UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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LOTHIA L. COSS
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JOHN E. MILLER
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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
He that by the plow would thrive himself must either hold or drive.
SENIOR MEMORIAL
It is the boast of every senior class that it is the best, absolutely and without a doubt, that was ever graduated from the University and they attempt to prove their superiority over former classes by citing the astonishing records made by each and every member while in college. They base their claims to immortality on what the class has done in the past and on what it will do in the future.
But so far as one can observe, the classes that are yearly ground out from the University educational mill yield no material benefits to their Alma Mater, and by material is meant something tangible and possessing substance. Only a few seniors have ever agreed to make a parting gift to the old school that has harbored them during the years spent in quest of knowledge.
In almost every college and university in the East it is the custom and tradition that every graduating class make some present to the university that shall recommend that class to future students. A stained glass window, an arch, a bronze tablet, a statue; these are some of the forms in which seniors commemorate their class.
Why should not the present senior class take some steps towards starting a memorial fund, the money to be used to buy some gift for the University? A small tax on every student would secure something that would beautify the campus and at the same time would be setting a mark for future graduating classes to follow.
Probably the class at the University of Oregon which is soon to take up the study of "Birds—their peculiar whims and habits," will be able to inform the world why snipes are most easily captured at night in a spooky wood with a gummy sack.
MORAL GRAPES
Why, oh why are the "hill" politicians so neglectful of the gouder opportunity to be elected to something. There has been a vacancy on the Men's Student Council for several weeks and the job is actually begging begged. This condition of affairs is hard to explain. In former times it was not so. No cluster of the vinous fruit was ever neglected thusly. The day after the job was deserted, public servants were lined up at the curb, with petitions begging that the herein named be duly declared the successor of the unfortunate removed. There must be a reason somewhere.
Can it be that the fame of the grapeless jobs on Mount Oread has deterred and disheartened our entire race of office-seekers? The management of the Annual was stripped of its shekels. And now the stewardship of the Glee club yields not a denarius to its incumbent. The position of job-holder has come to mean more and more a moneyless honor. Have the pecuniary returns of a few of the student offices been the lodge stone which has drawn every embryo politician to office even as "cases" attract Jayhawker photographers?
If this newspaper by chronicling
the fall of the plums as each one dropped, has led prospective office-seekers to think that public service in our miniature republic was wholly without reward, we wish to correct the impression.
The payment is not in cash, or, as the old-fashioned preacher says, in worldly goods, but it comes from within; in the consciousness of duty well performed, or from without, in the respect and approbation of right thinking students.
Is there any alliance between the department of home economics, whose object is the training of good housewives, and a University play which has as its "object—matrimony?"
This should be sufficient inducement for the right man to come forward and announce himself a candidate for election.
The new ventilating system in the Museum may be entirely satisfactory so far as the medical students are concerned, but it is rumored that symptoms of a bronchitis epidemic are developing on the first floor among the polar bears, who have not had fresh air before in nine years.
HIS THREE STAGES.
Undergraduate philosophy of life is an evolution. It consists of three stages, says a writer in the Century. The first is characterized by a sense of calamity or fear as the student leaves behind the observations and conventional creeds of childhood held with unquestioning and often unthinking assent. He begins to think for himself. He enters an atmosphere of questioning and scientific discovery, an environment in which facts come before opinions. His first alarm is because he thinks he is losing his religion. He says, like the prophet, Micah, when the hostile Danites took away his images, “Ye have taken away my gods * * * what have I more?”
His next step is often toward overliability. His god is breadth of mind. He revels in his impartial view of men and the universe. By turns he calls himself a pantheist, a pragmatist or anagnostic. His religious position is at times summed up in the description of a young college curate by a bishop who said the young man araneus in his pulvinar ad sacerdum battles favor of funeced wisdom, saying to his expectant hearers: "Dearly beloved, you must repent—as it were, and be converted—in a measure, or be damned—to a certain extent!"
The third stage of the undergraduate is usually in line with constructive action. He begins to be interested in doing something, and practice for him, as for men generally, helps to solve the riddle of the universe. The best test of college theology or college philosophy is its service-ableness, its power to attach the student to something which needs to be done and which he can do.
Brazil is hunting for young American university men to help her in the development of the vast country, and four topographers and two geologists suiced recently by the Lam. State University. Janeiro under a two years contract to work for the Brazilian government.
TO HELP DEVELOP BRAZIL
They were recommended as competent in their respective lines of work by Dr. John C. Branner, vice president of Stanford and head of the department of mining and geology. All the young men were graduated recently with honors—New York Sun.
DID YOU KNOW: that five of the seventeen University buildings were built by private donations?
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"I am contented with my lot," said
"I am proud, I may not be so grand, but
I think I am."
WELL, little one," said a Tree to a Reed that was growing at its foot, "why do you not plant your feet deeply in the ground, and raise your head boldly in the air as I do?"
"Safe!" sneered the Tree, "Who shall pluck me up by the roos or bow my head to the ground?" But it soon hurried across, and hurricane arose which tore it up from its roots, and cast it a useless log on the ground, while the little Reed, in front of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Obscurity often brings safety.
HERE'S A BRICKBAT
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the clues expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith,
To the Daily Kansan:—
In a recent Daily Kansan I notice an article taken from the daily at the University of Nebraska which ends in the following manner: "He was captain of the 1911 football team and a member of Delta Chi fraternity." It is seldom that one sees a fraternity mentioned in the Kansan, except in connection with their own social events. Why is this? It is certainly not that the fraternity men do not get into school activities, although one would get that impression from reading the Daily Kansan, for I know of a number of frat men in several different lines of work.
Although I am not a frat man myself I like to know who is who on the "hill" and if the captain of the basket-ball team belongs to a fraternity I like to know it. There are always a number of men of the same name in school and the mention of a fraternity serves to place the one mentioned in the minds of the students. The fact that the fraternities are not mentioned seems to show either that those in control of the paper are jealous or that the fraternities are not recognized as institutions in the University. It certainly can not be the latter for the frats are always called upon to support every movement in student enterprise and I understand that the Pan-Hellenic made possible the Daily Kansan by having every frat man in school subscribe. Why not come out and print all the news as is done by other papers?
-X. Y, Z
UNIVERSITY SOCIAL LIFE
AN OLD GRAD.
Is the social life of our University fairly balanced? There are class parties galore, the Fraternity parties, the Junior Prom, the Senior Smoker, the Medical Smoker, etc.; but is there a place in our University social life for the non-dancer or non-smoker? It is true the Christian organizations offer such an opportunity, but in the class and University functions the non-dancer or non-smoker is not provided for. Is it fair, I ask, to so limit the social life of our University that many of the students of highest character and scholarship are excluded because of their personal convictions? Is not this a serious question us? If our University is training for life and many students of unquestioned good sense and character are barred from the social side of University life because the latter is limited to two debatable forms of amusements, (and is this not undoubtedly the case?) how can we honestly ask the people of the state for their undivided support? Can we herald our University as a place where any student may receive a well rounded education, and provide no social opportunity for the student who honestly believes dancing to be wrong?
Is it enough to answer dogmatically that such students are narrow? Why are they narrow, who only ask for a place in social, as well as in class work, and we broad, who insist that all students either conform to our notions of amusements, even at the expense of their conviction of right and wrong, or else forego their die share of this phase of University life? Even if they were narrow, would not be the greatest reason for including them in the social life, so that they might become more broad-minded? We are willing to sacrifice class unity in order that the chairman of the party committee may not lose money, so that at, say, a Senior party only a third or possibly a half of those present are Seniors.
NO RICH PRESIDENTS
Why not, on the other hand, give a party restricted to members of the class, a party to which each member could come without sacrificing any of his or her principles of right living? Such parties are held at other institutions as large and influential as our own, and the feeling of class unity and of college loyalty engaged by that system is amazing to one who remembers our frantic effort to develop a little class spirit last winter.
It is a great pity to have the Lincoln anniversary misused by unfounded contrasts between his time and ours, charges of the political decadence of the people and absurd exaggerations of the present influence of wealth. The statement that "we would in all likelihood regard it as a
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. You can be certain that others dross around us, these who pursue their steady value. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languages into vapid civility and common-place, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier friends with what that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow.
-WASHINGTON IRVING.
reflection on our nation to select for our President a man as poor as Lincoln was" is wholly without excuse. Lawyers' fees were smaller than then now, but so were most other forms of compensation. Mr. Lincoln was a successful lawyer, engaged in some large cases, and he was no pauper even if it may have been convenient for him to borrow some ready money at the time of his inauguration.
Mr. Taft was born to a competence, but not a great fortune. His wife is understood to have had some fortune, but he practised his profession until he went on the bench, since which time he has generally been in receipt of an official salary.
Mr. Roosevelt is nearly if not quite the only President who never earned his own living. He was born to something better than a competence, and he has never practised a profession or carried on business. He has written a good deal, and probably made some money by his books. He has also held office, but on moderate salaries until elected governor of New York.
Mr. McKinley had very little except his congressional salary until elected President. Mr. Harrison was long at the head of the Indiana bar, but when he died his estate was little more than $100,000, and probably a good deal of this was acquired after he retired from the presidency, when some valuable cases came to him, as they are apt to come to a lawyer who has been conspicuous in public life. For example, it is said that Governor Black of New York has made a million dollars out of his profession since he retired from office.
Mr. Cleveland was a lawyer in moderate practice, and needed the salary which was paid to him for several years as a trustee of the Equitable company. His wife had a moderate fortune, but he did not marry until after his inauguration. Mr Hayes inherited a large fortune but not until after he became President. General Grant didn't have a cent except his salary and his presents.
Unquestionably the possession of a great fortune would be regarded today as disqualifying a man for the presidential nomination, though he might be nominated for Vice President with the expectation, cynically expressed by Senator Ingalls, that he would pay a large part of the campaign expenses.
Nor is it true that Mr. Lincoln was elected by the people in any sense different from that in which a President will be elected by the people this year. It is grotesquely untrue that "then the people governed themselves; now we are largely ruled, often dictated to," except in so far as present-day issues fail to interest the people enough to arouse them to action. The republic has not changed; the people are not the victims of an oligarchy or plutocracy or anything except their own indifference. When the issues were slavery and the integrity of the nation people felt intensely and acted energetically. The tariff and conservation and corporations do not move the people as the issues of fifty or sixty years ago did, and they are too apt to leave matters to the professional politicians. But there were plenty of those in Lincoln's time, and some of them were no better than those that we have to deal with—Philadelphia Record.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
SOLITUDE.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone
with us; and borrow its
horns.
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air,
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
The echoes bound to a joyful sound.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Rejoice, and men will go and you
They want full measure,
they want full measure.
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all—
There are none to decline you
there are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
alone you must drink life's gall
—ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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