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.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 29.1915.
WILL THEY HIKE?
A few days ago a tracer was sent out for the senior girls' mixer, which has been heard of but not seen for some time. The investigation resulted in an announcement at the senior meeting to the effect that the girls would mix in South Park at half past six Saturday morning. (Sounds like a free for all fight, doesn't it?) At least they will meet there, each laden with as much lunch as she wants to carry, and then the rest of the program will be divulged. A blind man with one hand tied behind him could guess that the girls intend to hike but no statement to that effect has been put out.
If that is the plan, it is a good one. This kind of weather impels one irresistibly to strike out on foot and explore the country that has been figuring only as the w.k. view for which Mount Oread is famous. The songs of the little dicky-birds and the suspicion that violates are blooming about this time, the occasional sight of a little calf or coot and the plaintive cheeps of tiny chickens, conspire to remind one of the joys of the country life and make school and town and even the movies seem humdum and unattractive. Every properly constructed human being wants to get out on the road and into the woods' and pastures, and disport himself with the rest of Nature's children.
Young Thoreaus and Burroughs might enjoy themselves alone, far removed from such mundane and vulgar thoughts as eating, but the average human is gregarious, and enjoys sharing his pleasures. Also he is subject to attacks of appetite several times a day, and is not disposed to ignore them while feasting on the beauties of nature. For this person, of any age or sex, the hike is the thing. Wasted indeed is the life that has never known the joy of tramping the country roads in company with congenial people—as far as that goes, anybody who is decent is congenial on such a trip—of picking out the prettiest place available for a picnic, of building a campfire and cooking a meal in primitive fashion, and of loitering home again, surfeited with pleasure of a kind whose excess cannot harm. There's nothing like it! And so, if the senior women elect to hike, they will be doing the obvious thing, and yet will have made a choice that could not be improved or
GOOD COMMUNICATIONS
We would call attention to the communications now being published in the Kansan on the subject of the return of the student disciplinary power to the Senate by the Student Council. The letters carry good points, and, we feel, show student sentiment on the matter.
BRING BIG INTEREST
The efforts made in signing a petition for a return trip of Raymond Robins to the University will bring the greatest interest ever accorded an action. Robins did a big work in the campaign here last winter, and won himself a place in the hearts of K. U. students. They will hearken to him, we daresay, as soon as to any man.
Student Opinion
RETURN DISCIPLINARY POWER
Editor of Daily Kargan;
Can it be that men elected to the Student Council are not the highest type of students? Are they not representative? Is student government practiced? Are these the questions the student body is to settle on May 6.
Most will agree the men on the Student Council have been the average student of the Hill. And they have attempted to do their best. But do students wish to do their own work? Fortunately, government has been a failure at the University since its inception. This brings up another question.
Do the students want to do their own disciplining? Or have other students do it for them? I believe not. With the swing of the pendulum the whole sentiment of this country is changing from sensationalism to conservatism. The same qualities are being taught in our university as the attitude toward student government shows this change the opposite.
In truth students do not wish to have held up before them at every turn, here is a body whose only purpose is to pass rules concerning your conduct and to enforce them. Rather they wish for the absence of strict rules. They and tradition should be given the same case as flagrant cases arise, the faculty can soon rid the University of any individual! meriting this attention.
Hand in hand with this change of sentiment has been the increased intellectual rating of the undergraduate students, and other fields. And because of that the better men are not coming out for the offices. These are some of the reasons why I think the students will succeed by understanding the control of their own discipline.
Upperclassman.
WILL HAVE WORK
The person who said the Student Council would have nothing to do should the disipi'inary power be given back is sadly misinformed.
As representatives of student sentiment it would be able, unharmed by loss of prestige from new and unnecessary rullings, to promulgate movements of interest. Instead of teaching university grievals to discover those who smoked cigarettes, they might serve as the medium by which a student could right a wrong done to him either by the faculty or other students. There is way that in an administrative way that to encourage them would take a column.
What is certain, this body without the control of student discipline, would be a counseling body for students. It would be the group toward which students would look for defense. Let's retrain almost broken down what little efficiency the Student Council has attained.
Former Councilman.
If the Shrimers are going West, we hope they make provisions in advance for those dry spots in the desert of Colorado, adjoining states—Columbia State.
Chasing the Glooms
The greatest pest in the University is the student who comes into the office and says, "Go after them, skin 'em alive, drive 'em out of school, but don't use my name, because of my friends, you know."
Early rising alone doesn't get you there. If it did the janitor would be at the top.
Any amount of practice which the Kansas University girls receive in archery will not increase the present number of their archilems. Ottawa Herald.
"What does T. R. mean?" asked the visitor being shown over the lineotyping letter, and noting those mystic letters.
When a newspaper man sends an unfinished story to the composing room he writes after the last line of the story to say "turn rule" or more to come.
"Teddy Roosevelt," answered—the faceted compositor. "Whenever we see Teddy Roosevelt, we know that there is more to come."—San Francisco Chronicle
Shots at Half-Cock Or Foolishment in Verse
WHAT THE MOON SAYS
Don't sleep tonight!
Don't sleep tonight!
Here's moonlight and a lass,
You might as well stay up tonight,
And sleep tomorrow in class.
ANOTHER PIECE OF PI
There was a white dog at K, U.
Who sported the name of Pi U.
He took people's praises,
as cooly as blazes,
Growling. Whatn'tell's-it-to-you?
From the K. U. Zoo
THE NICEST MAN
Then there is the nicest man. You know him? Of course you do. As a rule, he is not so very enthusiastic about girls. He does have a few dates, but he doesn't have a lot of time to be bothered with girls. The men all like him, though I can't say why. He is that sort of person that you type a "man's man"; and that woman is always along. He is fairly good in class, and even excels in a few courses. He is never loud, nor argumentative, but sits back in class, and sort of grins while every one gets excited.
Once in a while he has a date. Lucky is the maiden so blessed. He knows just when to come. If it's a dance, he sends the right sort of flowers, and he makes you feel that it is the greatest pleasure of his life. He is not the kind of person that is that it really is a big pleasure to him to be out entertaining you. In short the nicest man is the man that does not flit about so much that it is no special compliment to be chosen by him. He is the man that feels that it is his duty to entertain you, or else he would have little trouble if the evening is a failure.
The result is that, in order to equal him in being nice, you are so nice and entertaining yourself that you just have the most glorious time that you have had for months. You wish he would come back real soon, but you know he won't. You know he doesn't want to be charm lies in the fact that you know that you can't have him any day in the week that you feel like it.
With the Knowledge Seekers Elsewhere
Women High Jump and Pole Vault
An innovation in the athletic department has been started at Earlwood College in that the women have started track and baseball practice, and they are now working on a team in both branches. No outside colleges will be played, but it is likely that an interclass track meet will be held some time in the spring and probably an interclass baseball series. A special track of an eight of a men's has been arranged for the Miss Gladys Bassett, a former graduate of Vassar, is athletic director.
College Baseball 56 Years Old
College Baseball 56 Years Old
Amberst and Williams claim the
determinate baseball when they met on
the diamond on July 1, 1899. The game,
considered very exciting at the time,
will be played to date by 'the marvelous score of 73 to 32.
Wisconsin University Strietly Dry Before a student may purchase liquor at the University of Wisconsin he must sign a statement in the press- twenty-one years old. This bars freshmen from "rushing the grower."
Columbia University has arranged a tour to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Students, off-campus, will make the trip in their own specially equipped steel train. Many Columbia people have signified their intention of attending the California Exposition and in one of their classes could be so combined with the pleasures of such a trip as to secure the greatest enjoyment the Columbia Spectator Travel Bureau has arranged personally conducted educational conditions affording the greatest experience and comfort.
To Go to Coast
Student Government or Not?
Petitions bearing the names of more than 1,600 students of Wash. State are handed to the president of the institution asking for the reinstitution of eight underclassmen who were expelled for having. The result of the petition will be taken either as a fine or imprisonment, depending on university or its defeat, depending on the decision of the president.
**Rooters Wear Special Hats**
All men who intend to sit in the **rooters' section** in the grand stands at the Californiaprovided with special distinctionsbars before the game starts. This is *y*new institution, start this spring.
Bay State Wants Own School The Massachusetts State Legislature has authorized the Board of Education to investigate the advisability of a new University. Harvard considers this an unnecessary extravagance and advises the establishment of State scholarships instead.
Bay State Wants Own School
The first intercollegiate football game on South Field at Columbia University in ten years will be played on October 16th, according to a statement by the University Committee on Athletics. The committee is working with the county for a coach, and a number of issues have been offered including that of Hamilton Fish Jr., Harvard's star tackle in 1909, who expressed his willingness to coach a Columbia team last fall. It is understood that a tentative schedule has already been drawn up, but negotiations with the other colleges are still going on. A study by the university for the five-year trial period, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania or Cornell are not to be played.
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A school paper is a great invention
The school gets all the fame.
The printer gets all the money.
And the staff gets all the fame.
Penn State Stromb.
Play Football at Big Fair
They All Spell Simply
n aay football at big rair
Sn伯 Francisco may see some of the prosecutions in action next fall, as the exposition authorities have opened negotiations with Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Illinois, Amherst, Michigan Pennsylvania, Penner, Carlsle, Virginia, Minnesota, Carlsle, Jefferson, Chicago, Minnesota, and Syracuse universities to play there.
Sixty-seven universities in the United States are using simplified spelling, according to the report of the simplified spelling board. Seventy-five have adopted this method. Missouri leads with nine such institutions.
To be Separated
Student Stealing Way Through
A regrettable train of circumstances has caused a great deal of consternation and resentment among all of the girls in Ilinois. Articles of wearing apparel and money have been stolen from the Woman's building and from women's cloak rooms in other buildings. The women, in particular, under circumstance which point to a students as the perpetrator.
"For women only" is the twenty-acre tract of Park College campus set aside as a recreation ground for women. This action of Dean Matthew H. Wilson is the result of the women's protest against being prohibited from walking in the woods on the more remote parts of the campus
without chaperones. Men will be excluded from that section of the campus in order that chaperones may not be necessary. The question now before the men is whether to call it a "dear" park or a "chicken" ranch.
LITERATURE IS FOR WORLD
Writers Not Restricted to One Language Critic Says
From Philadelphia North-American.
In his "Short Studies in Literature"
"Hamilton Wright Mable had this
community," as long ago as 1891;
tut, and this to say of "The International Community," as long ago as 1891: "inter-racial influences were never so strong as at the present time, because never before have there been such freedom and completeness of侵入 that they have become in some sense a classic before it was translated into another language. Today every book of any importance speedily finds its way to the readers who would be interested in it. All the Western nations are fast becoming the common constituency of powerful and inspiring writers, whose reference to the accident nationality has grown."
"French and German books have long been freely translated into English; to these must now be added Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Scandinavian books, and the time is not distant when a book which is issued on behalf of the United States or from remote Siberia, will find its way to those for whom it has the authority of truth or the beauty of art.
"Contemporary literature is already international, so far as bread of interest and comprehensiveness of audiences are concerned. De Maupassant, Daudet Bourget, Valdes, Goldos, Dael Alcaroon, Paul Heyase, SPIethagen, Bjornson, Ibsen, Lie Tolier, Dostoyevski, Gogol, and Tourguengoff, to speak of novelists alone, are as known to a great num- English learners novelists who write in English. Indeed, of late years no writer of our own language has had such vogue as Ubsen or Tolsiot.
"One great gain from this familiarity with books in all languages will be a clearer perception of the nature of literature and the literature responds to and interprets the successive phases of human experience. It is only as we secure a wide outlook that we perceive the conformation of the 'landscape'; it is not only that literature responds with what we discern the mighty influences that penetrate and unify them."
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