UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
Lloyd LACOS
Editor-in-Chief
E. FARLE MILLER
Sporting Editor
F. EARLE MILLER
IRE E. LAMBERT...Business Manager
J. LEBRUN...Asset Business Manager
J. DARR...Asset Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
BOSTON FOOTBALL CLUB
L. F. M. CHAPMAN
RUSSELL CLARK
ROBERT SELLER
EDWARD HACUNNE
EWARD HACUNNE
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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well at getting.
THE NEWS OF OUR GLEEMEN
THE NEWS OF OUR GLEEMEN The Glee club returned yesterday from the longest trip that any organization of the University of Kansas ever has made, a trip filled with the good time that young men can have on such an occasion and one that offered the opportunity to give the people of the West a correct impression of the real college man of Kansas.
No better organization of young men could have been selected for this trip both from the viewpoint of the University and of the Santa Fe railway company, which selected an organization of singers who could give real entertainment for the members of their railway clubs in the West.
The Daily Kansan kept in touch with the club, told us the social reception that was given the members and the success of their concert. And it is only the good stories—stories that told what the students wanted to know about the trip, the enjoyment that the men were having, what they did, the amusing features—that were sent to the Daily Kansan by Hal M. Black a member of the club, that enabled us to keep in close touch with the traveling glemen.
Everyone enjoyed reading the reports of the gleeman, and the Daily Kansan is deeply indebted to Mr Black for his work and wishes to extend thanks for his services.
FAVORITE FICTION
"Rapid street car service."
"Dismissing classes on time."
"I had my note book ready to hand in when it disappeared."
"I was over to the library three times but the books were always in use."
"Time limit for communications to the Jayhawk is up."
"Baseball revived in Missouri Valley."
"You can easily read and outline fifty pages for each assignment."
WHAT ARE THE DOCTORS
DOING?
The Daily Kansan has attempts to gather the news of every department in the University, but never have any stories from the University Hospital at Rosedale, been printed in the news columns of the paper.
The clinical department of the School of Medicine has been left out of the student publication partly through the fault of the editors and partly through the fault of the students themselves. It has been taken for granted, evidently, that the students, when they leave Lawrence, lose interest in student activities here, so a record of their life has not been kept by the undergraduate publication.
This should not be, and the Daily Kansan will attempt to keep alive the interest in the University activities of the students who go to Rosedale, and make the student body here better acquainted with the enterprises carried on at the University Hospital. In order to accomplish this, a Daily Kansan correspondent
is necessary, one to whom others there, may tell of the things that happen and who has time for writing the news notes and mailing them to the office. The position is open for any student at Rosedale who wishes to report the activities there for his University paper.
ABOUT COLLEGE SUCCESS.
"What is college success?" That is difficult to answer but we think it can be summed up fairly well as follows: A man is successful in college when he has attained recognition in some one or more activities followed about the campus, and his degree of success depends upon the degree of that recognition. A man can not be considered a college success who has simply been successful in his work in classes, because all of us are here for that purpose, and our measure of success must be over and above the standard of class work. It is the man who does his work plus the other activities and pursues both to success, that is the college success. It holds true also that the man who neglects his real purpose in college for the "outside activities" is not a college success, no matter what recognition he obtains in the activities.
We also believe that there is a formula for success which is just as true and trite for college as it is for the outside world. Work and stick to one thing until you get there. The man that spends his energies over too many activities is handicapped for success in any one of them. It means an all-round mediocre, not superior in some one or two things. But the chief reason for failure is the lack of willingness to work. College success like any other success its not attained by mere brilliance or capability. If you wish to succeed in college, then choose one line of activity and work. Then later if, on looking ahead, you can see time and opportunity, broaden out into other things, but get somewhere first. "To him that hath it shall be given" is true here as everywhere else. Therefore concentrate your energies until you get something, and keep on working.—DAILY CARDINAL.
SAME OLD FUSS
The newspapers have been making their annual fuss over the number of blue slips issued by the registrar as a result of the first semester's work. The number issued this year is slightly in excess of the number issued in previous years though nothing unusual—Minnesota Alumnus.
Anna Augusta Brown, former student of the University, is now practicing architect in this city. She makes a speciality of "homey" bungalows.
FARMERS OF ANTIQUITY
Varro, who came about three score and 10 years before the dawn of the Christian era, was an outsider captured by the illustrious Caesar on one of his raids. He devoted his life to gathering all the agricultural knowledge existing, and wrote what is considered the most important work on agriculture. His works, like those of Columella, the earliest of A. D. writers, have been preserved entire, and these great agricultural writings, with the addition of a few modern phrases like "cover crops," "dry farming," "ugmest," "humus," etc., selected from collections that virtually the same purport, differ but very little from myriads of books written in the last few years by all kinds of folks, from those whose knowledge of agriculture consists entirely in their ability to strike the right spot in out big reference libraries up to those who are authorized to string a goodly portion of the alphabet behind their names.—Long Island Agronomist.
THERE was once a young Shepherd Boy who tendered his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him a short time, upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some excitement. He rushed down towards the village where the villagers came out to meet him, and some of them-stopped with him for a considerable time. This pleased the boy so much that a few days afterward did come from the forest, and be again the villagers came to his help. But shortly after this a Wolf actually did come out from the forest, and before all of course cried out "Wolf, Wolf!" still louder than before. But this time the villagers, who had been fooled twice before, thought the boy was already dead. So soon they came to his help. So the Wolf made a good meal off the boy's flock, and when the boy complained, the wise man of the village said;
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
COMFORT FOUND IN GOOD OLD BOOKS
George Hamlin Fitch, in the introduction to a volume of his literary studies, published soon after the death of his only son, gives, in words throbbing with huju-ju, that he had been boy's college days and the father's delight in him and his desolation after bereavement.
In college he tided scores of boys over financial straits; his room at Stanford University was open house for the waifs and strays who had no abiding-place. In fact, so generous was his hospitality that the manager of the college dormitory warned him one day in sarcastic vein that the renting of a room for a term did not include the privilege of taking in lodgers. He never met any of his students. He never joined a Greek letter fraternity because he did not like a certain clanishness that marked the members; but among Fraternity men as well as among Barbarians he counted his close associates by the score.
RESTRAINT AS AN EDITOR
He finished his college course amu-
trying circumstances, as he was called
upon to voice the opinion of the great
body of students in regard to an unj
ust ruling of the faculty that involved
the suspension of many of the best
students in college. And through arbitrary
action of the college authorities
his degree was withheld for six
months, although he had passed all his
examinations and had had no warnings
of any condemnation of his independent
and manly course as an editor of
the student paper. Few boys of his
age have ever shown more courage
and tact than he exhibited during that
trying time, when a single violent edi-
torial from his pen would have resulted
in the walking out of more than half
the university students.
LOST ASSOCIATIONS
Now that this perennial spirit of youth is gone out of my life, the beauty of it stands revealed more clearly. Gone forever are the dear, the fond-remembered holidays, when the long summer days were far too short for the pleasure that we crowded into them. Gone are the winter walks in the teeth of the blustering ocean breezes, when we "took the wind into our pulses" and strode like Berserkers along the gray sand dunes, tasting the rarest spirit of life in the open air. Gone, clean gone, those happy days, leaving only the precious memory that wets my eyes that are not used to tears.
LOST ASSOCIATIONS
And so, in this roundabout way, I come back to my library shelves, to urge upon you who now are wrapped warm in domestic life and love to provide against the time when you may be cut off in a day from the companionship that makes life precious. Take heed and guard against the hour that may find you forlorn and unprotected against death's malignant hand. Cultivate the great worthies of literature, even if this means neglect of the latest magazine or of the newest sensational romance.
NOT ALL BOOKS WORTHY
Be content to confess ignorance of the ephemeral books that will be forgotten in a single half year, so you may spend your leisure hours in genial converse with the great writers of all times. Dr. Eloit of Harvard recently aroused much discussion over his "five feet of books." Personally, I would willingly dispense with two-thirds of the books he regards as indispensable. But the vital thing is that you have your own favorites—books that are real and genuine, each one brimful of the inspiration of a great soul. Keeps these books on a shelf convenient for use, and read them again and again until you have saturated your mind with their wisdom and their beauty. So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture, whose gates never swing open to the pedant or the bigot. So may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal you in this world.
WHEN THE SOUL IS ATHIRST?
Who turns in time of affection to the magazines or to those books of clever short stories which so amuse us when the mind is at peace and all goes well? No literary skill can bind up the broken-hearted; no beauty of phrase satisfy the soul that is torn by grief. No, when our house is in mourning we turn to the Bible first—that fount of wisdom and comfort which never fails him who comes to it with clean hands and a contrite heart. It is the medicine of life. And after it came the great books written by those who have walked through the Valley of the Shadow, yet have come out sweet and wholesome, with words of wisdom and counsel for the afflicted. One book through which beats the great heart of a man who suffered yet grew strong under the lash of fate is worth more than a thousand books that teach no real lesson of life, that are as broken cisterns holding no water, when the soul is athirst and cries out for refreshment.
This personal, heart-to-heart talk
Father—What does “con” mean?
Son—Continued.
Father—Continued?
Son—Yes, continued next semester?
——The Sphinx.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Dorothea—What were you done after the accident?
Herbert—Scraping up an acquaintance.
——Harvard Lampoon.
Pen Eless—Say, old man, can I touch you for a couple of bucks?
Likewisé—Certainly, pal, I'll charge you only fifty cents to place your finger on my neck.
Stanford Chaparral.
Funny when you think 'of it, isn't it?
What?
Why the present is only the future we had in the past. —The Sphinx.
Agent—“Here you've had that typewriter for six months and you haven't paid me a cent on it.”
Student—"Well you said 'that it would pay for us in six months.' Sphinx.
"I'm at my wits end," said the King as he trod on the Jester's toe.
with you, my patient readers of many years, is the first in which I have indulged since the great fire swept away all my precious books—the hoarded treasures of forty years. Against my will it has been forced from me, for I am like a sorely wounded animal and would winn nurse my pain alone. It is written in the first bitterness of a crushing sorrow; but it is also written in the spirit of hope and confidence—the spirit which I trust will strengthen me to spend time and effort in helping to make life easier for some poor boys in memory of the one dearest boy who has' gone before me into that "undiscovered country," where I hope some day to meet him with the old bright smile on his face and the old firm grip of the hand that always meant love and tenderness and steadfast loyalty.
Purple Cow
Among men of New England strain like myself it is easy to labor long hours, to endure nervous strain, to sacrifice comfort and ease for the sake of their dear ones; but men of Puritan strain, with natures as hard as the flint granite of their hillsides, cannot tell their loved ones how dear they are to them, until Death lays his grim hand upon the shoulder of the beloved one and closes his ears forever to the words of passionate love that now come pouring in a flood from our trembling lips.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
END OF THE OLD CHAISE
From "The Wonderful one-hose Shay" by Oliver Wendell Holmes). First of November,—the Earthquaked-day.—
There are traces of age in the one-hoss shav.
A general flavor of mild decay,
But nothing local, as one may say.
There couldn't be—fór the Deacon's
art
Had made it so like in every part
That there wasn't a chance for one to
do it.
For the wheels were just as strong as the thills.
Had made it so like in every part.
And the panels just as strong as the floor
And the floor was just as strong as the sills,
And the whippletree neither less nor more,
And the back-crosshar as strong as the fore
And spring and axle and hub encore
and yet as a twinkle will a dawn do
in the morning will a wall be
First of November, fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hose that Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay "Hudupdum!" said the parson—Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's test,—Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the—the-Moses—was coming all at once the horse stood still. Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill
First a shiver, and then a thrill,
Then something decidedly like a spill...
And the parson was sitting upon a
rock.
At half-past nine by the meet'n-house clock—
Just the hour of the kardinaque snook?
What do you think the parson found.
When he got up and stared around?
The parson did chase in a heap or
mound.
As if it had been to the mill and ground.
You see, of course, if you're not a dunce.
How it went to pieces all at once,
and the bubbles burst. Just as bubbles do when they burst.
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End of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
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