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 of the Department of Journalism.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1915.
SPORTSMANSHIP
Coach Lowmann and his Aggies from Manhattan are good sports. When a ball that would have ordinarily have been a home run went through the south gate at the east end of the field Monday and Captain DeLongy protested against the two scores being counted, Lowmann sent the batter back to second and the runner back to third. The next man up was out and the Aggies failed to score.
That is sportsmanship.
TO ALUMNI
Ezra Palmer, '94, has given $100 to the student loan fund. Mr. Palmer is showing a sense of gratitude toward his Alma Mater which is inspiring. Separated from his undergraduate days by twenty-one years, Mr. Palmer yet retains an appreciation of the keen distress of a student who is unable to get the education he so earnsley seeks. Though living in another state, separated from the plains of Kansas by high mountains, he still looks back on Mount Oread and sees an institution which holds its out hand as it did to him, and offers knowledge to those who seek it.
But he knows that it is all too true —Kansas can teach only those who can afford to come. His interest is in bringing men to the feet of his Alm Mater. She, he knows will do the rest.
SHAME ON YOU
We're done with you, Mr. Weather man.
We spent an hour Monday trying to justify the cool weather you sent us. We—meaning I, the editor—we, I say, scrutinized several magazines trying to find a word in your defense. It was a long search for few bouquets are tossed in your direction. But eventually we did dig up a perfectly good authority duly equipped with the honorary appellations for defended you nobly and we printed his defense in the column of daily wisdom along with a nice windup and a pat on the back.
Then yesterday morning, expecting one good turn to deserve another, we ventured out under the threatening sky unarmed and with peaceful intent. Neither umbrella nor raincoat did we don. Our mind was free, trusting in you for our protection.
But with what consequence? Only to be greeted with a thunderous shower at lunch time. So loath were we to believe that it was of your intention that we cheerfully fastened until you could right, the world again. Patiently we stood it until the paper went to press—carrying mind you, that nice little puff about your glorious weather which we now wish was at the bottom of the sea. The afternoon was slipping away, and we, fortified with five pennies laboriously accumulated from miscellaneous purchases, ran through the rain to a street car. We are wearing another suit today, Mr. Weatherman, and a groom for you.
But 'twas ever thus.
SAVE THE WILD FLOWERS
SAVE THE WILLOW FIELDS
Some years ago one scientist on the University faculty wandered through Marvin Grove and found thirty-eight varieties of wild flowers growing there. Most of them now have been transplanted to private lawns in Lawrence,
It would be a fine thing for the University to preserve these species on the campus either by allowing them to grow wild and protecting them from being picked, or by planting them in beds. Such a collection would provide excellent material for botany classes and students would get much more out of their courses if they could frequently visit places on the campus where the flowers were growing wild.
WORDSWORTH ON SCIENCE
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good.
Than all the sages can.
Than all the sages can.
* . . . . . *
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Creatively.
Some forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
Wordsworth may be excused for voicing this sentiment. He was busy breaking away from the classic traditions which had enmeshed thinkers before him.
But his idealistic view of nature is the source of much vapid thought of the present day. It gives birth to a false confidence in individual powers which is detrimental to the idea of social power. It exalts self-development; slights social education. If you go out and live with nature long enough and you become a savage. The savage life is the natural one—the crude days of the cave man—meals of raw flesh. It is the one we would return to a generation without the inhibiting influence of civilization—
And these "barren leaves of science" have grown sweed seedless oranges for our desserts; given us large, smooth tomatoes; brought forth perfect roses, more highly devolved chrysanthemums; taught farmers to fertilize the soil and bring forth many-fold, to kill pests and save the grain for hungry children; discover germs and use of vaccination, inoculation for preventing smallpox and typhoid as well as hundreds of less dangerous diseases; brought forward ether to ease the pain of thousands—but why continue? Applying this Wordworthian idea to modern science is like explaining the Creation by folklore.
Mr. Phifer, who has written a book, missed his calling. An unpronounceable name is the surest aid to a pronounced success in opera.
The announcement that the University is to go right on in truly startling. It has been generally supposed that the exodus of the present senior class will mark the end of K. U. as an educational institution.
It seems from the story in the paper last night that Teddy O'Leary has nearly as good a press agent as his more renowned namesake.
Among the names of prominent men we notice that of one William Howard Taft. Let's see—where have we heard that name before?
Chasing the Glooms
A T. Swanson has made a provision in his will for a gift to the University. The committee wishes you a long life nevertheless, Mr. Swanson.
Among those not present in the list of celebrities is Harry Kemp.
for his action; it is rather trying to be introduced to three million bacilli in one afternoon.
The student who fainted after a typhoid inoculation has good reason
Another reason for the h. e. of i.
cipher: Steals Purse While Owner
Ciphers
1 Derful
1 summer day the deed was done,
Some 1 was asked to wedge some 1.
She said at 1 ce that he had 1.
And now there is a little 1.
Young ladies' faults are many,
Young men have only two-
Everything they ever say.
And everything they do.
By a centralized purchasing system, Princeton is feeding its students and saving them money. At Lawrence they only half-feed them and save no money either.
A farmer to the Chem. lab, strayed,
And (oh, 'tis sad to tell).
Mixed glycerine with No 2.
And it blew the J 2 L!
And everything they do.
Pre-quiz week joke on faculty; the Board of Administration is requiring faculty members to give an account of how they spend their time. Of course the Board will never hear about anything except lectures and quizzes.
Professor Tyresum begs to be excused from making a complete report of his outside activities to the Board of Administration. "It isn't fair to one who is just learning the game," he insists.
Our third "remark concerning the faculty questionnaire; Will the Board demand an expense account of these "outside activities?"
FIREWORKS.
Finally, will the faculty please excuse us for laughing? You know we have to do that stunt every month.
At Cornell a student council is about to be established. But why tarry on so sad a theme?
Daily Kausan's nomination for next promotion on University faculty. Prof. R, M. Ogden who declares that cramming is not harmful.
A movement is now on foot to raise a fund for the poorer students of the University. The Student Loan Fund is a deserving form of charity and every student who can, should give it his most hearty support. However each time a free will offering is in progress nere it brings to the minds of many students an evil which has been found from present prospects, will exist for longer less the authorities come to life and show that their elementary economics has had some effect upon their illustrious personages.
FOR COOPERATIVE STORE
Every year thousands of dollars are spent for text books by University students. Other school supplies take many thousands of dollars. A large percent of this money spent is profit. Now those persons who are conducting the book stores are entitled to their share of the proceeds but here the point arises—why are not these book stores conducted by the University, thereby embling the students to buy their books at cost? Such a business would offer exclusive less expensive and also would serve to take the text book proposition out of politics. If no individual was lying his pockets with the coin of the realm, scrambles for contracts would not be so keen.
Surely the University authorities would not object to reducing the expense of each individual. It is their duty. Therefore let's hear their opinion concerning a University-conducted book store, and why it has not been done before. If the students were not he'd up for school books they might be able to contribute more to loan funds.
WHERE IS GAITSKILL?
Editor Daily Kansan:
"Pepper."
You hate me and I hate you.
And we are so polite, we two!
We're like stars in the first apart
And scatter the sky with by biazing
It spits and sparkles in stars and balls,
and they fall. They don't rain.
Scarlet buttons, and pale green disks,
Silver spirals and asterisks.
Scarlet buttons, and pale green disks,
Shoots and tremble in a mist
Shoots and tremble in a mist
What's the matter with our new cheer leader? Since his election we have had three baseball games and a track meet and the cheerleader hasn't showed his face in front of the bleachers. It may be that his duties do not begin until next year but if the old cheerleader has the pep to get
I shine in the windows and lights.
I shine in the windows and light up
and all hide me. I hate you, if you
can't see me.
unders
And go up in a flaming wonder
Afternoon cubes, and crimson moons,
and maze rooms
Golden balls and spades
Arrows of malachites and jades
Arrows of compass roses
An spoon you wish in the glossy
cervus
Such things as we make, we too!
Because you hate me and I hate you.
out and show his face why can't the new one get some training for next year? He has an opportunity to familiarize himself with his job, which is one of the most important on the campus, and he owes it to the student body who elected him to get out and he'p the teams win.
Now I for one would like to see the cheerleader get busy and show the student body that he appreciates his position and is going to take it seriately or make to make K. U.'s rooting like it used to be in the days of Parson Spotts.
LOOKING FROM THE CLOISTER'S SHADOW
Rooter
CHURCHILL AND THE BRITISH NAVY
The tide of British criticism of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, which has been rising for some weeks past is likely to attain rapidly increasing volume in consequence of his failure to provide any convoy for the Lusitania. The nature of this criticism is condensed in the question of which Lord Charles Beresford gave notice: Was it true that while no convoy was furnished the Lusitania abundant convoy was provided for a steamer carrying 800 horses for the British army? Churchill's reply is indicated by his peevish answer, there were not British destroyers enough to go everywhere. The response to this answer which
satisfies nobody is that Churchill had discretion in using what destroyers were at his command and displayed their assignment in their assignments to service.
Churchill May Resign
The world will not be very great; surprised if it hears before long that Churchill has left the ministry and that in effect he had his resignation tendered to him. Throughout the war he has made himself forescoped by his incapacity to realize the situation and his inability to adapt his methods to its requirements. He said the British navy was going to "dig the rats out"; the rats came out of their own accord and blew up three British cruisers. The public after a time forgot his vain boast and its magic answer, but the doubts as to his capability went on before the Lusitania massacre, by the failure of the Allied fleet to rush the Dardanelles. Whether Churchill was wholly responsible' for the discovery that the passage of the Dardanelles was not to be accomplished easily, may be doubted, but as the head of the Admiralty he has to shoulder the blame of what are now admitted to be early mishaps or blunders. Britons are recalling the fact that he committed what they call the "Antwerp flasco" by undervaluing the enemy. At the Dardanelles he undervalued the enemy in the same spirit.
As Churchill has at his right hand a veteran naval officer, Lord Fisher, it is a fair presumption that the latter has been so frequently overruled that he has fallen back to the discharge of the routine of his place and left policies to his superior. Lord Fisher entered the navy at the time when to take risks was part of the day's work. Left to himself he would be little likely to make war economic in an effort to attain results. Certainly none have inspired the alleged reluctance to send cruisers to search for the floating bodies of the Lusatiania victims lest they should be torpeded. Rather should we expect Lord Fisher to share the spirit of Farragut, who damned the torpedoes and went ahead. Nor can we think him to blame for the neglect to give all possible protection to the Lusatania—Boston Transcript.
Reading for an Idle Hour
At the end of this week Doubday, Page & Co., will have ready "The Man Who Rocked the Earth," by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, a tale of many marvels induced by scientific agencies and their effect upon the human race. Mr. Wood, the co-author, is Professor of experimental Physics at Johns Hopkins University, where he works dealing with his scientific specialty, of two little books of humorous verses and illustrations, "How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers" and "Animal Analogues."
The Century Company promises for May publication "Diantha," by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, the story of a modern Cinderella who, because she is not handsome, lacks the good times which her beautiful twin sister enjoys. A mystery called "The Brookebank Riddle," by Hubert Wales, will also be brought out soon by this house. The "riddle" of the story is concerned with the reappearance in his London office of a man who had died during the ascent of Mont Blanc and whose body had been cremated.
"The Primrose Ring," by Ruth Sawyer, described as a grown-up fairy tale, is ready for immediate publication by the Harpers.
Well.
One student says that he cannot go to the dance, because he has to study his Latin. Another says that he can go to the dance, because he has to go to the dance.
One student plans his work and lets pleasure break in occasionally; another plans his pleasure and lets work break in occasionally.
One student makes Phi Beta Kappa and is happy; another is happy and is sad.
Both of them live to a moderate old age and die in moderate circumstances.
Funny old world, isn't it?—Daily Texan.
Kodakers—we develop and finish in one day—Squires Studio—Adv.
Buy everything for your picnics at Holdley's—Adv.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
OME of the "livest" campus news stories "break" in the summer. The "Cool Breeze Session" has grown to be a big part of the University.
Regardless of whether or not you will be here this summer, you will take interest in what goes on. Changes in the facutly, changes in the football situation, a hundred things can occur between the close and the opening of the regular session. Why not keep in touch with the University? It need not cost you a cent. Pay your next year's subscription to the Daily Kansan now, instead of next September, and the Summer Session Kansan will be delivered to you free. The North Pole number will keep you comfortable thru July and August; the Historical issue will be all that the name does not imply.
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