UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go for further than merely printing the news in the University hold; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be amorous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; and to ability the students of the University.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1916
HACK CRITICS AND CREATIVE ART
"Time is ever sure with its revenges. While he lived, and for several decades thereafter, Shelley was popularly regarded as little better than a madman, a maker of verse that was poor poetry and that inculcated bad morals. Today Shelley is more quoted than any other poet—not even excepting Shakespeare," so says Robert Bridges in his anthology, "The Spirit of Man," recently published by Longmans Greene and Co.
The lot of the young poet has ever been a hard one. Keats died at twenty-four, after having given the world some of the most exquisite poetry that is in our heritage, the victim of a broken heart. His work was savagely attached by the parasite Jeffries, one of the heroes of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." He was reiled as an unmoral, indecent, half-baked youth—a callow beginner. To his sensitive nature these rebukes were as blows and he was a ready victim for the white plague.
These are but two examples of young poets whose lives have been ruined by hack reviewers—space writers whose living is made by attacking the works of men who are doing creative work. These parasite critics, whose every meal comes from deliberate attack, have done more to discourage the producing real art than any other element effecting literature.
Prof. Percy B. Shostac, whose fantasy "The Stuff of Laughter" has been harshly criticized in the Kansan, may well find condience in the experience of these other poets. The dramatic critic of the Kansas City Star has fortunately seen good stuff in the play and Mr. Shostac is to be complimented on his work. Camps opinion may or may not appreciate the poetry but fortunately there are those outside the student body who can see in it the dawn of a poet's career.
The Kansan announces that women can keep a secret because they have not told what the women's formal, which will be held next Saturday, is to be like. It isn't Saturday yet.
A MOLE HILL MOUNTAIN
A MOLE HILL MOUNTAIN The editor of the Kansan has hoped to keep out of the tobacco controversy because he does not believe that it is an issue in University life. However it seems that such a course is impossible.
In its news stories the Kansan has made a mistake—a mistake in judging values. The Anti-Cigarette League is not worth more than one paragraph as a news feature. The views of the opponents of the league are equally of little news value. A review of the columns of the paper during the past week would lead the average reader, unacquainted with conditions in the University, to believe that Mount Oread is hidden under a pair of smoke and that the
members of the A. C. League like brave knights, have their electric fans out and are on the job to purify the murky atmosphere.
As a matter of fact probably not more than twenty-five per cent of the men in the University smoke tobacco in any form. Few of them are interested in the league one way or the other. It is certain that the vast majority of students are in favor of a strict enforcement of the law. They sympathize with Professor McKeever and his work and they want the University to be understood and appreciated over the state.
Every newspaper is confronted with the problem of judging the value of news. Newspapers often make mistakes. They have the limitations of the men who conduct them
The editor of the Kansan is thoroughly in sympathy with the ideals of the A. C. League but not with the method which its members have adopted to make their ideals felt. In that it stands for the enforcement of the law the league is to be commended. In that it stands for the ostracism of smokers it is not to be commended. Mountains can easily be made of mole hills but such a mountain never survives.
To the students of the University the Kansan wishes to stand for strict enforcement of the laws of the state, for honesty and fair play. It will make mistakes but it is always anxious to receive honest criticism.
It is indeed unfortunate that "The Stuff of Laughter" should have encountered so bad a run of weather. The giving of the play upon the golf links has made possible the starting of another University tradition—a tradition which we should not let slip away from us.
A PENNANT IN THE BALANCE Kansas has won the Valley baseball championship for so many years that the students in the University have come to take it for granted. But, like the slothful English, it would seem that this year we are due for a surprise. The season is nearly over and the pennant isn't sewed up in a Kansas sack by a long way. Something must be done
According to Coach McCarty that something is—ROOT. Baseball has never drawn large crowds at K. U. The men would rather take the women to a show than to a baseball game. Yet in summer these same men will go to a game every Friday afternoon and consider themselves fans of the first water. They aren't. A baseball fan is a man or woman who would rather go to a baseball game than a worst-enemy's funeral. Your real dyed-in-the-wool fan is out for every team. He is loyal to his team.
Let's make our new cheerleader come out and display his wares. He needs the practice and the team needs the support. Let's get these motley frosh in shape to root for football next year. Missouri hasn't anything on us. If she can get one thousand out for a K. U.-M. U. baseball game we can get two thousand out. If her rooters can come nearly beating Kansas ours can beat Missouri.
Let the women go to the game alone. Bring your room mate and all your gang and come out to those games Friday and Saturday. Kansas is going to win that pennant.
Anyhow, this mothers' day proposition affords prospective daughters and sons-in-law a chance to give the old folks the once over.
"Tight Skirt Changed Will”—headline. We don’t know, but we hazazzard a guess that Will was trying to keep step.
To get a taxi, call any number divisible by eleven.
Jayhawk Squawks
"What house is that?" queried the
man pointing to the home of a
prominent lawyer.
"That," said the wag, "is the local court-house."
About one-third of the Kansan is now devoted to the discussion of an object barely three inches long. Verily, it's the little things that count. Pizza.
—O. G. Whizz.
The following lyric taken from the Bookman gives us a new and striking fancy. You will have to study it a bit, if you are as stupid as we are, to understand it. But the music of the poem is very 'etching at the first reading;
POET'S CORNER
ON THE ROAD OF LUAR
By Thomas Walsh
moon and a circle star
On the silvery slopes of the sky!
Art thou weeping, thou sightless
A moon and a single star
eye,
Art thou blind with some dawn afar?
Whither, sad moth to thy flame?
O starry tear, is it thine
Or my own, or a sorrow divine
That shecheeks of the night pro-
claim?
Drops down on the shoulder west.
The moon with her grief forlorn
west,
As a sleeper distraught from the
rest
Turns back to her pillows at morn.
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
FOR HONESTY
A machine. Gun. Is a weapon Which is the. Only thing that. Can talk. Faster than a. Woman. It is the. Only kind. Of an animal. That can. Spit more. Dangerously than a. Snake. And the only pack a. Mule can carry. Which is more. Certain death than. His heels. Machine. Guns like those. Used in the. European war can. Vomit. Bullets faster than. A Kansan can. Lose his dinner while. Endearing to. Teach a Grand Banks. Husky the. Art of. Navigation. Machine guns like. Those sold. To Ucle Sam for. Use in Mexico. Are like sugar. And strawberries. They like. to. Jam. One machine gun is. Better than fifty good. Soldiers. So what we need is. More machine guns. Not more. Men. However the. Jam may be used. To eat. And not to. Bring defeat. Machine guns are useful. In that they give. The war correspondents. Food for. New adjectives. And destroy the figures. Of the enemy. And speech of writers.
MACHINE GUNS
CAMPUS OPINION
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NOTICE—CHEERLEADER
CAMPUS OPINION
NOTICE - LEADERSHIP To the Editor of the Daily Kansan: With the deciding series of the 1916 Missouri Valley Conference race here Friday and Saturday with Missouri, there has not even been a whisper of a rally or even talk of any organized cheering to help Coach McCarty's team in the battles with the Tigers.
What's the matter? Can Kansas only show pep in the fall over football? And very little then. If K. U. students could have been at Columbia last week and seen the crowd of three and four thousand that Missouri turned out for the Kansas baseball series, maybe said students could realize that a certain University at Lawrence is away behind its other rivals when it comes to real support of its athletic teams.
Why is it that the different chemical and medical fees as published in the catalogue are below what they really are? Is it to lead prospective students to think that this University is less expensive to attend than others, and then to raise their laboratory fees, etc. after they have enrolled? I know of seven universities have been required to pay thirty-five dollars to bear the expenses of the course instead of twenty-five as had been listed in the catalogue sent them by the University. The laboratory fees for medies are higher than the student is lea to believe. Yet when he mentions it to his instructor he is simply the wrong answer. Is there no one to whom the student can appear to right this wrong? Why isn't the truth published in regard to these fees? No changes are made in the catalogue from year to year.
Friday will be student day so there will be plenty of opportunity to at least have a small rally and pep meeting. If Gaitkisn't can't handle it let's have Gedney, cheerleader-elect out. And for heaven sake have the entire squad of cheerleaders out both Friday and Saturday afternoons. If Kansas is to have the 1916 championship it will require a little effort.
Do you like speed?
- Rooter
show some very clever things in their spring suits. Ask to see
Hart Schaffner & Marx
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IN your clothes, that is; smart lines, lively patterns, novel shades and colorings; all the newest ideas.
Varsity Fifty Five
This is the most popular young man's suit in America; it ought to be—it has all the good points.
Can not something be done to remedy the condition that forces a student who wishes to become a teacher, or does not expect that he would not enjoy teaching?
Peckham's
According to the present ruling in the College governing the selection of a major for a student's juni and senior years he can not get credit for more than one professional school. What is a student to do if he wants to become a teacher in a subject that he can get only in a professional school? In order to get the University Teacher's Diploma, you must work in the School of Education. In other words he must either spend five or six years in the University first attending one school and then the other or else give up the idea entirely of teaching his desire line of work.
The home of the Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes Panama Hats Emery Shirts
Disappointed.
IN THE MOVIES—"SCANDAL"
In the modern meidragan there is no less "blood and thunder" than in the old fashioned meidragan that the scene between them is that the scene has been changed from the old homestead to the modern Fifth Avenue home. And in place of the farm hand in overalls and straw hat, it is the staid butter who acts as witness.
The use of gas by the Germans has called for no little comment. But has not Billy Sunday been annoying the keeping of the popular summer resort with that substance for some time?
"I see," said Mrs. Cottit Twistee "an editorial in the paper headed 'Library Readings Up.' This war af- tion is the price of everything, doesn't it?"
The prospective book 'gent already has planned how he will spend his fortune next fall
The annual rural contest is now in full swing. It is to determine whether or not mammals can reap greater profits than pandas from its hogs
"Is your mother a suffragette?"
"You bet she saint. Me father's a prizefighter."—Life.
The interest of the play was well sustained, which was probably due entirely to the ability of the cast. Madine Kalkie, a woman born in Jersey, was very fine; Jerome Lawlor, as her husband was only passing good; but Eugene Ormonede as the villain was a suitable support for Madine Kalkie. The two children were especially good, and daughter were especially good, and added greatly to the performance.
"Scandal" shown at the Varsity Theater, provided good opportunities for Madame Bertha Kalick, the superb Russian actress, to get in a great deal of emotional work in which she is supreme; but the play itself was much better and hudder" that it was too weighty for the real enjoyment of a sensitive audience. A happy home broken up maliciously by the villan who desires the young wife himself, the appearance of the villain's wife and son, the vengeance of the young wife wrecked on the scene and a subsequently reunited home are all woven together in a very intricate manner.
WANT ADS.
FOR SALE-Aster plants. Five
cents a dozen. all colors, separate
or mixed. 927 Ind. Call 1709J, Bell.
143
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
FOR SALE~Harrwood Guitar, lady's size, gift as new. A beautiful instrument at the Diamond Disc Store inquire at: The Phone Bell 704. 153-38 Phone Bell 610. 153-38
FOR RENT—House at 1466 Tennessee street. Fine for fraternity or club house. Call L. W. Cazier, 2726 Bell. 153-5
FOR RENT - June 12th, 14 room house with 2 baths and hall. Suitable for fraternity or sorority at 1231 La. St. Also modern room with five rooms. Furnished or unfurnished. At 1417 KY S. Call Bell 1428 W.
LOST~ A bar pearl with pearls. At
Shostic play. Reward A car.
155-6. 155-6.
FOR RENT—After September 1st,
Modern house of twelve rooms. Entrie or in apartments. Also rooms for Summer School. Bell 183 W.
LOST—A Waterman fountain pen.
Used as a value, call a Gail Halls, Bell 1828.
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Book Store
KEELER'S BOOK STORE. $39 Mass.
St. Typewriters for sale or rent
and can be mailed directly to:
Paper by the pound. Quits book 8 for
10c. Pictures and Picture framing
Jewelers
ED, W. PARISSON, Engraver, Watch,
Jewelry, Jewelry phone 711, 717, 717
MISS ESTELLA, NORTHRUE. Phone:
carefully handled. 738 Mass. Phone:
carefully handled.
Shoe Shon
K. U. SHOE SHOP and Pantatorium is the best place for best results 1342
PHONE KENNEDD PLUMBING CO.
KENNEDD AND Mazda Lamps.
Mazda Phones.
Mazda
Printing
B. H. BALLE, Artistic Job Printing.
both, phone 238, 1027 Mass.
FORNEY SHO 502 1917 Mass. St.
a mistake. All Wor-
garanteed.
MUR M. A. MORGAN BB1 1 Tennessee
Journals
luring Journals
Furies very reasonable
inquiries
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires' studio. Both phones.
HARRY REDING, M. D. Eye, ear,
face, nose, ears, hands.
foe F., U. Bldg., Phone, bdle 513,
foe F., U. Bldg., Phone, bdle 513,
A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 742
Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
G, W. JONES, A. M. M. D. P. Disease-
ology
colony, JONES, A. M. M. D. P. Host-
tability of Sf. Rh. Phen.
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J. R. BECHTEL, M. D. D. O. $23 Maas
BOTH phones, office and residence.
DR, H. W, HUTCHINSON, Dentist, 39Parks Bldg., Lawrence, Kansas.
C. 35 ORBLIUP, M. D., Dick Ridge, EYA.
Mike Sargent, Kyle H., Michael
work guaranteed. Successor to
Walter Sargent.
We have some ripe olives in ten cent cans especially nice for that picnic lunch. Dunmire's -Adv.
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Sells Them Exclusively in Lawrence. 1025 Mass St.
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PRIVATE DINING ROOM
At 900 Tennessee RAYMOND'S BAYMOND'S BOOK
For parties, banquets, committee feeds, etc., call 92 on the Bell for reservations. Let us prepare your next picnic lunch.
CITIZENS STATE BANK
MRS. EDNAH MORRISON at 1146 Tenn. St.
Does Fancy Tailoring and Remodeling for University Women.
Bell Phone 1154J.
We are handling all University accounts, and we solicit your business, deposits guaranteed.
707 Massachusetts St.
BIG VACATION MONEY!
BIG VACATION MONEY!
All students and teachers, men and
women, profitable and congenial employment,
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 Lewence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store
847 Mass, St.