UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1915.
WESTWARD HO!
Although that section of the country to the right of Father Jacques Marquette, as he glided down the Mississippi on his adventurous quest, has never been able to produce a chief executive for the nation, it has forged to the front along the line of athletic endeavor.
A perusal of the Spalding baseball and other athletic almanacs for the past season shows the prominence of western men in games requiring skill, strength and endurance. Gregg, Seaton, Peinpuckau, Chance and a host of other big leaguers gathered their preliminary experience in the west. The names of Kelly, Beeson, Parker and Drew, all worlds record holders, are on the lips of cinderpath men throughout the world. Our own Cupid Haddock set up a fifty mark of 5-1 four years since, which seems unlikely to be shattered.
This early in the 1915 season, Drew, Kelly and Karl Shattuck are approaching records, while Simpson, the prolific Missouri point winner, and his team mate Floyd threaten to break into the exclusive class. Richards, the Cornell jumper, learned enough about the game to clear the bar at 6-5 before registering at Cornell.
What good all this? Greece recognized the necessity of developing her great statesmen, her dramatists and her orators as well as her soldiers by the fostering of athletics. Hence the Olympic Games. We revere Washington and Lincoln, great specimens of manhood, who could throw stones and wrestle.
A San Francisco lawyer and patron of western art has offered a cup to the high school athletes of the coast each year for excellence in the shot put, explaining his action by saying that the American people were too prone to neglect this side. Perhaps this western rise in physical development presages a corresponding action along other lines.
USE SOFT PENCIL
A recent article reprinted in these columns advises readers to mark their books as they read; to under-score and annotate freely, in order to emphasize in their own minds the more important points and to enable them to skim a book at the second reading and still get the best out of it.
Now that may be all right when reading one's own books, though there is room for argument even here. At any rate it is legitimate. But when it comes to other people's
books, and especially those that are virtually common property, such as . Library books—well, that's something else on n.ain, Mawruss.
Nothing is more irritating to the sensitive reader than to have to read a book that is underscored in all the wrong places, as it seems to him, while the things he considers particularly good have been passed up without a scratch. The temptation is strong to supplement the markings with some of his own, but is generally resisted for the sake of those who are to come after.
As for the unspeakable persons who attempt to improve on the style of well known and accepted authors by crossing out words and substituting others; by changing the grammar to suit their own opinions on disputed points; by inserting gratuitous question marks and exclamation points; by half a dozen other fiendish, ill mannered and boorish tricks they aren't fit to read books at all, and shouldn't be allowed inside a library.
To those who are addicted to any or all of these habits, and have become such slaves to them that they can't read a book without disfiguring it and insulting the author, we beg to suggest that they make their decorations with a soft pencil, so that the next person who tries to read the book can erase the marks. This we ask in the name of altruism, Christianity, and the Golden Rule.
VICTORS:
"We've got some little team, what?"
"That last one just came down as easy."
"I was all out of practice, but—"
"That battery of ours ain't so slow, now."
"It certainly did me good to fan that chap out after he was so windy." "I'll tell you fellows, we we've got a good chance at this championship."
VANQUISHED;
"Well, it might have been worse."
"That field was in a dickens of a shape."
"I'd just got out of bed."
"My arm was sore. I could hardly rainbow it to second."
"And the sons-of-guns would have swiped our ball if I hadn't watched them."
"They can't say we ain't good users, anyhow."
The vanquished last week-end may be the victors in all the games to come. If you are on the team that got the smaller score don't lose your pep. Get out and throw a few this week, and bat it around a little, and come back Friday and Saturday.
Chasing the Glooms
If a man and a woman eat onions when they feel lik it it is a pretty good sign that they are engaged.
A word from our wives is sufficient, says N. A. Crawford.
The water bond issue is ssettled, but the water itself is a long, long way
Slowly it begins to dawn upon your inner understanding that the girl perhaps doesn't care for you all. Perhaps—ob, unworthy thought until event with you to the Junior Prom because no one else would ask her.
Yes, she will be delighted to go with you to the Junior Prom, she will dress up and look her prettiest (not only for you but for those other men who stung her), she will dance with you, first with you, talk to you (while she makes eyes at the man on the bed) or dance with the evening,—or rather morning—she will tell you that she never had such a good time in her life.
"I have them all full," she says, impatiently. "leave you and go up to downy cottons."
Then you swell out, and feel dreadfully important. You pluck up courage, and ask her if she has a date for the next Friday night.
Pandora's Box
DATES, JUST DATES
"I am sorry," she will reply, "but I have had one for a long time."
"That is perfectly possible," you think to yourself, so you ask her for the other week-night that next week.
Well, it couldn't be helped. Anyway, your face brightens, you'll manage some way or other to tell her that you asked her third choice.
Shots at Half-Cock Or Foolishment in Verse
THAT POPULAR VEGETABLE It's always found in poetry. It's popular in news.
It's popular in prose,
And every second drama
Sticks one beneath my nose.
I can't believe the thing;
But sometime mighty soon,
I think I'll take a running chance
And eat it a Macaron.
Speaking the Kansas Language
Appearances are often deceitful. The plainly dressed citizen whose garments give off an aroma that is suggestive of the barryard, may be in a position to acquire an amount and have it honored, while the gay young Lothario in the dress suit and patent leather pumps, who floats like a butterfly about the ball room, often is in debt for the very clothes that make him look so gay. The man in the present presents a different perspective behind the scenes. —Downs News.
The Wichita Beacon calls on Burbank_to invent a self-pulling Dandelion.
WHIKERS AND HOSTILITIES Walt Mason throws neutrality to the four winds and boldly asserts that there would have been no war in Europe if Franz Josef hadn't persisted in wearing sidewishers in his problem-solving that sidewishers are a greater drawback to civilization and national felicity than the other forms of hirsute decoration, but there is no use placing all the blame on a poor old emperor whose burnishes are being used by the nation say. Assuming, as neutrality demands, that no one nation was responsible for the far-flung disturbance, it is still difficult for whiskers of sorts to prove an alibi as a cause of hostilities. While the sidewishers of the dual monarch meet in France, the vaney beards of George and Nick and the ferocious mustache of the kaiser must also be taken into consideration, not to mention the tendency to facial spinach in democratic France among those in high places. The resemblance of George's beard to the casual observer, but there is evidence enough to the close student, and we need only to refer you to our Civil War period, when most men let 'em grow wild as evidence of this contention. The truth is that George was discard the dove and adopt the safety razor as its emblem.—Atchison Globe.
The day before election every candidate swore he was sure of election. And the day, following most of them swore on general principles—they are only human, after all—Nocurad Dispatch.
Kansas whipped Jack Johnson, downed old John Barleycorn, captured Aguinaldo, broke the wheat record and still has made a smaller success in the United States. A fighter makes powerful enemies.-Atchison Globe.
Where Thev Meet
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7:00 o'clock, Fraser Hall.
Botany Bay, 7:00 o'clock, Wednes.
of each day, 7:00 m. p.
ouck, farter run
Bobany
between each month, 7.190 p.m.
snow, if any
Athens home - Mr. can
Band - Wed evening
Cafe - Friday, Hall
Cerule Francaise—Wednesdays. 4:30 p.
m., room 206, Fraser.
Chancellor's' open office hours—For
students, Mondays, 3 to 4 p. m.; for
teachers, Wednesdays.
Chemical Engineering Society-Alternate Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. m; Chemest
College Faculty - Third Thursday of each month. 430 p.m.; lecture
College Administrative Committee-
First Monday of each month, 4:30 p
m
m.; Fraser 318.
m.; Patterson 324. Faculty - Last Tuesday of each month, 4:30 p.m.
on call; lecture room. Chemistry Building.
m. Fraser 102.
Deutsche Verein—Mondays, 4:30 p.
Stuttgart 89.
Entomological Club - Every Tuesday
afternoon, 2 p. m.; room 202.
Museum Building
Greek Symposium—First Thursday in each month, 7:30 p. m.; at the homes
MARY IN HER
English Journal Club—Once a month,
or any day.
Girls' Glee Club - Mondays and Wednesday. S, p. 12, Northgate. E. Glee Club - Mondays and Wednesday. S, p. 12, Northgate.
**Geology** *Jub.* Second, ~140th, and fourth
bearth, ~3.40 p. room,
*m.* room 203 Haworth.
Home Economics Club—Last Wednes-
day of each month, 4 p.m. ; m.
room
Graduate Cb# - Objects *a* and *b*
Graduate School Faculty - Second
Graduate School Faculty - Second
juniper evidence Club—Every third Wednesday evening, at 8.
Building
Quill Club—Every other Tuesday, 7:30
Snow Zoology Club—Second and
Third Floor, Snow Zoology p. m.; Library Biological, Snow Hall.
Student Volunteer Meeting—Wednesdays, 7 p. m.; Mcrs Hall.
University Post Office—Tuesday of each month, 4:30 p. m.; room 110.
University Post Office—Every day except Sunday, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
University of Kansas First and
Facilities not listed—Meet on call.
Geology — Second — Seventh
— 8:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Kentucky City休庭区
One month, One month,
Kansas City and
Lawrence. The
Museum Building.
Faculties not listed—Meet on call.
U. B. Branch of the American Business
School in Chicago, to confer
other Monday night, at 7:39,
room 100.
Mandolin Club—Wednesdays, 7:30 p.
m. Fraser
Mathematica! 1. Club—Second and
Third Floor, room 103.
B. pl., in; room 105, Administration
Floor, room 106.
Meen's Student Council-Every Tuesday. ULL n. m. Student Union.
Mining Journal--Meets first and third Wednesday, each month, 120 p.m. m;
room 302, Haworth Hall
Orchestra—Tuesday, 7:50 p. m.; Fra-
manthus
1209 Oread. For all women
For all men. Moved.
SET TIME:
Pharmaceutical Society—Once a week
third Thursday of each month,
4:30 p. m.; 307 Marvin Hall.
University, 7:38 p. m.; room 106, Fraser
Days, 7:38 p.
Women's Student Government Association—Thursday, 430 p. m.;
Y. M. C. A.—Regular meeting, Sunnail
p. m.; M. Hall, Ferry Hall.
Second Semester - Opponent Monday, Feb.
14, 2013; 4:30 p.m.; Myra Hall. For
sessions, 4:30 p.m.
Y. M. C. A. Board of Directors - Second
Monday, each month, 7:30 p.m.
Myrna P. Myrna
Y. W. C. A. "At Home"—Second, third and fourth Sundays, 4 to 6 p.m.
Y. W, C. A. 2. Answer Cabinet—Tuesdays,
7 p. m; 1390 Oread.
ADVANCING Board - Second
Monday, each month. 8:39 p. m.
1234 Louisiana
**master Recess — Friday and Monday**
April 2 and 5, 1916.
Next Commencement — Wednesday,
June 9, 1915.
June 9, 1910.
Next Summer Session—Opens Thurs.
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