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 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 or the Department of Journalism.
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Prof. H, T. Hill...Faculty Member
Don Joseph...Student Member
Marcia Appel...Secretary
If you find a mistake in statement or impression in any of the columns of the Daily Kanran, report it to the head of the Department.
He will instruct you as to further procedure.
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1915.
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a Snob—perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.— Thackeray.
SIGNING UP
A NEW COURSE
Students are signing up well for the loan fund. Of course, no one expected that they would subscribe the whole $50,000, or even a very large part of it. The important thing is to have every student in sympathy with the movement.
Prof. W. C. Stevens announces a course in tree and shrub culture for the Summer Session. It is to be re-gretted that such a course is not given during the regular school year. It would not be a popular one perhaps, but it would draw a few students who are interested in the movement for civic improvement.
The University is doing a service to all communities by encouraging a study of trees and shrubs with a useful end in view.
Greater use is being made of trees and shrubs in landscape gardening than ever before. The old star and crescent shaped flower bed has passed and the luxuriant wildness of nature is the object of landscape architects in the larger cities. Kansas City has made use of this principle with wonderful success.
AN APPEAL TO REASON
AN APPEAL TO REASON
In time of peace prepare—no, no,
that won't do. In time of cold pre-
pare for heat, is what we mean.
Last week we had a taste of summer
weather, and we are due to have
quite a good deal between now and
commencement. That being the case,
it is not too early to begin a campa­
aign against a great wrong to humanity
that becomes manifest with the
first hot days.
The women don't need any admitions on hot weather etiquette in matters of dress. Most of them have already prepared their summer wardrobes and put them into active service, and whenever a sultry day comes along, they go about in the coolest garb they can find. They realize that comfort is both a fine art and a science, and they apply their fertile brains to the problem with considerable success.
But the men! Poor, miserable wretches, they are so deluded as to imagine that they can't be comfortable and decent at the same time. And so at meal times and class hours they struggle painfully into their coats and curse the demands of civilization.
Of course they do it out of respect
or the women, because they have been brought up in that practice. But do the women really want them to suffer so acutely for mere formality's sake? Surely not. We know girls who not only permit but encourage the men to shed their coats, even at the table, and be as comfortable as they can. Probably all girls would do as much if they realized the discomfort endured by their masculine fellow students.
Just let them try to imagine how it would be to have to wear their suit coats around all the time, and see how they would like it. They know very well they wouldn't stand it for a minute. The very idea! But doesn't the sun shine just as scorchingly on the men?
Wherefore we say to the women, be reasonable!
THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE
Professor Dunlap's talks at morning prayers this week dealt with the Bible as literature. He mentioned the king James version as one of the great pieces of English literature.
It is an interesting fact that for accuracy of interpretation, the Revised Version is used, but for emotional appeal, and sublimity of language, the King James translation is turned to. it would be interesting to know just what factors enter into these attitudes. The King James version has ninety per cent Anglo-Saxon words. These connect it with the deeper emotional life of English speaking people. For it is true that we love and hate in Anglo-Saxon.
Then one's attitude towards words is largely influenced by personal associations. Phonetically speaking, there is little difference between the words "home" and "Rome," yet one suggests love, the other war and law. Early experiences, and the traditional judgment of the past determine more than we realize our attitude towards words. No recasting of the Lord's Prayer could ever approach the present translation for it would have to root out the treasured mental associations of childhood before it could get a fair hearing.
Chasing the Glooms
Just why our quizzes are always placed last on the schedule, we can't understand.
"Faculty Looks Into Sour Owl." Never again will we swallow that good advice about reading the Atlantic Monthly.
Chemistry students are trying to find a substitute for lard. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, we would suggest that a search for a substitute for money be conducted at the same time.
In beginning the "terrible week on Monday," as the headline said in reference to quizzes the evil day is put off twenty-four hours.
University psychologists have a machine for testing rate and kind of thought. If they wish to keep it in running order, they should keep it away from T. R.
The news that the professors are to go to California and the Lakes for their vacations removed all plausibility from that "poor pay yarn."
No contributions came in yesterday's mail for the student loan fund, the committee says, but a number of letters of encouragement were sent. In this, the writers show remarkable financial sagacity.
The Hessian fly, according to an address before the Entomology Club, must be the kind that inhabs the ointment on special occasions.
The idea of that psychology machine continues to interest us. Wouldn't it be possible to test pleasantness without the instrument? A Ford joke will test a man's ability to raise a laugh with the minimum incentive.
"You've gotta quit kicking the sparrow around," the ornithologists say. It is expected that this advice will revive the practice of salting their tails before catching them.
MAY EVENING
The peace of evening settles over the town,
The sleep still and calm as whea a child
Tireless happy play lies down to rest
And breathing softly shuts its eyes in So Nature with its mild sweet breath
And drooping eyes of golden brightness
Reclines upon her rosa bed of light
And forms a background of celestial
For every tree and bush and house and Deepening the colors to a richness
*Tis then the Master Painter dipa his Into the wells of beauty and o'cercas
The rise of nature with the tints of
EVER * = LOCT
Heaven.
—Gertrude O. Palmer, '18.
DISLIKES EXTRA SESSIONS
Editor Daily Kansan:
The professor must be inefficient indeed who takes it upon himself to call special afternoon meetings of his classes in order to cover work that ought to have been covered easily in regular class time. Yet there is one professor and perhaps more on the Hill now who forces his class to come back in the afternoon, on penalty of flunking the course, to do this work that all other classes in the same subject complete in the allotted time. It is not that this special class is stupid or backward either, but it is because the professor has a remarkable fondness from wandering from the straight and narrow path of the work at hand, taking the meandering paths of digression, taking completely around the subject for the first half hour of class time, and then dashing in and trying to do everything in the twenty minutes. Naturally, he fails, but the day does not keep his classes at least five minutes after the whistle blows. Hence the class has the doubtful pleasure of climbing the hill again to respond to an encore in the shape of an extra class in the afternoon, to avoid another encore in the shape of a flunk in the course. Students, as a rule have their time well planned out for the day, and it is natural that they should resent such tyrannical and unjust upsetting of their schedules.
Why not get the work assigne done in the time assigned?
The professor is the price setter.
A Square Deal.
AGAINST ADVISORS
Editor Daily, Kansas
Let us give and receive such advice on the assumption that the average college student, and especially those beyond the freshman year, is capable to a degree, of thinking for himself.
How many times have you, as a student enrolling in the University of Kansas, had to change your well planned course of study because the professor who was advising you wanted you to be sure and take a subject which he taught or in which he was particularly interested? A case of peddling their own goods, isn't it? No student wants to offend an advisor and perhaps a to-be-instructor by refusing to listen to advice on what subjects are "the best courses offered." Neither does this same student裂 hearing down his carefully arranged course of study in order to pay respect to the wisdom of a faculty member.
The news of a revolt against the Government, in Portugal, of the shore bombardment of Lisbon by a man-of-war in the possession of the rebels, of determined outbreaks in Lisbon and Oporto and elsewhere, apparently does not indicate any renaissance of monarchist sentiment. The name of Dr. Alfonso Costa is mentioned as the chief instigator of the movement. He was Premier under President Manuel Arriaga and Arriaga was identified with the sternest measures toward political prisoners, of whom hundreds were in custody, and with the biterter enforcement of the anti-Roman Catholic laws which
LOOKING FROM THE CLOISTER'S SHADOW
Victim.
REVOLT IN PORTUGAL
the first President, Theophile Braga,
had forced upon the statute books. In
other words, he stands for more of
men than the present administration.
When Costa fell Bernardino Machado formed a ministry with a more conservative policy. He stood of the platform demanding a revision of the electoral law and amnesty for the Church-and-State laws, a revision of political prisoners. Thirteen days after he came in all of these prisoners in custody were released, and there remained only eleven persons whose term of banishment from Portugal was fixed at ten years. And Premier Victor Continho, who succeeded Machado on December 14 of last year, has been as conservative as Machado. Just as in Brazil the revolting naval dynasty in twenty-four navies of Portugal put King Manuel out of business in October, 1910. Whether two or three of the ships can break down the Contino ministry and throw out President Arriaga now may be doubted. But if the rebels succeed, republicanism, conservative but not reactionary, will suffer, and radicalism will profit by the change. Portugal, continental Portugal, has a population about two-thirds of that of the State of New York, but in Asia and Africa live three-quarter of the people who owe allegiance to Portugal's flag. To these colonials a change also means little. Not Benga Braja even an autonomy or home rule. They are the submerged three-quarters—Brooklyn Eagle.
COLLEGE TRADITIONS
The statement, made by the head of a large English public school to a visiting delegation of American schoolboys, to the effect that traditions, while they are often good things are sometimes somewhat troublesome, may well lead people to think of dangers with which comparatively young institutions of America are beginning to be confronted. College traditions adds its distinctive and forceful factor to the campus affairs of the undergraduate, particularly in the older seats of learning. A good tradition makes it easy to accomplish things worth while without the spasmodic campaigns that characterize many younger institutions. Students are often more zealous to uphold the ancient customs of their college than about anything else connected with it. Certain traditional habits, often humorous, sometimes doubtful in character, have grown up in nearly every North American college.
An old account of activities at Cambridge tells of the manner in which both occupant and furniture of a freshman's room were menaced by a missile as big as a cantaloupe that was thrown into it. It was described as a transmittendam (it went with the room), and was handed down in some such forcible manner from one generation of freshmen to another. The desire to link the past with the present at Harvard is shown also in the custom of registering the name of each occupant on the doors of certain old frame buildings long used as lodging-houses by students. The old college pump has figured with many freshmen, and the customary restriction to upperclassmen of caps, canes and certain other personal effects has added zest to undergraduate experience.
But college tradition is not an unmixed blessing when it results in provincialism and the loss of that mental breadth and appreciative sympathy that should characterize educated men. While any undergraduate body becomes blindly a law unto itself, refusing to learn from other institutions; when faculty and students take the position that because certain ideas have never prevailed at their college, therefore they never should and never shall prevail, they show their unfitness for leadership in an age of vast and varied opportunity.
The students of the Middle and of the far West of the United States are more sensible of their freedom from the past than are eastern undergraduates. They realize that they are at least a hundred years behind eastern colleges in the dignity of their traditions, and they therefore seek to crystallize college feeling in college customs; but their customs do not inimbuish the experience, as sometimes happens in the East. A success is usually decided on its merit quite regardless of precedent or of policies. If a proposition seems sensible and right, it is adopted, despite its novelty or its conflict with tradition. Keeping close to modern needs, those colleges have gone ahead and accomplished while more conservative institutions have been leisurely thinking about it. It is this audacity, this dash and action, that underwear the undergraduates of the West to all men of achievement. When among them, one thinks of the old verse:
"Oh, prudence is a right good thing And those are useful friends Who never make beginnings Until they see the ends.
"But now and then give me a man And I will make him king, Just to take the consequences, Just to do the thing."
nity during the semester at Ohio State University. The Ohio Lantern estimates that the average fraternity gives away 300 meals.
—Christian Science Monitor.
Freshman Grammar
Freshman Grammar
Am she gone and are she went,
Have she left me all alone?
Can me never go to she,
Can her never come to me,
It cannot was—Meade Tattler.
Another Crazy Statistician Six hundred free meals have been presented to freshmen by one frater-
The One With, the Eyeglass
"I went into a restaurant and said,
'What have you for dinner?'"
"'Everything,' said the waiter."
"Bring it in."
"One order of hash," yelled the waiter. "The Awk."
Teacher: "Why is love like chemistry?"
Pupil: "Because the lower the gas, the higher the pressure."
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