UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Univer-
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1915
A soft answer turneth away wrath;
but grievous words stir up anger.—Proverbs 15:1.
A SERVICE TO K. U.
And the Botany Club has started to planting vines and shrubs around Snow Hall. In doing this, the club is serving the University better than it could in any other way just now. Scientific investigation of botanical problems is always a worthy endeavor for an organization of students interested in plant life, but the benefits to be derived from such work are usually limited to a few and are often slow of results. To plant a few vines which before long will be trained up the bleak walls of Snow Hall is a work which every student will look upon with enjoyment.
The cost to the Botany Club of planting the sixteen Virginia creepers was nothing. They grow wild on the golf links, but they are the best vines for climbing in the country. No amount of money would buy better ones, yet they are over there on the links waiting to be dug up and planted around the campus buildings. All the club did was to spend an hour with spades—and that, if only for an hour, is more fun than work.
Mount Oread is a natural beauty spot, but in erecting the large angular buildings on its summit, we have to a certain extent, torn up the natural beauty of it. When every campus building is surrounded at its base with shrubs and when the cold, grey walls only peep out from behind the green vines, the combination of man's art with nature's will to a great extent be harmonized.
HERE'S A JOB
A seasonable suggestion made by Dr. Ida Hyde is that umbrellas and rubbers be rented from a stand located on the campus. For a small fee, the dampening antics of Old Jupiter could be thwarted and the weather arms would be sent back to the stand to await another time when the fickle rains should catch him unprepared. It might take some calculation to work out the plan, but if you went home in the rain yesterday insufficiently garbed, you will appreciate the convenience such a service would afford.
GIVING BUSINESS TRAINING
GIVING BUSINESS TRAINING
In adding nine new courses to the department of economics, the University is giving students a much better opportunity to be successful business men than they have had before. These courses will enable men and women to take work which will prepare them for business careers.
The idea of educating a student who
intends to be a banker in literature and biology has just about petered out and these things are coming to be made auxiliary instead of primary for those who are going into business. No man or woman wants to be without their broadening influence, yet he does feel that they are not the things which will put him in a responsible position when he gets out into the hard world where technical knowledge, rather than culture, is the first demand.
The enlarged department of economics and commerce will not have many snap courses, but it will be popular nevertheless, for the success of a good many students after they leave school will depend on their education entirely. They know it and will select their courses accordingly while they are in the University.
IN DOLLARS AND SENSE
After some calculation, a man in the East declares that the cash value of an education is $22,000. This is what too many high school seniors are doing right now—trying to compute the value of a college education in terms of money. And because they use this mercenary way of estimating, several thousand young persons toss their heads and walk past the open doors of college halls and take a job where they expect to "work-up." They think that the four years ahead of them can more profitably be spent in working for promotion than in studying behind University walls.
And perhaps they are right. In two weeks, many college graduates will go out into the world without a job, and a good many more will take a very ordinary one at a modest salary. After four years the plumbers apprentice gets $5 a day. The college man, after his four years, is lucky to get $3.
This, however, is like chopping one arm off to get the accident insurance. An educated man or women can get infinitely more enjoyment out of his slender salary than an uneducated person can with more.
It is the capacity to live that college develops. One can read a book and behind the shield of characters trace the author's purpose; he can see a drama and catch the protest of the day; he can hear a concert and rise above the singer's voice, he can travel and find more than dust and headaches. With an education, life can free itself from show. This is not an accomplishment to be valued in terms of money.
Jayhawk Tail Feathers
It looks as though young O'Leary age 5, is working up quite a case at the Alpha Delta Pi house.
This appeared in the Daily Kansas last night:
To Visit Helene Thomas
Miss Francis Morrow, of Topea,
will be a guest at the Sig Alph party.
Is Miss Thomas a Sig Alph now?
The Botany Club, fired by enthusiasm, as the paper states, will water the spark of genius and develop climbing vines and shrubs.
"Jones tells me he has just started a bank-account for his new baby."
"I see; a fresh-heir fund."—Baltimore American.
Con Hoffmann, in discussing his trip to the battle front says that he doesn't know just where he will go. It has been generally thought that Con already had his passports fixed and Saint Peter in case the worst happens.
Charity at Home
There is no death! The stars go down
And bright in texasaundow-crown
And bright in texasaundow-crown
Dorothea Newrox—Where is pa pah?
His Dormitory
Mrs. Newtork. "In the library, dear
inbut don't wake him up now"—Newtork.
"How do you sell your music?
"We sell piano music by the pound and organ music by the choir."—Columbia Jester.
Female voice over the telephone-
Hio, George! Can you come to a Hilo
camp?
George (absentmindedly) —I'd like to, but I'm on the wagon. —Chaparral.
Appropriate
Campus Invitations
Discovered
THERE IS NO DEATH.
There is no death! The dust we tread
Shake beneath the summer
sunlight.
She- What's Dr. Sharpe doing out there in the lake?
To golden grain, or mellow fruit,
From out the viewless air.
He—Gathering rushes for next year's football team—Cornell Widow.
There is no death! The leaves may
fall
The drivers may fall and pass away
They only walk through wintuhry hours
They are not permitted to walk
He hears our best-loved things away,
And then we call them dead.
He leaves our hearts all desolate;
He pucks our rarest, sweetest flow
There is no death! An angel form
Walks over the earth with sleep
And then we call them dead.
He leaves our hearts all deallocated.
ORS
Transported into bliss, they now
Adorn, immortal bowers.
Transported into bliss, they now Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice, whose jovies tusk
Makes glad these scenes of sin and
song.
Sings now an everlasting song
Amid the tree of life.
And when he sees a smile too bright,
he hears a cry in the distance.
He hears it to that world of light,
Form unto that woding life,
With joy we welcome them—the same
With joy we welcome them—the same
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal aprits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life there are no dead!
It is love that makes us alive.
VAUDEVILLE
LOOKING FROM THE CLOJSTER'S SHADOW
The American variety show is just now in a state of transition. Various explanations exist for the present financial difficulties of the managers of vaudeville theatres, only a few years ago the most prosperous in the country. Fortunes were made in the so-called vaudeville theatres after they became more common. To the celebrities of the music balls were paid salaries that seemed out of all proportion to their value. It looked as if there could only be permanent good fortune in such flourishing institutions. It took the moving pictures to bring uncertainty into the field. In addition to the cheapest theatres which show only these picture plays there are those circuits of theatres that offer their clients both variety and the pictures. Thus there have come into the vaudeville business another opportunity. The situation was rendered more complicated than ever by the sudden increase in the number of theatres offering these varied programs.
Enhint and discerning magnates have been travelling over the country trying to find the answer to the question 'What is the matter with vaudeville?' They have concluded that there is quite as much money invested in it every week as there are people interested in it, so desire so far to limit its expenditures for division of this kind. The difficulties are of another character.
What the public formerly paid for its entertainment in the variety theatres is now distributed among two or three times as many playhouses of this character as used to exist. The demand is as strong as ever, but there are plenty of other artists. There can be no more profits in the business until the number of theatres in which the money is to be invested has been rigidly curtailed.
The burden of waiting until the relation between supply and demand has been adjusted will fall most heavily or those not supplied with capital. To those managers able to struggle against the competition there may be opportunities end for many entrepreneurs will be driven out of the field before a satisfactory adjustment has been made.—N. Y. Sun.
THE EAST DOOR
This has been clear for the agricultural colleges, so far as State appropriations are concerned. Not merely in Massachusetts have the law-makers refused much of the appropriation asked for by the state college, the great agricultural West has become suddenly "close." Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are among the states in which the Legislature has pulled the pursestrings tight. In Kansas the university also was treated with scant consideration. Wisconsin and Minnesota are showing the same attitude towards it only in less degree, while Iowa dealt liberally with the university, at least in comparison with its agricultural college. Of the four State universities mentioned, that of Kansas is the hardest hit. Wisconsin has been so well cared for, and is already so well developed, that it can sustain a period of financial drought. The University of Minnesota has some direct income of its own. But the University of Kansas will suffer greatly. It is not so because its requests have been treated indifferently. Two years ago, its friends say, it was led to present a budget reduced to the lowest possible amount, with the understanding that an unpadded estimate would be treated on its merits. The budget.
AS THE EAST LOOKS AT IT
seen presented was, however, severely operated on by the legislative surgeons. For the better part of a decade, the Kansas University has been struggling with inadequate means to hold its position—which was high—among the leading State universities, but it has now lost some of its strongest and most scholar students that it can provide with adequate room, adequate equipment, or adequate teaching. Only six of the States have a higher assessed valuation of property than Kansas—New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Iowa, California and Wisconsin (which leads Kansas by less than $200,000). But Kansas has seemingly decided that she does not care to maintain the standards of her university as high as those of poorer Kansas; and those Michigan state will be inclined to wonder at in her foster-daughter, who has so loudly boasted of a devotion to education inspired by her New England origin—Boston Transcript.
FOLLOW CURRENT EVENTS
FOLLOW CURRENT EVENTS
In just a few more weeks the students of the university will begin taking their activities. That is a great many of them that will wake up to the fact that they know surprisingly little of the great things that have been happening in the outside world the past nine months. The first shock probably will come while they are still on the train, if they happen to talk intelligently, even for a brief period, on the most interesting topics of one day. While this ignorance of current events is common among a great many students, it is exceedingly humiliating to one's personal pride to admit that one is utterly incapable of understanding the things of the day, and to admit it to one who places more than ordinary confidence in your qualifications to interpret intelligently by reason of your superior education.
And the worst of it all is that there is no adequate excuse for the indifference. Students waste hours each week in doing absolutely nothing. They may not admit it at first but when they stop to think a moment they will find that it is so. There is no one who is an exception to this rule, although there is a very wide variation in the amount of time so spent. A part of this time could be profitably and 'pleasantly' devoted to reading the daily papers. It takes only a few minutes each day, but those few minutes correctly employed mark the difference between the man who knows and the man who does not.-Indiana Student.
HAVING THE LAST WORD
HAVING THE LAST WORD
(Ed. Note: Women at the University of Oregon were allowed to publish in the newspaper that was here. Here is what they did to the men):
Men Are So Modest
A rumor is squirming around on the campus that a majority of college men think that a girl will do anything to make a date.
Just because a girl mentions to a fellow the Junior Prom, or the coming Oregon club dance, does it follow that she is angling darkly for a bid? Just because she feels amirable and reminds him of what a ripping swell speech he made in student-body meeting yesterday, must he deduct that she has her eye on the Rex and Rainbow for tonight?
When she is crossing the campus with him and observes that it is peachy weather and that she is crazy about canoeing, does this translate cryptically into "if you were a sport you would come through?"
If a girl has to stop and ponder whether the man she designs making an unusually pleasant remark to will think she is letting down a hook, one or two things might be true: that she is a cynic, or that he is a fool. Most girls come from his house, comes from his fence. The guilty are always suspicious."
Did you ever hear how busy the fellows keep the phones before a Pen-Hellenic dance (to which they can't go unless a girl invites them), imploring Marcia to down to a game for roll or game--game he even ask her to a debate!
And then did you ever hear of a girl who wanted to stay home and couldn't? Of a girl who had to plead Philosophy or Math as an excuse, herself called slow and pasty? There might be such a girl, you know.
It's great to loaf on Friday night, once in a while—just to sit down after dinner and read a little, and yawn a little and say contentedly pretty soon. "Say, aren't you glad we don't have to go anywhere?" Those pumps of mine hurt awful"—Oregon Emerald.
PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
PROCESS IN PHYSICS
So many and so varied are the activities in the University, that very often men in one department lose sight completely of the work carried on in other departments. It is therefore often worth while to call to mind the progress which is being made in certain advanced fields usually not familiar to the undergraduate. Doubtless few Harvard men know, for instance, that the Physics department is one of the most active and progressive in the country, and that its work has attracted international attention.
Harvard has been a pioneer in this field, and the Jefferson laboratory, built in 1884, is the first building of its kind in America. It was here that the notion was first overthrown that "such things, as turning lathes were not the sort of thing one should have in a university."
The progress of the department has been steady, and at present the laboratory is engaged in research work of interest to the whole scientific world. The erection of the Cruit High Tension laboratory has marked a departure into a new field of investigation. Experiments with the wireless telephone, begun a few years ago by Professor Pearce and Dr Chaffee, have been resumed recently. Moreover, direct wireless communi- ties with Berlin has lately been established.
Professor Lyman's work with ultraviolet rays, and Professor Sabine's investigation of the transmission of sound, and its application to building materials, are among the many important researches going on. At present there are more than a score of pieces of investigation in progress in the Jefferson laboratory, with many more in Craft. Work so brilliant and of so advanced a nature merits the recognition and approbation of the University in general. Harvard Crimson.
"Want to hear something great?"
"Sure."
"Rub two bricks together."—Ex.
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