UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1916.
UNSELFISH ALUMNI
Somebody has said that a University should be judged not by its buildings, its faculty or its equipment, but by its alumni. There is a great deal of truth in the statement. Its alumni are the results which a University shows to the world.
K. U, has been fortunate in turning out a splendid lot of graduates. They are making good all the way from the Mexican border to the Alaskan goldfields and they keep up an unselfish interest in their Alma Mater which may well serve as an inspiration to the undergraduate. When the Alumni Board meets at the University tomorrow and Friday its sole purpose will be to discover new ways by which it may make K. U, a bigger and a better school. The board is composed of men and women who lead busy lives and to spend two days in work for the University is a real sacrifice on their part. Yet they do it gladly from year to year.
Study the work of the alumni board. It has a lesson for you who are alumni to be.
PROF. BECKER'S ADDRESS
PROF. BECKER'S ADDRESS "Thursday Afternoon Faculty Lectures" an institution inaugurated by Dean Oil Templin on the theory that our University contains as good speakers as can be found anywhere, received an impulse toward its success by Prof Carl Becker, who delivered the first address last Thursday afternoon which was full of clear reasoning wrapped in a veil of rare iron.
It was an unusual talk that Profes sor Becker made, and those who heard him extravagant with their praise. Next week the faculty and students will have another treat. Prof. R. M. Ogden who also bids the University goodbye this year will give the second and last of this series of faculty lectures which will be con-tinued throughout next year.
Let's hear K. U. people at K. U.
THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
K. U.'s student hospital is rapidly nearing the end of is first year's work. It has been a year fraught with many difficulties. But the difficulties have been surmounted and the hospital has been a success. The head nurse, the physicians and the other members of the hospital staff have done a great service and deserve the thanks of the entire University.
There has been a tendency on the part of an active minority among the student body to criticize the institution because they personally have got nothing from it. They assume the attitude that the two dollars they paid at the first of the year was wasted. The narrowness of such logic is evident. Probably these same students carry from one to five thousand dollars worth of life insurance. Do they figure that unless they die
they are going to be behind the game?
The student who needs to go to the hospital only once during the four years that he is in school will get more than the eight dollars which is his four years' fee. The courteous service, careful attention and general kindly treatment at the hospital are all that can be desired. The Kansan is behind the student hospital. It is an institution to point to with pride.
CANOEING AS A SPORT
DO WE NEED REST?
Now that spring is really here and the air is filled with blooming trees and singing birds and as it has been said that numerous improvements are being brought about on the campus—why not go a little further and place some benches along the walks that students may better enjoy themselves between their classes? This movement would probably be greatly appreciated by seniors whose looks plainly show that they need frequent relaxation from the strain of life. And why should Kansas be so far behind other universities? Michigan has benches between all of its buildings, and they are a source of joy to all.
Essays in Tabloid Tablets
HANDBILLS
Handbills are a kind. Of advertising. Used extensively. By University. Organizations. To further. Their particular kind. Of Graft. And separate. The ordinary. Student. From his money. It is common. Practice. To smear. They with paste. And plaster them. On the campus buildings. And sidewalks. Thus making. The Chancellor. And University Marshal. Tear their hair. And publicly denounce. The practice. Handbills are usually. Examples. Of terrible printing. Awful in makeup and execution. They serve only. One good purpose. That of. Giving the K. U. Janitors. Something to do. They are. Of all kinds. From scurious attacks. On people. To entreaties. For attendance at dances. Students in advertising. Should know. Better than to use them. Since they violate the principle. Of beauty. But they do not. So they do. It would be wise. To hunt down. The studies. Who put them out. With bloodhounds. And punish them. For the practice. Is abominable. If you. Do not. Believe. This. Ask Briggs.
FOUND IN A BOOK
The heels of the world swings through the same phases again and again. Summer passed and winter thereafter, and came and passed again. The daily paper continued and I with it, and upon the third summer there fell a hot night, a night issue, to be telegraphed for something to be telegraphed from the three side of the world, exactly as had happened before.
A Corner for the Library Browser
I passed over to the press room. The nervous tension was stronger than it had been there two years before and I felt the heat more acutely. He put me into a chair and turned to go, when there crept to my chair what was left of a man. He was bent in circles, his head was sunk between his shoulders, and he moved his feet one over the other as he leaned forward, whether he walked or crawled—this rag-wrapped, whining cripple who addressed me by name, crying that he came back. "Can you give me a drink?" he whimpered. "For the Lord's sake give me drink."—The son Who would Be King. Rudyard Kipilay
She: "Not to propose an ice-cream
pant or automobile ride."-Boston
[transcript]
He (facetiously): "It's to hot to promen."
Woman: "No, but you might try Mr. Soakam's next door; his wife's coming back from the seashore tomorrow."—Boston Transcript.
Ragman: "Any old bottles today
mum?"
POET'S CORNER
The Greeks, also had their woman problem. Those who try to tell us that woman did not realize her right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness before the twentieth century, should read Aristophanes.
ARISTOPHANES
They're always abusing the women, terrible plague to the men. They were all trying to kill them.
And repeat it again and again;
Of war, and quarrels, and bloodsed,
Of Mary, infi; qubk laff; kuff d04dainen,
O Ar. infi; qubk laff; it may if may!
And arin, then may do, daf in!
WOMEN'S CHORUS
And pray, dear, way to you marry us.
All are the plagues you say?
They say we are the root of an evil,
And repeat it again and again;
And pray, then, way do you marry us,
If make all the women you say?
And keep us so safe at home.
And are never easy a moment
When you ought to be thankening heaven
That your plague is out of the way,
way.
And are never easy a moment
If ever we chance to roam?
I ever wince to laugh.
When you ought to be thanking.
You all keep fussing and fretting—
"Where is My Dragon today?"
If a plague peeps out of the window,
Up goes the eyes of men;
Op goes the eyes of men;
If she hide, then they all go staring
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
If she hide, then they all go staring
Until she looks out again
Until she looks out again.
-Translation. hv William, Collins.
Oftu she looks up again.
—Translation by William Collins.
The stars give place, somewhere in France.
To the ghastly will-o'-wispy dance Of light-bombs hurled on high to show Battling armies where to go.
The moon is pale, somewhere in France;
The sun diverts his torrid lance
To hide in clouds, lest he pale, too,
At what a warring world can do.
Lightning and thunder here in France. Are born of man and not by chance. They're the bite and bark of the sav- hunts
And the answering roar of the Allies guns,
Somewhere in France the air is greedy. With the poison death of the gas ma
That makes the elements conspire With the fiend who rules a dark em
pire.
Raindrops, falling, are tears in France.
Tears at a cost of a yard's advance. Softening roads to the iron thud; loaching the lines in a mourning of mud.
But hearts are true, somewhere in France.
Faltering not when ill circumstance Fumbles the cards of the master hand That strives to redeem a ravished land.
Courage that's waiting to take any chance
For God and Glory—somewhere in Europe.
—Driver T. A. Price, Second Canadian Army, in France.
CLASS SPIRIT PASSING?
diter Daily Korean:
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published.
CAMPUS OPINION
One would begin to wonder whether class spirit in the way of class gatherings is not on the wane at the University of Kansas because of the scarcity of class affairs this year. There has been no decrease during the year of general University functions. On the contrary there has been aDEDuced fidelity that they have unfortunately tended to work a hardship upon those students who attempted to let no such affairs pass without attending.
It has been quite the vogue the past two years to give benefits to raise money to go toward a fund for some university organizations. University organizations have turned to almost any semblance of entertainment spiced with a bit of the customary "stand-bys." In a sense it has been difficult to get students' pies supporters" to fit the college campus. During the freshman year of the present senior class there were many class smokers held to further good fellowship among the class members, but gradually these smokers fell into disbelief by the sewing politicians. The sophomores made an attempt this year to revive the old class smokers.
The senior class has had a woeful lack this year of class gatherings, or class business meetings. The only sign that the class has made thus far is that a meeting was held; it was the reception given with the aid of the Alumni Association to the returned alumni at the time of the Nebraska-Kansas football game.
Editor Daily Kansan;
The tobacco habit as a whole, whether it be of the cigar, pipe or cigarette variety is a dirty, disgusting habit. "Smoker," in a recent communication compared the use of tobacco by men to that of powder by women. I believe, myself, that the use of any cosmetic by women is foolish, but it isn't really harmful as far limiting a woman's health is concerned.
We know that the use of tobacco does ruin a man's health for statistics show how nicotine has dwarfed and stunted growing boys and that the tobacco is breaking down the human body made too broad a statement as to the genuineness of the sentiments expressed by other co-eds. I have been widely associated with the women here in the University for years. I have met them and grown to know them, W. S. G., Y. W. C. A., I have met and grown to know others through my membership in the W. S. G., A. and I can truthfully say that the most of the woman student body is clean-hearted and wholesome. I wrote the article for this column some time ago signaled that I had a great word that I wrote without mawkish sentimentality. I heartily feel that a strong endeavor should be made to discourage the use of tobacco among University men and I would like to see K. U, known all over the country as a University with backbone enough to establish principles and live up to them.
The arguments pro and con concerning smoking have interested me very much. Some very good sentiments have been expressed by the coeds, and I think that they prove that girls can think and debate. In a recent communication by "An Amateur Woman" I adverbially much the stand she took on some points, but I don't like to see any woman sanction the tobacco habit by defending the "poor down-trodden cigarette."
—"Still Spiney."
DOWN WITH CONVENTION
To the Editor of this Polite Magazine
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
I want to take off my coat. I'm hot.
My old felt hat is dirty and shapeless.
My cool, clean imitation panama is
still soaked in water. My arm is
smothering from this recent doings
of old Sol but what really melts
down my collars is the thought of
this conventionalism that makes a
man a mark of ridicule or dubs him
from the real world, brings parts from the
island to the useful.
This is true not only in the present instance but many others as well. When I say that I would rather take my socks from the to a picture show I believe I am expressing sentiments of many others. But no, you must take her to a nickle and buy a coke because that is what every one else does. Some think it is adorable; some think it shirts; others are afraid to say "Hello" to the girl who sat in the next seat through a semester of agony in Spanish because they had no introduction. No one needs to get fresh clothes to all use all use some common sense.
Mere Man.
A freshman, with confidence blessed.
Found studies so irksome a pest
They came but were ranked four
abreast.
That he stalled for his ones, Made only by runs.
A sophomore, wise girl had
Had wanted a date, Oh so bad!
He asked her to go
To a Bowersock show
A sophomore, wise little lad Had wanted a date. Oh so bad!
To a Bowersock show But horrors, no letter from dad!
Stude: "I want my hair cut"
Barber: "Any special way?"
Stude: "Yes, off."-Widow.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE — Horwood Guitar, lady's size, god as new. A beautiful instrument. At a bargain price. In the Diamond Decal Hall. Phone Bell 700. 153-3
YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN with selling ability can carn 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—Aster plants. Five cents a dozen. All colors, separate or mixed. 927 Ind. Call 1709J. Bell. 159.
FOR RENT—House at 1406 Tennessee street. Fine for fraternity or club house. Call L. W. Cazier, 2766 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 house with four rooms. Furnished by furnished W. at 1417 Ky S. Call Bell 1428. 153-3
CLASSIFIED
Book Store
KEEELER'S STORE, 839 Maas
ST. Typewriters for sails or rent.
Typewriter and School supplies.
Typewriter and bound books.
10c. Pictures and Picture framing.
ED. W, PARSONS, Engraver, Watch-
 jewelry, Bell phone 711, T17. Mass
CHINA Pointing
CHINA Pointing
MISS ESTEBAN DUFFEUR, CHIPIN,
MISS ESTEBAN DUFFEUR, CHIPIN,
handled. 76.3 Mm. Phone
Handled. 76.3 Mm. Phone
K. U. SHOE SHOP and Pantatiorum is best place for best results 1343
PHONE KENNEDY PLUMBING CO.
for gas goods and Mazda Lamps. 835-296-7000.
B. H. BALLE, Artistic Job Printing
both phones 228, 1627 Mass.
FORNEY SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass. Don’t make a mistake. All work
MIB M. A. M. ORGANG JEI Tannesses
tailoring. Prices very reasonable.
tailing. Prices very reasonable.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires' suite. Both phones.
HALF DUG, MIBD MI. MIZALES Rifed
HARRISON, MIKELA BURG PHONES. Bell 513.
Home 512. U. Bigg. Phones. Bell 513.
G. W. JONES, A. M., M. D. *D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynaecology.* Suite I, F. A. F. U. Bldg. Residence, 1201 Ohio St. Phones 35.
J. R. BECHTEL, M. D. D. O. $33 Mass
Machines. Both phones, office and re-
alence.
A. C. WILSON. Attorney at law. 743
Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
DR. H, W. HUTCHINSON, Dentist. 216
Perkins Bldg. Lawrence, Kansas.
C. E. ORBLIDP M. D. Dick Bldg. Eye,
Ear, Nose 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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Cheap substitutes cost YOU same price.
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BIG VACATION MONEY!
All students and teachers, men and women, who wish profitable and congenial employment for 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
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository
A. G. ALRICH
THESIS BINDING
Engraved and Printed Cards
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.
Consider Your Acquaintances
Kansas Advertiser:
When your advertisement appears in this paper, you are associating with neither a patent medicine fakir, a whiskey dealer nor a manufacturer of cigarettes. The news of your store appears alongside that of other reputable firms, whose owners you take pride in meeting as friends.
Kansas Readers:
The editorial and news columns of this paper are no cleaner than are the columns devoted to advertising. It is our aim to tell the truth in the news. We demand that our advertisers do the same. You can look through the Kansan any day in the year and see there the store news of merchants whom you take pride in introducing as your friends.
And That's Why Kansan Advertising Brings Big Results