UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Leon Harsh    Ames Rogers
Gilbert Clayton  John M. Gleisner
Leon Harsh    T. M. Foster
Charles Sweet   Don Davis
Elmer Arndt   Carolyn McNutt
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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.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1915
HE WILL REMEMBER
When the student leaves the school he will remember the feeds and football games, proms and hops, parties and receptions, all the lighter more joyous side of the life. But he will also take with him a bit of the serious man and woman-making phases of the school, the courses, exams, especially the chapel exercises, when for a few minutes before the day's work begins he stops for reflection on the reasons why.
Morning prayers are as essential to the life of the student, and will be appreciated, as much as any athletic contest that ever thundered on McCook.
Those twenty-fives, five mornings a week will come to the student more times, we daresay, than the old Missouri game. He may not reminisce with friends about it, but when he is alone, and thinking the things that determine him, the 'old morning prayers will come up.
HEALTH AND HABITS
How often we hear the expression, "He would have been a great man but cutting the candle finally got him." Men, born to be protagonists in art, in literature, in military circles, or even in the world of sport, have passed away, disappointed at their failure to produce that which they were capable of, all because of physical negligence.
And in most cases it has been the failure to form right habits that has placed them in this dilemma. The older we grow, the more set our methods, hence it is the more essential that we form right habits. Aristotle recognized this trism in the Rhetorica when he wrote, "That to which we have been accustomed becomes, as it were, a part of our nature."
Although the average college man believes Locke when he says, "A sound Mind in a sound Body, is a short but full description of a happy State in this World," there are few who put the knowledge into practice. Many of us are at times prone to spend the better part of the night at the dance. An even greater number have no regard for our diet, except that it be temporarily pleasing, and sacrifice our well being to satisfy that desire.
But the greatest harm from wrong habits that befalls the college man—and this applies to the woman too,—during the four years of residence on a university campus is that resultant from the prevalent practice of idling away the best working hours of the day and then laboring far into the
right and "we sma" hours of the morning in paying for the pleasure. It is the student who tries to make up this loss, that will eventually suffer. He who idles away the day and sleeps that part of the night not taken up with revelling or small things, will soon enough be consigned to innocuous desuetude by the world.
WILLIAM R. NELSON
The passing of Col. W. R. Nelson leaves a place in the ranks of newspaper men that will not easily be filled. For thirty-five years the sturdy figure has been prominent in the forefront of every battle waged against the forces of evil. In all that time Col. Nelson or The Star—the names are practically synonymous in the general mind—has been fighting away like a veritable Light Brigade, undaunted by the number and strength of the enemy, by the long chances of success, by any consideration whatever apart from the attainment of the end in view.
For years The Star has covered Kansas and Missouri like a blanket and has undoubtedly influenced more people than any other one paper in this section. It has never lacked enemies, but for the most part they were causes for self-gratulation on the part of the editor. He felt, and rightly, that the opposition of certain interests was the best possible recommendation in the minds of all good people.
There have not been lacking among Colone! Nelson's friends many who deplored his judgment and some of his views at the same time that they accorded his warm heart and patriotic spirit the fullest measure of admiration. The very zealousness that animated him sometimes contrived to lead him into error. But never was a lost cause defended by a more gallant champion; and never was there a better loser.
Whatever anyone might think of the Star's policies and Nelson's politics, no one would attempt to deny his absolute and unfaltering honesty; his indomitable energy; his public spirit and broad vision; and the lofty ideal of service that justified his life. The loss to Kansas City and to this entire section is mitigated only by the fact that many men have consciously imitated him, have caught a part of his vision, and are ready to take up the fight where he laid it down.
SOPHOMORES SHOULD CHANGE
The adoption of some plan for the Junior Prom as outlined by Bryan Davis, co-manager of the event this year, should be made by the sophomore class before the year is ended.
If the present plan is retained, and class after class goes in the hole on the event, the time is not far when the managers will begin cutting down on the money spent on the Prom to make expenses. Then the Prom will cease to be one of the big social affairs of the Hill.
The sophomore officers of this year could give no greater service to the class than arrange, before the end of the year, for the submission of a plan similar to that of Davis, to the students.
Tango has become too barbarous for refined Euvepo, and Paris will soon do away with it.
The mobilization of water wagons now will be considered the equivalent of a declaration of war.
The Chicago News says Kansas is the most optimistic state in the Union. It pours or two acre it. It was growing about as fast, a few months ago its snowstorm.
To prove that Kansas is the mother of Jesse Willard—"Who ever heard the saga?"
EVER IMAGINE THIS?
The Heroine Muses:
Chasing the Glooms
Shots at Half-Cock Or Foolishment in Verse
The Heroine Musses:
It wouldn't be bad to in the pen.
Or have a name like Some Chi
ken;
Or I could endure to flunk a few,
Or I could endure to flunk a few,
Or join a frat like Mew Cat Mew;
It wouldn't kill me to break some
FACULTY CAPS AND GOWNS
Editor Kansas;
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or draw a Coke made out of dregs,
But I would go and flip the flips.
If I should lose my Rose Bud Lips
Student Opinion
I should like to add my little mite to the agitation for the wearing of caps and gowns on Commencement Day by the faculty. I am sure I voice the sentiment of many other seniors as well in saying that the class would highly appreciate this action of the faculty to make a commitment a success. The class this year has begun early to plan for Commencement exercises, and anticipates a week far better than those of recent years, at least, in interest and general participation. Picture the long line of faculty members marching over to the Gym, clad in the black uniform, carrying the diplomas of seniors, and consider how much dignity and interest this feature would add.
A Senior
It is said that a few members of the faculty have objected, on the ground that they do not wish to do anything that sets them apart from the ordinance of the state of the world of business. Surely, the wearing of this costume for two hours or so, one day of the year, to help make the Commencement exercises dignified and impressive, would not be sufficient to the fellow men." It would bring them CLOSER to their fellow citizens of the graduating class.
Flames From the Bush
PROFESSORUS HUMANUS Do you think that all professors are a kind of unapproachable, inhuman collection of being who also can prove to you that they are not only good sports but real friends.
PROFESSORUS HUMANUS
The other night I met a woman who is a member of the faculty at the University. "I'm glad to know you, Miss Jones," she said in a very unflattering tone. "I am amazed of your sorority sisters in my classes and I have heard them speak of you as 'Peg' so much that to meet you as 'Miss Jones' seems queer." Do you wonder why I want to get a class from who those who takes that much interest in us?"
Then the other night at the Junior Prom one supposedly dignified professor said after he had shaken hands with me, "I like your dress. That shade of pink is very becoming." Who wouldn't like him?
But this is my crowning example. I was going down Massachusetts street the other day, all dressed up in a white shirt and a tall skirt when I passed a man I considered my best human professor. He spoke and then after I had passed he called after me with a phone and a button on the back of your cost." I'd do anything for that man!
SPELLING AS A FINE ART
The dean of the faculty of arts and sciences of Harvard University, in his latest official report on the work being done in the department, deals with problems of literacy among undergraduate and teachers; and his frankness and humor make college officials use better English in their lectures, formal discourses and reports, will they really be in a safe position to challenge the lack of student mastery of English that is "correct, coherent and idiomatic." Livermore has many a professional, in theory at least, is in no position to throw stones.
But of course a department of English in a college or university is bound to face, meet and conquer any defects of its own methods in developing a literate body of students out of the graduates of the preparatory schools and the youths that comprise our nation's intellectual horizon. Hence Dean Le Baron R. Briggs in his report resolutely grapples with the momentous fact that the "proportion of intellectual persons who cannot spell appears to have increased." And this, too, when the number of persons who can read is so much larger relatively than it used to be. Undoubtedly new methods of reading, spoken, and spoken, do account in part for the increase of undergraduates at Harvard who write "niques" for "eggs" and who, in their examination papers, refer to Portia as a "wethey aeris". But that cannot account for the Harvard professor—one of the world's greatest scholars, so Dean Briggs who prepares them for teaching. He was educated when spelling was taught with disciplinary effect and not left to "impressionism," and yet he errs.
Fortunately for the Harvard youth that are instructive "bad spellers," the teachers of English at the university know that a thesis man is good at writing national misspelled words. There is food for thought in Dean Briggs's statement that "Many persons, who write better than the most critical of us, spell worse, and the most打印机 to spell for them." He might have added "and the ateo-earrorer."
Two practical aspects of the matter of correct spelling of English will occur to a reflective person. One is the need of standardization among persons who use the language, for British and American usage are not the same; and just in proportion as periodicals and books gain international circulation within the empire and the republic is there the need of concert of custom in spelling words some of which even writers with the smallest vocabularies must use. At satisfactory conditions are far from satisfactory.
Yet again, it should be noted that many educators are coming to believe that the schools exaggerate the number of students they need to know how to spell correctly.
Boston, for instance, at the present time is radically lowering its standards in this respect. Throughness within a limited but useful field is now sought for, rather than superficiality in the larger one. Youth and maturity are to be trusted to teach ambitious and cultured readers and writers the spelling of words that children and average adults seldom use in correspondence, and even less frequently in their talk—C. S. Mon-
First Dame—What does "Prom" mean, Vera?
Second Dame—I heard say it meant starvation for a month.—Froth.
Pure sparkling soda in clean glasses at Barber's Drug Store.-Adv.
Going to put away your furs?
Meeting with Dr. Avery at Wilton's Drug Store...-Adv
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