UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Unive ality 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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The Daily Kanaan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to further it in Kansas; to further than rerely printing the news by standing for the university; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be serious; to solve serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to serve the university as the security of the University.
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Prof. H. T. Hill...Faculty Member
Don Joseph...Student Member
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THURSDAY MAY 13, 1915.
A BOOST FOR KANSAS WOMEN
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. — Proverbs 6:32.
The fact that motion pictures are to be taken of the May Fete and shown all over Kansas and at eastern universities show how the pageant is looming up in the eyes of the outside world. Sometimes the nearness of view causes us to lose the true perspective. This event will do more toward proving the talent of Kansas women than anything else they could do.
OUR FOOLISH WAYS
Men may boast that they wouldn't wear mourning for a man who had been dead a century before they were born. It develops that the black ties which women wear on the collars of their midy blouses are badges of mourning worn in honor of Admiral Nelson who died at Trafalgar in 1805. The custom was brought down by his sailors from whom women copied the style.
Put masculinity carries around some characteristics which are queer in the light of their historical origins. Cuffs on the bottom of men's trousers date from the time when the late Edward VII's valet forgot to turn down his majesty's trousers at the bottom. And his royal dignity went out to the races with one trouser's leg rolled up. It wouldn't do to let the king be humiliated you know, so the fashionable men affected to admire the idea and had cuffs put on their trousers. In 1915, most men still perpetuate the valet's blunder.
Men's coats have buttons on the sleeves which long ago relinquished their original duty of holding back the dainty cuffs of gentlemen of Colonial times.
Some of our professors wear frock coats with two buttons at the back. Years ago when travelling was done on horseback, riders buttoned the tails of their coats to their backs to keep their coat-tails from flapping.
Once in a while a daring person saunters onto Mount Oread wearing spats. This custom also comes from the days of horseback travel when men found it convenient to protect their nether extremities from the splashing mud.
Those gold headed canes originated during the medieval plague. Doctors treated most of their cases by holding a bottle of smelling salts on the end of a stick and thereby keeping a few feet from the patient so that the disease might not be communicated
to him. Then as their fees came in they were able to afford polished sticks with gold containing smelling salts on the ends. So you have the walking stick, which, with a crook instead of a knob, is the sign of a senior Law at K. U.
COSTS MORE—WORTH IT
COSTS MORE—WORTH IT
(Continued from yesterday's Kansan)
Diamond rings
Blonde hair.
Life in a fraternity house.
Boat rides.
A wife.
Peanut mailed milk, bitter sweet
eclair with chocolate cream.
A panama
GOOD USE FOR IDLE MONEY On the surface of it, lending money to impeccable students, to be repaid at some uncertain date in the future, might appear thoroughly unbusinesslike and impractical. Hard-headed business men might be expected to hesitate at such an undertaking.
But it must be remembered that most business is run on credit, and that other forms of security besides real estate and government bonds are recognized. J. Pierpont Morgan testified publicly a few years ago that he was accustomed to lend more money largely on a basis of the applicant's character, regardless of other considerations. He loaned thousands without a bit of security, banking on the sort of man who was borrowing. He found this policy amply justified.
Coming closer home, the men down on Massachusetts street, who have to charge a certain number of bad accounts to loss and gain every year, and most of whom deal largely with students, say that their loss from that source is negligible.
It stands to reason that if there is any sort of person that is safe to bank on, it is the ambitious man or man who is determined to have a college education in spite of difficulties. Such folks are the best sort of investment.
And so anybody who has a little money lying idle can put it to good use, and be sure that it will not be misappropriated but will do service over and over, by putting it into the student loan fund.
WOMEN NOT REPRESENTED
The University of Kansas is a co-
educational school, with some seven
hundred and fifty women enrolled.
Tuesday at the students day chapel,
to the casual visitor, there would have
been no intimation that there were
any women in school. The feminine
element was not recognized in the
slightest degree. Besides not having
a speaker, there was no mention made
on the platform of the women interests.
Chasing the Glooms
It is fortunate for the success of the May Fete that the Missouri baseball game is to be over before the pagement commences. A baseball game is hard to resist even if the dancers are pretty.
That admonition to the seniors to get their gowns before Friday sounds as if a slumber party was being planned.
An effort is being made to establish the Torch ceremony as an annual tradition, and the senior women do a repetition of the light that failed.
REFLECTIONS
Whether Jerry Risely names his sion Wilhelm or not it is a safe bet that the youngster will be the warlord of the household.
While the Board of Administration is planning a new entrance to the campus, several hundred students are planning their exit.
Will the lecture Saturday on "The Products of Corn" include a boost for farmers?
Some Times We've Had
a corking time in the brewery.
A peach of a time in the orchard.
A fine time in the courts.
A merry time at the house.
A merry time at the wedding.
A great time about the hearth.
A good time at the church.
A dear time at the ten-cent store.
A capital time at Washington.
A hot time with the radiator.
A lively time with the spirits.
A hard time think of these.
High on a pine-crowned, eastern mountain peak,
I stand staple the dull-hued world and
at the base.
Life's meaning and Love's motive in the
Even as craggy slopes, beneath my
Seek their reflections in the river's bed,
Where, as the swiftly rushing waters
Showing now blue, now golden in their
The cloud-cold or the sun-warm hill-
broad. Over it murmuring solitude,
So through the shade or sunshine of
I so love, later, discern the guding
blaze
Of time that lead me straight from
sun to gun,
So soak, indeed, are Pain and Sorrow
And Joy comes tripping after them like
Hard on the heels of Winter's lingering.
That need never lose the flower-
strewn ways
If we were less busy in the Race we
—Awgwan.
Pandora's Box
REALLY GLAD IT'S OVER?
Edna Mead, in N. Y. Times.
Now, all you grumblers who pretend not to like school, how do you feel when you realize that there are only a few more days left to this college year? Your time will change in the future, and it will make you hate to study, and you think classes are awful buoys. You even go to sleep in some of them, and cut the ones altogether where the roll isn't called. But the very dulest of you know that this isn't all of college life. It's really dreary. You'd dream nights you've had to stay up to cram, or the times when you've had heart-failure because you feared you couldn't invigilate that professor into giving you a "$" instead of a "4", or all the other similar woes of an unlucky youth, aren't you honestly sorry for your behavior?
We don't mean to get sentimental or anything like that you know, and we hate the socks over all those "fond memories" of you. We hate faces" that foolish mids are so likely to indulge in, but on the square, even though you won't own up to," this has been a great year. And no one will ever have you'll ever another one like it.
There have been a good many bright spots in an otherwise gloomy existence. You had one good prof, perhaps, whose stony heart crumbled just long enough to pass you along, with other underselling "flunkers," and your soul years to give him the glad hand whenever you see him. Maybe you have a good pal who likes you, and you are in danger of being you. Oh, those good old tennis games you've had with him, and the lazy canoe trips when you should have been studying and the feeds he's given you. Pretty nice, eh?
Yes, when you think of these things, and then of the long, hot summer you are going to spend in the campus. You are going to leave this old campas after all.
Desires do not failfill themselves but must be executed.
know that it is unreasonable to expect Mary to practice for the May Fete when John wants to stroll? And that it is totally impossible for John to go to church unless Mary goes with him?
For years communications have been written and lectures delivered regarding the beautifying of the campus with objects of ivory and golden trays; presents a cold gloomy appearance and the Museum and Marvell Hall tower bleakly in barren places. If action had been started when the first agitations were these wounded, the beauty now. Because why not put it on cussion and supplic it by action?
The White Crows say:
Here is the tragedy: John is more numerous than Mary, and the University authorities have as yet taken no steps to rectify this error in calculation. Moreover no care whatever has been taken to see that in classes there are women who have sex with women, divide into congenial couples. This is a lamentable oversight.
If John and Mary are in the same class, they can study together at the same time they are strolling, thus saving time and concentrating effort. But when they are in separate classes it is manifestly impossible for them to communicate comfort which could be used under the more practical system suggested.
The White Crows recommend that the presidents of the Student Council, of the College, and of the Law and Engineering schools arrange a meeting to discuss plans for a scheme for the carrying out of such plans as may seem advisable.
It would seem that it should be the duty of the various schools to oversee the ownership of their own surroundings and their particular buildings. Therefore, why should not the presidents of the various schools lead of such an executive committee?*
Efficiency is the # Dates are the thing
Up-to-Date.
A copy of this is being sent to each of the above mentioned presidents and to the Kansan and it is to be hoped that a meeting may be arranged and some actual evidence of activity may be started this spring.
Of course, the first thing is to have equality in the complete enrollment. This should be assured for next year (or after), so that the legislature, which might be called in special session. Perhaps a state appropriation to cover the expenses of a sufficient number of women students would be the simplest solution.
Dates are the thing.
HAVEN'T ENOUGH DATES Editor Daily Kansan:
OBJECTS TO METHODS
What is the great trouble with the University of Kansas? It is that the classes and the departments and the University itself are unbalanced—socially unbalanced. The economical system is the natural one, and the natural system of accomplishment is to work in couples. Who does not
Since you have invited all University students to air their grievances, I have one. The Orend magazine published, at least ostensibly, by the Quill Club has this year been a rank failure in more ways than one.
In the first place, at the beginning of the year, I paid 50 cents in the accepted currency of the realm for three numbers of this paeso-literary production. Unless I have forgotten how to count since my younger days, the numbers that appeared have not been three in number. The first one came out all right. The second one was wrong, was supported to have been put on sale in Praser Hall on a certain day. No adequate notice was given of the sale and the next day afterward, the Oread magazines were nowhere to be found.
Not only were the managers guilty of not adequately arranging for distribution, but they had the nerve to call this shift a double number. It seemed thoughtful that the clever strategy that the numerous persons who paid their hard earned
How long can they expect the student body of the University of Kansas to stand for such misrepresentations? The same thing was done last year. If any organization expects to be appreciated, some systematic business methods must be used. It would be well to remember that you can't foo'; all the students all the time. Some one is bound to say something-
cash for three copies of the Oread would be satisfied. They are not!
HARVARD FUND USEFUL
That a Harvard loan fund, which started in 1838 with gifts from ten persons totaling $10,000 has grown to more than $207,000 at the present time is told in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin of the college. No additional gifts have ever been added to the fund, but the returns of princes and other wealthy keenly studied students to whom loans have been made account for all the growth.
The remarkable thing about the increase is that the borrowers are never forced to repayment by legal process.
Actual misfortune has in some cases made impossible the return of the loans made, but on the other hand there have been instances in which loans have been returned even from estates of persons no longer living.
Last year loans amounting to $8.4000 were made to 133 students who needed the assistance to go through their college courses—Boston Globe.
Little Glimpses of College Life
Nothing Omitted from This List
Princeton's graduating class recently voted on their preference for nearly everything from the color of their girls' eyes to their favorite chewing gum. Forty-five per cent of the class ride the wagon, wander and play around in the yard, but per cent have never been kissed! Tennis ranks first among sports to play and football as the most interesting one to watch. Next to Princeton, Yale won and the favorite university for men, and Vassar the favorite girls' college.
Just a Little Speedy, Mr. Jones!
"Dehorn the nations," declared Dr.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones in his lecture on
the subject, "Above All Nations is
Humanity" given last Friday evening,
the University of Illinois Auditorium.
"The United States will be held responsible in history for the present war," continued the speaker, "We stole Panama, we lost the confidence of Europe over the canal tolls dispute; we have no standing in the diplomatic confidences of the nations and we fell from the leadership."
Iowa State College has a former student and a former faculty member in the German army, a former student in the French army, and one in the Russian army.
California Expositions
Here's the chance you've been waiting for—an opportunity to visit California at slight expense.
It's doubly interesting this year, because of the great world's fair at San Francisco and San Diego.
The Santa Fe is the only line to both Expositions.
On the way Grand Canyon of Arizona and Petrified Forest.
Let me send you our illustrated cran-
contient guide book and Expedition fo-
dars and tell you about the face on the
Santa Fe.
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.
Hand in your check for $2.50 while the Bargain Days last
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