UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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.
Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate in to go further than merely printing the book or taking the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be chable; to be courragious. To solve problems to wiser heads, in all, to serve the best of its ability the most.
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MONDAY,APRIL 26,1915.
OUR LOOK AT IT
I'm sorry you fell down on the assignment, Earl, for I just supposed you knew enough of history to realize that the men that get there are those that know where they are going. They may not have been educated to earn their living as soon as they stepped from the campus, but they know what is going to give them their bread and butter when it does come, and through the university they have been training themselves to get a hold on that slice of sustenance when it is offered them. I supposed you knew.
Ideas of Greater Universities, Greater Democracies, Greater States, and Greater Worlds have been brought forth since time was young, but never a one of them got out of its swaddling clothes unless it had some definite working program hitched to it. No. Earl Crabble, your idea of a man coming to Mount Oread or Berkeley, or any other university campus and just browsing around, letting knowledge just kindo soak into him is wrong. He may go out and through some good streak of luck, or his ability as a Jack of All Trades, stumble into some line of endeavor that he should have figured out years before. The chances are that he will not, but he may if he is that "hundredth," say.
But if he doesn't he will grow up to be just the average citizen, pictured by the cartoonist as the little man with the big hat who gets excited over a neighbor's hens in his garden, and vote the ticket his newspaper tells him to, and gaze with big wide eyes at the picture on the front page of the man that knew where he was going when he went through school.
No, Earl, the man that wears the pants is the one that back in school knew a lot about one thing. Show me the man that in school sat around with his mouth open and with blind eyes, taking in that which was offered him from astronomy to zoology without salting it down, analyzing, or partitioning it, who is now leading men, and I will show you a dozen times as many who in school had a lower jaw that stayed up where Nature first put it, thought while he was listening, and forgot what he knew would not benefit him, that is leading the same number of men.
Old men balance the world's machine, but it is the young men that furnish the steam. The man that hangs around the university for four years talking the points of a bull pup, reading Horace and executing geometrical figures with the same ease is going to dinkey away his time until he will just balance the machine that his more direct brother will control.
Perhaps it is best that but one man lead ninety-nine, Earl, and that is why but the hundredth at 19 years of age can "aptly decide his life work," as you say, but it's a cinch if he does and the ninety and nine do not, that he will boss all of them sometime.
BOOST THE UNION
No, this isn't a plea for labor unions or the W. C. T. U. or anything like that. It is just a reminder that on Wednesday night a new musical organization is going to burst into bloom in the Gymnasium, and that all good students owe it to themselves to go over and give it a hearing. Some of them are already particeps criminis, so to speak, having consented to assist the people of Lawrence in organizing a choral society and putting on a concert. With the further assistance of a real, honest-to-grandma prima donna, the promoters expect to put on a classy show.
This concert will be unique in not including any Italian arias, any selections from Tannhauser, or any comic opera stuff. The seven or eight chorus numbers are all standard works, some of which we have all known and loved for years. Such well known writers of part songs as Frederic Field Bullard will be represented, and Moszkowski will contribute a vocal arrangement of one of his prettiest waltzes.
Best of all, the soloist is going to give most of her songs in English. From this it is seen that the backers of the new venture have spared no effort to make this a real popular concert. Their idea is to have as many folks as possible take part, and all the rest come out to hear them. And so they have put the price down until it is almost invisible, to make it possible for everybody to come.
This concert is for low-brows, high-brows, and students and anyone who misses it is cheating himself.
Chasing the Glooms
The cub wonders if they will beef at that beefsteak supper.
K. U. students now make it "Give us this day our daily grade."
All England is adopting the Epworth motto of "Look up."
True friendship, like a well-brushed tooth never decays.
Leander would have a real job if he swam the Hellesponnt now.
It is not John Bull that is in the China shop this time.
There is a certain class of professors on the Hill which makes a good match to the bluffing grafter of the class room. This prof is the bane of the existence of some of the real blue-stocked students up here, the Phi Beta Kappa kind, don't you know.
Pandora's Box
At last he finds an opportunity to shut off the enthusiastic professor. He makes a dash for the door and all the way across his mouth is full of *words* for the professor who takes so much of his valuable time.
"Won't you please inform me," he asks professor Long Wind, "just how to atomical diabosis of the mechanical gynickishaw takes place?"
Now, Mr. Phi Beta Kappa has absorbed all the lesson into the cramies of his fertile brain except one tiny point. Wishing to be made clear on this one particle of the lesson, he drops around to the desk of the instructor. He is in a hurry, for he must pass the campus and a prof waiting for him who always begins as soon as he gets there.
"Well, you see," says Professor Long Wind."—and then he goes into a long discussion not of the point in question at all, but of this, that and the other thing which has no bearing on the argument. And Mr. Student anxiously stands, first on one foot and then the other, wipes his glasses from his nose, impatiently through his poetical hair, while he thinks all the time of that class waiting him across the campus—miles and miles away.
LONG-WINDED PROFS
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The chances are that he gets a "two" in the course because he made that break for liberty.
Shots at Half-Cock Or Foolishment in Verse
TIME TO TOYH* Now is the time all men agree. To send the garden on a spree, And women raise a raucous shout To have the heater lifted out, The little chickies blithely peep. But students vainly pray for sleep. *Take off your heavies.*
TIME TO TOYH*
THE VARSITY MAN
From the K. U. Zoo
You have seen him all over the campus, and when you were a freshman, he was pointed out to you for your admiration, as the famous goal thrower of the basketball team, or the star quarterback for the Varsity. Then do you remember the time you went to College dance? Do you remember the thrills that raced through you as he took you up and started you off in a hesitation that made your heart nearly stop? Of course you told me that you could go on and that you were so glad to get to meet him and how wonderful you thought his playing was, and so on. Then when he asked you for a date, you remember how you wrote home to the folks and the girls and told them what they were so grateful and flattered that you couldn't sleep at night. Remember it all? Of course you do. And you remember how you used to go to the basketball or the football games and watch him and decide in your own mind that the Greek Gods have to speed to get anything on him.
If you are a man, your freshman feelings were different. Did you crave a speaking acquaintance with him? Did you decide that you would be just like him? Didn't you look at his K and resolve that you would take one and take our life or you count your college life a failure?
Phi Beta Kappa is an excellent thing to have attained, the office of chancellor is indeed an honor, the school's reputation goes way, but for honest-to-gooodness fame, celebrity and homage, there is no man that ever comes to college or wins a degree that can hold the position. Phi Beta Kappa does the BIG athlete of the Varsity.
Editor Kansan:
What is going to be done about College Day? This is a question often heard on the campus during the past week, and the consensus of the faculty is opposed to a day's vacation for the students of the College on the ground that they will not use it if it is granted. We must grant that College Day was not last year and that students of the College will not students of the College. But should the fact that, because students in the College in the year 1914 made a failure of College Day, be a criterion which shall forbid such a day ever being held, or it seems especially logical and it seems only fair that the students in the School at present be given another chance. Possibly the bunch is live enough this year that they could put a real College Day across that campus, but we are not but why not give them a chance and find out for sure?
Getting Freshmen's Number
Uppercaseclassen at the University of Minnesota are counting the number of freshman caps appearing on the floor during a pattern soddled daily. Each day the Minnesota Daily comes out with a box head telling the number of pony lids seen on the campus. The number Monday was 302. The yearlings are protecting against the minute dome-covers on the ground that they cannot tip their hats in time to play down their books and going through quite a tedious process. Uppercaseclassen remain stone hearted and the first-years comply with their superiors' demands.
Getting Freshmen's Number
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There is still time to make that date for the Hop.—Adv.
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