UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the Univer- city of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Guy Serwier ... Editor-in-Chief Wilbur Fischer ... Associate Editor Ralph Ellis ... News Editor Ellen Miller ... News Editor Raymond Clapper ... Assistant BUSINESS STAFF REPORTORIAL STAFF Gargall Sproull Vernon A. Moore Bessie desiree Paul Davis Paul Brindle John Glässner *Harry Morgan* Maureen KMernkana William Cady John Glässner Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail, mat- ter of office at lawsuits. Kansas, under the law of 1857. Published in, the afternoon five thursday, April 17, at the press of Deputy Commissioner of Justice. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAYAN KANSAN Lawrence. Kansas. Phone. Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to pick out the best of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the book; to give it to the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be good at arithmetic; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to help students understand the students of the University. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916. "The good walking ill the blood, sppe on the brow—Sp. but no the sweet on the brow—Sp. SPEAKING CARELESSLY "R. L. S." whose philosophy cheered many thousand of his admirers, while his own life was being eaten up by disease, once wisely said that no one should be allowed to use the English language because everybody handled it so miserably. To the reporter who has suffered from people who cannot make themselves understood, his words carry double force. The Daily Kansan is often accused of being inaccurate, and in many cases, it lays itself open to that criticism, because all the men and women who work on the paper are human. On one of the recent occasions where the Kansan has been harshly criticized, the information that was printed about one of the professors leaving the University, was given to the reporter by a member of the same department in which the professor had been working for many years. It would be the natural presumption that the Kansan's informant knew what he was talking about. Yet the Kansan was in error in the story. As it was in "Hamlet," even Polonius, garrulous old man that he was, recognized this need, when he said to Laertes: "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice." It may be a sweeping statement, but most of us are entirely too prone to talk carelessly, and to say too much or too little. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT K U? There are at present twenty-six hundred students enrolled in the University of Kansas. How many of them know the little commonplace things of interest that they should know about the University's history, and its present status? How many know when the' University was founded, and by whom? How many know the approximate number of Engineering students in the University? Should it not be a part of our education to know something of the life about us, and in which we live for four years? We little realize our lack of knowledge along such lines until we meet some one who is not familiar with the University. To persons one meets on the train, or in one's home town, or the visitor to Lawrence from out in the state, one can talk but a few minutes without having such questions come up. Then one begins to realize that although he has been studying the various forms of Latin roots, the Darwinian theory, the constellations of the heavenly bodies, the constituents of various chemicals, yet he cannot answer such a simple question as "Who is Dean of the School of Engineering?" or the College, or some other School." The University of Kansas has a splendid standing for scholarship among the foremost institutions of learning in the United States. To know something of their future Alma Mater is not an unworthy ambition of the students enrolled in it. It will bring the student into closer touch with the University, will make him think more of his college days, if he can tell, ten years from now, some interesting facts concerning the school as it was when he matriculated. Let us not, then, in the rush for other knowledge, forget to learn just a little about our school. THE PREPAREDNESS BALLOT The pacifists in viewing the result of the International Polity Club campaign to learn student opinion concerning preparedness may still claim that the people of Kansas are not deeply concerned in the question of immediately increased armament. At least, this is true in so far as the students of the University of Kansas are concerned. It is to be regretted that the students did not take a greater interest in this question which is being given so much attention by the thinking men of the day. As yet there has been no sure way of knowing the sentiment of the people of Kansas either on the question of substantial increase in armament for the United States or as to the attitude of the people in regard to President Wilson's administrative program. It has been repeatedly said of Kansas that her citizens are of the strongly pacific type. Not only is the Governor of the state an ardent advocate of pacifism, but likewise the head of the University of Kansas. The K. U. Polity Club had hopes of finding out whether the students at the University were of the same mind in regard to the preparedness question as Governor Capper and Chancellor Strong. In this the club has not been successful. They have found out, apparently, that students don't care much one way or the other. ARE YOU DEMOCRATIC? University life is what we make it, what you make it. If there is any lack of democracy, unity and school spirit, it is your fault. The All-University party last year was an undoubted success, and hether it will be or not this year depends upon you. Last year everyone with an ounce of interest in University life attended. Those who could not dance watched the others, had refreshments and wandered around talking with faculty and student friends. Those who could dance enjoyed themselves with that, as well as with the other features of the evening. Dates went to it, and those without dates went without them. Numerous crowds of men and women attended in body. The All-University party is not a formal affair to which University women need feel embarrassed for the lack of an escort. It is not quite to be expected that every woman in the University would have a date for it, or that every man will care to make one, but this is no excuse for staying away. The University party is for the whole University body. It is the greatest affair of the year at when you may show your democracy and interest in University life. For the sake of the University do not miss it. We wonder if every rain at Columbia brings memories of the M. U. vs. K. U. football game as it does to some of us on this side of the line. An ancient proverb says that a bad penny always returns. Perhaps it is with this belief that tainted money enthusiasts always give so lavishly. It is now time for the Engineers and Laws to make plans for a snowball fight next year. Most women are good conversation-alists but the woman who permits a man to talk about himself is entertaining. The next thing we know the Boy Scouts will accuse the nation of having filched their motto. The Battle Cry of Peace has now become the war cry of Lawrence ministers. REAPING THE WKIRLWIND The 12:30 whistle was sounded the noon hour and the halls of the University buildings were filling rapidly with hungry students hurrying to dinner. Everyone was talking and the attentive listener was able to pick up many bits of rapid conversation. Two freshmen came out of a class-room, and one remarked to the other: "Gee, but that is going to be a soft course; all we'll have to do is attend class now and then." And behind them followed two women, with worried looks on their faces, who were explaining to each other that they saw no play ahead if they were to pass the course. These two expressions probably will be verified inversely at the end of the semester. The student, who invariably makes up his mind at the beginning that no work will be necessary, pulls down a "flunk;" but the student, who sees the work ahead, bends to the task and applies himself, usually gets a "I." LATIN AND THE PROFESSIONS "College doesn't makeools; it develops them. It doesn't make bright men; it develops them. A fool will turn out a different sort of a fool. college or not, though he'll probably turn out a different sort of a fool. And a good, strong boy will turn out a bright, strong man whether he's worn smooth in the grab-what-you-want-and-eat-standing-with-one-e y e-skinned-for-the-dog school of the streets and stores, or polished up and slicked down in the give-you-order t-o-the-waiter-and-get-a-sixteen-course dinner school of the professors. But while the lack of a college education can't keep No. 1 down, having it boosts No. 2 up." From "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son," by George Horace Lorimer, present editor of the Saturday Evening Post. That man succeeds best in any profession who has acquired the best habits of work and the keenest ability to think clearly. Latin with an inspiring teacher quickens the habits of observation, develops reasoning power, and makes one exact in his thinking and expression of thought. And, the warm, lazy spring days are coming. FOUND IN A BOOK A Corner for the Library Browser "The most practical result that can be reached by a course of education is training the mind to think quickly and to draw correct conclusions from the data presented to it by any problem. This should not only be taught by the honest study of the Classics," says William F. Magil, professor of physics of Princeton. "I say advisedly, and as a result of experience, that I was enabled to attack and solve the problems of engli- shing by using the discipline of a Latin training." Secure in your boy the right kind of mental organization and you enable him as a man "to go anywhere and do anything." A doctor, too, gets on much better if he knows Latin terms, because medica is the word for medicine. This is true of both diseases and remedies. The word "inflammation" for example, means "to be on fire," a "burp-burp" is from Latin "carbo"—a live bean. Certainly you have noticed when you have gone into a drug store that labels on the bottles on the shelf are largely Greek and Latin? Prescriptions, too, were originally written in Latin, and not in Greek. Surely the physician who does not know Latin learns his technical language only as a jargon. "I consider Greek and Latin essen- tial to a physician—especially Latin," says John B. Deaver, surgeon, Philo- cphalia. But further, suppose your boy is to become a lawyer; then Latin will give of experience in the legal record today merely a translation of a Latin document. Even when reading about lawsuits in the paper, you find many legal cases from ancient times met with "habaes corpus," "mandamus," and "quo warrants." Supposing your boy is planning to adopt engineering as a profession, you will be interested in the statement of expertise Corded, civil engineer of note: Business men, journalists, ministers, statesmen, and scientists, thousands of the best of these men, testify sincerely to the practical benefits of Latin as an aid to their professions. Will you then, lightly disregard Latin as claiming a legitimate place in the education of your child? "The law demands exact expression and a course in Latin is unquestionably a means to that end." says J. Sayer, of the Court of Common Pleas, Pittsburg. Send the Daily Kansan home. When the Cluett, Peabody Co. started in business the plant consisted of one sewing machine and a wash-tub. The daily sales of collars now exceeds 60,000 dozen. This concern is now known as one of the two or three largest collar houses in the world— And Advertising Did It WANT ADS LOST -Signet ring with initials D. B. 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