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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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Gordon
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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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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Light strokes fell great oaks.
SO WE ARE IN LAWRENCE
Forty-nine years ago, on February 20, 1863, Governor Carney signed House Bill No. 122, "To Establish the State University." Strange as it may seem, this bill was introduced into the legislature originally by Representative Eskridge of Emporia, with the title "To Establish the State University at Emporia," but it was "dehorned" and remodelled before final passage.
The fight for the location of the State University was fierce and bitter. Lawrence, Manhattan, and Emporia were the chief combatants. When Manhattan secured the State Agricultural College that city was content to retire from the race for the University. The contest henceforth was waged between Emporia and Lawrence.
In the end, it was only by little more than mere chance that the University came to Mt. Oread. Lawrence offered an endowment of $15, 000 and forty acres of land adjoining the city. Emporia offered eighty acres for a campus, and had the advantage of being championed by the eloquent and enthusiastic Representative Eskridge.
The fight, interspersed with charges and countercharges of graft and pork-barrels and the like, came to an end in the House when the final vote was taken which resulted in a tie, and the victory was won for Lawrence only by the deciding vote of the presiding officer, who happened to be favorable to the city on the Kaw.
Even with this, the struggle was not over for Lawrence. The bill contained a condition: Lawrence must fulfil her promise to give $15,000 and a forty-acre campus. The forty-acre campus was forthcoming, the gift of Charles Robinson. The $15,000 was less easily obtained. After some time a gift of $10,000 was made by Amos A. Lawrence, and the citizens succeeded in pledging the remaining $5,000. Then came the terrible Quantrell's raid of August, 1863, in which Lawrence was reduced to ruins. The citizens were unable to redeem their pledges. Relief came when the benevolent Governor Carney personally cashed the citizens' note. On November 2, 1863, a proclamation from the Governor declared the State University permanently located at Lawrence.
So it comes that we are at Lawrence today, and not at some other place in the big state of Kansas.
The presidential campaign seems to be causing considerable disturbance in the heavens. Already a Star has fallen from two cents to one, and several Suns are wavering between various courses.
A HOLIDAY, WHAT IS IT?
Tomorrow will come again a cessation of hostilities between professors and students and this time it is in honor of George Washington, the
father etc., etc. It was only last week that the mills of education were closed down because of Lincoln's birthday and to several people it appears that the University has too many holidays; that there is too marked an inclination on the part of both professors and students to escape from the tedium of the classroom.
An investigation of the holidays in other universities, particularly in other countries, shows that the University has no more vacations than its full quota, and compared with a number of other institutions it has comparatively few. Surely we cannot be criticized for taking a few days off every year out of respect for our nation's great.
But it is a pat question whether or not these holidays are observed properly by the students. Is a mere vacation from class-work a sufficient recognition of the man whom we are honoring? How many students really give a serious thought to the intention of the day?
A University professor was right when he said "Wealth is not measured by money." In these preprom days, the only rich man is he who possesses a form which will fit a dress suit, and a "cousin" who sends occasional boxes of candy.
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Evidently bored by the "live ones" of the University of Missouri, some girls of that institution are going fossil hunting next summer.
IS IT ONLY THE GIRLS?
What do you think of a college girl who—
Writes twelve pages of news to a friend and a page and a quarter of requests to the home folks?
Expects her roommate to be perfect when she may have a fault or two herself?
Who is never willing to work in the ranks and then has the blues because she is never asked to be chairman of a committee?
Seems to have unlimited money to spend at the Kandy Kitchen, yet can never remember to pay her class dues?
Forgets to pay what she owes or return what she borrows, then wonders why people are not more generous?
Fails to speak to half the boys she has met and then complains about the lack of politeness on the part of the college men?—The Simpsonian.
The editor was busy when he was asked: "How are the markets?" The man was referred to the office devil who looked wiser and said: Young men steady; girls are in demand; papas firm, but deining; mammals unsettled,waiting for higher bids; tea and coffee considerably mixed; fresh fish active and slippery; eggs, quiet but expecting to open soon; onions, strong; yeast rising; those raised on market are aresolved and are constantly going up and down; hats and caps not so high as last year excepting focap, which is stationary; tobacco, very low and has a downward tendency; silver and gold close, but not close enough to get hold of.—Cincinnati Inquirer.
OFFICE DEVIL EXPLAINS
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
NE hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. He picked up the qoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the turn. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. He fled, empting morsel, at but last had it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
STUDENT OPINION
NEED OF A RULE.
To the Daily Kansan.
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communication must be signed as an evi-
Instead of closing 10:15 classes at 11:30 on Friday, as the schedule orders, why do so many professors hold their classes until 11:40 or later, generally later, and thus cause students to be late every hour for most time?
Cannot some time be fixed for the closing of 10:15 classes after long chapel that all professors will be required to observe? S. P.
Like the new Easter bonnet which reminds one that it is time to put aside the old and prepare for the new, so the Medic building has had many a pleasant glance cast in the direction of its new covering. After many seasons of rain and sunshine, the last shingle roof on the campus has been removed.
To the Daily Kanssan.
This reminds one that across the campus stands the Museum, reported by good authority to have fifty-one holes in its roof. Take a friend among the specimens while the water from the recent melting snow is tinkling down over the head and it forcibly reminds one that it is high time that the Museum be prepared for the coming season by a new roof or at least by another desperate attempt at mending the old one.
—G. C. W.
What plunged the editor of the University paper into so gloomy a frame of mind regarding human nature that he could write in all seriousness the editorial "about cheating" that appeared yesterday?
To the Daily Kansan:
Taking the assertions contained therein at their face value, it would be hard to see any difference between the students of the University and the inmates of the state reformary. If the students are as prone to cheat in the four years of their lives passed in the University, then they cannot think, then the boys at the reformatory can scarcely need reforming more than the students do.
"As long as any group of students are assembled, they will cheat," is a statement that would betoken a sad state of degradation - if it were really the truth.
But instructors in the University would not think of saying that most of the students in their courses will cheat if they get a chance. The strict watchfulness of instructors in examinations is not needed because everybody will be honest, and it is because the honest students need to be protected from the few who will cheat.
There is, however, some reason for the belief that student honesty is not at so low an ebb as the editorial would indicate. The University is mader of great students and they are big round world. Side by side, will be found the honest student and the chea
—they are sure to be side by side a quiz time if the honest student is known to have pursued the course with them. On many occasions, oftentimes, to tell which is which.
A little fringe of cavalry can make life miserable for a large body of foot-soldiers. The situation at the University is similar. The student Cossacks and Rough Riders are not so numerous as one would think, judging from their depredations. They are numerically much inferior to the infantry.
The last American horn book known is also to be seen. It was found near Prinecton, New Jersey, and dates from about 1800.
READING HORN BOOKS
—CABALLERO.
These horn books from which our forefathers learned the art of reading English are primitive indeed. They consist, as a rule, of a small rectangular piece of wood with a short handle in the shape of a keystone at the bottom.
One Mexican horn书 is of larger size than usual. One of ivory has Roman letters on one side and script characters on the back.
On the wooden surface is pasted a piece of parchment bearing letters and words, and over this a thin transparent piece of horn is fastened to protect the reading matter from the meddling hands of the pupils.
A remarkable collection of early horn books is owned by George A. Plimpton of New York and an account of them in the Post says:
There were variants of material, but not of form, so that a device of this peculiar shape was known as a horn book even if the horn sheet which originally gave it the name was lacking. Thus in the present collection there is a horn书 of clay from a wooden mold, which is also shown, and which was used to make gingerbread cookies, as well as horn books of less perishable material. There is also one covered with leather, upon the back of which appears the figure of CharlesII on horseback; one of ivory and a very diminutive one made of metal, dated 1644.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispassionate in mankind is unless while he has a friend.
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER
THE VALUE OF A FRIEND
—ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
W. A. White to the Press Club of the University of Indiana.
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"I well remember that our first great struggle in running a college paper was for freedom. Liberty of the press is the great problem of all newspapers. Quite often we are wrong, but we learned that it was better to insist on our rights as we saw them, and be wrong rather than be right and spoon-fed.
"It is highly important that any newspaper be free. But it must also be right. If you are right and free you can go ahead, but if you are wrong society will not receive you and your paper will be a failure. There is no profession in the world where it is so impossible to fool the people. They cannot be fooled in the newspaper business. Therefore to succeed, a paper must be straight.
Mr. White gave some good advice about the influence of advertisers. He said: "Don't let advertisers bluff you. You cannot have self respect and be bluffed on any proposition. I have had subscribers lined up in front of my office to stop their paper so thick that I could not tend to them, but I didn't worry. They would come back. And they did. Remember that the business of a newspaper is to print the truth. But don't twist it. That isn't necessary.
The speaker then told of some of his experiences in the newspaper business. He said: "I have run from a woman with a blacksnake whip, and I have looked into the business end of a gun as big as a barrel, but it didn't hurt me. It was good for me. You will rub up against the same sort of thing, when you get to running a newspaper of your own.
"There is no other profession where it pays to keep straight so well, and be so fundamentally decent. You can capitalize decency and that is all that you can capitalize in this business, because you cannot deliver the goods if you are not decent, and if you can be decent, and if you are not decent in some way or other the public will appreciate the newspaper that is decent and will make it pay."
Touching on the "Loathed Contemporary" problem he had this to say: "Do not deny attacks made by an opponent. You can kill a paper by ignoring it. The very fact that you refuse to face an attack leads the opponent to say that there could not anything to it or the paper would deny it.
"I would like to talk all night to you, because I love to talk about newspapers. But I will have to close. As a final word I would like to leave this with you. No matter what turns up, keep your self respect.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNA-
CHERIB
The Assyrian came down like the wolf fled, fold,
and his scissors were gleaning in purple and gold;
and the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea.
When the lion waves wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green.
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown.
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still!
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed
deadly, death's chill.
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And there lay the steed with his nos-
tril all wide,
tril all wide,
triall wide.
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride:
Am the foam of his gasping lay white on the ground.
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale.
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail.
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unmote by the sword.
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
the Lord!
—LORD BYRON
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