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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Wednesday, December 20, 1911.
THEUNIVERSITYKANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
Louis LaCoss. . . . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief
George Marsh. . . . . . . . . . . Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
Clark A. Wallace...Business Manager
Ike E. Lambert...Asst. Business Manager
Earl Potter...Treasurer
M. D. Baer...Circulation Manager
George H. Edwards, Russell Clark, L. F. Meissner, John Madden, and Wayne Wingert.
MEMBERS OF BOARD:
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
Address all business communications to Clark A. Wallace, Business Manager, 1140% Tennessee street, Lawrence, Kansas; all other communications to Louis LaCoss, 1247% Kentucky street, Lawrence, Kansas.
Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c; time subscriptions,
$1.75 per year.
Office in Room 110, Fraser Hall. Pnone, Bell, K. U. 25.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1911.
With this issue of the University Kansan, the official publication of the University ceases to be a tri-weekly and takes its place in the growing ranks of college dailies.
A DAILY KANSAN.
That a University as large and influential as ours needs a daily paper is undisputed, but never before have circumstances been such that a daily issue could be ventured. By taking advantage, however, of the equipment of the department of journalism the Kansan found itself able to start at a minimum initial cost. An appeal for support was made to the student body and as a result we are able to announce today that on January 6 the first Daily Kansan will come off the press.
The facilities for getting out a paper are the best and the Kansan starts auspiciously. It is recognized that there will be certain difficulties at first but we pray your indulgence until our efforts become thoroughly systematized.
Remember that this daily is your daily. It is a student publication and always will be. Come to the office with the news and help the editorial side of the paper by informing the reporters of what is happening.
The student body has given the Daily Kansan material support and it is now necessary that they make it the best college daily in the land by working in harmony with the editors of their paper.
WORK FOR A UNION BUILDING.
The Christmas holidays can be made extremely profitable for the University if a number of the students are inclined to do a little work for their Alma Mater. The movement for a Men's Union Building has reached the point where an actual outlay of money is needed to insure its erection. The members of the Men's Student Council conceived of this building several months ago and since its inception have fostered the idea until now the building appears to be more than a mere idle dream.
One hundred thousand dollars are needed before the building can be erected and properly furnished. If the alumni over the state and other public spirited people can be interested in the movement, the necessary funds can be collected without a large tax upon any one person. It has been intimated that the Board of Regents may be induced to appropriate a generous share of the money recently left the University by Ex-Governor and Mrs. Robinson for the building and if the people of the state do their part, a Union building is not at all impossible.
The students who now interest themselves in the work will be conferring a favor on a coming generation that is inestimable. Those who are now in the University can scarcely hope to see the building erected and occupied before they have completed their college career. But a building such as is proposed must necessarily appeal to anyone who has ever been a student at the University. It will be in the Union Building where all the old graduates may gather and discuss their college days. It will be a commons for both alumnus and student and the building should appeal most strongly to the former. Those who have attended other schools where they have a Union Building testify to the fact that they find a great deal more pleasure in returning to school when they know that there is one building on the campus that is always open to them.
The campaign for a Union Building has been started and it must not be stopped. The University is showing signs of its greatness. It is now taking its rightful place among the educational institutions of the land and the erection of a Union Building will be a mere indication of its progressiveness.
MARKS OF PROGRESS.
A retrospective view of what has been accomplished at the University within the past few years shows that greater steps along progressive lines have been taken than in any previous time. Within two years the Men's Student Council and the Women's Student Government Association have been formed which have combined to exercise a disciplinary control over the student body that promises to work for the welfare of all. They have taken out of the hands of the University Council the control of student discipline and if they use their powers judiciously they will retain them permanently. Under their direction steps have been taken that will lead to the erection of at least two new buildings on the campus. The girls have been prime movers in the agitation for a dormitory and the men have already started their campaign for a Union Building.
Politically, the University has had a revolution within the last
few years. In a former age the political ward heeler held as complete control of the university political situation as does his brother in the city hold in his hand the political welfare of the metropolis, but things are different now. A system of Australian ballot has superseded the "packed convention" and the "split" elections testify that the students individually are doing their own thinking. In contrast to the old graft system regarding school offices, there has been substituted the honor system—whereby one student is not able to pay his way through school by means of one Senior play.
College spirit is more healthy than in any previous year. Although the football season was not wholly successful the student body stayed by the team and by the coach in a commendable manner. The Football Smoker last Wednesday evening evidenced the kind feeling that is felt for the football team.
The result appears to be a fraternal spirit among the students such as has never before existed. With the completion of the plans already made the University will be the best college in the land.
AN APOLOGY.
This issue of the University Kansan was supposed to be a football edition in which would appear the pictures of those men who have won their letter on the gridiron this year. Owing to the delay of the Athletic Board in making its selection the Kansan was unable to procure the cuts of the men in time for this issue. It is not only a disappointment to us but also to a number of students who have been accustomed to getting the picture of the "K" men in the Christmas edition of the Kansan.
The trip of the University Glee Club at the beginning of the next semester will be one of the greatest advertisements the University has ever had. Embracing as it does a route of over two thousand miles, their trip will take them as far west as California and they will carry the "Rock Chalk" far into foreign country. The best Glee Club that this college has ever known, they ought to make a "hit" wherever they go.
Wouldn't it be a proper thing for the Athletic Board to grant reserve letters to those men who were not able to earn their "K." All of the large colleges are doing this and they have found it eminently satisfactory. It is not fair to a man who has almost played enough to win a letter that he should go unrewarded because he lacks a few minutes of play in a conference game. The plan appears just to the players and it in no way lowers the honor of the "K."
$ORORITY HAS A "POUND."
Takes Care of Articles Miss placed Downstairs
"Do you know where my muff is, Nell?"
"Yes, it's in the den on a chair! Have you seen my white gloves?" "Um-um, they're on the piano. I saw them there a little while ago."
This conversation may be heard a dozen times a day in any of the sorority houses on the Hill. While girls have never been especially classed as being careless, still it is so easy to leave a handkerchief, muff or pair of gloves on a chair or table down stairs. As a result things disappear very easily, gloves and handkerchiefs go "goodness knows where", and the girls wonder what on earth becomes of them.
For the purpose of instilling in the girls the habit of taking care of their personal things, one of the sororites has established a "pound" for all lost or misplaced articles. A committee has been appointed and every piece of wearing material or any personal article which is found down stairs out of place is immediately thrown in the "pound."
When a girl misses a collarette, suede shoes of jabot, if it is not upon the personage of one of her "sisters," she may find it in the "pound," where, upon the payment of five cents, she may redeem it before a certain period. An auction is held and then the an auction is held and then the owners in order to regain their property must bid against the crowd. Generally the owner has to pay a pretty high price for her article before it is returned to her.
The money that is received into the "pound" goes into the general house fund. In this manner the sorority is obtaining a double benefit.
One of the girls said in regard to the new system, "It was just awful the first week or two. It cost some of us 30 or 40 cents in two or three days. But I am sure that it is going to be a success and it is certainly a needed reform. The girls are taking much better care of their little knickknacks now and you can't imagine how much it improves the books of the house."
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MAY CUT WITH IMPUNITY
Dartmouth Faculty Makes New Ruiling on Absences.
Cutting of classes at Dartmouth College is to be a sign of scholarship hereafter. A ruling has been made by the faculty whereby any student having an average grade of 85 per cent for the previous semester may cut a class whenever the spirit moves with perfect impunity as far as his record is concerned.
Applying to all classes but the freshman, the new regulation replaces a ruling providing that "no credit be given for a course in which a student has cut more than five times per semester hour." The old ruling still applies to all men having grades under 85. Said President Nichols, speaking of the new fredoom accorded his students: "It is not the faculty expectation that men of high standing will underestimate or lightly forego any of the opportunities of class-room instruction which the college offers. The changed regulation simply relieves them from the duty of explaining necessary absences and getting them formally excused by the Dean."
WILL MAKE ANOTHER TEST
Three Electricals Will Work on Emporia Power Plant.
An efficiency test on the Electric Railway plant in Emporia will be made during the Christmas holidays by B. R. Mock, C. V. Waddington, and H. E. Hoadley Electrical Engineers, under the supervision of Prof. C. A. Johnson, of the Electrical Engineering department. This test will be similar to the tests now being made by twenty-two senior Electricals and Mechanicals at the Kansas Gas & Electric Light Co.'s plant of Wichita.
Students Have Rink.
A skating rink will be built upon the campus by the Associated Students of the University of Montana this winter.
The A. S. U. M. is supported this year for the first time by a $5.00 addition to the annual university fee. The one payment makes all student members of the athletic association and gives them half price admission to athletic contests, debate and other univeriy functions.
If We Didn't Have To Work
O, what a prune twowould surely be
if we didn't have to work!
So much we always do and see,
if we didn't have to work.
we could he abed until noon each day
And spend the rest of the time in play;
No boss could tell us to go or stay,
if we didn't have to work.
We'd court the girls until 2 a. m.
If we didn't have to work.
And spend most of the day with them,
If we didn't have to work.
We'd take in all of the ball games, too;
We'd go to Europe and tour it through
O, there's so much that we all would do,
If we didn't have to work!
tation the whole glad time,
If we didn't have to work.
O, wouldn't it be just joy sublime,
If we didn't have to work.
We could loaf the hours away at ease
In the leafy shade of the orchard trees,
And do whatever our fancy'd pease,
If we didn't have to work.
But, gee, how sick of it all we'd get,
If we didn't have to work!
We'd stew and worry and kick and fret,
And how on earth would we ever eat?
And how would we earn the cash to meet
The bills which daily our eyes would greet,
If we didn't have to work?
We'd all grow restless and tough and bad,
If we didn't have to work.
We'd all be grouchy, morose and sad,
If we didn't have to work.
Tis best, you see, that it isn't so,
For only through work do we live and grow;
And how we'd manage—well, I don't know,
If we didn't have to work.
If we didn't have to work. —Los Angeles Express.
FOOTBALL GAMES WON IN 15 MINUTES
PROVED IN A HARVARD-
YALE GAME.
One Eighth of Time on Gridiron is Spent in Actual Exertion.
"Washington Daily."
"It takes from two hours to two hours and a half to play the average game of football. The teams are usually on the field that long, but strangely enough the players are in actual motion only about fifteen minutes. This statement has been proved."
"This is much less time than it takes to win and lose a Harvard-Yale boat race. Moreover, besides the partial let-up between the plays, there are three breathing periods of actual rest of twenty-one minutes. No doubt the personal contact of man against man accounts for the "using up" of players in football, but the sustained supreme effort of the oars-man is of longer duration. There is no let-up for him until he has exerted himself to his utmost for twenty or more minutes."
"Last year a Harvard man tried a most interesting experiment during the Harvard-Yale football game to ascertain how much time was used in actual playing. He confined his experience to one period, but that was extremely painstaking and he had a man to assist him.
"He used a stop watch, starting it with each play with the snapping of the ball by the centers and stopping it at the blowing of the referee's whistle. He repeated this process through every play of the official fifteen-minute period and found that the players were in actual motion, struggling and fighting in offense and defense, only three minutes and twenty seconds. If the time of actual playing in this period was a fair average, the duration of physical exertion in the four periods approximated fifteen minutes.
SIXTEEN CORNHUSKERS
WIN FOOTBALL LETTERS
Seventeen Reserves of the Second Team Given "R."
Sixteen football men were awarded "Ns" at the University of Nebraska. Seventeen men on the second team were given "Rs," standing for "reserve." The men who won the coveted letter are: Shonka, captain, Chauner, Elliott, Owen Frank, Gibson, Anderson, Lofgren, Russell, Harmon, Hornberger, E. Frank, Swanson, Potter, Warner, Purdy, Pearson.