UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL STAFF
John M. Henry ... Editor-in-Chief
Raymond Haupt ... Supervisor Editor
Helen Hayes ... Associate Editor
William Cady ... Exchange Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
BUSINESS STAFF
J. W. Dyche...Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Leon Harsh
Gilbert Clayton
Charles Wheatley
Charles Sweet
Elmer Arndt
Louis Dahlquist
Louis Puckett
Chasier Patterson
GAL STAFF
John M. Gilliamer
John M. Glasermer
Don Dawar
Carolyn McNutt
Moore Nieland
Harry Murray
C. A. Browne
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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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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 at UCI, to go further than merely printing the text of courses on the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be generous; to have more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to help students identify the students of the University.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915
THE REASON WHY
One of the reasons advanced by the Senate for turning down the College Day was that it thought a few students who wanted a holiday were the ones doing the agitating. These "agitators" have now spent more time in planning the proposition than the holiday itself would grant.
Furthermore, if any group of students want a holiday what is to hinder their taking it? The rules regarding cuts are not so stringent as to prevent—their giving up one class.
If it is true that but a part of our education comes from books, and the rest from association, then College Day, with its mixing, picnic spirit is a part of our University education.
The view taken by the Senate is wrong. College Day is not being advocated to get out of four or five recitations, but for the purpose of cultivating unity and harmony in the big School.
Leaving out the facts that the Engineers have two holidays apiece, and the Laws and Pharmics one apiece, the College, with the largest enrollment in the University, should be given a chance to get acquainted with itself.
That is why College Day should be.
(AN OFFICE DISAGREEMENT)
Write an editorial showing the high school graduate and prospective first year men at the University the desirability and necessity of having a direct goal in view when entering the university. Explain how their minds about being lawyers, journalists, etc., before coming to K. U..J. M. H.
I can't do it, John Henry, for it seems to me this is a thing that should be checked rather than encouraged.
My idea of a college education is not that it should necessarily fit you to make a living the day you step out into the world with a sheepskin nailed on your back. Yet this is exactly what this plan would encourage the high school man to do. It would be inviting him to come into a little groove at the great University of Kansas and confine himself too narrowly to that groove.
Too many K. U. men and women are in that apathetic, almost tragic condition right now. Too many of them are wearing a triangle between home, the library and the class room, seeing little or nothing of the Greater University, in the effort to commercialize their residence at this institution.
In absorbing all this dollar-and-cent training which the University can give, many of us, probably the
most of us, are allowing one of the greatest of opportunities to slip. We deliberately turn down the chance to study men and women and substitute for it a knowledge of formulae or "logs" or what not, so long as it is in our own particular curvature.
We neglect communistic training for individualistic. In the words of James we do not, "Learn to know a good man when we see him." We go out into the world without the ability to analyze men. As a result many of us fall in our duties of citizens. If the college man is to become a constructive leader in the community he must have more than this specialized training.
But it is not necessary to go out into the world to point to specific examples. If more were here for a general education and less for a technical training, the present problem of student government would not be so engrossing. At present, the University of Kansas students are the only ones in this wide country, who are seriously considering giving up student government—many admitting that they have made a failure of it, while at other institutions, such as Wisconsin it is a great success.
No, John Henry, I'd advise every one of them to come here for at least a couple of years before specializing. If possible I'd urge them to take an A. B. first, but that is not always practicable. This isn't an idea shot at half cock. It is sound fact—witness the number of professional colleges which are being made graduate schools. Look at the number of law schools which require two, three and four years of college work before admission. Medical schools are in the same turn of mind and schools of journalism are rapidly moving in that direction.
It is to be doubted whether there is more than one high school boy in a hundred, who at the age of 19, can aptly decide upon his life work
E. R. C.
The baseball season these days is mostly in the air.
If once you fail remember the Braves.
Chasing the Glooms
Nor is the K. U. team so jitney either.
Thaw may not be crazy, but we'll bet that by this time he is thoroughly peeved.
And we didn't give Gen. Vic, a salute. Revenge is sweet.
Bryan may be a prohibitionist but he will have some task in proving himself not intemperate.
Perhaps the blindness of love is responsible for the numerous shocks accorded porch passersby since the event of spring.
Pandora's Box
"We have to be in by eight o'clock," you say as you are "idly paddling down."
Even a canoe trip or an auto ride shows a man's pluck and the right kick.
"By eight o'clock? Well, we have thirty-five minutes to do it in," the other man will say. "If you will just spend two minutes of those paddles, we can do it."
The man who is paying no attention at all to you in his effort to reach the dock in time is really giving you lots more fun, not to mention keeping you on your toes with a strict landlady. And your breathless hurrying is lots of fun. He makes you carry the pillows and kodak and other paraphernalia up from the landing place while he carries the canoe. And your wild dash to the car and the run up the Hill is more engaging when you land on your north in time.
TWO MEN
"We can never do it," one man will say, the kind who feels much more inclined towards leaning back and enjoying the moonrise and the dark water than working his muscles and getting hot.
The lazy man sits back in comfort and thinks you can't help but enjoy his conversation and witticisms more than you would a long silent pull for you. The boss's rules are more than compensated for by the pleasure of his company.
And with that he takes off his coat, rolls up his sleeves, and bends to the work. Perhaps he'd rather enjoy the night air in idle drifting, but he doesn't let that interfere with his steady paddling.
The lazy jaint up the Hill is so fraught with qualms of conscience at being late that you don't enjoy it at all.
Student Opinion
Manager W. O. Hamilton said yesterday that he is in favor of giving the freshmen baseball team sweaters and class numerals. This, of course, will be left for the committee to decide, but why shouldn't they give numerals? Numerals are given in all the other major sports. It gives the men an incentive to work harder and costs little but it. The university is demanding that you should make the most out of it when the only hindrance is a few dollars required to buy sweaters that the men have really earned.
Editor Kansan:
From the K. U. Zoo
J. K.
THE "COLLEGE" MAN
The college wise man is a fearsome creature. Especially to the hopelessly ignorant girl student, he is a thing to wonder at. He is usually tall and lean and distinguished looking. He can come slouching into class and hunch up in a seat on the front row, and proceed to go to sleep. At least to the uninformed, he appears asleep. Then the professor can pounce upon him and fire the hardest question you ever heard of ever before. You see, in his vision, but no! His soul comes in from out of the tree tops, and he tells you something that not even the professor had heard about.
Of course he gets . ONE in his quizzes, and when he sees the pitiful THREE that you tried so hard to get, and that you are feeling grateful for, he smiles a far up smile, and makes you feel that he thinks that is very good considering that you are only a girl.
Some time when you make a fierce mistake in class, and are all covered with confusion, he smiles at you that same tolerating smile, and remarks, that are you trying to take this course or any way. Its too hard for a girl."
The college wise man is all right, but he sure can make the plodding girl stude feel that perhaps higher for women is a mistake after all.
With the Knowledge Seekers Elsewhere
**Football is a Tame Game**
Women at the University of Illinois have been crippling each other up in hockies and up in around with limps and bandages just like the football heroes' do in the fall. Many of them have been taken from behin deh a hockey club that slipped out of some fair partner's hand and brought the team down to the head of another player. Interclass games are being arranged.
Kansas Alumni Might Wake Up
Alumni of Ohio University have recently started a campaign for $30,000 to erect dormitories at that institution. Alumni at the University of Michigan have organized a one per cent club each member pledging to will one per cent of his property to the University when he dies. Alumni of the University of Iowa rose up in arms against the proposed cut in the appropriations and secured a re-hiring of the bible from the university. If the University of Kansas graduates would get together, the Administration Building might be completed some time within the next century and the mill tax passed.
Compulsory Chapel at Penn
As a result of a petition signed by
bprominent undergraduates requesting
it, the University of Pennsylvania is
now holding compulsory chapel. The
convocations are held on Friday.
Each class attends the exercises
on a certain day during the
week, and the entire college on
Friday. The plan is said to be very
successful in creating a greater class
spirit as well as a better unity of
spirit in the university as a whole.
Compulsory Chapel at Penn
Certain students, dancers and otherwise, have circulated a petition among the student body of the University of Illinois, asking the faculty to command a return to the old-style waltz and two-step.
Don't Like New Dances
College Letter in Concern
The charter school of Hill will be selected as the site of the concrete "K" which is to be built by the four classes of the Kansas State Agricultural College. The "K" which will be of concrete will be 60 by 75 feet in size and will fill the roadways on the railroads. The estimated cost is $150. H. H. Cox of Eakridge, chairman of the student committee, is in charge of the work.
College Letter in Concrete
Paper Starts Prettier Campus Move "Keep Off The Grass" yells the Syracuse Daily Orange to its subscribers. A Campus Improvement team visits all students at the University are going to co-operate for a more beautiful campus. Each class is going to give vines and trees and every member of the student body is being asked to walk around to walk around, nasted of across.
Wonder how such a move would be received by some of "Kansas" shortstop Jeffery Jones.
Manufacturer Will Pay
Large number of college students and teachers $6 to $18 daily during summer vacation. Ear for music a help. Experience unnecessary—just energy. Give age and reference first letter. Samul C. Osborne, Masonic Temple, Chicago—Adv.
Complexion powders and creams at Barber's.—Adv.
Hyball Ginger Ale. The best by test. MeNish, Phone 198.—Adv.
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Arrow Shirt Sale
We are going to discontinue the selling of Arrow shirts so as to be able to give our customers the best possible value for the money. The announcement of our new lines will be made shortly. To close out the 655 Arrow shirts on hand we have made these startling reductions.
$1.50 Arrow Shirts now $1.15
$2.00 Arrow Shirts now 1.55
$3.00 Arrow Shirts now 2.35
$2.50 Arrow Shirts now 1.95
$3.50 Arrow Shirts now 2.85
$1.00 Monarch Shirts now .75
Better buy a dozen, it will pay you "A little farther up the street, a little less to pay"
Robert E. House 729 Massachusetts Street
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