Wednesday, December 20, 1911.
THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
Page Seven
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Its Opportunities and Ideals; an Interview With Professor Thorpe.
"The University Daily Kansan should first of all reflect the life of the University of Kansas," says Professor Thorpe, of the journalism department. "To attain this end it should inform its readers of all the current events of the campus, carefully keeping each in its proper proportion. If someone says the moonlight dance is barbarous, the editor is not honest with his readers if he gives this item the same important position as one to the effect that a library school has been authorized by the regents. Worthwhile news from sister colleges and universities in the Daily Kansan will tend to keep us all from growing provincial and at the same time will help us to sense the right proportion of our own news.
"After the news of the day is chronicled the second duty of the editor of the Daily Kansas will be to interpret the significance of that news to us. What does it mean? Is it of far-reaching effect? What will be the outcome? In the news columns we find that an effort is being made to coordinate the work of the three state institutions. We look to the editorial column to see what importance is attached to this movement. The editor tells us that it will eliminate jealousy and make for greater efficiency.
"Finally the Daily Kansan should entertain. Inform, Instruct, Entertain; that is the field of the modern newspaper. The college paper should give us a
HE WOULD GO AROUND
picture of college life day by day; it should see that we get a glimpse of the comedy and paths of the campus and classroom; it should give us the college anecdote, the passing triviality of the day; lampoon the foibles in clever burlesque and parody, and the thousand and one unclassified incidents that go to make up life.
"I want the Daily Kansan to have a distinct personality. I want it to have character and individuality. It must not be the conventional college paper nor yet a typical. It must be itself shot through and through with the distinctive flavor of K. U life."
"Pretty big job for the editor," the reporter suggested.
Good Smear of Mud Was Reward For Hurrying.
To "make" the slope up Adams street with an empty stomach and five minutes time, is not exactly like coming down Pikes Peak on roller skates. To "make" that slope when the narrow path is obstructed with trios and quartettes of pall-bearer-gaited maidens, results in a hurdle race, wall sealing contest or a complete blockade.
"Pretty big job for the editor," the reporter suggested. "The paper cannot be bigger than the editor." Prof. Thorpe replied. "If the editor is inaccurate, if the editor is slovenly if the editor is unfair, his paper will be inaccurate, slovenly, and unfair. But if the editor prides himself on seeing clearly and rewriting faithfully, in other words on telling the truth, if the editor is inherently clean and neat, and if he loves fair-play, then his paper will be truthful, clean and impartial.
Yesterday a slight youth with a worried look and a must-get-to-class-on-time walk faced the big hill, turned on the juice, threw in the high, and sped on towards the top. He flitted by couple after couple, and began to see himself on time once. Suddenly he was confronted with a difficult proposition—mud on both sides of the walk, and four stout maid ens, practicing stationary walking directly in front of him.
He coughed, scared his heel plates on the bricks, made a noise like a merry-go-round, but couldn't—he was blocked. He decided to take a chance; pushed his ten cent shine into the soft mud and tried to go around. He slipped turned, balanced on one foot and fell—the mud successfully covering most of him. And as he floundered he heard the maidem sav:
"Isn't that the funniest thing?"
An editor can be a gentleman, and it doesn't take a reader long to get a pretty fair picture of the man behind the paper.
GRAND ENTRANCE
WILL BE ON NORTH
The New Administration Building Will Face McCook Field When Completed.
"I want, and every Kansan who loves his University wants the Daily Kansan to be a gentlemanly paper."
When the Administration building is completed, probably in 1916, it will present a different appearance from the other buildings on the campus in that it will have two main entrances. One of these, will face on the boulevard which runs westward to Marvin Hall. This is the one that will be used most by students, but on the north, will be the grand entrance to the new building. The plan is to have a drive around the point of the hill on the north and a walk from the north entrance down over the golf links to McCook field and Mississippi street.
CAN ONE SLEEP IN A QUIZ?
One Student Did And Now Wonders About His Credit.
Is a student at perfect liberty to go to sleep during a quiz if he so desires? This is the question that is at present being discussed by certain students of the University.
No doubt you have seen students fall asleep in class, not able to withstand the lulling effects of the professor's rhythmic voice. But did you ever know of a student going to sleep during a quiz? This great peace of mind was recently reached by a junior in the College. The young man, after looking over the examination questions, calmly rested his head on the back of his chair and spent the hour in sweet dreams.
Has the professor good reason to object to such conduct? This is the question. Without a doubt a professor has a right to object to a student's sleeping during a lecture, for then he is trying to give the student something that will be of value to him. In the second case he is asking the student for something. Is it his right or duty to insist on the student's answering the questions or at least have him say whether he can or not?
Asks About Crane's Hopefuls In a recent number, Life gives room to a little pleasantant at the expense of Mr. R. T. Crane, the "enemy of the colleges." Says Life: They say Mr. Crane has several sons, and they all went to Yale. What's the matter, Mr. Crane? Haven't the boys done well? Or is it merely that you think that they would have done better if you had kept them in Chicago and made elevator boys of them?
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Asks About Crane's Hopefuls
New Physics Discovery
A member of the physics department has just figured it out that enough power is generated in the chewing of gum at this University to bite through a piece of steel six inches thick or to "Flecherize" six hundred pieces of boarding house steak.
Protsch Fall Suiting
An out of town visitor upon seeing the swimming pool in the gymnasium wanted to know if "this is where Professor Dyehe has his fish hatchery?"
Fred Rust Christmas Cards at the INDIAN STORE.
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