UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Univer-
sity of Kangas
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Entered as second-class mail matter January 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the gmt of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kaman aims to picture the undergraduate by going through steps to go further than merely printing the news by stating facts; to hold; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads; to be able to保障 the students of the University.
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916.
Cut the wings of your Henn and
Hope that they lead you a merry
Dance after them—Poor Richard's
Almanac.
WITHOUT PURPOSE
When a freshman in the University of Pennsylvania was crushed to death in the annual "bowl fight" the other day, it was only another case of a life unnecessarily blotted out for no purpose.
Fortunately the University of Kansas has abolished such primitive means of instilling spirit and manhood into their students. Theodore Roosevelt would probably say that while it is deplorable, still it was not without gain that one should have to pay the price for the good of the majority.
This might be true if there were no other means of arousing spirit and courage and all the other characteristics that go to make up a well-balanced man, but when other means do exist, the price of a life is too great a price to pay.
He died touching the bowl, and to touch the bowl is the greatest honor that can come to a freshman in the opinion of the undergraduate of the University.
In an excess of sentiment someone may say that to have achieved what he was fighting for is gain enough. This is a beautiful, idealistic statement.
To gain what we are fighting for is the purpose of fighting, but what is the benefit of dying for something that can never be of value to the world or anyone in it?
A life is too precious a thing to be thrown away merely to afford someone inspiration for a great work on heroism.
HOLLOW FORMS
Forms have a habit of outliving their usefulness. Like ghosts of forgotten purpose, they linger long after the function of which they formerly were the manifestation has ceased to exist. One of these shades of former usefulness which is casting a shadow over the educational world of today is the classical entrance requirements to which certain colleges and universities are still clinging.
The purpose of an educational institution is radically different today from what it was yesterday. Instead of being a polished lathe for a few select individuals—sons and daughters of the elite—the modern school system is a gristmill through which humanity must pass. And its function is to provide a course of training which will fit this humanity to meet life in its various phases.
This does not mean that the process must exclude all that has a tendency to polish. A knowledge of the principles and technique of art and music, and the structural principles of language which are to be found in Latin and Greek, not only increase a man's ability to enjoy life but sharpen his analytical faculties. They make him more sensitive to his environment.
more capable of associating with his fellows. They give a delightful flavor to his makeup.
But it must be kept in mind that the classical studies are simply a flavor. They are not and cannot be the foundation of a useful education. And colleges whose entrance requirements demand years of Latin and Greek—and there are large institutions in this country still having such requirements—are deliberately trying to preserve a form which has long since passed its usefulness.
THEY DON'T EXIST
Kansas hasn't had any blizzards since a well-qualified and efficient press-agent eliminated them.
press-agent eliminated them.
It is the tendency of peoples as they become more and more removed from the pioneer stage to break away from harsher terms. "Killings" become homicides; fights are struggles or encounters; "hold-ups" survive under the name of 'robberies; drunkards come to be known as inebriates; and so on through the list. The harsh phraseology is toned down in harmony with this general trend, and, accordingly, Kansas has no more blizards.
Our dictionary tells us a blizzard is a dry, cold, violent storm, with high wind and fine driving snow. Under the influence of the finer concepts of a more refined people the high wind is no doubt a breeze; the fine driving snow a "durry"; and by combination, what we recently experienced was undoubtedly merely a cold wave with a light breeze from the north and a dash of snow.
Yes, Kansas has cold waves, but blizzards—oh, no!
One professor stopped another
A professor stopped another
Asked him what "twas all about-
Why he no more held his classes,
Do you ever let them out?
Then the teacher thus accented Answering him did fairly shout "Cause the corduroys will get you
cause the corduroys will get you If you don't watch out."
Thieves visited a fraternity house last week and took $145 in cash. No, not here, of course; at Illinois.
Why should Miss Kanaga go to Chile when it's that way here at home?
CONCENTRATED PATRIOTISM Patriotism, according to Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, has no limit in its relation to the humdrum, every day mode of life. The university or college may be stimulative or productive of this personal quality in its effect on the student.
In a recent address, given before the Newport Historical Society, he said:
"If a man or woman is to rise to a true appreciation of patriotism and wishes to be a real patriot then he or she must reflect upon the purpose of organized community life.
"Instead of rhetoric, a patriot need philosophy; instead of noisy and tumultuous expression of high feeling, he needs serious purpose, insight into the significance of his own community, a knowledge of its history, of its great personalities, of its policies, of its achievements, and above all a knowledge of its aim. He must ask himself not only, "From what origin and by what steps has it come?" but more insistently and more emphatically, "Toward what end and toward what purpose is it moving? What is the reason of it all?"
Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter.
They lived with their Mother in a sandbank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree.
Pabulum for the Highbrow
"Your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
"Now, my dear?" said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden.
'Now run along, and don't get into mischief. I am going out.'
In all fairness to those professors who are possessed with a sense of honesty and reason and in fairness to the student body, this unreasonableness is not pardonable about how students play and fair play as students' student body; I wonder why we couldn't get up a "fair play" section for the faculty.
A Senior Engineer.
Editor Daily Kannan:
Why not a course in spelling on the Hill? Or an old fashioned spelling school now and then?
Eighty per cent of the freshmen at the University of Colorado are compelled to study this necessary adjunct to daily life. I do not know whether the students there spell any words, but than they go out but after associating with K. U people a year and a half I cannot see how they could. Furthermore, the epidemic of poor spelling seems to be general.
Editor Daily Kansan:
The University of Kansas has a woman student who is ninety-one years old. Her name is Mrs. Winship und she believes that college life is the best atmosphere in which to keep youthful. Ohio State Lantern.
NIAGARA ON THE LAKE
I heard them march and drill,
and how they moved.
Around a cross upon a hill
I heard a bird bite me.
O shall I be, Know.
Were I all did they?
Wrote to my God, must我 I must
to mock my God agonish.
Witter Bynner
To what do such conditions lead? Unfortunately for some of our reasonable professors, it has been decreed that a day has only twenty-four hours. Now to take an average day made up of classes from 8:30 to 12:30 A. M. and from 1:30 to 4:30 P. M. or seven hours. Hill, one hour each, with three hours for study, six hours for sleep, the hoold to catch your breath, we have left a grand total of six and a half hours for study and report writing. Sometimes by working Saturdays and Sundays, we are able to keep within hailing distance of our classes and professors. The time left for study should theoretically be divided proportionally to the different classes according to the credit given us, but because of reasonabler or at least limited idea of their own importance, a few professors get most of the time on their own courses and the others take what they can get.
author of the Daily Kansan!
In the University of Kansas, a number of professors appear deluted into some initial hallucination that we believe to believe that these courses are the only ones of any importance offered in the curriculum, at least such is the impression we receive when their assignments are given to us; but I, as one of the student body, where such learning is execlusively a professor gives in a two hour course, work requiring more time than the ordinary five hour course, I consider that overstepping the bounds of fairness and justice. When a professor requires for a one hour course a four hour course book, a three dollar lab, fee, preparation of a preliminary report of each experiment requiring not less than two hours outside of class time, at least three hours per week in laboratory, and then a final two hours outside of time, the preparation of such takes from two to six hours, is that reasonable? If it is, I certainly have a perverted idea of reasonableness. The Christmas holiday supposedly began the evening of Friday, Dec. 17, 1915, but that time in two classes there were given outside of class time which we were asked to work on during Christmas holiday. Holiday????! Well, supposedly a holiday, but apparently a good excuse for some professors to get some extra work done. One of the assignments I mention, with an extra minute or two of exercise, the other, two preliminary reports for electrical laboratory. Queer ideas some professors have of holidays.
A class meeting, say, once a week and open to all the university might accomplish much in the way of correcting this detail of our written work. No credit need be given, but some form of recognition for increased interest in this line would be to keep interest alive. Let's get behind and fit anything can be started to help out this great need.
youthful. This is Mrs. Mrs. Winship was only eighty-four years old when the story started here last fall.
Mother Goose in College
Poor Spelling Soph.
Headline — "Debaters Break Into Print"
Wonder if they got caught?
Said the bashful soph to the freshman
A freshman girl and a bashful soph,
Were walking out one Sunday.
CAMPUS OPINION
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Editor of the Daily Kansan;
"Tomorrow—will be Monday."
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