UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate in order to go further than merely printing the text. The University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be generous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to increase the ability of the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1916
THE SENIOR PLAY
The demand of many members of the senior class that another mass meeting be called to give all the members of the class a chance to vote on the question of the play to be given during Commencement Week, seems to the editor of the Kausan to be justified. When the mass meeting was called, at an hour when few seniors could conveniently attend, there was no intimation that the matter of the play wa st come up for consideration. The majority of the members of the class supposed that the tradition of years in giving the senior play over again was to be followed.
Of course there is the excuse that the meeting was publicly announced and that if only fifty seniors were interested enough to come out they should have the right to determine the policy of the entire class of 400. But this excuse does not justify the decision. Every member of the class should be present and express his or her opinion at the next meeting.
The senior play during commencement week is a tradition which the Kansan does not believe that the University should break.
If the head nurse of the student hospital really wants empty bottles, here's a tip. Look in the closet of any Law student's room, or the basement of any house occupied by newspaper students.
THE ALUMNI DINNER
The announcement that the alumni dinner will be held this year, as it has for many years past, has been received with pleasure by the members of the senior class and the entire University. The fifty cent fee, charged because an economical state auditor does not believe that the members of the class are entitled to all the money which they turn in as a diploma fee, will keep few people from the dinner. There seems to be little doubt but that the dinner will be as much of a success ever.
Kansas, with her bonds burned and her University crowded into atties and basements, may not be able to pay for the alumni feed. In fact Mr. Davis has assured us that she is not. But Kansas alumni aren't going to be cheated out of an opportunity to break bread together once more. The alumni dinner will be a success.
One economical senior says that he isn't going to buy an alumni dinner ticket until he sees the menu.
THE FITTEST SURVIVE
One more curtain and the nine months' show on Mount Oread will have been a thing of the past. Whether the acting has been up to par will be judged by the board of critics, known as the faculty. The specialties and the different skits introduced such as vacations and unofficial holidays have been many and as varied as those of the real life and experiences we observe from day to day.
The outgoing seniors, those who have been the center of attraction for
the past four years will carefully wrap the sackcloth of education about them and hie away to be seen later in action on the stage of life's work. Some make good and some don't for such is the law of the survival of the fittest.
OUR VANISHING WALK
The art of walking is on the wane. The question now is, how long will it be until our lower extremities are simply props? On every side we may see the writing on the wall.
Although a few students still shuffle back and forth to class, the main body surges through the drives of the campus on motor cycles and in dilapidated motor cars made over into powerful and fancy roadsters. To these conveyances must be added the varieties of Fords which scurry hither and thither in their little fordish ways. But the fact still remains that a few students, evidently up against hard times, continue to shag about on foot.
It behoves the best talent in the University to provide a way for these walking delegates to keep up with the times. The most feasible suggestion rendered so far is the coaster fad. The efficiency of these swift little gliders can be secured from any small boy of the town. The instructions for operating are very simple. Poise on one foot using the other for an occasional push. The left arm is free for holding an umbrella or steading the equilibrium of the girl who may be gliding along at your side. The right arm determines the direction you go by gently pushing on an upright steering device. In this manner it is possible to travel with as much ease and speed as the automobilist.
Accurate calculations show that the inauguration of such a practical conveyance at this school would permit a student to graduate one year sooner and have as many credits left over as can now be made during summer school. That this is no wild guess can easily be shown. The time saved in going to and from classes would make the ten extra credits. The time saved in going down Mount Oread twice a day would easily account for the other thirty.
Now that we have smokeless smokers some genius will have to invent a mixless mixer a singlesing and a beerless keg party.
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
Smokers are a. Form of diversion used. In the University to get people. Acquainted. At least that is the excuse that. The politicians give for Giving them. As a matter of. Fact they do. Not. When you go to a smoker. You put on. The little card. Board tag. For which you have Paid. Two bits in advance. And then try to. Smoke as fast as possible. So as to. Get your money's Worth. You. Can't. No man in the world can smoke. Two bits. Worth of the kind. Of cigars. That they furnish at a. Smoker. In less than a week. And live. You go home with. A headache and. Smarting. Eyes. And get up with. A bust-head. And a taste like. The morning after one Of the laws' spring. Parties. The real purpose of. Smokers is to giv Votes for the. Polls. And make a little change for. The chairman of the. Smoker committee. A smoker is about. As exciting as. A pink tea. And about as elevating as. A bull fight. Our advice to frosh is to. Go often during the. First two years. So that they will have. Learned Better. When the time comes. When they are. Supposed to show. Some symptoms of. Intelligence.
SMOKERS
"What made the canoe tip over?" "Cholly carelessly placed his pipe in one side of his mouth."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
"The Declaration of Independence states that all men are born free and equal, I believe?"
"Then do the job.
"Then why do you hold yourself so aloof?"
"My dear man, I'm descended from one of its signers."—Washington Herald.
Send the Daily Kansas home to the folks.
The poetry of the Northern races is for most Americans and Englishmen a thing practically unknown. Nor- worted poems have, of course, won the hearts of music-lovers the world over, but those whose music is made merely by the combination of words have as yet little familiarity with the language not familiar with their language.
POET'S CORNER
Accordingly, the enterprise of the American-Scandinavian Foundation in opening to readers of English a new world of letters deserves special commendation. And particularly worthy of a more general circulation than it has had is the poetry of that great composer Johann Sebastian Bjornstjerne Bjornsten. Patriotism, imagination, and extraordinary skill in making word-pictures brought him the applause of his fellow countrymen, and these qualities appear in the translations which make up his "Poems and Songs" (American-Scandinavian Foundation). The poem "I am the Beautiful Man,"armae de his violet and national feeling; the translator has, however, sacrificed polish for the sake of literality.
NORWAY, NORWAY
By Bjornstjerne Bjomson
Norway, Norway,
Rising in blue from the sea's gray are
Islands around like fledgling tender, Flord-tongues with slender, flord-tongued ears.
Tapering tips in the silence seen.
Wandering follow. Where the wastes
lighten
Mate among mountains, wood-ridg and slop
Lake and plain brighten,
Hallow a temple of peace and hope.
Houses and huts, not castles grand,
Gentle or hard.
Thee we guard, the we guard
Thee, our future's fair land.
Glistening heights where skis swiftly go
Harbors with fishermen, salts, and craftsmen,
Moors and meadows, runes in the woodlands.
dermsmen and horns and the glacier-
claw.
Runes in the woodlands, and wide-
mown swathes.
Cities like flowers, streams that run dashing
Hite of the sea, where the fish-school froths.
Houses and huts, not castles grand,
Gentle or hard.
Thee we guard, thee w guard
CAMPUS OPINION
Thee, our future's fair land.
**AMPMS OPEN**
Commissioned by the Church of England but will be published on good faith but not yet published.
As long as your Communication Column is open as a place in which the students may express their opinions, you cannot very well bar the letters knocking on the quiz schedule that have been obtruding themselves lately, much as you may have wished to do so. I believe that the quiz satisfaction is satisfied by the maturity of the students of the University, and I have talked with a number concerning the schedule and the comment in these columns.
KNOCKING KNOCKERS
Editor Daily Kansan:
If the chronic knockers that we seem to have with us would remember that the world was not shaped up with a hammer in the first place and has never received a hamming process whole-heartedly since then, they may find some better way to expend their energies. I hope so, at least.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Commencement Week is near at hand. You are even now setting forth the events of that week in your columns, and would like to say just a few words about it, but which follows the Commencement exercises on Wednesday. A free University is out of the question for this year. There is no use "crying over spilt milk," but rather let every loyal senior help to keep alive one of the challenges we have here at the University.
COMMENCEMENT DINNER
so, at least.
—Satisfied.
I am prompted to urge this partly by a remark made to me recently by a friend of the University: "The alumni will support the dinner. I'm not so sure that the seniors will do so." Seniors, let us challenge that fear about how many have been in good conditions. This is the opportunity to tide over a crisis in the history of an here-to-fore established tradition. I happen to live in Lawrence. I have witnessed three of these dinners. I have heard many seniors say that this will be the first Commencement Week that they have ever attended. May I, then, add my testimony to that that we have been present in these occasions and be permitted to say that this is the crowning event of the whole week. We have expected the "parting" feeling. Instead we shall find that we have been graduated into
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From all over the land they will be there—loyal sons and daughters of the lamb, their love and love and service for our Alms Mater. To every corner of the lam we, too, then, will go, conscious that we have a larger role to play—the servant of the service I give to our University.
Every senior will wish to be present at the dinner. We know through the Kansan that we should send in our names to Mr. Flint at the Alumni headquarters as soon as possible. There are many things to be done just now, but nothing should crowd us or distract us—at once the last thought of our senior year, and the first act of our careers as alumni.
—A Senior.
DEFENDS SPEAKER
Who ever wrote the "Mothers of Kansas," misunderstood the statement and the effect intended. I think that it was the speaker's intention to say "I don't care if you wash, instead of reaping a big salary of grapes from the state."
I wish to say a word in regard to the editorial which appeared in the Kansan under the heading of "Moths" and to my surprise, the letter from the Indignant Seniors.
you know it to be a fact that when a person "does something" he or she is bound to make enemies. I admire the spunk and tight which the young lady representing the College showed. We all know that she is all the comment against her by her enemies before the speech. Even the Kansan stated the night before the speech that some had said that she should not be allowed to appear on the program. Others said that a woman could not blame them, but we all livered a nice oratorical essay the criticisms would have been, "I told you so." It seems to me that she took them to task for all these previous uncalled for remarks. Certainly some did not like the speech, I don't blame them. I would say they were Clinton's. Like some of them were. She cannot be blamed for justifying her place on the program, and it is my opinion as well as that of many others that she had a come back which was a knockout punch, and used it very effectively in an attack on one of the speakers who received any notice at all by the State papers and the Kansas City papers.
—One Who Admired "Ma" Sunday.
will be the hosts of two thousand of the students of the University of Nebraska, when they visit Omaha on the omaha business invitation of the Omaha business men.
We also might remember that the young lady in question already has an almost nation wide reputation as a public speaker and politician, and that her words have had their effect on MISouri and Kansas spite of the dignificant Seniors" and "Mothers o Kansas."
At the University of Washington, golf has been added to the list of women's sports. It is said that par-turns have given credit for physical education.
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