> UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the Univer- city of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF Raymond Chapper ... Editor-in-Chief Elmer Arudt ... Managing Editor Helen Hayes ... Associate Editor William Cady ... Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF J. W. Dyche ... Business Manager REPORTORIAL STAFF Leon Hammond James Hogorsen Gilbert Clyburn James Hogorsen Guy Servirner J. M. Muller Deborah Dahlman David Erikson J. M. Henry M. Carolyn Mnutt Hex Rex Hassan Carolyn Mnutt Rex Upsa Harry Morgan Puckett Harry Morgan Glendon C. A. Ritter Paterson J. Patterson Subscription price $2.60 per year in advance; one term, $1.50. 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. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to plea the University of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the news in standing for the bells of Old Dominion University; to favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to solve problems to water heads, in all, to improve the quality of the students of the University. Fair Play and Accuracy Burunu Prof. H, T. Hill...Faculty Member Don Joseph...Student Member Don Joseph's mapper. If you find a mistake in statement or impression in any of the columns of the Daily Kansas, report it to the Editor. If the Daily Kansas He will instruct you as to further procedure. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1915. Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. — Schiller. THE PAPERS ARE WAITING THE PAPERS ARE WAITING It is impossible to get the student loan fund papers to every student to be signed. But that will not deprive anyone of the opportunity to make a contribution. The committee has papers at the office of the Y. M. C. A. in Myers Hall, Registrar Foster's office, and the Daily Kansan office. The committee isn't expecting large contributions from students, but it is hoping for pledges from every one. APPRECIATION Miss Helen Hayes, who goes into professional newspaper work this week, has been an efficient associate editor on the Daily Kansan during the last year. The Daily Kansan wishes her success. K. U. NEEDS ONE TOO A good institution for the Student Council to lend its efforts to, is the formation of an University dining club, modeled after the one at the University of Missouri. About five hundred students there get three good meals a day for about 35 cents, or at an average cost of twelve cents a meal. The food, too, is better than some put out in the boarding houses here. By doing all the work themselves and getting their food at wholesale from Columbia stores the problem of cheap living is easily solved. Some forty students, who have dropped out of school here this year on account of lack of finances, might still be here had the cost of living been as cheap as it is in Columbia. GOOD SELECTION THE AIM We are all busy. There is far more to do than we have time in which to attend to it. This is true of everyone but savages. In the Paleolithic Age, a man kills an animal, and drags it to his cave. The family gathers around and with a sharp-edged flint, he tears the flesh and they choke it down, and fall asleep near the fire to sleep for two or three days. They have nothing to do until the craving for flesh comes on again. But when civilization begins to develop, the burdens of life accumulate. Men soon find they have not time to do all that they wish. They begin to find it necessary to select between various interests. Some, they conclude, are enjoyable but not as important as less enjoyable ones. They must decide between them. A University education ought to teach men and women how to select wisely, both for themselves and for society. Sometimes it is imperative that individual interests be sacrificed to help some general movement. The May Fete and the student loan fund, require this kind of effort for their success. But sometimes the individual ought to think first of his own work. The general scientific progress of the age depends largely on the individual' explorations which hundreds of men are making by studiously working at some minute question. The test of a good education is the ability to select well from a mass of opportunities. Jayhawk Tail Feathers The Man Who Writes the Glooms, hearing that a movement was being organized for the Deposition of Undesirable Citizens, thinks it best to run no chances and henceforth will do his pleasant duty under new distinctions. And he thinks that about the whole situation now is that about five doses remain to be taken. Aside from the foregoing reasons, another also influenced the change. Prof. Tyresum sent in a complaint to the fair play and accuracy bureau. He objected to the former title of this person and suggested untrue. Whether this accusation is just or not depends on the menu at your table last night. We don't blame the women for wanting a cheerleader of their own—it is a disgrace to have to submit to the kind of cheerleading that the University has had this year. If Collier, who alone made 13 points in the invitation meet last week, had another pair of legs, he was a good track team all by himself. The entrance of Italy into the war loses its horrors in view of the fact that several hundred new school-children must be turned loose onto the world. They must have had SOME motor cars. In the good old days gone by, The Bible says Isaiah Went up to Heaven on high. —Cornell Widow. Faculty members will no doubt contribute liberally to the student loan fund since they will be able to take it out on the students later. That blanket fee which they are charging at the University of Minnesota shows the strength of the land-ladies in that school. Pandora's Box PRE-QUIZ SOLILOQUY Now that examinations and final quizzes are in the air, there mingles with them a spirit of backbiting criticism which is not good to see among the students. The profs who used to be popular because of their short assignments and easy-going acceptance of mediocre work are now the ones who tighten up with a veritable death grip when they feel that the end is drawing near. Is this fair? Well, you can look at it in two ways: You can college for soft smears and pick out a professor of this kind on purpose, such treatment is only just. He should not be allowed to leave the course without getting a flavor of what work really is. The professor owes it to him. And at least the lazy student will be able to go home looking tired and worn-out from all the extra study, and tell his faithful parents, for once without lying, that he's been studying his head off. In this respect the professor is doing the real kindness. Why criticise him? On the other hand, however, there is the conscientious sophomore who takes the course because he needs it for his group. He furthermore wants to know a little bit about it when he gets through, and studies consequently, not a few short hours. He is carrying eighteen hours, has to get in several note-books, history reports, novels, research papers, quiz time, and so, since he has been faithful for several weeks, he decides to let this course slide a little. TO AN OLD ARCHER FRIEND To this student it is most unfair to have work doubled up on him at the last moment. The heartless professor forgets all the good recitations the sophomore has made, and all the papers handed in by him which were thrown in the wastebasket unread. He places the good stude on a par with all the poor ones, and grades him accordingly. Is it fair? Perhaps the student after all is justified in criticising him. What shall an old man say to you, Gyma hero of our archer years? When she will speak, you will hear the eternal twilight nears, When we shall shull, with parted biased word, no partial praise, the comrade love I hail 'to bim the comrade love I hail Ringers from our old, first battle-field; Those tiredness hand through best and Has borne our banner from the first. and call the living archer red. Ravvity the splendid dead Let me stand still, with bended head, And call the living archer roll. Descify the unfolded dead. We bring inside the downward scroll. And then, with loving, tear-blurred Whose names illume the bowman's scroll. name above them all. Will H. Thompson. And then, with loving, tear-blurred scrwil. serwil, Write his brave name above them all. "WHERE WAS THE CHEER- LEADER?" Editor Daily Kansan: Those who were at the track meet Friday were doubtless aware of the lack of pep on that occasion, not only in the bleachers, but among the track men. This may be due in part to the lack of the band but it was also due in part to the lack of leadership on the part of the crowd too as was demonstrated during the two-mile run. The crowd won that race as much with its cheers as did the runner. The runners were evenly matched and I am sure in saying that the crowd helped the extra two feet. Lack of pep lost the meet. Where was our cheerleader? Joe Berwick was not down there and Joe Gaitskell, who was out there, said he had been elected for next year. Should the politics? Who would not have done that much for K. U, if they had thought their services were needed? I don't want to be personal but I am for K. U. Appoint the cheerleader and make him responsible to some one, the crowd needs a leader. First of the Squad. CREDIT FOR BIBLE STUDY Editor Daily, Kansan; In an editorial concerning the shortsighted policy of Harvard University in refusing to admit women to the Law School the Kansan for Tuesday concludes: "Put all these facts together and then reflect upon the alleged freedom of thought in American Universities. Wonderful, not it? Dr. Elliott's new religion could be used very well at home." The reasons given by the Administrative Committee of the faculty for refusing credit for Bible study make one wonder if Kansas is not guilty of the same shortsighted and narrow-minded policy. The report reveals a lamentable ignorance of the modern spirit in religious education on the part of the committee. Bible study, says the report, if non-sectarian, inflicts the defender of the faith upon the chairs founded and maintained. Yet the great theological schools of the country are absolutely non-sectarian. The ministers of one denomination are trained in schools founded and supported by another. The Congregationalists in Yale Diversity School represent less than 20 per cent of the students. The same is true of the Baptists in Chicago Diversity School and of the Presbyterians in Julion Theoal Seminary. Like遵章, they are fond of there. There is no sectarian Hebrew, Greek, Church History, Biblical Introduction and Exegesis any more. The writer has been a student in Disciples, Episcopalian and Baptist Seminaries and in each case there was that freedom and scientific spirit, the lack of which the committee fears. Can the committee say, in the light of the history of the Bible Chairs of K. U. that non-sectarian work will defeat the Christian way they are founded and maintained? Religious education is not a polite term for proselytism, no matter what seventeenth century idea may have been in the mind of the committee. Missouri, Texas, Michigan, South Dakota, Colorado Teachers College and other state schools have seen fit to give credit for Bible Study without compromising either church or state. Suppose that such granting of credit does give "a serious basis for criticism. Is the future policy of the church that she is sure there will be no criticism? There may be, and doubtlessly there are, good and sufficient reasons why K. U. cannot give credit for Bible study at the present time, but the reasons given by the committee are lacking both in tact and sense. They do not recognize what is being done in this respect by other schools. They betray ignorance of the present situation in religious education. By identifying it with proselytism they present a two-fold insult to the Bible chair movement as at present constituted and to the religious spirit and good sense of the people of Kansas which every loyal alumnus will resent. Bible study is no narrow term. It covers a vast field of philology, philosophy, ethics, psychology, sociology, comparative religion and history. Let the committee wake up to the fact that this is twentieth century, and that it is a stir in the field of scientific Bible study in the narrower, more circumscribed fields of the so-called secular studies. Let us hope that the members of the committee may learn what a wonderful and busy world lies beyond their own horizon, the existence of which their report disdains to admit. Howard E. Jensen, '14, University of Chicago, May 21, 1918 LOOKING FROM THE CLOISTER'S SHADOW THE THREE-DECKER NOVEL Are we returning to the three-volume novel of Victorian days, mainstay of Mudie's circulating library, most generous filler of his weekly book boxes for house houses? It begins to look like it, when we gaze abroad, not only to the England of today, but to the Continent as well. Only, we are to have the three volumes not all at once, as of yore, but in succession, in the form of "trilogies." There is the Danish "Belle, loup de la mort," from a playwright gotten how many volumes there are in the original French of Romain Rolland's "Jean-Christophpe," but in the American translation it fills threeizable books. Then there are the young Englishmen—J. D. Beresford, with his "Jacob Stahl" trilogy, just completed; Oliver Oions's history of a murder case told from three different points of view in three successive volumes; Arnold Bennett's "Clayhanger" trilogy, whose final volume is still to come; Hugh Walpole's "Duchess of Wresse" trilogy, which is not so great; but a series of stories; and, looking at home, which we should have done first, instead of last, there is our own Theodore Dreiser's story of a financier, which, too, is still to be concluded in a third novel. Modify the Three-Decker The revival of the three-decker in this modified, perhaps we should say disguised, form is not so sudden as might appear at first glance. The first approach to its rehabilitation was made almost immediately after its suppression in England some fifteen years ago with an attempt to publish one of the stories of the most popular novelist of the day, Mrs. Humphry Ward, in two-volume form. It was not a success. Some years later a similar venture was made by Edith Wharton's publishers with "The Valley of Decision." But, even as the three-decker has been changed into a story and its sequel published at an interval of a year or so, as in the case of Compton Mackenzie's "Sinister Street." Is any conclusion to be drawn from this revival as yet? The venture seems to be for the present still in its experimental stage so far as the reading public is concerned. It is traceable, first of all, to the importance we have come to attach to the child as the father of the man—and the present pre-occupation with heredity and environment. This accounts for the first volume. The second volume may be accounted for by the fact that a new generation of authors is coming to the fore in England, which takes youth, especially its own, with portentous seriousness. It is knocking at the door, and it does not purpose to do the knocking in a mere introductory chapter or two. Thus, after anew on every term, there is third volume. By that time we have forgotten as much about the hero's childhood and youth as he has himself, so that he and the reader start anew on even terms. After all, the three-decker in its new trilogy form has its advantage—Chicago Tribune. Little Glimpses of College Life By Joge, He Got the "Blue" In the athletic contests in English universities, indoor meets are unkno- ned all students compete for all events. blue" is secured by winning second place. Winning the "blue" in either Oxford or Cambridge means winning first place in meets among the students of the university. The "half" In interscholastic meets only first place counts; The pole-vault has been abandoned as a "dangerous American innovation," since one man was killed by falling on the point of the pole. Studious Roomer (as he mounted the stairs) : Hic, Hae, Hoc. His Landlady: Sure, and he's drunk again. Hounds to Set Pace Coach Childs of Indiana University is the first man in America to use trained hounds to set the pace for runners. Dartmouth's Chapel Strike Fails For some time the Daily Dartmouth has been advocating the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel. A day was finally set aside when all students in favor of the plan would stay away from the services. About one hundred did not come. A second attempt was made in order that everyone might know about it; but the result was the same. Evidently Dartmouth students do not care to be deprived of their fifteen minute nap. Scene: A bridge over a turbulent stream. Characterists: Susie, a little negro girl; Jake a little negro boy. Mike: "I little neighbor boy. Susie: Niggar, what you thinking about? Jake: Same thing you are. Suise: Don't you try it, niggah. I will. Form of Cornellian Changed Feeling that the Class Book issued in the senior year was an adequate class memento, this year's junior class at Cornell has changed the form of the "Cornellian." The class history and other news of purely class interest has been omitted and things of university interest substituted. and get a Save This 50c Bigger and Better Paper On account of increased cost of production and in order to cover the expense of improvements in the paper, the price of the Daily Kansan next year will be $3. But during the next 3 weeks payment of subscriptions for next year will be received at the old rate of $2.50. In addition to this saving those who pay now will receive the Summer Session Kansan free. Daily Kansan Next Year 3.00 Summer Session Kansan .25 $3.25 Both now for $2.50 More Reading Matter More Illustrations Here's a chance to make one of those blank checks earn you a nice dividend. Put it to work. 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