits Guaranteed
Patonize Kansan Advertisers
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery, and gyncology. Suite 1, F. A. U. Building. Residence 1201 Ohio St. Phones 35.
Peoples State Bank
All Deposits Guaranteed Interest on Time Deposits
CONKLIN FOUNTAIN PENS
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling
Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass, St.
College Inn Shop
Open for Summer Session
At the Foot of the 14th Street Hill
Watkins National Bank 1047 Mass. Street Capital $100,000
Surplus $100,000
Interest paid on time and savings deposits.
Travellers' Cheques and Letters of Credit.
Every attention given to the acc counts and needs of our customers.
Follow the Crowd to the DeLuxe Barber Shop Four Good Barbers 838 Mass. Street
838 Mass. Street
Students Shoe Shop
R. O. BURGERT, Prop.
R. O. BURGERT, Prop.
1107 Mass. Street
Work and Prices Always Right We Also Repair and Cover Parasols.
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