UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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John M. Henry
Raymond M. Manage-
ing Editor
Helen Hayes.
Associate Editor
William Cady.
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BUSINESS MANAGER
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REPORTORIAL STAL
REPORTORIAL STAFF
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Bilbert Clayton JON Muller
Guy Scriverner J. OW Muller
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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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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the text on paper of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the text on paper of the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be carefree; to leave more serious problems to wiser heads, in all, to help students to identify the students of the University.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1915
EDUCATION
On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated. "As much," he replied "as the living are to the dead.
While the eminent philosopher may have been correct in this assumption, it is certain that such an attitude has hampered more than one young college graduate as he sauntered out into the world, proudly displaying a sheepskin on his back.
If there are any who leave the college campus without this understanding, holding knowledge to be but an ornament, they will undoubtedly remain too narrow to recognize it as a refuge in adversity.
It is considerable of a "come-down" when the sophomore's academic illusion, that a college degree in itself is assurance of worldly success, bursts and grows into a realization that William James treated the matter most forcibly when he said, "the best thing an education can hope to accomplish for you is that it should help you know a good man when you see him."
But it is the man who understands the situation in its entirety, who realizes that an education is but a stepping stone to higher service and who enters 'be active life with confidence that his industry will be augmented by this college training, that will eventually reap to the fullest extent.
OUR SUGGESTION
Acting on the Student Council's wish that any suggested changes in the point system schedule be made through the columns of this paper the Kansan submits the following schedule of point for the offices of the publication:
Editor-in-chief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Managing-manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Business-manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Circulation-manager. . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Advertising-manager. . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Board members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
This schedule is recommended by a majority of the Daily Kansai Board.
"SASSIETY" AT K. U.
Ordinarily the social life of our University is distinguished by a most democratic simplicity and a wholesome lack of ostentatiousness and pretence. Of course every week-end has its quota of parties, of varying degrees of informality, and what with five movie shows and an amusement park, the socially inclined never have to complain of being "all dressed up and no place to go." But on only two occasions we burst forth into pomp and circumstance. Needless to say, we refer to the Junior Prom and the
Sophomore Hop.
The one has just irradiated the surrounding landscape with its customary blaze of glory. The other is about to furnish an anti-climax more effective than such things usually are. For weeks, nay, months, we have heard and read of little save decorations, music, eats, distinguished guests, fares, and petitions in bankruptcy. The worst is now over, but not until after April 30 will we enjoy perfect peace.
Since a time when the memory of man runeth not to the contrary, the Prom has held first place in the list of University social functions. On the eventful date the Gym is transformed into a regular second act grand opera setting; the girls blossom into elaborately beautiful girl bows; and the men—most splendid sight of all the magnificent spectacle—array themselves in formal attire for the admiration of the populace. A benevolent ruling declares cabs taboos, making possible the pre-Prom parade that gives Lawrence an idea of the board walk at Atlantic City on Easter.
As for the Prom itself—we refer you to the news columns. A description of it is beyond the power of a mere editorial writer.
The Hop is of more recent origin, but is coming to hold an important place in the short and simple annals of the poor stude. It is not quite so stupendous, not so overpoweringly gorgeous, but it is no scrub party, either. Indeed in the minds of a few individuals the Hop is about as big for its size as the Prom is for its. The principal difference, at least of those visible to the naked eye of the innocent bystander, is that the men wear blue coats and white trousers, and the estimated financial loss to the promoters is not so large. (No, we don't mean that there is any connection.)
If there be anyone—which Heaven forbid!—so unappreciative of real value as to ask the use and reason of these two events, we would say that the social training received here is not the smallest part of a college education, and that a formal party furnishes an education in "How to behave and why," not to be found anywhere else. Men and women going out into the modern world without such training are at a disadvantage. Their education is not quite complete. For this and for other more personal reasons, within the comprehension of every student, we say "On with the Prom! Nine rafs on the Hop!"
WHEATON'S SPIRIT
One of the greatest things Jack Wheaton brought <u>to</u> McCook was the spirit which did away with pro-fanility in athletics.
The hash house games should go on with the same spirit. Of course one feels there is provocation for an oath when the ball goes, out for a homer when the bases are full, but the Kansas Varsity football team practiced and played for the honor of the school all last fall, without profanity and the other athletic squads are carrying on the work. There is no reason why a hash house player should not be as much a gentleman.
Mayor-elect Thompson, of Chicago, threatens to give every person in Chicago a job. Don't we envy him? seniors that graduate this year!
Let us be thankful that our starry perspective these beautiful nights contains no Zeppelins.
Chasing the Glooms
Billy Sunday says he has taken a
census of hell. Checking up on the
things that happen to him,
No, roomie, that big whack you beard Saturday was the crack of the wheel.
The war will please wait while we glance at the sport page.
Shots at Half-Cock
Pandora's Box
WOULDN'T YOU?
Or Foolishment in Verse
Or a Peanut Eclair with a drop of tar?
Or even a chicken dressed up as a
peanut.
And put on the menu as Breast of Neck.
I'd trade every wish and a live raconte.
For moonlight nights from 'n till
the sunrise.
If a wish were a Smooth or a Yorshey
THAT NEWSPAPER KISS
A daring theft was wrought last night
On darling little Rose:
He stole something he wanted right
Beneath her heart
——Philadelphia Press
Tis to be hoped that if fair Rose
Returned the blissful smack,
Jack didn't overlook a bet
But turned and kissed her back.
——Houston Post
That may be as they do the job
Down in the sunny South
But if Jack lived here in the North,
He'd kiss her on the mouth.
——The Commoner.
Yet Jack perhaps had little glee,
Though on the mouth he kissed her
We have as yet no proof, you see,
That Rose was not his soul.
——The Commoner. Times.
If she was as he has guessed,
Jack's sweet mottled little sister,
The thing that worries us the most
Is that the Globe man missed her.
——Kansas City Gibe.
But if it was a Kansas girl,
She'd use cold cream, dear,
And when Hook went to kiss her lips
He'd skid and kiss her ear.
——University Daily Kansan.
A K. U. man may like, 'tis true,
A kiss upon the ear;
But had Jack been a Winfield boy,
He would have learned to steer.
Winfield H. S. Oracle.
The Winfield had never need to steer
To kiss his little eye.
But had Jack been in Atchison,
Irse would have steered herself.
——The Optimist.
If in our own Crumbine's Hygiene
Our Jack had been well versed,
He would have kissed her on the chee
And thus used "Say Yeah, Breast."
—Mead Tattler.
If she were a Fort Hays girl
Oh! Tattler's cautious Jack.
Antiseptic rouge upon her lips
You'd get your safety smack!
——Fort Hays Leader.
But if she were a student
In the School of Libera Art.
The K. U. man would kiss her
'Cause it would ease her achin
heart.
Then if she were a student
In the School of Engineering
A kiss he would dare to take
Because of them they're leaving
But if he were a student
In the noble School of Laws
He'd then and there remove his pipe
And kiss her—why?—oh, because.
Student Opinion
LET'S QUIT IT
I am very much interested in the stand you have taken in the matter of the defacement of the University property. I wish to congratulate you, and state that there now is a champion, the chair, table tops, walls and approaches to University buildings. When I first came to K. U., I was shocked, to put it mildly, at the artistic (?) carvings on the approach to Fraser Hall. By the time I had wandered through a dozen or more classrooms my sensibility felt that benamed by the wonderful markings I found on chairs and tables.
By looking at our floors, one would think that our students spill gallons of water.
S seriously, fellow students, let's quit this habit of whitting chairs with our jack knives and marking chain arms, not the backpacks. When you penilc it. It looks too childish. And if the nervous members of our faculty do the same we should not feel compelled to follow such examples any more than we do the way they play cards.
Yours for the protection of state property.
Speaking the Kansas Language
H. R. Brown
Running a newspaper is just like running a hotel, only different. When a man goes into a hotel and finds something on the table which does not match his taste, he easily withs the landlord and tell him to stop his old hotel. Well hardly. He sets that dish to one side and wades into the many dishes that suit him. It is different with some newspaper readers, who do not suit themselves, that does not suit them exactly and without stopping to think it may please hundreds of other readers, make a grandstand play and tell the editor how the paper should be put into it. But such people are becoming fewer every year.-Wilson World.
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER
"Kansas always wins. She grew the champion wheat crop of all the world last year. She produced the champion race horse, the champion cow, the champion alpaca, the alpaca crop. She has produced the champion baseball pitcher, chess player and checker player, and now she has added to the list the champion prizefighter. I presume the liquor interests will be now owned by Kansas to prove that prohibition is a failure in Kansas." -Salina Journal.
Kansas Weather
At first it rained, and then it blew.
And then it friz and then it thew,
And then it snew, and rained;—and
then
It blew, and snew, and threw again.
—Balance Sheet.
Pure sparkling soda in clean
glasses at Barber's Drug Store.—Adv.
Hyball Ginger Ale. The best by test, McChiln. Phone 192–Adv.
Professor of Chemistry—If anything should go wrong in this experiment, we and the laboratory with us might be blown sky high. Come gentlemen, so that you may be better able to follow me—Balance Sheet.
Encouraging
A. D. S. Peroxide Cream, the original peroxide cream, at Barber's Drug Store.—Adv.
Somebody Else
The Gent—Lo, Mike, goin' to see your friend in them dirty cords? The Ruf—My friend ain't in them cords; that's me—Chaparral.
Paint, varnish, floor finishes, floor and wall brushes at Barber's Drug Store.—Adv.
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