UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Korea
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Louisa L. Coxon
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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
It is easier to success the first deci-
sion than to satisfy all that follow it.
FOR A BETTER ANNUAL
FOR A BETTER ANNUAL
The editor of the Jayhawk for 1912 has expressed himself as being in favor of the election of the editor of the book by the junior class and of a training course for him working with the preceding editor. He quotes from his own experience that under such a plan, he would have been saved much time and trouble in working out the departments of his book. He would have been better prepared to organize and direct his assistants.
There is an other way in which such a training course could make a better annual. Attempts are now being made by Jayhawker editors to publish a book that will interest all the students in the University—a cosmopolitan university book, which shall not be for the upper classmen alone.
In order to obtain the material for such a book, a study of the interests of the students themselves is necessary and an editor will be much more successful in solving the problem of a university book and in interesting everyone after two years' consecutive work than under the present system of election in the fall by the senior class for whom he must publish the book in the spring.
The attention of the committee charged with the enforcement of the ten-thirty rule is respectfully called to the fact that Winter is lingering in the lap of Spring.
A great clamor goes up spasmodically from many critics of the colleges complaining that the colleges and universities are losing their democracy. If Harvard can be taken as a fair example, figures tend to show otherwise. It is said that one man in every three and one half in the entire student body is working his way, in whole or in part.
WHEN THE EDITORS MEET
Once in a long while a really big event is staged at Lawrence and the University. This time that big event is the meeting of the State Editorial Association on April 8 and 9, an event not only of local interest but of state-wide importance. Here the foremost editors of the whole of Kansas will meet and talk and visit, —and go away with certain impressions.
Tuesday the 9th will be set aside especially for the University. On that day the editors will inspect the plant of the Daily Kansan and will visit the various buildings on the hill. The University should bear in mind that on that day it is entertaining perhaps the most influential body of men in the state, men who have它 largely within their power to shape public opinion for or against this institution, men whose good-will may in the near future be the most desirable asset the University can have.
The more enthusiasm the students can stir up over this meeting of editors, the better for all concerned. Every editor in the state will probably be present. Indeed it would not be amiss for students to make special efforts to secure the attendance of any editor friend who they think may not be intending to come to this meeting.
The principle speakers are men on the first rank in national and ever world-wide importance. They are Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press, and Thomas L. Masson, editor of the comic periodical, Life. The University feels highly honored by the presence of these men who are coming as its guests.
A headline says "Botanists Dine on Roots, Herbs Et Al." Evidently at this big feed, rooting was good, since the ravenous botanists et al.
A recent chapel speaker advised students to keep well on the safe side of everything, and to "shm the border," which is exactly what the University K. N. G.'s are trying to do.
An American baseball team will tour Japan this summer. The umpire who accompanies that nine will have a good chance to show what can be done toward the promotion of universal arbitration.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
In order to show the difference in the attitude of the students of the eastern colleges and those in the western institutions toward basketball as an intercollegiate sport, the following editorial from the Brown Daily Herald is printed. With such a spirit as is expressed, no school can expect to support a winning team.
SHALL WE KEEP BASKET-BALL?
Again at the close of the basketball season we hear the advisability of retaining basket-ball as an intercollegiate sport at Brown called into question. And it seems not unlikely from the opinions expressed at a recent meeting of the Athletic Board that this year the Board may take definite action to discontinue basketball as a Varsity sport. This question has not arisen this year, as it has usually in previous years, as the result of an unsuccessful basket-ball season. The season just closed has been more successful than any season for several years. Basketball is steadily losing its popularity as an intercollegiate sport. Each year two or three colleges discontinue M. I. T. has just decided that this year's team will be its last, and Yale is understood to be about to take the same step.
Basket-ball has always meant a serious loss to the Athletic Association here. The deficit in this branch for the past season is estimated at $750. Under the present conditions the sport must continue to lose money. The space for spectators in our gymnasium is so limited as to make the gate receipts very small. Moreover, the opposing teams were not our rivals; to beat them was no especial achievement; it could not raise Brown's standing in the athletic field.
Though fewer men can engage in basket-ball than in any other form of sport, the interest seems to have sunk so low this year that, in spite of an active captain and the best of coaching, it was barely possible to get out enough men to form a second team. Next year but one veteran remains, and the chance of developing any ability from this year's weak second and freshman teams appears meager indeed. With the increasing importance and popularity of swimming, wrestling, gymnastics, and principally, of course, track, is there not enough to attract every man's interest and endeavor during the winter without intercollegiate basketball?
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
LION used to prow about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one animate, and wherever way he approached them he bent his horns of one of them. At last, however, they fell a-quarreling among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the forest. Then the Lion attacked them one by one and the Lion soaked an end of all four.
United we stand, divided we fall.
UNCLE NICKELOUS
SULFIDE SAYS
I'd like to know what has become of the old-fashioned winter that retired in time for a man to plant potatoes on Saint Patrick's Day.
Hydrophobia is increasing says the Kansan, and no wonder. Every time a self-respectin' Kansas dog hears the Missouri houn' song he goes mad.
A romancer is one who treats of romances but a man that treats necks isn't always a necromancer.
"Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" asks Uncle Nickelous Sulfide, the janitor of the chemical laboratories, who has been reading the labels on the bottles. "There are others. The spirit of hartshorn can bring tears to the eyes, the spirit of turpentine can be used to cover anything up, the spirit of camphor can revive the faint hearted, and the spirit of frumenti can raise Cain."
I know some fellers that won't take kindly to the Kansas' idea c directory reform. The harder they are to find, the better they like it.
When a Prof. entertains his class at home it does more toward gettin' 'em interested in his subject than *v* dozen quizzes.
In half a hundred schools and colleges may be seen today the new dramatist in all stages of his development, from the veriest tyro to the "finished" product. Recently questions concerning college dramatics were asked of eighty representative educational institutions.
COLLEGE DRAMATICS
Fifty-five replies were received, and these form the basis of an article in the Swanee Review by Miss Eleanor Sheldon, who says that the answers show that college "courses of drama fall naturally into two groups—the old fashioned type, in which drama is performed in a literary way with almost no relation to theater; the newer type, which considers with dramatic theory and technique, especially as exhibited in the modern play."
Many of the fifty-five institutions reported the production of plays annually of the lighter sort, of which the "Mask and Wig" productions of the University of Pennsylvania are perhaps the best known. As Miss Sheldon remarks, "Such shows have no significance for serious college drama. Their wide occurrence and evident hold upon college sympathy is indeed the most discouraging fact, and the only one contained in the reports."
GIVE PRACTICAL TREATMENT
The adoption of such courses was reported by one-third of the fifty-five institutions; and, as was to be expected, the courses themselves present considerable variety. "Courses in dramatic composition are naturally rare, but they are perhaps the most significant of all as a measure of the keenness of the increased interest in the drama. At Radcliffe and Harvard, Professor Baker's classes have been unusually successful. It appears that when the news of the play rights at Harvard got abroad 'New York teachers laughed at the idea that managers could produce plays with the acting' for John Craig offered a prize of $500. He be awarded annually for the best play from any of Professor Baker's students at Harvard, or at Radcliffe, and this prize was first taken by Miss Florence Lincoln's play, "The End of the Bridge," of which 108 consecutive performances were given. The Boston Budget said of this play:
"At last it has been proved that academic instruction in the arts is not without its practical value. A college student without practical experience with the stage, and of course with a limited knowledge of life and of human character, has nevertheless constructed and written a play that is human and convincing. From the very first the general theater-going public has realized that there is a play that is worth being seen for its own sake."
MANY COLLEGEES PRESENT LIGHT DRAMA
Professor Baker does not guarantee a playwright of every student; but he does maintain that a dramatic composition is built according to logical laws of form, and that these laws can be taught.
Of old plays, the Elizabethan are the most popular with college producers, but the supreme favorites seem to be the 18th-century plays "She Stoops and The School for Seandal," and "The River" (the number of Greek plays produced has been increasing. Often the acting versions are prepared by members of
ONE WORTH SEEING FOR OWN SAKE.
the faculty. Mention must also be made of the performance of professional companies under college patronage, although these of course are not, striply speaking, academic drama. The Ben Greet and the Cobur Players figure prominently in the reports, and Maude Adam's production of "Joan of Arc" at the Harvard Stadium and Margaret Anglin's reproduction of Sophocles' "Antigone" in the Greek Theater in California rank by themselves. — Adopted from THE AMERICAN REVIEWS OF REVIEWS, March, 1912.
THE COLLEGIANS CHANCE
AS A PUBLISHER
F. L. Collins, the President of the McClure Publications Co., has written a statement for the Yale News, showing the advantages of the college graduate in the publishing field. Mr. Collins is a college graduate himself and therefore speaks largely from experience. His rise in his chosen profession has been a rapid one, and today he is acknowledged as one of the authorities in the magazine world:
"I cannot make a general comment on this important question that would apply to all college men," he said, "because it has been my experience that college men differ from one another in their qualifications for success as markedly as do other mortals. Our business, however, because of its partially literary character, is an especially inviting one to college men, and is subject to two or three definite statements.
HAS NO DISTINCT ADVANTAGES
"In the first place, except in the editorial department, college man has no advantage over other applicants for a position with a publishing house simply because he is a college man. The editorial department furnishes not more than one-tenth of the amount for which college man might apply. Therefore, it may be concluded that a college man in the beginning stands very little better show than the non-college man in the obtaining of a position in the publishing business.
"The departments of our business which furnish most of the opportunities which may be filled by college graduates are the advertising and circulation departments. In both of these departments the qualities most of value, in addition to the fundamental virtues, are aggressiveness, individuality, an impressive manner, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and sand. Here college men certainly have an equal show with non-college competitors, with, I think, a slight advantage on such points as manner and resourcefulness. Men who have earned their way through college are more likely than their fellow-students to have that quality of aggressiveness which is essential to success in these departments.
MANY OWNERS ARE COLLEGE MEN
MANY OWNERS ARE COLLEGE MEN "The proportion of college men among the actual owners of the publishing business is very high—probably higher than in any other commercial business. Of the four members of this firm, three are college graduates. This percentage, I think, would hold throughout the magazine business. With so large a number of the publishers themselves interested in colleges and college men, there is perhaps some slight advantage to the newcomer in being connected with that interest. This is, however, a pretty slim thread to hang to; in fact, it may be said that college men who have reached the ownership stage are inclined to apply the acid test with strict impartiality to all young men entering their business. However, there is a great advantage to the beginner in having congenial surroundings, and the fact that this business is dominated by college men undoubtedly does furnish that quality of geniality under which a man can do his best work."
A Men's League for Woman Suffrage similar to those at Harvard and Yale is being organized by undergraduates.
THE ROSARY
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The hours I spent with thee, dear hear,
Ave as a string of pearls to me;
I wore my sleeves in the wind.
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary.
Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer,
a heart in absence wring.
I tell each of them.
A cross is hung.
Oh, memories that bless—and burn! Oh, harren gain—and bitter loss! I kiss each bead, and strive at last to bearn.
To kiss the cross.
Sweetheart,
To kiss the cross.
—R. C. ROGERS.
"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,
University Extension Division LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
TRACK MEET Kansas vs. Missouri Kansas City, March 29th Santa Fe Offical Route
Band and a big bunch of rooters will go in TWO special cars attached to train No. 10, leaving Lawrence at 3:51 p.m.
Team will go in a special car on train 114 at 2:22 p.m.
SPECIAL TRAIN
Returning leaves Kansas City 11:30 p. m.
Turn out, ginger up, and help K.
U. bring home Missouri's scalp.
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