UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Chas S. Sturtevant...Editor-In-Chief Miles W. Vaughn...Associate Editor Raymond A. Fagan...News Editor Raymond Clapper...Assistant BUSINESS STAFF William Cody Business Manager Clairvantuvant Chloe Wright Adey Manager Cheryl Mgr REPORTORIAL STAFF MORTON Paul Brindel Don Davis Ralph Ellis Harry Morgan Harry Morgan Guy Scriven Cargill Sproull Charles Sweet Gregory Gwee Vernon Moore Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Published in, the afternoon five thirty minutes after publication, variety of Keransi, from the press of Kansas, from the press of Address a., communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of further than merely printing the students' University hold; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be gracious; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to satisfy the students of the University. MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1916. THE OLD MAN AND DEATH An Old Man cut some wood, which he did to the table. He then hilted Him grew threep and so he put down his knife on the table. "Oh, if Death would only come" "Do you know what it means?" "I here am, what do you want?" "The Old Man was fighted, and I up my bundle."—Loe Tsoiτω— Aesop. "PLAY BALL," CALLS HIS UMPS Get out that old glove you stuffed into the bottom of the trunk when you started off to Lawrence last fall. Hunt up a ball, you Hash House Lenguers, and then start to limber up that arm of yours. The Great American Sport is on deck! The Hush House Busball League intends to start right off the bat, playing its first game next Saturday. That won't give you any too much time to get in practise for the first game either. Remember what you did last year, when the score was a tie? Knocked the ball over the center fielder's head for a three baggger when there were two on. That was some wallon you gave that ball. But you'll have to practise up the old batting eye if you expect to repeat. If you like to play baseball, but haven't the time to try out for the Varsity, get into the Hash House The present season will be the fourth for the league, and those behind its resuscitation want to make it the best, too. But sixteen teams will compete, so that a better class of ball will result. If your club hasn't made definite arrangements to enter the race for the pennant, appoint someone tonight to attend tomorrow night's meeting. A definite schedule and plans for the year will be made at that time, and your club should be represented. Be at the meeting tomorrow night at the Kansan office. HEY YOU FRESHMAN! Today the freshman cap makes its debut before 1916 society. It is not a sign of degradation as some of the first year men seem to feel. Every senior who leaves Mt. Oread, with a degree tacked to his name was at one time a freshman, and wore the diminutive headgear. Get out that cap, if you have not already done so, for upperclass men have a peculiar function to perform in relation to its being worn. THE SPHERE OF WOMEN Even to the modern, up-to-date woman the business of being a woman is becoming an increasingly difficult problem. And when the reformer comes to the front with such statements as "woman's field is not in the line in which she has been travelling for the past hundreds of centuries," she is at a loss to know which to believe, her natural instincts, or the reformer. For hundreds of years woman has seen cooking, mending, cleaning and home-building. Her natural inclinations lead her to this work. Now comes Mrs. Martha Beusley Bruere and says that this is not woman's sphere; that her real sphere is in politics, government, civic improvement and economics. She even goes so far as to write a series of articles on "Why Girls Should Not Be Taught To Do Housework." Mrs. Bruere insists that modern improvements are taking care of woman's former work and reducing it to a minimum, leaving time for all these various other occupations. It is foolish therefore, to take time to teach domestic science to women, she says. The vacuum sweeper is taking care of the cleaning, modern machinery is taking care of the mending and dish washing, and cooking should be done through community work. Which may be true. But there are various questions that enter into this problem of being a woman. In the first place such a state of modern improvement has not reached the great majority of women who will need to know a little of domestic science for a good many years to come. In the second place woman's natural instincts lead her to home building, and the various duties that enter into it. The vacuum cleaner will be hailed over the world with great delight as well as the patent dishwasher and mender. But there will be many thousands of women who will not care to swim in a sea of political aspirations and economics. They will not care to rear their children in community nurseries or any new patented greenhouses, nor will they care to have their meals prepared in the community kitchen. It is a difficult and dangerous task to wean individuals away from natural tendencies. The vast majority of women are interested in civic improvements and willing to help carry on the work. But they are not willing nor able to give up the instincts with which they were endowed. Perhaps for these few hundreds of thousands it might be well to continue the teaching of domestic science. As we see it Omar Khayyam is a synonym for anything from a cigarette to a Turk fighting at the front in Europe. KEEPING UP WITH SPRING Now that the rain has brightened up the entire campus, has set buds to bursting, grass to sprouting and caused the iliac shoots to portent their mass of blossoms that are to come out, why can't things be kept spic and span? A professor says that he counted nearly a hundred empty tobacco cans between Marvin Hall and Green Hall, and anybody who walks about the University grounds cannot help seeing the empty paper sacks, the handbills and crumpled wads of theme paper which are scattered carelessly over the lawn. Why not get the dress-up habit and make the University a little more beautiful for the rest of the year? Robert Louis Stevenson, the son of a lighthouse engineer, was born at Edinburgh in 1850. He studied in the university of that city and became a lawyer, although he never practised. On account of ill-health he went to Samoa, where he lived with his fami- ness, most of his literary work. He wrote: THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM The following verses are extracts from the Fitzgerald version of Rubaiyat, with its philosophy, is used to some extent in "Omar, The Rubaiyat, with its philosophy is used to some extent in "Omar, The Tentmaker" which appears at the Bowersock this evening: I sometimes think that never blows so red You have been so willing to help the girls of the senior class with their Sings through your news stories, editorials, etc., that I wondered if you would like them to sing along to the words of some of the best K. U. songs in the Kansan. Every girl isn't a copy of the book of K. U. songs or of the Engineers' Song书, which by way is a splendid collection, but so many do read the Daily News on the same day along the good work. Take, for example the song "Take Life at K. S. U." by W. H. Carruth. This song is really beautiful and luckily also "catchy" but has been neglected later, and it can't be brought into the student. It has been my experience that the average person likes to sing when he has the opportunity, especially among a congenial group of fellow-students. I heard it suggested that the junior band should be for commencement singing. Wouldn't that be a fine thing? Here's to the Sings! N. K. The rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me go. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me; Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill. A REQUIEM Editor of the Daily Kansan: If there be no other signs than this, Spring is here. CAMPUS OPINION THE CIRCUS ARRIVES It murmur'd– "Gently, Brother, Gently, Pray!" * * * * * * * "Brutus," the most unintelligent (deleted by censor, but though to be freight hustler), in captivity will trumpet his views on preparedness to the world "in the most stupendous sea of canvass ever known to mankind." In addition, the world's "great and most stupely showing" will have unique aquamarine colors show shiny clumy acrobats, red (censored again) and the roughest gang of tent pitchers and stake drivers ever found out of captivity. All Winter the "pachyderms"—meaning elephants—have been grown larger and larger in the press agents' minds, and now, as last year, they've become trained elephants' the world ever saw. A few days ago a band of artists directed from the wilds of New Jersey started work painting spots on the tigers and stripes on the leopards, and by the time the circus arrives they are too big for them to be the "are the most ferocious man-eating beasts in captivity." POET'S CORNER communications must be signed as evidence of good faith and published without the writer's permission. For in the Market-place, one dusk of Day, I watch the Potter thumping his wet Clay; I look up at the sky. Oh, Moon of my Delight who Know's no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me—in vain! Oh, come with old Khaymay, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The flower that once has blown forever dies. Probably the most distinctly American institution—excepting pie, is the circus, with its menagerie, its city of tents and its gaudy colored wagons. In New York the Tribute recognizes the evil, and its descent upon us with: a plague as unwelcome to school at vacation will come to New York on April 6, bringing fever, famine, balloons, and red lemonade with it. In other words, the circus is going to visit the "village," and only "for a short and limited engagement." The menagerie's most inter-operative agent arrived yesterday with his usual load of optimism and free tickets. And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass. And in they joyce Erand reach the Spot Where I made ooze an empty Glass! (TAMAH SHUD) The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all the Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all the Tears wash out a Word of it, Ah Love! Could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's Deside! At Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, the following has been adopted, and must be written out and signed by each instructor on his quiz or examination. In lieu of the instructor; "I have neither given nor received any help of any kind during this examination, nor have I seen nor have or receive aid in this examination." The University of Ohio has recently made an innovation in the way of a faculty gym class which, according to the university's Athletics department, has proved to be a great success. Senior men at the University of Texas are to carry canes and wear full dress collars and bat-wing ties on Mondays and Thursdays. The department of engineering of Robert College in Constantinople has sent a letter to the University of Illinois asking the dean there to furnish three men to fill the following positions: professor of electrical engineering, assistant professor of civil engineering and instructor in mining and chemistry. All these are offered are attractive and in addition travelling expenses each way will be paid, no one has made application for any of these positions. A fire airing a damage of £200,000 destroyed the engineering building of the Michigan Agricultural College on Sunday. Practically all of the mec- trical equipment and physical laboratory equipment of the college was destroyed by the fire. The University of Minnesota has adopted an honor system of personal supervision to keep professionalism out of athletics. Iowa State Agricultural College professors are making plans for a model farm house to be built on the campus. The model farm at Zumwalt next spring. Plans to make Columbia University a national industrial research center are fast taking shape. Two sites have already been offered. It is planned to erect research inboratories and to develop new equipment. The entire project calls for an ultimate endowment of from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. Colonel J. G. Battelle, president of the Columbus Iron and Steel Company, has given to Ohio State University a fund of $1,000 the interest of which is to be used for "annual rewards to officers in the University regiments for excellence in military scholarship."1 The senior class of Syracuse University has adopted a class budget of $500. It is proposed to use a part of the budget to recast the Crouse College Chimes. Students of the University of California talked over the long distance telephone this week to students of Columbia University in New York City. WANT ADS WANTED - Student washings. Excellent work and reasonable prices. Phone 2178J. 1237 New Jersey. Mrs. Mary Walls. 125-3* LOST-On the campus Tuesday, a small gold brooch with a borque pearl in the center. Reward for return to post office in Fraser. 125-3* LOST-Waterman fountain pen near literary Finder please return to kaini library KEELERS' BOOK STORE . 329 Mass. St. Typewriters for sale or rent. Paper by the pound. Quiz books for 10c. Pictures and Picture framing. CLASSIFIED ED. W. PARISONS, Engraver, Watch- line, Jewelry. Bell phone 711, 717, Mass. ESTINa Vaughn CHINA Vaughn MISS ESTINA Vaughn UPHILA Vaughn RUBIN Vaughn GAMIA Vaughn carefully handled, bagged, boxed, and phone contact information. Book Store Jewelers Plumbers K, U. BISHOP SEE for best Pantentulum it is K, U. BISHOP SEE for best Pantentulum it is **Mumbers** PHONE KKNNNNE LUMBING CO. 257 Phones Mazda Mazda Lamps. 325 Messas Mazda Lamps. 325 From Other Campuses B, H. BALLE, Artistic Job Printing Both rithen 228, 1027 Mass. FORNEY SHOP SHOP, 1017 Mass. St. Don't make a mistake. All work is done. MIGS M. A., MORGAN IBF1 Tennessee, taboring IBF1 Tennessee, very reasonable taboring IBF1 Tennessee, very reasonable PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Sources a studio. Both phones. HARRY BEDING. M. D. Eve, ear- cure, F. C. Lester, F. C. Foe, F. C. Uldg. Phones. Boll $15; Boll $45; Uldg. Phones. G. W. JONES, M. A. M. D. Diseases college of Medicine, University college ofiology 1218 Ohio St. Phonus Heli- lal-1218 Ohio St. Phonus Heli J. R. BECHET, M. D. D. D. O. 283 Mus Bathroom. Both phones on ceil and residence. A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 748 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas. DR. H. W. HUTCHINSON, Dentist. 3018 Perkins Bldg. Lawrence, Kansas. C. E. OREILUP, M. D. Dick Bldg. Eya H. B. McKinney. Guardian. Successor to D. Herman guaranteed. "UNSETTLED" So Says the Weatherman But this much is settled, there are 20 Days 'Till Easter Just Only 17 of these are shopping days WHY WAIT LONGER? Remember Where MRS. McCORMICK, 823 Massachusetts THE EASTER HAT SHOP Arrow Shirts—guaranteed fast color Sold exclusively by Johnson & Carl Bell 621 Flowers of Quality 825 $ _{1/2} $ Mass. THE FLOWER SHOP Football practice 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Coach wants more men. —Adv. —We sell tooth paste, powder, and soap. Tooth brushes, too. Can you imagine such a thing as a well dressed man or woman with yellow teeth? "DRESS UP" Evans Drug Store 819 Mass. EXPERT BARBERS Corona and Fox Typewriters At Your Service are sold exclusively in Law rence by College Inn Barber Shop BURT WADHAMS, Prop. F. I. Carter, 1025 Mass. St. We have machines for rent and a full line of supplies. CITIZENS STATE BANK We are handling all University accounts, and we solicit your business, deposits guaranteed. 707 Massachusetts St. PROTSCH The College Tailor Watkins National Bank Capital $100,000 Surplus and Profits $100,000 The Student Depositary Conklin Fountain Pen Non-Leakable and Self-Filling Sold in Lawrence at Sold in Lawrence at F. B. McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass, St. See Griffin Coal Company for Fuel. UNIVERSITY WOMEN! UNIVERSITY WOMEN! We do Fancy Tailoring and Remodeling. MRS. EDNAH MORRISON, Bell 1154J. 1146 Tenn. St. At 900 Tennessee RAYMOND'S PRIVATE DINING ROOM For parties, banquets, committee feeds, etc., call 92 on the Bell for reservations. Let us prepare your next picnic lunch. STUDENTS SHOE SHOP R. O. BURGERT, Prop- 1107 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas. Work and Prices Always Right. Wanted to help in the Arts.