UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
'Twas a drastic and unforeseen action that the faculty of the School of Law took this week when it issued the edict that no more will laggard barristers be allowed to take a special examination after they have flunked the regular final quiz. Such an action has caused somewhat of a commotion among those in pursuit of legal lore and many are the conjectures as to the final outcome.
"Uncle Jimmy," it is said, thinks that the regulation should hardly apply to this year's senior class, but he gives fair warning to the other classes that in the future, terrible will be the punishment if a flunk is recorded in the finals.
The recent ruling of the law faculty will do much to eliminate this feeling—both among outsiders and undoubtedly among the young lawyers themselves.
This action of the law faculty really is a great step towards placing that School upon a better scholarship basis than it has been before. In every professional school there is a tendency to be lenient with the students; it is considered that they are mature, conscientious and thoughtful men and women who fully realize the purpose of their college course. This leniency has been misconstrued by some outsiders who consider the law course, for instance, a "snap."
ABOUT THE ANNUAL
To those who have a penchant for investigating and for reform and for fereting out alleged evils, the agitation recently started by certain members of the senior class, will appeal most strongly.
Reform has had its little day at the University, but it appears that it is not to die out, and that as a grand finale for this year's senior class, they are to probe deep into the management of the Jayhawker and are going to hang every shred of the present system upon the line where it may be inspected by a present as well as a future generation.
Under the plan now in use, the business manager of the annual has complete charge of the finances of the book and his only responsibility is to the general auditor of the University, and this inspection comes at the close of the year? He states that every contract that he makes may be seen at any time, and considering he is under a heavy bond he feels that he ought not be made to turn over all his financial matters to an auditing committee appointed from the senior class.
According to the action of the seniors they made the office of business manager purely honorary and the natural inference was that all profits or losses be borne by the class. Under the plan as it is at present the manager himself has been forced to assume a personal bond and he has no way of being assured of financial backing from
the class if there is a loss on the books.
In a student body such as is at the University, there must be a natural presumption that the officers elected are honest. The only thing to do, under the present condition, is to grant that the present officials are honest, and this statement those who are urging an investigation declare emphatically is true.
But what needs to be remedied is the fixing of the responsibility of the manager, and a naming of a specific salary that he shall receive for his services. The work for the seniors is to make their class, as a class, responsible for the financing of the annual; to establish some system whereby the finances of the book are at all times available for inspection; to fix a salary for the manager.
This is going to be hard to attain but the investigation that is being urged at present can do no harm. Whether anything better than the present system can be substituted is a question.
HELP ENTERTAIN
Coach Hamilton urges that all those fraternities, sororities, or clubs who expect to accommodate high school visitors, who will be at the University next week, shall report to him as soon as possible. He also requests that those boarding clubs will board the visitors at the usual rates, will inform him how many they can accommodate.
What the coach is striving after is to make the high school student see as much of the University life as they can while they are here. By this means it is hoped to instill in them a desire to come to this institution for their higher education.
Every University student ought to be a committee of one to see that the visitors are properly entertained.
COLLEGE LOYALTY
At a banquet of the Syracuse University Alumni Association of Buffalo, held last week, one of the speakers offered the following definition of college spirit and loyalty: "Loyalty is a fervent, practical, thorough, unwavering devotion to a cause."
The definition gets right down to the root of the matter and is worthy of careful study and thought. It is one which grows on the mind the more one thinks about it. Pick the compact little sentence to pieces. "Pervent devotion"—what undying enthusiasm this two words imply. They give the picture of victory, of a crowd of earnest, cheering students who have only one thought—that of devotion to the cause of the University whose name they love. Add to such devotion the practical results of thought and endeavor, of experience and judgment, and the picture in our mind begins to assume the aspect of something more substantial than momentary exultation. Then unite to this the thoroughness of planning, deep interest, and careful forethought, and crown the conception with that unwavering love which comes from constant attention and faithful support through victory and defeat. It makes beautiful thought, one which increases as we consider it, one which is, we must conclude, altogether worth while—Syracuse Daily Orange.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
BE quiet now," said an old Nurse to a child sitting on her lap. "If you make that noise again I will throw you to the Wolf."
Now it chanced that a Wolf was passing close under the window as this was said. So he crouched down by the side of the house and waited. "I want to see you." It "it is sure to cry soon, and a daintier morsel I hadn't had for many a long day." So he waited, and he waisted, and he waited, till at last the child looked up. "Oh, that's before the window, and looked up to the Nurse, wagging his tail. But all the Nurse did was to shut down the window and call for help. When the house came rushing out. "Ah," said the Wolf as he galloped away.
"Enemies' promises were made to be broken."
Advice to those trying out for baseball: If you don't succeed at first, try second or third.
Steward (Chapman)
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
a witticism is a thing you were just about to say yourself.
Stanford Chaparral.
The barber put perfume on Bogg's air by mistake instead of tonic. Was Boggs angry when he founc out the mistake?
Punch Bowl.
A—Well, all I can say is that he
—Michigan Gargoyle.
A—Who was that young girl Binks was with the other evening?
B—Why, that was his intended.
A—Well, all I can say is that he hasn't the best of intentions.
—California Pelican.
He: Do you know, dearest, you are the breath of my life!
She: Did you ever try to hold your breath?
"Yep," said Dobson. "More devoted than ever—fact is, he was arrested for joy-riding the other night."
"Well, Dobson, how is that son of yours getting along at college? Still devoted to burning the midnight oil?" asked Hicks.
-Silver and Gold.
Harper's Weekly.
—Harper's Weekly.
On, he’s working 'his son's way through college," said little Binks.
"What is Billy Hardatit doin' these days?" asked Smithers. "Oh, he's working his son's way through collere," said little Binks.
CLEANING COLLEGE ATH-
LETICS
William H. P. Fauce, LL.D., in the Wisconsin State Journal.
The great need of college athletics in America today is common honesty. Without athletic sports, education in the highest sense is difficult or impossible. Libraries alone will not make men, laboratories alone cannot give us pluck, chivalry, and power of sacrifice.
But the great results achieved by athletics are today largely offset by well-nigh universal intercollegiate deception. Faculties are hood-winked, athletic committees kept in willing ignorance, but undergraduates know the facts. The undergraduates in the average college know that the athletic teams which represent that college are not what they profess to be. They know that the men on the baseball team are usually not eligible, and the men on the football team win too often by trickery and deceit.
MORE LIGHT NEEDED
THE REMEDY
Something may be expected from the Rhodes scholars on their return to this country. The thirty-five young Americans who recently entered Oxford, (the number will be double next fall), include some of our best athletes, and already they report their warm appreciation of sports conducted, not for the exhibition of "stars," but for the development of the weaker men; not for the gate receipts, but for the mens sana in corpore sano. Much may be expected from the sense of honor among the students themselves, which will make it some day as despicable to cheat on the athletic field as in an oratorical contest or a debate. Our appeal must be uli-
We need some man who will do college athletics what Lincoln Steffens has done for municipal government,—let in the light, and dissipate the incredulity which hinders reform. We need to forsake the Pharisaism which says: "Your college may be corrupt; we are pure." One eastern college recently underwent a quickening of senscience and the entire baseball team pronounced itself ineligible. At another New England college the attempt was deliberately made this year to secure admission for a famous athlete by means of forged entrance papers. But the trouble is not in any one institution. We must show to the world what every undergraduate knows,—that admission to the athletic teams is often secured by concealment of history, and victory is frequently won by evasion of rules. Such things mean a steady undermining of character in the formative years of manhood. An immense body of evidence is waiting the man who dares to investigate and expose, and this advent will be hailed with joy by hundreds of students who in their souls abor the duplicity which they today condone.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
It is because our books are friends that do change, and remind us of change, that we should keep them with us, even at a little inconvenience, and then them drift in the world with a dusty asylum in cheap book-stalls.
—ANDREW LANG.
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mately to the American people, who founded our colleges; who generously maintain them, and have the right to hold them to strict account. When the people come to understand what all students know, that athletic success is now largely won by the sale of athletes and the concealment of facts, then a revolution will occur and the college will become athletically what it now is intellectually—a temple of truth.
MORE "BLUE SKY"
The Blue Sky Law has begun to spread. Illinois is preparing to legislate against the ravages of the financial shark. Approximately $100,000,000 is lost each year in bad investments. In every rich farming community the "gold brick" agent flourishes. Only severe measures can protect the unsophisticated from his lures. In Kansas before the passing of the Blue Sky Law, 98 per cent of the investments in foreign mining, oil, realty, utilities, and so forth failed, the owners having no intention of every paying a dividend. The new law, requiring registration and publicity for all such companies, has driven them out of the state by the hundreds, in one year the numbers decreasing from 600 to 47—the 47 being able to stand the test of publicity.
Illinois will soon protect its citizens after the manner of Kansas Leading officers of the national state, and private banks of the state have been asked to join in the campaign against the fake investment companies. Through investigation and through exposure of these fraudulent concerns, it is expected that public opinion will be sufficiently educated to demand the passage of an Illinois Blue Sky Law at the next session of the legislature.
Other states should follow the example of Kansas and Illinois Let us protect all of our citizen from the preying of the financial shark—Wisconsin State Journal.
SOCIALISTS AT HARVARD
"The announcement by the Harvard socialist club of a series of tracts to be issued at intervals through the college year may be taken as a sign of an intellectual ferment of a sort that is good for any university," says the Harvard Bulletin. "The Bulletin has no views on socialism, or perhaps we should say on any of the socialisms for the creeds scattered under that name are many; but we believe it to be a healthy phenomenon that there should be a set of young men eager to study and propound new doctrines concerning the health of the body politic. If their radicalism is superficial, it will soon enough be choked by the care of this world; and if it be sound it will be so burdened by experience of affairs and in due time contribute its share to the unceasing change which makes progress in the life of a people. Radicalism which is blended with intelligence and kindness is one of the beneficent forces in working out the destinies of the nation; and a large body of young men which did not include a small and militant group of radicals would be a chilling place for generous visions and ideals." -Springfield Republican
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
SONNET
The World is too much with us; late and soon.
Given the spending, we lay waste
Little we see in nature that is ours
our hearts away, a sorid
dion boon!
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howing at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of time:
It moves us not—Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn
So might I, standing on this pleasant
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
—WILLIAM WOODWORTH
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