UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
DO YOU AGREE?
"After flattering Southwestern on her scenic beauty, Professor Leotsakos just informed Kansas U. that she is the 'Acropolis of America.' Plague take these fickle Dagos anyhow."
The above is an editorial comment by the Southwestern Collegian and is an interesting commentary on the sincerity—we dislike to call it that—of a number of speakers who appear before university audiences and seek to pave their way into the graces of the students by dispensing many and beautiful-sounding words of praise.
We are not making personal reference to Professor Leotsakas, for goodness knows the University deserves being called the "Acropolis of America."
But it is a sad fact that custom has decreed that whenever a visitor speaks before a University audience he should consume a part of his time in a verbose and euphonious laudation of the students individually, the University and its campus, and everything that is connected with our college life. The students do not desire or appreciate this. We know that we are singularly blessed with a beautiful campus and an extraordinarily bright student body. The students in other colleges know the same thing. We take it for granted that the speaker is pleased to see "sc many bright and smiling faces, etc." We know when he says these things that he is sparring for our attention and playing on our supposed vanity
But probably the decree of custom will always compel speakers to continue in the well beaten paths of their predecessors. There will doubtless never be a chapel speaker who will have the audacity to fly in the face of convention, and University audiences will be forever burdened with this misplaced oratorical courtesy.
RAGTIME AND MUSIC
There is no possible way of ascertaining the musical inclination of the student body, but a fair guess is that the musical appreciation of the average student is limited to a few melodies which tell of wonderful eyes, of beautiful dolls, of honey men—the whole set to ragtime.
It has been said that the average student leaves the university with his musical education still in the ragtime stage. By the time a fellow grinds through a four year's course in engineering, or weather; two or three courses in chemistry or absorbs a semester of law, or takes any of the other courses offered on the bill, he has little time or inclination for the culture of his musical sense. But he should take every advantage offered to hear classical music.
The University band gives a concert tomorrow evening and be it said to its everlasting credit, it is rstempting something other than the usual sycophaced ta-rah that we hear pounded out on every piano within the city limits. It is a relief to hear something that is the work of a master—that is not ground out by some music hack at so much per.
We ought to be able to appreciate classical music when we hear it. We tire of the light and frivolious in talk
ing, and just so we ought to tire of the light and inconsequential in music.
CHECKS ARE DUE
It is this week—or maybe next—that papa sends a letter to his boy at college, and with this epistle is a little pink or yellow or white slip that brings joy and comfort to the heart of the youth who is in quest of ar education.
It's these checks from father that make the student see the whole world in a rosy hue, that make an irate landlady who has been clamoring for the past two months for her regular stipend chuckle with glee, and that allows us all to walk from one end of Massachusetts street to the other without dedging behind sign posts whenever creditors come in sight.
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE The Daily Kanwan of last Friday contained an account of the differen attitudes taken by two governors in the matter of higher education. Governor Wilson sees it from the view point of the man who knows the university from the inside out: Governor Stubbs views it with the attitude of the man who knows it from the outside in.
Governor Woodrow Wilson says:
Often the question is asked
"What's the use?"
"How will this study help me?"
What is the use of a gymnasium?
Do you expect to do the double traction with your partner in business?
You train so you can stand the strains of life. The amount of education that you carry away from a great university is negligible. You are here to do for your minds as you do in the gymnasium for your muscles.
No man ought to stumble when a question of duty comes.
Governor W. R.
Stubbs says:
Our schools contain too much of the impractical. No student should be compelled to take Latin or Greek or mathematical astronomy unless he feels that it will be of some use to him in his everyday life.
We want particular things in school as well as in business. Thegirlwho intends to be a housewife needs no Latin or Greek to be a good one.
TORTURE OF THE OYSTER
Every student's needs must be measured by his intentions for the future.
Those readers who are accustomed to drop in and order a half a dozen raw hard better read the following editorial. They will change it to a fry or a stew.
No propaganda in recent years has met with such enthusiastic support from the populace as that which has just been launched by the Hon. John Craft, of Mobile, Ala., who bulges nobly to the fore-front in advocacy of the great American oyster. It has remained for him to point out the cruelty with which these helpless bivalves have been treated for ages past by thoughtless epicures, who have been accustomed to eat them alive, in reckless bisregard of all the laws of humanity. As Mr. Craft now points out, just because oysters are dumb, and deprived by nature of any means of defense, is no reason why they should be cruelly subjected to baths of catapu, stabbed with forks in their tenderest parts, and crunched by reckless teeth.
WHEN first the Fox saw the Lion he was terribly frightened, and ran away and hid himself in the wood. Next time however he came near the King of Beasts he stopped at the fence to get into the by. The third time he came near one another the Fox went straight up to the Lion and passed the time of day with him, asking him how his family were, and when he should have been gone, then turning his tail, he parted from the Lion without much ceremony.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
In common with the rest of the civilized world we subscribe to all that the famed president of the Alabama oyster commission has to say. From long study of the docile oyster he has arrived at the conclusion that the savagery with which we have impaled these helpless creatures upon our tines, tortured them with lemon juice, blinded their eyes with salt and pepper, and frozen their very marrows with ice, would make a South Sea Island cannibal dining off baked missionary look like a charter member of the S. P. C. A. Enough of this butchery of the innocents!
Familiarity breeds contempt.
The editor is not responsible for the clues expressed here. Communications must be signed by an authorized agent.
STUDENT OPINION
The very word "grind" is discordant, and the student who is known as a "grind" is usually considered discordant. Among great many students he is a subject for pity. He is said to be narrow-minded. He is called freakish. Often he is avoided by his fellow students.
THE GRIND
THE GRIND To the Daily Kansan;
But is the "grind" quite so bad, after all? Aren't we inclined to be a little prejudiced against him? In the modern reaction against scholastic culture have we not gone too far toward practical things and toward materialistic learning? Are we not going to an extreme to get little worse than we can, and the like, and then point the finger of scorn at the so-called grind while he is getting out of his books more real lasting pleasure than we.
It is said that one extreme is as bad as another, but just the same most people honor the grind far more than his opposite, the "rounder," the easy- lucky good-for-nothing fellow who comes to college to do everything except to study. It is this last kind of student who has brought attacks upon the modern world from a disgrace to higher educational institutions; the "grind" may be objectionable, but he is certainly not a disgrace.
Many of the greatest men and women have been grinds in their youth. Some, but not many, of the opposite type have been of considerable value in the world. It is what a human being has in him that counts in the long run, not altogether what he outwardly displays or tries to display. C. F.
It's quite newsy and will give the students an opportunity to handle some of the perplexing questions incident to the business. It's a good, practical training for them and especially for those who expect to embark in the profession after completing their course. Here's hoping that they will make a success of their venture.—McPherson Opinion.
THEY ALL LIKE THE DAILY
It is a very neatly gotten-up paper and is devoted to the news and interests of the University. At this late date they will not know of the joys they miss in pulling the old Washington hand press—Cawker City Record.
The young men and women who are working, working, working—as they will always be required to work because of the consuming ambition which beckons the most plodding of the editorial force of the country—are preparing themselves for identification with the greatest forces afflicted in the press and its products, and, success seems assured. Some will fall, as a matter of course, but the general result will be a boon to the world.—Osage City Free Press.
If the students in the department of journalism at the Kansas university can spell as well as they can edit there is hope for them in the newspaper field.
It is full of news, has the proper appearance and flavor, and brings joy to the heart of the exchange editor every day when it comes in. If you want to read real news gotten up in the original way just take a look at the Kansan on the exchange table of the library. - College Life, Emporia.
It is printed on good paper and is a beauty mechanically. If the support enables it to keep up its present high standard the journalistic students will get some first class training. It is ably edited.-Santa Fe Monitor.
It is well get up and newsy, but having put in a good many years of life at daily newspaper work, we have an idea the boys will find it a mighty hard grind after the novelty has worn off...Edmond New Leaf.
In the young men's brains, there lie the greatest possibilities of the future generations. The University Daily Kansan should study the cause of things more zealously and assist in molding the future policies of the nation, lest a disgruntled proletariat rise with club and bomb, in ignorance of the cause of their woes, to smash an unseen monster which they cannot analyze or harness. You boys had better get hold of the economic reins of the destinies of the people. May the University Daily Kansan live long and do much good.-Gray County Beacon.
The stuff that appears in the paper is of a better grade than that which appears in the average country paper. —Dodge City Journal.
If the boys keep up anything like the gait with which they start out, they will keep a-goin' some. Editorially, rhetorically and mechanically the issues so far have been of a high order and if the boys can manage to pay the hands Saturday nights they should be admitted to the fraternity without further ceremony. - Marion Record.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
With deathless minds that leave where they have passed
A path of light, my soul communion knew;
Till from that glorious intercourse, at last,
As from a mine of magic store, I drew
Words which were weapons; round my heart there grew
The adamantine armor of their power
And from my fancy wings of golden hue
Sprang forth.
Sprang form.
—PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY,
It is creditable to any school and to any publisher and it shows plainly that somewhere behind it is a hand and brain long trained in the daily grind of practical newspaper work—Sedan Times-Star.
One of the neatest, most interesting exchanges which comes to the Advocate table is the University Daily Kansan. The paper is well gotten up, its stories are well written and to the point, the mechanical part is artistic, in fact the paper is a credit to the journalistic department of the University. It is the greatest advertising medium the institution could possibly adopt and keeps the public informed regarding the work and progress of the students in general—EIOrado Advocate.
The first numbers are news and neat editions, well edited, and show care and thought. Some of the young fellows who are getting their first knowledge of newspaper making at that institution will, before many years, take the place of the old grayheads who are now "moulding public thought" in Kansas. They will be up to the times, in touch with all the latest improvements and will make a whip-cracker of the Kansas 'language'.
The old fellows who learned the trade in the old-fashioned way will all have gone to their reward and instead of becoming a golden harp in the new Jerusalem.
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN
With the advent of typesetting machinery the old school printers are fast disappearing and very few boys are learning the business now except in the schools where printing and journalistic work is taught.
The young men who are learning the business in the schools will graduate and go out into the world and take the places of the men who fall out as old Father Time touches them with his spear. We wish the University Daily Kansan and its editors, success—Troy Chief.
A BAN ON CIDER
A report having been received by the Central W. C. T. U., that cider is frequently served at dinners and other university social affairs at the University of Wisconsin Y. W. C. A., the central organization went on record in protest against the practice and efforts will be made to prohibit it.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
All the world's a stage.
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his pucking,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woofful whalad.
Made to his mistress' eye-brow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jeaulson in honor, sudden and quick in seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the Justice.
In fair round belly with good capron dress—
With eyes severe, and beard of formal or with light saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into laceen and slipped pantalon With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
From his shrunk shank; and his big many voice,
Turning toward childish treble pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history Is second childhood, and mobs all
Sans teeth. sans cues. sans taste
sans everything. WWW. Swimming
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
A Man Who Had Worked Hard
in Kansas for thirty years moved with his family to Lawrence the other day. Said he thought he had earned a rest and he proposed to enjoy it in the City of Homes. Said he intended to take it easy while his children finished going through school. All of which suggests that there are thousands of hard working, well-to-do citizens in Kansas who owe themselves a holiday. Lawrence proves attractive to such by reason of its unequalled advantages as a residence town—its schools and University, its beauty, and its up-to-dateness in every line of civic improvement.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
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