THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published in. the afternoon five
years ago, from the news of
wetness, damage from the stress
of summer.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture a person in the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the name of the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be courageous; to be compassionate; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to avoid the difficulty the students of the University.
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1916.
Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
October. This is one of the peculiarly danger months to speculate in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, June, August, and February.
WHAT! STUDENTS INTERESTED IN ART?
Students at the University of Kansas are interested in art! This may seem to be a surprising statement to those who think that the University is merely a place at which there is "all play and no work."
Of course, students are interested in things aside from their studies—and this is only natural,—but isn't it really surprising that they are interested in art? It really is true, however, for the art exhibit which has been open to the University for the last few weeks has been overrun with students.
Somehow, to many people who have never visited the University and who have never seen the activities of the school, it seems that the students are too greatly interested in athletics and social events, and too little interested in education and culture. This is a mistaken impression.
No indeed, those who attend the University do not care for fun and frolic alone. The most of their time is spent in serious work, for they come here for an education.
"THE FOOL'S PRAYER"
What were the prayers of the children and wives in Columbus, and what were the prayers of the soldiers that spent the winter at Valley Forge? A speaker in the Morning Prayer Services this week says that their prayers were for peace; for a peace that had no smacking of that term "preparedness."
Most assuredly their prayers, like the prayers of every loyal American, have been for peace, but a peace that speaks for protection. The blood of the murdered children and women at Columbus now cries for the protection of those who are left. The blood of the soldiers at Valley Forge cried for shoes that the naked feet might be clothed, and that the defenders of the new nation might continue the war to a successful end. But are these not prayers for preparedness: not peace without protection from the common foe?
Had Lincoln's prayer been answered, the Civil War would not have been forced to drag through four years. It was McKinley's prayer that the press let up for a time with the popular clamor for war, so that the country might be better prepared for the conflict that was certain to follow. Within a week after the President had uttered his prayer, the voice of the people had forced the conflict upon the unprepared nation. Suppose that the opponent had been one of the stronger powers? What would have happened?
Again, suppose that the amy has been thoroughly-prepared to pursue the thousand bandits from war-torn Mexico. The raid would either never have occurred, or would have ended where it began.
After all, the fool must stand in the synagogue and "make his prayer, even as you and 1."
CLEAR WATER AT LAST?
We've fosted some of our nourishing food—perhaps! That good old yellow,—perhaps! That good old yellow, thick, oozy, city water may soon be a thing of the past.
The water bonds carried, and the city has bought the water plant. If efficiently managed, this water plant will supply all the people of Lawrence with clear, pure water. It will be the work of the city administration to take charge of the situation at once and start the good work toward furnishing better water.
Let us hope that the water problem will be worked out sooner than that of the "White Way" that has been promised for so long. Let us trust that the students and the faculty and the other citizens of Lawrence will be benefited by having a city-owned water plant.
And let us hope to get the pure clear water soon.
DETERMINATION
Nearly five centuries ago a Portuguese explorer made three attempts before he was able to attain his goal. His determination gave him at least a partial victory.
Five years ago a man started his course in the University of Kansas, his goal: a degree. Twice sickness, or the lack of money has driven him home. Three years out of five he has been forced to lay aside his University work. Today he is again on the Hill taking up his course with the beginning of the last semester, making another earnest attempt to discover for himself a new world.
Others, like this man, have undergone many difficulties in order to obtain a college education. Determination and pluck have made them "stick to their knitting." They will be the men who, later, will stand among the leaders of the state and nation.
Determination will win.
Jayhawk Squawks
Pretty soon even the frogs will be getting spring fever.
A soft answer sometimes turns away wry and sometimes gets you in bad. It all depends upon what sort of a girl she is.
It will soon be that season of the year when the favorite song for canoeists is "Rock-a-by Baby," with illustrations.
Some women must receive the surprise of their lives when they see the amount their husband names in the case of the alienation of their affections.
If you are a believer in prepared-
ness, brush up on your compliment-
ary expressions, as, "Just beautiful,
just pretty." And just plain,
of spring clothes, you'll need 'em.
Sometimes, when he stops to talk with a prof. after class a pupil is really looking for information.
Lord Whata Talker, the gentleman barber, says that if it gets windy again, he's going to advertise corking. But that one is much sicker his hat on.
Suggestion to all fraternity houses with waxed stairs; lay a mattress at the foot of the steps while the h. s. visitors are here.
A conscientious worker is one who does a lot of hard work that he doesn't need to do, and overlooks a lot of essential things that are easy.
On the way home, the h. s. team that has won a cup somehow never succeeds in getting it inside a suitcase.
The choiceest sleep of the night comes just after the alarm clock rings.
Some of these days, Villa is going to stare a gun in the face, and then suddenly remember that he has an important engagement for a steak with the gentleman who ducks the popular summer resort below.
Maybe you think that "the paragraphs are pretty "punk" but you oughtahs see the ones that the editor cuts out.
OUR FAVORITE POETS
-G. S.
plain,
Yield in mighty arms and silver
Whereon old dints of deep wounds did
remain,
The marks of many a bloody
field.
Yet at that time did he never wield:
His angry screw did chide his foam-
As much disdainting to the curb to
Full jolly knight he seemed, and
As one for knightly jousts and
three encephalitis on the Red Cross Knight
Berce encounters II.
—Dearness to the Cross, Gross Knight in Spenser’s “Faerie Queene.”
HUMOR IN THE NEWSPAPER
Sometimes a bit of unconscious humor survives even the watchful eye of editors. Recently an account of an unusually fierce fight came into the Atlanta office of a great news-gathering organization. After the ordeal of the blue pencil it was sent out over the wires to the various newspapers on the "southern division" of the Associated Press.
The item recounted the details of a fight between two persons in a rural community. Their weapons, according to the story, were a scythe, a corn knife, a shovel and a butcher knife.
After enumerating the details of the encounter the dispatch concluded: "It is thought that the two men had some sort of misunderstanding."
That was quite as convincing as the comment made by the editor of a rural paper in Maine on the arrest of a young man who was caught climbing out of the cellar window of a certain house with a valsa filled with silverware, jewelry and other articles of value.
"It is believed," said the newspaper account of his arrest, "that evidence may be found that will lead to his conviction."—Michigan Bulletin.
ON THE MEANING OF WORDS
A friend takes you out to his sung new home and arouses your dream-plans of what you want when you and your dear girl are happily wed and settled down in a quiet, cosy bungalow. The home of your friend is the most exquisite creation you have ever seen.
"What an unusually attractive place," you tell your friend.
"Oh, it is in an inoffensive little hole," he remarks in a cressless sort of way. What he means is that it is the most delightful home he has ever had or wants and that it is so much better than could plan that there is no comparison.
What is becoming of the eloquence and enthusiasm of the honest people in the "good old days" when folks said what they meant? Is this change merely due to change in word manners or a change in people?
The day may come, suggests a recent novel, when "fairly decent" will express the most ecstatic degree of rapture—University Missouri.
Throughout your life as students you have used and must continue to use the device known as English spelling. This, as at first conceived, was a system of matching sound to symbol. In the confusion following the invention of printing, countless inconsistencies came into use, often through cardeness. This led to a great desire on the part of the printers for uniformity and for authority.
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING
If one has a long and arduous climb to make, should he not seek the easiest road? The hill of learning is the highest that you may make the climb needlessly hard?
In the gradual march of time and of lexicographers, Noah Webster commands great honor, for he was a pronounced spelling reformer, going as far as he dared in the matter. Opposition limited his usefulness, and instead of giving us b-r-e-d, b-l-t-i, d-a-w-e-r, k-o-r-u-s, and the like, he felt obliged to retain the monstrosities c-h-o-r-u-s, and so on. He did, however, change r-e to e-r in a long list of words, and he omitted that u so dear to British and to would-be British hearts in words like honor.
Webster fully realized the truth not even faintly suspected by the average student that the accepted spelling of English words more often disguises the etymology than conserves it.
Having now wasted two years of our young lives in mastering the permutations and combinations, of twenty-six letters and forty sounds, will make an intelligent effort to save those who come after you from a like fate?
The air is full of revolt and upheaval. A new spirit of the times is struggling for birth. In the general chaos that has fallen over the world, we have found a fortune in the porture for a new honesty in the very elements of knowledge.
Is our spelling sonnet? No; it is a hypocritical sham of the worst sort. It is not just a man rule, nor history, to defend it. It persists only thru the ignorance, the prejudice, the indolence, the sentimentality, or the financial interest of those who use - Extracts from an essay by E. Rauklin Rankin in the Minnesota Daily.
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There's more snap and smartness in the overcoats this spring than ever before; lively styles, new fabrics and colorings; you're going to be much pleased when you see them.
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