UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the University of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Guy Servrner - Editor-in-Chief Henry Placeph - Assistant Editor Steve Levant - Associate Editor Ralph Ellis - News Editor Zelina Hannon - Assistant Jon Kippen - Assistant BUSINESS STAFF Chas. Sturtevant ... Business Manager Cargill Sproull Harry Morgan Vernon A. Moore Maureen McKernan Olympia Joyce Charles Doug Davi John Cady Paul Brindel John Gleissner Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance; one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class, mail mat- ter to the New York office of the admiral, Kansas, under the master control. Published In the afternoon five thursday. The press, the press of the department of Journalism. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone. Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of the University, to foster a ther than merely printing the faculties and research the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be dignified; to be gaudous; to leave, more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to be tolerant; to be fully the students of the University. THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1916. Against stupidity in the gods them light, slight antirouleur. — Greek Schiller. GET OFF THE FENCE It has not been an utter failure. Nor has it been an unqualified suc cess. That seems to be general consensus of opinion of the students regarding the morning chapel services. The chapel committee knows this, but it wants to know the exact feeling of every student concerning daily devotional exercises. The average attendance for the morning service has been seventy-four for the first semester of this year. In the main, it is fair to presume that this seventy-four has represented only a very small portion of the student body. Many of this seventy-four are the regular attendants If the morning chapel service is worth anything at all, it is worth while for more than the comparatively few students that have taken advantage of it. If it has value only for these few, then it should not be classed as a University activity. And, furthermore, if the service reaches only these few, it is safe to suppose that they are not the ones that need such a service. The chapel committee will find, as others before them have found, that the main body of students will be indifferent to the questionaire. It is even doubtful if half who have received the letters will take the trouble to answer. The cold indifference towards all subjects is the universal criticism that promoters of any idea have to make on the student body. These facts are just the ones that the chapel committee wants to know, if the great majority of students are indifferent, then they can take steps to change the plan. If a large enough number vote that they are in favor ef the morning chapel plan, then the committee can know that it is filling a vital need. But the students of the University of Kansas are as intelligent and interested in scholastic things as any other body of students. Let this criticism of indifference receive a death blow on this question. If you are against the morning chapel, say so. If you are indifferent, say so. If you are in favor of it, say so. If you are in favor of it, say so. But, for the sake of the committee who has labored so long on this thing.— SAY SOMETHING. Looking forward to baseball season we invariably think of those China men. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT "Pop" means "popular"—so the Pop Concert given by the Lawrence Choral Union in the Gymnasium tonight will prove popular to the students, for the best musical talent of Lawrence is to perform in this entertainment. Pop concerts have been successful in Kansas City and other cities of the West. These concerts are for the purpose of popularizing the best in music. No town has a larger proportion of music lovers than Lawrence, and these entertainments should be well attended. So those who have an appreciation of good music will enjoy it, interpreted by some of the best musical artists of Lawrence, in Robinson Symnasium tonight. There is more than one way to go down Adams Street on these slushy days. You may slip, slide, walk, or run down; but the easiest way is to fall into a ditch and wash down. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY Honour we should and reverence the idealism of those men instrumental in selecting the site of the University of Kansas, for it is a spot that typifies the very things that a university should stand for. "The site should be a liberal one and a noble one," said Cardinal Newman describing the site of a university. "The University should be approached on all sides by a magnificent park, with fine trees in groups and groves and avenues, with glimpse and views of the fair city. There is rothing surely absurd in the idea, though it would take a round sum to realize it. What has a better claim to the purest and fairest possessions of nature, than the seat of wisdom?" Yes, the site is a liberal and noble one, thanks to nature and our predecessors, but how about the fine trees, groups and groves and avenues of them? We, too, might have a campus like Wisconsin, or Stanford, or California, if we would do as they did. What did they do? They went out and made their campus. They dug and they plowed and they planted. Now they have campuses that every student remembers with pride long after he has gone. We might have such a campus. The student who was shot in the mouth on "joke" night at Miami University, may live but never long enough to see the cleverness of the joke. Observations Hermeneutical About Things Academical To wash your face and comb you hair. And then your best new suit to wear That's—preparation. And then upon the car to ride And walk a mile or two besides, That's — Transportation. And then before her door to smile And think you'll stay a long, long That's—Expectation. And then to find her not at home. And homeward bound your way to That's—D——nation. The university debaters are resting on their oars, reports the University Missouri. Does this mean they are trying to get the drift of things? An English professor, H. C. Howe by name, at the University of Oregon, has decided to dispense with the burden of teaching an unnecessary burden for the student. COME TO K. U. A junior lawyer at Washington University rose the other day to ask the professor who this fellow Regina held to take part in so many English classes. McGill University has lost so many men, due to the fact that they are serving in the armies of Europe, that the athletic council has decided to discontinue intercollegiate relations for the time being. How the eligibility committee must be gnashing its teeth! "A man is somewhat like a sauvage; rather smooth upon the outside; never am, tell how thog there I am, call the Tiger (Clemson A., S. C.) OUT OF THEIR JOBS PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING "On behalf of our unconscious news writer, we apologize to yesterday's bridal pair for our remark terminated, etc., It is strange how this phrase will slip in almost ironically," says the Daily Californian. THE IRONY OF IDIOM Send the Daily Kansan home. Professor Boynton — "What effect did Cardilantes have on Colonial life?" Student—"They were a tribe of Indians who made frequent attacks on the colonists, thus checking their progress." Send the Daily Kansan home. Ulysses was a rover, a roamer and a rover, Who sought for high adventure about the sounding sea, Who roistered and philandered and fought the wide world over, And lived a life tempestous and free. Ulysses was a rover, a roamer and a rover, While I am to stay-at-home with never a chance to flee. But when I dream of wandering the earth and philandered over The spirit of Ulysses wakes in me. Ulysses was a rover, a roamer and a rover, And when my hopes are realized and all my dreams come true, I'll philander and flight the wide world over The way that old Ulysses used to do. Football, according to the Daily Californian, was played in 1914 by 2250 teams. Thirty-four thousand players were playing and playing. Careful estimates place the total number of attendants during the season at 6,292,000. The team was watched by the Harvard-Yale League team 75,380 times occupied almost 29 miles of seats. ULYSSES Berton Braley CAMPUS OPINION Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith and names will not be published without the writer's consent Why, if the chapel committee wants a statement of student opinion on the chapel question, does it not give the students the opportunity of saying whether they would attend chapel any more regularly and willingly at some other hour than 8:00? Editor of the Daily Kansan: I have talked with a great many of the student body and I am firmly convinced that if the old arrangement were reinstituted, by which classes start at eight o'clock and we provide that a large number of the students will attend regularly. It takes a great amount of will power for students to get up voluntarily for a religious service at eight o'clock in the morning—more will power than the majority of the students have, judging from the daily attendance. I attended once this week and counted thirty and five professors. The majority of the students were representatives from some organization which required their attendance. If classes began at eight o'clock students would be impelled to arise earlier, it would not be a case of voluntary action. And that much time would be gained each day, whether students attended chapel or enjoyed the majority of students enjoy a short period of time onenjoys who attend chapel as it is, enjoy it after they get there, but it is the effort of getting there that keeps them away. AS IT IS WRITTEN Periodically we hear influential business men complain of the miserable spelling displayed by the high school girls and boys in their employ. Offender than occasionally we find that otherwise capable students in English are put into the suburban schools, where university, because they have failed to unravel the mysteries of English spelling. But, you ask, why "tion" and "sion"? Again the answer is "the Latin apprehension"; "the Apprehension" comes from the Latin "apprehensus;" "the petition" comes from "petitus". The Latin "conventus" is responsible for "concomprehension" in "comprehension" we can trace to the Latin "comprehensus." Can't something be done to change the hour? Are you yourself not often perplexed by the seeming arbitrariness of English words? Has it never bothered you to know why certain jouns end in "tion" and others in "sion" when the pronunciation of their suffixes is identical? Side by side with boy finds "culpable and audible," but rarely does he feel anything but impatience that this should be so. Senior. "Ance" in "temperance" "terge" in "consequence," any by what right? By a perfect right, the Latin student answers. English spelling is not as arbitrary as one thinks. A knowledge of Latin and a few general facts may elucidate. Naturally, it must be conceded, there are exceptions to these principles. To be concrete, "ance" is the suffix of (most) English nouns derived from verbs of the first conjugation, whose stem vowel is "a." "Temperance" comes from "temperare," "importance" comes from "importata," while "distance" distinguishes the noun made from the Latin verb "incense," which occurs from "consequi," "innocence" from "insincere." The terrors of "ance" and "encue" are nought to the carefully trained student of Latin. THE MEDIUM BETWEEN YOU and YOU If it is news that you want every other student to know, phone K. U. 25 and put it in the Kansan. That's the Daily Kansan WANT ADS WANTED - Work by married student attending the University. Am willing to work afternoons. Phone 2445W Bell. 82tf. 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