UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail malt master, September 17, 1910; at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published In the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kanaas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
Address all communications to
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go further than merely printing the news by standing up. They also play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be challenging; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to sensitize the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1916.
GRADES AND DEGREES
Will one-half the present senior class fail to receive degrees at Commencement time? Unless the faculty changes its mind and repeals the ruling which went into effect this year requiring that every student have at least two-thirds ones and twos the number of degrees passed out will be small and summer school will have the greatest enrollment ever.
The situation is an embarrassing one. Dean Templin says that the ruling is an iron-clad one, that it was passed to give the University a better standing and an A. B. degree more value but—that the faculty having passed the rule can repeal it. And that is what the faculty may have to do.
The rule was passed last year and was to go into effect for the first time this year. It was not to be retaoactive. However under the present grading system it is doubtful whether it will ever prove satisfactory or not. The Kansas is heartily in sympathy with any plan which will give the University a better scholastic standing. It believes that a degree from the University of Kansas should mean as much as a degree from any other school in the United States—that is that the student should have to do as much work to get his degree here as any place here.
However the grade system offers some peculiar difficulties. Grades are never an exact index to work done nor to results obtained. The same amount of work and the same results may draw a one for one student and a two for another. There are so many constituent elements in the making out of grades that no arbitrary mark can possibly be correct. The chances are that the class will graduates almost intact. The faculty will undoubtedly recognize the justice of their claims for degrees.
The Kansan cub has discovered that "Randolph Calls" *168*. It must take some table to accommodate the game.
ARE YOU?
Say Mr. Junior, are you going to beat it for home as soon as your last examination is over, or are you going to stay in Lawrence for the commencement exercises? Of course the freshmen and the sophomores are going home in a hurry. We all are anxious to have the grind over with and get away from the University for a vacation—but listen Mr. Junior: You will be a senior next year and will be staying for the commencement. If you stay this year you will be "on to the ropes" in a way; you will know more the importance of commencement; you will feel more the impressiveness of it. If you stay this year you will no doubt will find there are many things about the exercises and the accompanying entertainment which you can better when you graduate. You are the future senior and it will be up to you to make the next commencement a still
better one. If you don't feel its your duty to stay this year—just stay for the fun of it—you'll profit by it later.
The department of English may be the most popular in the University as a story in the Kansan informs us, but the correct speaking of our mother tongue seems to be still far away.
THE STUDENT AND HIS STUDIES
Why do college students select mixed courses? Is it because they want something easy, because they have intellectual curiosity, because they expect to carry away a hodge-podge of knowledge like a boy would carry home beans and corn and peas in one sack; or, do they seek culture and a philosophy of life?
W. E. Hocking in an address before the Harvard Tenachers' Association recently said that a great many college students do not know what they want, and that "they are too much annoyed by the instinct of curiosity," he says. "They take this and they take that in the dim hope that it will lead them to something they want, and they find themselves having more or less lost track of the rather vague and vaporous but alluring notion which they had when they began their college work."
At K. U. the group system has done much to assist the student in the selection of his courses and, properly worked out, the advisory system would do much more. The average under-classman, especially during the first two years of his college career, is not capable of selecting his own course. He goes up to enrollment with a vague idea of what he wants to take and, if it comes at the right hours he takes it. Otherwise he takes what comes at the hours he has decided upon for class work.
It would be a blessing indeed if the advisory system could be worked out so that a proper amount of time could be given to every student. There is a time when even college people appreciate advice.
PROTECT THE SPARROW
The much maligned English sparrow has at last come to his own. Yesterday the sparrow was a pest. Today he is a savlor. Yesterday small boys were taught that it is right and necessary to kill the sparrows. Today they are told that the little brown bird is the family's best friend and must be protected.
It all came about because of the tree worms those slimy, canker, crawlers which have been causing no end of trouble for Lawrence home owners during the last few weeks. The curator of Dyche Museum has discovered that the sparrows have no union and that they are working from sunrise to sunset eating worms.
So protect the sparrow. Forgive him when he lets his mate nest in your drain pipes. Overlook his lice and his squalling young. For the marrow is saving the trees.
FOR LAWS ONLY
From the Student Journal, the University publication, Nov. 17, 1892:
"The attendance of the Law school is increasing. At the present time there are eight students. The large majority of students are Kansans. Although citizens of neighboring states bring up school pride in the promotion of the school by attaching it. This out of Kansas appreciation recommends the school highly . . .
The system of study used here is known as the Dwight system."
Keeper (anxious to please): "Not 'exactly' it 'im, sir; I can't say that. But, my word! I never see a rabbit wmaeced." —London Tattler.
Sportman (who has missed every
he has fired a gun): "Did I bite
him?"
An Irish priest had labored hard with one of his fleck to induce him to give up the habit of drinking, but the man was reluctant.
"I tell you, Michael," said the priest,
"whiskey is your worst enemy and you
should keep as far away from it as
you can."
"So I was, Michael," rejoined the priest; "but was I anywhere telling
me?"
Stude: "I wonder what makes my hair, so thick?"
"My inimy, is it, father?" responded Michael. "And it was your riverine's silf that was tellin us in the last last Sunday to love our innies!"
Barber: "Perhaps it's going around
your head so much."-Cornell
The following poem is by Strick land Gillian, the poet of the common people, who addressed the students of the University during newspaper week. Gillian says that the one thing he has striven for is "commonness," or "universality," that is, he has tried to make verse that will appeal to all classes of people. Those poems are examples of his latest book "Including You and Me," are a good example of his work.
POET'S CORNER
To the Lowbrow
STRICKLAND GILLILAN
The high-brow puts his pince-nez on. And looks you over pro and con,
But never toward his pocket moves His stinky hand. He gives, to you
The stern once over. When he's through
You're just as rich as when he started
From nothing worth your while he's
The low-brow takes a look and grunts:
"That gink pulls off some clever stunts.
I'll follow what he does or writes.
He keeps his promise and invites
Such current coin as they have loose.
L'Envoi, which closes the poem contains the cleverest lines.
hen here's to the high-brow,
Who bleeds us.
Helping the fellow they admire
The higher levels to acquire
Who_bleeds_us
God Speed us,
To higher levels to aspire.
To pity thereak who succeeds us.
But here's to the low-brow,
Who needs us,
And reads us,
And heeds us,
And feeds us!
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
Summer school is a. Session held in the. Warm months. For school teachers and. Flunkees. It is offered in two. Doses. Of six and ten Weeks respectively. And has a Special dean. The summer. Session is. Noted for panama. Hats. Transparent gowns. White shoes. Lectures on pedagogy. And the playground movement. It is going to. Be unusually. Crowded this year. Because. Of the two-thirds ruled made. By the faculty. It is said. That more seniors. Will graduate at the end of the. Summer school. Than on the regular. Date week. After next. The diversions of the. Summer student. Consist in. The following. Swimming in. Potter pond. Tennis. Picnic suppers. Sleeping in class. Kidding the. School teachers. Who in this. Day and age. Are apt to be. Good-looking. And spooning on. Vine-covered verandas. The chief objection. To summer. School. Is the. Weather. Mount Oread. In July. Makes Hades look. Like an Ice box. Last year the. College and the. Law school. Each had a. Baseball team. And as usual the laws. Get beat. The Kansas. Sinks to a semi-weekly. And it looks as if were. Written by cubs. Exclusively. Which. It is. The tabloid essayist. Wishes to suggest to. The faculty of the. Summer Session. That they begin classes. At 5:30 a.m. This summer. Since he is. Going to be. Here. And does. Not like the Heat.
SUMMER SCHOOL
The speech made by the college representative was an insult to our Advisor of Women, to other schools of our University and to the true women of Kansas. It was a sad disappointment to us, not that she is not an officer in the military, but an arrogant manner with which she conducted herself upon the platform, and the petty criticisms she felt obliged to make of certain persons. Some of the people who were criticized deserved the criticism, but there is a reasonable limit to remarks made from the students beyond those of common citizens, though modified, are discounted by the petitions if the speaker.
CAMPUS OPINION
The women of the University present very much the thought that her ideas and tendencies are representative of the thousand girls in attendance on the Hill. Very few of the women sanction the methods employed
One member of the College, representing many other women enrolled in the University, wishes to epologize for the rudeness and discourtesy displayed by the College representative at the Student Day Convocation.
Communications must be stained or evidence of good faith but not must it be prohbited for the purpose of preventing
VIVA LAMAR
To the Daily Kansan:
We believe that even our enemies, if they are sincere in their stand, should be treated with at least some consideration. We wish to apologize to Mrs. Brown, Mr. Lamar and the University at large for the conduct of our representative and wish to assure you that if we have another representative, we will be on the platform on Sunday Day and we think we should have every other year at least, we will be more careful of the representative we send.
by the representative in getting the honor she boasts of. We hesitate to believe that a woman should be so aggressive politically especially when her efforts are solely for her own personal aggrandizement. Her criticism of Mr. Lamar while he sat on the desk was too rudeness. The statements made by the speaker as to his reason for refusing to run for Student Day speaker are absolutely false. The statement that he did make to his friends when they asked him to run for speaker was this: he would rather go to the law school than the law school fairly it would be necessary to make a criticism of the means employed by the College representative in electing herself to her place on the program and since she was a woman he would not criticize her. Whether the College representative misquoted Mr. Lamar, we are unable to say but in either case she showed the poorest of judgment.
TO MR. JACK
A College Woman
It is well that Jack ___ did not sign his surname as a very fitting one can be substituted for the man who could stoop to write such trifiling personal insinuations in attempting to answer any girl's article.
It seems almost incalculable that a man who has reached the University should be so devoid, of respect for women, that he would not time should want to publish the fact.
As Mr. Jack — states; that girl may be "unusophilic," but she must at least have received a common school education before coming to college. But if we find no such sentences as, —"Getting off one of the best examples of pussy footing argument that has ever dared to creep into print through the mean — an honest K. U. woman." "Concerning this article from its four corners."
First in his personalities, he makes a weak attempt to speak slightly of the girl's mother. Now we know how much he taught him more respect for woman.
Let us,hope that he is in no way representative.
And were it on pain of death, we could never translate the following—"To be a gentleman ought to be sufficient reason for any girl not wanting a boy to smoke in her presence is it not?"-Perhaps the kind and gentlymanly author, (surely he is the only original author), will elucidate.
And also that Pumpkin Center colloquialism which the long-eared gentleman uses quite freely, “pusy-ness,” a term that mean in respectable English?
And a small fragment of another sentence, "And then granting if the boy likes the smoke also the limit of it," or a sufficient criterion for deceyness.
And another—"Yellow fingers in
Ukrainian womynhoo is perfectly
perfect."
If this sophisticated gentleman has ever been exposed to Rhetoric and has, through some mischance received credit therein, we would suggest that it be taken away from him. He might hurt himself with it some day. And moreover, that which one makes no use of is unnecessary and superfluous.
WANT ADS.
"With respect toward woman."
With respect toward F'
Frank Fox.
YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN with selling ability can earn big wages during vacation. Straight legitimate proposition. Come up and let me tell you how. C. W. Carman, Merchants Bank Building. 150-10
LOST—A bar pin with pearls. At Shostac play. Reward Call 1116 Ind. 155-5.
SUMMER BOARDERS--Mrs. W. Brown will keep her house, at 1209 Oread open to Summer School boarders. Both women adn men. 157-4$^a$
WANTED - Roomers and boarders for Summer Session. Board at standard rate. Please surround K. U. Club, 1247 Kwai W. Bell, 157-5
WANTED—Steward for boarding club for Summer Session. Call at 1332 Tennessee or call 295J. 157-3
FOR SALE—At Your price, a second hand claironet in fair condition. all at Trophy Room, Gym., any or both. 10:30 and 12:30; or special call Bell 765.
WANTED - Roomers and boarders
for this summer. Also a steward.
Beehive, 426 West 10th St., NW.
FOR RENT--Furnished modern house for summer months. Close to University. 1620 Tenn. E. E. Gillispie. 158-3
WANTED -Steward for summer boarding house. Call Bell 6881.
shrunk that they retain their shape perfectly. Plain White
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$1.25 $1.50 and $2.00.
In White Duck Pique, Gabardine and Wash Corduroy,
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THE COTTAGE at 1333 Ohio St.
will be for rent after July 1st.
Snooons room. An attractive home for
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Bell, A. R. Kennedy. 158-3
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St. Typewriters for sale or rent.
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Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas.
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