UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University o
EDITORIAL STAFF
TOTORIAL SESSION
LOUIS LACOSTE
Editor-in-Chief
BARRY EASTLER
Sporting editor
BERT BERGER
Journal editor
BUSINESS STAFF
E. I. LAMBERT... Business Manager
J. LIVIBRUID... Asst. Business Manager
K. HANSON... BARR, ASST.
Entered as second-class mail matter
Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March
Published in the afternoon, five times a week.
Reported by K. Ranana, from the press of the department
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Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1165.
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Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAH,
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TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
**RING HARD SAYS**
If you would like your business done, go, if not, send.
A FEW WORDS
Many people who read a daily paper often have a curiosity to find out how the news is obtained, but there are only a few people who appreciate the work that the business staff must do in order that the publication may live.
News will not pay the printers on Saturday night; news will not pay the paper mill or the type foundry. It is incumbent upon the business side to furnish the nourishment that allows the paper to appear regularly.
It is with regret that we announce that Clark Wallace, business manager of the Kansan since March 1911, has completed his term of office and has turned over all the rights and hereditaments that go with the office to his successor Ike E. Lambert who for the past year has been the assistant business manager.
During his tenure of office Clark has been a faithful officer, a diligent worker, and a careful accountant of the Kansan's business. When the Daily Kansan was started his work was immensely increased but, largely through his efforts, a system of accounts has been established that will greatly decrease the work of his successors. The office of business manager of the University paper pays mighty little in money and demands more time than any one ought to take from his studies.
And while this little tribute is being paid, it might be well to say a few words of appreciation for some of the other fellows who have labored for the success of the Daily M. D. Baer has had a job that no envies. It is no child's play to classify and route 2600 subscribers and to see that these same subscribers get their paper with some degree of regularity.
And then there are those members of the报orial staff who have worn out much good shoe leather in a pursuit of elusive news Russell Clark, L. F. Meissner, George Edwards, John Madden, Robert Sellers, E. B. Hackney, William Ferguson, Stanley Pinkerton, James Houghton and Richard Gardner have done some good work that is appreciated. There are a number of others who are also faithful servants.
FAVORITE FICTION
"Medic Building."
"Fair and Warmer."
"Low Prices at the Cafeteria."
"Yes, I Was Rushed Last Fall by the Rep Rho Betas, but Father Thinks Frats are Undemocratic, so I Didn't Pledge."
"Yes, I Know one of the Editors of the Kansan and I Can Get Your Stuff Printed Right On the Front Page."
WHAT'S THE ANSWER?
A well meant rebuke on the social life at the University was printed yesterday, but an analysis of the alleged defects pointed out leads one to believe that the writer of "University Social Life" is at fault in several of his assumptions and conclusions.
"There are class parties galore
the Fraternity parties, the Junior Prom, the Senior Smoker, the Medic Smoker; but is there a place in our University social life for the nondancers and the non-smokers? This is the question the Old Grad aks.
Class parties this year are financially not a success. Not one third of the parties have paid out; subscription parties by private individuals are rapidly supplanting them. We cannot direct our censure, then, on something that is now patronized by even a small majority of the student body.
Fraternity parties are strictly under private supervision and cannot be included in the general social life of the University.
The Junior Prom furnishes amusement for both "the non-dancers and the non-smokers." Beginning at six o'clock and continuing until almost nine o'clock, there is a farce presented by the Juniors, followed by a reception. Surely the "non-dancer and the non-smoker" find no offense in this part of the Prom even if they do object to a few hours of dancing that at least three hundred other juniors and seniors enjoy.
If an Old Grad has ever attended a Senior Smoker or a Medic Smoker he knows that a smoker is a misnomer; that the actual puffing of the dread weed and the actual consumption of Havana's best, form only an extremely small part of the evening's entertainment. Stunts speeches, and a general good time are important features that surely recommend a Smoker to every man whether he smokes or not.
But it is true that there is not the common feeling of fellowship that ought to exist among all the students. On this one point the Old Grad is standing on bed rock and his remarks bear investigation. Some form of regular entertainment ought to be provided that will appeal to every student whether he dances or smokes or considers debating the essence of all pleasure.
But what is that form of entertainment? That question has puzzled many students and thus far the results of their investigations have not proved flattering.
LITERATURE AND SLANG.
"Booze," as a word connected with taking strong waters, dates back two centuries, and in the spelling "bouze" may be found at even as remote date as 1300. "Fresh," in its signification of forward, comes from 1830. "Some pumpkins," popular slang in baucelie circles, is of ancient lineage. "Gab" has been slang for a century, "Stag," on the fence between slang and English, has survived generations. In the "Knickerbocker Magazine" of 1856 we find an author telling of a "party of old bricks who . . . are keeping up a small stag party at the end of the room." "Squelch" in the 17th century was in good use. Of two words in vogue to express drunkenness half a century ago, "tight" is much alive, while "whitttled" has been dropped. There are no fixed laws to gauge the life of slang or to predict its entrance into the language. Will "high-brow," for example, find its way into the mouths of grandchildren yet unborn, or will it take its place in the ranks of obsolete curiosities?—Collier's Weekly.
The editor of the University Kanan should take heed lest he yank up before the attorney general by order of the governor. He ran a story the day before that led toichtiging at Higgins at the Bar." The governor may want to know where that bar is.
PERILOUS.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
WOLF found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs. But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been on its own saddle, so it put it on over its own helm, set down among the sheep. The Lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the Wolf was wearing, began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep's clothing; so, leading the Lamb a little apart, he soon made a meal off her, but some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals.
This is the way the Kansas City Journal looks at it:
Appearances are deceptive.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFF
Flossie-What makes you think he is a model young man?
Mamie-Oh, he is so dull.
—Minnesota Minne-Ha-Ha.
Optimist—Distance lends enchantment.
Pessimist—Not with a girl in a taxi.
—Stanford Chaparral.
"A little cribbing now and then Has saved some of our brightest men.' — Homer.
Dedemona-What do you think of the sub-way?
—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Nigl—All right, as a whole.
—Harvard Lampoon.
"Did you hear the story of the two men?"
"No."
"He! He!"
—Williams Purple Cow.
Boseo—They say that young stude from Pennsy is sowing his wild oats all right.
A miss is as good as a mile—but the track man should cut out the queening and train for the mile.
—Stanford Chanarral.
Roseo—Hum. Quaker Oats I guess.
—Pelican.
Chaperon—Bess, it that young man who called on you last night an auctioneer.
FRESHMEN WITHDRAWALS
Each year there are always a large number of freshmen who withdraw from the university, for no apparent reason. The following editorial, taken from the Daily Columbian, makes
Bess—Why so?
Chaperon He talks like one. He put up that "going" bluff for about half an hour.
—Wisconsin Sphinx.
A DIAGNOSIS
It is becoming trite to refer to ourselves as a miniature society. But it is a useful conception. We might exist either as an inorganic mass or as a living, functioning organism. We have passed the former stage, and have risen very neat to the latter.
One might, by a little exercise o the imagination, impose upon the university community the biologia theory of the state. Without stoping to explain the analogy in detail the various campus organizations may be assigned in the socia body the attributes and functions of the cells of the physical body. Fundamentally they are much to be desired. They constitute the embryo of a larger and more intimate social life. By virtue of their protoplasm of social aspirations and habits we pass from lower to higher stages until the culmination in a single live, rational being. As yet this higher organism, the final stage, exists only in the ideal. The ideal is the realized Michigan Union. The analogy is not entirely fanciful The evolution of the final stage can be definitely pointed to by those who know the history of the Michigan Union since its origin.
What, now, shall we do with the cells of this social body after it has assumed its proper form, has acquired sufficient strength to stand on its own legs and sufficient maturity to live an independent, rational life? Some advise, "Destroy them." But in counselling thus they fail to discriminate between vital cells and parasitic germs. The former should be saved, the latter destroyed. The destructionists should first segregate the harmful germs—Michigan Daily
In Egypt, where the atmosphere is very clear, the green tints of the sunset light are peculiarly distinct. As the sun descends nearer and nearer to the horizon, and is intensely enlarged, its rays suddenly become for an instant of a brilliant green. Then a succession of green rays suffuse the sky well night to the zenith.
The same phenomenon occurs at sunrise, but less conspicuously Sometimes, at sunset, just as the last portion of the sun's disk vanishes, its color changes from green to blue; and so also after it has disappeared the sky near the horizon it green, while toward the zenith it is blue. The fact was of course observed by the ancient Egyptians and references thereto are found in their writings...Youths Companion.
GREEN SUN OF EGYPT
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
And in a corner of my house I have books—the miracle of all my possessions, more wonderful than the wishing-cap of the Arabian tales, for they transport me instantly, not only to the real world but to all times. By my books I can conjure up before me to a momentary existence many of the great and good men of past ages, and for my individual satisfaction they seem to act against it; the orators declare for me the historians recipe, the poets sing.
DR. ARNOLD.
several good comments on this condition:
“One often wonders why some students abandoned their college courses for apparently no valid reasons, and enter—or perhaps we should say try to enter—the business world. It is a fact well known that the freshman class is almost invariably larger than and other, and that, it as advances in its career through the university, its numbers gradually dwindle until perhaps as many as half the individuals of the class have disappeared in the maelstrom of outside life and are seen about the campus no longer. It is fully realized that most of the students who thus relinquish their college work do so because of their lack of motivation orally. But there are some each year—we know of several ourselves—who leave Columbia merely because they ‘are getting tired of the grind’ or for some reason of a very similar nature. The man who has not the ambition to ‘stick out’ his four or six years at college will very rarely have sufficient to prosper afterwards. If he cannot stand the strain at the university, how can he endure that of the far stern business life?“ “Common sense reveals the fact that when one has the means of procuring a college education and has started to get it, he should stick to it to the end. And so, all you who have ever thought, if only in your dreams, of forsaking the alma mater, stop, and remember that the struggle beyond is fiercer than any you may imagine. You have had lurking thoughts by indulging in some student activity if you have never done so, or by taking up a new one, without losing interest in the old, if you have. Everyone can find some work on the campus for which he is fitted. Find out what that work is—and then work. It will benefit the university, and it will benefit you.”
HORACE, BOOK I, SATIRE I
Translation by Mary Grant of Topoka, a student in the department of Latin. Maceenas, tell me why 'tis true That not a man, the whole world
Is found who lives quite satisfied
With that lot which the fate decide,
Or never fails to heap abuses
On that which his own judgment
But speaks with highest commendation of every other one's vocation.
"A merchant's life I'd highly prize," the age-enfeebled soldier cries;
That merchant, on stormy sea, Says, "Soldier's life the for me, And why?—The fight is on—the drums Sound—in one moment comes Swift death or joyous victory."
The lawyer would the farmer be, Hearing, at crowing of the cook, Some client at his portal knock. The farmer, to the city driven On legal business, sweeps to heaven That country folk he greatly pitches "All happy men live in the cities." 'Tis evident that I could find Many examples of this kind—Enough to tire a William J—Bryan? Of course. But I won't. Stay! Give heed to what I now shall proffer If some obliged god should offer:
"You who are now a soldier be A merchant; and I grant that he Who grumbles at a lawyer's toll Become a tiller of the soil—Away, each one with his changed part! What! Do you hesitate to start?' They'd not accept, yet each one knows He might be happy if he chose. What wonder if Jove wrathful be And puff up both cheeks angrily Vowing he'd ne'eer be "worked" again Nore heed the foolish prayers of men?
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
DID YOU KNOW: that the library contains 60,000 volumes?
LIGHT
The night has a thousand eyes,
The day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one life;
Yet the light of a whole life dies.
When it falls, the world falls.—
**PRAWNIE W. BURTENBERG**
—FRANCIS W. BOURDILLON.
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The government alone spends on the average $150,000 at Haskell every year. The students all have spending money. Haskell and its students are liberal customers of Lawrence merchants.
An Interesting Feature
of a city is always-directly or indirectly-a commercial asset. One of the most interesting institutions in Lawrence is the Haskell Institute, next to the largest Indian school in the world. It has more than seven hundred students and fifty buildings, including cottages.
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Old friends welcome and will be glad to meet new ones.
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