UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TIMOTHY TOMLINSON
LAWRENCE LACOUS
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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
At a great pennyworth, paus awhile.
HOW TO PLAY
The University of California has announced special courses in public playground work for the coming summer session. The object is to train men and women to take charge of playgrounds, to train teachers of physical education, and to give a general knowledge of athletics and playground work.
This is a novel departure in educational work, and it is worthy of being fostered. The questions connected with the modern playground movement are none too small and insignificant for the consideration of the brainiest college people. They are so big that the university is the only place for them to be correctly handled. They are certainly questions that the next generation will consider of the first importance, and it is fitting that the university of today should be in the advance guard of such a movement.
That there is no lack of interest in this new subject is shown by the fact that of the 1,950 students in the summer session of 1911 over 600 were enrolled for playground work and physical education.
RETIRING PENSIONS
A headline says "Zaraguaeta Promises To Be Genuine Article." This would have been a dangerous statement even for dramatic managers to make before Dr. Wiley resigned.
The University of Chicago at its convocation on March 19, announced pensions for its emeritus professors. The allowance grants forty per cent of the salary received during service and an additional two per cent for every year of active work over the stipulated fifteen year term of service for the University.
This recalls to mind the fact that the University of Kansas has only a few shortcomings in the opinion of the committee in charge of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching before the eligibility of its faculties to receive retiring allowances will be announced. It is still a moot question, as to when these hindrances will be removed and the University be declared eligible so that its faculty members may reap the benefit of that pension fund.
THE WRESTLING ART
Although wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the history of athletics, now for the first time bouts with men competing for other organizations will be held at the University, when the University team meets the representatives of the Kansas City Athletic Club in the gymnasium tonight.
For two years University men have held wrestling bouts, but the sport was made a conference game and arrangements for its support by the athletic associations were made only last fall.
There are probably few cases on record of men who have not at some time in their lives taken part in a wrestling bout. It was the primitive means of encounter in extreme youth—hardly a boy, but knows something of the effects of the trips and holds of the wrestling art. However, when students become older, the sport falls into disuse with the exception of its use in sundry "rough houses" that the under classmen may encounter. The ordinary layman has few opportunities for the practice of the art.
However, many men in the University are still deeply interested in the sport from the scientific view point. As a body developer, it is of the best, and the exercise of skill, judgment and control of the mind and body that are absolutely necessary for the mat artist, make it one of the most profitable of games.
Wrestling should receive the unqualified support of the students, both from those who wish to try for the teams and from those who only enjoy an interesting exhibition.
AN ANNUAL FLOOD
Judging from the following editorial from the Michigan Daily, the students at Ann Arbor are having as much trouble with inclement weather as our baseball team is having in getting out doors to practice.
We are in the midst of our annual spring flood. This year it threatens to be worse than ever, and the university authorities are doing less than the townpeople to help alleviate conditions. While the "natives" were out in force on Sunday trying to improve conditions, there was little evidence of any like effect among guardians. As the worst walks were taken, the worst in town on Saturday and Sunday, and Monday showed little improvement.
It will be necessary to follow the ordinary rules of navigation in order to avoid collisions. Remember that the oncoming_paper canoe should be taken to port, unless otherwise decided. Those who use motorboats will kindly not tie up to the library steps, and prevent small boat traffic. As speed is the desired object, gondolas will be strictly prohibited.
While the flood is on and we find ourselves nearly immersed in icy water, The Michigan Daily would like to offer a few suggestions which might be well for the distressed students to follow.
For those unable to secure boats, "D Skinner announces that he will furnish diving suits and oxygen helmets at cost, because of natural sympathy with the janitors. We do not expect this force to get out at night, so freshmen have volunteered to row over with their meals every day.
Swimming will not be countenanced before dusk. After that it is excusable because of the difficulty of keeping to the main campus channels.
ILLINOIS ENROLLMENT.
ILLINOIS ENROLLMENT.
Figures for registration in the University of Illinois, as given out by the registrar, should have been registered this year. Of this number exactly 1000 are women, an increase of about 300 over last year. The total number shows but a slight increase.
The college of engineering has the largest attendance, with 1287 students, two of whom are women; literature and arts second with 907, and agriculture third with 810.
A SONG OF SPRING.
For, lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
The time of the singing of birds is come
And the voice of the turtle
Is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth
Her green leaves.
And the vines with the tender grape
Give a good smell.
Awake, O north wind;
And come, thou south:
Blow upon my garden.
That the spices thereof may flow out
—Song of Solomon.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
TWO Fellows were travelling together through a wood; when a Bear rushed out upon them. One of the fellows was in front, and he seized hold of the branch of a tree, and hid himself among the leaves. The other, seeing him fall into the wood upon the ground, with his face in the dust. TheBear, coming up to him, put his muzzle close to his ear, and sniffed and sniffed at a growl in his head and slouched for bears will not touch dead meat. Then the fellow in the tree came down to his comrade, and laughing, said 'Where is that Master Braun whispered to you?'
"He told me," said the other,
"Never trust a friend who deserts you
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"So youws was the class of '99?" "Yes. It was a distinguished class."
"There was nobody in it whom we
said Fatty." — Ex.
"In what way?"
'Arf a hinch, 'arf a hinch,
'Arf a hinch onward;
'Ampered by 'obble skirts
'Opped the "400. —Ex.
Butter—There's a man below to see you, sir.
Mayberry—What did you tell him,
Butter—I told him told me, if it was a lady, to say you were in, and if it was a man, to say you were out,
Mayberry—What did he say then?
Butler—He said to tell you he was a lady.
—Harvard Lampoon.
First Briton—I say, it's deuced odd,
this being in society.
Second Briton - How, so, old chap?
Come Briton.
From the window little Willy
Dropped his brother with great joy,
Told his mother as she sainted,
"Watch our bouncing baby boy!"
"What a shame!"
"My fortune, sir, is in my face."
— "Well, proPERTY is no disgrace."
— Sphinx.
Second Briton — How, so, out crap!
First Briton — Why to keep in it you must be continually going out, don't you know.
Znome—What kind of snow is this—
hazy or enterprise?
Elss—Enterprising; it shifts for itself
Znome—Nope, lazy. It just drifts.
    - Sphinx.
Operator—Number, please.
Coen—Vat?
Operator—What number do you want?
Coen—Vy, Vat number haf you?
—Punch Bowl.
Fresh young man of the world—"Pardon me my dear girl but your face looks very familiar to me." She, very haughtly—"Sir, I am not at all surprised. Your mother used to send you for our laundry."
CLUBS AT HARVARD
—The Widow.
What are the conditions of club life at Harvard College that make these facts significant.
One of the great advantages of college life is undoubtedly the intimate associations which the undergraduate enjoys with men of his own age. One of the most powerful means of embracing this advantage is through the college social club or fraternity. At Harvard, out of a possible 1509 men registered in the sophomore, junior and senior classes there are, according to the university register, 597 different men enrolled in thirty such organizations. Of these 131 belong to three or more clubs, sixty-five to four or more, twenty-six to five or more, ten to six or more, and one man belongs to seven social clubs in the college. Allowing for the election of additional men since the register was published and for the election of the usual one hundred sophomores to the institute, we may safely conclude that a bare majority of Harvard men enjoy the advantages of club life during their college course.
Why then do not more men enter club life at Harvard?
Do the clubs exert an immoral influence? There are some irresponsible individuals in the various clubs who may have given the late Mr. Crane opportunity for muck-raking, but a glance at the membership of these clubs shows clearly that they represent the best men in college life. For example we are acquainted with certain social
Club life at Harvard is based on probably the sanest principles to be found in any American college. There is here no unnatural "rushing" of freshman—a man is usually elected to a club from among the three upper classes on the merit of what he is known to be at college. There is also no petty rivalry between the clubs—a man is free to make his circle of friends as broad or as narrow as he himself pleases. (Even the mutually exclusive clubs, few in number, admit to their ranks men from other clubs.)
REPRESENT BEST MEN IN COLLEGE
SELECTIONS ON MERIT.
Finally, the clubs at Harvard do not engage as such in undergraduate elections—captains, managers and class officers are chosen without reference to membership in this or that club. In fact the club system at Harvard does not collegiate earnarks or detrimental to men” in various colleges and partakes rather of the normal nature of club life in any community.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
By reading, we acquaint ourselves with the affairs, actions, and thoughts of the living and the dead, in the most remote actions, and in the most distant ages; and that with as much ease as they lived in our own age and vation.
clubs who make abstinence from intoxicants a condition of club life. Is the club a hindrance to its members? Does it tend to exert an influence toward loafing, late nights, and other distracting habits which tend to dissipate the energies of its members?
ISAAC WATTS.
This is undoubtedly a matter of opinion, but again the ignominious death of the Polo Club a few years ago and the decline of a certain club at present which has as an annual feature a "boose-fee" for a silver cup, are indicative that such clubs are not tolerated in Harvard College. Finally, then, are the social clubs undemocratic and snobish in their choice of members? Undoubtedly aristocratic tradition has something to do with maintaining the provincially oriented culture we cannot quarrel with a community of interest that binds certain sets of men together naturally, however small they may be.
What then is the reason that one half of Harvard College men go through their undergraduate life missing one of its greatest advantages?
BUT ONE-HALF ARE NOT BARBARIANS.
It would be an error to call one-half of Harvard's undergraduates bar." buriana" unified by qualities of character and good-fellowship to enter the club life of their University. Yet this is the silent verdict that is passed upon them at present—in general by outsiders, and probably not quite so brutally by those who are acquainted with conditions in the college.
To correct the faults of the present clubs in college wherever they may be must lie with the men now members of those organizations, and is at most a question of detail. The Illustrated believes that the need of Harvard College is for a greater and more diversified organization of social life—a formation of more clubs for purely social purposes.
MUST ALLEVIATE HEART-BURNINGS.
Sufficient organizations based on every conceivable pretext are found in the college, and these make our life interesting. But enough organizations to insure the enjoyment of good books, good friends, and that undefinable fellowship with men are lacking. This it is that sends many men out from college to work and heart-burning, with a certain feeling of lonesomeness that no degree of independent character and philosophical contentment can overcome.
Within the past ten years this spirit has found expression in the growth of some ten or twelve new clubs whose development has been a struggle against tradition and prejudice on the part of some, but which the college as a whole is coming to recognize as a valuable factor in our lives. We encourage them to enrich our lives. We welcome them and hope to see many more among those men whose community of interest in the college gives them a true basis for fellowship.—Harvard Illustrated Magazine.
TYROS EDIT MAGAZINE
The March number of the Midland, a monthly magazine published by the students of Midland College, came to the exchange editor's desk this week. This number was edited by the members of the freshman class and is a representative edition of the paper. The literary and news departments have been combined to make a good paper.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THE CASTLE BY THE SEA
Hast thou seen that lordly castle,
That castle by the sea?
Golden and red, above it
The clouds float overground.
And fain it would stoop downward To the mirrored wave below;
Golden and red, above it
the clouds float gorgeously.
And fain it would soar upward. In the evening's crimson glow.
The winds and the waves of ocean, They rested quietly;
But I heard on the gale a sound of wail
and tears came to mine eye.
And sawest thou, on the turrets,
The king and his royal bride?
And the wave of their crimson mantle
And the golden crown of pride?
Led they not forth, in rapture,
A heauteous maiden there.
A beautiful mashen there,
Resplendent as the morning sun,
Beaming with golden hair?
Well saw I the ancient parents,
Without the crown of pride;
WITHIN the crown of pletae
They move slowing, in weeds of
wok:
No maiden was by their side!
—Translation by LONGFELLOW.
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