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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Published in the afternoon five
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the diversity of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the names of the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to learn, to express themselves; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to help students understand the students of the University.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1915
Knowledge comes but wisdom ling ers.—Emerson.
A START AT LAST
After much talk about conditions by the many, and after some work by a few, the College has at last started on the right trail up the mountain of unity and spirit. The appointment of the new Activities Committee is the best step ever taken by the School whose mountainous problem is but a mole hill in the smaller and more compact Schools.
For years the College has tried to pull itself together and act as a unit, but through lack of organization, it has failed. The utter failure to unite, even upon a question so close to the student heart as a holiday, has signalized its weakness. It is a great body of units, bound together, to be sure, but with little more power to coordinate than the cells of a huge sponge.
Perhaps the new committee on activities will discover the turning point,—accomplish the awakening of the College. It should, and with the active help of every student in the School, it will. Get behind the committee!
IT IS UP TO YOU
Go to the Pharmics to learn about spirits in general and class spirit in particular, for the junior and senior Pharmics are going to play a game of football.
The exhaustive article by Prof Carl Becker in last Friday's Kansas on "incapacity for Work," shows that it is "up to" the students themselves to shoulder the blame if they fall behind in their work. Professor Becker clearly points out the facts as they stand; not only in other colleges throughout the country, but here at the University of Kansas as well. which are $e$ score of diversions, which if taken too seriously, will eventually lead to "lack of habit for work," for it is easy enough to "follow the crowd" and lose sight of the fundamentals of the true college life.
Of course, one cannot work all the time; this is not expected. On the other hand there are certain sane limits to recreation. If students could bring themselves to perfect a work-and-play system there would be fewer failures in classes and fewer low grades.
--education alone can not solve all of our problems, that a sound religious and moral life is fundamental to a nation." Dr. Strong shows that if the universities can not be leaders in the spiritual and moral life of men, they have lost their strongest claim to support.
BURDEN ON THE COLLEGE
BURDEN ON THE COLLEGE The American university has not yet succeeded in imbuing its students with the seriousness of life and of the preparation for life. This sentiment was expressed by Chancellor Strong in an address which has been printed in a recent issue of "School and Society."
"American colleges and universities have not solved fully their relation to the spiritual and moral life of their students. They must learn that
"On the other hand," continued the Chancellor, "the American public has to learn that it must not expect the impossible from its schools. If the American people are seriously disappointed in the public school system as a whole, they are themselves to blame. The solution of the moral and religious problems that ought to be taken care of in the home have been thrown almost entirely upon the school and college."
People who insist that the Medical School of K. U. is impractical, please take notice that the medics got $30,-000 and remember that practice makes perfect-money getters.
NONE ARE SO BLIND
There's a wee small tree half way down Fourteenth street. Have you seen it? The burning bush of Moses must have been an oak in the month of October. That树 fairly quivers with color. Red and brown and yellow orange sparkle and nod greetings with every passing breeze.
There's a bit of vine growing on the sunny side of the library. Jack Frost touched it the other night and it clings there, a shining mass of red against the soft brown stone of the building.
The soul of the Middle West grasses only monetary values, men say, yet someone surely had an eye for artistic possibilities when our buildings were built of native undressed stone. Nature beers for vines and trees to set them off, while we clumsy human beings gaze with admiration at her offerings about the campus and still wonder what is wrong with the buildings—they look so gaunt and tired.
AS OTHERS SEE US
Higher education may not accomplish all that is claimed for it, but it teaches the boys and girls to clean up. One of the most pleasant parts of a trip back to Old K. U. is to see the neatly dressed students. One term in college will do wonders for a self-respecting youngster. The neck hemp and the rubber collars disappear as if by magic from the boys, while the girls, who are naturally more quick to copy, spruce up in their attire. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, as Sir Walter Raleigh remarked to Queen Elizabeth when he spread his machinaw for her to bridge the puddle—and a clean, sprucy front is the corner stone to self respect and to real education.—R. A. Clymer in Olathe Register.
"Education is general intellectual discipline and enlightenment, and not intellectual discipline and enlightenment only but more and spiritual discipline and enlightenment."—Woodrow Wilson.
THE FRAT'S PLACE
Fraternity life and the existence of fraternities are justifiable only when the members realize that the special privileges which they enjoy make them the debtors of the entire University in a very special way. To the extent that the fraternity man (or woman) responds to the demands made upon him as a member of University society, to that extent is he being true to his fraternity and to the beautiful things in connection with it, the friendships, the associations and all that goes to increase man's happiness through his intimate contact with man. These are its privileges.
But at the beginning the pledge should know that the fraternity is not the most essential thing in a college life; it is a delightful incident, but at the same time it is incidental. The thing we are here for is education; the problem is to keep the fraternity activity within its proper sphere. Give it that part of your time and energy which it has a right to expect of you. Keep the fraternity within its own chapter house; do not carry is around the campus with you. Remember that your University comes first, in all things. Give yourself no added glory because you have been one of the chosen; you have yet to prove your worth. Don't broadest fraternal life that you possibly can. And last and most important of all, do not forget that the one best fraternity after all is that comradeships and brotherhood which is every man's debt to his fellow here on earth.-Minnesota Daily.
The Night-Sprites, cast in mystic molds
Away from play
The dark falls 'round in velvet folds;
The warm morn's glow.
Waist—An indefinitely located part of the human body. In the female of the species it is sometimes just under the shoulders and sometimes near the knees, according to "this year's style."
Voyage—The travels of a k U. student under a berth on the way to Calgary.
War-who-floo—Joe Gaitakkil's megaballistic ejaculation as he calls on the students
I hear below me in the gloom,
A tender voice in tone—
Vocalist—One who has a voice. Example: singer, donkey, tom-cat, and yowling dog. Usually applied to one who disturbs sleep.
A tender voice in tone—
A voice that sings of prison and of
tomb—
A sad, soul sad alone.
Wagon—What Pi's tail keeps doing.
THE SONG
UNIVERSITY DICTIONARY
Serbia and near-settlement interferences of
the Slavic peoples in North Africa
Wag—The motion of the tail of Pi, the well-known K. U. dog, as he saunts up to the professor's desk during class.
Wave—The little bang that sticks out in front of many a freshman cap.
Paid—An almost obsolete verb sometimes used with bills.
**Vodna** – A Russian drink. This word is found in ancient history, along with **Vodka**.
On such a night the sad heart aces,
And Misery seeks her mate—
and history seeks her more.
From cloistered sadness forth she
breaks
In melancholy state.
But is the person who mutilate, his desk with the glorious fact that he is a member of Alpha Phalga, or that he had the honor to be graduated from E. H. S, in 1914, or that he is still obsessed by the juvenile ideas of his primary grades.
The department of industrial arts will take care of anyone who wants a course in woodworking. Otherwise, forget those childish antics and leave the University's property untouched.-Ohio State Lantern.
Are the spite fines at this University between the fraternities going to be torn down or are they to be permitted to remain, from selfish and unworthy motives. This is the question; and from the present attitude of mind among fraternity men—the fraternity sisters—it helps to foster the "right" spirit here. The fences are surmountable on rare occasions anyway.
Traditions of other colleges and universities and the customs of fraternities at these institutions have been ignored here. Like all advice from older heads, this bit of counsel has not been heeded. But as Kansas is growing older is it not time to take this advice to heart? Is not the present movement suitable for improving conditions?
—L. D. Hartley.
A COLLEGE EDUCATION
"A college education today, if it represents anything, stands for some idea of the methods of study, the extent of the known and the probabilities of the unknown in different branches of knowledge. It provides an attitude of mind, an ability and desire to follow the truth wherever it may lead, a tolerance of ideas, and a catholicity of taste."—William G. Reed in "School and Society."
STUDENT OPINION
Communications must be stared as an evidence of good faith though names will not be omitted from publication it desired.
Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Back in the school-day period of our existence we never passed judgment upon our new Barrow until we had carved our initials upon the desk or some other convenient bit of furniture in the schoolroom. If we were particularly fortunate, we carved another set of initials along with ours, and put a heart about them both. That was many years ago, when we were all young. Of us are still young, but a very oldold couple daypil. We don't hide behind our geographies now when we leave our monuments to posterity on the desks. We are college men and women and need have no fear.
CHILDISH STILL!
O might it be, when I shall need
Such tender sympathy;
Another soul my song may heed
In kindred ecstacy!
D. Hartley
Greek
A COLLEGE EDUCATION
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