UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915.
JUST PICTURES
Have you seen the exhibition of drawings by American illustrators over in the Administration Building? No? Well, you have missed something, and it behooves you to repair the omission at once if not before.
The art of such men as Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery F'agg, F. Fox, and Thomas Fogarty, to mention a few at random, is of a sort that doesn't have to be painfully studied and consciously labored over to be understood and appreciated. It is popular art, of the kind that the common or garden variety of citizen enjoy. Nor does the word popular have any depreciatory sense in this connection. Mendelshon's Spring Song and Dovorak's Humoresque, and Rubenstein's Melody in F are popular in exactly the same way, and nobody would say that they aren't genuine good music.
So it is with the work being exhibited on the Hill this week. It is perfectly good art - say the people who know—and at the same time it is the stuff that we see all the time in our favorite magazines and Sunday papers. The collection includes illustrations, decorations, story headings, cartoons of all varieties, and even two examples of the doings of the beloved Intellectual Pup. Wash drawings, pen and ink, charcoal, and an occasional etching, are shown.
Whatever your favorite kind of art may be, you will find it there. If you like to laugh, if you like more serious stuff, such as war cartoons, if you prefer fanciful or poetical conceptions to either of these, you have only to look around to see them. In each class are to be found one or two drawings worth a trip across the campus if there weren't another picture in the building. If you think that statement is exaggeration, go and see for yourself.
RIDICULOUS
Now comes the news that the adoption of the point system was made by a ruling of the Student Council, and will not be put to the students for vote as a constitutional amendment.
Presumably the Council is acting on the premise that since it is elected from the student body it has the power to adopt measures affecting the students without reference to the student body in election.
But the point system is of so broad effect, and sentiment on it is so divided that the eighteen members of the Student Council are not capable of learning what the will of the student body is. For this reason
alone a vote should be given
But then there is a question of the Council's authority to adopt a measure which would throw students out of positions, without the students' consent, or the consent of the organization with which the students are connected.
It is ridiculous that students holding positions should be expected to give them up because of a ruling of the Student Council, in which they had no voice, places a number and limit of points on them. A case of such character was tested last year when the Student Council attempted to declare John Madden out of the office of editor of the Kansan. It couldn't do it. And likewise, the Council this year cannot put a man out of office though it be by the point system.
In all sense of justice and legality the point system should be submitted to the students for vote. The W, S, G. A. has taken this stand and is right. The Men's Student Council should do likewise.
Lawrence still holds her reputation of the most beautiful college campus, the scene of the bloodiest work of the border ruffians, and the muddiest city water.
FACULTY IN ROBES
Commencement, when the students that have worked for four years in the school, preparing for the fight for supremacy in the world, say, "It is sufficient," go from the stage of apprenticeship to that of master, and step forth to throw their strength with the forces of good, should by the very nature of things be a solemn and impressive occasion. Anything that would add to the impressiveness and solemnity should be welcomed by those in charge of the ceremonies.
This dignity is added to the occasion in many schools by the faculty wearing caps and gowns. The black robe and an upper give an effect to the economies that cannot be apper- mated by other girls. A professor in somber black is more expressive of education than one in street clothes.
Commencement at its weakest is a momentous occasion, and if caps and gowns on the faculty can enhance the consequence, caps and gowns should be worn.
The senior class this year could well set this precedent at the school. The use of the robes this year would mean their use hereafter, and the further consequence of commencement. How about it, seniors?
There is all reason why an exchange of plays should be made with Iowa and Nebraska. And practically none why it should not.
If an amendment were to be added to the constitution of the United States, Congress would not assume the power of passing this amendment without consulting the people would be most affected by the change.
Editor Kansan:
Student Opinion
By what right, may I ask, does the Men's Student Government pass a sweeping constitutional reform over the heads of the men in the Unitarian Universalist group, giving them some opportunity of voicing their approval or disapproval?
It was rumored on the Hill yesterday that the white dots showing down in the Jakarta Valley were vicious to customers, the victims of the "Man-Eating Hos."
I have my own views on the point system; I feel that I should have the chance to express these convictions and listen to the opinions of others.
At least the baseball correspondent are住 down by the box scores [1]
"This man who writes Second Thoughts," says a certain member of our faculty, "ought to think three times and then keep still."
Chasing the Glooms
W. H. Ynot
Question in the Columbia State:
"Is there any danger of contagion from cancer of the breast by kissing a woman who has it?"
Tis a wise man who will not be miss-guided.
Flames From the Bush
MONT SOPHIE ANSWERS
My Beloved Nices—Marie, Betty
AUNT SOPHIE ANSWERS
The time has come when I feel that I must write to you dear people and express my appreciation for all your many letters and expressions of love and sympathy. I am an old woman, dear girls, and death is starting me in the face. I have been able to be abruptly get down to that wonderful University of yours and see if it is really as bad as all you have painted it. But alas, I can not. For weeks my daughter Prissy has had to read your letters outloud to me—I could not use my eyes or head. But I en-
However, I take my pen in my withered hand to wish you all much luck in life and no further misfortunes than you have experienced by men tramping on your slippers or keeping you up later than you like or girls listening to you talk to us when you get to be as old as I will realize how trivial after all are your little troubles and evautions.
But to you, Marie, I leave a pair of black party slippers—which were too big for me, and I never wore them. But these are guaranteed not to go off the floor, politish their shoes and step on your feet. I also leave you my eternal chip—which I have carried around on my shoulder for years. I really believe you need it—you are so peaceful and timid that you let it go on your Mimi's hip, which is to be worn on the right which is quite large!
Before I die, dear children of my favorite brother, I want to bequeath to you certain possessions of mine. It is sad but true that I have no worldly possessions to bestow upon you. As you know my marrion for money did not occur I expected, I have little to leave you.
To you, Betty, I bequeath my former husband's Chigirma Mi pin. I have no wish to be buried with it, for I'll get my Cross on the other side. I want her to be in your house-party as you expected, this might alleviate your disappointment. I also leave to you as a minor gift my Gentile Sarcasm. You need it sorely, as you are so much at a loss. I still think talking to folks. Use this well, Betty.
Patsey, I leave to you a private telephone booth, with sound-proof walls, that you may enjoy your lengthy conversations without being annoyed by the chatter and remarks of those about you.
And now I say fare well! I hope that I shall meet you on the other side. Do your best to be as oratory as possible, and we shall enjoy the Tropics together.
Yours till death,
Aunt, Sophie.
Speaking the Kansas Language
CLEAN LIVING WINS
Clean living won a Wiley over dissipation on Monday. It is winning every day. The world's champion fell in a pugilistic encounter. He had become too perosperous. He livelil the life of ease and idleness. He indulged his desires, because he was too riotous the fiasco passed the fifteenth round dissipation began to tell. Johnson, the better fighter of the two in ring generalship, showed the effect of riotous living and weakened. Willard, raised on the Kansas prairies, was strong, and the result was evil.
The biggest discrepancy on earth is that between the amount of money a woman spends on her clothes and on her body, she has more on her body—Rosleyville Reporter.
It was a royal contest. Dissipation fought with all the skill it possessed, but clean living was victorious. It always is—Atchison Champion.
Now don't kick, you've been want ing this kind of weather for three months.
TO THE CONTENDERS
Play ball's the cry, the fight's begun.
Now comes the mighty test;
To make our rivals quit or run
Nix on the alibi.—Leslie's.
A Mexican officer abducted a Vas
tador in Mexico. Now for the pacifi-
cation of Mexico.
You've got to do your best.
Only the vince wears the crown,
The loser meets with jest or frown.
Excuses simply won't go down,
We suppose that before long some paper will be running a picture of the sun.
"My dear," said the proud father, "I cannot understand your objection to young Pradely as a suitor for me. I cannot understand that he is a model young man."
"There is no question about his being a model," replied the bewitching beauty, but father, dear, the man he was in is a 1913 model—Exxt—Skoglund.
RELATES EARLY EXPERIMENTS Galileo's Book Shows How Physic Demonstrations Were Carried On
From the Chicago Tribune.
Physicists and astronomers will be interested in Galileo interesting, because it treats of all phases of motion or change of position, making, as Galileo himself says, "a very new science dealing with a very ancient subject." With neither nor chronoscopie, Galileo proceeds in physics with gravity, at first estimating deviations no greater than "one-tenth of a pulse-beat"; and later, "For the measurement of time we employed a large vessel of water placed in an oil-filled tank. This vessel was soldered a pipe of small diameter giving a thin jet of water, which we collected in a small glass during the time of each descent, whether for the whole length of the vessel or only for the water thus collected was weighed, after each descent, on a very accurate balance; the differences and ratios of these weights gave us the differences and ratios of times, and this with such accuracy that, although the distances and times were not comparable, there was no appreciable discrepancy in the results." Here it is that propositions underlying Newton's laws of motion were first developed, and geometric demonstrations given which provided the foundation of mathematics. Particularly is the strength of materials insisted on with regard to mechanics and architecture, as well as engineering. Prevaient opinion,
*Physicists and astronomers will be interested in Galileo interesting, because it treats of all phases of motion or change of position, making, as Galileo himself says, "a very new science dealing with a very ancient subject." With neither nor chronoscopie, Galileo proceeds in physics with gravity, at first estimating deviations no greater than "one-tenth of a pulse-beat"; and later, "For the measurement of time we employed a large vessel of water placed in an oil-filled tank. This vessel was soldered a pipe of small diameter giving a thin jet of water, which we collected in a small glass during the time of each descent, whether for the whole length of the vessel or only for the water thus collected was weighed, after each descent, on a very accurate balance; the differences and ratios of these weights gave us the differences and ratios of times, and this with such accuracy that, although the distances and times were not comparable, there was no appreciable discrepancy in the results." Here it is that propositions underlying Newton's laws of motion were first developed, and geometric demonstrations given which provided the foundation of mathematics. Particularly is the strength of materials insisted on with regard to mechanics and architecture, as well as engineering. Prevaient opinion,
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