UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mall matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five
versiaries were submitted from the press of
very prominent newspapers.
The Daily Kansan aims to plea for the undergraduate to go further than merely printing the book, but to the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be generous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads. In all, he encourages the university to the students of the University.
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There was never a good knife made of bad steel.-Poor Richard's Almanac
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1916
With five of the nine months of the last year gone for the seniors, a great many of them are beginning to wonder if there is such a thing as an organized senior class. There have certainly been few evidences of it this year. No smokers, no mixers and one dance that was none too successful, make up the sum total of the entertainments that have been furnished the seniors this year.
The last year that is spent at the University of Kansas should, if it is possible, be made the best year of the four, so that the impression left in the graduate's mind will be one of sorrow at the thought of leaving such pleasant surroundings. Most of us are busy, but not too busy to take in several more functions this year in a final effort to cement the friendships that have been all too slow in the making.
By "functions" it is not meant elaborate social gatherers but simple, get-together meetings where everyone meets on an equal footing and there is no feeling of restraint. It might take some real thinking to plan for a function of this sort and make it a success, but it is assured within the bounds of possibility.
It is customary for the senior class to go out in one grand blaze of glory at commencement, with all kinds of "doings." Graduating students have often expressed the regret that such affairs have not started sooner because at the very end of their school life, they have just begun to get acquainted with each other.
The senior class has it in its power to remedy this apparent defect by getting busy and getting busy at once.
HOLIER THAN THOU—
With the New York Tribune, David Starr Jordan and other notables over the country engaged in a useless discussion of "what are low-brows" the students of the University of Kansas can settle back in their seats and tell them to go just as far as they like.
Others may be low-brows, but we are not. Every body of students thinks that too, but we have the advantage of all the others in that we have proof that we are not low-brows. It's conclusive proof too, indisputable as what Sherman said war was.
But the proof-
A copy of "Pitching in a Pinch"
written by the world famous twirler,
Christy Mathewson, is in the stacks of
the library and has never been
checked out! And there is Bacon's
"Essays," nearly thumbed to pieces!
We are not low-brows.
NO RAGTIME TONIGHT
If you want to hear "Back Home in Tennessee" or "I Love You The Best of All," stay at home and run the Victrola.
But if you have a latent desire to hear some classical music—not too
classical—played by an orchestra that is right up to par, get out your student ticket and attend the concert given tonight by the University orchestra.
Prof. J. C. (Mac) McCanales has spent the entire winter working with the orchestra to get it into condition to put on a concert that will appeal to the musical appreciation of University students. A large number of students do not care to go to a concert for the purpose of hearing ragtime music that any pianist can pound out by the yard.
But it is a privilege to hear an orchestra of really trained musicians give such a concert as will be given tonight.
What would you rather do—or go fishin'?
High school students can dance until two a. m. K. U. students dance until twelve. My, we are getting old.
RUSSIANISM
Russian music, Russian literature,
Russian color—all are upon us, sweeping over the United States and either improving or at least influencing our own art at every turn. It is the great period of Russian influence.
There is something great, something wierd, something vast and restless about the Russian arts. They cannot be refused recognition, and in recognizing them we must realize that at many turns we are being far surpassed by this great country of feeling and suppressed expression.
The Russian ballet with its accompanying vivid, daring, dazzling color so full of emotional qualities, is taking America by storm. It is all so distinctly a product of a country removed from us in feel and expression. We may hope to imitate it, but because it is not distinctly akin to our own emotions, we can never hope to equal it. The best we car do is to profit by it.
Russian literature has been recognized for some time on this side of the water, but it claims our attention even more at this time because of the sweep of Russianism. In its realism, vivid imagery and clear cut phrasiology it resembles the works of the masters of French literature. Among the recent Russian writers we have Turgenev, Pushkin, Gogoland, Andreyov, all alike in the national characteristics of force and color and brilliancy, all different in personal style.
Among the foremost of the Russian painters of the day is Victor Vanaseet-zov, noted for his brilliant coloring that almost verges onto Futurism, and for his bold conceptions and ideas.
The Russian ballet, coming to Kansas City in the near future, will offer the west the great opportunity of seeing the art that has given rise to such wide discussion. In the near future, also, we may expect to see as results of Russian art, more brilliant colors in wearing apparel, stage effects and decorations of all kinds.
It is the age of Russian influence. There is no resisting it.
If Wilson Woodrow the next four years he must first paddle T. R.
Old Noah Webster says that a kiss is a gentle embrace, but goes on, brutally, to say that it may be the hitting of one billiard ball against another. He also says, harshly, that to kiss may mean: "to hit as when one kisses the dust."
Osculant, oscular, osculate, osculation, osculatory, osculating...all these words refer to kisses, kissers, and kissing.
KISSES AND KISSES
Then Noah goes on and remarks more gently, that a kiss may be a piece of cake or a sugarplum. (But—sh-h-y, if you put a small drop of sealing wax beside a seal on a letter it too means a kiss.)
Worse than all this, Noah—not old Noah, father of Ham and; but Noah Webster—says that a "kiss-me-quick" is a small bonnet or a curl. Maybe, maybe!
Maybe, maybe!
Oklahoma is far ahead of Kansas. They beat us in football and now the Sooner legislature even stages a better fight than the Kansas body has had since the days of the Pops.
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ATHLETICS FAILING
The discontinuation of active competition in athletics, in American universities, may soon be a reality. At times, the effect of competitive athletics on the been discussed by medical authorities.
Your publication for yesterday afternoon contains a report of a speech by Prof. McKeever, of the department of child welfare at the University, which he advocates for leadership in bringing picture shows, on the ground that "our greatest educational force" This may or may not be true,-personally I do not believe the movie to be even an active competitor, in matters educational, of the public education, but I have has the professor to believe that "who are running the motion picture business at present are not capable of bringing about the necessary change for better pictures? In the last five years the quality of the film dramas shown in Kansas has increased. And the cost of the pictures are at present the best and most artistic that it is possible to obtain. Competition has brought about this condition and with state ownership competition would cease. The moving picture has made the last decade of any other work exception of that of the manufacture of war munitions—and there is no reason to believe that this development will not continue . The evidence, on the other hand, all points to the fact that it will continue. We have started out to solve the movie problem and it doing it successfully—why need the state interfere?
As to the professor's plea that the state ownership would add a million dollars a year to the educational needs pick the movie show owners for their contribution. Why shouldn't the state take over all the drug stores, or the cigar shops, and operate them at a profit, and apply that profit toward purposes of education and not many men are doing their best to give them better and as long as they continue to do so it seems only fair that we let them alone. Every man has a right to run his own business as long as he keeps within the law, and when he knows he never done anything to deserve being put out of business—as far as I have been able to learn.
It is evident that the college man, who takes an active part in athletics, subjects his system to abnormal strains. He over-exercises and the greatest danger he faces is that of weakening his heart, causing a man's handicap in his life after he is out of work. A medical Society of the state of Pennsylvania, Dr. Robert N. Willson, of Philadelphia, said recently that the vital question involved in competitive athletics is the ultimate result upon the health and lives of the participants. In the past few years, many forty-five years, who achieved fame on the gridiron, or the basketball court, have died and a majority of them at a comparatively early age.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Movie Fan
But if it is scientifically and physically important that we abolish a competition, to guard against weakening the future university student, there is no doubt but that another effective mode of exercise will result.
Dr. Willison stated that he knew of no instance of the recovery from a major infectious disease in an athlete, except in a tynphoid epidemic at a university. He noted that of the undergraduates—probably not then shorn of their resisting forces—had made a successful fight and recovered. The older men, who had excessive participation power by excessive participation athletes, could not扔 off the disease.
CAMPUS OPINION
This is a statement of facts and the facts have made it plain, not only to the scientists, but to the average university student. Too strenuous athletics tends to weaken him for his life work. However, no scientist or physician will prescribe no athletics. Healthy exercise is essential to the university student.
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The advice against active competition in athletics has not been directly made. However, the Germans have discontinued it in their universities and schools and it is believed that the German university student will be unable to compete in strenuous athletics, now one of the important sides of student life. Dr. Wilson believes that some day university and college authorities must, of necessity, conclude that no form of athletic event is sane which includes participation in the semiconious state of heart exhaustion at its conclusion.
L.
"1.—The rent of the chapter house is now two months overdue and to tomorrow the high priest of Delta Flush chapter is going to try to jolly the landlord along another month.
"2-If a certain tow-headed freshman is made president of his class he can be arrested away from home and be arrested on nobie node. vote, Brothers, votes.
"4.—On next Saturday night at mid-night three shuddering nephytes will be inducted into the awful mysteries of our mighty band. Let no brother forget to bring a barrel stave.
"Turn down the lights, please.
"Thev are as follows:
"We are about to divulge the four principal secrets of the Greek Letter
"3—On the third of next month an informal dance will be given with an imported orchestra and when the music hear of it they will expire with envy.
"There are a few other dark secrets but none as black as these.
"Greek Letter Societies are harmless and moreover are of great good. Many a collegian has, through them, learned the Greek alphabet so thoroughly that he has remembered it after French and trigonometry has cantered from the memory." George Fitch.
We've more than one-hundred and fifty Spring Suits in the house. The styles are exceedingly smart. Both in Silk and Wool, or Silk and Wool Combinations. Suits that are dressy, Sport Suits, Suits for large women. Suits for the Miss. Dresses for afternoon, Reception, or Party Wear, of Taffeta, Crepe de Chine or Crepe Meteor. Come in and see them, its never too early to look and it will be a pleasure to show them.
"The Greek Letter Society was invented over 100 years ago in an American college and there are now so many of them that the Greek letter society is one of the most worked and must soon be enlarged to take care of the rush of business.
"Contrary to popular supposition the members of these societies do not spend half their time writing letters in Greek, those who believe they use them. No, but the kind of letters that father understands and answers most kindly must be written in English, and the Greek letter member is usually a most faithful correspondent as far as his father is concerned.
"A Greek Letter Society is commonly supposed to be a gang of desperate young men who have sworn over a bloody skull to stand firmly by each other and never to reveal the name of the brother who blew up the court house. It is supposed to be so powerful that when 20 or 30 young men with pompadons hats get together in a black dress in a case-hardened voice in case-hardened voices that they can defeat the noble young candidate for congress who is supported only by a few shivering magazines.
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