UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kansas
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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 Kanaas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas.
Phone. Bell K. U. 25.
The Daily Kanaan aims to picture the undergraduate life of our students further than merely printing the newn by stairing for the usual reasons and favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful to be charitable; to be courteous to all; to solve problems to wiser heads, in all, to seek the guidance of the University.
Fair Play and Accuracy Bureau
Prof. H. T. Hill...Faculty Member
Don J. Heine...Student Member
John M. Henry...Secretary
If you find a mistake in statement or impression in any of the columns of the Dally Kanese, the Dally Kanese office.
He will instruct you as to further procedure.
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1915
WORSE THAN NONE
the action of the Men's Student Council is presenting a proposition for a point system to the students is commendable. But the schedule of points as presented is out of balance.
The presidency of the Y. M. C. A. does not demand more attention than the managing-editorship of the Kansas, which calls for eight hours a day.
Nor does the circulation managership of the paper demand as much attention as the business managership. In fact the Kansan Board will vote on a constitutional amendment tomorrow night to turn over the circulation work to the business manager.
Students can help the University by voting against the adoption of the present proposal.
The editor of the Oread Magazine does not, and should not, give as much attention to his office as the members of the Kansan Board who must work at least four hours a week. We point to the Kansan only, because we are better acquainted there.
The point system under a well balanced schedule, would be a valuable addition to student government at Kansas. Its adoption with the proposed schedule would be worse than none.
STUDENT OPINION
There have been published in the last few weeks some excellent articles in our Student Opinion column. The subject of student interests seems to have struck a responsive chord in the minds of a great many of our readers. Several articles dealing with the subject in its various phases have been contributed.
It is out of the crucible of debate and discussion that truth is evolved. In a student body such as we are striving to build in the University each individual student should be well informed. The judgment of every student is a liability or an asset to the school. A newspaper should in some measure be a mirror which reflects not only the opinions of its publishers, but also in some degree at least the opinions of its readers. It should be an educator as well as a purveyor of news. We trust to have more contributions to the "Student Opinion" column in the future.
A GOOD PROPOSITION
The grouping of elections as outlined by the Men's Student Council presents an opportunity to the students to place school politics on their proper plane.
All the strife, wire-pulling, and midnight caucuses can be exhausted in the two general elections, and the students may turn their attention to curriculum school work. The elections to the various offices are well placed, and the whole scheme will work for efficiency.
STUDENT OPINION
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
To the Editor of the Daily Kansas: Your leader in the editorial column today (Tuesday) asked me great questions. On what chronological basis did you determine that this "Reporter's account of a conversation" was "1915 years ago today?" Does A. D." stand for "After the Death of Christ"? I have always considered myself a baby, in which case the conversation took place 1882 years ago.
H. I. Storical.
Chasing the Glooms
TO THE KANSAN
There's a paper published at old K U
That keeps a feller from getting blue.
In the evening when its about five,
And you hear that whistle, you make
this.
And hurry to undo that paper quick.
And then you heave a big long sigh
And thank the stars they've passed
Or maybe 'twas something you wanted in
'Bout you 'an office or visitin' kin.
Then you wonder 'why that
you wonder'
While they put in a telephone list.
But after all's been said and done
Readin' the Kansan's lots of fun.
And after you've had a hearty laugh
You feel that its a pretty good staff
And a smile comes on your home
sick face
And you turn to your lessons with a better grace.
THANKS!
A new Chinese typewriter has 4,200 characters on it. The young lady who recently employed the assistance of an editor in finding her ancestors would thank her ancestors she was not brought up to be a Chinawoman.
Henry James connects punctuation and the War; maybe you’re right, Hank. But we should have backed him to the suit if you had said, “pronunciation.”
Waiter-What will it be, be; si
Sauerkraut or pate de foies gras?
Screaming headline in the N. Y
Tribune—"War News From Berlin."
In the East Bottoms, on Delaware street, a little two story house has been fixed up modestly but neatly. It is the "club-house" of one of Lawrence's largest and least exclusive social organizations, the Friendship
'18-Ham and eggs. I'm neutral — Lampon.
A "Club House"
On the Hill it is so scarcely known since it has no publicity bureau and desires none, but down in the Bottoms it is a haven for hundreds of ragged little urchins and a place of refuge for some of our beloved homes are nothing more than a place to sleep and eat, and often not very much of the latter.
This little club is doing good. There is room in the Bottoms for a dozen more just like it. Every large organization in the University could be cutting them with a work of house without cutting in on the work of others.
From 4 to 9 o'clock every day its reading rooms are open to be packed by the kiddies, reading and being read_to. Some one is there constantly to keep them interested and orderly. Story telling hours have been held for me in local call to读. Lawrence visiting, taken up her headquarters there and is planning lectures for the mothers and little mothers of the East Side.
It is yet, in its infancy, having been started but a month ago by a group of church people interested in the work of the physician financed the undertaking and the young people did the physical work of getting the place ready. University students, a marjorie moved in to take care of the place.
Applied Poetry A Fine Art Course
When a man says Merry Christmas,
it makes me kind of glad;
it makes me laugh.
And the greeting Happy New Year
Makes me just a trifle sad.
ON MARCH 32ND.
Or The Ozone's Getting Cool;
But my fist get sort of nervous
When some boob springs April
Fool
Speaking the Kansas Language
"THE DAY"
"He was a kindly faced little old man who limped into your office the other day and asked if there wasn't an eyebrow behind him. He was torn and wrinkled and thin and his shoes were shabby and broken at the toes. Long locks of whitening hair fell down over his forehead and trembled as he smoothed them back.
"There it is, hidden away in every man's life, the remembrance of a day that was—one day of triumph and fame and glory. No fate can prevent him from seeing dim it. One day he was supreme; one day he was somebody's hero.
"He told his story simply, the old, old story of adverse fortune; the story that is told in fragments, and from which one builds the structure that the world calls failure. The words came lamely, until he told you what he had been one day. Ah, that was a job of responsibility and the pay of the layman," and vigor crossed through his veins and when he walked shoulder to shoulder with strong men. His eyes brightened, and the shabby form on the second chair in the office seemed transformed under your eyes.
"The day that was—a fleeting instant in eternity—compensates for all the wrecks of time."—Olathe Register.
THE NEGRO AND HIGHER EDUCATION
One of the significant events in the last month has been the award of the Professor Spingar medal, by the National Association for the Adjunct Educator. Mr. Ernst E. Just, the 51-year-old negro who is a teacher and natural scientist in the Howard University medical school. In this age of prize giving this memento to be awarded annually represents the greatest service to his or her race seems especially appropriate. This bestowal of honor upon a negro of higher education will undoubtedly be a subject of unfavorable comment, in which case he should have those who, for the negro, believe soely in the educational slogan
"All arts stand by hammer and hand." It will also tend to fan into flame the slumbering base of many a man who, like the young Egyptian today, feels that there are certain rights in the realm of the higher mental training of which he is unjustly deprived simply because he is not white; also because of the preconception among many Britons, that a black man is incapable of adequately profiting by a higher liberal or technical education.
We believe the basic idea of hand work, so graphically exemplified by that conspicuous leader of the African race in America, Dr. Booker T. Washington, at Tuskegee Institute, Washington, at Tuskegee Institute for negro hand workers, is still sound for the great mass of colored men in the United States, as well as for the larger proportion of the young Egyptians so recently emerging from sevent-century Koranic obscurantum to the appreciation of practical training; still we must heed the fact that the negro of America is already beginning to prove the justice of his education, even in exceptional colored men at least, every door of educational opportunity should be flung wide open.
Already negroes have done much to loosen the yoke of racial prejudice for the existence of which the black and the white both are in part responsible. We have learned to readjust them, but now we have allowed contemporary negro education would not delear President John Hope of Atlanta Baptist, College, a Brown University graduate and a college founder of more than ordinary caliber, from the ranks of the highly learned. Then we recognize that few composers rank higher in our recent catalogs of music than those standing close to the front of his art in the portrayal of Bible scenes is a negro painter. These are, to be sure extraordinary negroes, "exceptional men," no doubt, but they with Professor Just and Dr. Washington are what Carley might have called her. The race she lodged in this race. Its occasional shining forth affords both a hint and a hope; a hint that, as the general education board has pointed out, high or education of the kind adapted to their needs must be afforded if we are to have good instructors and professionals, as well as adequate stimul for the awakening of slumbering genius; and a hope that, as these colored men of light and leading appear in the frontier of American activ
ties, they may become the heralds of a broader, sander tolerance to each of the races, hastening the day of a higher educational and a higher national justice, evoked partly, at leaue. They are not universally disdainous negro race. C. S. Monitor.
owa Undergrads to Operate Own Es
tablishment and Sell at Cost
STUDENTS RUN BOOK STORE
Plans for a co-operative book store at Iowa, practically assuring the institution for the university by next fall, at least, are now being drawn up and prepared to be sent to the preparation to the submission of the plans to the students for a vote.
The two plans which have worked more successfully in other colleges
1- That of selling stock among the students, and declaring dividends on the stock at the end of each school year.
2-That of selling participating tickets, which will give the students the privilege of buying books at the co-operative store at cost.
The second plan has seemed the better to the committee in the light of its success in other colleges. In Princeton a co-operative ticket may be issued a 1 year for $2, for 2 years for $3, for 3 years for $4, and for life for $5.
Articles of incorporation for the store are now being drawn up by the committee. According to these articles, the directors of the store will consist of one faculty member and one student from each college.
The manager of the store will be an
aumun of lowes and the clerks will be
an aumun of lowes.
Ladies' Tailoring
Mrs. Morgan up to date dressmaking and ladies' tailoring. Also party dresses. Prices very reasonable 1321 Tennessee. Phone 1161 W.
All loyal K. U. students will see
The
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Man
Presented by K. U. Dramatic Club
From
At the Bowersock Theatre
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THE BEST BCOKS TO READ
THE BEST BOOKS TO READ
No one will dispute with Dr. Andrew Lilly, the author of *The Best Book* and Virgil, Shakespeare and Milton to figure in any. Ist of the best literature. Everybody who undertakes to catalog the hundred best books or to select a pigskin library or to keep in the narrow bounds of a five-book collection is careful to recognize the claims of the old worsteds. Their place is fixed.
It is the absence of books by living writers or dealing with live topics of the day that is especially noticeable in Dr. White's long list of books on contemporary literature. If the records are to our large city libraries are to be accepted as a guide, there is an immense demand for the literature of this very modern class. People perversely persist in being interested in the things they read and write; their own times, in current topics, at the risk of not being thoroughly versed in the classics. The war in Europe has stimulated reading on a
wide scale by persons entirely proof against the charms of the Iliad and the Aeneid. For the time being they are much more attracted by what the Greeks do, and the Germans are doing thin by the deeds of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
If our scholars and literary authorities feel inspired now and then to draw up lists of approved books for inexperienced readers, why not designate them as a special guest to compiling brief catalogues of works of immediate appeal to the average reader of intelligence? It requires no particular discrimination to know that Shakespeare is worth an audience. To be a casual reader to know what author will give him the best review of the growth of the German Empire, of the Balkan question, of the history of modern Mexico, or a score of other topics suggested by the daily news? The German school seems important than the reiteration of names familiar to high school boys and girls. — N. Y. World.
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