UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS
Buy what thou hast no need of, and
ere long shalt shuilt sell the necessaries
DOCTOR COULTER
It is only on rare occasions that a group of students have the opportunity to hear lectures from the lips of one who stands as high in his profession as does Doctor Coulter of the University of Chicago. A scientist, who would fail not accept all the conclusions of others before him, but who has carried on a vast amount of original research work in his field of biology, plant evolution, and made discoveries that fill important places in the study of evolution, he has been kind in giving to the students here the results of his work. The University is deeply indebted to Doctor Coulter for his two weeks of lectures on "Evolution of Vascular Plants."
Events suggested for engineers' day if our sub-arctic climate stays with us;
with us:
Six-dog Team Sledge Race.
Harpooning Tournament.
Remmican-Eating Bout (Chemical
Barred).
Igloo Building Contest.
Walrus Skinning Match.
Polar Bear Hunt (Laws Welcome)
Blubber Fry.
Kayak Race (on Potter Lake).
SUPPORT FOR A CREW
Four weeks ago tomorrow an editorial appeared in this column asking from the student body its opinion of the advisability of adding to the list of University sports that of crew work. At that time, it will be remembered, snow lay two feet deep on the ground—a situation nearly identical with that at present.
It is impossible to find out just what sentiment was expressed by the students at that time. Real spring however, is not far off and the incongruity of conditions will not be present. The time when men ought to be working on the river is fast approaching.
Perhaps it is too late now, though to organize and train a University crew and secure matches with other institutions this spring, but class or school crews could be formed to do work that would lead directly to a varsity crew for next year. All men who are interested in this form of athletics and who would like to have the opportunity to partake in the work should inform the head of the Physical Education department, so that a definite measurement of the interest may be obtained.
Reports from those eastern colleges and universities that ever have had crews to represent them upon the water, state that interest in the competition for places is running high. More than one hundred fifty men try-out for some of those squads. Class organizations are maintained also and regattas to decide inter-class championships are scheduled. The boat race between Harvard and Yale is always preceded by a race between the fresh man crews from these two schools.
On the western coast also, many men take an active part in this form of athletics. It seems to be a sport
whose possibilities on the river and lakes of the Central West have remained undeveloped. Some members of the Big Eight support crews, but the sport has by no means become general in the Missouri and Mississippi valleys.
There is no geographical reason why Kansas should not count a University crew in its athletic calendar. Every visitor from the east, who has any knowledge of crew work at all, invariably exclaims, upon sight of the Kaw river from the foot of Ohio street to Cameron's bluff, "What a great course for crewwork!"
Moreover, Kansas backs are just as strong, Kansas lungs just as good as those of either the west or the east where boating is popular.
Such an addition to the sport calendar would render necessary rather large initial outlay of money by the athletic association. But that may be doubtlessly obtained if the students show that they will support boating and thus insure the management against an absolute loss in the way of apparatus.
The brawn is certainly not lack ing, so why not push such an enter prise to completion?
FREEDOM, THE SAFETY VALVE
Reports of a revolt of students in the University of Arkansas are significant. The faculty recently suspended a group of youths held responsible for an anonymous attack upon the authorities, the charge being that rich men's sons were favored in matters of discipline. Whereupon the entire student body, 300 in number, "struck" and declined to attend recitations until the disciplined group should be reinstated.
In this "strike" the students seem to have had the support of many citizens. There are interesting aspects of academic administrative ethics and methods involved that deserve consideration, and the outcome will be worth noting.
In a recent case of somewhat similar defiance of the authorities by a group of students in Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, the evident determination of the authorities to win, no matter what the effect upon the enrollment might be, had its sobering effect; and there was comparatively speedy capitulation. But the problem is somewhat different when an entire student body revolts, and that in a state university, which is more subject to public opinion and politics than a privately endowed institution.
Such challenging of authorities by American students seems to have increased rather than diminished during the past generation and to have been displayed in secondary school as well as in colleges and universities. The efforts to suppress high school fraternities and sororites has met with stiff opposition from students and their parents in many communities. Nor is the condition of revolt and the disposition to insure altogether surprising when the times are considered. Educational institutions cannot but feel the effect of a dominant mood of unrest, criticism, insurgency now governing the public. Youths are sensitive and responsive to the atmosphere in which they live and grow; and this is a time of revolt against authority. On the other hand, compared with European or Chinese student bodies, the american academic world is extremely conservative. The administrative heads of universities and colleges in the United States almost invariably stand for progression by evolution rather than revolution. When political authority is challenged, public officials in America do not instinctively turn—as must similar public servants in some European nations—to the universities to guard against inflammatory propaganda. The great politics controversies of America are wager without either educators or student becoming implicated in ways that
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
**TWO Pots had been left on the bank of a river, one of brass, and the title of owner. The title then they both floated off down the stream. Now the earlwearpot tried its best to keep aloof from the river. "Fear nothing, friend, I will not."
and the weak cannot keep company
"But I may come in contact with you," said the other, "if I come too close, and whether I hit you, or you hit me, I shall suffer for it."
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
She—I love you. Will you be my husband?
He—Let me see your cook book.
—Chaparral.
She has the prettiest mouth in the world.
Oh, I don't know. I'd put mine up against it any time.
—Gargolye.
Clara—He says he thinks I'm the nicest girl in town. Shall I ask him to call?
Sarah—No dear; let him keep on thinking so.
—Jester.
Irate student to phlegmatic "goody"—Do you ever sweep under the bed?
Harvard Lampoon.
Insusciant "gooody" to wrathful student—Yes, sir, I always sweep everything under the bed.
Jack-O'-Lantern.
Lawyer—Mr. Simpkins was a man of impregnable will, was he not?
of impregnable will, was he not?
Witness—I should say so. His relatives are fighting it yet.
He—Just think of it, Miss Ruffies! It takes thousands of birds every season to decorate the hats you women wear.
She- Indeed! How remarkable!
How do they train them to do it?
Ding—Why don't you pay him?
You've got the money.
Ring—My tailor's dunning me again.
Ring--Gad, I never thought of that.
—Tiger.
Old Maid—But why should a great, strong man like you be found begging?
Wayfar—Dear lady, it is the only profession I know in which gentleman can address a beautiful woman without an introduction.
create academic dissensions and array elements of the community against the cultural agencies. Such warfarin and revolutionary temper as are shown have to do usually with problems of internal administration
To account for this exemption oi the American university from forms of radicalism which annoy some European governments is not difficult. It is because of the freedom of thought, speech and political propaganda permitted to teachers and students and the facilities furnished for full discussion of all "isms," and this within academic walls. Conformity for the time with the dominant will of the state not being enforceable upon either educator or pupils, the state in turn is not troubled by the university or college as a center of political conspiracy and seething social discontent. Christian Science Monitor.
Herbert Cavaness of the Chanute Tribune proposes to write a book on "Kissing." Herb being a bachelor and somewhat timid, it is inferred that his book will contain more fiction than fact. "It is such an inexhaustible theme," says he, "The unlimited kind of kisses would in themselves fill a large size volume. It is a veritable gold mine for any writer, be he a philosopher, satirist, scientist, sentimentalist, humorist, poet, historian, theologian or politician.
A BACHELOR ON KISSING
There is the first kiss you gave a girl, the time Ruby said you were 'harried' as she tried to wipe it off her sweet little lip; the smeary kiss the candidate for office, who never overlooks the babies, so well remember; the front gate kiss the newlyweds put on exhibition, the first two weeks of married bliss; the loud smack that father sometimes hears in the parlor; the good-night kiss mother used to give you as she tucked the covers around you, you prize above all other childhood memories; the society kiss, which you have to endure from your dear friend, Mrs. Smith, whom you call an old cat when her back is turned; the soul kiss, invented by Cleopatra, and so frequently described in the closing paragraph of the modern continued magazine story; the kiss Old Aunt Lucy, the family negammy, always insisted on giving every member of the family when she came to wash, who didn't see her
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries, who thereby teach and educate, create thoughts, choicest notions, and best inventions, conchedd in good exertion and digested in exact method?
in time to duck; the sweet, rapturous stolen kiss; the kiss that tasted of paint and powder; the old love kiss so tenderly implanted on grandmother's check by her faithful companion of 50 years; the 16-year-old kiss; the grass widow's kiss, the married woman's kiss, the traitor's kiss, the stage kiss, the Hobson kiss, the old maid's kiss' the peaches and cream kiss, the lallapollozoa, the slobber, the yum-yum, and the kiss you never got. There is no end to the variety, and fame and fortune are awaiting the writer who opens the door to this golden opportunity, and does the subject justice."—Kansas City Journal.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THR SIZE OF KANSAS
ISAAC BARROW.
If size alone were significant, Kansas could take its place among the first class powers of the earth. England and Scotland together are smaller than Kansas, while Wales, Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium added together will not equal it in size. Or, we might add Demark, Andorra, Portugal, San Marino and Greece together and still not have enough territory to make a Kansas. Turkey in Europe is not as large as this state, and Roumania, Servia and Montenegro combined do not equal it. The great islands of Celebes, Java or Indonesia would make more than a dozen Polynesias to cut up into little islands and sow broadcast in the ocean.
Much has been said and written of the size of Kansas, and much more might be said before a true idea of its vastness is generally obtained. Eighty-two thousand square miles is a vast expanse of territory, but just how large we can hardly comprehend. Suppose we could combine the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia into one state; Kansas could contain them all, and still have room enough for another Rhode Island. Kansas is larger than Minnesota, in state accord. Texas exceeds in size both the Virginias. It is almost as large as the combined areas of North and South Carolina, and is larger than Ohio and Indiana together.
Butler county alone is larger than Rhode Island or the whole of the French possessions in the West Indies, and Atchison county equals the whole of the Dutch possessions there.—Kansas Farmer.
According to a special report sent to the Christian Science Monitor female education in India shows a more marked advance than does the male.
The various Greek letter fraternities of America have 300,000 members today in the colleges and universities of the land. They are all derived from a secret fraternity, or organized in 1750 by the students of William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., and called the Flat Hat Club. Among the members of the F. H. C. were St. George Tucker, Thomas Jefferson, and Edmund Randolph—Arkansas Democrat.
THE FIRST FRATERNITY
According to Francis Rogers in a recent number of Scribners the English language is the most beautiful and musical tongue in the civilized world. He says the Italian is too monotonous, the German too guttural, and the French too nasal, while the English has all the good qualities of all of these languages and none of their defects.
ALADDIN
When I was a beggarly boy,
And lived in a cellar damp
I had Adamot's lamp;
When I could not sleep for cold,
when I could not sleep for cold,
Since then I have toiled by day and night.
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded, with roofs of gold.
My beautiful castles in Snain!
I had not a friend nor a toy. But I had Aladdin's lamp;
And lived in a cellar damp I had not a friend nor a toy.
I had fire enough in my brain. And builded, with roofs of gold
I have money and power good store,
But I can't give all my lamps of silver
e no more.
Take, Fortune, whatever you choose.
You gave, and may snatch me.
I have nothing 'would mine to lose.
For I have no more castles in Spain!
I will die.
"The Cross-Road of an Empire"
A loan collection of sixty lantern slides. accompanied by a full and complete typewritten lecture, may now be secured from the EXTENSION DIVISION of the University of Kansas, upon
"Rome, The World Center of Olden Times."
These slides—many of them artistically colored—give a general view of the center of the Roman Empire, with detailed descriptions of the most important buildings and monuments. The only expense involved is the cost of transportation.
Address.
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Lawrence National Bank "Where Your Savings are Safe"
For the past three years there have been spent in Lawrence for improvements one million dollars a year. In 1909 the street railway system was included in this amount and in 1910 there was extensive railway construction but during the last year almost the whole amount represented improvements by private citizens and the municipality. One million dollars translated into buildings and pavement and sewers and homes means a growing city --an ideal place for a home.
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