UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Glendon Allivine John Gleissner
Angel A. Rutger Paul Brindel
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The Daily Kangan aims to picture the undergraduate in to go further than merely printing the news. The University Builds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be gregarious; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to give more clarity to the students of the University.
TUESDAY, NOV.16, 1915
"It is clear that the state where the middle ranks predominate is the best."—Aristotle.
"On to Mizzou" now!
ON TO MIZZOU!
Kansas showed them all—old grades and visitors—Saturday, that the same old fight that made famous the teams back in the nineties was still here and that we could lose and do it gracefully. But, with five victories and two defeats down on the slate, we are still batting 714, while Missouri is way down in the two hundred class. And after Thanksgiving Day, that old average will be hiked up to something over 856, if dope, efficiency, good coaching, fight and spirit enter into the gridiron pastime at all.
Everything points to a Kansas victory. The Okahomans were held to a nine point lead, while Bennie Owen's men had a little run-a-way with the Indian's pupils. Washington has always been easy for Kansas, but the St. Louis men were the first to humble the Tigers this season. The Aggies showed a little strength against Kansas in the first half, but didn't do much when the Jayhawks hit their strides. They held Missouri scoreless.
Of course, all this was back at the start and in the middle of the season. Missouri commenced to look as if they wanted to fight in the game with Ames and they completely walked away with Drake Saturday, losing to Northwestern in the meantime.
This is not intended to be a general review of the whole gridiron season of the United States, but is a reminder that by spending a few cents less than ten "plunks" you can accompany the Kansans to Columbia on Thanksgiving Day to see one of the classiest pigskin battles ever staged in the hog-back town.
Will we win? WELL—What do you think? Do you care whether we win? If you do, one of the finest Christmas presents you can make yourself is a round trip ticket to Columbia, Mo. At the same time, your voice will help some in the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day.
The Thundering Two Thousand were making just as much noise when the final whistle blew as when the initial note sounded last Saturday. There will be more Rock Chalk noise than that in Columbia if about a thousand of us get the idea out of our heads that that little trip down there is going to break us.
Wait it Christmas to see "her"
and let's all go to Columbia.
GET ORGANIZED NOW!
What is your County Club doing for its county? If it has not been organized yet don't wait for the other fellow to start things but start them yourself. Do you ever see those fellow-students on the hill from your home town. Plan to get the bunch together and talk over old times and
incidently to elect some good live officers who will keep things going. See that the club gives a big banquet at Christmas time for the high school seniors in the county, it will influence many of them to come to the University who might otherwise drop from school work.
There are sixty counties with large enough representation in the University to organize a club. With that many working units, all concentrated under one head, pulling in the same direction, great things can be accomplished for the University.
THE LARGER FORCE
"My experience in college life has taught me that the happiest among the student body are always those identified with some great unifying force." In this statement made by President H. N. MacCracken in his inaugural address before Vassar College is found a truth that applies not only to Vassar College, not only to women students but to the great number of colleges and universities throughout the country, and farther than that, to the great public at large.
No individual is so happy as when he is submerging his own consciousness in the great social consciousness, when he is putting aside his own petty grievances for a great cause, and when he is forgetting his own self-consciousness in a work greater than himself'.f
Many have said that what the student is in college, and what he makes of himself there, will be the man in the life after college. The student who is interested in the student life, who forgets his own small affairs in working for the larger affairs of the college life will be the man or woman who interests himself in the larger world problems after college life is over. A broad human sympathy does not spring up in a student's breast in a night when he enters "real" life. Human sympathy and understanding is a slow growing tree with its roots deep in the early life of every individual, and its care is just as important during college days as it is later.
FOOTBALL'S FAMILY TREE
All nations have played football. The ancients inflated a bladder, or follis, and kicked it about. In Greece there was the equikuros, a game called harpastum with only by a larger number of persons. Then the Romans played a game called harpastum with both hands and feet, which shows that even then carrying the ball was perilous in ancient times to "foundations of "soccer" and Rugby.
In the Philippines and Polynesia, it is played with a light ball made of thin, split fibers of bamboo, ingot-shaped metal, or wood; it with a ball made of strips of leather. The Maoris of New Zealand and the Faroe Islands have a game of native footbal. East and west, we find football of one kind or another.
There can be little doubt that it was passed on to Great Britain by the Romans from harpastum where they strove by a “conquering cast” to throw the folls into each other’s goal. Centuries before cricket was born in the south of England, foot-breaking wickets were The tradition has it, that one of the early footballs was the skull of a Danish invader kicked on about on the Rooeed at Chester on Shrove Tuesday just before Lent—Outing.
SPILLED BEANS
"That's my mission in life," said the monk, as he pointed to the monastery.
Suff. Speaker—Have I made myself plain?
In. Rear—No. Nature—Michigan Gargoyle.
Black-What's the matter with
the campaign, glass? It won't
stand up.
Smith - Perfectly natural. It's got an edge on- Pittsburgh Post.
"Yeth, mu'mau," replied Dorothy,
who made his pahnch- "Chicago News."
"Now, Dorothy," said the teacher.
"Can you tell me what a parent is?"
Wait, the word "what" is in parentheses.
I'll use it as it's clear.
"What a parent is?"
Attorney pro-tem--And you say
you saw Mr. O'Leary, milking the
yaw
The Exact Spot
Witness by-gee—Yes sir.
A. p. e—Well, where did you see
Mrs. O'Leary milking the cow?
W. b. g. I—Should guess just
about the center, your honor.—Michigan
Gargoyle.
The child, the seed, the grain of corn,
the acorn on the hill.
Each for some separate end is born
In season fit, and still
Each for some separate end is born
In season fit, and still
Each must in strength arise to
work the almighty will.
FROM "UNDERWOODS"
So from the hearth the children flee,
By that almighty hand
Austerly led; so one by sea
Goes forth, and one by land;
Nor aught of all man's sons escape
from that command.
Write It to Campus Opinion
If the matter is put up to a vote very man who has suffered from lawrence water should think carefully before he turns down the company's proposition. It seems to be he only way out.
Early in September the company made a proposition to the city which may end in municipal control of the plant. According to the figures of the company there are about $288,000 worth of stock and fixtures and the company is not authorized to serve the attorney for the receivers, J. R. Mitchell, a member of a Lawrence law firm, has authority to sell the plant and that he is anxious to do so. An election may be called by the board of city commissioners at the same time as the regular election to decide the matter.
So from the sally each obeys
the unseen almighty nod;
So till the ending all their ways
Blindfolded he hives;
Nor knew their task at all, but
were the tools of God.
—R. L. Stevenson.
KICK AGAIN, HARVARD
A great deal of protest has been raised the part of the students at Harvard University about the shortness of the Christmas Holidays this year, and after a careful survey of the facts in the case, one is inclined to favor the undergraduates. Other Eastern universities have at least two weeks and not a few of them as many as sixteen days.
With respect to the authorities, it must be admitted that ten days at Christmas is rather a curtailed amount of freedom, and the opinion of those men living in and beyond Valley is entitled to a hearing.
The water company's official answered this argument by saying that the water was so treated with chemicals, and by going through the settling basin to get it to go to the city it was free from bacteria and healthful.
Thirsty
The question as to whether the attending evils of too short a vacation, followed by the hardest part of the college experience, is worth those few extra days of leisure, is an important one and subject for the serious consideration of those in power at the Cambridge University. The old adage of "fall work and no problem" has long been held that more forbly than wouid a lengthy discussion on the matter.
CAMPUS OPINION
CAMPUS OTHON
Communications must be signed as evidence of good faith but names will not be published without the writer's consent
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Despite assurances from many sources that the water in the city of Lawrence is pure and that it can pass the most severe bacteriological and chemical tests, students at the University who look at the question is something wrong and that ordinary tap water in the city is about as near fit to drink as that from a frog pond. There are a great many conditions which go to make the problem a particularly difficult one to solve. In the first place the problem which will turn out for several years and the law are obeying the letter of the law.
Contrary to the popular belief the water does not come from the Kaw river, and, according to proved statements by the head of the department of water survey at the University, the wells are fed by the river. Experts in the department say that, although the company's wells are only about 100 feet from the 'river bank, that it is impossible, according to proved physical laws, for the water to run from the river into the wells; but experts from the wells to the river, but say that it will not go in both directions.
Granting that this fact is true that Lawrence is not drinking river water, it still seems peculiar that the water should come into the wells in a pure state. The wells are so large that they may lay between two small streams, both of which flow through the west part of the city, and into the river within less than one hundred feet of the wells. Flowing, as they do, through the backyards of a hundred homes, many of the street walls were built to a meeting of the board of city commissioners in August, a citizen who claims that he has investigated the situation carefully, stated that there were no less than a dozen outdoor closets draining into one or the other of the room where there was no possibility but that the water in the wells must be contaminated.
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Regal Shoes
Peckhams
You get a big value at 825
WANT ADS
GOOD BOARD- at $3.25 a week at
1113 Rhode Island Street 1848W,
84th St.
FOR SALE - K. C. Post route.
Cheap. Fifty fine subscribers.
South of 14 street. Call 2083 W.
Bell after 7 p. m. <u>43-3</u>.
CLASSIFIED
Jewelers
Ed. W. Parsons, Engraver, Watch-
maker and Jeweler. Diamonds and
Jewelry. Bell phone 717. 717 Mass.
Street.
MISS ESTELLA NORTHRUP, china painting. Orders for special occasions or for the holidays carefully handled. 735 Mass. Phone B152.
China Painting
Barber Shops
Go where they all go
J. C. HOUCK
913 Mass.
Duofold Underwear
K. U. Shoe shop and pantatorium i the best place for best result 1342 Ohio.
Pantatorium
Plumbers
B. H. DALE, Artistic Job Printing:
Both phones 228, 1027 Mass.
Phone Kennedy Plumbing Co., for gas goods and Mazda Lamps. 937 Mass. Phones 658$
Printing
Shoe Shop
FORNEY SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass.
St. Don't make a mistake. All work guaranteed.
Dressmaking
Mrs. M. A. Morgan, 1321 Tenn. Up-to-date dressmaking and ladies' tailoring. Party dresses a specialty. Prices very reasonable.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. H. L. CHAMBERS.. Office over Squires studio. Both phones.
Harry Reding, M. D. Eye, ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted. Office.
F. A. U. Bldg. Phones, Bell 513; Home 512.
G. A. Hamman, M. D. Dick Building,
Eye, ear and throat specialist.
Glasses fitted. Satisfaction guar-
anteed.
G. W, Jones, A. M., M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynaecology. Suite 1, F. A. U. Bldg. Residence, 1201 Ohio St. Phones 35.
J. R. Bechtel, M. D., D. O. 833 Mass.
St. Both phones, office and residence.
A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 743
Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas
Dr. H, W. Hutchinson, Dentist, 308
Perkins Bldg, Lawrence Kansas.
Conklin Fountain Pens
Conklin Fountain Pens
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling
Sold in Lawrence at
F. B. McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass. St.
Sharpen Those
Evans Drug Store
Razor Blades
E. R. HESS DRUGGIST Successor to C. C. Shelter for everything usually kept in a drug store.
We have a special Od el sharpening machine 25c for double edge. 25c for double edg
829 Massachusetts street
PROTSCH The College Tailor
GO TO
Watkins National Bank Capital $100,000 Surplus and Profits $100,000 The Student Depository
A Good Place to Eat
Johnson & Tuttle
Anderson's old Stand
715 MASSACHUSETTS STREET
SHUBERT Eves, Fri & Fr. 8am
Wed, Sat, 10am
Wed, Mat, 25 to 11
Klaw & Eclonge and George Tylers present
"POLLYYANNA"
THE GLAD GIRL
Jocelyn Curtis Based on the Book
NEXT = DOMINO 1
F. I. CARTER
stationery, Typewriters, Office Supplies, Engineering Supplies. Bell Phone 1051 1025 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kansas.
The Sanitary Cafe always has a good menu of well cooked food.— Adv.
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