UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Universi- dity of, Kansas
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teries office at Lawyers, Kansas, under the
name of James B. Maltzer.
Published in, in the afternoon five
years ago by the press of the stress
Department of journalism.
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Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the class than merely printing the news; rather than merely printing the news, he 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 develop an awareness of the students of the University.
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1916.
THE COMING ATHLETE
The election of five members of Harvard athletic teams to the Phi Beta Kappa society last fall was greeted with a gasp of surprise in many western universities. Phi Beta Kappa keys and football suits have never been synonymous in the minds of students in the University of Kansas. It has been a sort of tradition that your star athlete would be at best not more than a mediocre student. But times, and athletes, have changed and the strong man is coming to his own.
The K. U. track team stands well in grades this year. Fred Rockey, its most scintillating star, is a straight one man. The other members are well above the general school average. It is only a matter of a few years until we of the University of Kansas will see the heroes of the gridiron and the cinder path with the scholarship keys dropped across their vests and then things will be as they should be.
The founding of the "Athletic Helpers of K. U." is going to do much to bring about this condition, if the organization is properly supported, and it is a worthy movement to say the least. Coach Olcott, in whose mind the plan originated, has been working it out ever since he came to the University last fall and he deserves great credit for the stand which he has taken toward the scholarship of athletes. The primary function of a University is the development of spirit and mind, not muscle, but a happy combination of the three will make its work more effective.
K. U. should boost the new organi zation.
"Onclet and Outcateria," the farce which the alumni will give during commencement week, might well bear the sub-title, "A Breakfast Hash."
THE VALUE OF TIME
The Summer Session will start the second week in June. Just enough time to work up a little "pep" after the finals. Many students who practically waste their summers and then complain about how much sooner the Germans complete their education than we Americans do, now have a chance to also graduate in three years.
That the work is even more pleasant than through the ordinary school year is the universal *omnion* of those who know. More plans for recreation are provided and Mount Oread with its heavy thick wall buildings is far from the hottest place in Kansas. Moving pictures for entertainment as well as educational purposes have been provided in large numbers for this summer. Several Victrola entertainments have also been arranged.
The increase in credits for summer work has now made it possible for students to graduate in three years without the customary breaks that always distract us for a few weeks of the fall term. Let the first year students consider this privilege of an A. B. in three years.
Caps and gowns for the faculty on Commencement day will be popular with both the undergraduates and the alumni. The robes of scholarship will add much to the occasion. There is a dignity about a professor in a cap and gown which he can never have in a sack suit and a panama hat.
DIGNITY AND DRESS
Besides it will give us an opportunity to see just what degrees the wise ones have.
LUCIAN I. BLAKE
Each day brings new evidence of the esteem and effection in which Prof. Lucian I. Blake, who died in Boston May 11 was held. Professor Blake, for whom Blake Hall was named, was for twenty years head of the department of physics and electrical engineering in the University of Kansas.
A letter just received by a member of the faculty says of him, "Few men were ever more inherently honest, frank and lovable than Lucian Blake. He was lovable not because he strove to make himself so, but because he could not be otherwise. His desire to be just and fair was constant; his disregard for money or fame or other worldly prizes was persistent; his unconscious determination to pay all men more than he owed and to collect less than his due was characteristic."
Such praise is not the mere empty flattery of one who feels that he must flay something complimentary about the dead, but a tribute from a friend for a friend whose friendship had been a source of inspiration. To comment upon the influence which such a man exerted upon his fellow workers and acquaintances would be idle. Cardinal Newman's definition of a gentleman may be more fittingly applied to Professor Blake, "He is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant and merciful towards the absurd. He observes the maxim of the sage that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend."
FOUND IN A BOOK
A Corner for the Library Browser
WAR AND HUMOR
"It may seem paradoxical that the tragedy of the war should restore England's sense of humor, but I feel sure that this will be the case," says Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, the noted English novelist, in an article by Joyce Kilmer in the New York Times Magazine.
Mr. Wodehouse goes on to say that humor in England at present is restricted by class prejudice. Punch appeals only to the educated classes, and publications which cater to the lower classes are not read by any except people who are almost illiterate. Humorous stories to be read by upper class must deal with the life of butlers, butlers with butters, maids, country homes, or things which are part of the everyday life of that class.
Jerome K. Jerome was the first English humorist of any distinction, Mr. Wodehouse tells us, who wrote in the person of a man who had to work for a living. In his "Three Men in a Boat" he wrote, not in the conventional English way, in the third person, patronizingly and unquestionably, telling the audience of the story their humble holiday, but he wrote in the first person, making the narrator one of the three men.
"The American humorist is single-minded; he wants to be funny. The English humorist wobbles; he would like to be funny, but he is haunted by the fear of being vulgar. The English humorist has had ten years' training in repression, and the worship of good form at public school and university, and this cramps him. The American humorist has probably written a book about the appeal of a newspaper and his reverence for good form has worn thin. He aims to have his work have the punch at any cost."
The difference between English and American humor is due also to a difference in the breeding of the humor of two countries. Mr. Wodehouse says:
War is changing the humor of England, W. Modehouse thinks, because the classes are getting to know each other better. The foe; they are moved by a common impulse. Democracy will come out of the war where all classes are together on the battle field. And they don't write, nor for a class, but for England.
This change in the feeling toward humor, and the attempt towards a humor for all was beginning to be felt. This change in the feeling toward humor for all was beginning to be felt. The classes are being forced to know
each other better than ever before. They are discovering that they have many things in common, and one of these things is the sense of humor. This general sense of humor has been there all the while, but class distinctions have kept it from being recognized as a common possession."
POETS CORNER
It is said that England lacks cradles, this threat for the purpose growing in Belgium.
"WILLOW, WILLOW"
By Edith M. Thomas
Willow, willow, river-willow—you for cradles counted best,
Hand-raised hardwoods.
cradles counted best,
Hear you not that England's babies
Lack the springy woven basket, with the white hood overhead.
All in vain you call the willow. For we willows now are found
shielding happily a little sleeper in a snowy bed?
Bending with our load of sorrows ~
stopping till we sweep the ground!
None there are to trim our branches or to braid the plant strand —
All the willows now are weeping in
the stricken Flemish land!
Spring comes fearing—and retiretch!
Blight on every living branch
Men and trees and soil are bleeding from a wound Spring cannot
If our buds we could push forward,
they would crawl upon no green.
England, England, if our springy oisers you would have again,
For there's crimson on the rivers to whose shuddering lips we lean!
Cradles have we none for babies-
none with pleasant sleep and
sleep.
Willows, willows, river-willows, Eng.
land lands your large lament!
All the willows now are weeping by the haunted Flemish streams!
All her hearts of oaken fibre to you:
lifting shall be lent;
England strikes for you untring, till
unlight against you, stand—
Till no more the willows shall be weeping in the Flemish land!
upright again you stand—
As for myself I am sure that he would give me great pleasure to attend many of the functions which are given at the University. In fact I would like to spend an entire winter in Lawrence. It seems to me that the scores of journalists who were with you during Kansas Newspaper Week ought to make a supreme effort to give publicity to your activities.
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
HASH HOUSES
A hash. House. Is a student.
Name for a. Place where they sell.
You the where. Withal to keep your.
Ribs from showing. At 4.50 per.
You have to pay. Whether you eat or not. Hence the popularity of.
Onions. Macaroni. Scraapplings.
And. Garlic. The hash. House is the. Great student. Melting. Pot.
Here the dignified senior. And the hay. Haired frost. Eat the same.
Soup. And hear the same. Splashes when. They swallow the. Doughnut. Desert. Afterwards. Keen coeds. And rubes from the short. Grass meet on a par. And each has an influence. On the. Other. The rube learns to dance. And the. Cood learns. That even ribes some. Times have. Money. A hash house. Is easily. Identified by its odor. And the noise of. Clanking. Inch-thick china. Monday lunch. In a hash. House. Is always made from. Sunday leavings. Hence it is. Not. Popular. The name is really. Somewhat misleading because. There is very little hash. Meat is. Too high. Rice and. Prunes are also. Taboo. because of the price. Beans, cornbread. And Kaw Valley. Spuds are very. Popular. However. The war may. Enable the landladies'. Daughters. To get. That new. Electric. Yet. It furnishes an. Excuse for'. Raising the. Price. Of board.
Editor Dany Kansan:
I note a paragraph in the Kansan referring especially to the May Fete. I explain that the activities at the University are public and the publicity over the state which they deserve. You suggest that the students should invite five friends to attend when there was any performance of unusual excellence and I believe that this would be a good plan. However you should be sure that the persons invited could attend.
CAMPUS OPINION
I read the Kansan and am well
BOOSTS THE FETE Daily Kenyon
Communication must be signed as evidence of good faith but names cannot not be published.
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pleased at the way in which it is conducted. No matter that you are only playing at newspaper making—you are getting real experience. It is the real way to fit a boy or girl for a newspaper career and I hope that many of you reach the highest pinnacles of journalistic success.
In a track meet between the Yale and the Princeton freshmen the Yale team defeated the 1919队 of Princeton by a score of 65 5-6 to 47 1-6. The varsity team defeated the Princeton regulars by a score of 68% to 37%.
More than three hundred dozen eggs were on display at the annual egg exhibit at Purdue recently. Eggs from as far as New Jersey and Georgia were there.
like an onion
"That depends entirely on you, madam!"—Exchange.
The college paper's a great invention
The college gets all the fame
The printer gets all the money,
And the staff—gets all the blame.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Charles F. Brooker,
Hillsboro, Kansas.
Love is like an onion
You taste it with delight,
But when it's gone you wonder
Whatever made you bite.
Print
HASH HOUSE COMPLAINS
Editor Daily Kansan:
He: "Run the quarter mile."
Michael ran the quarter mile.
"It What did she do it in?"
Her: "I don't know what you call the darned things."—Chaparral.
Miss Farrar's Greatest Screen Production. More Thrilling than."Carmen." More Absorbingly Interesting than "Temptation." The Greatest Achievement of the Art of the Cinema.
Editor Daily Kansan;
Henry Yellery; "Afaff we'mars he hicken foh dinnere dhe ebay dayes"
Her: "You ought to have seen Mabel run the quarter mile."
Melinda Johnson: "Oh, yo' deary! But I wouldn't ask yo' to run no sech risks hoh my sake!"—Puck.
Why are the fraternities given precedence over the Hash House league in the use of the baseball fields? I am told that Manager Hamilton has placed our leagues behind where that we are getting a square deal. The barbs on this Hill are doing more to support the University than the Greeks are and, since they are greater in number they should be given more chance in the use of the athletic fields, in the use of me. Will Mr. Hamilton explain?
Yale: "Why is it that girls haven't the same sense of humor men have?" Smith: "Perhaps it's because, we do not hear the same剧院"—Yale Record.
- Hash House.
Senior, very gently, approaching the situation: "No she will be more likely to say, 'John, you have an armful of awful.'"
The youngest graduate this year at Ohio State University will get a law degree. He is only twenty years old and can not take the state bar examination to practice in Ohio for six months.
Attractive signs put out to advertise a dance at Iowa State College were all stolen within a few hours. "Who says it pays to advertise?" demanded the frate advertiser.
ADMISSION ONLY 10c.
Because of the strict enforcement of scholarship rules, the strongest and most finished glee club that Wisconsin has ever produced has been forced to give up its annual trip through the Middle West.
Pennsylvania co-eds are a mile after
coppers for a new gym and lunch
room. They need $84,00 which makes
exactly one mile of pennies.
The University of Michigan's two-mile relay team recently made the distance in the record breaking time of minutes 56 and 3-5 seconds.
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WANT ADS.
FOR RENT -After September 1st,
Modern house of twelve rooms. Entire or in apartments. Also rooms for Summer School. Bell 1823 W.
FOR RENT—House at 1406 Tennessee street. Fine for fraternity or club house. Call L. W. Cazier, 27-68 Bell. 153-5
Comes the First Week in June
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. Garman, Merchants Bank Building. 150-10
LOST-A  Arm pin with pinhole
A nostatic play.  Reward C. 154.
155-6. 156-8.
Kansas City's Profit-Sharing Store.
THE JONES STORE
STUDENTS WANTING profitable summer employment, call at 1341 Ohio St., Friday or Saturday of this week. E. C. Babst. 156-3
LOST-A Waterman fountain pen.
Used as gift. Call Hail, Bell 1239 as a gift.
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jewelers
KEEELER'S BOOK STORE, **329 Mass**
St. Typewriter for sale or rent
Paper on the pound. Quibs book for
10c. Pictures and Picture frames for
Shoe Shoe
ED. W, PARSONS, Ennerver, Watch,
jewelry.
Bell phone 731, 737, 757
China Telecom
MISS Telecom
MISS TELECOM RUPA,
built for a large market.
well served by handset. of MISS Phone
built for a large market. of MISS Phone
K. U. SHOE SHOP and Pantatorium is
best place for best results 1324
ISO
Plumhats
PHONE KENNEDY PLUMBING CO.
PHONE KENNEDY MAeda Lamps.,
MAeda Lamps.
MAeda Lamps.
B. H. DALE. Artistic Job Printing
Both phones 328, 1023 Mass.
Then lay in a year's supply of everything, for then our 70 different departments divide their profits with you and the biggest bargains of the year may be obtained.
Your Round-Trip Railroad
Fare to Kansas City Paid as Usual.
FORNEY SHOE SHOP. 101? Mass. St.
a mistake. All work
guaranteed.
MTSR M. A., MORGAN, TBSI Tennessee
tailoring. I. very reasonable.
tailoring. II. very reasonable.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
R. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires studio. Both phones.
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D. D. O. 832 Mann
Bottle. Both phones on residence and residence.
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases
of the Eye
cology 109 Ohio St. Phone:
Heal-
ing Clinic 118 Ohio St. Phone:
BARRY REDING. M. D.
EYE, 64,
SAFE, 64.
M. Blug. Phones: 513.
U. Blug. Phones: 513.
DR. H, W, HUTCHINSON, Dentist, 2015
Pirkins Bldg, Lawrence, Kannas.
A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 748
Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E. ORELUP M. D. Dick Bldg. Eya.
Ear, Nose. M and Throat Specialist. All
glass work guaranteed. Successor to
Dr. Hamman.
Bring your old suit to me and get twice as much for it.
Money loaned on valuables.
ABE WOLFSON
637 Mass. St.
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THE ORIGINAL
MALTED MILK
Cheap substitutes cost YOU same price.
BIG VACATION MONEY!
All students and teachers, men and women, profitable and congenial employment in this summer, should write at once to
The University Faculties Ass'n',
134 W, 29th Street, New York City.
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100.000
The Student Depository
THESIS BINDING
Engraved and Printed Cards
A. G. ALRICH
Typewriter Paper 744 Mass. St.
PROTSCH The College Tailor
Conklin Fountain Pens
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling
Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store
847 Mass. St.