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Entered as second-class malt matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone. Bell K. U. 25.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduates in how they will go for longer than mere printing the news from University hold; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be serious; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to satisfy the students of the University.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1916.
The best surgeon is he that has been hacked himself--Dan.
FOR POLITICAL CLUBS
FOR POLITICAL CLUBS
"Wilson Hat in the Ring."
T, R. May be a Candidate.
"Bryan will oppose Wilson."
These headlines in the daily papers and the general course of events toward the coming elections have aroused the country to a live sense of political responsibility. The unusual conflict and the distinct points at issue both tend to make this the most interesting presidential fight in years.
The students find politics one of the choice topics of conversation at fraternity and boarding house tables and on the street. Organizations similar to those formed three years ago will fill a distinct need among the student body. A Woodrow Wilson Club, or a T. R. club, would be an interesting departure from the ordinary club of the University.
A better understanding of what is going on in the political world and a quickening of interest in such things would certainly result from some such organizations.
Voters are soon to decide whether or not our stomachs are to keep on justing.
OUR U. S. LANGUAGE
It seems that greatness does not come from the speaking of correct English, as some qf the instructors of the department of English appear to think. Why, even the great and noted framers of the Constitution of the United States made mistakes in grammar. Take the preamble of the Constitution, for instance. Does it not say "in order to form a more perfect union"? Our grammars and our honorable instructors tell us that if a thing is "perfect" it cannot be "more perfect."
Cheer up, and remember that even a man who split rails as well as infinitives became president of the United States!
So you see that there is some chance of greatness for even those who blurt out, now and then: "Has went," "has came," "ain't done," "has got," "ain't got no," "ain't up," and many other such "opposed-to-grammatical" expressions.
THE OLD ORDER
Sing the dirge of an old tradition! The happy days of the laws are over. It is simply another case of human work and energy being replaced by the machinery of modern progress. To run in competition is impossible. The old must give way before the new.
Of course the weather flags did not know that they were usurping the time honored position of the students of law. In the old days, before the University of Kansas was honored with government weather flags, the men of the School of Law took upon themselves the task of informing the students of the University as to the
condition of the weather.
If it was warm and spring-like the laws gathered in solid phalanx on the steps; if it was snowy or rainy and cold, not a Law was visible. The old timers of Mt. Orde could even tell the direction of the wind from the eyes of the human weather vanes.
But times have changed. Government flags now wave gaily from the towers of Fraser Hall. From force of habit of the Laws still gather on the steps, but not with the same old spirit. The freshmen, unversed in legal expressions, probably do not even know of the old tradition. They crane their necks and strain their eyes in an attempt to see if it is still stormy or if the weather is bright and fair.
But a few old timers involuntarily gaze over at the Law steps. The Law men are still doggedly interpreting the weather for those who hate to see the old order change.
CAMPUS OPINION
THE GIRLS AT THE CLUB SAID
IT WAS ROTTEN
To The Daily Kansan:
A shining example of our Kansas provincialism was exhibited yesterday at a French lecture given by a distinguished French woman, Madame Gudreau. She is a French beauty, rare in Kansas, of the spoken voice, melodious and fine and firm, would have found pleasure enough had they been unable to understand her pronunciation, but she was speaking. A large audience was still in the chapel, even at the end of the lecture, an audience, the large part of which may not have undergone any good taste to appreciate the sincerity and refinement of a cultivated woman.
As I listened to the life-story of one of the noblest women our sordid world has ever known, Joan of Arc one of the bravest, gentiest, gentlest characters of history, I wondered how much of the young woman of Kafka plies, the ones I speak of are in the minority, but it is a very conspicuous minority. For instance, there was one flaming vision in scarlet with a large window draped draped none too inconsiderately over the front of a room; however, was an example of poor taste and not of bad manners, for the person in question was to be seen rather than to be heard. Behind me, however, a young lady audibly announced that she would study her lesson. The information seemed to interest a number of her neighbors.
INEXCUSABLE RUDENESS
At four different times during the lecture a pause was made during which those who did not wish to stay were at liberty to go, yet throughout the first half hour and more, there was a constant recessional through the midst of some of the finest portions of the course when for instance, Joan had sensed the mission imparted to her and was imploring the divine messenger to find some one to send more worthy. As if there could have been in history another woman so pure and womanly except that mother from similar peasant stock of Him whom the most respectful professor to worship whose one insistent principle, of all others, was that consideration for people.
This incident brings to my mind other thoughts which have been gathering there since my return to my Alma Mater from several years of education. I believe a good half dozen of the men and women of the East, I believe as a native and citizen of this state of Kansas which I have good reason to respect, I may have the right to say a few things about tendencies and actions which I here are opposed to the best interests of the University and of the State.
To begin with, probably nineteenth of the men and women at our campus are the earnest, good-natured, cohesive, compassionate Kansans who give to class-room work in this institution a genuine heartiness and enjoyment that as an in-person student have accepted as more than a return for opportunities of other sorts which I gave up in the East when I returned to my own state. The heart and core of this University, like the heart and core of the State, is sound and clean.
LEARN GOOD MANNERS FROM BEASTS
There is one one-tenth of this student body, which changes largely from year to year so that few of them graduate and by virtue of loud talking, loud dressing, vulgar manners, give our institution a bad name among the citizens of our state, and I do not wonder. The people who constitute this more than conspicuous one-tenth come in part from the small towns and not from the farms where men and women work; they are beasts than they do in towns from human beings. They are people who having some money to spend for the supposed purpose of an education regard the University as some sort of winter resort where one may cultivate the social graces, learn to hold a teacup, and return to the paternal village with sufficient foreign language to travel abroad. You can also or two seasons at our prairie Saratoga are sufficient to equip the moderately ingenuous individual with a Greek letter pin and sufficient material for conversation to last theurefresh life, the preface in all assembles when "When I was at K. U. ..."
The same amount of money spent in a four years' course might result in a large number of a fortune, or the same sum were spent in an entrepreneur man or woman's school, the Kansas Beau Brummels and Lady Mary might return home with a chastened heart, her hardships nor millinery constitute the insignia of citizenship.
CHARGE PARTLY TO PARENTAL FAILURE What can the University do? No, they cannot. In fact, just this is the University's business. Yet, here lies the very danger which menaces us, a danger that should concern every citizen of the University and should be the student of the University. What we have here of social sham, of vapidity, of absurdity, exists because such things exist in the state; only we there are unaware of them. Body the most brilliant, examples of parental failure, for foolish parents are not usually astonished with offspring unlike themselves. But the people of the State who judge us by their brass, do not know our real character.
In the Holyoke College, Smith College, Wellesley College, the women attend classes in plain, inconspicuous clothing, often in some sort of blouse, dresses, skirts or sketches in flat-heeled shoes, climb the Hoods and walk the Berkshire hills. True, I presume it is, that the material in these inconspicuous costumes may not be of the cheapest quality; I am not a critic of the details, but of the encreable. But men attending class attired in all her men attending class attired in a chopping-trip in Kansas City, or an exnurgated edition of Vanity Fair, is uncommon and would arouse as to see one of their number being steered by one all obey by one of our Kansas Lawncolts. It seems to me remarkable that some of our Kansas girls do not develop curvature of the face in the way they are shoved by one elbow over mud paddles and up stairways.
No wonder Coach Olcott told the men of the University what he did at the rally before the Nebraska game and at the football smoker. A few years back in the history of this school one member of our aforesaid Tittle approached in the fall the editor of the Annual. He wanted to know if the Jaybawker would use the usual custom of printing the pictures of "cases." The editor in all gravity assured him that the Jaybawker would not omit that essential feature of a typical Annual. Quite industriously the inquisitor set about to scare himself up a "case." He succeeded. But strange to say, he was on panel snap-shots appeared, he and hisaphne were not among those present.
ACQUIRE THE KLAXON MANNER
In Leland Stanford I am told that the men may wear corduroys and flannel. In the University of Oregon manages to turn out a class of honest-to-god men once a year. I am not praising the Eastern man's college to the unfair disadvantage of the schools of Oregon, but am still speaking in the University of Kansas of the Klaxon-mannerted tenth.
I shall have other remarks to make later in print, if I escape tarring and feathering for these, for nothing is so clarifying to the eyes of the average bombastic, pharisaic, self-sufficient Kansas as a few years in the East of Kansas. You will be sufficient today to the evil thief of. I thank you one and all for your courteous attention, for I have to study my Spanish. I simn myself
I was diverted with none so much as that of the rope dancers who performed upon a slender white foot, and discussed about two feet, and twelve inclusive on this ground. This diversion is practised only by those persons who are candidates for great employment and high favour at court. They are trained from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education.
In the Eastern men's schools, whatever may be said by moralists of their customs, they print at least no "cases" that might warrant picture prints, of are prohibited in Kansas. Nor is it on record that any man there would be apt to base his judgment of a serious lecture on him down At The Club Said It Was Rotten.
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