UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official Audent student of the University city of Kansas
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our university than mere printing, the news by standing for it, or playing favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be helpful; to save more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to satisfy the needs of the University.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915
Do not care how many, but whom you please—Nyrus.
REAL SCHOOL SPIRIT
REAL SCHOOL SPIRIT
The disfranchisement of the six students found guilty of illegal voting recently is in itself no cause for rejoicing. But it is a commendable act on the part of the Student Council to convict these men and to have the courage to fix a penalty. That is the healthy attitude. Student self-government will be a farce only so long as we are unwilling to force all to obey the rules of the game. When we demand that every man be held to the law, and when student sentiment is frank enough to demand adherence to this law, then student self-government will mean something at K. U.
That time seems close at hand now. The student body of the University of Kansas is redeeming itself from its past indifference. Students are showing a genuine school spirit of the highest type.
PREPARE FOR OLD GRADS
PREPARE FOR OLD GRADS
Several hundred old grads will be coming back to the Nebraska game.
They will come back with memories of days when they were undergraduates,
and they will remember the times when they slept on a bunk in the attic so that a guest might sleep in their bed. They will remember how they planned on having the old grads back.
But what are we going to do for alumni who come back to see the game and to visit Mount Oread? Are we going to let them enjoy themselves as they can? Are we going to be too busy with lessons, and dates, and other activities to be hospitable when homecoming time rolls around?
It isn't very long until the Nebraska game—just a month. It isn't a bit too early to be writing to some of the old boys and telling them of the great times we are preparing for them. Nothing would make them feel happier.
LEADING AGAIN
The Daily Illini tells of the feeling against the soph-fresh fight there and that it will in all probability be done away with. It is dangerous and many students are seriously injured each year in the struggle. Illinois is a big school and one of the leading state universities of the country and yet it is just starting a reform that Kansas instituted in 1905. The spring of 1905 saw the last class scrap on the K. U. campus. If you think it over you may find that this is not such a slow place as some would have us believe.
CHANCE FOR A BOOST
Simplified spelling has long since passed the fad stage. It has been adopted by schools and colleges of standing and magazines of rank. The movement is not revolutionary as some believe but it is a concerted effort to accelerate the slow process of evolution in conference with economy and reason. It is reasonable, economical, logical, and will eventually come.
WHAT COLLEGE MEN DO
Several opposing deductions might be made from statistics gathered by the United States bureau of education. It has taken three four-year periods a century apart and found out what the college graduates of those years did as life work.
From 1696 to 1700 the ministry received 65.6 per cent; in 1796 to 1800, 21.4, and from 1890 to 1900 the percentage for the ministry was 5.9. Business, on the other hand, reveals a decided increase, the percentage in 1696 to 1700 being only 1.6, from 1796 to 1800 enlarging to 5.6, and in 1896 to 1000 being 18.8 per cent of the graduates. Education as a profession attracting college graduates reveals also a remarkable growth from 4.7 in the early period 1696 to 1700, to 26.7 per cent in the period 1890 to 1900. The investigations show a falling off in the number of graduates choosing law and medicine in the last of the three periods studied, as contrasted with the one in the century preceding.
THE LITTLE THINGS
It is the little things that count: A young woman was entering a door, a young man was immediately behind. She held the door a moment while he entered. And then it happened.
He did not smirk at her, he did not make an inarticulate grumble in his throat, but he did say, "Thank You." It is the little things that count.
In wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.—Prov. 8:11.
Flotsam and Jetsam
The rumor that an organization of students who drink city water is to be perfected soon will not down.
It is said the club song will be: "Ich
weiss nicht wass trinke Ime."
At Stanford they play as high as six football games in one day. Imagine cheerleader for these instilable fans.
Attention; class in literature. We have for consideration the following taken from the Oklahoma Magazine. This "pome" was writ by the leading (some question as to this) poet of Oklahoma University.
Now for the "pome."
"I saw a bark of rude outline
Flowing an open seal And the odor of salt, like wine
And the door of safety, me
Went rushing over me.
And a surging wave with a white cap't cress,
Whereon a wing-weary sea gull lay at rest.
Was dashed the shore.
And my Viking bark,
That shall sail no more.
There is more, much more, but this will suffice for the present. Beginning with the first line; we are here informed that the bark was of shape irregular and the sea was of hue oval. Now according to the conclusion of this stanza the sunset gun had boomed and the day had done demised. Then in the name of the Poetic League of America how could deponent testify as to the appearance of the bark and the color of the sea? We must look to the third and fourth lines for explanation of this seeming phenomenon. "* * * * , like wine, w rushing over me." Ah, now we have it. The saltiness of the third line is explained by the pretzels and salted almonds which are said to be necessary adjuncts of the "bark" referred to, which must certainly have been a "schooner." But children, how about the ostensible repose which the gull was enjoyng. We can not satisfactorily explain this, and seemingly, neither can our poet, who remarks, "was dashed the shore." We like the shore must remain flabbergasted.
As to the non-appearance of the bark in the future, we can explain it only upon the theory that O — went once upon the foregoing lines were written.
Sped on into the dark."
"Because she talks too much?" "No, because she's double-faced." Harvard Lampoon.
Excused.
"Why is she like a graphaphone record?"
L. E. S.
German plans to cut her way to Turkey. It will soon be time for the small boy to save a place for turkey.
Viatlab words, singing words, come to me at times,
weaving joyously, weave them
THE COMING OF THE WORDS
and I seize them lovingly, weave them
their things, the fair things, that
the big things, the fair things, that
Some words they stand for sorrow, and
some for tenderness;
Sweet words, they are the saviors of
my dumb-striken soul,
The blower murmured things, takes
the world I see I see
I marry to words in words
and balladry.
They like plain and plead like plain and plead happenings and glorify the deed
They touch the found of tears, they fall as soft as a caress, they fume with fury or fute-
fall as soft as a caress;
They ring out like a trumpet, or fute-
ring.
Whether fortune lies in our stars or in ourselves is no doubt a very fundamental question in all social speculation. But my experience inclines me to the belief that little is
and break the feeble strong,
And break the visionation bars for
a beam behind them long.
my dumb-striken soul
That gives me power, and
vision of the goal.
I cannot know the moment when their coming may be set, when they will come, walt, wait.
vision of the goal;
They heal a helpless cripple and make
them walk again.
I cannot kiss her, but when I may be set, and So only watch, and wait,lest haply I forget The bliss that means their breathing;
But O the joy of weaving, and O the beating heart
the blues that means their breathing
they play upon the pipes of life, it
they play upon the pipes of life.
I am far from supposing that this habit of mind is confined to students. Professors are often afflicted with it. It is not well known that on account of low salaries, lack of library facilities, the indifference of governing boards to research, the excessive interest of students in athletics, (students as well as professors are sometimes a bit misimpiring)—it is not natural for all these resources become many besides, professors become discouraged, and, with waning enthusiasm "lose their habit of work" also?
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*Beating high-born, visitors to
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To bide with me a little, and lift me on a flame,
to give my longing a press.
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ence and a name:
—Richard Burton.
PLACING THE BLAME Editor Daily Kansan:
STUDENT OPINION
In a recent number of the Daily Kansasan I read with a good deal of interest a clipping from the Washington Alumnus which you printed under the caption "Incapacity for Work." The first paragraph asks you to think and think about too, especially by college men. It runs as follows:
College gives a man "incapacity for work," says a recent writer in the Outlook. The anonymous writer testifies that he lost the habit of industry "partly because his instructors were not inspiring, partly because college life offers a host of pleasant distractions, partly because the marking system has no relation to real achievement, partly because the social standards of the college are dominant and they are such as to make industry and even interest in serious matters out of fashion."
It was recently called to my attention that some young women in the University came to the adviser of women last spring with a tremendous problem. They were completely exhausted, they said, from attending many late parties; parties from which, although the halls were by University rule closed at one o'clock, they did not get home until three o'clock. As a result they were falling behind in their classes, and "losing their habit of work." Couldn't some more rules be devised to get them home earlier in future? Without professing to be an expert on social affairs, it occurred to me that there were two simple ways out of this terrible dilemma, provided the young women found it possible to rouse up a brave spirit: first, they might go to bed instead of to the party; second, having gone to the party, they might come home at a good hour.
It can hardly be denied that the author has provided himself with a sufficient number of reasons for leasing his capacity for work; but I think it least one more reason might with some advantage have been added. The anonymous author might have mentioned, if it had occurred to him, that he was a young man of feeble will and irresolute purpose, who lost his habit of work because he accidentally on the job. There are unfortunately many men who are chiefly interesting for the light it throws on a state of mind which seems rather the fashion nowadays. This state of mind is fixed by the comfortable habit of taking credit to ourselves for all our virtues, while laying all our vices to the charge of our neighbors. I suppose it was Rousseau who introduced this happy solution of the social problem. "Man is naturally good," he said; "it is society that corrupts him." So it was with our anonymous author, whom naturally disposed to work, but then his instructors diversified kept him from it, low grades discouraged him, social conventions put a curb on his instinctive striving for serious things.
"We were just wondering, Billy"—
And Bill一"right up" and told them, with the result that it brought out the pleasing co-incidence that
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Is it not worth considering, Mr. Editor, whether we really desire a university-, or the larger world outside the university, so organized, so equipped with cunningly devised compulsory and restrictive rules, that a man must be saved in spite of himself? I know the popular trend of thinking, in religion, in education, and in politics, is strongly set in that direction—a type of thought which might be described as a kind of collective sentimental yearning after an ideal society in which a man must be virtuous whether he wishes to or not. I confess to be one of those who believe that what we chiefly need, both in the university and out of it, is a reinforce sense of individual responsibility.
to be expected from the man who lies down in the lap of society hoping to be nursed into the achievement of something excellent. In what we are fond of calling "real life," as distinguished from "college life," I do not find many people standing about ready to furnish me with "inspiration," nor do I find any lack of pleasant diversions to dissipate my attention. Still less do I find any disposition to grade and ticket me in strict accord with what I may imagine myself to have accomplished. Social standards are, I find, much the same outside the university as in; and in general singularly few people seem concerned to know whether I have lost the habit of work, or whether, indeed, I ever acquired it. If I have lost the habit of work, is somebody to blame? I think somebody is, and I think I know who is.
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