UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 19, 1879, at the post office Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week at the offices of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students in a way that would go further than merely printing the news by saying "you have no favorite; you play no favorite; to be clean; to be courteous; to be leave more serious problems to wiser heads." The daily kansan also helps the service of the University.
MONDAY, SEPT. 27, 1915
Genius is simply hard work with no let up —Julia Martowe.
AN ADVENTURE
"The adventure of this time is the adventure of democracy," said Raymond Robins last night. Democracy is an adventure. It is by no means a settled, perfected mechanism. Whether we could go through a war and keep our democracy is a question which is causing grave doubts among political scientists. Whether we can keep principles of popular government and get the efficiency of German bureaucracy is a question. We are trying to answer it in the affirmative, but we have hardly started toward an answer. We are venturing out into new country.
This is a new thing, this industrial democracy. The conditions have rushed on us in the last half-century and found us nibbling along with pastoral calmness. We are living under a condition made when free land was abundant. But free land is gone now. Men can not stake off a claim any longer. They work in factories or starve. But we still munch on our own pasture. Those who have none can starve or else work twelve hours a day to buy bread.
And now the war breaks and we see Russia with its unnumbered hordes retreat because industry is not organized well enough to keep the army supplied with ammunition. We see England begging men to enlist and we see her set up a coalition cabinet in an attempt to stop dangerous internal strife. And the same things would likely happen to us if we were drawn into war without warning.
This doesn't mean that democracy has failled. It means that we have not solved the whole problem yet. It means that we have new situations to meet and that they must be met frankly and seriously. It means just what Mr. Robins said, that democracy is an adventure, a journey into an unexplored country. We are the pioneers.
WHAT ABOUT IT?
What are you going to do about getting that student ticket? Are you going to put off buying it from day to day and then find yourself without one Saturday or are you going to get it now?
SORORITY RUSHING—HOW?
SORORITY RUSHING—HOW?
Ten days of dinners, teas, and dances! That sounds fine to most of the girls when they first hear of it, but before the ten days are past, they decide that it is too much of a good thing. Of all the ways to open a collegiate career, nothing could be less conducive to work and serious purpose than the present system of sorority rushing.
Two remedies present themselves. The rushing season can be shortened, or it can be lengthened.
If the women should pledge on the
second or third day of the semester, as the men do, the round of entertainments and distractions would be done away with at once. Many say that this could not be done, because the sororities would not have an opportunity to become well acquainted with the rushes. Most of these freshmen girls however come with the recommendation of active or alumni sorority members in their home towns, and their social standing in their own communities is known. Again, the rushing season could be lengthened to two months, or even to a semester. The Women's Pan-Hellenic could place a limitation on the number and time of entertainments to be given in this period, taking care not to crowd any one week with parties, and arranging a schedule such that the work of the classrooms would not be interfered with, nor the girls subjected to the strain of a concentrated period of rushing. Is not either of these systems an improvement over existing condi-
WATCH KANSAS?
Forty men are out for cross-country. That shows spirit in athletics this year that we have never had before. Everyone is entering all sports with like vim, so look out for Kansas this year.
Now that the sororities have pledged we can keep tab on the Germans again.
That sophomore "Stering 7-point" ticket will probably have to compete with a Spearmint or a Yucatan ballot.
or maybe the suffragettes will put out a Kis-Me line-up.
Well, some folks won't need any special costumes to attend the Halloween party as pumpkin heads.
There may not be enough actual illess to warrant a hospital fee, but it makes a lot of pocket-books look sick.
WANTS ANOTHER CLOCK
Editors: Dr. Kelly Kenney
What's the matter with having a clock in the history room of the library? Bookworms not possessing a watch do often become lost to time, space, and friends, while those who "possess" one are too often interrupted by questioners for the time. On windy days it is impossible to hear the whistle in this quiet retreat. One engagement was recently broken through ignorance of the time, and if a clock is not soon put up many more engagements may meet the same fate;
A. Sufferer.
Can't Flirt Through These Cloth windows are the latest school room device. They admit fresh air, give a diffused, soft light, keep the room normally humid and save the cost of ventilating machines. The new windows are said by a writer in School and Society to provide all the benefits of open air schools without their inconveniences.
Students who are musically inclined and who didn't make the band ought to form clubs among themselves for the promotion of good fellowship and for musical enjoyment. Our fair colleagues would doubtless be willing to cooperate with us, and as time went on a series of serendes or musicianies with refreshments at the close would greatly add to the pleasure of student life and also help to break the monotony of the long winter evenings. Let's be musical?
STUDENT MUSICALES
Editor Daily Kansan:
Middle C.
can't Flirt Through These
PRAIRIE NIGHT
GO out alone upon, the wind-swept wings. GO le up ole upon her breast and feel her Beat into thine. Go see the golden Or stairs in regal radiance o'er these shines. Then could thy soul see and be his prophet. Then could thy heart beat all in tune with His. Then could thy spirit leap up in gladness. And thy existence and its perfect bliss.
And thy existence and its Palmer, 'Ol'!
News item: "——fighting in the trenches when he contracted the wound." That reminds one of the time he "took down" with a broken nose.
GETTING INTO IT
existence find its perfect bliss
—Gertrude O. Palmer, '18.
Life is a queer procession of ups and downs. From being "the baby," the pet of the family, one enters the "pansy class" or the "daisy class," as the case may be, of the first grade. There he learns that whispering may be a sin, and he has his first conflict with mathematics. After an interminable journey, punctuated with struggles with teachers and fellows, he finally attains at the dignity of the "Eighth A." Life holds no greater pleasure than to promenade before the rest of the school and to hold it over the little fellows who are still in the "Sixth" or "Seventh." This bissful state of affairs is, however soon ended, for there comes a day when one enters high school to learn that a freshman is the mud of the earth and a sophomore a demigod to be feared and obeyed. The senior year soon arrives and again one attains the dignity of lord of the universe and arbiter of student affairs. But again there comes a fall in estate and this is the present condition of the class of 1919.
For the freshman class of all colleges there exist certain customs and traditions for the purpose of impressing on the freshman mind that it is a freshman's business to be seen and not heard. Some of these customs seem foolish and often arbitrary, but their survival over years of college existence proves that they have a certain useful value.
Freshman can best show a sincere desire to serve their college by learning and observing the traditional regulations which preceding classes have followed.
But it is not alone in the obedience to external regulations that a freshman can show his desire to serve his college. The freshman year should be a year of preparation and hard work. College offers great possibilities for all lines of ability, literary, business, athletic, musical, etc. First of all, of course, are students—without them there would be no college. Hard work and persistence during the first year of classroom work will make all the rest of the years easy by providing a solid foundation for courses to come. After lessons have been disposed of it is every man's business, and girl's, too, to get into some line of student activity and to stay with it to the finish. Many freshmen make the mistake of thinking there is no chance for success in competition with older, more experienced students. Like an idea is an indication of lack of self-confidence amounting almost to cowardice. One never knows that one can do till one tries, and it is surprising how easy it can be succeed if a person only makes up his mind to do it. Other freshmen make the mistake of trying to do too many things at once and end up by doing nothing well. It is good sense to pick out the line of activity which appeals most and confine one's self to that till mastery of it gives time for other things. There are two other classes of freshmen, both to be deployed. One class allows the pleasures of college life to divert its attentions from the worthwhile things, and the other is unwilling to exert itself unless it can have the big offices and the limelight constantly. The latter assumes the attitude of the child which won't play unless it can be "it." Colleges would be better off without either class.
In general, then, the same qualities which succeed in life lead to success in college. They are a proper self-respecting spirit of subordination to rules which surrounding society has found needful, a willingness to work hard at lessons when the reward is remote, the courage to overcome shyness and the sense of inexperience and to get into some line of work with the intention of sticking to the end, the ability to forego pleasure for duty and the will to accept and hold minor positions well in preparation bigger things to come. Advancement and self-admiration demand these qualities. As President Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin in slightly more polite language annually informs the freshman class, "If you are not here for work, get out."—The Colorado Tiger.
LAWRENCE IN 1864
"I'm off of that sorority," scoffed Hi Speed who is up-to-date, if anything. "Why most of those girls still wear plain black stockings."
And it was that in those December days the little town of Lawrence was fortified round about by earthworks, hastily thrown up and patrolled by relays of organized forces. So a week went by, a gloomy seven days of increasing heaviness. By incessant labor five fortifications had been erected to guard the river and the land entrance to the besieged town. Day and night in the chill early winter days the men worked to strengthen the defence. Along either side of Massachusetts Street, a wide roadway that should one day grow into a broad avenue, intervened. were thrown up, there were set night and day on the high places and protection that could offer aid and protection was called into action. And all the while, on the bleak top of Mount Oread, where its colors could be seen and its message read for miles, the Stars and Stripes floated bravely out in proud serenity—"From "A Wall of Men." by Margaret Hill McCarter.
At a meeting of the freshman class at Washburn recently the class decided without a single dissenting vote to adopt the blue and white skull cap insignia. A few wise freshmen anticipated the decision of the class and did their "cap shopping" early, so already a few of the caps are seen bobbing around. Caps for the remaining freshmen have been ordered, and will probably be here in about a week. In addition to the white button, the caps can be further ornamented if the freshmen win the sack scrap. If victorious they will be allowed to display their numerals in as conspicuous a place on their caps as they can find.
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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.
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