UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Univer ality of Kansas
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanaan, 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.
FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915
Address all communications to
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone, Bell K. U. 25.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. Thackeray.
This is the season of the year when young men are interested but they don't know it.
K. U. students should be careful about letting their fancy run away with them with prices as they now stand.
If King George lived in Lawrence he would think twice about that water-wagon proposition.
GUESTS COMING
The University will again be the host to high-school students from various towns of the state when the Interscholastic track meet is held here on campus.
in all probability there will be eight or nine hundred students here at that time and preparations should begin at once to take good care of them. Many of them are prospective K. U. students and they should have an opportunity, in the school, to enter this school which will induce them to be more than ever anxious to come.
The whole student body ought to cooperate in giving these younger bretheren a warm reception and a pleasant visit. Arrangements ought to be made for lodging them in student homes in order that they may come closer to the University student body. The impressions many of them receive on this visit may decide whether they ever come on to college.
Notwithstanding the local state of prohibition Lawrence people and the University are at luger-heads over the water question.
Willard cleaned the Tar Baby but he ought to try Chem. II.
THE GAME OF GRACE
When it comes to destructitn the Chinese U-9 submarine isn't in it.
Archery, what romance has not been conjured around that word! But mention Diana, Robin Hood, Wilhelm Tell and the flood gates of romance are opened. And now the girls of the University of Kansas are joining the noble throng of archers. The Diana of Mt. Oread, though not in the flowing costume of her predecessor, will fit lightly from the west Gymnasium door over the green to the front of Fowler shapes and send the archers off the path to the target of admiring eyes—for the archery craft shows on the graceful lines of carriage and poise. Up-to-date Cupid has borne the name of the most adept archer, but let him have an eye to the maideness of Mt. Oread who take up as a sport what with him is a vocation.
Some people give money to the White Cross fund and others merely pledge.
CAMPUS MILITARISM
Recent discussions of national defense have given prominence to the question of military training in colleges and universities of the United States. Many leading authorities, including some college presidents, favor the plan of instituting compulsory drill on American campuses, especially at the state schools, while others are strongly opposed to it.
The Morril act of 1862 first instituted training at the land grant colleges of the United States by providing that military science should be included in the curriculum. This has resulted in the establishment, to date, of fifty-two colleges where one or more years of drilling is required. The President of the United States details a regular army officer to act as instructor at these colleges and the government forces nishes arms, equipment and amountition to the schools. This is the mostcommon form of campus militarism in this country.
However, in addition to the land grant schools, many others have for one reason or another taken up the military work. Some because the governing body thought it advisable and some through freak legislation, as was the case at the University of Washington, where a legislator, who had been holding up the school appropriation, finally assented to its passage if military drill were instituted, and his amendment was, of necessity, accepted and passed.
Such institutions also receive the services of retired government officers as well as equipment, providing one or more fifty or more cadets are being trained.
The land grant schools are not held up to any standard work. For example, at Missouri University drill is required but one year and may be substituted for gymnastic work at the conclusion of two semesters. Otherwise the student must drill two years, but is virtually the second in grade to graduate by the requirement of fees. California requires two years work, three days a week, and the Oregon Agricultural College students drill during the entire course of their college career and every college day in the year unless they obtain special dispensation.
Some advocate(s of the adoption of this work argue merely from the premise that the safety of the nation requires it while others uphold it also because the physical training resultant is valuable and reaches a greater number than athletic exercise, upon which we now depend.
Dean Blackmar, has been quoted as sponsoring substitution of military drill for gymnastium work. On the other hand, some hand that colleges and universities can best provide for national safety by creating public opinion against war, and that the forced military instruction would stimulate and create the opposite desire and cause carriage to be more probable. These point to the need for a modern, individual drill is required of the student have found it necessary to supplement the military exercises with corrective gymnastics.
It is significant that at New York University, where the matter came to a head soon after the discussion was begun, the students showed that they were strongly opposed to drill by forming an Anti-Militaristic Club, which plans to work for universal peace. This organization was not the first of its kind for Cornell, Columbian, Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Trinity, and others have similar organizations.
Why is it that opportunity is never criticised for being a knocker?
No, the point system is not designed to puncture ambition.
FOR A NEW COMMENCEMENT
Under a plan which would excuse seniors from final examinations the second semester, in case their work measured up to a standard of grade 14, the only serious objection urged against the new style of commencement would be removed. Few senior examinations would be necessary and these could be given earlier than the others with little extra work by instructors.
It would then be possible to hold commencement exercises before the end of the semester while the student body was still on the campus and to furnish for the commencement crowd a great spectacle enjoyable alike to alumni and students. It is a plan that is gaining favor in universities and is worthy of more serious consideration than has been given to it here.
MAKE BOATING SAFE
As the Nile required yearly victimism as a sacrifice, the Kansas river at Lawrence has demanded and received in many past years the lives of students who were already ready this spring there has been one narrow escape from a drowning accident.
In spite of the fine opportunity the broad surface of this river affords for sport, each year the attempts at making it a joy center are frustrated by accidents due to the carelessness on the part of those who go out in boats. Foolhardiness spoils a legitimate sport for boating; it is also a form of discretion from those who go canoeing on the Kaw? Let boat rockers stay on the shallow end of Potter Lake.
A few minutes spent in watching the Chinese swat the ball will convince anyone that it is all a fable about their using chick sticks.
Nutt--Jinks made the baseball team last week.
Nutt—Good nuthin'. He broke his leg the day after he made the team.
Nut—Bad matinh'. He got excused from all classes with v皈il and met a pepo of his own.
Mutt—Ah, that's good!
Nutt—Good nuthin'. He had to marry the nurse.
Nutt—Bad nuthin'? The nurse owned an apartment house worth $10,000.
A SONG
Butt—Good nuthin'! "The building nutted down the day after he married her."
Mutt—My, that's bad!
And I, too, sing the song of all creation:
A brave sway and a gild wind blowing by
the sway of her heart.
A long day and the joy to make it飞;
A hard task and the muscle to achieve it
A fierce nose, and a well-connected glom
A still night and the red lights of home
TENNYSON.
Did you face the trouble that came your way
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or turn your soul from the light of day
With a cavern soul and fearful?
Oh, a trouble's a tom o'ta a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it;
But it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only—how did you take it?
HOW DID YOU DIE?
You're beaten to earth? 'Well, well, what's that— come up with a smiling face!'
It's nothing against you to be knocked flat, But to lie there—that's disgrace.
The harder you're thrown the higher you bounce. Be proud of your blackened eye!
It isn't the fact that you are hurt that counts, but how did you fight—and why?
And tho' you be done to death, what then?
If you did the best that you could,
If you played your part in the world of men,
Why, the Critic will call it good.
Death comes with a cray, or comes with a pounce,
But whether 'tis slow or spry,
It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,
But only—how did you die*³
OUR DEHORNED CATFISH
(From Billy Morgan's Jayhawker in Europe)
"That reminded me of a Kansas fish story which I introduced to the audience in 1982 of the bred of hornless catfish which has been bred near the Bowersock dam at Lawrence. Some years ago Mr. Bowersock who owns the dam which furnishes catfish for the brewer conceived the idea that big Kaw river catfish going through the mill-race and onto the waterwheel added much to the power generated. Then he read that the river was so shallow so he hired a man with an accordion to stand over the mill-race and play.
"These fish not only turn out to hear the music but they have learned to enjoy the trip through the mill-rise and over the wheel so that every Sunday or offender who families of catfish—or whatever else they all know—bowers's dam to shoot the chutes something as people go out to ride on the eenie railway."
"The catfish came from up and down stream to hear the music and almost heard the drum, the wheel and increased the power. The fishes' horns used to get entangled in the whee and injure the fish, so Mr. Cray was always very persistent had a lot of the fish caught and dehorned and in a year or two he had a large herd of horriness
Undergraduate Reactions
Sh- "I don't it strange that the length of a man's arm is equal to the circumference."
He—"Let's get a string and see."
All Gaul is divided into three parts and the professor who assigns a quiz on the Monday following a football game owns two-thirds of the supply.
He—Gee, the new dance hall has a neach of a floor.
She- Then why do you dance on my feet?
- How's everything?
Jupr-er, Ohi-
sie's all right--Ohio
Sun-Dial.
"What is the trouble between Van Cliff and I," I thought she was the right of life, her.
Frost—How's everything?
"So she was; but she went out too much." Columbia Jester.
"18 writing home)—Dear Dad, send me $500. Money makes the mare go hard." The mailmail Yours received. Enclose $20. That ought to be enough for a jack ass.
Nip - I fell last night and struck my head on the piano.
Nip-No; luckily I hit the soft pedal. Stanford Chaparrel
For a movect the beaver maid was silent, then, coyly slappin her tail on the bank, she whispered: "Then you do for me, for me, after all." — California Pelican.
"My love," said the beaver, passion-
ous in her voice in my newly built
house in the street.
EDMUND VANCE COOKE
"What is the technical name for
sorption?"
Every now and then we have to help out our advertisers so here goes:
strangulation by his collar.
Ash! An Arrow escape—Yale News.
out our advertisers so here goes:
Ebert (what a name) was savedfrom
Engineer—You ken? Ken you read mine?
Mutt — I pass! — W·liams Purple Cow
Caesar (cutting himself) — D !"""""""""""""""""
    - Wait, there's a space after "Purple Cow".
    - Let's check the whole line again.
    - Mutt — I pass! — W·liams Purple Cow
Caesar (cutting himself) — D !"""""""""""""""""
    - Wait, there is a space after "Purple Cow".
    - Let's check the whole line again.
    - Mutt — I pass! — W·liams Purple Cow
Caesar (cutting himself) — D !"""""""""""""""""
Clapurnia (without) → What ho,
m'lord!
"Sheet Music." - Princeton Tiger.
Grace. "Have you seen that new
serial in the "Saturday Evening Post"?
Yes, but not oatmeal suits me at right.
Psychology Maj—1 can read minds.
Ccasar—What hoe? **Hoe how?**
Jillette, dama iti Jillette—Chaparral.
*
Pay.—Certainly.
Eng…Why don't you hit me,
then?—Chagarwal.
COMMUNICATIONS
HE LIKED "MAN FROM HOME"
The K. U. Dramatic Club and the department of public speaking both deserve congratulations on the way "The Man From Home" was put on. I believe I am voicing the sentiment of a large proportion of those who saw the play when I say that it is the best performance. I say that the University in the last few years.
The work of Frank McFarland and Pat Crowell was better than that of some so-called professionals I have seen. One who saw Thursday night's performance will tell you that nematics are on the decline at Kansas.
GIVE US FAIR WARNING
To Ha Dolly Kengon.
As the general catalog of the University is about to be printed and sent to the seniors of the high schools, a little attention to the statement of college could not be out of place. On page 318 of the 1913-14 catalog, the incidental foe for seniors of the three second course was the annual year course in Pharmacy is stated as being ten dollars for residents of the state. When I enrolled as a senior in pharmacy, I received ten dollars. However, I found the authorities paid no attention to the catalog statement (although it was brought to their attention) but charged
As the catalog is practically the only way which the high school senior have for courses they want, students in different courses, such statements should be corrected or charges made according-
"Stung.
ON USING THE LIBRARY
To the Daily Kansan:
Perhaps I have died and did not know it, or perhaps I have been sleeping; at any rate at the end of two years I find the value from the library. I believe the cause is simply that I could never learn about my life in general locations of the different classes of books, except by floundering around and finding out for myself. I believe I can teach students, especially the first year men, if a complete set of the library regulations and some other information is found in the catalog or student directory.
Biblio.
FOUL BALL OR STRIKE?
he Daily Kansan:
A suggestion to the manager of the baseball team: let's have five bases in our Varsity ball games - they have four and one, we must avoid traints of professionalism.
I am a follower of baseball and would have liked very much to see the Varsity game, but it was too early. The games were scheduled to be played, out came a story that, due to objections on the part of the Agie management on the team, they had not been given games had to be cancelled. Later, Lowman denied that he had made any such a kick, but the games had been canceled.
Now I am wondering. Can someone help me out?
HATS OFF!
To the Daily Kansan:
When we go into another man's house, we never think of leaving on our hats. When we go into a church, our heads are bared; when we pass a lady on the street, we look at her with pay respect, our hats are lifed. Yet, every day, in our own halls, hundreds of us rush through on our way to classes or business trips, and that there is due to this institution certain respect which could be demonstrated so easily by this one little act. I have heard strangers remark at this point of etiquette but what do I say? A. O. H.
A MISANTHROPE
I wist I wuz a crow's egg,
I wist I wuz a bad one.
wist! I was a bad one,
I wist there we a small boy a-climbing
wist there wuz a small boy a-climbin'
up the tree;
I wist he'd climb and climb an' modly
sheht he bad one:
I'd burst my shell With horrid smell
An' cover him with me
G. MAYO.
WHAT OTHER COLLEGE EDITORS ARE SAYING
TRADITIONS VS. INSTITUTIONS,
How often are traditions confused with institutions! The recenta pass a resolution establishing Convocation and Invocation, promptly begins to talk about the new tradition. The student council authorizes the wearing of toques thereby creating a new institution, which is so-called new "tradition" takes hold.
There are great differences between traditions and institutions. Traditions are practices that grow up without restraint or regulation; institutionally, they tend to constitute bodies acting in their official capacities. The Michigan Daily.
THE INSTRUCTOR WHO FAILED
An instructor's profession is teaching. His duty is to help men to learn, to inspire them with interest for his subject, and to aid them to work and pass his course. Undoubtedly he should not smooth away every rough place in his pupil's path, for the overcoming of difficulties and the solving of problems. In general, the game of study as well as of the game of life. Yet the teacher is placed in the classroom as an aid, not as an obstacle.
Young instructors frequently assume an antagonistic attitude toward their men. They try to find how much a man does not know, rather than to help him to know more, because it takes them "marks," they take the ground that each man is trying to pass their course with as little work as possible," and that it is their duty to prevent him. Their attitude antagonizes and repels the interest of most of their students. The work of their class is no more satisfactory than would be the work of a team which disliked its coach.
We quote from the Alumni Review of December 1999, the following anecdote concerning James H. Canfield, '88 Chancellor of the University of Nebraska. Toward the close of the college year a young tutor of mathematics came into the Chancellor's office and asked whether he was to be reappointed for another year. The Chancellor said, "Well, what do you yourself think of your work? What have you done that you would like to teach?" I swerved, "Mr. Chancellor, I have just held such a stiff examination in my course that I have funkied sixty members of the freshman class." The chancellor looked at him kindly and said, "Young man, suppose I gave you a herd of one hundred cattle to drive them into the field. You came in to tell me that you had driven them so fast, and so hard and had made such good time, that 60 per cent of them died on the way. Do you think that I should want you to drive any more cattle to the Missouri River?" Yes, we did. "Well, I do not think we will let you drive any more freshmen."—The Williams Record.
ACQUAINTANCE THROUGH COMPETITION
Many a friendship is made in college through the competitions of college activities. One of the best things which contestants carry away from the gridiron, the debate platform, or the dramatic stage, is the friendship and associations of their competitions. The greatest are those where the longest are those which center around occasions when student opposes student in the fight for places on the various teams. The opportunities thus arising may be cited as among the greatest reasons for the existence of so-called college activities. And further, the fact that such opportunities make the appeal to enter them all the more strong and warranted—The Daily Orange, Syracuse University.
SPLENDIDLY NULL
Plain people, unaided by the supernatural, without overpowering insight, often claim to perceive what they call the "Yale type," over which gushing girls gently rave. Nobody ever describes this precious type; but everybody knows that it wears correct clothing, and doesn't pass passim on its form. It smiles discreetly, and silently; and sometimes it has tremendous dumb energy. Of this type, there are hundreds, with no more variation than the eggs of a hen. It is perfectly good; but is offensive in being utterly inoffensive. It is never wrongly enthusiastic, because it is never enthusiastic. It never has heretical thoughts, because it does not give forth ideas with all the precision of a parrot. And it has nearly the mental power of the original Yale Bull Dog.
Physically, this "Yale Type" was once rather aggressive, like the Bull Dog. But now it is not aggressive at all and prefers to stay in the mud; and then uses all its energy trying painfully to conform to itself. It has no aspirations beyond itself, no ambitions beyond the goal of men most typical of it have often acquired positions where sufficient in
tellect to purchase or sort tickets is positively required. The simple populace observes that these captains of undergraduate industry, at the top of the type, use their predecessors' brains wherever possible; and the simuli are more likely to conform than the "Yale type" then becomes a dumb show. But it is so powerful that it blights or discourages even healthy originality, where a man has his own idea and opinions. The work in the curriculum does not encourage it. The type must stay prosac and dull; the type must take undergraduation conform to it, they conform to mental mediocrity, which this type glorifies.
But the greatest trouble with the "Yale type" is not that it encourages "faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null" mentality; but that it is willingly satisfied with itself skims its few pages. It struggles for its little positions and its little fame. It worries itself into unhappiness. It absorbs the froth of knowledge and gains practically no mental power without it they may who conforms to it really thin thatisting the best possible education. By his complacency, and his laziness, every such man is dragging on the few of mind and purpose. And many of this pseudo-Yale-type are criticisms that they should be prayerfully improving or criticising themselves.-The Yale News.
THE COLLEGE KIDDER
Of the characteristics of the college man of today, the one which is perhaps the most distinctly marked is the ability and habit of "kidding," a practice redeemed to a great extent by the training which the college man has received. He is good as he receives. A man who has spent four years in an American institution of higher education is usually prepared for practical jokes of every known species, and for "kiding"; clever, asinine, subtle or punitive; witty, asinine, subtle or punitive; ruffled by a jest, as a hippopotanus is put to flight with an airgun.
The college man is an intellectual silk-worm. About his real self, by a process of years, he has woven a thread of manner, of joke and jest, so long and deep, that it is seldom that he has interacted with within. His heart is anywhere but on his 'sleeve. And few would have it otherwise.
But, growing out of such an attitude towards the men with whom he comes daily in contact, the college man has reached an extreme. So long have his daily conversations and chats at the dinner table or in his study been more "kidding matches" that in many cases he has lost his power to talk logically, consistently, upon a topic of any nature more seriously than a game of the Varsity's chances against Penn. And, if perchance he has that power, he is afraid to use it, knowing well that the opening of any serious topic means the receipts of a choice and assorted collection of wit.
Picture a group of men in a fraternity or boarding house engaged in talking over a matter of any importance. The conversation is becoming interesting and logical. The men are intellectually on edge. Of a sudden a rustling sound is heard. The house baboon, scenting his opportunity, utter his racial noise and swings nimblely. In the middle of an ineductible seriousness is at an end. The rest of the group, from force of habit join in with that species of comment that can only be described as "dlerer." The subject is forgotten.
Undoubtedly this results from one or two men, college simians whose capacity for "cleverness" is greater than whom they come in contact, and who cannot allow an opportunity for the exercise of this faculty go by unheeded. They have a melancholy reward. It may be taken as a joke, it is impossible to look upon them seriously. The humor of the old circus conversation has its touch of pathos. "Why did Jones become a clown?" make the tattest answer. "What happened to the life of the party," answers he bearded woman.
Such a situation which tends to toward the discouragement of any serious discussion among undergraduates is no small contributor to that intellectual slovenness which educators declare to be perhaps the paramount problem in American universities. The undergraduate program is ? His textual occupations the Saturday Evening Post always, and some of the monthly magazines. The remainder of his reading course usually retails at $1.08 per volume.
No one would ask that the dinner meeting of students should resemble an undertakers' convention. But once in a white a serious thought outside of school, I found myself having little wit could be well exchanged for a bit of real intellect—Cornell Sun.
He stood on the bridge at midnight And hindered my sweet repose; For he was a big mosquito
And the bridge was the bridge of my nose