UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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.
The Daily Kannan aims to picture the day in Kannan's life and to go further than merely printing the news by standing for the ideals of respect, kindness, love, favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to solve problems to wiser heads, in all, to understand the students of the University.
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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915.
INVOCATION
O Thou whose equal purpose runs
with the suns, with the suns,
and with a soft compulsion robe
the green earth on her snowy poles;
the time of flowers, the dooms of
the times of flowers, the dooms of
men,
Stretch out a mighty wing above—
Be tender to the land we love!
warm;
The hooders from the store have thrown their heads up. If she has made men free and gland, if she has made women free and gland, if she has blown the very dawdle from her heels in a mighty dust jacket, or a mighty wing above—Be tender to the land we love! When in the dark sternal tower And for her help no more avail- and F
O. K.S CRAMMING
Grand Nabob of the Guard, usher Prof. R. M. Ogden into the sanctuary of the inner shrine. He is one of us.
One member of the University faculty has announced that cramming is not necessarily harmful. This is regarded as the most sensible statement emanating this year from the powers that be. It is to be hoped that this approval will in no way take away the zest of keeping company until three a. m. with a book, and a pot of coffee.
Efficiency gets it in the neck again. A two-story ramshackle frame building is to be erected on the University campus. It must be built with the savings from student fees and only $4,000 is available—not enough to build a first class residence. The building will be about as decently equipped for the business of teaching as a blacksmith shop is.
MAKE IT A DUGOUT
But bapdoodo'd had its day last winter; so the University gets a wooden barn. A dugout would be more fireproof—and about as becoming to the campus.
SLIDING DOWN THE HILL The communicant who condemns the slippery walk down the Adams Hill is doubtless smarting under the sting of upset dignity.
SLIDING DOWN THE HILL
It is difficult, we admit, to maintain judicial calmness in discussing matters which so vitally concern us, but nevertheless, the brief disfiture following a spill should not be allowed to stamp out all appreciation of the benefits to be derived therefrom. To be sure, it is no laughing matter to do a ski jump suddenly while you are expostulating in a Platonic way with her about the beauty of Browning, though the spectators seem to think so. The event usually happens while the Chancellor is taking a little walk around his
house—and although you inwardly know he sympathizes with you, still he can't be blamed for having a sense of humor. Furthermore, it is unheard of that a young man fall without several of his acquaintances being nearby to carry the news down to dinner.
Most heartily do we sympatize with those who have and who are yet to go through this ordeal, but the brighter side beckons us. Here are excelent opportunities for developing that power of maintaining equilibrium which is so essential to successful dancing of the modern type. When you can do a toe舞 on one foot at an angle of ninety degrees, the task of keeping right side up on horizontal surfaces has no terrors, and the slippery nature of the walk in question makes for an attitude of acquaintance and ease when you glide out on the waxed floor.
Then it is a most fertile encourager of vocabulary. The words and phrases one can think of while rapidly making his descent toward terra firma are refreshing if you care for that kind of thing and if you don't then there's the opportunity for self control which of course you approve of.
However while we dearly prize this avenue of adventure which the city of Lawrence has so kindly preserved for our use, we do not hesitate to say that a move to abolish it would easily find favor. It is true that some would still maintain that the good points of having the slippery walk outweigh the evil ones, but they, it can be easily seen, have not fallen as often as they have laughed.
Mr. City Commissioner, having tumbled, we wait expectantly.
RELIGION AS MEDICINE
Just why the College faculty should continue to give credit for courses in ethics, philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy, and Shakespeare and at the same time reject the plan to give credit for instruction in comparative religion, the history of religion, and the Bible as literature, is not clear, despite the five reasons given.
Knowledge of the great movements of religious thought, of the psychological conditions behind it and of the elements of the great religions of the world are just as essential' to a broad education as a knowledge of philosophical systems and of literature and political history.
But then, religion should be a thing apart, and we should be compelled to go to Sunday School and hear the most sublime thoughts of mankind in terms of hate and bell.
Religion, it seems, isn't a part of one's education, 'it's a bitter pil' to be taken after meals. Sort of a spiritual Cascaret.
A FOUR YEAR MEMORIAL
The department of botany would be glad to recommend the kind of shrubs and vines to plant around campus buildings. The cost would be trifling. Each class could take charge of one building during its four years in school. After four years' care, the vines would be well spread over the walls, and shrubs would have reached a hardy size. Little future care would be necessary to keep them up.
A FOUR YEAR MEMORIAL
Planting its installment of shrubs and vines at the building chosen could be made a tradition of the freshman class. Then as that class went through its University career, it could have an annual ceremony around that building. Additional planting could be done. And when the class had reached its commencement days, a special ceremony could be effectively held around the building to which the class had dedicated its efforts.
But perhaps the committee on Bible study for credit thought that the Mott campaign was sufficient.
"Student Experiences Real Type Lice." A case for the entomologists. It is to be hoped that the authorities construct a cyclone cellar near the proposed frame building which is
Chasing the Glooms
to house the Oread Training School Safety first, you know.
According to some folks the difference between a dry and a wet state is about a dollar a case.
**Objective.**
Caps are worth $5 or $10. "For Kansas paid professors," says Don Joseph, "this looks like a lot of money."
Objection Sustained
"Do you think with your eyes, ears, or nose?" asks a psychologist who apparently never considered the fact that some persons do not think at all.
Moonlight philosophy: The faster the girl, the slower the walk.
With Lawrence city water imitating a cup of chocolate, the terrors of booze fade.
ANOTHER FOR CO-OP STORE
Editor Daily Kansan;
I would like to hear the sentiment of the student body upon a plan which was proposed by one of the speakers in Professor MacMurray's class in extemporaneous speaking. This man favors the establishment of a permanent union building upon the University campus and he has a plan by which such a building can be erected in time.
This is what he proposes. That each senior class, instead of collecting three or four hundred dollars for the erection of a memorial, shall collect the money and place it in a fund for the erection of a student union building. It would not take a great many years to gather sufficient money to finance the plan and as soon as the building was completed and placed in operation it would pay for itself.
He proposed to erect a building of sufficient size to house a cafe, a student-owned book store, a barber shop, pool tables and a bowling alley. These can either be operated by students for a profit, which shall go toward the upkeep and paying for the equipment rent. The upper floors could be used as men's dormitories and rented out to underclassmen.
While the plan may seem visionary to many it impresses me as one that with the hearty cooperation of the men students of the University and the University Press over years, as one which could be realized without a great deal of trouble.
Second Co-op.
I would like to hear other students opinions on the matter.
LOOKING FROM THE CLOISTER'S SHADOW
In a time of strained relations even traditional friendships between countries are subjected to severe tension, and a standing grudge or even a habit of contemptuous dislike is a misfortune. How does the case stand between the people of the United States and the people of Germany? So far as our side is concerned the two countries meet once in all of their friendlings, mixed with a great deal of admiration in recent years for German efficiency and a sense of rivalry in which there was no jealousy or disquietude.
WHAT WE THINK OF EACH OTHER
"Kultur Impresses U. S."
With much of Germany's culture the American of the practical sort was unfamiliar. German music was taken for granted and its recognized excellence and pervasiveness commanded the respect of the American who frankly admitted it to be over his head. German literature has made no great impression outside of a very small circle in which its greatness has been fully recognized. But the material setting of the new German kultur, the model cities, the theaters and concert halls, the striking novelties in architecture and美术, the whole posing display of new wealth scientifically expended, has impressed not only the multitude of travelers, but the great reading public, to which the progress of Germany and its lessons for the United States have long been a staple for illustrated articles. Still more could Americans appreciate the wonderful development of Germany
in a speciality of our own like machinery. America long ago formed a genuine respect for the Germans as people who "do things," and America's own confidence in its boundless resources is too complete for the slightest envy over this truly remarkable development.
Has Influenced Education
Such has been the ordinary and therefore the significant American attitude toward Germany, the attitude of the business man, the "man in the street," the "plain American" in varying degrees of plainness. For academic circles and the larger circles which are concerned with education and kindred matters, the influence of Germany has of course been immense, and for a generation paramount. To thousands of educated Americans, as to Lord Haldane, Germany has been their "spiritual home." German ideas have affected American education from the kindergarten to the university, and our intellectual workers, like our machinists, have paid homage to German thoroughness and German genius.
What is the reverse of the picture?
That an eager and friendly interest in America as the land of new hopes and new possibilities was long traditional in Germany is well known. That the mass of the German people, leaving out of account the present and let us hope passing friction, entertain a kindly feeling toward America and Americans there is reason to believe from the testimony of many observers who have known the country well. But it must regretfully be said that more has been done in Germany than in this country to mar this friendless of spirit.
Dislike All Republics
It must be remembered that bureaucratic Germany has no special reason to love a republic; for its detestation of French democracy and English liberal institutions one need only turn to the life of Blismarc. Nor is the intellectual interest of America in Germany fully reciprocated; from the German point of view we have a most no scholarship worthy of the name, and very little culture. When practical studies were forcing us to abandon our system 15 years ago they were denounced as "American" education; the conception of the United States as a land of sorrid money grubbers is not uncommon in Europe, but it has been more carefully cultivated in Germany than elsewhere. In the present heat of feeling we should not forget the real and valuable' service of Prof. Muensterburg in writing in German for Germans a book setting forth American ideals and idealism. If Prof. Muensterburg's friendly account of us had been given equal publicity, Germany could not fail to recognize this fact. It is merely the land of the almighty dollar, and that the idealism of Woodrow Wilson represents a real and important side of the national character. On the plane of "humanity first," Germans and Americans should be able to stand together.
"GREAT MOVEMENT"
"A student loan fund of $50; 000 will be available to self-supporting men and women of the University of Kansas in sums not to exceed $100 at a small rate of interest, if the plans of a committee appointed by the board of administration succeed."
Forty-six students at Kansas are known to have dropped out of school this year owing to the fact that they did not have sufficient money to carry them through the year. We consider this loan fund that is being pushed up by the university members of that university the greatest movement that has sprung forth in any college community this year—Ohio State Lantern.
Reading for an Idle Hour
A collection of short stories by Helen Mackay, whose "House of Glass" attracted attention, is listed for May publication by Duffield & Co. It is called "Accidents" and its tales are said to be very unconventional. Some of them deal with situations since the war began in France, which has been Mrs. Mackay's home for years.
The Appletons will publish tomorrow "The Forest of Swords," Joseph A. Altscheler's new volume in his series, *Swordplay*, dealing with the European war.
"America Fallen: The Sequel to the European War." is the title of a novel by J. Bernard Walker which Dodd, Mead & Co. have ready for immediate issue. It describes the capture of America by a foreign power and the forcing of this country to foot the bill for the European struggle.
Mitchell Kennerley has ready for publication at once "one Man," by him.
Robert Steele, which tells in auto biographical style the story of the life of an ordinary American to his middle age. Mr. Kennerley will also publish, within a week or two, "Mountain Blood." by Joseph Hergesheimer. Its scene is in the mountain region of Virginia, and it tells the story of the life and death of a mountain stage driver.
They Play Chess by Wireless
". — — , — — — , — , . . . .
"Pawn to king 4."
This message, traveling in electromagnetic waves in ether for 200 miles opened the wireless chess match between Ohio State and Michigan at 9:30 o'clock last Wednesday night, and in less than one thousand part of a second after the final dash of the code game. The State players knew the opening attack of the Wolverine team. Within two minutes the counter move,
"Pawn to king 3," had been flashed back, and the contest was on in earnest.
As a result of this action, the college jokers have given it a name. Some wanted to call that portion of the campus a "Dear Park," but the majority favored calling it a "Chicken Ranch."—Daily Texan.
Have You Heard of it Before?
Have You Heard of it Before?
A real chicken ranch on the campus is the boast of Kansas University according to the Kansas student paper. A portion of the campus has been reserved for women only. The Dean of Women objected to the girls strolling about the campus with the college fussers without chaperones, and the president identified that a particular portion of the campus be reserved exclusively for their use. A twenty acre woodland had been set apart for their use, and a sign placed there, "For Women Only."
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