UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone. Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kanan aims to picture the undergraduate in his own right, so he can further than merely printing the name on his stand. He holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be generous; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads in all, to ability 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 Scriptural 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 for 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 cans, 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 newspapers last week devoted much space to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who had attended a dance given by miners in Colorado and had danced thereat with great elation. Thus the dance was made the medium for bringing about better relations between warring factions. All this idea be adapted
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.
Why can not this idea be adapted
PARTIAL SUCCESS
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.
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; seniary law canes.
The man who "wrote up" a new sorority house forgot 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 Season" should have read, "Parade Season Opens."
FOR LONGER RUSH PERIOD
Editor Daily Kansan:
Not only should something be done "to do away with the long rushing season of the sororities," 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 their brief observations, what is the rushing affords, that the man will be congenial and able to adapt himself to the conditions of life in a chapter house without friction?
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.
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 this recently reported on this subject to the national Interfraternity Conference in New York City.
Are there enough interested Greekletter 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 the Graduate School of K. U. in 1903. She has written a number of poems and short plays.)
IF I WERE A NOBLE TREE
The vivat marvel of blue and green.
As the seasons breathed their lives
a room, a mossy forest,
w centuries old in shine and cold.
Had breathed, sweet, what life brought
A century old, a century told;
I had I thought my thoughts out in
If I had seen The vital marvel of blue and green
Chastened by the storms, drubbed driven
To the thought's sheer soul, its spirit found,
    the laughs of flesh all
found
Stripped of the layers of flesh all
heaven,
Chastened by the storms, thunder-
Stripped of the layers of text in round—
wrote my thoughts out in
If I had thought my thoughts out in heaven.
Face to face with the candid sky,
Only the clouds and the lark and
Only the clouds and the lark and L
Or the wild galooping high
the turret's ancient told.
If I were a noble tree,
And they fastened a telephone wire or
on
for silly women to talk of their
clothes.
And for chewing gum, cigars and jac-
cer, motor cars, and midnight clatter of loss and gain.
Of worthless pleasure and empty pain.
The worthless markets, prices and
coat.
The Derby by the pendant lank,
a noble mule.
I wonder would my heart not broken
I wonder would my heart not broken
If I were a noble tree,
I should hold my manward service.
Hold it enough that my glory of
green,
fresh, brown, arching
Dalhini makes eye and lifte his heart;
he knows what is wrong with world-service,
if, along with, most of us, he does not.
brown, though that my grey green,
With the smooth, brown, arching
pride
Had been pierced by the cruel nails in
the side;
That death be caused to go on by;
If the doctor can quicker because my
sickness.
Of world-service. But if, along
the taut steel threads hushed whip-
sling.
f (Death, for a time, repented Him.
And from the still chamber stole, vist.
ere throng.
At that death strained, startled cry,
that death be coaxed to go on by;
their breaths.
The taut steel threads hushed whispers throng.
At the moment, the strand started, stirred cry
and dlm—
Why then my heart might re-
cognize
If I were an elm tree a century old,
a century old, a century old.
My mother's down,
oncelled be
To the telephone wires they'd fastened
Into the earth, my breast full bare
garter, wrapped in silk with length of
ripper. woven with length of
Too young for mirth, too old for tears,
Too young for laughter,
Knowing no 'ain' and needing no
My being repleta in self-revealed Law,
hold erect by no hope, bowed by no
eye.
To the motors passions of sky and air, they might mull their telephone wires
In the flesh of my side, for my mind
would be,
I was carried, and my mind is
H. Rea Woodman.
balmed, unscarred, and my mind is Me.
H. Bax Woodman
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.
He sat down and opened his Bible.
He saw the verse! Horrow-stirken
he tried to close the book hastily.
But his wife was looking over his
shoulder. Chance directed her gaze
to the same verse.
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 BY BIBLE
Have you ever tried to see some significance in picking out a Bible verse at random? If you have surely someone who knows great decision by such a reliable fortune-telling method.
TELLING FORTUNE BY BIBLE
Why, with two whole pages of verses, should both of them read "Now. I have played the fool?"
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.
Your true Bostonian takes pride in the fact that his Evening Transcript puts the smallest head lines over the most interesting news—and that he knows how to the most interesting news under the smallest head
This is the true Bostonian's notion of the pragmatic value of the highest education—Life.
Boston Taste
It costs more to live in America than in Europe, and it's worth it, too. The Outlook.
MORTER 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 the have not yet met the amount of the young man desiring a certain amount of college training, but who is eager to learn, business and who feels there is much 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 it with 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,
Biggest paper sales in town, also K. C. Star agency. Carroll's—Adv.
You will have to see our K. blankets to appreciate them. Carroll's._ Adv.
Football merchandise, the Spalding make, here only. Carroll's--Adv.
Order your magazine and Sunday papers at Carroll'n—Adv.
Girls gymnasium shoes, the regulation kind, at Carroll's..Adv.
oaks, pennants, blankets and baners at Carroll's.—Adv.
WANT ADS
FOR RENT—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. Ms. Dean, 1333 Ky. 2558 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 1913 class pin. Initials “S, V. M.” on back. Fannie McCall, 1042 Ohio Bell 2225W.
LOST—Long, jewelled bar pin, between the gym and Ohio street. Reward. Finder call Bell 291. Nina Kanaga. 11-38
Dressmaking. Mrs. M. A. Morgan,
1321 Tenn. Up-to-date dressmaking and
ladies' tailoring. Party dresses a
specialty. Phone 1116W. Bell.
Adv. $11-3$.
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 price, 1915 edition, Mooseco bound, Indian paper. Terms. Bell蔡 B3W. 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.—Adv.
Send the Dan, Kansan home.
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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 Kansan home last year.
It's a good invsetment.
I also illustrated Mr. and Mrs. VERNON
PAVALA, Mr. and Mrs. VERNON
CASTLE and others in
THE LADIES HOME JOURNAL.
Take it for the second year, 8 months, $1.
HARRY PERCIVAL
Phone 1307W Res 1139 Tenn
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P. E. BUGEGET, Prop.
1107 Mass at
Lawrence, Kan.
Work and Prices Always Right
We also Repair and Re-cover
Parcels.
Conklin Fountain Pens
Non-Leakable and Self-Filling
Sold in Lawrence at
F. D. McCollock's Drug Store
847 Mass. St.
A Good Place to Eat
Johnson & Tuttle
Anderson's Old Stand
715 MASSACHUSETTS STREET
Surplus and Profits $100,000
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A. G. ALRICH PRINTING Binding, Copper Plate Printing, Rubber Stamps, Embossing, Embossing, Seals, Badges 744 MASS. STREET
W, A. GUENTHER
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FROM
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STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES
721 Mass. st.-Phone 226
CARDS, PROGRAMS, STATIONERY AND JOB PRINTING Bowersock Theatre Building Bell Phone 379
LAWRENCE PANTATORIUM
12 W. Warren St. Phones 506.
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.
Massons 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. Hammam, M. D. Dick Building,
Eye, ear and throat specialist,
Glasses fitted. Satisfaction guaranteed.
G. W. Jones, A. M., M. D. Diseases of the stomach, surgery and gynecology. Suite 1, F. A. U. Bldg. Residence, 1201 Ohio St. Phone 35.
J. R. Bechtel, M. D., D. O. 833 Mass.
St. Both phones, office and residence.
CLASSIFIED
Jewelers
Ed. W, Parsons, Engraver, Watchmaker and Jeweler. Diamonds and Jewelry. Bell phone 717. 717 Mass. Street.
Plumbers
Phone Kennedy Plumbing Co., for gas goods and Mazda Lamps. 937 Mass. Phones 658.
Our Special
Our Special
Cakes to order for all occasions.
Brinkman's Bakery, 933 Mass. Bell
591; Home 368.—Adv. o e d-f t