UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WILLIAM A. BARRY      Business Manager
MISTER J. ROBERTS      Business Manager
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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
IT'S A QUESTION
Some time ago the question was asked: Does the University desire to join the Missouri Valley Oratorical Association? The answer to this has been neither an emphatic no, nor has it been a vigorous yes. The question was directed to the student body in general, but it appears that only a few men have sufficient interest in the matter to make inquiries concerning it.
Nebraska is wrestling with the same problem and at the present time is in as big a quandary as before. To most universities the advisability of joining something that appeals to only a small portion of the student body, seems to be doubtful and most of them that have joined have done so just as a matter of experiment.
The effect on the University of joining such an association is only a matter of conjecture. At the present time there is a greater interest in debating than has been manifested in years, and it is a question whether entering the Oratorical Association would sacrifice some of this enthusiasm or whether it would serve as a stimulant for all forensic activities.
A general observation of the student body leads one to believe that oratory would not find a hearty reception in this institution. Its adviceability is a matter of doubt and it is a question whether its importance is sufficient to make it worth an experiment.
BIG HIGH SCHOOL EVENT
Last year there were over thirty teams entered in the Interscholastic Basketball Tournament and nearly three hundred high school students were at the University either as contestants or visitors.
Coach Hamilton made the formal announcement yesterday of the fifth tournament for the high schools which will take place in Robinson gymnastium on March 15 and 16. Indications are that this will be the greatest tournament in the history of the University—and this means the world.
Every year has seen an increase interest among the high-school students in this event, and every year has seen greater preparations made by the athletic management for the entertainment of the visitors. This annual tournament has attained such magnitude and has caused such wide spread interest, that several of the other colleges of Kansas are following the lead of the University and are having similar tournaments.
But the big circus always has been and always will be in Lawrence. A University professor is the father of the game. This year the varsity team is already the champion of the southern division of the Missouri Valley Conference and is probable champion of the entire Valley. This team will play for the benefit of the visitors, an exhibition game with a team of all-stars who have graduated from the University.
It is with pleasure that the University extends to every high school in the state an invitation to enter the tournament. Entertainment
will be provided for all, and to those who plan to come to the University of Kansas on March 15 and 16, the Daily Kansan can promise the time of their lives. They will see more in those two days than they can forget in a year.
FAVORITE FICTION
"School of Entomology."
"Good Government Club."
"I Oliver Typewriters."
"Really, Mr. Leadtoe I didn't feel like dancing this waltz, I Would Much Rather Sit It Out.
"Yes, I Had my Tickets Already Reserved for the Junior Prom, When I discovered that I Had an Engagement with a Girl Down Home for Prom Night."
"Central Standard Time" (by P C.)
SO SINGS THE POET
The following is a contribution by a bard on the Michigan Daily. No wonder he's not on the track team; his feet are in such bad condition that he never could place.
The faculty axe has fallen, and hard luck's had its knick, until our track team's chances sum down to flat bed rock. We've made a name for Michigan, with Yost and pigskin glory, but when it comes to track events, they sing a different story. They say Am Arbor's got no show—the studies all have the blues; they tremble when you say Cornell and run at Syracuse. But why is all this holier about our doom in track? You fellows do not mean to say that Michigan won't come back!
When you're feeling like you had no hope in life you had no aim—just think about one day last fall—about that Pennsy game. Right then you'll know that spirit can help out things a lot at times, when folks don't give a cus for the chance Arn Arbor's got. Let up now on the croaking, put the hammer on the shelf, instead of knocking on the team, go out for it yourself.
WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?
Everyone nowadays is talking about the earning capacity of college graduates. President John Grier Hibben, of Princeton recently remarked that the average first-year earning capacity of Princeton grads was $6 a week. President Obama said at an alumnum dinner, said that his graduates were worth about $8 a week.
President Butler hasn't spoken on the subject as yet, much to the regret of the news hurry, but to our gratification as students. This talk of graduates receiving less than $10 a week sounds good in the newspapers and at dinners but it is poor policy to say that a man's education, his intellect, culture and capacity for making friends are to be computed in money figures.
If the graduate of today gets an average salary of $12 a week, has the head of the business firm forgotten that his earning capacity is only $8, and that he is losing $4 a week on the grad? Not much. The business men aren't giving salaries for men who don't earn them; they are getting paid knowing that a graduate isn't asked to accept a position which draws a salary less than $12 a week.
The business man knows the average college capacity for earning; he knows that the man who has had four years of college life will raise the culture of the workshop, of the surveying camp, of the office, or whatever it may be. Then, what is the use of raving about earning capacity of $6 or $8 a week when a man is offered more than that at the commencement of his apprenticeship in the business world.—Columbia Spectator.
Of the things that make for happiness, the love of books stands first. A book, unlike a friend, will wait not only upon the hour, but upon the mood—Myrtle Reed.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
BOOKS AND HAPPINESS
MAN and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men and lions in general. The Man continued to demonstrate that he was stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence. "Come now with us, we are going," he said that I am right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a statue of Hercules overcoming the dragon.
"That is all very well," said the Lion. "but proves nothing, for it was a man who made the statue." We can only repeat those words.
as easily represent things as we wish them to be.
UNCLE NICHOLAS
PHIDE SAYS:
"A college edification," says Uncle Nicholas Sulibide, who sweeps out the chemistry lab., "is like horrardish. It ain't to fill you up, its to make you hungry."
"The best friend the engineers have got is the laws," remarked Uncle Nick to a prominent Chemical this morning. And then he added hastily, as he dodged a bottle of acid, "I mean the laws of gravitation."
"Now that the Kansan's a daily I s'pose they'll fix the showers in the gym and wind the Physics Clock."
"Lots of people say high heels are useless bxt I've noticed that the tall girls never wear 'em."
"It's no disgrace to be bald-headed, but I never saw a man that brushed his hair away from the vacant spot."
"Fountain pens may leave bad-looking floors, but they save a lot of work," said Uncle Nicholas Sulphide, who has been substituting in the Mining Building, "I swept up about twelve pounds of pencil shavings after a geology quiz last week."
AT WORK FOR THE PEOPLE
William Allen White in the Outlook
A comparison of the figures of the cost of higher education in Kansas and in other states is illuminating. The per capita cost to Kansas for normal school education is about $75, for the Agricultural College the per capita cost is about $107, and for the State University it is about $171, making an average per capita cost in the Kansas institutions of higher learning of $117. Now the average per capita cost for higher education in eleven States having institutions that rank equal to those of Kansas—States like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan, and Ohio—is $202, making a saving in Kansas of 42 per cent over the average cost in the country for similar education. This seems to indicate that, with the equitable distribution of a large per capita wealth, thousands of children are sent into the Agricultural College, the normal schools, and the University, but the increased cost of maintaining these institutions in Kansas is much less than it is in any other State.
STATE WORK BY SCHOOLS
Every year sees some department of the state administration pass into the hands of the institutions of higher learning. The Agricultural College now appoints and controls the state highway engineer, the state dairy commissioner, the state veterinary expert, and has charge of the work for the prevention of spread of diseases in live stock. The University School of Medicine is taking over the administration of laws controlling the public health; the Dean of the Medical School is the administrative officer of the State Board of Health; and the administration of the pure food and drugs law, the water surveys, matters of municipal sewage disposal, and practically all matters pertaining to the public health, are under the control of the University. At the University the state has erected a hospital where all physical defective children must be sent by the county commissioners for treatment, and here all sick or crippled workers in the state, old and young, may receive free treatment, with the bed charges paid by the county commissioners of the counties sending these patients.
Not only in matters of public health does the University serve the state, but the Chancellor is official custodian of weights and measures the curator of the University museums is state fish and game warden and administers the game laws, the Engineering School is assisting the public utilities commission to appraise the railways and utilities of the state, and the department of sociology and economics has offered its services in rate adjustments Moreover, the University and the Agricultural College are seeking to take over jointly the administration of the state architect's office and furnish to school districts, counties and cities plans for all public buildings, parks, and boulevards, either free or at cost, thus making for a permanent plan of architecture in the state, and at the same time taking the department entirely out of politics, as the highway engineer
OTHER PUBLIC SERVICE
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
I arm;d her against the censure of the world, showed her that books are sweet upreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
the dairy commissioner, the state veterinary officers, the administration of the laws relating to hygiene, the game warden, and expert work in the public utilities commission are out of politics.
UNIVERSITY AIDS CITIES
Kansas leads the country in the number of cities under the commission form of government, with the initiative and referendum and recall, largely because the law was written in the University and the secretary of the Kansas Municipal League is at the head of the extension department of the University, and the University bureau of municipal research industriously spreads the propaganda for the commission form of government. The commission form of government is putting ward politics out of business as rapidly as the primary put state politicians out of business. But with the state under the convention system, a group of institutions of higher learning that were doing so much service work for the state would excite the envy of statesmen out of jobs, and the University and the Agricultural College would not be free, as they are today. The activity of these institutions of higher learning in the administrative work of the state is more than a substitute for the efficiency of cheap politicians. This activity is the answer of a democracy to the charge that a self-gov-
erning people cannot do the expert work required of a highly organized society without the interposition of a leisure governing chain to direct the activities and to choose the ex perts needed for the higher branches of social service.
In the past the American outdoor athlete hibernated during the winter months, says Harper's Weekly. The youth of today, however, has no such complaint to make, for he has adopted the swift and picturequeues hockey of Canada. Today hockey has superseded every other form or winter sport of the type of man-to-man contact play. It flouishes in the leading universities and colleges of the East and tours of Canadian sevens are constantly increasing.
At the University of Washington the editor of the Daily will turn over one issue of the paper to the freshman class. The editor of this special edition is to be chosen by the class.
DO YOU KNOW: that somewhere near 1,000,000 women will vote for president electors this year?
About 84 per cent of the freshman class are rooming in the college dormitories at Williams College this year, as against 52 per cent last year.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT
Is there, for honest poverty,
the charges his head, he a 'a that?
The charges his head, pass him by;
We dare be poor for a 'a that!
For a 'a that, and a 'a that,
cobble his head, he a 'a that;
The rank is but the guinea stamp
The man's the guinea for a 'a that
What though on handsy fare we dine,
bodding arms are like bettet.
tine, wear hidden-gray, and a 'a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
A man's a man for a 'a that!
For a 'a that, and a 'a that,
Their tinsel show, and a 'a that;
The honest man, though e'er sər poor,
Is karen's a men for a 'a that
Is king o' men for a' that
Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord.
Wha stuats, and stares, and a' that;
Though hundreds worship at his word
He's but a coof for a' that;
For a' that, and a' that
of a that, and a that,
His ribband, star, and a that;
The man of independent mind,
He looks and laughs at a* that.
A prince can make a belted knight,
a marquis, duke, and 'a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his might,
Guid faith, he mawma 'f' that!
For 'a' that, and 'a' that,
Their dignities, and 'a' that:
The o' sense, and pride o'
worth.
Are higher rank than 'a'?
YOUR GYM
Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a' that,
That sense and worth, oer 'a the earth
Shall bear the gree, and a' that.
For a' that, and a' that.
It shall be ye, yet that,
That man to man, the world 'oer
Shall brothers be for a' that,
—ROBERT RUMNS
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Why be reconciled: why not go along?
for the boy or girl to go away to the University, parents often find it hard to be reconciled to their first departure from home.
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