UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF;
ORIGINAL
LOUIS BURR . . . Editor-in-Chief
GEORGE MARSH . . . Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
BUSINESS STAFF
CLARK WALLACE Manager
M. D. BARK Circulation Manage
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every afternoon by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
TWO MORE
TWO UNTIMELY DEATHS
Within the past few weeks death has claimed two of the most popular men who ever attended the University. Shortly after the Christmas vacation, Dan Nevinger, a graduate of the School of Engineering and the first president of the Men's Student Council, was killed in a powder mill near Galena, Kans. Yesterday the Daily Kansan chronicled the death of Don Hendrickson, a freshman in the College last year, who was president of his class and who during his one year at the University, gave promise of making an exceptional record as an athlete.
These two untimely deaths were a shock to the many students who knew the men while they were in school. Both exemplified those fine qualities of manhood that make them stand above their fellows. Both were leaders. They were men who were aggressive, who took the initiative in all things that tended for a better University.
They represented a high type of the college man; a type toward which we all might well strive.
Many students are laboring under the delusion that they are putting a lot of steam into their work. Examinations will probably show that it was all dry hot air.
The Topeka State Journal points out that the University is well toward the front rank of the "higher education" movement since it has established a department of aeronautics.
A WORD TO THE WISE.
Here is a little thought for today — also for tomorrow and for the next day and for all next week. If you have any intention of doing a little cheating in the approaching examinations, you are running a big risk of being suspended from school. In every examination there is always a temptation to borrow a little from your neighbor and in former years the cases of cheating have been handled by the professor in charge. This year according to the ruling of the Men's Student Council any student caught in the act of cheating will be brought before the council and immediate action will be taken upon his violation of the ethical principles that govern all examinations.
Before the holidays a sophomore was caught borrowing a few sentiments from his neighbor and the council gave him a three week's "lay off" in which to meditate on the matter. This action is only an example of what the council intends to do with all those who are caught in the future.
Although no concerted efforts will be made to apprehend cheaters, the
Student Council is determined to make the punishment for the offense sufficiently severe that probable offenders will hesitate before they seek aid from a brother student. This is just a little hint and a word to the wise is sufficient.
Some faceted student writes the Daily Kansan that the red headed girls sorority should be called Rho Epsilon Sorority. Get it?
THE COLLEGE THIEF.
The late Mr. Crane devoted a considerable share of the later years o his life in an effort to show that the evils existing in colleges are great and numerous. But one thing that he evidently missed was an exorcation of the college thief.
This pest has worked his nefarious trade for so many years at the University that he has become almost a tradition that seniors tolerate and freshmen expect.
There is probably no student in school who has not experienced some inconvenience and actual loss from the work of these vandals who sneak in and out of the buildings on the campus and carry away with them some small articles that are not easily identified.
In most cases the loss is not great. For this reason probably this petty thieving has been endured. Several efforts have been made to catch the thieves but without success. The college thief is the essence of all that is mean and sneaking.
COLLEGE CHANGES
In the Harvard "Alumni Bulletin" are printed certain percentages showing the choice of studies made by undergraduates. For the two last years of their course forty-five per cent of the Harvard sophomores specialize in economics, history, and government; thirty per cent in languages, literature, art, and music; twenty-three per cent in natural science; only two per cent in philosophy and mathematics. It should be added that modern languages are preferred in a great majority of cases to what we still call the classics. The change in the department of study popular today as compared with earlier conditions is not a little accountable to a change in the kind of homes from which college students come forth. Formerly it was the son of the clerkman, the lawyer, the physician—sometimes, of course, the banker's son, who capped his high school or academy course with four years of college. Today the majority of students are probably sons of "business men," or of some class of employees. The proportion would naturally be even more marked at certain other institutions. It is an inevitable result of changing political and economic conditions, a result seen long ago by Charles William Eliot, who has always had a sense of the meaning of democracy and a superb talent for guiding and satisfying, instead of opposing, the inevitable movements of his time.—Collier's Weekly.
The University Daily Kansan makes the proud boast that since it has moved into rooms formerly occupied by the Medical School it is disinfected by formaldehyde. Huh, that's nothing. We know of a lot of papers that are disinfected every once in a while by the faculty—Drake Delphite.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
THE Lion and the Fox went
around in the Lion, on
advising the Fox. sent
sage to the Ass, proposing to make an
alliance between their two families.
The Ass came to the place of meeting,
the Fox. sat down with them,
alliance. When he came there the
Lion simply pounced on the Ass, and
said to the Fox: "Here is our dinner
for today. Watch you here while I go
to meet a bear. Be bettie me if you touch my prey."
The Lion went away and the Fox waited; but in bidding that his master would be taken to the brains of the Ass and ate them up. Whete the Lion came back he soon noticed the absence of the brains, and he shouted: "What have you done with the brains?" "Brains, your Majesty! it had none, or it would never have fallen into your hands."
Wit has always an answer ready.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"Have you figured out your allowance?"
"No, what's the use in bothering about nothing."
Foxy Soph-Hello there, Si, how's the milkmaid?
Country Fresh—It ain't made, you poor mott; the cow gives it.
—Columbia Jester.
"How did the prima donna acquire her great rank?"
"Say, ma, what's a stag?"
"That, my son, is an abbreviation of starger."
Cornell Widow.
Manager—I find I'll have to cut your salary.
Ballet Dancer—There'll be no kick coming.
—Princeton Tiger.
Klug: Ever read "Looking Backward?"
DUTY.
Mabel- Are you going to study tonight?
Stung: Yes, once in an exam and
I was canned for it.
Gertrude—No, going down to the library.
STUDENT OPINION
—Stanford Chaparral.
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communication must be signed, as an ex-vice president.
TOO MANY SOCIETIES?
Is it really desirable to have more class societies, as was advocated in a recent editorial in the Kansan? Are the class societies that already exist really representative of the classes they pretend to represent? Are they composed of the best men of the classes, or merely the average men? Or are they composed of average or even inferior men who presume they are the best? I mean to cast absolutely no reflections upon anyone in asking these questions. They are merely phases of the larger question: are these societies worth while?
The University is training men for citizenship in a democracy. Is the spirit of little social cliques and organizations the spirit that should prevail in a democracy? This is the spirit that is fostered by these so-called societies and petty organizations.
Isn't there at present a tendency at the university of Kansas (perhaps elsewhere, also) to go mad over organizations? Could we not as students do ourselves a little more permanent good during our college course by buckling down more closely to study rather than spending a large portion of our time on unimportant organizations and in trying to ape the doings of our elders out in the affairs of the world? If we must have organizations let them be few in number each one performing some definite and necessary function, each one formed by reason of and in the interest of the larger needs of the student body.
INVENTS NEW A. B.C'S
Prof. F. N. Scott, of the rhetoric department, has invented a new alphabet, according to the Michigan Daily. It was the result of a scientific investigation which was conducted in order to discover the smallest number of printed marks or signs by which the sounds of English speech may be represented to the eye. An upright stem was taken as the basis of the consonantal system to which projections were added to the right and left. The vowels are represented by dashes and circles.
C. G. F.
The alphabet was presented at a meeting of the Modern Language Association held in Chicago recently. It is intended for phoneticians and not for the general public. Prof. Scott states that his object in inventing the alphabet was the same as that of an astronomer working on a difficult problem in celestial mechanics.
The idea that the new alphabet would replace the English alphabet was not the thought of its inventor. It was not intended for practical use but if anything should happen to the old English alphabet it might come in handy.
I slept and dreamed that life was
I woke and found that life was Duty Was then thy dream a shadowy lie? Was there such a heart, courageously, And thus thou shalt be to be A moody light and truth to thee.
ANONYMOUS.
GLAD HAND TO THE DAILY
The first number of the Daily Kansan has reached the Union. The Kansan has always been a mighty good college paper under student management. As a daily it is entering a rather difficult field. The demands both for time and money in the conduct of any sort of a daily paper are very considerable. The young men who are undertaking to publish a high class daily at the University of Kansas will no doubt realize this in a short time. But the experiment is well worth the while. The aspiring students of journalism will be afforded an opportunity for work as nearly like that on a real newspaper as is possible in any school or college. The University Kansan differs from the daily paper issued by many other schools of journalism in that it is wholly a student enterprise both in the business and editorial department. It must pay its way and it must satisfy its constitution to Mt. Oread or it must die. And this is the sort of responsibility that is likely to be of the most benefit to the young journalists of the University who cherish the entirely laudable ambition of making newspaper men of themselves by the time their beards are well established. The conditions under which the staff of the Kansan must succeed or fail are pretty nearly normal. The results therefore should be of great value to the boys who make the paper and of considerable advantage to the University student body whose daily life and work it must interpret and transmit to the outside and actual world of affairs.
SALINA UNION
Kansas State University now has a daily paper—The University Daily Kansan. It is the same size as the Review, and is one of the neatest papers we have seen. The paper is check full of interesting matter relating to the University and contributions from pupils. Indeed, it is published by the students of the University from the press of the department of journalism Parents who have sons and daughters and all others who are interested in the University should send for the Kansan.
GARNETT EVENING REVIEW.
A new daily appeared in our exchange this morning published by the students of the State University at Lawrence.
The students formerly published a paper three times a week. The new paper is a good one from every point, because it is useful and it should be successful in its mission.
NORTON TELEGRAM.
The first number of the University Daily Kansan has arrived at this office. It is the new daily paper issued from the press of the department of journalism of the University of Kansas and published every afternoon by the students.
Up to the present the University has been content with the publication of a tri-weekly paper, but the students now are beginning to take into the field of daily journalism.
The University has a department of journalism with a well-equipped laboratory and all the resources of the university are used to give the paper a good appearance.
The initial issue of the daily is printed on a good quality of paper from nice new type, skillfully made up in the
WAITING
Serene I fold my arms and wait,
No care for wind, nor nidle, nor sea.
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
I stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand and the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day.
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark atray;
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown
And garner up its fruit of tears.
The waters know their own, and draw
The trees that sprouts in yonder
height
So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delight.
forms, which conjunction of happy circ-
 circumstances gives the paper a very smart appearance—an excellent accom-
 accomplishment which the student body may take a commendable pride in attaining.
The floweret nodding in the wind is ready plighted to the bee; And, maiden, why that look unkind? For lo! thy llower seeketh thee.
The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, non
high
Can keep my own away from me.
—JOHN BURROUCHS.
It only remains for us to say that Milton Baer, of this city, is the circulation manager of the paper.
BELOIT CALL.
I cannot remember any college paper that ever made a better impression upon me than did the first issue of the University Daily Kansan, which I received tonight. So far as make-up is concerned, in my mind it excels many of the dailies of the Eastern schools. It looks like a real newspaper. The news standard and the features of the initial number are above par, and I'm sure the new daily is going to be welcomed as heartily by the alumni as dinner at home used to be when we were in school.
Those who knew the Kansan a half a dozen years ago will remember the little 4-column hand-bill that used to make its appearance a couple of times a week. That leaflet was blotted out of the minds of K. U. students by the five-column tri-weekly. And we all wondered how we ever stood for the little news giver. It will be the same with a four-column tri-weekly and six-column tri-weekly, like the new paper's readers will ever vote to go back. Whenever there's a place open on the force let me know and I'll come back.
EARL FISCHER. Topeka Capital.
I was surprised to see a university daily so full of good newspaper work. It was cleanly gotten up, bright, newey and intelligently edited. The headlines attracted my attention especially. They told what the stories were about—something that newspaper heads do not always do—and told it in an intelligent way. There was nothing cryptic about them.
proper restraint and still effectively played up and a good newspaper style was everywhere in evidence. The dearth of superlatives, long words and fine writing is gratifying. It struck me that the editorial page was especially neat in make up and general planning.
The feature stories were kept under
M. H. CREAGER.
So you are mighty lucky right at the start in having the mechanical facilities to turn out as clean and attractive looking a paper as the Daily Kanis is. I look for big things from it myself, and it ought to, and I believe will, become a powerful factor in helping us closely identify the people of the state. EO. R. SCHLAFFER
EDWARD R. SCHAUFFLER.
Hurrah for the Daily Kansan! It's certainly a mighty creditable publication in every way—live, snappy, well-written, and not least, good-looking. Newspapers are much like food—the they have to be attractively served to get people to cheer up very much about them unless they're starving to death—the people not the newspapers, which are chronically in that condition. And certainly there has never been a famine of newspapers in Lawrence.
E. D. KEILMAN.
Have just finished reading over your Vol. 1 No. 1 and think that it is a daisy, much better than I expected it would be from the advance notices.
OMNIA GALLIA CAEISARIS
PICTORES HIGHSCHOOLOBIBUS
The slides are intended to give a good portrayal of ancient modes of fighting and campaigning, as well as to increase the interest in the study of Latin.
A set of sixty-three lantern slides illustrating the Helvetian campaign of Caesar's Gallic War has been ordered by the extension department of the University. As soon as the slides arrive, they will be sent in to turn to high schools of the state that ask for them.
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