UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, MAY 24, 1915
FOR THE BAND
The idea of giving outdoor band concerts is a good one and students are showing a spirit of appreciation in attending them. Director J. C. McCanies and the members of the band deserve a vote of thanks. The concert Friday night was worth hearing.
WHERE'S THE POLITY CLUB?
Charles F. Scott's address Friday showed the importance of instruction in the problems of war and peace for American students. These problems are of such timeliness and common interest that the International Polity Club should be one of the foremost organizations on the Hill.
WHY NOT BUY GOWNS?
The Polity Club has backing unequaled by any other student enterprise, yet we hear very little of it. Why doesn't it make itself heard? It has a purpose and a mission that deserves the most serious consideration.
Why would it not be a good plan for the University to buy and keep enough caps and gowns for all the seniors and faculty members? At wholesale price these would not cost much more than the rent that is paid each spring, and by a smaller charge these could be paid for in a few years. The seniors could then wear them not only during the commencement week but on different important occasions throughout the last year.
OFF WITH COATS: A SEQUEL
OFF WITH COATS: A SEQUEL
Since our last impassioned outbreak in behalf of men's rights, we have been struck by another aspect of the coats-and-comfort idea: Why confine the privileges of the season to students? Why not include the faculty in the movement for emancipation?
We realize that it is a difficult, perhaps a dangerous, undertaking, this urging our revered faculty to so far abdicate their dignity as to appear in the class room without coats. They furnish about all the dignity we have around here, except that provided by the senior laws, and perhaps we are rash in suggesting such a sacrifice. But we do it in a missionary spirit, believing that professors are as human as anybody, and as deserving of consideration. Some of them are even friends of the students, and we would not willingly see them suffer.
Would anyone be so narrow minded and unchristian as to be offended if his instructor undertook to conduct a
class without the moral support of a coat? Or does anybody think that professors, having no feelings, do not suffer from the heat? We cannot think so. Our idea is that any faculty man would be just as brilliant, entertaining, instructive, and withinal dignified and impressive without a coat as with one, and a whole lot happier and better natured.
And so we thoughtfully and urgently recommend that on the next hot day, and on all succeeding hot days, not only students but professors make themselves reasonably comfortable wherever they may be. We feel certain that the girl's not only will not object, but will approve.
George Bernard Shaw is a wonderful man. But do not halt here, gentle reader, this is not about Shaw principally. He is only one of the minor characters. Many thousand sheets of otherwise perfectly good blank paper have been covered with ink about George, quite a few of those sheets, incidentally written by himself. The only way that Bernard rings in on this story is on account of his famous ultimatum: "He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches."
G. B. S., ET AL
That little remark looks innocent, but think and ponder deeply for just a moment on what that has meant to the University of Kansas, to say nothing about the rest of the United States. It has mean that about three hundred of that class who cannot, have been forced upon this institution. They cannot do, hence they must teach. George Shaw said they must.
But if it be not considered lese maluste to disagree with Mr. Shaw, we beg leave to do so. There are some of the faculty members here at the University who can really do things. For instance, three or four, of them can play tennis, and play fairly well. Two or three more have been known to be addicted to that hit and hunt game, called in common parlance, golffow. Worse than this, there are those undoubtedly, despite all reports to the contrary, who have during the past winter, played handball.
This was supposed to be the end of the list of the accomplished of the greater three hundred, but just at the last moment we hear that the absolute apiece of accomplishment was reached, which completely dissolves and destroys George Bernard Shaw's famous ultimatum. One of that three hundred, and we refuse to give any names, plays the French horn.
HANDSHAKES
And have you ever encountered the High Brow grip? It isn't a grip either. It is more of a gift, a prefunctory sort of clasp. There is plenty of strength in it, but it is so studied that you feel like you have had hold of a piece of machinery.
There are, in the University of Kansas, about 2767 kinds of hand shakes, that being the number of students enrolled here. No two people do it alike, and some don't do it at all. One will offer you a limp and more or less clammy paw, and you have the same sensation as you do when you firmly grasp the tail of a fish. Then there is the furtive shake. He will give you his hand but seems afraid you are going to keep it or want to hold it. You no more than get a good grasp then he has withdrawn it.
Then there's the politician grip that hod's on so long that you know he's going to ask you for a vote. Also there is the honest to goodness hand shake that makes your heart warm. You know what it is. The man who has the real thing is never mistaken. You always get his worth in the good firm, grip that he greets you with.
He (to a fan)—What's the score?
Mahmoud Mohammad
He and she arrived in the fifth inning.
She- Goody! We haven't missed a thing!
The Girl's View
Man to policeman: So you got the man who robbed mw house?
Policeman: Yes, Do you want to see him?
CANDLE-LIGHT
Man: I sure do. I want to ask him how he got in without waking my wife. I've been trying to do it for fifteen years.
As in old days of mellow candle-light,
A little flame of gold beside the pane
Wives and branches blowing in the rain
Seem specter figures of a ghostly
Yet on the hearth the first is warm and
The homely, battle steams a soft resit-
And one's mind old things rush back again.
Sweet stories still young in death's despair.
So when the winter blasts across life's way
Do not about my door and shake
Unit the house must sink upon the sand
There magic wind of memory, Horse swiftly to my heart a whisper
And on my arm the pressure of your hard.
Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
LOOKING FROM THE CLOISTER'S SHADOW
At the dinner in honor of the Atlantic fleet recently many complimentary things were said of our navy. Undeniably they are deserved. The allegation that the navy is in better condition now than ever before will be challenged, perhaps, by men who know as much as anyone in the service, but even if that be conceded, it does not in the least affect the vital role of warships, which are fully equipped and well constituted and manned as it ought to be, considering our situation and our responsibilities?
DEFECTS OF OUR NAVY
In view of this momentous fact, a summary of expert opinion on the essential defects of our naval establishment is offered to our readers for consideration. These defects may be divided into two classes: First, defects in equipment; second, in personnel.
- Not even our optimistic secretary of the navy asserts that it is.
Lacking in Cruisers
First, as to equipment, our navy is entirely lacking in battle cruisers. That type of ship is as fast as the protected cruiser and with the great gun power of the dreadnaught. The present war has proved this type of ship most effective. Second, fast torpedo destroyers; the scout cruiser has proved itself unable to hold the seas in worse weather than can the torpedo destroyer. Two torpedo desasters have been fired over most of one scout cruiser, an dhaye can serve the same purpose. The torpedo destroyer and the aeroplane are the one effective defense against the submarines, and a United States naval officer who has just returned from Europe states that German submarine supremacy is largely due to England's weakness in hydroaeroplanes. Their weakness is nothing compared to ours.
Wants Six Superdreadnaughts
A great naval expert has just given it as his opinion that the United States should begin at once the construction of six 50,000 ton superdreadnaughts. These would be far and away the most powerful fighting machines in existence, and would balance the greater number of battleships of other nations. He suggests that it is perfectly feasible to build ships of this size, and that they could get through the Panama canal.
We are also weak in effective submarines, and all those previous to the type L, which is most recent, have essential weaknesses. To summarize: In order to have a more balanced navy we should have at least ten battle cruisers, twenty torpedo destroyers, fifty submarines, and 200 airplanes and six 50,000 ton superreadnaughts.
Our great weakness is in personnel—the lack of trained men. In the case of our admirals we are deplorably weak. In the German navy no man over 49 can attain to office of admiral. In our navy a man does not receive such promotion until he is nearly ready for retirement. Not only do we lack trained admirals, but also officers of lower rank. There are fewer officers in proportion to the enlisted men in our navy than in any other. There is no excuse for this, because the plant at Annapolis is large enough to handle twice the number of boys who are going through their training. We should be enhance for enlisted men to go into Annapolis, and also for high school boys to reach it by competitive examination. As to enlisted men, we are notoriously weak. Our ships are 14,000 men short and we have no reserve. There is much in the suggestion of naval officers that great lakes sailors and other men out of employment during the winter be allowed to enlist for four months and get at least a preliminary training.
Weak in Personnel
Administrative System Poor
Back of all other weaknesses lies the fact of the congressional control of the navy. The English parliament appropriates a sum of money annually and then turns it over to the navy experts, to spend according to the necessity. Our congress both
appropriates and spends our naval money. Our system will be weak until we create a council of national defense, made up both of legislative and executive officers, who will remain in session the year around and work out a far seeing, intelligent policy.—Chicago Tribune.
LE GALLIENNE—ESSAYIST
The essayist, inosuch as his work implies the possession of leisure both for the writer and the reader, is disappearing rapidly into the background of American life. The current of American blood at the present moment is set to the idea of hustle, and hustling is not conducive either to the writing or the reading of essays. We need to understand the role of artistic conditions or excuse it as a fundamental of American character, but the fact remains that a large proportion of our fellow countrymen prefer to waste time hurriedly than to employ it to better advantage in a leisurely manner.
Out of this hurry comes the lack of originality that is so marked a characteristic of the present day, and that causes our wealthy classes to spend their money in the same way, and our reformers and philanthropists to employ their energies after the accustomed manner. It results also in the fact that the country pursues innumerable short stories, and takes its seriousness in the form of the problem drama, rather than in the essay. The change must sooner or later come, as it has always come, after periods of violent and often meaningless activity, and in preparation for that time it is well that we should learn about the grace of style which characterizes the work of Mr. Le Gallienne, essays that appear from time to time, as justification of the view that whatever the surface qualities may be, there always exists in American readers an undercurrent of appreciation for the eternally fine thing in literature.
The essay as we find it in Mr. Le Gallienne's hands has little in common with the bulk of present literature. Its atmosphere and its character, like its subject matter, belong to another day than our own, and even when Mr. Le Gallienne writes of the life and thought of the present, it is from a slightly removed view-point and in a way that is noticeably unlike whatever small amount of essay-writing may be found in our annual publications. It is this aloofness from the stress of the present that enables him to see modern tendencies, and to write of them without either the tenseness of denunciation or the rather though of demeanor. It is rather as though he looked at all life as a procession of good and bad, but seen in centuries and cycles rather than years, from which viewpoint it is scarcely worth our while to excite ourself too greatly over what cannot in the nature of things endure.
It is first and foremost the viewpoint of the poet, and we are repeatedly reminded of the close connection between Mr. Le Gallienne's poetry and his essays. There seems to be but one character in his writing. He is always a poet, whether he writes poetry or prose. The poet, if he be a true poet, is an idealist and a seer. He always sees life in the terms of eternity, and can remain in times of great stress, as Tennison notably did, curiously apart from the problems of modern life, untroubled and perhaps a little amused that men should view the present so tragically. It is only the man of far vision, and of deep abiding imagination, who can at once be alive to modern problems and view them in their eternal relations.
Little Glimpses of College Life
Two Newspapers at Washington
Two Newspapers at Washington Besides the Daily paper issued by the students of Washington State University another weekly newspaper has appeared edited by the journalism students. This appears with front page, editorial page and last page all combined in one.
In This Column by Mistake
In This Column by Mistake
"Oh, no; there ain't any favorites in this family!" she squiggled Johnny. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" she caiter it catch my knuckles. But if the baby eats his whole foot, they think it's cute."-Boy's Life.
May Have Blanket Fee There
Students at the University of Minnesota will decide on May 26th whether or not they want the blanket fee next year. The Minnesota Daily has started an educational campaign telling about the features of the new system. In brief, it is as follows:
Every student will pay the sum of $5 additional to his registration fee. In return for this, every student will be admitted to all athletic contests on Northrop Field; everyone will be a subscriber for the Daily, and either
the minneaha, Magazine or Minneaha
sota Engineer; everyone will be
admitted to a certain number of Univer-
sity courses, assignments, and to all
intercollege debates.
Indiana Women Like Track
Indiana Women Like Track
High jumping, hurdling, dashing,
pole-vaulting, and all of the other
ofs of a track man no longer phaze
the women at Indiana. They are now
being coached in this branch of athletics by Coach Childs of this gymnasium faculty.
Only those who have had considerable experience in athletics are allowed to take the course, but it has been found that an extraordinary number of women are interested in track.
This is a branch foreign to most women and is being tried partly as an experiment at Indiana. So far it has met with much success.
Dollar Waistis at Radliffe
Radliffe's commencement will be
barretlass. The dainty little furbellow which most women deem as necessary to feminine happiness as an Easter bonnet or a powder puff, has been banned at the college exercises in June by order of the senior class committee. Dutch chips, French twists and braids are being talked of as methods of revenge by girls disaffected with the ultimatum.
The costumes must be also uniform, 'the waistis and a stiff black bow being furnished by the committee at the cost of $1. None but these waistis will be allowed, and each girl must post her name and waist size on the college bulletin board. Pumps are barred, and skirts are to hang three inches from the ground instead of four, as heterofores.
Another Coel-1 did try to, but he answered for four different names.
Coil-why. Didn't you find out who he was when the professor called the police?
and get a
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