UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Raymond Chapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In-chair
Edler Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Editor
Edler Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor
William Cady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exchange Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
REPORTORIAL STAFF
BUSINESS STAFF
J. W. Dyche...Business Manager
Leon Harsh Jones Rogers
John Clifton Glayton John Mills-Asner
Charles Sweet Don Davis
John Henry Henry Caro Nutt Malll Brindle
Louis Puckett Harry Morgan
Glendon Alanson Fred Cahoon
Fred Bowers
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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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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduates; to go further than merely printing the text; and to give more university holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be able to behave appropriately; to give more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to serve to help faculty of the university, to give more diversity.
r Play and Accuracy Bureau
Fair Play and Accuracy Bureau
Prof. H. T. Hill...Faculty Member
Don Joseph...Student Member
Joseph...Secretary
If you find a mistake in statement or impression in any of the columns of the Daily Kanman, report it to the Director of the Bureau office.
He will instruct you as to further procedure.
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915.
Lord, dow down thine ear, and hear;
lord, Lord, thine eyes, and see—HI
MISSION.
WHY THE CAPS?
Is there any reason for requiring the freshmen to wear their caps during the spring?
An excellent objection has been raised against the practice. One student, now a junior, is wearing glasses as a result of being required to wear a cap during bright weather which did not properly protect his eyes from the gare of the sun.
THE COUNCIL'S CHANCE
The custom could be abolished with no results detrimental to school spirit.
The vote last week to return the power of discipline to the University Senate, was primarily a voicing of the students' opinion of the Student Council; but it was more than that. It was the expression of a hope for the readjustment and revitalization of that body.
All that the Student Council has amounted to in the last two years could be written with a dry pen, but it has asserted, and justly, that it was handicapped by its inability to administer discipline. Now the shackle has been removed, and the student body expects to see the Council do things.
In its readjustment, it should expand from a mere governmental body, and become the real representative of the students; a council which would get behind all matters of student interest, and make them go. Languid backing such as was given the dying Student Union last fall, should never again be charged to the Council.
The students do not expect to see the Council suddenly leap forward now, and write its deeps in volumes, but they do expect constructive activity instead of somnambulism.
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?
Members of the senior class in their four years residence on Mount Oread have formed some ideas about what a university ought to be, what it ought to do for its students, and what students ought to get out of their undergraduate life. Now that they are about to leave their Alma Mater, they are concerned with regard for her future welfare.
Before leaving the campus with their diploma, they could do their school a service by pointing out what in their opinion would help it. The Daily Kansan accordingly offers this opportunity for seniors, and all other students as well, to leave a final word of advice with the University. This can best be done by each individual pointing out what affected him personally. Each student at the University of Kansas is invited to express his views on these questions;
1. What do you regret in your university care?
most?
3. What do you regard as the
2. What part of it do you value most?
4. What do you think is the best means of developing school spirit among undergraduate?
Answers to these questions, and to others that might be suggested, are welcomed and will be printed in the Daily Kansan. They should be made as brief as possible and should be signed but not necessarily for publication.
MR. ROBINS
Raymond Robins is coming back.
Every K. U, man will be 'gad he is to have another chance to hear Mr. Robins. Whether you agree with him or not, he is a stimulating speaker and no one can hear him without himself thinking the more clearly and deeply. He is the ideal combination of dreamer and doer. We have plenty of men who dream and plenty of men who work; but to have the combination in one animated by broad vision is to have a great man. Mr. Robins is one of that rare circle.
Chasing the Glooms
Gaitskill ought to set a good pace as cheerleader.
Glendon Alvine showed a good eyes in admiring the neatly dressed domestic science women at Manhattan, but she made the pudding is not in starched aprons.
Dr. Esenewein's opinion that America is looking to the west for its great writers was a fitting one to appoint reporter who interviewed him.
The women had no voice in the election of next year's cheerleader, but then, they exercise their ability in other channels.
In coming to Lawrence next fall,
Mike will be a season behind the rest of his flock.
The seniors should be careful about smoking that pipe of peace during commencement. It would be an fortunate if the faculty were forced to exercise its disciplinary power on the whole masculine element of the class.
Aside from studying, the most in-tolerable occupation must be to lister to those hour speeches being made by the department of public speaking.
In taking that Nebraska meet and the Missouri tennis sets, Kansas was just warming up for the big show this week-end.
Now that Chancellor Strong is teaching little Frank to ride a bicycle, he can appreciate the position of Mr. Brown. He is also the known man to ride a band wagon.
Mr. Lorenz's plan to produce more perspiration among the gym classes next year will also occasion exasperation.
In beating the medics at baseball last week, the Laws only made manifest their innate ability as claim agents.
Pandora's Box
TO MR. HENRY
Oh, the sorrows, and pangs and regrets that the one-time “Big Man” feels when he senses the disgreable need of his place he has occupied for so long. It is his last time, probably, around the old, familiar “work-shop.” Here he has laughed and worked and lived for months past. His very life is in danger. He is no longer dirty place. It has grown to be his home—his happy loafing place, his veritable hades on days when things go wrong. But with all its swearing, he was a man of pride. Now, suddenly, he finds himself here in the capacity of an interested onlooker instead of the hub of the wheel. He starts for copy-paper and his typewriter. Someone else is in his way, but he remembers just in time that him has no right to boss any one now. The paper, which for so long had born his stamp of approval now goes to press without hi seven seeing half the
"What shall I write my editorial on today?" he muses abstractedly. Then he walks up to a realization that he does not always follow it doing his task. He wanders to the back-office. "Do you want that special editorial leaded out today?" one of the printers will ask. "Oh, I forget, Old Man, you don't." He replies. Gloomyly the Ex-Editor turns on his heel, and walks back to the front office.
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the efforts in vain, vain,
Understood the loss and gain,
Would the grim eternal toughness
name them?
Ab! we judge each other harbily,
Knowing not life's hidden force—
Knowing not the font of action
Is its less turbid at its source;
Is it more watery?
IF WE ONLY KNEW
Seem—I wonder—just the same?
Should we help where now we hinder,
Should we pity where we blame?
Seeing not about the EVR
All the golden grains of good.
And we love each other better
If we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by motives?
Could we judge actions by motives?
See the nailed heart and spirit,
Know what spirit the action gives,
Know what justice the action gives.
Just to judge all actions good.
Witness all actions bad.
If we only understood. Rudyard Kipling.
Little Glimpses of College Life
Profs Throw Horseshoes
A number of professors of the University of Nebraska are engaged in a horseshoe pitching tournament, and hold forth at four o'clock every afternoon except Sunday on a secluded portion of the campus.
Some of the dispensers of knowledge were adepts at the sport in their youth and have not forgotten all of them, in heaving the shoe about the leg.
So far the professors in the Agriculture school are leading with the men of the engineering school close behind.
Rather Hard on Florists
An organization has been perfected among certain Nebraska University men to be known as the "Dandelion Club." The purpose of the organization is to develop and encourage the sending of dandelions in place of expensive hot house flowers to be worn by young ladies at formal parties.
College Sheet Has War Man
The Chicago Daily Maroon now has a war correspondent. He is a freshman, William Beauchamp, who was working his way across the pond, was taken hostage by a cast into military prison. He is now working for the English Red Cross.
Wisconsin Studies Waste Thousands Figures show that Wisconsin students drink 141,120 malted mik's per year, and smoke 1,040,000 cigarettes. The total cost of the two luxuries amounts to $21,920 per year.
Use Daily for Text Book
Use Daily for Text Book
The only Student, of Indiana University,
is taught in its one of the freshman English courses as a text book. Each day the paper is pulled to pieces and its good and bad points are shown.
Millions for Medicine
The new buildings of the Medical School of Washington University were dedicated with an elaborate program at St. Louis recently. The three large buildings, which contain laboratories, dispensaries, lecture rooms and libraries, cost $1,200,00 and, with the new Barnes Hospital, the St. Louis Johnson's hospital, the St. John's Hospital for cancer, are among the largest groups of buildings in the world devoted to medical and surgical purposes.
Puts Students on Probation
As a result of clandestine meetings four young men and four young women students at Earlham College have been placed on probation and denied all social relations with students of the opposite sex.
This action follows in the wake of the reports that students have been making use of a tunnel which connected the halls of the men and the women.
**Cut That "Co-Ed" Star!**
An English instructor at Stanford University has made the startling discovery that a "co-ed" applies alike to man or woman. A "co-ed is one who receives his education in a university for men and women—and may correctly designate a man as well as well as a woman.
Cut That "Co-Fd" Stuff!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Now and then in the hurry and bustle of university activities we are sometimes prone to stop for a few minutes and make a retrospective survey of our life and see just what has been accomplished within the time frame we are curring of a college education. Too often, perhaps, it is found that the mental development has been rather one sided; time is given to a consideration of those things that are essential in the preparation of lessons from day to day, but no attention is paid to them. We can broaden and strengthen our outlook on life. Instead of devoting a certain number of minutes in every week to the procuring of new ideas, too often we allow ourselves to bask in the sunshine of indolence; apparently forgetting that thought means life, since those who do not think cannot live in themselves, an important sense, for thinking makes the man.
If, for the next few weeks, each of us would set aside a certain period every day which would be devoted to the selection and reading of some good book or the serious consideration of one novel now confronting the thinker of today, the result would be most pleasing. There is little doubt that if we are to successfully play our role in the drama of life we must think clearly and broadly, for he who knows only those things that are within one little sphere is sure to suffer defeat when called upon to solve the complex problems that will surely arise later. To succeed in such a situation influence the factors which act as the keystone of character was admirably summed up by Channing when he said: "All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think劲ly. In action love forms the soul's life and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being."—Purdue Exponent.
DANTE BORN 650 YEARS AGO
Next year a goodly portion of the world will observe the tercenary of Shakespeare's death; another portion, for a similar reason, will honor the memory of Cervantes; this month the 650th anniversary of the birth of Dante will be celebrated. Of the other writers of his time, the Italian has the precedence in point of age; as regards influence, that critic would be bold indeed who would attempt to gauge the impress left upon the literatures of the world by the author of the greatest religious epic conceived by a Christian writer. Influence has been appreciably exerted for centuries. It was not, however, until the recent era of D. G. Rossetti and the poets and painters associated with him that the art of the Florentine received ful recognition. Time, now more than half a century ago, the study of Dante has increased with us. It is safe to say, indeed, that the average student of literature in this country and England neither "The Iliad" nor "The Odyssey" had any influence on the "Divina Commedia"—and this marks a broadening in national scholarship quite inconceivable to the England and America of Johnson's day. Italy will doubtless observe the Dante centenary with the pump and circumstance being so notable an American national poet that idolized national诗 will be followed with sympathetic appreciation in this country. Here, it is worth recording we have, in celebration of the event, perhaps the most suitable tribute that a foreign nation can offer to the poet of Dante's Commedia; that in several respects appears to be a more adequate reflection of the spirit and letter of the original than any of the existing versions in English. N, Y. Times.
Reading for an Idle Hour
Prof. Unokichi Hattori, M. A., D. Litt, will be the second Japanese scholar and man of letters to fill the chair of Japanese Literature and Life at Harvard University. He has written extensively on the degree at Kyoto and Chinese philosophy and history in the higher normal school, Tokio; and he helped organize the Chinese education department of the university in Peking, while there in 1902. Most of his writings have been in Japanese and Chinese.
"Out of Work," by Frances E. Keller, is a book issued by the committee for immigrants in America, and by its publishers is said to be a solution of the problem of unemployment. It calls for a national industrial policy and for federal supervision of city labor bureau exchanges.
California Expositions
Here's the chance you've been waiting for—an opportunity to visit California at slight expense.
It is 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 cross-
country book and Exposition fold-
folds and tell us about the clothes on the
Santa Fe.
Miss Keller deems the states to be too large units, and far from satisfactory in dealing with the unemployment problem.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, the Nova Scotian who was descended from Loyalists driven from Boston in the revolution, was known to the reading public of his time as "Sam Slick." There was no shrewder humorist and interpreter of Yankee life from his days in New York, first half of the last century; and his career and fame are duly described and recalled in the current Bookman.
With Apologies to All
The Devil fumed and fretted;
No fire could he discern
For a frost was in the furnace,
And he was too green to burn—Ex
With Apologies to All
A spring day on the river,
Sunlight and the wind,
A day to go to the Girl.
Before you.
And note books left behind—
Cameron's Bluff and a campfire,
Some call it plant spring fever
And others call it bliss.
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