UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF Loriis M. Mailli . Edizioni-Editor GEORGE MARTI . Editore BUSINESS STAFF CLARK WALACTI STAFF M. D. BARR Manager M. D. BARR Manager 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. Subscription price $2.00 per year, in advance; one term, $1.25 time sub- scription. Telephone, Bell, K. U. 25. 14. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1912. POOR RICHARD SAYS Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than the key often used is always bright. THE NEW QUIZ SYSTEM Well, what do you think of the quizes by this time? You have had a chance to test thoroughly the new system of examinations and what is your honest opinion of it? A little inquiry among the students leads one to believe that they do not like the system, and a little inquiry among the faculty indicates that they favor it. The principal objection offered by the students is that when the mental Marathon is started they are ready for the race but by the end of the week their intellectual powers are so badly used up that they cannot do justice to the quizzes that come during the last few days. Several students have stated that they had from two to four hours of quizzer every day for a week and that yesterday they were completely "all in." One student asserted that he had used his eyes so much during that past week that now whenever he starts to read tears, as big as walnuts, fill his eyes. But this is an extraordinary case. The fact that they cannot do justice to all of their work is the principal objection offered by the student body. The quiz system used at the end of this semester is new. The Daily Kansan would like to have some members of the student-body express themselves regarding the system. Most of the professors like the new system. One examination they declare is sufficient to test the students' acquaintance with the subject and the "spreading out" of the quizzes through an entire week allows them to keep up with their work and to get the grades to the registrar at the proper time. WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHAT DO YOU THINK? "An innocent bystander queries whether Mr. Aesop had in mind the University and the Student Council when he wrote his fable, "The Frogs Asking for a King,"—the fable that appears in today's issue. We'll give it up. Did he? WHY NOT? No, we are not making a bid for membership in the Humane Society, but we do rise to remark that the manner in which the University coal supply is hauled on the hill is primitive, unsatisfactory and uneconomical. The ascent to Mt. Oréad is at the best an almost perilous undertaking, and during the winter when the pavements are slippery, the condition is greatly aggravated. It is anything but pleasing to see two horses straining at a huge load of coal, their feet slipping on of the Union Pacific or the Santa Fernity that flutters in every breast rebels at the sight. The University gets its coal from Lansing, shipped here either by way of the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe From the depot it is hauled one of two miles to the top of the "hill." The charge for this is fifty cents a ton and the University uses sixty tons a day in cold weather. Motor trucks are used by every large business firm that has extensive hauling to do, and their practicability has been demonstrated. The Regents might do well to consider the purchase of one of these trucks for University work. The increased capacity to do work and the time saved during hauling and—again—the saving of the horses makes them preferable from both the standpoint of good business and humanity. Wesley Stout of the Coffeyville Journal says that the Daily Kansan is in distinguished company; that its need for a cartoonist places it in the same class with the Wichita Beacon, the Wichita Eagle, the Kansas City Journal and other family journals of renown. If Brother Stout will glance at page one he will see that we have said au revoir to this excellent company. COLLEGE RELIGION. The religious life of the student will utter itself in a personal quest for righteousness. No life ever comes to have that which the world really trusts and values until it can say in its whole purpose, "I do these things not because they are easy or common or funny or politic; I do them because they are right." If religion is to enter into its own in any educational institution it will be necessary to have a great deal more down-right honesty in college life than there is in many institutions of learning at this time. The sneer that "in college and the custom house it is all right to lie and to cheat if one can do it without being caught, has had much to justify it. The student who asks to be excuse from a college engagement because he is too sick to work, but who will go to a ball and dance every number or to a football game and yell until his throat is raw, is simply a lilr! The student who copies from another's examination paper and signs his name as if it were his own, is a cheat and a forger. The man who steals spoons from some hotel or restaurant in the town for his fraternity table is not funny; he is simply a thief and an outlaw! The student who spends on vice or dissipation, money furnished by his father for term bills, entering him up in his financial statement as "sundries" or what not, a whelp and a whirl how good looking he is or how well he looks! Dirt is dirt no matter how we adorn it with lace; a lie is a lie, and theft is theft, no matter how they are smoothed over with fine words! There ought to be in all college life rigid, unsympathetic honesty, like that of the bank or the counting-room. The perpetual effort after personal righteousness should stand as an abiding expression of the religious life—Charles Reynolds Brown in The Cap and Gown. Two real rooters in the first half are worth a brass band in the last four minutes of play—Southwestern Collegian. AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP THE Frogs were living as happy as could be in a marsh swamp that just suited them; they went splashing about caring for nobody and nobody troubling with them. But some thought that this was not right that they had to have a proper constitution, so they determined to send up a petition to Jove to give them what they wanted. "Mighty鸟," they cried, "send unto us a king that will rule over us and keep us in the crouch, and throw us into the swamp a huge Log, which down—her flash—into the swamp. The Frogs were frightened out of their lives by the commotion made in their midst, and all rushed to the bank to look at the horrible monster; but he moved one step forward, move one, or two of the boldest of them ventured out towards the Log, and even dared to touch it; still it did not move. Then the greatest hero of Frogs jumped upon the Log and communicated with him, then thereupon all the Frogs came and did the same; and for some time the Frogs went about their business every day without taking the slightest notice that our new King Log lying in their midst was approaching us, they sent another petition to Jove, and said to him: "We want a real king; one that will really rule over us." Now this made Jove angry, so he sent them to work gobbling them up soon set to work gobbling them up till The frogs replied when too late. Better no rule than cruel rule. Stud—Is it possible to confide a secret to you? THE SAD,SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE Friend—Certainly; I will be as silent as the grave. Studie—Well, then, I have a pressing need for two books. Friend Do not worry. It is as if I had heard nothing The first issue of the University Daily Kansan, published by the students of the University of Kansas, came to our desk last week. For many years this sheet has been a tri-weekly, but with the extension of the journalism department and the addition of better equipment it was felt that the school could put out a daily. Many schools no more modern than Kansan have, for many years, been represented by daily Michigan Gargoyle. 1915-Don't the football players ever have their suits washed? 1914-Sure. What do you think the scrub team is for? —Harvard Lampoon. Bingo—He has a narrow mind. Jingo—He needs one to get through that course. Contributor—I can't think of any introduction for this poem. Wisconsin Sphinx. Editor - Never mind. We have met several times before Cornell Widow. He—Dearest, you are the goal of my affection. She—Removing his arm. Five yard for holding. We have received several copies of the University Daily Kansan a daily paper published at the State University at Lawrence. The paper is a nice six-column four page paper and a great to the University journalists class. IT'S A WARM WELCOME The students of the University of Kansas are now issuing a six-column four-page daily, called "University Daily Kansan," which is a credit to that far-famed institution and those who herald the publication. It is very neatly printed on good paper, ably laid and next and clean in every particular. La Casc is at the helm with a corps of assistants. Success to the Kansan. Launched a Daily The first number of the University Daily Kansan, published at Lawrence Kansas, reached our exchange desk last Thursday. It is well edited, and is to devote its energies to the upbuilding of the school and the state. We wish the Kansan success in the journalistic field. POMONA REPUBLICAN. —CHEROKEE COUNTY REPUBLICAN. The students of the State University have started a daily newspaper which they have named the University Daily Kansan with Louis LaCosse, Editor-in-Chief and George Marsh Managing Editor. The first number is neat and neway. It will afford good practice for the boys who want to acquire the practical primary principles of running a newspaper and will help them materially. It is printed at the University by a plant furnished by the state. MOLINE GAZETTE. The boys of K. U. have started a daily paper, (where do the girls come in?) and No 1 is on our table. If every issue follows the first in quality, the staff will have no occasion to be ashamed of their paper. There is no better education than that obtained through journalistic channels, and if the faculty will let the boys learn from the experience, we knots in the door, stick up an arm or two, prepare to enter the newspaper field and take the bumps and thumps as a necessary part of the business. Success to the Daily Kansan. We have on our table a new daily paper from the Kansas State University at Lawrence. It is a six column folio, clean, newyay, and an up to date little daily. It is edited and published by the University students and is a credit to that great educational institution. SILVER LAKE MIRROR. The first issue of the University Cally Kansan was published last Tuesday. This is a venture into the daily field by the ambitious student publication, which heretofore has been issued as a tri-weekly. The work will all be done by students and the paper will be printed by the mechanical department of the school of journalism. — LINN COUNTY DEMOCRAT. LARNED CHRONOSCOPE. A TRILOGY Then away with Longing and h'o! for Labor! And his! for Love each one for his Labor. For a life of Labor and Study and Love Is the life that fits for the joy above. OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE The University Daily Kansan, by the department of journalism of the Kansas University is a mighty neat, life sized paper and a credit to those at its head. LANFORD LEADER. publications, and it hurt the pride of the students interested in journalism that K. U. had none and they immediately took advantage of the opportunity to put out one of their own. The paper receives no aid from the state and is kept up by its subscription list and advertising, and is under no supervision but that of the students. The first issue, gotten out under difficulties that will not be removed for a few weeks, is a newsy, six-column, four-page sheet, devoted to the university news and interests. We are glad to exchange with it and hope that every publisher and editor in the state will aid the boys in their new venture. We are in receipt of a communication from the editor of the University Daily Kansan, accompanied by a copy of the new publication. The Kansan is a newspaper, and we shall be pleased to number it among the regular visitors to this office. BEAVER VALLEY BOOSTER. A HEAVEN ON EARTH. Thus spake, the care of Swarms. We are in receipt of the first number of the University Daily Kansan, a new daily being published by the students in the State University. The new paper is a good looker and promises to be a success, and here is hoping that it may be so. — KIOWA JOURNAL. Thus spake the sage of Sweetham Ibid you to live in peace and patience without fear or hatred, and to succor the oppressed and love the lovely, and to be the friends of men, so that when ye are dead a last men may say of you—"the heavens have heaven "Earth for a little while. We are this week in receipt of a letter from the editor of the University Daily Kansan, and also copies of that little journal including number one, dated January 16, 1912, from which we learn that the University organ will henceforth be published daily. The Kansan is full of news pertaining to the college, has four pages fairly well printed on a good quality of paper, and merits the success and support with which we hope it will meet. — HAVENSVILLE REVIEW. The University Daily Kansan is the newest daily in the state and the only daily college paper published in the state. It is a neat folio and is the organ of the University, with Louis LaCoss editor. It is well prepared and printed and is a credit to the state. "The University Daily Kansan" is the name of a very bright paper issued by the students at K. U. It is full of interesting news of the University, is well printed, and if the dreams of the editors come true it will be a permanent feature of the University. The paper is run by the students without aid or censorship from the faculty, and looks to us like a winner. CAWKER CITY LEDGER. —NESS COUNTY NEWS. January 16, this year, the University Daily Kansas, published from the University of Kansas, found its way as a welcome guest on our exchange table. The paper, of even date, was the first number as a daily. It comes regularly now and is much prized, being the handy work of the school of journalism, it is bound to improve, though that seems hardly possible except in the matter of size, for it is a gem of the press from the initial number. Success to the undertaking, but the advs. forestall that, as we might say of a competitive publication, or ordinarily speaking. —McPHERSON DEMOCRAT. We have just received a copy, the first daily issue, of the University Daily Kansan. The name is so much like our own that we took time to scan its columns pretty carefully. It is a nice, neatly written and constructed bit of journalism and well worth the price and the time necessary to read it. As this is the only school from which we ever got or ever expect to get a piece of parchment which entitles us to handle a handle to our signature, we feel duly proud of the privilege to exchange them. —McLOUTH TIMES. —VALLEY FALLS EASTERN KANSAN. Earth for a little wh What say ve. children? WILLIAM MORRIS. 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