UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the university in Kansas; to hold the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be generous; to leave more arsenic problems to wiser heads, in all. To help University to satisfy the students of the University.
RUSKIN ON WAR
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916
The slugard's guide; loth to go to bed and loth to rise—Watts.
In all the "throwing about of brains" on the subject of preparedness, it is a relief and at the same time somewhat of a shock to fall back on John Ruskin, the arch-disciple of the fine arts and good living. His views on the question of arts and war are surprising—and interesting.
"No great art ever rose on earth but among a nation of soldiers" is the premise from which he reasons. He goes on to say that "All the pure and noble arts of peace are founded on war."
From the lips of the great dreamer of the nineteenth century, whose works on the arts were—and are yet, authorities, these words have a strange intonation. That he was sincere in uttering them is not to be doubted.
When Ruskin begins to talk on the arts he invariably swings around to the idea of the close intimacy between the life and art of a nation. "When I tell you that war is the foundation of all the arts, I mean also that it is the foundation of all the nigh virtues and faculties of men. The common notion that peace and the virtue of civil life flourished together I found to be utterly unenable. We talk of peace and learning, of peace and plenty, of peace and civilization; but I found that these are not the words that the Muse of History coupled together; that on her lips the words were peace and sensuality, peace and selfishness, peace and death."
He concludes in a manner that is interesting, even if not altogether convincing.
"I found in brief that all great nations learned their truth of word and strength of thought in war; that they were nourished in war and wasted in peace; taught by war and deceived by peace; trained by war and betrayed by peace; in a word, that they were born in war and expired in peace."
Add current humor: The enrolling system is to be changed again next year.
QUITE A FEW GIFTS
The thanks and appreciation which the public has shown Mrs. Isaac L. Rice for her million dollar hospital donation brings to our attention the fact that very little has been said regarding the liberal prizes and rewards offered to students each year by citizens over the state and in Lawrence especially.
$755.00 is given to worthy students each year by people of Lawrence and graduates of the University. $500. is given for prize essays, and that much more is available as a loan fund to those who are most deserving. $7,750 is given each year in fellowships. Besides these rewards there is a freshmen scholarship of one hundred dollars for the best German student.
Recently Mrs. J. B. Watkins offered a prize to the most deserving girl working her way through the University. We would like to ask who knows of a better way to spend money than to help a girl or boy get an education? It is these little boosts given each year by generous alumni or interested citizens of the state that help pull many students through school.
If the leaders of the country who are so busy denouncing the hyphens, include in their list, the mothers-in-laws, they'll find plenty of backing.
WE'RE ALL LOYAL
There are many loyal students at the University, and K. U. should be glad of the good spirit shown.
Fussers were told to take notice of the Student Council benefit—and the students did take notice last night. In fact, so many were loyal to the University that they attended the track meet, went to the Benefit picture show, treated their dates—and there's no telling how late they stayed after the show. The date rule was off!
However, it is good to see loyalty of any kind to the University, and support of every student activity.
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY
No one would ever suspect by looking over the current issue of the Harvard Lampoon that it was forty years old. It is a most sprightly and lively youngster of forty years—the funniest and most cleverly written of all the college comics.
When it was started back in the seventies, it was "conceived in wilt and dedicated to the principle that all men are created humorous." To this principle it has been true for forty years—and the college papers of the country all join in wishing them m. h. r. o. t. d.
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THE QUESTION BOX
This department did not pretend to know what to do in response to the best of its ability. It requested that the boss assign some supervisors. Don't ask about color maps, historical dates that you can easily find and those concerning the viral problems of the company. Don't ask about the experience concerning the viral problems of the experts in this department.
I'o the Question Editor:
I am a freshman from a small town.
There is a girl in one of my classes who
is her first year in college. She see her only in class, and then not to speak to her. What shall I do?
My Dear Jim:
Jim B.
Your problem is one that is troubling many. Since you do not see the girl outside of class, it is obvious that you will be forced to make your date in class. The following receipt is one of the most successful: Go early to class and wait around until "she" comes, then take a seat by her.
Say, "I beg your pardon, Miss Blank, but I used to know a girl named Blank, and I wondered if you could be a relative of hers. She was the most popular girl in the town, perhaps; she was the one thought that maybe you were cousins?"
That will flatter her and break the ice. Don't be bashful when you sit down, but be bold, so she will see that all the other girls know what your intention is, as well as she does. After a little talk about popular girls, you can then proceed to the date. You must say:
“There’s a hummer of a play at the Bowersock Friday night, and Blank Blank is going to take the leading part (be surge to mention a popular song) in her in the play.” Reminds me so much of you. Wouldn’t you like to go?”
If you are unable to get a seat in
clothing, we can help you. and I will tell you of another way.
Cigarette stains may be removed from the fingers by amputation another good way is to stop smoking cigarettes.
Be sure to interpace college slang in your talk, so she will think you are
Corns may be prevented by wearing shoes which fit properly, but we don't know where you can buy those shoes.
Sleeping in the open air is good for the complexion. If your landlord refuses to put a sleeping porch then you will have to sleep outdoors. Then you will have a sleep outdoors.
Walking will give you ruddy cheeks. And if you'll try walking past the saloons instead of into them you will avoid having a ruddy nose. To make yourself attractive to others cultivate a cheerful disposition. Think of other people's troubles instead of your own.
If you are too stunt console yourself with the thought that while your figure may not be beautiful it at least that you can afford to eat regularly.
Although it has been apparent at the University of Kansas for many years that our professors are really human, it is with surprise that we read that other universities are waking up also. The following from the book by Washington Daily proves that they have human professors there too:
Now that examination and semester grades have been given out, there is a wide divergence of opinion as to the character of members of the faculty. This is measured by the number of A and Egrades their students receive.
Anyone who contemplates registering in a certain subject is informed that the instructor is either a "prince" or a "crab." One young man advises Professor Flunkum because "he only gave me a D, and most of the class got above C;" another student, who has received a B grade, declares the professor is a "good scout"; and he gives me a C, which is just lovely—he gave me an A."
HUMAN PROFESSORS
Despite the fact that California is much closer to the Oriental countries than eastern universities, only 191 of 4,222 foreign students in 275 American universities and technical schools are registered in California institutions, according to a report issued by the Bureau of Education. Fifty-one-room dormitories for Guiana and Siberia being the only ones without students in American schools. New York leads in the number of foreign students.
Those who associate more or less with members of the faculty learn that they differ little from ordinary folk, and that there are some who worked in various capacities before they began to teach.
The only estimate most students have of their professors is based almost entirely on classroom experience. You don't need to know anything except a notebook or a grade. They usually leave at the end of the hour with the impression that the lecturer is somewhat inhuman, so they study and teach a particular subject.
Labor Day will be set aside at the University of California for the construction of a path leading from the campus to the Big C (elevation 850 feet). The path will be 2000 feet in length and 4 feet in width and will be the complete route for the project. 1912. A large number of alumni are taking active interest in the project.
The professors, for example, cannot be expected to assent to the view that it is for the president, as for the superintendent of a factory, to "hire and fire." Some presidents have devised strategies for professors who are incompetent lot of specialists who do not want to be bothered with questions of discipline and are best satisfied when controlled by an energetic and efficient administrator. This is rather a frustration objected by the American professors who prepare this report. They agree that discipline is necessary, and that if it is not to be administered from outside the outside the professors must assume the task: "They have the power to disregard the disposition, to do so." The obligation will doubtless, therefore, seem to many an unwelcome and burdensome one, and for its proper discharge members of the profession will perhaps need to address them at present possess it, the capacity for impersonal judgment in such cases, and for judicial severity when the occasion requires it."
Yet the responsibility is one that cannot be evaded if there is to be a decision. That freedom as the committee correctly丢置s, is not, as it sometimes loosely supposed, the "absolute freedom of thought, of thought, of inquiry, of discussion and of teaching of the academic profession to professors who respect manners in academies and uphold them; but no profession can command respect if its standards are imposed and upheld from outside. If the question is whether a professor is a man of science or merely a quack, it is objectionable; when outsiders intervene, their intervention can never be exempt from the suspicion that it is dictated by other motives than zeal for the
"HIRE AND FIRE"
The recent action of the University of Pennsylvania, inspired by the Nearing case, in providing security to a member of a client's team by which an accused member of the faculty is to be tried by his peers before the trustees act, furnishes a copy of the complaint and more force and actuality to this report. Springfield Republican.
The honor system has been the chief plank in the platform of the University of Oklahoma for the last month. That much sentiment against cheating has been aroused is shown by the fact that a large number of students are involution, taking a stand against cheating in the final examinations.
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