UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Loris
Gregor Mansi
Managing Editor
George Mansi
Editing Manager
BUSINESS STAFF;
CLARK. WALLACE Manager Manager
M. D. BARK. Circulation Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Industry pays debts, but despair increases them.
THE MISSION OF THE "K"
The action of the Athletic Board in granting "K's" to former University men who won the letter prior to the time they were granted by the University, will strengthen the bond of loyalty that already exists between all former students and their Alma Mater.
In the early days of the University, when this great institution was in the making, men, good and true worked just as faithfully and sacrificed just as much as do our athletes now, and it is no more than justice to grant them a letter that places them on the roll of honor of the University that they represented.
When some old football warrior of the years 'way back' gets his "K," don't you think he will feel a thrill of joy and pride chase itself all over his body that was once so athletic? Don't you think it will make him commence to think about the old school, about the fellows he knew when he was here—and maybe he will come back for Commencement next year.
That's what we need. We want to get all the "old boys" boosting for the University. Their talk will count.
As the "K'is" are started to their various destinations over the United States they will foster a spirit of loyalty and good feeling that is always needed to make any educational institution great.
ABOUT CHEATING
As an aftermath to the examinations that have plagued all of the universities within the past few weeks, a number of the college publications are indulging in some speculation on the cribbing that it acknowledged to exist in every college. The diverse opinions expressed by the several editors show again, what the difference of the point of view makes.
We read in the Daily Palo Alto published at Leland Stanford, that cheating is an evil that not only exists in that institution but appear to be waxing stronger each year, owing to the indifference displayed by the upperclassmen in suppressing the evil and punishing the offenders. Expressing a somewhat different view, the Daily Iowa comments on cribbing but states that at Iowa it is a rarity; that the monitors who have been investigating cheating find that only four percent of college men resort to dishonest means to make their grade.
The University has never at tempted to make a detailed investigation of the cheating proclivities of its student body, but there is a general rule that a cheater caught will be punished and in several instances the Student Council has been called upon to exercise its disciplinary powers in cases of this nature. A few year's association however, with the students at the
University has convinced many observers that it is perfectly natural for the college man to cheat; that in very few cases will the man wha has forgotten, resist the temptation to refresh his lagging memory with a glimpse at his neighbor's work.
Many beautiful things have been written about the honest man about the man who wouldn't look or his neighbor's work for anything in the world. Such men are not as numerous as they might be and there is no university, college, or school but has a large per cent of students who will cheat if they are pressed to it. The university who deludes itself into believing that only four per cent of its students ever cheat is laboring under a misconception.
Cheating exists. We do not propose to engage in a discussion of the ethical principles involved. We know that it is not the right thing to do, but as long as any group of students are assembled they will cheat. The problem for the University is how to keep it down to the minimum.
The four per cent mentioned by the "monitors who conducted the investigation" represent those who were caught. It is our opinion that the per cent would be materially increased if the optimistic authorities in some institutions would "look closer."
JUDGE LINDSEY SAYS—
Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver in a speech recently delivered at the University of Pittsburg is quoted as saying that the worst crooks and thieves were college men. His explanation for this is that a university makes a man a keeper criminal. If the judge really said any such thing, his statement should of course be challenged as to its truth. But at worst, it has virtue as a commentary on the work of our universities. It implies that our institutions of higher learning enable a man to attain a concentrate mind, a mind that is able to see things quicker than his fellow-man and take advantage of his quickness of perception.
The same degree of keenness that characterizes the criminal distinguishes the college men who engages in legitimate occupations. And thus is exemplified one great object of $t$ university—the giving to the college man the power to solve problems and to grasp situations quicker and better than his fellow-man who has been denied a higher education
CHARLES LAMB ON COLLEGE
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
I can here play the gentleman, enact the student. To such a one as myself, who has been defrauded in his young years of the sweet food of academic instruction, nowhere is so pleasant to while away a few idle weeks as at one or other of the universities. Their vacation, too, at this time of year, falls in so put with ours. Here I can take my walks unmolested, and fancy myself of what degree or standing I please. I seem admitted ad eumdem I fetch up past opportunities. I can rise at chapel bell, and dream that it rings for me. In moods of humility I can be a Sizar or a Servitor When the peacock vein rises, I strut a Gentleman Commoner. In graver moments, I proceed Master of Arts.—From "Oxford in Vacation."
LIFE
HART hotly pursued by the A hounds fled for refuge into an ox-stall, and buried itself in a truss of hay, leaving nothing to be seen but the tips of his horns. Soon after he arrived, a dog came one had seen the Hart. The stable boys, who had been resting after their dinner, looked round, but could see nothing, and the. Hunters went away in, and, looking round, saw that something unusual had taken place. He pointed to the truss of hay and said, "What are those two curious things sticking out of the hay?" And when the dog entered the Hart, and soon made an end of him. He thus learnt that
Nothing escapes the master's eye.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Bill Coons—Here is a footprint. It must be a woman.
Bill Goats—But the culprit is a woman.
Bill Coons—Then it must be a miss-print.
——Prineton Tiger.
"How are you going to raise money for the crew this year?"
Bill Coons—Here is a footprint. It must be a man's?
Mrs. Naggum—"Who wrote that song 'There's only one girl in the world for me?'"
"We thought of raising a sinking fund,"—Harvard Lampoon.
Mr. Naggum—"Adam, I guess."
Cornell Widow.
First Stude—I certainly admire the "nink ee."
Second Stude—Why?
First Stude—Because it's working its way through college.
—Princeton Tiger.
— Princeton Tiger.
He sent her a valentine. (Thought it was immense.) But he forgot to rub This off the back.— 7c.—
Stanford Chaparral.
"Where did hash originate?"
"Probably in the boarder states."
—Williams Purple Cow.
"Nobody knows how dry I am," chirped Rameses II as he up in his sarcophagus and shook the ardent archaeologist by the handle.
Minnesota Minne-Ha-Ha.
Mr. Hyde—Do you have much outside work to do over in the Medic school?
Cornell Widow.
Dr. Jekyl-Bless me, no. It's al inside work.
"When rain falls does it ever rise again?" asked the Professor in Chemistry.
"Ys, sir."
"When?"
"Why, in dew time."
—Minnesota Minne-Ha-Ha.
NO MORE LATIN AT ORONO
After next fall Latin will no longer be required at the University of Maine, either for admission or for the A. B. degree.
The soda fountain is considerably typical of current educational ideals; get any kind of flavoring you prefer; five cents to all and a full glass, ice cream extra. Whether it is truly filling at the price is another question.—Life.
That is a step in the right business direction. The University of Maine (at Orono; 858 students) seems to be maintained largely at the cost of the taxpayers of the State, and, of course, the educational goods on its counters should be kept within the taxpayers' reach. It is obviously no more than fair that the taxpayers who want the degree of A. B. should be able to get it with or without Latin, according to their several tastes. Besides that, it is thought that the omission of Latin as a requirement will help the business of the university, and enable it to compete better with the endowed colleges of the State, of which there are several. So it is natural to drop Latin, as it has heretofore been generally exacted by colleges from candidates for A. B., its fall, even so far as Orono, has been heard. What is the use of keeping goods if not only the label but the pattern does not suit customers? Many colleges have long given the degree of B. S. without Latin, and the main difference between B. S. and A. B. has been that A. B. had still an infusion of Latin left in it, though no longer necessarily any Greek.
THE ORIGIN OF "SOCCER"
"I heard a discussion the other day as to the origin of the term 'socker' or 'soccer', as applied to the game of association football.
A writer in the New York Morning Telegraph tells the meaning of "soccer" as follows;
"Soccer is just Oxford slang for "association football. At Oxford Rugby was and maybe is called 'Rugger' and Association 'socker'. "Rugger" was the Oxford magazine was called doing 'rugger'. Oxford Union was called the 'Ugger', while a certain college was known as 'Jaggers."
"Some one talked wildly about the wearing of socks in the game.
Texas has received a push ball and will have its first annual push ball contest between the freshmen and sophomores March second.
To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce his possessions not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortune and delicacy.
A MAN'S TASK
RECOLLECTIONS OF "PIP"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
When I used to study history in the high school, I usually got pretty good grades. It wasn't necessary to know much history, either—it was more a matter of glibness and repatriate. When the teacher asked me a question I didn't know much about, I usually began by repeating the question, and then I would broaden out and fill in with inventions of my own.
I could talk forty minutes about anything in English history, aided by my imagination and quoting numbers of magazines which I knew were not apt to be in the teacher's possession. I had pretty good luck with that exercise, but I was careful about the magazines I mentioned. That was in the H. S.
In the University it was "differ-
enceally." There the history professors
knew history; they may not know
much geology, or bacteriology, or
trigonometry, but they know all there
is to know in their line. I started
my genius to working one time when
Prof. Crawford asked me a question
relating to the administrative policy
of Edward III of England. I wasn't
quite sure whether Edward III came
just after William the Conqueror or
just before Victoria, but I launched
forth in a lengthy discussion, covering
most of the time between Canute and
the battle of Waterloo.
When I began to drag in Frederick the Great and Benjamin Franklin, Prof. Crawford threw up the sponge, saying, "Mr. Daniels, you have a remarkable flow of language, and your stride and wind are good. But your schedule is mixed. This is not a track meet, nor yet a public speaking course. I will have to go back to the other members of the class, I shall have to ask you to wait a few hundred years for the rest of the class to catch up."
That very day I bought a text-book for that course, and read a few pages in it every week or so, and I don't think that in a single instance I missed the subject more than a hundred years, thereafter throughout the whole course.
Got a letter from Billy Coors the other day. William F., J., finished the electrical engineering course at K. U. in 1910, and now he has a job with the General Electric Company in Sheenetady, N. Y. But he seems pretty cheerful in spite of that fact. The first year they drilled for gas in Howard, every kid in town had a minitruck, back yard, and punched holes in the windows of a crowbar or a buggy axle for a bit, "playing" "drilling."
Billy had a “rig,” a good one, and after he had gone down eight or ten feet, he dropped a lot of carbide down the hole, poured in a bucket of water, and touched a match to the top of the casing. He had all the city dads down there in his back yard, looking at the gas well and figuring how much it would cost to lease the Coors’ garden in the big rig over there. Just then Billy was asked if he said, “Paw, gimme a quarter, I’m about out of caribde, and if the flame goes out they’ll smell it sure.” -Pip Daniels in the Howard Courant.
The legislature of Wisconsin has appropriated $150,000 for a women's dormitory at its State University.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THE SKYLARK
Bird of the wilderness Blithesome and cumberless
Sweet be thy matin or moorland and lea!
O. to abide in the desert with thee!
Blest is thy dwelling-place.—
Emblem of happiness.
Wind is my lay and loud Far in the downy cloud,
bar in the downy cloud,
Love gives it energy, love gave it birth
Where, on thy dewy wing,
Where art thou journeying?
Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Over the red streamer that heralds the day,
that
Over the cloudlet dim,
Over the rainbow's rim,
Musical cherub, so, singing, away!
Then, when the gloaming comes,
Low in the heather blooms
Sweetly thy welcome and bed of love be!
Emblem of happiness,
Blest is the dwelling-place,
O, to abide in the desert with three!
Hope
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That's just one little tale of business success in Lawrence. There are many others. Opportunity is just as great today as ever. Lawrence industries have a way of getting bigger and richer. And there is room for more.
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