UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
EDITORIAL STAFF
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E. LACOS
L. EARLE MILLER
J. EARLE MILLER
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1870
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
He that hath a trade hath an estate,
and the one calling hath an office of
profe and honor.
OH! COME AND HEAR
Every son and daughter of the University owes it to the band to be present at its concert tonight. Those who know not of the trials and tribulations of a band leader, and who have never belonged to a musical organization that is expected to play at every little gathering that has a University interest, do not appreciate the effort that has been expended to prepare a program that will satisfy all classes of hearers.
All that the members of the band and Director McCanles ask, is that they have a large audience present in Fraser tonight. They have worked for a long time and they have worked hard, and out of respect for them and the many times they have favored the student body by playing at athletic gatherings, a large crowd should be present.
Besides the W. S. G. A says it al right to have a date tonight.
PRO BONO PUBLICO
The Daily Kansan always desires to champion the rights and privileges of its readers, and especially of the student body, and for this reason it intends to enter a hearty protest against a practice that has been prevalent here for years, but which appears to be in its most virulent stage this year. What is referred to is the practice of taking flash light pictures almost every time a group of students are assembled for any social gathering.
For several years ambitious photographers have succeeded in being present at practically every social event, and there, with camera in one hand and an evil smelling and offensive smoke powder in the other they proceed to waste much valuablime in an attempt to make a picture that will be of commercial value to them.
However the photographer does not always appear upon his own initiative; he is often invited by those in charge in order that the great event may be forever preserved in picture, if not in memory. No matter who is responsible for the introduction of the picture man and his camera, the Daily Kansan desires to be put on record as being against the practice unless the extraordinary nature of the event demands that a photograph be taken.
REACHING OUT
Another instance of the effort the University is making to reach all people of the state, is shown by the recent statement by Bank Commissioner Dolley that he will use this institution to test the many blue sky inventions that are worked off on the Kansas innocents every year.
It was not many months ago that a University professor was called to Topeka to assist the State Railway Commission in ascertaining the physical valuation of the railroads operating in the state. For several years a University professor has been the State Sanitary Engineer and his work as counselor for our municipalities, has carried him to every corner of the state.
There is hardly a department of the University that does not contribute its share towards making our cities more nearly perfect, our citizens more broadly intelligent and the administration of our cities more efficient. These things are not as generally known as they ought to be; but this latest instance of "spreading out" will emphasize to the people the interest the University is taking in all state activities.
IS A COMMONS NEEDED?
The importance of a University Coppoms on the campus has been clearly demonstrated. At the noon hour during the recent bad weather the new Cafeteria in the basement of Fraser hall has been swamped with the orders of students. If a large Commons had been at the service of the students perhaps hundreds of them would have lunched on the hill.
The new Cafeteria, small and inadequate as it is, certainly contains the nucleus of a great University Commons of the future. Appreciation of such an institution is sure to grow in the student body, and the best of support on the part of the students may be relied upon in the future. The support already accorded merely gives a vision of what is possible.
COLLEGE AN IDEAL
"There is something of the dreamer in most of our city boys," said a teacher the other day. "When the school authorities learned from their records that many boys leave high school because of their inability to master an additional language they offered a course which would fit a boy for practical work at the trades. "For a while the classes in this course were overcrowded. Gradually, however, it became known that a boy who entered 'this new course would later' (should he ever desire to enter) find the college and university doors closed to him. None who knock at the doors of these higher institutions of learning may be admitted without credits in German or Latin.
"I immediately the course became unpopular, for none wished to sacrifice the possibility of college, be it ever so slender."—New York Sun.
FALSE LOYALTY
It is well enough to be loyal to the University's athletic teams, to the class, to the fraternity, to the social professional club, and to everything else. Loyalty is the big thing in life. Remember, all the time, however, that you are here for your own personal and individual betterment, and that you must needs be loyal to yourself. If you are to develop yourself to the highest point of efficiency, to how many outside affairs can you attach a false string of loyalty? The University really ask that you be loyal to yourself and fit yourself rightly, for that is the big and only loyalty to the University. When you have been loyal to yourself and have gone out into the world as a strong, well-rounded individual, the University can point to you with pride and claim you as its product before all the world. So you help the University, and are loyal more by far than you would have been had you spent your time on the little false loyalties of petty moment.-Indiana Daily Student.
A writer in the Railway and Engineering Review recently gave the interesting results of a computation on the average daily learning capacity of the American locomotive. The estimate took account of time spent in the repair shop, increased cost of repairs and renewals, and the cost of fuel, water and the engine crew. The average earnings per locomotive a day in the East are $124.84, and on the western roads $130.84. The highest earnings in the East are on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, where the average is $147.06 a day.-Indianapolis News.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A MAN came into a Wood one day and with an axe in his hand, and begged all the Trees to give him a small branch which he wanted for a tree. He made it good-natured and gave him one of their branches. What did the Man do but fix it in the axe-head, and soon set to work cutting down tree after tree. The man had seen that they had been in giving their enemy the means of destroying themselves.
GLIMPSES OF A UNIVERSITY
From "The Point of View," *Scribner's.* Our American eagle is an enterprising bird. He performs miracles with despathe, and is perhaps no more vajonglior than, under similar circumstances, we should find the tuieteburs or birds displayed on the ensigns of other countries.
UNIVERSITIES GROW FAST For it not only in the unsubstantial architecture of a white city that we exercise this marvelous velvety. Give us money enough, and we will build as solidly as you like, and not be long about it. For example, we have some very nice things to show in the way of universities, and are not overmuch concerned when we are told that universities, to be good, must grow slowly. We deeply regret that we cannot be venerable, but are not, on that account, deterred from setting up institutions which, while awaiting the dignity of age, furnish every possible facility for acquiring and imparting the accumulated learnings of the ages, along with the most up-to-date attainments of modern science.
And in the course of half a century we do very well. In less time than that we can strengthen foundations which were not deep enough at first; we can fill in a design which seemed, perhaps, to have been sketched out too largely for our means; and if possibly out university has merited the reproach of trying "to run full blast before it had got in its coal," we can repair that deficiency. All this, if we are fortunate enough to have money provided. As every one knows, a university can spend no end of money.
In the special instance which has given rise to these reflections we were so fortunate as to have a founder who literally sacrificed his life in his efforts to preserve the lands on which our future depended, until they could bring the price which needed to be paid. He显然未 got. We were fortunate in having trustees who gave to us liberally out of their abundance.
TRUSTEES MAKE MISTAKES Incidentally, in the course of time, we have been able to educate our trustees; and let me say, it is somewhat more difficult to educate trustees than students. Ours were past masters in the art of giving, but they needed much instruction in the art of governing. In their enthusiasm they governed too much, usurping, with the best will in the world, the functions of president and faculty, whom they were inclined to regard from the stand-point of employers of labor, and to treat as factory hands. They were narrowly utilitarian, regarding the university solely as a factory for the instruction of students, with scant regard to its functions of investigation and conservation. They know better now. We all—trustees and faculty alike—discover a good many of our mistakes and learn more from them than from our successes.
This year, for our festival we had perfect spring days; young leaves on the trees, the freshest of green grass and, when darkness fell, a young moon in the sky. In our choruses, young voices predominate. Our chorus is our pride; and although we import an orchestra and various soloists for the occasion, they are cast into the shade. For we have a genius for a chorus master. We number only two hundred voices, but every unit counts. And when in addition to all this you have an organist who is also an artist, it follows that the weekly choral service is a constant aesthetic influence.
For the three days of the festival the chapel is crowded, afternoon and evening, until on the third evening we end with the culminating performance, when some two hundred school-children are added to the chorus.
CRITICS KEEP BUSY.
We were much reviled at first. We placed all courses of study, literary, scientific, and industrial, on an equal footing, and the man who held the foremost position in the educational world of this country gravely announced: "The experience of the world and common sense are against such experiments." We abjured sectarianism, and the religious press fixed on us the epithet "godless," and shrieked their anathema. Yet we grew and prospered—prospered so much in our technical departments that the new reproof cast at us is that we are ultra-utilitarian. That, of course, is our danger; not our cuts, alone, but that of all our universities. Not because the governing powers deserve utilitarianism, but because the students elect it. In vain are the classics and the humanities held out to them. If those courses were insisted on many of them would go elsewhere, to merely technical schools, thereby losing something of the larger life of the university. But even in the utilitarianism of our public schools and universities we reach out for some nature. The school-childen are taught music in a way that was not known to past generations; and in our university we have an annual music festival.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
When evening has arrived, I return home and go into my study... I pass into the antique collection of ancient men, where, welcomed lovingly by them I feed upon the food which is mine, then move on. When born, I can speak with them without show and can ask of them the motives for their actions; and they respond to me by virtue of their humanity. For me together we live. I remember every exaction; I do not fear poverty; and death itself does not dismay me, for I have altogether transferred myself to those with whom I hold converse.
—NICCOLO MACHIAVELLL.
Up and up against the organ seats are built for the white-clad boys and girls. At the very top, against a background of gold pipes, is an adorable group of little boys. It is an infinitely charming sight, even though here and there the light strikes weirdly on a pair of spectacles, reminding us that the muscles behind him make his music for putting huge glasses on small children.
THE CHILDREN'S VOICES.
Our chorus master is giving us Pierne's "Children's Crusade," most difficult music, medieval in some of its effects and highly poetical throughout. There is something wonderfully appealing about a well-trained chorus of children's voices. One closes one's eyes and the safely shepherded children of the public schools are transformed into the pathetic little crusaders of the legend. We open our eyes again and find that the angelic boys up against the organ pipes are becoming a bit restless. When not singing they judge each other and laugh. Behind a solemn pair of spectacles in especial, much mischief lurks. But the instant the master waves his energetic arms in their direction all gliding ceases. Each child fixes his eyes on the conductor and sings with all his might and the utmost seriousness. And presently, with one last choral burst from all the voices, men, women, and children, the music ends and the festival is over.
The seats are emptied in a trice and we slowly file out into the warm moonlight. Among us is the man who was the first president and co-founder of the university, and who is now spending an honored old age in the house which he build on the campus. Next to him is the wanderer, come back to revisit old haunts. "You never expected to hear anything like this on this hill, did you?" says the president to the wanderer.
BIRD COURSE IS NEXT
"Birds" is the subject of a new course to be offered at the University of Oregon next semester by Prof. J. F. Bovard, head of the department of zoology. All phases of bird study will be taken up and particular observation will be made of the peculiar whims and habits of the Oregon varieties.
In conjunction with the lecture work a laboratory, period of three hours a week will be passed in field study--Portland Oregonian.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
TO A WATERFOWL
Whither, midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last
Whither, midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens.
steps of day,
Far through their rosy depths dost
thou pursue
Thy solitary way?
Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant 'flight to do
the wrong.
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky.
Thy figure floats along.
Seek sth out the plashy brink
Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide
Or where the rocking billows rise and
sink
Ocean floor, or ocean wall
Seek'st thou the plashy briink
On the chafed ocean-side?
There is a Power whose care
causes thy way along that pathless
way.
The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
All day thy wings have fanned,
they are the height, the cold, thin
atmosphere.
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome
bay.
and many that tell shell ends
And soon that toil shall end;
Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest.
And scream among thy fellows; reeds
shall bend
Sorrowing to them.
Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.
Thour't gone; the abyss of heaven
Thou'rnt swallowed up the thy form; yet on
leeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
"..."
He who, from zone to zone,
And shall not soon depart.
He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky th
guide.
In the long way that I must read alone
Will lead my steps aright.
—WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
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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