UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, MAY 17, 1915
THE MAY FETE
A talent is developed in retirement; character is formed in the rush of the world.—Goethe.
The success of the May Fete is a credit to the women of the University of Kansas. They worked faithfully through the hot days to perfect their dances and they sewed on the costumes while neglected lessons waited. But it was worth the effort. Although she would disclaim praise in working up the May Fete, Dr. Alice Goetz has made the pageant a possibility and deserves the honor of having done that. Miss Anne Gittins also did much to make the event a success.
A communication appeared in an issue of the Daily Kansan last week criticising the managing of the Oread magazine. While the communicant may have been a little too severe under the stress of the moment, there is no doubt that the general points in his letter were wei' taken.
The poor stude, who realizes only too well the need of a loan fund, and the bankers of Lawrence, who know more than anyone else the ins and outs of students finances, are contributing cheerfully to the fund, as might be expected of people who see things as they really are. But imagine the agonized shriek of the average tax-payer when he is solicited.
Any publication or enterprise by University students should be managed as efficiently as possible. The Oread magazine seems to have fallen a little short in that respect this year.
"What!!" he will probably ejaculate,
"Me give my hard-earned money to support a gang of roistering, rah rah boys in their wicked extravagance?
I'm already paying two cents a year state taxes for the University, and
that's a cent and a half too much.
Loan fund, huh!"
THE "COLLEGE BOY"
It is unfortunately a fact that many people have a ludicrous misconception of the life and habits of the college man. Partly from sensational newspaper stories, partly from magazine fiction, and partly from miscellaneous sources the popular idea of the typical stude in his native lair is something this:
There is undoubtedly a field and a wide one, for some such publication and with the abundance of literary ability that is found in the University, it should be, if properly managed, a success.
A luxuriously appointed room
lovely decorated with pillows, pennants, banners, posters, signs, steins, pipes, and bulldogs; a husky, pompadoured person attired in a hectic bathrobe, reclining in careless elegance and a Morris chair, strumming a mandolin and registering sweet content; several similar human specimens—if there is room for them—engaged with cards, dice, etcetra and so forth. You recognize the picture? Yes, it is indeed the familiar poster of the shop window.
If that were anything like a true presentment, the reluctance of said tax-payer would be comprehensible. Even a freshman could see why nobody should feel impelled to shell out heavily. But who ever saw such a room in Lawrence?
The real student lives something like this: A room a little smaller than he would like; a few pennants and pictures and perhaps a "Silence" or "Danger" sign collected in his freshman days; a table with honest-to-goodness books that bear the marks of use; a green eye-shade; in some cases a typewriter, a bed, a chair a dresser. These and nothing more. Where is the inhabitant of the room? At the Library, of course! If friend tax-payer could see a few hundred rooms like this, and a few hundred bank books, and several million pages scribbled over with figures concerning how to live comfortably, and look decent on $28 a month, he would modify his transports of agony. He would understand that college life isn't all honey and jam, and that some students could even spend profitably more money than they do now. And how that loan fund would grow!
Truth is mighty and will prevail, but it surely has to struggle against the popular poster and the popular story.
Chasing the Glooms
Con Hoffmann was selected to go to the front by Mott. He is less fortunate than the Kaiser who insists that he was selected by Gott.
Now that the laundry company has won its suit against the Clayton brothers, University students wait expectantly.
The view from Mount Oread is again pronounced the best in the state. But sweeping our own door-step first, what about the appearance of the campus itself?
That flying squadron of which Con Hoffmann is to be a member should be sure to carry a flag of truce. Remember the Lusitania!
high and the world sighs with you,
or its generally a rule that each
darn fool,
Can't see any joke but his own.
—Ex.
for the Argies want to gather any grain around MrCook this week they had better bring along a scarecrow. These Jayhawkers gobble everything in sight, you know.
JANE ADDAMS AND HER COMRADE
GUIDEARIES
They, too, have given their lives. They did not count the coat, the brains of the horse, the Hamia of the passion toost, Hope-hoped-saind years ago.
BLUE MONDAY
Pandora's Box
It is all right and proper to talk about Blue Monday when it is raining everything from the proverbial “pitchforks” and “cats and dogs” to modern bombs and shrapnel, or else when it’s been snowing and sleeting half the night, and you have to plod your way through drifts and slush up the Hill to your eight-thirty. But they may tell, “We’re going to call a bright Spring Monday in May with the sun a-shining and everything from real birds to Jayhawks a-singing and whistling? And yet you are blue
It surely isn't "Blue Monday." And yet everything is seeming to tend that way. You put off your studying until Sunday, of course and then you didn't find a minute to cram in a bit of Greek or English Lit that whole day. You had to go to church in the morning. And the river was too good to refuse a canoe trip in the afternoon, and somehow or other, you didn't get home as early as you expected to from it. You so go to bed, tired and sleepy, and think you'll get up at the first bell the next day. But you don't. You are consequently compelled to do that underhand thing of bluffing—yes, actually bluffing—to get by in your geology class.
Your face is sunburned, and every
eye is red. Your hands are blistered.
Nose. Your hands are blistered.
So they dare dream of peace,
And they dare either—other-
Flame-lit, heroic peace.
And they would die for her,
Like knights of old who sought
Oh, if their faith like dame
should keep from wandering,
should leap from land to land
Till the world's heart should be
Blessed with love.
Enkined and set free.
—Mary F. Sears,
Through hope-sustained years they sought, they saved the lost.
from welding the paddle, and your head aches terribly. But you can't say, in an off-hand way when folks ask what you're the matter, "Oh, it's 'Blue Monday,' you see." For they won't see at all! "They" stayed home from canoe trips or else got in at a good hour, and "they" studied Friday afternoon instead of playing tennis, and "they" had worn hats, too, and so weren't burned to a scarlet hue. A curse on Monday morning.
COLLEGE AS A CIRCUS
We had a chat with a fellow-philosopher yesterday, who said that he believed many students were disappointed with college. To philosophize extemporaneously—which is the only way we know—our answer would be that too much is expected of a college. It isn't your college—it's you. After dreaming for years of attending one of the great universities, the freshman who enters is certain to find that the real thing is different from the ideal which he has set up as correct.
One's idea of college changes every day, through the undergraduate period and in after life, just as the conception of a circus changes with the years. The small boy sees the gilded chariots, the glittering armor, the spangled costumes, with eyes that do not distinguish between god' and gilt. The chariot racers, the clowns, the black-faced entertainers, the long haired animals, the cages filled with captive animals from other climes, appeal in a way that is different after the years have revealed many illusions in life.
College to the high-school boy and girl is as much unlike the real college as is the circus of boyhood and girlhood to the man and woman. After we have experienced several years of university life the glitter no longer appeals as it did years before. The true gold is separated from the baser metals. Yet this comparison can be made if we presume that both circuses and colleges are mostly composed of the unreal. Get below the surface, with the viewpoints of seniors, if the real worth would be found.
Those who expect to find that all professors are perfect, that no false values are found in collegiate life, will have to change their ideas sooner or later. The sooner the better. Not all is democracy, not all is as it should be. We believe, however, that any great university will appeal by its true worth to he or she who understands how much depends upon the institution and how much upon the individual.
The graduate who gets the right perspective will be as happy afterwards in his relations to his Alma Mater as is the small boy who lingers after the last peanut has been devoured, after the spangled riders have galloped for the last time from the rings, after the last death-defying leap has been performed. He will leave with that tired happiness that remains with the small boy as he lives in the midst of commonplaces of his home town the thrilling experiences of the sawdust rings. The quiet of the fields, the peaceful home life and the everyday work that is to be done may be irksome for a while, but happier and more pleasant afterwards, because of his experience—Ohio State Lantern.
Little Glimpses of College Life
Pennsylvania State College defeated Princeton in a twelve-inning game at Princeton, 3 to 1. Crawford, the visitors' right fielder, saved the game for State in the ninth inning by leaping into the air and pulling down two base hits, and won it in the twelfth with three-hacker which scored two runs.
lost in one year under the old method of purchasing supplies. The university Teeds about 1,1000 students.
She doesn't care for 'operas, the movies or the play; she doesn't care for dancing, she isn't built that way; she doesn't care for housework, for flowers or for books; she doesn't care for poodles—she doesn't like their looks; she doesn't care for dresses, for hats or fancy hose. The only thing she might care for, is a man who would propose—IndianaStar. Star
One Thing Needful
Saves Game-Then Wins It.
Unable to Break Tie Score
Syracuse and Michigan fought for
even innings last week, only to have
it result in a 0-9 tie-score. The game
was postponed until the next day,
when the play was resumed. This
time each side had a little more
success in scoring, but fate still remained
entirely neutral. Twelve innings were
played this time for a 2-2 score.
At a mass meeting of the student body of Cornell, a proposal to establish a Student Council at that University was 'a most unanimously approved. Among the speakers favoring the plan were two of the professors. A constitution for such a body is now being drawn up for approval. The number of representatives has not been definitely decided, but it has been suggested that it be made proportional to the number of fraternities.
Unable to Break Tie Score
Everybody Knocked at Syracuse
The Syracuse Daily Orange recently appeared in excellent imitation of the yellow journals. Plenty of sensations and scandals had been unearthed to fill the columns under the sun on campus, but few foresight they predicted the weather as "Fair or Cloudy, Rainy to Clear; Cold if not Warm, Probable Temperature; Max. 257, Min. 177."
6.000 Students a; Illinois
At Mount Holyoke the annual junior top-spinning day was a gay scenew on the campus last week. The junior girls appear in a uniform costume the kind of which is always kept secret from the other classes.
Get Thee Behind Us. Satan!
Some More Kid Stuff
They Feed 1.100 at Princeton
6.000 Students at  Illinois
The latest summary of Illinois students as printed in the new edition of the annual Register  shows a total of
They Feed 1,100 at Princeton
At Princeton a centralized systemed
student institution with a large
yearly deficit in the feeding of
the students. Three thousand dollars was
We have your favorite ice cream
sodas at our fountain. Wiedemann's
You will find your favorite drink in your fountain. Reynold Bross—Adav.
6,004 students. The total at Urbana-Champaign is 5,446. The proposition of men to women is 3.5 to 1. The proportion of students registered are: Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1,854; Engineering 1,213; Agriculture, 1,171; Graduate School, 444; Medicine, 292; Pharmacy, 89; Dentistry, 84; and Library School, 49.
The faculty, and administrative staff shows a total of 999 names.
By the time the end of the Senior year is reached at Harvard, the men find it necessary each year to beg enough money from the freshmen to pay for their books. Last week the class assembled on the library steps, each provided with a tint cup, and pleaded on bended knees for aid from the first year men. Each freshman who contributed five dollars paid for his cheer with his name on the end of it.
THE BLUES
College students, probably more than others, have the peculiar feeling of general dispondency which is fittingly termed the "blues." There are many reasons for all students, no matter how optimistic and aggressive they may appear to be, when they feel that they are absolutely worthless and of no account. They seem to be getting nowhere and are undearable discomfort in getting there.
It is impossible to reason with such states of mind. Such will come and they seem to go when they get ready. A beam of sunshine from behind the clouds, an unexpected word of kindness and good feeling from an unexpected source will sometimes drive the fiend away.
The main cause of such feelings is probably the fact that the student feels that he is still in the balance; that he has not found himself and proved his worth. He doubts whether he ever will. He doubts whether
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he is worth anything. There are types of course that are not a prey to such things. Probably it is not entirely to their credit for it may show a 'lack of sensitivity and imagination.
It is pretty safe to say that every student is good for something after all. At any rate it is a morephysical than the alternative—Drake Delphic.
A TEST IN DETAIL
"A test in detail," applied to a college or high school graduate, is a test neither of knowledge nor of real education; it may be a test of mere scholarship. Matters of detail are rarely, or indistinctly remembered by those who attend school more than six months; at the end of a year, or three, or five years, they are gone completely."—Charles V. Stansell in The Forum.
Academ: What kind are most of them?
Law Stude: We have about twenty cases a day.
L. S.: Suit cases.—Missouri Out-
look.
Chemistry Professor; I will now take some chemical and then I will take some biology.
Sleepy Voice from the Rear—Good
Idea—Missouri Outlook.
Jinks: "But why do the Allies use camels?"
"They intend to invade Germany, and have to have an animal that can go two weeks without water."—Gargoyle.
"What is your name?" asked the new店长, who lay her hand on the boy in line. "Are you his son?" said the boy.
"No, it isn't Tom, it's Thomas."
"And your name? she is inquired of her."
*Jackethaus* and sit the boy. *Water-Branch Chamber of Commerce*
Seniors!  Cap and pawn pictures,
2 x 85 prints for $1.50 - Squires.
$100 value.
We have four flavors of ice cream at our fountain every day. Reynolds 9044 - Adv.
M. E. church-morning service,
M. E. service of Religious Ex-
perience"—Adv.
A whole meal 10c, the brown bread ice cream at Wiedemann's—Adv.
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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