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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kauai
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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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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the students of the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news standing for the values and favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to solve problems to wiser heads, in all, to understand, in all, to the students of the University.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1915.
There's her twinkling of a star.
Between her a man of peace and war.
NEED MORE GROUNDS
The Hash Houses League is about to finish a successful year. The league has been better organized than ever before. The different divisions have played off their games and are now ready to play the finals. The winning team will be given a silver cup and the leaders of each of the three divisions get medals.
MRS. KELLY
But the league has been hampered by a lack of grounds. An organization furnishing exercise to 250 men demands consideration at the hands of the authorities at the University. If students want to play baseball, as the Hash House League seems to indicate, then the University can profitably encourage them by providing grounds for the games. If facilities are afforded, the league will be better than ever next year.
To have old grads like Mrs. Florence Finch Kelly come back after many years of a useful life is inspiring to us who are not yet prepared to take up our life work. Mrs Kelly has won distinction in a hard race. Journalism is no lady's job, yet she has gone to the top. And this without sacrificing her opportunity as a mother for she has a son who is a sophomore in the School of Engineering at the University.
OUR POSITION
In all probability, this is the last time that the Daily Kansan will mention the Sour Owl in an editorial way this year. The Daily Kansan wishes to apologize to its readers for the publicity it has given such an unsavory subject. But it felt that the Sour Owl had gone too far and that it was necessary to give the condition complete publicity in order to do away with future repetitions of the disgrace.
It is to be regretted that a few students had no more respect for their Alma Mater than to put it in the position that the Sour Owl did. But in the future the Owl society will not tolerate such a publication any more than will the student body in general. The spirit which prompted the current Owl was not as bad perhaps as the paper would indicate. They were wrong in their methods rather than in purpose. In the future, they will not subject their Alma Mater to such unfair treatment.
With a wholesome and outapoken criticism of unsatisfactory conditions at the University, the Daily Kansan
can have only the most earnest sym pathy.
The filthy Owl is gone — let us forget it.
SIGMA DELTA PSI
In "The Nation" for May is an art article by an Indiana University man on "Sigma Delta Psi and the All-Round Athlete."
Sigma Delta Psi is a comparatively new fraternity which has entered fourteen colleges and universities, but has fewer members than chapters. This is explained by the fact that Sigma Delta Psi is a purely honorary organization intended to encourage the all-round development of college men in athletics.
The fraternity's motto is, "The Body the Servant of the Mind." It hopes to become comparable in the athletic world to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi in the scholastic sphere.
Membership is gained by accomplishing the following events under official scoring by a committee:
Event Full Standing
100 yard dash 11 3-5s
220 low hurdles 31s
Running high jump 5 ft.
Running broad jump 17 ft.
Putting 16lb. shot 39ft.
(Distance scaled down for men un-
Pole vault 8 ft. 6 in.
Throwing baseball 250 ft.
Putting 16 lb. shot 30 ft.
Swim (time not counted) 100 yds.
2-mile run 12 m. 15s.
fambling: front handspring, front dive over four foot bar, hands on lap
10 seconds. *Professional record.
Junior Standing Records of L.C.A,A,A,A
12 s. 9 4-5 s.
33 s. 25 1-5 s.
4 ft. 6 in. 6 ft. $ \frac{3}{8} $
15 ft. 24 ft. $ \frac{4}{2} $
25 ft. 48 ft. $ \frac{10}{8} $
160 (bs.) 8 ft. 13 ft. 1 in.
200 ft. 438 ft.*
90 ft. 180 ft. is long
50 yds.
14 m.
It will be noticed that there are two classes; full credit and junior. To the average man the junior standing appears quite easy, but so far only eight men have made the fraternity, and in Texas and Minnesota there is not a member after a year's trial.
A man having * university letter may substitute it for any of the requirements except swimming. It is said that most candidates fail on the low hurdles, the broad jump, the pole vault, the two-mile run, or the tumbling.
Sigma Delta Pi hopes to bring the average of athletes in the American schools more nearly that of the English institutions and to partially eliminate the prevalent American "grand-t athlete."
Jayhawk Tail Feathers
Holding a regatta on Potter Lake is almost as bad as finding an afternoon's reading on a postage stamp.
The Oread Golf Club is going to play the finals in its tournament during quiz week. But then, professors don't have to cram for exams.
"Let me print a kiss upon your lips." She nodded her sweet permission. We started to press, and I rather
We printed a full edition
There must have been some mistake in taking that ice cream freezer from the back porch of Dean Sayre. The offender might have known that the dean is a probitist.
There has been much criticism recently from both facé'y, and students, of the Quill Club, and criticism that is by no means undeserved. It is true that the club promised its subscribers three numbers of the Oread Magazine and has published but two, the magazine's report of the moment of the magazine acted largely at their own pleasure, and the result was, not only a failure to meet obligations to subscribers, but a magazine of journalistic type, rather than of the literary type which the club desires to foster.
"But one edition is not enough." She said with a charming pout;
It is certainly generous of the sophomore class to allow freshmen to quit wearing their caps. Last spring, it will be remembered, several second grade students took a midnight railroad trip at the request of a number of freshmen.
The faculty athletic committee of Earlham College is now considering the advisability of abandoning baseball at the Quaker College after the present season is over. Definite action has not been taken by the committee, but it has become known that such a culture is being seriously considered.
Tickets for the senior breakfast go on sale today. Now don't anyone refuse to buy one because he isn't in the habit of eating breakfast.
She said with a charming pout;
So answer the press the form we
placed.
QUILL CLUB EXPLAINS
It is the belief of many of the faculty members and of the students that Earlham is too small a college to successfully support winning teams in both branches of spring athletics, and the belief is that if either is to be abandoned it should be baseball instead of track.
And we got several extras out.
—William Purple Cow
We started to press, and I rather guess
The general membership of the club is as much out of sympathy with the management of the Oread Magazine this year, as is the general public. It is not the fault of the club as a club, or of the majority of its members, that its obligations have not been met, and that its standards of taste have not been fully maintained. At the same time it is but to just to the Oread management to say, that they have had to deal with difficulties that were almost insurmountable and for which they were not to blame.
The Quill Club does not, however, wish to disclaim official responsibility, and will do its utmost to straighten things out, and to see that nothing of the sort ever happens again.
A Quill Member
"SOUR OWLS"
In the interests of clean journalism, collegiate and general, the publications knows as the "Sour Owl," and "Padded Hammer," and all other books which mongering sheets rightly come under the ban of the established authorities.
These scurrilous and anonymous publications constitute one of the few really vivacious weaknesses of college life. There is nothing that can be said in extenuation of them, and for the honor of every institution of learning in the country they should be summarily suppressed and their publishers vigorously disciplined if not expelled. In the more or less calynds of youth some college students are prone to imagine that there is something "smart" and "funny" with such publications, especially when the victims are anonymous assailants. Every possible effort should be put forth to correct this impression. Such attacks are never openly made. The blows are struck from the ambush of anomynity, and are therefore doubly despicable. Such publications have no place in college life and they should be banished from it as speedily as possible.
Much of the same situation prevails in the larger world of everyday life. There will always be those who revel in moral filth and seek to gratify that deprived taste under the guise of "telling the truth" and "calling a spade a spade." A spade is a spade, no matter how large it is; there is no place in the domain of the journalism for these smutty sheets that more or less frankly cater to uncleanness, under the pretense of "reform." The demand for this malodorous journalism has been reduced standards of public taste, and a few to a minimum by the steadily rising exceptions are meeting with a receptivity of the police authorities and the courts which can convince everybody concerned that the time is past when public decency can be affronted under the guise of "free speech" and a "free press."—Kansas City Journal.
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Stories not placed on their pedestals
work in the ghosts of a masters'
work.
Hudden, misplaced; no beauty's burk
Coronation saint orphanage everywhere,
the city of Santo Domingo, the poor,
frown the brown and over the white,
pollute the place.
Oh, for a while, whose pride awakens,
Oh, for the sweetness and the light!
Bring us again to perfect days.
Paint a McKim and a Stanford White.
Be here.
LOOKING FROM THE CLOISTER'S SHADOW
THE NATION'S WEALTH
The figures just given out by the Bureau of the Census, relating to the national wealth, show, on their face, a rate of increase from 1904 to 1912 far surpassing anything hitherto recorded for our country in a like period, except the which took place in the decade from 1850 to 1860. Of course, the absolute increase makes that of 1850-60 look altogether insignificant; but we are referring to the relative increase. The estimated wealth of the country, exclusive of tax-exempt real property, grew from seven billion dollars in 1850 to nineteen billion dollars, or about 125 per cent, in the decade. In 1904, the like total was 100 billion dollars, and in 1912 it had advanced to 175 billion, being 75 per cent, for the eight years, or at the rate of about 95 per cent, in a decade.
To attempt to explain this would be hazardous in the extreme; if for no other reason, because the figures themselves are the result of processes by no means secure as to accuracy, and by no means uniform from one census to the next. Yet it seems likely that none of them are wildly erroneous, and that variations of method have been insufficient to affect profoundly the comparative showing. Accepting this showing, then, as presenting a tolerable approximation to the facts, the thought naturally occurs that this extraordinary preeminence of the period of 1904-12 is somewhat surprising. The period was one of great expansion of business, but one does not feel that it was highly exceptional.
Increase Only Apparent
But a second thought immediately obtrudes itself. The wealth is computed in terms of money; and money has been notoriously falling in real value at a rapid rate. In other words, a large part of this increase of apparent wealth from 1904 to 1912 must be ascribed to the rise of prices which took that period. And when we recall that wealth was also a period of marked rise of prosperity following the California gold discoveries and that in some of the other decades there was a fall of general prices, we are warranted in concluding that the real advance of per capita wealth has been far less irregular than the figures on their face indicate.
Apart from any consideration of the standard value, the significance of an increase in the statistically recorded wealth of a nation is a matter that raises many questions. An increase in the value of land, for example, something of a wholly different character from an increase in the aggregate use material possessions which constitute either the apparatus of production and business or the store of consumable goods in the possession of the nation. It is interesting, therefore, to note that real estate (land and improvements there is no complete information as to their separate value) appears to be the most constant proportion of the total of the national wealth throughout the past quart-century.
Information of this nature throws much light on the material condition of the nation, and on the relation of this condition to that of other countries, and of our own country at other times. But it requires only a little reflection to show how far any statistics of the kind necessarily are from furnishing a definitive measure of the wealth of a country. A single illustration suffice to bring out the point. In the roads and their equipment," the valuation is "obtained by capitalizing the net earnings of individual railways and railway systems," a method which is doubtless the best one practicable. But in relation to ordinary business, of course no such method is pursued; all the vase intangible apparatus that is embodied in organization, business connections, etc., is ignored, and we count as wealth only the physical property involved. So again, improved roads, better civic institutions, etc., may mean a great difference in wealth of the country—let productive capacity without finding any place in the tables; while on the other hand, as intimated above, a rise in the commercial value of land may mean no addition at all to the productive resources of the nation. But to take account of this class of considerations would be to go outside the domain which any
statistical bureau can possibly be expected to cover—New York Post.
Traveling Museum for Schools
St. Louis has a traveling museum for its public schools. Exhibits are here to the various schools by means of a mobile truck, and are used in connection with the pupils' study. There are no freaks, no curiosities among the exhibits, but there is an abundance of interesting material illustrating the life and occupations of various races; there are mounted birds and animals, mineral products and many colored charts from the collection, and lantern slides for use in belpies pupils to gain a realistic knowledge of such studies as geography, astronomy and physiology.
Yale Pays Tribute to Dead
Tribute was paid to the graduates of Yale who went down on the Lusitanian, when the flags were placed at half-mast last week. Vanderbilt!
Frohnman and Bates were graduates of Yale. At morning chapel, President Hadley, spoke highly of the three.
A preacher up in northern Minnesota was arguing — some. Swedes to the south.
Sergeant! 'Ey, there! Where are you going?
"No," said one of the Swedes. "I don't like to hear you preach. You always talk about St. Paul and never mention Minnesota."
Colgate Paper Has a Telephone!
The Absent-Minded Begrar (who climbed out of the trench): "Oly Jimmy! When that bloomin' shell whistle and HI thought it was twelve o'clock"
The Colgate Madisonensis has announced to its subscribers that a telephone has been installed in its office. Hurrah! Civilization progresses in spite of the war.
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