UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
ORALOE
Dorcas Lacombe
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Evelyn Miller
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.
WHAT'S THE MATTER!
It is a sad reflection on the loyalty, interest, and enthusiasm of the University student body, that Coach Hamilton is forced to say that the track team this year is extremely mediocre, that it is far below the average, and that only a small fraction of eligible track men have appeared for work.
It is hard to explain this situation. It must not be said that we have given up hope of defeating our friends the Tigers. Things are in a pretty shape if this is the case.
It cannot be said that the University does not posses athletes who are able to wrest a victory from Missouri. Dr. Naismith has statistics on our University stalwarts that show that in the matter of physique and brawn, they are above the average in other colleges.
It cannot be said that the facilities for training are inadequate. The University has one of the best gymnasiums in the West and one hundred and sixty acres of campus over whil all are at liberty to run and jump.
It cannot be said that we do not desire to be victorious in track as well as in other athletic activities.
The only logical conclusion, then is that there is a lack of push, of interest, of a desire to do things among the student body generally. Such a condition ought not exist. There are a hundred men in school at this very moment who have every chance to be point winners on the track and they ought to take the call of Coach Hamilton to heart.
Our running track ought to be filled with live, vigorous, healthy men who are out, not so much for the possible points that they may add but for the good that they will do themselves individually and the interest they will create in track work
FAVORITE FICTION
FAVORITE FICTION "Modern Rooms." "Amusement Parks."
"Our Class was 60 Pages Ahead of Yours at This Time Last Year."
"10 minutes to 10." (by the P. C.)
"O, Yes. Mrs. Smith Your Table Suits Me Perfectly, but I Have Found Another Place to Board Closer to the Hill."
GIRLS' BROADENING INTERESTS
Although Coach Hamilton may have his troubles in getting men out for athletics, there is unusual activity among the University co-eds in things athletic and, according to reports, the girls are invading the gymnasium in squads, battalions, and even bevy's, to use the very words of Dr. M. L. Johnson, of the department of physical culture.
Time was when the physical education of the girl was considered unnecessary and was relegated to a position far back and little used in their curriculum. It was deemed sufficient for them to take a course that would eventually make them "moh culticed" and little attention was given to attaining a physical perfection that is more useful in later life than a ten-year course in drawing or pianola playing.
The University recognizes that its girls must be sound in body as well as in mind and it is taking steps to
offer to those interested every opportunity to take physical training The interest that is being manifested by the young women presages the growing activity that they are taking in college affairs.
The time is coming, and it is not far off, when athletics among women will be as distinct as those now given over to the men.
NEWS THAT NEVER WAS PRINTED
"Football Abolished at K. U." "Freshman Successfully Resist Cap Rule."
"P. C. Repaired."
NEWS THAT NEVER IS PRINTED
"Skate on Potter Lake."
"Billposters at Last Arrested."
"Prof's Basketball Team Gets It"
"Some Hot Signal Practice."
"P. C. Repaired."
NEWS THAT NEVER WILL BE PRINTED "Missouri Wins Big Game at Law rence."
"Engineers Entertain Laws at Big Banquet."
"P. C. Repaired."
SPRING POEMS BARRED
In view of the editorial in Tues day's issue of The Daily Kansan headed "Checks Are Due," a student has turned up who implores "dad" in the following touching way:
In days a few, my room rent's due,
And money not a bit.
In days gone by, food's been so high
I have had none of it.
I'm full of woe, but shrunken so,
None of my clothes will fit.
In direful need, I therefore plead,
O, Father, Please remit.
COLLEGE JOURNALISM
Within the past few years, many universities and colleges throughout the country, giving liberal arts courses have installed courses in journalism. At the same time, newspaper and journalist work in all the universities has increased, both in quality and quantity; so that even now these forces are influencing newspaperdom.
From the stage, not long past when a newspaper was run successfully by a man with one or two ideas and a few dollars worth of type, the present newspaper represents a large amount of capital investment and an army of trained and experienced workers. With each day the newspaper man is becoming more nearly a man with a profession, and it is here that the universities, are exerting a mighty influence. Men impressed with the idea that newspaper work is work done in the exercise of a profession will work with the dignity becoming professional men.—Purdue Exponent.
A GREAT JEWISH UNIVERSITY There is a prospect of the establishment of a Jewish University at Jerusalem. A wealthy Indian Jew has bequeathed $400,000 to found a college at that city. According to the London Jewish Chronicle, this is likely to become the nucleus of a university endowment.
The library at Williams College has recently secured two volumes of "The Magdalen Churchyard," translated from the French by Samuel Mackay, the first professor of French in Williams College. The books were published in 1809.
QUARREL had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. The Horse then desired to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and allow this saddle to be placed upon your back so that you can follow after the enemy." The Horse agreed to the conditions, and the Hunter soon saddled and bridled him. Then with the aid of the Hunter the Horse soon overcame the Stag, and remove those things from my mouth and back."
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"Not so fast, friend," said the Hunter. "I have now got you under blur and spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present."
if you allow men to use you for you own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the clown expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
LANDS ON THE POOR GRIND
To The Daily Kansan:
This is the convex version of the "grind." Every point of view brings up an opposite viewpoint, states the truth, and then puts on pants on the "Tin't of the Tain't."
"It's the air and popularity.",
"It'sweet and be popular,
everyone loves you so."
What's the use in being a grind when a fellow might be a man—a real man? Legs that are not too wobbly to carry him up the hill; eyes not too dull to smile at a friend; head not too bent to see the sun.
Why should a man waste the precious hours of his youth and inspiration over a mere groveling for I's? Why narrow his horizon when he might be broadening it? Notebooks, note books! If his house were to burn down, with his note-books in the bottom drawer of his dresser, puff! his education disappears in his
The popular man is not without brains. He is not an idle chatterer. Why is it offices and honors fall to his lot? Because he is a gay deceiver? No, because he has shoulders broad enough to carry responsibility, and a head clear enough to manage affairs. He has personality enough to become more than one of the intellectual mob, trying to "git educated." Come on you old grind and get busy. We know it isn't your real nature. Don't be a Boston Bean!
MYSTERIOUS?
To the Daily Kansan:
University students might be interested in knowing that a certain street corner in Lawrence has a most peculiar attraction at night. People passing along at its southwest corner may be seen to stop and gaze interestedly at something on the side-walk. Some look and utter utter words of serious import; some look and laugh; some look in silence; some look and criticise, now from one point, now from another; but all look in more or less wonderment.
One of the conditions of the contest is that one copy of the essay be sent to the contestant's Senator or Representative at Washington. In addition to the $20 prize, second and third prizes of $10 and $5 are offered, and a number of $1 prizes for other meritorious essays.—Portland Oregonian.
The corner is that at the intersection of Berkeley and Tennessee streets. —O. M. C. Y.
There on the side-walk is a shadow—a silhouette-picture, if you please—the face of Abraham Lincoln. It is cast on the side-walk by an odd tangle of roots at the base of a tree, which is in the wind; the head of Hair, forehead, nose, mouth, beard, they are all there, almost as true to life as possible.
—Moi
FAVORS TOOTY-TOOT To the Daily Kansan;
The proposed use of the power-house whistle to announce the beginning and end of class periods has much to recommend it, provided an adequate electric bell system cannot be maintained. Absolute uniformity in the dismissing and the taking up of classes is the thing that warrants. Under the bell ring, it is easily lacked, some of the buildings the bells ring; in some they do not. Some of the professors dismiss their classes when the bells ring; some do not.
The blowing of the whistle can be heard easily all over the campus and there would be no excuse ordinarily for the holding over of classes. The system and system thus made possible should remedy the evils that now exist.
FOR A NEW REPUBLIC
The announcement of the prize essay contest, open to all public school children of the United States, is one of the features of the second number of the New Republic, the new Chinese paper started in Portland recently. The subject of the essay is: "Why should the United States be the first among the nations to recognize the new Republic?" It costs $20. Upon midnight of the day that the indication indicated is taken the contest will close, providing it is not later than April 30 next. It will close at midnight on that date, in such event.
As for ten-minute intermission between classes, it is doubtful if these would be needed if promptness were exercised in dismissing classes. No two buildings are more than five minutes apart. And, if only a five-minute intermission is given, students will hasten from class to class, while if a ten-minute intermission is given they will take their time and are perhaps even more likely to be late than if they had less time for the change.
Neverlate.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
What a place is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians, were reposing here as in some dormitory or amid other buildings, and to handle profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge shade I seem to initiate learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of these woodlands must fragrant as the first bloom of those seciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
CHARLES LAMB.
WHY IS LEAP YEAR?
The origin of the privilege that all women are supposed to have when every fourth year the dangerous period, known as "leap year" comes around, has up to now in the minds of most people been shrouded in proverbial mystery. A Scotch contemporary has come forward with a historical explanation of the matter whose authenticity may be judged from the general details and from its excellent basis in feminine psychology. "It appears" he says "that in the year 1288 a statute was published by the Scotch parliament ordaining that during the reign of 'Her Majist Blessit Majestic Margaret' every maiden and lady of high and low estate should have liberty to speak to the man she liked. If he refused to take her to be his wife, she would have the privilege of fining him 100 pounds or less, according to his estate, unless he could make it appear that he was betrothed to another woman, in which case he would be free to refuse. After the death of Margaret, the women of Scotland became clamorous for their privileges, and to appease them another act of parliament allowed them to propose every fourth year."
It is to be supposed that many of the more heartless males were able to "make it appear" that they were already betrothed, but the inference from the "clamorousness" of the women for their privileges after the death of their queen that a sufficient number of the less decided eligibles were bagged as a result of the right, to make it a principle worth fighting for. The times were undoubtedly some of the most stirring that Scotland has ever seen. It is unfortunate that the scribe has not recorded what prinkings there were on the part of some and what rushings to the aile houses on the part of others to make themselves undesirable specimens. A man might be put in the position of walking forth at midday with the fear of something worse than midnight highwaymen upon him, without being furnished with the defences he would have for ordinary perils. The fine imposed has the nature of poisoning the arrow. When the purchasing power of money in those distant times is considered, when the high cost of living was not so much as a prophecy, the force of the act is realized. If such a penalty were imposed on a modern man, and he saw the alternatives of the loss of some thousands of dollars or of matrimony staring him in the face, he would be a man worthy to be head of a trust whose veracity would not yield to the wrench. And with the apparently unlimited number of offers that the damsel of romantic inclinations might make she would indeed be a "tough specimen" who did not eventually make sure of an acceptance. Happily the good old times cannot return.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
OPPORTUNITY
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream;—
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
And underneath the cloud, or in it raged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner
Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.
A craven hung along the battle's edge,
And led driids "Had I a sword of keener steel"
That blue blade that the king's son bear;-but this
Blunt thing—"I" he snapt and flung it from his hand,
And lowering crept away and left the
Then came the king's son, wounded sore bestead,
And weaponless, and saw the broken sword.
Hilt buried in the dry and trodden sand,
And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down
And bared a great cause that heroic day
—EDWARD ROWLAND SILL
Yes Sir-- Right Here
What's what in hats will be told this week in every Knox agency around the world. "Yes Sir--Right here," ahead of the crocus and the blue birds.
You who are tired of brushing the old derby and pushing into shape the old soft hat, can come here and pick from the finest blooms of the Spring Hat Tree.
KNOX MAKES ARE
KNOX MAKES ARE
The Beacon - $3.00
Roxford - - $4.00
Knox - - $5.00
Other hats $1.00 up
PECKHAM'S
"Swede" Wilson's
NEW POOL PARLOR IS NOW OPEN!
College Where all the students go.
Barber
FIF
At the foot of the hill.
City Drug Store Across the street from Eldridge House
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Just Received---A Fine New Lot of Tooth Brushes
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Stands First With Her.
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