UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from 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 students to go further than merely printing the news. The University holds, to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be courteous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to ensure that the students of the University.
Pull up the stones, you stugward, and
beats the devil's head with them—it
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1916
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
One of the questions that is scheduled to come up before the present session of Congress is the proposal to establish a national university. The idea is not new, a bill having been introduced to that effect at the last session of Congress. It has every chance for careful consideration and will be one of the live topics of consideration for national educators this year.
The plan was proposed by Representative Fess, who is also president of Antioch College, Ohio. As discussed in an editorial recently in the Indianapolis News, it has for its purpose, the establishment in Washington of an institution known as the National University of the United States to promote the advancement of natural science and of the liberal arts and fine arts by original research; and to provide for the higher instruction of men and women for posts of responsibility in the public service of state or nation. It will work in conjunction with the federal government, agricultural colleges and state universities.
There seems to be some doubt as to the constitutionality of such an act, although some of the leading justices of the country have been quoted as holding the opinion that Congress could legally pass such an act.
The exact work of such an institution has not been given extensive publicity, but the scope of a national university would be limitless. After the war is over, the German universities may have lost much of their prestige. The United States will be the logical country to carry on the wonderful educational ideas that have been thought heretofore to be the direct province of Germany. Such an institution as the national university might easily be, would do a great deal toward making the United States the leading educational country of the world.
WHAT MORE?
The Student Council debt is paid the Armenian's have been relieved and we have seen the President's wife.
The soph girls' team will have a "basketball tangle" with the Polytechnic Institute of Kansas City Thursday. And that isn't a new dance either.
Life would be a pleasant thing for college students if it were not for that last group which must always be filled.
The first snow in thirty years is killing off the old web-footed Oregonians like flies. Surely they are not dying to get warm.
Lord Byron in speaking of a dog
saves:
"Unhonored falls, unnoticed all his worth:
Denied in heaven the place he held on earth."
We contend that old Pi would have to be a popular dog in heaven if he got any more publicity than he does here or gets his picture in a more prominent place than Squires' window.
The Sad, Sad Grind of Our College Life
"Through I pass through the Valley of the Shadow of Death" etc, etc, from the discourses of Dite, or from the post-examination perusal).
The Daily Texan in a recent issue waxed jocular on the subject of matrimony. Touching upon that delicate theme, the Texan joked thusly: "That two can live as cheaply as one is a popular fallacy. And according to that man it must be so blamed popular as it used to be." Put it不it the economical part of matrimony not the appeals to us, any way.
"It's easy enough to be merry.
When life goes along like a song.
Referring to the discovery of Chamberlin's ineligibility, the Daily Nebraska news agency discovered that Chamberlin was ineligible was stabbing us in the back; that he who, by exposing the truth, prevented our violating the Missouri valley rules, is an undesirable citizen of Nebraska. We are in violation of the rules of the association," the Cornhusker sheet continues, "The 'anything to win' spirit is dead at Nebraska. We intend to play on the idea. No apology is due from one who prevents from committing a previous mistake."
Yes, And More So
Asks the University Missouri:
"Has this mincing gait which you are bound to affect lest you sit on the ice demonstrated to you that you have heretofore unsuspected muscles in your locomoting equipment?"
Yes. And the recent slipperiness has also demonstrated to us that we have heretofore undreamed-of sensory nerves in our seating capacity.
E. W. H.
The Daily Kansan has many friends among the faculty members, and Prof. Carl Becker of the history department is one of the best of them. He has always taken a lively interest in the doings of the paper and has frequently sent in communications on timely subjects, all, of them written by professors and peculiar to Professor Becker. The following article comes from him:
ON SOCIETIES
At the Convocation next Friday there will be announced the names of the nine young women who, since their election last May, have constituted the active members of The Society. They are honored with the Society's honor society; and although it is one of the influential societies in the University, there are many students who have doubtless never heard of it, or, having heard of it, have forgotten it. But if you know about them, ever, for the Torch is not only a secret society but a society devoted to an object which can be attained only on condition that the names of the members remain concealed during the greater part of the year. It might be as an indication for promoting good causes in organized manner.
This is certainly an age of organizations, an age of machinery, from the social as well as from the mechanical point of view. That organization goes on without saying, for there are many things that can be effectively done only through systematic cooperative effort. Yet there are some things that can be better done in other ways. For example, a Society for the Manufacture and Diffusion of Delicious and Malicious Scandal works to raise awareness which it existed. A member of such a society would at once be suspect; no one would believe anything he might say about any one else. Now this, in general, is the defect of all organized parties and societies, that its members are likely to be judged in terms of the chairman, the committee, the parate, rather than individual, motives are attributed to them. If a newspaper, let us say, denounces President Wilson's Mexican policy, the argument may seem plausible until you learn that the editor is the chairman of the committee. Or perhaps a student, at election time, shows himself unaccountably friendly to you, and incidentally dilates on the excellent qualities of a certain candidate for office. Who is that fellow? you ask Oh, he is an Alpha Delta. That places him. It is the same with good causes as with bad. A young woman exhibits strong indignation against the practice of late parties or cheating in examinations; but if it transpires that she is President of the Y. W. C. A. you shrug your shoulders. The course of being identified with a society is that one's conduct is apt to be judged, not on its merits, but in terms of the known interests or the obvious bias of the society. The individual
becomes submerged in the organization.
How fine it would be, then, if every student would, on his own initiative and apart from any party or class or society, set himself to work disinterestedly, without regard to their worth while in the University. It was precisely to effect this end, in part at least, that in 1912 a group of senior girls formed themselves into the society called The Torch. It was to be a society, without any organized interests to serve; not so much a society as simply a group of girls, prominent in the affairs of the University, and recognized leaders among the women of the university, without any interest to work individually, on their own hook, for those that knew were obviously to be desired. For this reason the society as an organization had to be kept in the back ground, had to be a kind of self-denying organization; and the students must know that the names of the members should not be generally known.
It is not for the purpose of calling attention to the society of The Torch that these remarks are printed, but to point out that each student should know all of the purpose which gave rise to the Torch,—might well assume a sense of personal responsibility for the promotion of good causes. And therefore let every student remember about the Torch to remember only the purpose which inspires it.
The Torch consists, so far as the active society is concerned, of nine girls, elected each May by the retiring members and a committee of the faculty. At least seventy hours of school attendance is required activity for leadership, and the disposition to take an active part in what are called Student Affairs, are the qualifications for membership. The charter members of The Torch were Lucie March, Isabel Thomas, Grace Wilkie, Burlurd Burckell, Nell Martindale, Mace Rossman, Gale Gossett, and Nelle Helen Burckell. The office of president was held by Lucie March, Emily Zwick, Marie Sealy, and Marie Heedrick. In all matters of vital import to the University the members of the society have taken an active individual interest; but they have devoted themselves more particularly, perhaps, to the promotion of a proper attitude towards matters as honesty in examinations, the subordination of social functions and amusement to the more fundamental work of the college, the observance of social regulations, and in general to the inculcation of the spirit of loyalty to the University and its abiding interests. And during the period when accomplished by the members of the society, in a quiet way, along all of these lines,
HOW TO TELL STORIES
In any kind of a voting contest to find the greatest bore, the one who tries to tell stories and never fails to make the story uninteresting by his failure to use the simple rules, would run far ahead of the entire field.
In an attempt to educate these story tellers, the Kansas State College interviews one of its professors. The article follows:
It is an art to be able to tell an anecdote or a humorous story well, according to Dr. J. K. Macarthur, as professor of the English language.
"The point of some stories depends upon a central word, phrase or sentence. The teller should always pause a second before speaking the word, emphasize it, and pause a second after the expression.
"The last sentence often contains the point of the story and many story tellers let this important part slide, as did the man who was loading a bacon packet when he joined the 12 o'clock whistle blew, and with the same disastrous effect.
"Most people are inclined to tell a story too rapidly and much of the effect is lost. Tell a story deliberately and have it well in mind, so there need be no hesitation and the story will be smooth and finished.
The University of Pennsylvania baseball team may take a trip to Honolulu in the summer with favor by the athletic authorities of that institution.
"Good story tellers never laugh at their own stories. They are as the professional comedians who are the most melancholy people in the world, both on and off the stage. It is the nature of the humorist to be the contrast between what he seems to be and what he really is.
Regents at the University of Oregon Regents have authorized the erection of a $40,000 building for the School of Education and the Law Department.
"All good story tellers begin with ease and deliberation—never forgetting to articulate strongly. Then when they get to the point of the story it stands out clean and plain." —Collegian.
The system of awarding Rhodes scholarships has been changed. Scholars will be chosen from twenty-two from all the states every two years.
The Student council at Harvard has approved the present plan inaugurated this year to employ student waiters at the Harvard commons.
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FOR SALE: Modern 11 room house,
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FOR RENT, GIRLS—One large south room on the third floor for two, $14. One large one room on second floor, $14. A girl wishes a roommate. The room is in the front and faces the east. $7.50. Board at $4.00 a week. Mrs. M. H. Reed, 1237 Oread a week. Mrs. M. H. Reed, 84-5.
FOR RENT, BOYS—Good sized,
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Smokarols suit most smokers. Try
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HERE are 140 different manufacturing operations
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Photo 114-800
LOST—Gold ring with Masonic emblem in inlaid ruby setting. Reward for return to Kansan office. 89.2$
FOR RENT, BOYS—Two large rooms, $12. Also one room on first floor, suitable for man and wife. Mrs. M. A. Morgan, 1321 Tenn. 84-5
FOR RENT, GIRLS—One large southeast room for two, $13. Mrs.
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Regal workmanship represents the highest development in shoe construction and finish. Regal factories are located where nothing but fine shoes are made,where skill in shoemaking is the chief inheritance.
Manufacturing Efficiency
Benson & Hedges famous tobacco; also Cake Box and Craven's at Carvell's.-Adv.
in making a shoe. The best equipped factories use similar machinery. The principal distinction in the finished product is in the quality of material and skill of the workmen.
We purchase more fine leather to cut up exclusively into $4. and $5. shoes than any manufacturer in the world.
A Good Place to Eat Johnson & Tuttle
Anderson's Old Stand 715 MASSACHUSETTE STREET
For the latest in commercial and society printing call on
A. G. Alrich 744 Mass. St.
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository
PROTSCH
The College Tailor
Corona and Fox Typewriters are sold exclusively in Lawrence by
F. I. Carter,
F. I. Carter,
1025 Mass. St.
We have machines for rent and a full line of supplies.
MANUFACTURES
WILLIAM BARKER CO., TROY, N.Y.
Sold by PECKHAM
CLASSIFIED
ED, W. PARSONS, Esgraver, Watch-
chest. Bell phone, 711, 717. Masson
Bell phone, 711, 717. Masson
Book Store
KEELER'S BOOK STORE, $25 Mass.
St. Typewriters for sale or rent.
Classroom and School Supplies.
Paper by the ground book.
10c. Pictures and Picture framing.
China Palnting
MISS ESTELLATA NORTHRUP, china
music. Orders for special occaions
carefully handled. 785 Mass. Phone
Bell 152.
Barber Shops
Go where they all go
J. C. HOUCK
913 Mass.
PHONE KENNETH PLUMBING CO.
for gas goods and Mazda Lamps. 3857
1-800-246-3533
Printing
K. U. SHOE SHOP and Pantatorium is the best place for best results 1342
B. H. DALLE, Artistic Job Printing.
Both bwhomes 228. 1027 Mass.
Jhoe Shen
FORNEY SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass. St.
Don't make a mistake. All work
is done.
MIR R M. A. MORGAN I-821 Tennesses,
talloring. I-821 Very reasonable.
Prices very reasonable.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H, L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires' studio. Both phones.
HARRY IBEDING. M. D. Eye, ear,
five, face. F. J. Phones. M. Phone, bib 513;
five, face. F. U. Bldg. Phones, bib 513;
G. W. JONES, A. M. M. D. Diseases
culture. Suite 108. Phone: 212-537-9141. Health
Office: 212-537-9141. Phone: 212-537-9141.
J. R. BEHGHTIER, M. D. J. D. O. 832 Mms.
Both phones, office and residence.
A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 743
Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
D. H. W. HUTCHNSON, Dentist 308
Perkins Bldg. Lawrence, Kansas
C. O. ERLEBM D.M. D. Kleid Bldpr. Eyx.
class work guaranteed. Successor to
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Conklin Fountain Pens
Conklin Fountain Pens
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling
Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store
847 Mass. St.
See Griffin Coal Company for Fuel.