UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Zetha Hamerner  Editor-in-chile
Guy Serviertner  Associate Editor
Allan Lovett  Assistant Editor
Raymond Clapper  News Editor
Michael Mackenzie  Assistant
John Glissner  Assistant
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entered on September 17, 1916, 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 undergraduate education in Kansan so go further than they go forwards; more than printing the news by standalone media; more toys; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be careful; to be charitable; to be chaotic; to be more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to satisfy the students of the University.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14. 1916
CALL IT BY ITS NAME
Double ignorance is where a man is ignorant that he is ignorant—Plato.
Students in the University who are indulging themselves in taking rubbers and raincoats and notebooks from the cloak rooms and halls may be glossing over the act to themselves by calling it borrowing, but it is not borrowing.
Complaints are becoming more and more frequent, until the only thing to do about it is to have action taken immediately.
It is plain stealing.
The fact that stealing exists in the University is deplorable. It is almost unbelievable that such a thing should exist in a University where students have money enough to attend school. But there is no use in lamenting the fact as deplorable and letting it rest at that.
The Daily Kansan suggests that the Student Councils take the matter under consideration, and appoint vigilance committees, or at least try in some way to put a stop to the petty thievery that is going on at present.
To steal a raincoat is just as much a crime as it is to steal a horse, and it is just as much the act of a thief.
And let the penalty be heavy enough to prevent the thief when caught from ever wanting to repeat his act again.
GIVE US AMMUNITION
While the legislature was in a deadlock last winter concerning the appropriations for education, a junior from the University of Kansas happened to ride in the same coach with his state representative. Leading up to the appropriation question the student found the congressman opposed to an increase in appropriation. But although the student was personally convinced that the University needed improvements, and told of the need in a general way, his knowledge of the University was so vague and incomplete that he could not launch a winning argument against the false economy advocate.
His torpedo tube was empty.
He did not know how K. U. ranked with other universities. He did not know what it cost Kansas to furnish him an education. He knew little about the budget and the expense of the state. He knew the University needed improvements but the representative said that many of the farmers needed new barns or new corrubribs, or new houses, much worse.
Now if K. U. had received the amount asked for, the farmer who needed new barns would have had a few cents less to buy them with, because of increased taxes. How many students could have shown conclusively to the legislator that these few cents invested in the University would have brought him greater returns in wealth than if he had put them into a barn? How many students know what the University does for Kansas
Could not the suggested course on college traditions include those things which not only give the student a feeling of love and loyalty for his University but also acquaint him with the reason for its support by the state?
and what it costs?
PLEASANT SEASONING
When one week brings such varied lectures, concerts and exhibitions of student activities as the lecture of Irving Bacheller, the concert of Oscar Seagle, the concert of the Hawaiian Orchestra, the basketball game with Washburn and a production by our University Dramatic Club, we begin to realize that we do enjoy some advantages even if we have to sit in small, crowded classrooms.
We see new horizons while listening to someone who has seen life with a vision kindly keen; add something finer to our lives by hearing a man who has such talent that he can lift us above the common routine of life; and increase our college spirit by seeing productions of our student activities.
If variety is the spice of life, we have enough seasoning this week to give a pleasant flavor to college existence.
SIGN THAT COMMUNICATION
SIGN THAT COMMUNICATIONS have come to the Daily Kansan both through the mail and through the communication boxes. As is stated at the head of the Campus Opinion column, no communications will be printed which are not signed with the name of the writer. The name of the writer is only an indication of good faith and will not be printed unless it is desired.
The Kanan is glad to print all communications within the bounds of decency from both the faculty and student body, whether that communication is in accord with the beliefs and policy of the paper or not. It urges the members of the University to express their ideas through its columns.
But the Kansan will not print unsigned communications.
Freshmen are hereby warned that they must not turn in to their instructors any literary compositions beyond the range of the ability of the senior class. Any violation of this rule will be considered a deliberate attempt to embarrass the dignified fourth year students.
The more we see of this weather, the less we think of compulsory drill. It is estimated that the weight of an army rifle increases during drill in direct proportion as the cube of its length.
There are several students from sunny California on our ice-coated, snow-drifted little "Hill," who have been practicing "There's no place like home."
FOUND IN A BOOK
Now books of this kind have been written in all ages—have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that—that what is important tomorrow? Will you roe and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable-boy, when you may talk with queens and kings; or flatter yourself that it is with any worthy consciousness of your own claim to respect. When you may talk with common crowd for entree here, and audience there, when all the while this eterna! court is open to you, with its society, wide an the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen and the mighty, of every nation, and the common man always; in that you may take fellowship and rank according to your wish; from that, once entered into it, you can never be an outcast but by your own fault; by your aristocracy of companionship, which you will be assuredly tested, and the motives with which you strive to take high place in the society of the living, measured, as to all the truth and sincerity that are in them, by the place you desire to take in this company of the Rasuk.
A Corner for the Library Browser
Send the Daily Kansan home.
FROM "LOCKSLEY HALL."
Knowledge comes but wisdom linger,
and a linger on the shore.
And where there is light, and the world in more and more.
CAMPUS OPINION
Communications must be signed as evidence of good conduct but names will not be published without the writer's consent
Editor of the Daily Kansan.
The extent of plain airway reached here in theiversity has become sopeat that it seems to me that some drastic action should be curt it. Last Monday I bought a pair of rubbers. Tuesday night I wore them to Spooner library and left them in the cloak room. When I came for them at 10 o'clock they were gone—stolen.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
And this is not the worst of the matter. In the three years I have spent at the University I have lost—had stolen—from this same cloak room, the following books, raincoat books, two text one hat and one umbrella. Possibly some cynic will say that I should have known better than to leave anything in the cloak room. To him I say what shall one do with one's wraps? One does not care to wear rubber gloves. One doesn't leave them in the cloak room where is one to place them?
It seems to me that it is high time that some means was devised of stopping these outrages. We have thieves here in the University, there is no doubt of it, for losses are heard of nearly every day. Carned the treasure by someone or whoever the power, come forth with some means of remedying this condition? I am in favor of finding the culprits and expelling them from school. If the student body, as a whole, will report all thefts to the Kansan so that they can be given penalty points for stealing, who doing the stealing, honesty can be forced upon the thieves or they can be ex- enployed from school.
THE QUESTION BOX
M. W. Vaughn.
Our columns are not long enough to permit of the policy you mention. Please don't worry.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Editor of the issue, Mr. Bauer.
In this issue, your paper Tuesday was a story headed, "Too Deep For Seniors." Please instruct your head-writers not to fall in with a story to such an extent that they let their personal views in the manuscript carry over. That would be offensive to me because I thought it unlustful.
world is more and more.
—Tennyson.
This department does not preclude to visit a client because of the host's ability. It reserves the right to question the host of its ability. It reserves the right to do work about coins, stamps or historical data that you may not know. Questions concerning the vital problems and questions concerning the vital problems are offered to the experts in this department.
But, that is not the main point Professor Percy B. Shostac announces definitely that he is going to keep on giving such subjects as "Intellectual Curiosity." Well, that may be his business and it may not. He says people learn by writing and that he learn to think writing and agree with him there. But when he goes to the extreme point of kidding himself into supposing that he is conducting a course in universal knowledge under the catalogue name of "Rhetoric I," I think he needs a bit in his mind and the university authorities at the end of the line. He goes too far, but we need to learn to write by writing. I grant that. The purpose of a course in rhetoric is to give one greater ease in writing. Although such a subject as "What the University Should Give Students for Winning in Debates" is probably not as thought-provoking as "Independent Curiosity," it more feasible and in better productions from the students. The energy of the freshman rhetorician should not be spent in thinking about what he is going to write so much as about how he is going to write it. Professor Shostac should consult a few authorities on the subject he is teaching and to confirm his own field. Personal interviews with some of the students might reveal some enlightening opinions of the kind of subjects he hands out.
I have heard a rumor that the Kansas is thinking of printing the names of all students who are late to class, as a supplement to their policy of printing the names of professors who hold their classes over time. If this is so, please use the enclosed stamped envelope to notify me of the fact. I am of a retiring nature, and do not seek publicity.
Senior
1917—Were you instrumental in college affairs?
Nervous;
Buzz—"How old is that lamp?" Fuzz "Three years."
Nervous.
1914—Yes, indeed; I played the piano in the band."—Leland Stanford Chaparral.
Buzz—"Well turn it out; it too long to go to smoke." —Pennsylvania
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