UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 7 EDITORIAL STAFF Official student paper of the University of Kagawa Raymond Clapper...Editor-in-chief Maureen McKernan...Associates John Gleisner...News Editor William Cady...News Editor William Cady..Assistant News Editor RUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS STATEMENT Chas. Sturtevant...Advertising Mgr. REPORTORIAL STAFF barry Sweet Don Davis Ryan Crawford Russ Nutt Alvin Lowe Paul Brindel Lewis Ebbett Mauron McKearan Meredith Rogers Renee Moore A. Moore Ross Busebark Ross Busebark Subscription price $3.00 per year in advance, one term, $1.75. Entered as second-class mail matter 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 verses of Kanye West's verses on the pre- severity of Kansas from the press of The New York Times. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go further than merely printing the text on paper. The University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be auspicious; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to ensure that the students of the University. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1915 Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them—Ben Jenson. UNDERGRADUATE THOUGHT UNIVERSITY The Harvard Daily Crimson charges students at its university with being "lowbrows." Conversation between undergraduates, the Crimson says, is trivial and meaningless. No effort is made to discuss a subject intelligently or arrive at a logical conclusion on any question of the day, the indictment reads. There is no doubt that conversation among college students is on a very trivial basis. We still have the old high school kiddishness. Class work is just so much hard digging in no wise related to life. We tolerate the thinking which is forced upon us and then go down the hill to be swallowed up by the world's series. The old attitude of accepting college as a preparation for life is responsible for much of this. We do not realize that we are living our lives. We say that we are just "preparing" for life; having a little play hour before we are shoved out into the could to make our own way. This is the basis of the indictment which business men make against college men. If universities are to justify themselves, undergraduates must develop a sounder intellectual basis than they have now. This attitude fosters irresponsibility. University men come to look on serious problems as class room talk not to be considered after the lecture is over. We go out from the University and know nothing of what problems we are to face. Consequently the first few years of a college man's life are often spent in acquiring something which should have been gained from college. But he was too busy with dates, athletics, the movies, and student games. AND WE HAVE IT Joe Gaitskill seems to have the Thundering Thousand just where he wants them. When he asks for a yell they give it. When he holds his hands up for silence, that the signals may be heard, they keep still—and best of all when the opposing team is penalized not a word comes from the Kansas rooting section. Clean sportmanship is like any thing else - it can become a habit. FRESHMAN FELICITY Happy Freshman! He is having the time of his life. Everybody notices him. Every one is concerned for his welfare, and nothing is expected of him, with the exception of a few minor details not worth mentioning, in return for which upperclassmen devote much of their valuable time to looking him up at odd moments to entertain him and prevent his becoming lonely. They seek to protect him by adorning him a distinguished looking cap that every one may know that he is young, inexperienced and deserving of consideration. When he forgets to observe any of the rules laid down for his benefit and guidance, the balm of a paddle, gently applied, goes far toward consoling his repentant heart and alleviating the pain of a crushed spirit. Unsafeflashness and generosity characterize these many acts of solitude. The closest scrutiny of motives reveals only an exalted altruism and the only return asked is that the present freshmen, when they have passed into the ranks of upperclassmen, leaving behind the happy days of their college babyhood, shall remember the many kindnesses shown them and minister to their successors as faithfully, conscientiously and ungrudgingly as they have been ministered unto. A wise man is strong; yet, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.—Prov. 24.5. Flotsam and Jetsam The president of the University of Washington plans to form an advisory council of the students, and thus find out how to run the institution of which he is head. It should be borne in mind that this is Dr. Suzzallo's first attempt at presiding. The "lost" advertisements in most any paper continues to exceed the "Found." Add to horrible possibilities, suppose they learn to play "the Rosary," Essays in Criticism He came into the class room late and was therefore compelled to sit in an isolated place—in the front row. Also it was his first appearance in that particular class. Various whispered comments were made regarding him of which we shall give only the more important. The laundry grafter; "His linen is oiled." The man-who-megaphones-for-a boarding-club: "Doesn't look as though he eats the right kind of food." The man-who-waits-tables: "He drinks his coffee without cream and uses two lumps of sugar." The paper carrier: "Not well informed, doesn't read the (Star, Post, Call)." And the professor saw him as a rather quiet chap who bore the ear marks of a "One" student. The Central Collegian rises to inquire as to the whereabouts of the old-fashioned senior who wore a swallow-tailed mustache. He has probably abandoned the practice of shaving his neck and is thus enabled to devote the proper time to his imitation Charlie Chaplin. And at the University of Texas they advertise neck shaves free. Anything to get rid of them. How'd you get down? L. E. S. "LOWBROWS" AT HARVARD "LOWBROWS" AT HARVARD Complaints that Harvard men don't use their brains while they eat and that they talk of nothing but women and war, athletics and personalities during the course of their college years. The majority of all four-hares stirred not a few of the students at Cambridge. The Harvard Crimson issued the volley, and for the first time this year, perhaps, the dancers at Memorial Hall talked of something besides their four stock subjects and flayed the Crimson in a truly incisive manner. The one thousand men who eat at Memorial Hall, the editorial charge of the college paper asserted, subject the weaker sex to slandering remarks among other things. But the most notable fact is that none of the diners use their brains when they talk, the Crimson says. Worst of all, the editorial is captioned by the lone but meaningful phrase "Lowbrows." "The conversation at Memorial Hall is in a degenerate state. It is confined entirely to petty, heckling trivialities. No effort is made to discuss a subject intelligently or arrive at a logical conclusion on any question of the day. One thousand men are wasting three hours each section which might profitably be spent in cultivating intelligent thought." Dinner Talk is here. What the Crimson says of Harvard men's innities and table manners is as follows: "Women, the war, athletics and personalities comprise the range of subjects. Among the first named, virtue is apparently unknown. The weaker sex is subject to slandering remarks that men is to fill a gap in the conversation. Dinner Talk Is Trivial "When the talk wanders to the war, SUNSET AFTER RAIN The crusty of the valley Is filled with floating mist, the moist of the mountains Are vellied. The trees srowed grateful branches Above a smiling soul. For flowers that for hunger God All things are praising God. someone says, 'I hope those ___ get licked', and the subject is closed. Even on athletics, where the interest is keenest, desultory remarks and blashemies on Yale are the main points. Others are biting personalities on another's physical or mental qualities. A tone of affected cynicism crowns the whole. The Remedy is Thought "What is the remedy for this condition? Thought! The conversation need not be 'fissy.' It need not be highbrow. It may sound in sweat and lined with a double meaning. Is there any reason why conversation cannot show intelligent effort of the mind? Is there any reason why meal times cannot be a period of intellectual stimulus?" "Whatever the majority of those who frequent Memorial Hall find in the conversation, the intellectually ambitious find it an extreme bore. The Crimson's indictment of Harvard table conversation is not the first that has been made. A widely known professor of the university is often quoted as having said that the students confine their talking to shop, sex and sport. The students themselves, who fall under the blanket indictment of the college paper, assert that the Crimson's allegations are overdrawn and flamboyant, and many fountain pens are gushing letters of protest to the college daily. The first controversy of the year is therefore under way at Harvard—Boston Post. Speaking the Freshman Mind Warren turrible afraid. show you that padles wer maid fur freshman and that freshman wer not maid for padles. I don't believe this yet but that's what he sez. So he gives me a show an thegy start. I have bin turrible scared of lat and hav ment to rite and tellu al about it. I have had to put 50c mor on our expense occount. I have bin forced to purchase a ne weap. I have bin dreamin of padles ever since. Al kinds. Box wood padles, those of pear wood, appl, meech, chestnut, oak, long ones, short ones, slim ons, wide kind and thik kind. Then al the woods com floatin b bi ajnig; birch, magony; fur, cedar, peony, mylostyols. Al kinds jest go bi my eys. The other mornin I was going bi Green Bidding. The iris alz is a bunch of ruffs in front of this bidding who du nothing but stand in frunt and smoak pills and pipe the flite that goes bi or into the Hall. I will never brake laws and smoak. These ruffs just stand lookin at the landskap in general and you see the bunch of ruffs mean good fur no un. So when I goBi lookin on al sids to se the lay of the country on of the ruffs grabs me and se where's your cap. I se "Rite on my bed, don't you se it." He sed to the rest, "here's a fresh un." So they al line up with big long stiks. I was Freshman he sez we are going to terrible afrad. Two thousand new books have been added to the Ohio State University Library since the close of school last June. Nearly $22,000 has been spent for the volumes. A valuable set of 15 volumes of Lopez's work was edited by the Spanish Royal Academy was purchased during the summer. Next morning wen I goes by Green Bilding I jes looks strait ahed and I went fast tu. I dared not go up the frunt steps with that' bunch of ruffs standing bi, so I tak the bak door. East Retires the Paddle Judging from the following story in the Boston Transcript, the paddle as a form of instilling school ideals into freshmen saisons to be going out of style in the efface East; Freshmen should be thankful that it is not the International Date Line that has been drawn against them. P. S. I have put the purpl tie yu gav me away. I think I wil chang from Law to Engineerin. I will rite soon. Yure True Freud, Tommy What Cornell calls the "get-wise" process will soon be begun at Brown, where there has been arranged a series of twenty-five lectures designed to acquaint the new students with the aims and ideals of the university and to help them adjust themselves to the requirement of graduate life. The lectures, to be delivered by members of the faculty, will be compulsory for all freshmen and will fit in nicely with the university's new course in "orientation." East Retires the Paddle Conright Hart Schaffner & Marx Varsity Fifty Five FOR the best-looking young men's suit made; the right materials, the style, the expert design and tailoring, the allaround 100 per cent satisfaction ask for Here's a sure tip on dressing well this fall: REGAL SHOES Peckham Clothing Co. made by Hart Schaffner & Marx The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx good clothes $20 to $25 CLASSIFIED WANT ADS WANTED—Room mate at 1241 Tennessee. Reasonable terms. 21-3" FOR RENT—A pleasant south room for two men students, with good board, $20 a month. 1113 R. I. St. Bell 1848W. 20-5 Why not Subscribe for Daily Kansan—Today? $10 to $20 WANTED - One or two room mates by couple of studious girls in lighthouse keeping suite. Very nice place with parlor and piano. Cheap. Bell 2532W, or 921 Miss. St. 21-3 Jewelers Clothcraft All-wool Suits FOR RENT—Double room at 1220 Louisiana. Steam heat; running hot and cold water in room; bath on same floor. Inquire Van Houten, Bell 1442J. 19-5. China Painting MISS ESTELLA NORTHRUP, china painting. Orders for special occasions or for the holidays carefully handled. 735 Mass. Phone B152. 152 Ed. W. Parsons, Engraver, Watch- maker and Jeweler. Diamonds and Jewelry. Bell phone 717. 717 Mass. Street. Lawyers A. C. WILSON, Attorney at law, 748 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kansas Barber Shops Go where they all go J. C. HOUCK 913 Mass. EMERY SHIRTS Plumbers Printing B. H. DALE, Artistic Job Printing Both phones 202, 1027 Mass. The Zoology Club meeting scheduled for tonight, will be postponed till October 26. Debating Council will meet Wednesday afternoon, 4:30, Green Hall, public speaking office. Phone Kennedy Plumbing Co., for gas goods and Mazda Lamps, 937 Mass. Phones 658. Shoe Shop FORNEY SHOE SHOP, 1017 Mass. St. Don't make a mistake. All work guaranteed. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. H. L. CHAMBERS. Office over Squires studio. Both phones. G. A. Hamman, M. D. Dick Building. Eye, ear and throat specialist. Glasses fitted. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Harry Reding, M. D. E. Eye, ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted. Office. F. A. U. Bldg. Phones, Bell 513; Home 512. J. R. Bechtel, M. D., D. O. 833 Mass. St. Both phones, office and residence. G. W, Jones, A. M., M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology. Suite 1, F. A. U. Bldg. Residence, 1201 Ohio St. Phones 35. A. MARKS & SON The oldest jewelers in Lawrence. Es tablished in 1838. Remember the Number 735 Massachusetts Street. BURT WADHAMS The College Inn Barber Shop. We close for all football games. LAWRENCE Business College Lawrence, Kansas. wants ambitious young people to en- train them, as bookkeepers, stenographers, private investigators, or even soon as competent. Euroil any Monday. Phone, or phone Euroil any Monday. Phone, or phone Style Clothes Serviceable Clothes Schulz Clothes R. O. BURGET, Prop. LARRY Work and Prices Always Reg We also Repair and Re-cover Parasols. 1107 Mass. st. Lawrence, Kan Work and Prices Always Right K. O. BURDY PROPRIETOR STUDENTS SHOE SHOP are the BEST CLOTHES to wear Varsity Cleaning Plan 1017 Mass. 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