UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
LOEW L. CACOE Editor/in-Chief
LUCAS MILLER Sharing Editor
J EARL MILLER Sharing Editor
Sherwin Editor
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS;
Fly pleasures, and they follow you the diligent spinner has a large shift; and now I have a sheep and cow everybody bids me good-morrow.
THE "CUT" SYSTEM
A communicant to "Student Opinion" suggested yesterday that our present "cut" system be abolished and gave as his reason the fact that University students are young men and women who are conscientious enough about the class work to make compulsory attendance unnecessary.
It is a fact that a student is allowed as many "cuts" as he has hours per week in the subject, and that all "cuts" over this are sufficient to keep him from taking final examinations. But how many students have ever been excluded from the final quizzes because of these "cuts"? As far as one can observe there have been but few instances of this and these were when the student was so grossly negligent of his attendance that absolutely no excuse could be made for him.
The faculty has a ruling that all excused absences cannot count against a student in his final examinations. And why should there be any objection to a system of keeping account of "cuts" when these absences can be excuse if the professor believes there is a valid reason for the absence?
The whole matter is simply a case of having a system that does not affect the real student, but is a proof for the lagward.
"Cuts" work no harm on the student who is in earnest; who is here for all he can get out of the University. Surely those who are idlers, who go to class only because they are forced to, ought to have something over them that will at least stir within them some latent determination to attend classes with a semblance of regularity.
THE IDEAL WAY
X. Y. Z. would have it something like this, evidently: "The team is composed of J. Percival Jones, a member of the Chi Yi fraternity; Jim Tudd, a member of the Ma Ma fraternity; Sullivan P. Dooley, a member of the Katz Klub and soot to be pledged to the Rep Rho Petunia Napoleon B. Alexander, a member of the Psi Eta Pi fraternity; and Vanderbilt Rockefeller Smith, a member of the Pi Rho Technic fraternity. Jim Jeffries Fitzsimons a Michigan alumnus who is a member of the Rho O. Beans fraternity refereed the game." OH SLUSH!
MUST BE GENIAL HOSTS
Within a few days the University will be the hosts to over three hundred high school visitors who will be here for the fifth annual basket-ball tournament. In order to impress these visitors properly with the interest the University takes in them, and in order to show them all the things the University has to offer, it is necessary that some systematic arrangement for the entertainment of the guests be made.
Last year the custom was started.
62.3 fraternity and sorority
and club that has rose ow.
house, agree to accommodate a number of the high school students. This plan was tried successfully and every one of the visitors was impressed with the greatness of the institution and was appreciative of the attention shown them.
If such a plan is to be adopted this year, it is time that these various organizations who are expected to entertain the visitors, should announce their intentions to Coach Hamilton, who has such affairs in charge. He desires that those who intend to accommodate any number of the student with rooms should notify him at their earliest convenience.
There is no better way in which the hospitality of the student body and the general interest of the University can be shown than by a genial and friendly courtesy to the visitors when they arrive.
WHAT IS COLLEGE FAILURE?
Here comes John Doe, the college failure. In everything he ever attempted he lost out. He failed in debating, fizzled in orchestra, flunked in dramatics. The football coach said he was too light; the crew coach rejected him as too short; the track coach turned him down as too slow. Politics killed him in elections; prejudice barred him from student publications. John Doe has a perfect record—of zeros.
And yet, is John Doe a failure? What is failure? Is it the accumulation of one defeat after another that constitutes a failure?
There goes Richard Roe. He was chairman of the Freshman dance committee; vice-chairman of the Sophine pipe committee; member of the Prom arrangements committee. He danced in the Union vaudeville and was manager of the class track team. He wore a Greek letter plaid shirt of beautiful tights and one of plain gold with mysterious characters. Richard Roe has a perfect record of 1000 per cent.
And yet, is Richard Roe a success? What is success? Is it the winning of a few painty distinctions which we dignify by the term "honors."
John Doe competed in a fight for eight big things; he lost them all. Richard Roe won eight distinctions. To be sure he did not exactly compete for them they were hardly competitive contests. Perhaps he pulled himself into action. John Doe is a miserable failure; Richard Roe is a brilliant success.
What is success? Success is not the attainment of a handful of plums. Success is the striving, the plugging, the struggling to do biplugs, to do many things—even though those ends never be attained. Failure is not the failure to win against someone who is to be satisfied with trivial trinkets. Failure is the failure to get in the fight for the things that count.
John Doe is not the college failure; he is the college success. The failure is not the man who works along a dozen lines and fails in twelve. The failure is the man who tries to gain nothing of importance and succeeds—Daily Cardinal.
CHEERED NEW PRESIDENT
Alumni of Princeton University,
1,100 strong, representing one-ninth
of all the living graduates of Princeton,
cheered and sang into office the
newly elected president of their uni-
versity, John Grier Hibben, at a diner
in his honor at the Walderf-
Astoria. It was the biggest gathering
of the Princeton alumni in the
history of the university.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A FOX was boasting to a Cat of its clever devices for escaping their enemies. "I have a whole hag of tricks," he said, "which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies."
"I have only one," said the Cat; "but I can generally manage with that. Just at that moment they heard the cry or a pack of hounds jumped out and immediately scampered up a tree and herself in the boughs. "This is my plan," said the Cat. "What are you going to do?" The Fox thought first one way, then of another, and while he was debating the hounds came and ran toward him. In his confusion was caught up by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsmen. Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said:
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon."
By Homer Croy in the Magazine Maker.
STORY OF A KANSAS GIRL
39 Homer Cray in the Magazine Maker.
A few years ago a girl in Kansas wanted to write. She lived in a small town where the Saturday afternoon auction around the courthouse square was the biggest event of the week. Every Fall the city had a Corn Carnival and hired a parachute jumper to go up in his balloon and come sailing down while the population of the whole county held its breath in wonder and amazement.
She had always lived there and had never known anybody except Mr. O'Fallen, who kept the grocery on the corner and told such funny stories about the war; and Mrs. Grundy, who had once been little Eva in a fly-by-night. But these were just common everyday people and she has known them all ber life.
Month after month dragged by and year after year slipped away into the dimness of things without the girl once getting time or opportunity to travel and tell of the curious people of the world, but still the flame of ambition burned on. Care and responsibility saddled her shoulders and the chance to do lifted farther and farther from her finger tips.
She had drifted into a small job of reporting on the daily paper with a round of the grocery store to make each day to find who was in town from Polk township and if A. R. Williams, the leading merchant, had gone to Kansas City that week. Each day she had to take the 10:42 bus down to the station to see who was leaving in; she usually walked back, coming by the hospital and dropping in at the Trast lumberyard, for they always knew what was going on in the county.
But the chance to travel, to meet strange people and write powerful stories never came. The sweet dream of each night turned to bitterness each morning when she had to rush through her coffee to get dom and open the office before the 702. 702 we met who wrote never wavered; only the chance to do powerful, gripping stories never came.
At last she began to write about things she saw around her every day and to turn them in as copy, as well as the items about Roy Ford, getting back from a visit, with his uncle at Gentryville, and about Mrs. O. F. Woods, who was fast recovering after her severe fall of last week. She began to write about people instead of their accidents; she began to turn in the funny stories that Mr. O'Fallon, the grocer, told. The editor knew them by heart, but it had never struck him before that they were so funny. She began to do a Saturday story about the queer experience Mrs. Grundy had down in Texas once when they had to use the blood holes in Uncle Tom's Cabin to run to earth an escaping bank robber; everybody on Mrs. Grundy's street knew the details by heart, but Mrs. Grundy had never told it so well as the paper and so they clipped it out and sent it to friends who might be interested just because it was good reading.
Subscribers began to drop into the office to tell the editor how much they liked the sketches; they began to complain if they missed a single issue, for they were keeping scrapbooks—and before it had made much difference if they did miss a number or two.
Neighboring papers began copying the girl's stories and pretty soon the Kansas City papers were featuring them—giving credit, of course. One day an advertising firm bought the right to print one of the stories in a booklet and distributed a hundred thousand copies. Soon the people of three states were watching the work of this one girl—watching for the stories all laid within the city limits of her town.
Then one day a telegram came.
The girl opened it with trembling fingers, for who knew her and what could they want? The message was brief;
The girl could hardly believe her eyes, for how would she know about her away off in New York. In a dream she turned it over in her mind for two days when another message came:
"Will you consider coming to New York?
"New York Journal."
"Will you consider proposition? Wire collect.
"New York Journal."
She wired and in two weeks had her own desk on Hearst's paper in the throbbing heart of New York City. Her name was put on the magazine page and, through his syndicate, featured from one end of the country to the other.
The girl was Frances L. Garside.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
Then, warmly walled with books,
While my wood-pile supplies the sun's defect,
Whispering old forest-sagas in it'dreams,
I take my May down from the happy
Where perch the world's rare song-birds in a row,
Waiting my choice to open with full breast,
An beg an alms of spring-time, ne'er denied
Indoors by vernal Chaucer, whose fresh woods
Tirubh took with merle and mavis all the year.
—JAMES RUSSEL LOWELL.
RECESSIONAL
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
SPRING "ROMANCE"
C. H. Thompson (Pip Daniels) in the Howard Courant.
On every co-educational college campus in the land, from now on to the end of the school year, young couples will be seen strolling along, to and from classes, inhaling spring germs and bird songs, exhaling soft words and unstable promises. And they really mean what they say—that when they come back in the fall, everything is better, and autumn will find their hearts still beating together, stronger than ever. But maybe He won't come back—may
Pa has not had the best luck, or maybe he will have a good job that he can't quit to go to school; and maybe She will have to go to sister's in Illinois to help take care of the kids while sister goes to Florida.
God of our fathers, known of old-
Lord or of some other name,
who awful hand we hold
that we awful hand we hold
COURSE OF A CASE.
"Cases," attachments without number are formed between young people at college, and they are very serious for several months. They don't see how they can stand it when they have to part in the spring, when everything else is just blossoming. But the fact is, they don't stick; very few matches heart must suit the life they, to be separated three months of the year, that's usually long enough. One or the other forgets. There is nearly always "a girl at home" who "comes back" stronger than the co-ed.
NOT EASILY INTERESTED.
A young college girl is usually a hard proposition to make love to, especially freshmen and sophomores—they are the most numerous. When they first come to school, their minds are full of their work, their careers, their duty to society and their mission in the world, and more rot than that. Which is perfectly right and proper, only nothing ever comes of it, and they are the ones who fall in love the hardest, when the time comes. Just now, love is beneath their consideration, fit only for high school girls, old maids and half-hearted school teachers. They believe they will never know love, and are glad of it. You can't interest the co-ed when you talk of love; change the record to Browning or John Stuart Mill.
DISILLUSIONMENTS.
Dominion over palm and pine—
let Lest we forget—lest we forget
But with the spring comes the trutn, and they all fall for it; only they fool themselves by thinking it is platonic love, and encourage it on that merit. And the boys—they are so completely deluded. They know their time is limited, and they must make haste. They boost their strong points too hard and tie their weak ones too instinctively. That "the man has instinct to too lovely to be—he'll surely die before he's thirty." And likely his father runs a laundry, anyway. So even in the soft bright spring morning, they each have their little doubts about "next fall". And whee
The tumult and the shouting dies—
and the Kings depart-
Still stands. This
Lo all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Ninehev and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Far-called, our navies melt away—
On dune and headland sing the
trees.
An humble and a contrite heart,
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
—RUDYARD KIPLING.
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe—
Such boasting as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
in reeking stone and iron shard—
AIH.
For Mercy on boast and foolish word,
For Mercy on Thie People, Lord!
For Mercy on Thie People, Lord!
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the final quizzes are all done, and the trunks are packed, and the river rises over the tracks and the girl has to go three days in a dirty waist before she can get a train out, they take one last walk up the Hill, over by the Physics building, back down past the Chemistry building, out by the McCook to Henry street, up town to Weidemans, then back home. At last under the trained at the station, they clap hands, and he says huskily, "Be sure you are going to your home and she says 'Yes, and you get out on Parsons by the Fourth,' and the brute of a conductor yells 'All board.' And that's all.
She gets back in the fall—she hasn't heard from him for nearly a month—she calls up the Phi Delt house and a strange voice answers the telephone. "No, he's not coming back. His folks have moved to Minnesota, and he's going to stay at home this year. Won't I do?" And as she hangs up her duds and turns out the gas that night, she smiles and says to herself, "Yes, you'll do; I suppose anyone will do—and now."
VALUE OF READING
Expressiveness follows literacy. The poets have been tremendous readers always—Petrarch, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Keats; those of them possessed not much of the foreign languages had a passion for translations. It is amazing how little of a foreign language you need if you have a passion for the written in it. We think of Shakespeare as of a lightly-lettered person; but he was ransacking books all day to find plots and languages for his plays. He reeks with mythology; he swims in classical metaphor; and, if he knew the Latin poets only in translation, he knew them with that intensity of interest which can draw the meaning through the walls of a bad text. Deprive Shakespeare of his sources and he could not have been Shakespeare.-Atlantic.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Friday, March 8
Prof. John A. Lomax, of the University of Texas, will lecture on "Cowboy Songs and Other American Ballads." Chapel, 4:30.
Prof. John A. Lomax, of the University of Texas, speaks in chapel 10:00t h.
March 15-21 Inclusive.
Seventh annual Institute for Religious Education. President Henry Churchill King and President Frank K. Sanders, speakers
Friday, March 15-21.
High School Conference.
Bible Institute.
Sunday, March 17.
Vespers. President King of Ober
Ims College speaks.
Monday, March 18.
President Sanders of Washburn College. 3:30.
President King. 4:30.
Tuesday, March 26
President King. 4:30.
Tuesday, March 26.
Song recital, Mrs. Wilson.
Song recital, Mrs. Wilson.
Thursday, March 28.
German Dramatic Club Play, "Dei Bibliothekar."
Friday, March 29.
Engineers' Day.
Monday, April 1.
Monday, April 1 Second half-term begins
Second half-term begins. Wednesday, April 3.
Indoor circus in Robinson gymnai-
rium.
Friday, April 5-8.
Easter Recess.
Sunday, April 7. Foster
Easter.
Monday and Tuesday, April 8 and 9 Meeting of the State Editors Association.
Friday, April 12.
Junior Prom.
Thursday, April 18-19. Music Festival.
Saturday, April 27.
Spanish Play, "Zaragueta."
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WILLIS WOOD THIS WEEK
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