UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University
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ERICK MILLER
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L. F. MEISENBERG RESSULF CLARE
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
FROM A HIGH HILL
FROM A HIGH HILL
Of all the art displays that room the earth demanding quarters and half dollars from a half appreciative public, the exhibit conducted by Dame Nature, at $0.00 per look, is the most satisfying, and at the same time, the most easily seen. Nature's canvasses cannot be grouped in so small a space as those of the lesser artists, and some unsophisticated viewers may complain because her works d'art cannot be packed in an express car and shipped from town to town; but where is the man who can produce masterpieces in three hours?
Under the Dame's touch, a brown,
sere landscape is freshened and
made into a lush, rain-drenched
green in scarcely more than a
twinkling. What brush in human
hand could compare its cunning with
this?
Last night we looked out over a dark, leafless, wind-swept valley. This morning, a new valley greets us—one which is bright and frosty and blanketed in an endless stretch of soft beautiful white. Standing on the crest of the hill, we breathe in great lungfulls of crisp morning air and gaze into clear, sparkling distance. What depth! What distinctness of every outline! Could any living artist with his greatest work, inspire within us such feelings of pure happiness and joy of existence?
Every student in the University, every human being, is acquainted with this delightful sensation, and he should improve every opportunity to renew the acquaintance. The thoughtless ones who gaze at their toes when Dame Nature's art is spread all about them, deliberately deprive themselves of an influence which will freshen their lives, better their souls, and rob the day's work of a part of its drudgery.
The K. U. riffle club must have been "all shot to pieces" when it contested lucklessly with the other schools of the United States.
OH, YES! LET'S HAVE IT.
OH, YES! LETS HAVE IT.
In many other institutions of learning compulsory chapel attendance on the part of students is the rule. Why should this not be the rule at the University of Kansas?
There are several distinct advantages to be gained from it. For instance, it would insure a good audience for every speaker. It would enable statisticians in after years to determine from the records just the percentage of successes in life due to regular chapel attendance. If a fire or something of the kind should happen to break out during chapel time there would be lots more excitement with such a large crowd collected. On cold days the crowding together would help to keep the students warm.
Among the instruments for maintaining a compulsory chapel ought to be a roll-call. This would enable every student to get his name before the public at every chapel period.
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This would encourage attendance of students, all of whom like to hear their names pronounced in public. Those who have pretty names should become quite famous in a little while. Thus the roll-call would promote the refined custom of giving artistic names to babies. Let us have com pulsory chapel, with a roll-call.
A headline in the Daily Kansan to the effect that "Billy Proved Financial Success—Cleared $125 In Two Nights," probably bred in the bosom of many a father, the fond hope that the University might teach his boy to become a financial genius.
The girls of the University bemoan the fact that they cannot crowd seventy-five basket-ball aspirants upon a "ten-girls" floor. Surely they are not utilizing space properly; for more than a hundred people easily can be crowded upon a ten-pin floor
COLLEGE SARCASM
The following editorial from the Otterbein Review seems to us to express a sentiment worthy of repetition:
"College life is very fruitable ground for the cultivation of sarcasm. This is true because the college student has the capacity for it. Although sarcasm is far from being commendable, its effective use necessitates a high order of mental power and a fine degree of discrimination and distinction. We might expect to find this among college people. The close social connections of students in the college world and the multiplicity of complex situations continually confronting the individuals of a student body often provoke, and sometimes justify, sarcasm. People are sarcastic when they are disgustful with some thing or some person. Sarcasm is the most stinging kind of a rebuke. Students live so close to one another that they find much to rebuke in those about them. Thus we may conclude that sarcasm of the college brand is natural, and often apparently justifiable. But, reasoning with ourselves, each one of us did sarcasm ever win a friend, make anyone better, or even actually benefit the person who used it? Sarcasm is, in almost every case, a form of vanity, and vanity has no place in a college life."
JAPAN'S IMPERIAL DESCRIPT
ON EDUCATION
Know ye our subjects:
Our imperial ancestors have founded our empire . . . and have deeply and firmly implimated virtue: Our subjects, ever united in loyalty and piety, have from generation to generation illustrated the beauty thereof. This is the one of the fundamental character of our empire, and herein lies the source of our education. Ye, our subjects, be filial to your parents, affectionate to your brothers and sisters; as husbands and wives be harmonious, as friends, true; bear yourself in modesty and moderation; extend your benevolence to all; pursue learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties, and perfect moral powers; furthermore advance public good, and promote common interests; always respect the constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourself courageously to the state; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of our imperial throne. . . .
So shall ye not only be our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers.
The way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed by our imperial ancestors, to be observed alike by their descendants and subjects. . . It is our wish, to lay it to heart in all reverence, in common with you, our subjects, that we may all attain to the same virtue.-Youths Companion.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A DOG looking out for its after- nap moon jumped into the Manger of an Ox and lay there cosily upon the straw. But soon the Ox, returning from its afternoon at the Manger, wanted to, eat some of the straw. The Dog in a rage, awakened from its slumber, stood up and barked at the Ox, and whenever it came near him he ran back and had to give up the hope of getting at the straw, and went away muttering: "Ah, people offer, grudge others who
n. people often grumble others when they cannot enjoy themselves."
MORE EFFICIENT PROFESSOR To the Daily Kansen.
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
STUDENT OPINION
The University is now fairly well equipped with buildings and general facilities, but I think that we need more first class professors. It seems to me that we have too large a proportion of inexperienced instructors in the faculty.
None of the last appropriation went for the much needed increase in salaries of the faculty. The next appropriation should provide for an increase in the salaries of our present professors, and should include a substantial amount for inducing first class men to come from other schools. At present, the scale of harassment has been increased and in consequence, the University has been handicapped in bidding for first class teachers.
On general principles, I wish to protest against accumulating material equipment at the expense of the teaching force. The faculty is surely the most important part of an educational institution. The engineering school is a good example of the possession of satisfactory buildings and equipment, but with an inadequate fund to procure additional first class professors. In the engineering field, those whom the call of professional work leaves to teaching, other engineering schools are securing with their greater financial inducements.
"Engineer."
ABOLISH THE "CUT" SYSTEM To the Daily Kansas
To the Daily Kansan
With all their other good work, why do not the Daily Kansan and the Student Council look into the "cat" system of the University, and use their influence toward having this system abolished?
It is the rule that a person is allowed as many "cuts" in a subject as the number of hours per week he spends therein, and if he takes more than his number, he will not be eligible to take the final examination
Should we, like grammar-school children, be required to account for every absence from class? Or, should we be recognized as the men and women we are, and be permitted to be absent from class as often as possible, so long as we are capable of taking and passing the examinations?
Many of the leading universities have already adopted this rule. Why should Kansas be the last?
UNCLE NICKELOUS
SULFIDE SAYS
A. D B.
"One thing sure about this Kansas weather, we are reasonably safe from heavy snows in July and August."
*Mineralogy may be the science of collecting minerals, but it don't foller from that that taxidermy is the science o' collectin't taxes.*
"Pragmatism," defines Uncle Nick, "is an attempted application o' the principles o' philosophy to common sense."
"I know a feller that went down to Columbia last fall, and after gittin' back he bragged about the pretty girls he met down there. The consequences," continued Uncle Nick, "is that he has a lot o' trouble gettin' dates here in Lawrence."
"I heard a professor lecturn' or Logic the other day," remarked Uncle Nick, "and as far as I could see, his text was, 'It's so because it's so because it's so because it's so."
"The ground hog saw his shadow all right," remarked Uncle Nick, "but it's platinum cruisibles to test tuber that if he hadn't he wouldn't 'a beer runnin' around Saturday."
"Some fellers I know are like test tubes. They can't hold anything up with a rack o' some kind."
"No felter with a good honest case objects to havin' his picter in the Jayhawker," says Uncle Nick. "The ones that kick are them that are tryin' to eat their soup with two spoons."
"If the Kansan is at all public spirited," said Uncle Nick as he watched the blizzard last Saturday "I'll start a movement to run that there Meter family out 'o town."
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped from them in every place. A good listener becomes a patron who defrays the postage. Yet though the letter, is directed to all we have an old and kindly custom of addressing it on the outside to one. Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
A German league for girls has just been formed in Berlin on similar lines to that of the boy scouts. It is to be called the Girl Pathfinders League, says a special to the Christian Science Monitor. Girls of from 14 to 18 are eligible for membership, irrespective of religion and rank. Politics are to be carefully excluded from the course of instruction.
GIRL PATHFINDERS
-ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
The chief purpose of the leagua is to provide exercise for girls, to inculcate independence of action, promote concentration of purpose, quickness of decision and presence of fear. The nineteen women are many well-known women.
Captain Bayer, who has already drilled the Hamburg girl scouts into a flourishing band of over 100 members, will have the supervision of the new undertaking. It has met with much sympathy there, and would-be members are applying from all quarters.
FIRST COMIC OPERA
The first comic opera was described by Sir Frederick Bridge in a lecture at the City of London School, later reported by the London News. The opera, "L'Amfiparnasso," was by Orazio Vecchi, a well known madrigal writer, and was published in 1597 as a musical comedy. There was a prologue, and the characters numbered a dozen.
A curious feature of the music was that though the characters were supposed to sing their parts the score was for four or five voices, who practically provided the accompaniment instead of an orchestra. His view was that each character sang his words in front of an audience, the other voices behind the screen singing them at the same time.
The comedy had a vivid story, in which Lucio and Isabella were the principals, and there was true dramatic feeling in the musical form.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
MERCY
The quality of mercy is not strained; It dropthe as the gentle rain from
Upon the place beneath; it is twice blessed;
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
fis scape shows the force of temporal power,
comes
The throneed monarch better than his
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore,
Wherine doth sit the dread and fear of
kings :
Jew, thou justice be thy plea, consider this,—
And earthly power doth then show
likest God's.
That, in the course of justice, none of us
THE BUGLE SONG
But mercy is above the scepted sway:
the hearts of things it is an attribute,
Greek for *sweep*.
Should see salvation; we do pray for
murder:
—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
And that some prayer doth teach us all
to render
The splendor falls on castle walls
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying,
dying, dying.
And snow summits, out in story;
The long night shakes across the lakes.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes fling;
The long night shakes across the lakes,
And the wild catract leaves in glory
And snowy summits, old in story;
The low right skies obscure the lake.
b. hark! O, hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
sweet and far from cliff and scar,
The horns of Elfand, faintly blow
Blow, let us hear the purple glens
revolving!
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying.
dying, dying.
O, love they die in yon rich sky;
They faint on hill or field or river.
O, love they die in yon rich sky;
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild
echoes flying;
And answer, echoes, answer, dying
dying, dying
—ALFRED LORD TENNYSON.
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Prof. John A. Lomax, of the University of Texas, speaks in chapel, 10:00 a.m.
Prof. John A. Lomax, of the University of Texas, will lecture on "Cowboy Songs and Other American Ballads." Chapel, 4:30.
Friday, March 8
March 15-21 Inclusive.
UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE,
921 EAST STREET,
Seventh annual Institute for Religious Education. President Henry Churchill King and President Frank K. Sanders, speakers.
Friday. March 15-21.
Friday,
High School Conference.
Bible Institute.
Sunday, March 17.
Vespers. President King of Oberlin College speaks.
Monday, March 18.
President King. 4:30.
President Sanders of Washburn college. 3:30.
Prescott Middle 100
Tuesday, March 26.
Song recital, Mrs. Wilson.
Thursday, March 28
Thursday, March 28.
German Dramatic Club Play, "Dei Bibliothekar."
Engineers' Day.
Monday, April 1
Friday, March 29. Engineers' Day.
Monday, April 1
Second half-term begins. Wednesday, April 3.
Indoor circus in Robinson gymnasium.
Friday, April 5-8.
Easter Recess.
Sunday, April 7.
Sunday, April 7.
Meeting of the State Editors Association.
Monday and Tuesday, April 8 and 9
Junior Prom.
Thursday, April 18-19.
Music Festival
Saturday, April 27.
High School Debate.
Monday, May 27.
Annual examinations.
Wednesday, May 29.
Commencement Concert.
Thursday, May 30.
Sunday, June 2.
Recorded.
Saturday, April 21
Spanish Play, "Zaragueta."
Friday, May 3.
4500 Students at Harvard
Harvard's new 1911-12 catalog contains a list of 700 instructors and 4,500 students, a description of 900 courses, and the announcements of a college and seven professions.
Student Ran Into Bar
While playing basket-ball in the gymnasium yesterday, Frank Sanda, a sophomore in the College, accidently ran into a horizontal bar cutting his mouth, and bruising himself in several places about the head and body.
The Tenth [Summer Session
University of Kansas
KANSAS CITY THEATERS.
WILLIS WOOD THIS WEEK The Grazi
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JUNE 6 to JULY 17
SAM S. SHUBERT THIS WEEK
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A faculty of nearly sixty and the complete University equipment of library and laboratories will be at the service of those who wish to continue their studies.
French Grand Opera Company Next Week, Fritze Scheff in "Night Birds."
The Summer Session Catalogue, with full description of all courses, will appear about March 10th.
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Old friends welcome and will be glad to meet new ones.
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717 Mass. Street
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