UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Raymond Clapper...Editor-in-chief
Mauron McKernan...Associates
John Glossner...Assistant News Editor
William Cady...Assistant News Editor
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REPORTORIAL
Charles A. Müller
Rox Miller
Michael D. Donay
Louis Puckett
Louis Puckett
Ross Carrison
Arne Rogers
Ross Carrison
Ross Carrison
Zena Hammer
Vernon A. Moors
Russ Busenbark
Russ Busenbark
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Entered as second-class mail malt- matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five
verses of Kansas from the press
of the verity of Kansas from the press
Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Phone, BELL K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansaan aims to picture the undergraduate one of the few in the University of Kansas; the ther than merely printing the new book is too hard. The University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be courageous; to be courageous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to teach students how to satisfy the students of the University.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1915
When in doubt, ignore style—Arnold Bennett.
EDUCATION AND CREEDS Attendance at state schools has increased 3,524 in the past two years. This indicates several tendencies. One of them is the decline of small denominational schools.
Among other causes, the cold, frank, penetrating studies of modern thought have done a great deal of damage to the small church school. What students are interested in now is fact, not a creedal form of one religion. Recent developments in psychology and sociology have turned so much light on conditions that were formerly dismissed with a Sceptural reference that the denominational school is hard pressed to reconcile its own peculiar history and interpretation of the universe with the results of research. One small school recently wrote to a large university to secure a professor of biology but specified that he must not believe in evolution. That illustrates the difficulty. Having a set of doctrine to uphold, that is the first interest. Fact can be brought in only so long as it harmonizes with preconceived ideas.
This is not an incrimination of the motives of denominational schools. They mean well, but they have not yet caught the spirit of modern education. They do not yet realize what science has been doing for the past half century.
Students are merely walking around the well meaning professor who mixes his Calvanism, or Methodism, or other ism with his biology and sociology and psychology. Students prefer the truth—facts. They can make their own creeds later.
TIDINESS
Professor Goldsmith's plan for improving the beauty of Mount Oread appeals to every loyal student at the University. He would like to see us plant shrubs and flowers, and vines. Some plan $ \overline{\mathrm{G}} \mathrm{R}$ doing this will be arranged by spring, no doubt.
But he further urges something which each of us can begin practicing im mediately: campus tidiness. Scarcely a corner of the campus that is not littered with scraps of paper, tobacco cana, posters, or Hershey wrappers. The Men's Student Council is planning to place receptacles in convenient places for trash. Meanwhile each of us can exercise tidiness around the campus.
A LA JAWN DEE
The nowapapers last week devoted much space to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who had attended a dance given by miners in Colorado and had danced thereast with great ecat. Thus the dance was made the medium for bringing about better relations between warring factions.
to K. U.? If the powers that be would consent to students' participation in downtown dances a better sentiment between students and business men of Lawrence might be fostered. The foundation for a more flexible credit system would thus be laid, more goods would be sold and there would be less necessity for hypothecating watches on the part of the students.
Students who have been on Mount Oread several years will remember that the Daily Kansan talked a long while to get a cement walk put on the Library cutoff. Now it is finished.
PARTIAL SUCCESS
Why can not this idea be adapted
They may also remember that the Daily Kansan protested vigorously against the 1866 model chairs which students in Fraser Hall class rooms had to sit in. Classes in journalism now have to sit in those racks.
In 1911 there was a freshman whose high school team had no players "about as good as any of the Varsity."
K. U. synonyms:
Juvenility; freshman caps.
Senior; senile law canes.
The man who "wrote up" a new sorority house forget to mention that it will be decorated with five automobiles, several queens, and have a color scheme in blond and brunette.
A headline, "Parade Opens Sea son" should have read, "Parade Sea son Opens."
FOR LONGER RUSH PERIOD
Editor Daily Kansan:
Not only should something be done "to do away with the long rushing season of the sororites," but something should also be done to do away with the evils of the short rushing season of the fraternities.
Is any fraternity man so blind to the truth as to believe that in two or three days acquaintance he can determine the suitability of a "rushee" for membership in his chapter? Are men in the early twenties sufficiently mature and experienced in character reading to know, from such brief observational of a rushee's rushing ability, that the man will be congenial and able to adapt himself to the conditions of life in a chapter house without friction?
Cannot the fraternity alumni in the faculty and town get together and form an organization for the better supervision of the chapters? The first task of such an organization should be the revision of the rushing rules, based on the findings of a recent report which recently reported on this subject to the national Interfraternity Conference in New York City.
I have been told that the fraternities at Kansas are known to lack internal harmony. I do not wonder at it. I would be surprised if it were otherwise. The rushing season is altogether too short. The sororites' rushing season is also too short. It would be far better for all concerned if pledging were deferred till the end of the semester, or at least until about Christmas. I believe that all objections to such delay can be adequately answered and that many advantages would result.
Are there enough interested Greek-
letter alumni on the faculty to form
such an organization? Even with
but one member of each fraternity
represented on the faculty a live
society could be formed and fraternity
conditions vastly improved. Who
will help?
Greek
What a university is no one can define, but all may in a measure come to know. By pondering its principles, by contemplating its ideals, by examining its aims, activities and fruits, above all by sharing in its spirit and aspiration, we may at length win a conception of it that will fill our minds with light and our hearts with devotion. - Cassius J. Keyser.
WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?
Miss Woodman was graduated from
Missouri State University. She
has written a number of poems
IF I WERE A NOBLE TREE
If I were a noble tree,
A forest of evergreen and cold
A land hated breast, erect, what life brought
Had breasted, erect, what life brought
If I were a noble tree.
vital marvel of blue and green;
As the seaman preached their lives
A century old, a century told;
If I had thought my thoughts out in
heaven,
Chastened by the storms, thunder-
The most seasoned pro player lives
away as the seasons preached to her.
driven
To the thought's sheer soul, its spirit
To the thought a sheer soul, its spright
found.
To the laughs, the laughs of flesh all
If I had thought my thoughts out in
round,——
if I had thought my thoughts out in heaven,
    with the candid sky.
Only the clouds and the lark and I.
Or the homing wild goose veering high.
If I were a movie tie,
And they fastened a telephone wire on
For me,
silly, women to talk of their
For silly women to talk of the
clothes,
they are told in talk of their beaux-
And silly girls to talk to their beauty:-
Chewing gum, wines, cigars and faces,
motor cars, motorcycles,
clatter of loss and gain,
Of worthless pleasure and empty pain.
of worthless leasehold collateral
the stocks, the markets, prices and
The Derby gained, the pennant lost,-
If I were a noble tree
If I were a noble tree,
I should hold my manward service.
me.
I wonder would my heart not broken
be.
green With the smooth, brown arching
prime Had been pierced by the cruel nails in
At midnight—a strained smile that
didn't move when I got on by.
If the doctor came quicker because my
father was quicker.
limbs between,
Delight man a eye and lift his heart;
The taut steel threads sufficient
of world-service. But it, along
the taut steel threads hushed whispers throng
At midnight—a strained, antired cry
and to go on by;
r. Death, for a time, repented Him
And from the still chamber, stave, was
And from the still chamber store, stall
and dime. And mine my heart might ree-
unlabeled be To the telephone wires they'd fastened
If I were an elm tree a century old, the branches would stretch down, my little knees stretching down, down.
If I were an elm tree a century old,
A century old, a century told.
down
into the earth, my breast full bare
Into the rays of passion of sky and air
The shadow of my heart
Too young for birth, too old for years,
Too old for learning, too needy,
Knowing no "saint" and needing no
friendship.
My being replete in self-revealed Law,
Held erect by no Hope, bowed by no
Wing.
To the town passages of sky and air, they might nail their telephone wires.
tree
In the mouth of my side, for my mind
would be
alamed, unscarved, and may be Me.
H. Rea Woodman.
I think I would be
Unchained, unscarred, and my mind is
WAR AND RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES
An observer of conditions in Russia has pointed out that the students of that empire are less affected by the war than is the case of similar classes in any other country. The Russian universities have not been depleted. Possibly this situation is due in large measure to the law that men are not liable for military service during student days. Something over fifteen thousand students, however, have volunteered. Almost every student is taking part in hospital service or other relief work.
There is a great wave of sacrificial devotion spreading among the students. Many who fight in the army with no trace of bitterness toward the enemy but to sacrifice themselves. This makes a favorable opportunity for religious work and the spiritual message. No public meetings are allowed but private conferences are eagerly sought.-Student World.
But it doesn't always work so well. One of the student pastors, on the evening of the day he had taken to himself a wife, tried this method. Surely on this day of all days the fates should be propitious.
TELLING FORTUNE to be
Have you ever tried to see some
significance in a Bible,
verse at renaissance? If you haven't you
were told of someone who came
to some great decision by such a
reliable fortune-telling method.
TELLING FORTUNE BY RIPLE
He sat down and opened his Bible.
He saw the verse! Horrow-stricken he tried to close the book hastily.
But his wife was looking over his shoulder. Chance directed her gaze to the same verse.
So far, nothing has occurred which would indicate that either party was taking the matter seriously enough to desist "playing the fool" by instituting a suit for divorce—Southwestern Collegian.
Why, with two whole pages of verses, should both of them read "Now, I have played the fool?"
Your true Bostonian takes pride in the fact that his Evening Transcript puts the smallest headlines over the most interesting news—and that he knows how to find the most interesting news under the smallest head
Boston Taste
This is the true Bostonian's notion of the pragmatic value of the highest education.—Life.
It costs more to live in America than in Europe, and it's worth it, too. The Outlook.
A SHORTER COLLEGE COURSE Sensible! When the President of Harvard suggests an innovation in education the whole country listens. President Lowell of Harvard in an address on the "Economy of Time in Education," before the Association of American Universities declared that he would not be opposed to a college course of two years and a graduate course of two years in place of the present four years' general college course. The colleges provide a much more practical training today than they did even ten years ago, but they have not yet met the case of young man desiring an amount of college training and who feels there is interest in the college course that fails to fit him for a business career. The difference in size between freshman and senior classes is sufficient proof that a course is required that will fit the needs of the large numbers who drop out after the sophomore year. A course that is definitely planned to end with the second college year, carrying with it an appropriate certificate, would induce many thousands of young men who now stop with high school to take up the two years' course.-Leslie's.
Get your magazines at the best and oldest magazine store in the city Carroll's.-Adv.
You will have to see our K. blank ets to appreciate them. Carroll's.- Adv,
Order your magazine and Sunday papers at Carroll's--Adv.
Football merchandise, the Spalding make, here only. Carroll's--Adv.
Girls gymnasium shoes, the regulation kind, at Carroll's...Adv.
Skins, pennants, blankets and banners at Carroll's-. Adv.
WANT ADS
FOR ENTENT—Fine upstairs rooms,
suitable for light housekeeping or
for single rooms for boys. House new
and modern. Phone 2615 W. Bell.
FOR RENT-Large front room for two boys. Call Bell 914.
FOR RENT—A furnished room for boys; electric light and furnace heat. Mrs, Dean, 1333 Ky. 2568 B.
WANTED—Several representatives to work on the Hill for a down town business house. Address X. Y. Z, care Kansan.
LOST—On the Hill Friday morning a small gold Hiawatha high school 132 class班, Initials "S. V. M., Tom McCall, McCall, McCall, 101-3" bell 2325W.
LOST-Long, jewelled bar pin, be tween the gym and Ohio street. Reward. Finder call Bell 291. Nina Kanaga. 11-31.
Dressmaking. Mrs. M. A. Morgan,
1321 Tenn. Up-to-date dressmaking and ladies' tailoring. Tailor dresses a specialty. Phone 1116W. Bell.
Adv. 11*8.
LOST—In Gymnasium gallery Sunday night, hand bag, containing a gold watch. Finder please return to University post office. 12-1*
FOR SALE - American Encyclopedia at one half value, 1915 edition, Moorco rebound Indian paper. Terms Phone Bell 39 W., after 6 p. m.
The finest, most exclusive line of high grade cigars and pipes in the city at the students' down town store. Most of the men know it. If you don't get acquainted, Carroll's. Adr.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Honestly, Now-
As one student to another. Wouldn't the folks at home appreciate your thoughtfulness if you would arrange with us to mail them a Daily Kansan each day?
DANCING
Wouldn't they grow more and more interested in K. U. if they received the daily letter?
Ask any one of the hundred who sent the Kanşan home last year.
It's a good invsetment.
PAYMARDA, MA, and Mrs. VERNON
THE LADIES BROTHER INTERNAL
Takes care of the Home
HARRY PERCIVAL
Phone 1307W Res 1139 Tenn.
STUDENTS SHOE SHOP
Work and Prices Always Right
STUDENTS SHOP
R. O. BUGEET, Prop.
1107 Mass. st
Lawrence, Kan.
Drius Prince, Alma Right
We also Repair and Re-cover Parasols.
Non-Teekkave and Self-Pulling
Sold in Lawrence at
Conklin Fountain Pens
F. D. McCollock's Drug Store 847 Mass. St.
Johnson & Tuttle
A Good Place to Eat
Watkins National Bank
Capital $100,000
Surplus and Profits $100,000
The Student Depository
Anderson's Old Stand
715 MASSACHUSETTS STREET
A. G. ALRICH
PRINTING
Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Rubber Stamps, Engraving, Steel Die Embossing, Seals, Badges.
744 MASS, STREET
Order your Groceries FROM
STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES
721 Mass. st.-Phone 226
W, A. GUENTHER
Bullock Printing Co.
CARDS, PROGRAMS, STATIONERY
AND JOB PRINTING
Bowersock Theatre Building
Bell Phone 379
LAWRENCE PANTATORIUM
12 W. Warren St. Phones 506.
Initial Stationery 35c a box Fountain Pens Kodaks and Supplies
Evans Drug Store
819 Mass. Street
Phones 194
Athletic Supplies of All Kinds FOOTBALL GOODS
KENNEDY and ERNST
826 Mass. St.
Phone 314
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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 guaranteed.
G. W. Jones, A. M., M. D. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gyneology. Suite 1, F. A. U. Bldg. Residence, 2011 Ohio St. Phones 35.
J. R. Bechtel, M. D., D. O. 833 Mass.
St. Both phones, office and residence.
CLASSIFIED
Jewelers
Ed. W, Parsons, Engraver, Watch-
maker and Jeweler. Diamonds and
Jewelry. Bell phone 717. 717 Mass.
Street.
Plumbers
Phone Kennedy Plumbing Co., for gas goods and Mazda Lamps. 937 Mass. Phone 658.
Our Special
Cakes to order for all occasions.
Brinkman's Bakery, 933 Mass. Bell
501; Home 866.-Adv. e o d-tf