UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Official student paper of the Univer ality of Kansas EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORIAL S Paym阳 Slapper...Editor-in-Chief Elmer Arder ...Managing Editor Helen Hayes...Associate Editor William Cady...Ezchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS STAFF J. W. Dyche, ... Business Manager REPORTORIAL STAFF Leon Harsh Ames Rogers Gilbert Clayton John M. Gleissner Guy Scvorner J. M. McLuskey Don Davis John M. Henry Carolyn McNutt Rex Miller Paul Brindel Louis Murler Harry Harper Chester Alvine C. A. Bittt Chester Patterson Fred Bowers Subscriptions price $2.50 per year in advance; one term, $1.50. Entered as second-class, mail matter September 17, 1919, 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. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lawrence, Kansas. Phone, Bell K. U. 25. The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of its students and to further than merely printing the news by standing for the bodies of those who are dear friends, favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to have serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to appreciate the difficulty of the students of the University. Fair Play and Accuracy Bureau Prof. H. T. Hill...Faculty Member Don Joseph...Student Member John M. Hepner...A mistake in statement or impression in any of the columns of the Daily Kansan, report it to the secretary at the Daily Kansan office to instruct you as to office procedure MONDAY, MAY 10, 1915. LET 'ER RIP Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con- sider her ways, and be wise—Prov 3.15 At 11 o'clock tomorrow we'll run things to please ourselves for an hour. Every student in the University will be there. He will ellip. He will sing. He will throw off for a few minutes that abject condition of servitude to professors who don't run things to suit him. The lowly stude will be the whole cheese tomorrow. Many men run for an office and are defeated in a walk. A MEMORIAL IDEA Why doesn't some class plant ivy and vines as its memorial? It is fine to be sure, to spend a large sum of money building a stone gift to the University, but without other campus improvements, the erection of elaborate memorial is useless. They only emphasize the neglected condition of the campus. Judicious planting of ivy and climbing vines around University buildings would transform the present barrenness into a picturesqueness which would make Mount Oread the most beautiful campus in the United States. TIED TO TIME'S APRONSTRING Over in Myers Hall they are making roses for the May Fete "while you wait." Nature fakes, eh? "I have an innate aversion to new things. And even if I had not I should consider it foolish to interest myself very greatly in novelties which the judgments of time might prove to be unworthy. Surely one does not suffer much by curring or pulling a knot, for if something possesses some merit, it will not escape館 under when it has been catalogued under a more dignified title. Perhaps my delight in old things is equally disproportionate, but I may claim that it also is an art. In this case how useless a thing may be, if it bear the stamp of antiquity, it wins my approval. For me new objects are merely things, for they do not bear with them that train of thought, those real or fictional. So if we make the only worthy applause make the only worthy applause."—Student in Bowdoin Quill. The person who wrote that paragraph has the multitude with him. The sentiment is not unique nor worthy of the least praise. Aversion to new things is a trait which fools its possessor. It is the same trait as the most devoted slave to fashion shows. It is the trait that the slangiest talker has. All are in the same boat—they have not power to discriminate. It takes no more intelligence to worship the musty things of the past than to embrace each new song or style. The educated person finds much poor in the old and much excellence in the new. The idea that the old is best has been kicked out of science, business, and is going out of religion. Some day it will be eradicated from art and literature. Would you say that the Kansas language is spoken by the tongue of the water-wagon? LET'S HAVE A SONG LET'S HAVE A SONG Where has K. U.'s pep gone? You remember that Old Songs Convocation the other day. Did you notice that not a K. U. song was on the program? Perhaps it was an oversight. The fact that such a thing could be an oversight and the fact that the students did not rise up and sing old "Crimson and the Blue" without its being on the program is lamentable. We want school spirit, we say, and we bemoan its absence. But what is the remedy? Take advantage of every University gathering to sing one of K. U.'s songs or give a roaring "Rock Chalk." What if a distinguished speaker is sitting on the platform? Do you think he'll feel insulted? Not a bit. He will be glad he has been invited to talk to a student body which shows pride in its school. And it will make him think of old days when he was in college. At the next convoction, let's sing right out. We'll all go away with a happy memory of Alma Mater which will last all through the years. "Down with liquor." That's what many are trying to do with it. Chasing the Glooms Spring has its sorrows with its open windows, the warm days come open Chemistry has the answers. Since the football season's over and the husky gridiron heroes Kindly Answer This One the husky gridron neroes Can no longer kill or mangle without being pinched for same; ince the men who made the touch Since the men who made the touchdowns have started making In the classroom, and the glory has departed from the game; Now that Yale has lost to Harvard, and that Green each slip and blunder And rehashed important battles with some manager or scout, admit that you're a wonder if you'll tell him you minder is left to write about. Many a bad temper gets blamed for an artistic temperment. "Debaters speak and eat," headline We had suspected them of the latter, but of the former—why it is unbeard of!! Many an engagement has been made impossible by a man's refusal to take the press from his trousers by another man, and the refusal to take him any other way. "Women will meet," runs another headline. The inference goes that they will talk also. It's bad enough to have German type thrust at you. But when it comes upside down, its unreadable. Anyway, these rains postponing hash house games are the salvation of many baseball reputations that have been built up during the winter. The criticism is often made of Americans, and college students in particular, that they do not know how to talk. If you are one of the "happy-go-lucky" kind, Somehow or other we will get through and it does not make an awful lot of difference whether we think of the future or not. Chance plays so important a part in success, as viewed from a different perspective, as to be the controlling element. Announcement of the fact that straw hat day will be Tuesday is just another way of saying that a cold wave is due then. WORK We notice the spectacular success. The man who made a million acting on some impulse of the moment. The success that comes from patient hard consistent plugging into little details that in themselves seem to mean little attract little attention no matter how great the attendant success may be. Little Glimpses of College Life Texas Women Have Strange Disease Thirty-five women students of the University of Texas are ill at the World War II wounded, which slightly resembles tonsilitis. Several of them are quite sick. Every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the disease, and many of these have been unable to cope with it. Princeton university, because of the present war in Europe and the revived interest along military lines, a group of students are taught military instruction this spring. The course will consist of a series of lectures on military topics to be given by officers from the war department, practical excursions and rifle practice. Lincoln, who is called the highest type of the American, was unlike the average American in that whatever he undertook he finished. And the product was something to be proud of. In his early years he anticipated the future, he said, "I will prepare myself. Maybe my opportunity will come." That has been the attitude of many great and successful men—Drake Delphic. Students in the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania adopted resolutions in favor of free speech at a recent meeting. As part of the resolution of the alumni committee who wished to have only those speakers with conservative views address the students. In defending their cause the students said that free speech had been right that could not be denied a man. Shoulder Arms! Forward March! Free Speech at Penn Good Bye Geek! By autumn it will be difficult to sell initiation gems and precious stones to Columbia University's summer students. A new course in the study of gems, arranged by Professor James C. Egbert for the summer session, is said to be the only course of its kind given at any American University. Good Bye Glass Plant Stuff! A special apparatus has been ordered, which will enable the students to pick out the slightest flaw in stopes. Harvard Frosh for Beer When freshmen of Harvard were questioned concerning whether they preferred beer or wine, they displayed designated beer as their choice. There were 181 who favored non-alcoholic beverages. Three-sevenths of the class did not COLLEGE MEN IN BUSINESS The business man who complained in a letter printed on this page of The Times yesterday of what his experience would have been unusually fortunate in his acquaintance with young graduates. He complains of their bad perennial generall unfitness of college-bred men to take up a business life must We have in mind a number of young men who, within a year or two after they had received the degree of B. A., had put themselves under the care of a college and able to choose between two or more offers of positions not only reasonably lucrative but promising large future profits. These are exceptional cases, but they certainly tend to prove that four years in college do not spoil a boy for the business career. Most students who aim to fill all the clerical and executive positions in their establishments with college-bred men. The young man who lacks a college education is handicapped nowadays. Success for him is harder to attain than it is for students who are patient in developing manhood, self-reliance, and knowledge of his fellow-men. The new graduate may not often know as much as he thinks he knows, but he has at least been put in a way to learn quite and has had his faculties developed by his associations of four years. spite of such discouraging testimony as our correspondent, has given, we are confident that the younger man with a college education is better fitted for advancement in modern business than the one who begins at the bar and learns with small language, and is compelled to fight his way upward, if he is able to climb at all, against great obstacles—New York Times. Our correspondent who has had such bad luck with college men, if he is not too exacting in his requirements, has certainly encountered an unusually large proportion of college men who have deprived no benefit from education. That a large number of boys are sent to college, and manage to get through school, have been set to learn decent trade is not to be denied. There is equally good testimony that a fairly large proportion of the graduates of the public schools seem to have learned too little from their schooling. Education can only develop good natural gifts, but in If a girl majors in chemistry or Greek, she's queer. If she doesn't she's looking for a soft snap. If a girl is athletic she loses her Dilemmas of College Life If a girl is athletic she loses her maidenfly charm. If she isn't—well, girls can't amount to much anyhow. If she doesn't wear a diamond she's not engaged. If she does, she's running a bluff. If she belongs to a club she friv olous If she doesn't, she couldn't in class. If she assures herself in class, she's nervous. If she doesn't, she hasn't any hairs. If she doesn't talk much, she is not interesting. if she does, she's tiresome. If she goes with the boys, she's a coogette. If she prefers a steady, she couldn't get anyone else. What's a girl to do, I would like to know?—Exchange. 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