UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
LORI LOUIS CASS
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BARRY MILLER
Hospital Editor
HITCHY ROBINSON
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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS
When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
That which is considered the greatest advantage a young person can derive from his college course is the association with fellow students, with young people of his own age having the same problems, the same interests as himself. In an article on clubs and social organizations at Harvard University that was published in one of the student papers there, the organization of such clubs and groups as throw men of the same tastes together was encouraged and the small per cent of club men in the university was depreciated.
This tendency may be deprecated perhaps in every student body in the United States. The number of students who leave their university or college with an aching heart, because they were denied some of the best pleasures that can come to the undergraduate, the association in club life with others, is too large at any educational institution. They are, as the Harvard man points out, not unworthy of membership in such organizations.
There are many opportunities for clubs here that are undeveloped. Of more than one hundred counties in the state of Kansas, few more than twenty counties in the state are represented with clubs at the University. Such clubs should have for their purpose more than the entertainment of the high school seniors at the Christmas holidays. Permanent organizations will give the students a chance to look after the interests of new students from the several counties, when they come to the University, and many more students will come here, when they know that a body of "old-timers" are waiting to help them make their start.
Entertainment for the members of the State Editorial Association is being planned by the departments of the University, when the newspaper men hold their meeting here. Wouldn't the Kansas editors be immensely pleased if the "curator" of the Physics Clock would place the inner workings of that wonderful time piece upon exhibition? Some of the overworked editors might then be able to get a chance to take a "short course" in how to "solder on the job" and "get away with it."
TWIST THE TIGER'S TAIL
Those who will accompany the Kansas track team to Convention hall in Kansas City tomorrow night to see the ninth annual indoor meet between the Tiger and the Jayhowker, will see teams composed, for the most part, of mediocre track athletes making every effort to win for their university.
Both teams are entering this meet, probably for the first time in the history of this athletic relation, without glorious predictions of victory coming from the training camps of the two squads. Kansas men realize that they will have to do more than the best shown in any of the try-outs
hold here this winter, in order to defeat the Tiger. Missouri men appreciate the fact that they have lost a number of their sure point winners, that Kansas is an unknown quantity and that they will have to give their all for a victory.
A gloom of long standing held in abeyance the hopes of Kansas track followers, until the recent announcement of the entry of the Woodbury brothers. However, this gloom was not the kind that was altogether discouraging, for it put the fight, the determination into men of ability, but men who are not exceptional athletes in their events, to show what they can do for their team. It is team work that will win the meet in Convention hall tomorrow night and the squad of men that works together the best will carry off the honors of the evening.
Every man that is counted upon Coach Hamilton's track team this year has won his place mainly by dint of hard, conscientious work, winning in the try-outs by only narrow margins and with prospects of defeating his Tiger opponent by a margin of even less dimension.
With this same spirit imbued in the Missouri men, one of the best indoor meets is promised by the coaches and trainers of the two teams that has ever been held at Kansas City. In a great measure, the chances of success for the Kansas team will be augmented by the support that it receives from the students who accompany the men to Kansas City. Arrangements have been made by the athletic management for the convenience of the rooters in returning to Lawrence immediately after the meet and a large representation of Jayhawkers should accompany Coach Hamilton's squad of fighting athletes to their meet with the Tiger.
THE INVENTOR OF THE COLLEGE YELL.
Is the man who invented the college
yell,—
Right here, good folks, in the padded cell.
A pittil sight, as you all can see,
And a delightful world before you.
He tears his hair with a Sis-boom-bal.
And rends the air with a Rah-rah-rah.
And mumbles and jumbles and screams
and cries —
See his swelling throat and his blood shot eyes.
All day he yells, and at night he howls,
And up from his neck comes fearful growls,
As though he remembers the campus where
The din of the yelling filled the air.
He grips at you with a pancake.
And thinks you're a brother of Pi Chi Si.
He makes a sign that the fellows know And waits to see if it’s really so;
Then he thinks it is, and his great lungs swell.
With a rush of air and an old time yell,
And his cheeks puff out and his mouth
swings wide,
But you need not run from the frightful noise.
And a rush of sound from the far inside Of his mighty chest, strikes on the air, And your heart beats fast with a dread-
And your heart beats fast with a dreadful fear;
Miss Elizabeth Colton of Eastampton, Mass., is said to be the only woman in the world who understands 54 languages. Miss Colton studied in Europe with the intention of becoming an opera singer, but gave up her desire for the stage because of her father's opposition. She became a teacher in the Farmington seminary, where she began the systematic study of [languages, taking up one foreign language after another.] Idianapolis News.
For he's only one of the "Rah-rah hops."
— AUTHOR UNKNOWN.
KNOWS FIETY-FOUR LANGUAGES
COCK was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shining amid the straw. "Ho! lo!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath him, then some chameleon beached a burr that by them been lost in the yard? "You may be a tresure," quotn Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for我 I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."
ings are for those that can prize them.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
HOW THE OLD BOYS USED TO DO THINGS
From the University Kansan, March 28, 1890, Volume 1, number 26.
Professor James H. Canfield and Senator John J. Ingalls are the two Kansas men talked of in the newspapers just now.
From the present outlook more than $400.00 will be raised in the University for the purpose of putting the ath tie field in condition.
The Sigma Nus entertained their friends last Saturday evening at their hall in the Eldridge block.
Our ball players are practicing daily. More work should be done in batting however, as this is almost entirely neglected except on Fridays and Saturdays.
Arrangements have been made with Graebler for the use of his two rowing shells every afternoon until commencement. We can expect to have an interesting race by that time.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed, as an evidence of good faith.
Editor Daily Kansan
INVESTIGATE THE P. C.
STUDENT OPINION
WORD FROM CLEVELAND
For some time your paper has been heckling and annoying the members of the Physics department with certain allusions, more or less veiled, concerning the activities of the time piece which adorns the Queen Anne section of the physics building. Your tactics, sir, are manifestly unfair, they tend to create a feeling of levity among the students whenever the physics department, the faculty thereof, or the clock,—unfortunately which takes its name from the physics building—is mentioned.
For the reason that the students of the University have, because of your untimely articles, connected with the physics department the misbehavior of the clock, the faculty of that department demands that there be an immediate and thorough investigation of the department and of the clock as well. To use a slang expression, the whole works should be looked into. We feel secure in our position. The department is in no way responsible for the actions of the time piece, and wishes the University world at large to understand this to be the fact.
Among those present were Murray G. Hill '04, now instructor in English in Adelbert College; Merle Sprenger '11, student at Western Reserve Medical College; George Richardson '11, in business with the White Automobile company and I, who am also a Western Reserve Medical student.
Let there be an end to the continual assaults, made on this department.
Let an investigation place the blame where it properly belongs. We court inquiry and demand fair treatment.
We may add that we have been re-
We may add that we have been retailed as counsel for the department
The alumni of the University living in Cleveland, Ohio, met Friday, March 15, at a dinner and theater party and I was asked to express to the Kansas and the paper and our hearty appreciation of the good it is now accomplishing.
With best wishes for the Daily Kansan and the staff.
Very truly yours,
MISS, MADISON, CLAY AND WEBSTER
at LAW.
It doesn't take a fresh air crank to find cause to kick about the way many of the buildings and rooms of the University are ventilated. Some professors seem to think that the way to heat the room is to heed them around in tight rooms stuffed with air that fairly sizzles like a green-house in July.
BETTER VENTILATION.
To the Daily Kansan;
Cleveland K. U. Alumni
P.C. CARSON.
The value of pure outdoor air is surely no longer to be questioned by intelligent people. A University ought to be among the foremost leaders in putting into practice the great art of breathing. — LET-US-BREATHE.
To the Daily Kansan;
Spooner library, it seems, is particularly at fault in the matter of ventilation this year. Some days— these fine balmy days, too—the library windows are kept closed all day, as tightly as if they were barriers against some awful poison in the out-door air, while others are kept open and over and over again by the pair of students there, who all the time are wondering why they grow so drewwy.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated. It is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. But as exercise becomes tedious and painful, when you lose it, your health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome when we apply ourselves to it for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue we engage in with reading must be like the health we get by hunting; as we engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us happy with the fatnes that accompany it.
SPEECH OF THE WORLD
SIR RICHARD STEELE.
The English language contains about 600,000 words. But there are dead words, just as there are dead books in every library and dead men in every cemetery. Also there are words that are dying. All living languages are in a state of flux—words being born words obsolescent or dying and words obsolete or死. New-born words are called "bling." This is their infancy. Like children, measles, mumps and other life words make their calling good, cease to be "slang" and win for themselves a dictionary place.
Usage makes language, and terms used by classical authors themselves become classic. One-half of the 000-000 words in the English language might be dropped, and the average man speaking, reading and writing would be conscious of no loss. This large percentage of unfamiliar terms is made up of scientific or technical words never met outside of text-books and of archaic words that have lost their vitality or outlived their usefulness.
As merchants from time to time unload their dead stock, making room upon their shelves for fresh goods, it might be well for each language now to have a dead lumber. And there are dead lunges, Again, there are dead lunges, as well as words that are dead.
Of living tongues, count dialects as well, the number is 3,424—a veritable Babel of speech. America, the youngest of all lands, strange to say, leads the world in dialects, having no less than 1,624. Asia comes next with 937 dialects. Europe and Africa follow with 587 and 276 respectively.
150,000,000 SPEAK ENGLISH.
Of all spoken languages the world over, English is by far at present the most popular. The people who use it number 150,000,000. No speech approaches English in use or comes any other language. In the German, which is spoken by 129,000,000 people. The Portuguese is lowest in the scale, with but 30,000,000.
The Italian is used by 40,000,000, the Spanish by 55,000,000, the French by 60,000,000, and the Russian by 90,000,-000 human beings. In derivation the English tongue is chiefly indebted to the Teutonic family. Of 100,000 words taken at random 60,000 will be of Teutonic origin, and half that number from the Greek or Latin; while the remaining 10,000 will have come from miscellaneous sources, like the Arabic, Hebrew and Indian—COUHER JOURNAL.
TRAMPING ABROAD
I have made several trips through the European Continent. In Rome a room for 50 cents in day in hotels is as good as the dollar hotel here. I may say the same of Turin, Milan, Florence, Brussels, Ostend, etc. In Paris there are still cheaper ones in the Latin quarter. Restaurants are also very moderate in price, but Paris bents them all, both in price and quality. In the Grand Boulevards dinner of six courses with a battle of wine are served for 25 cents. The charges for third class passage depends on where you go; better visit offices of steamship companies. Bicycle rides are safe and economic. I wish the boys joy and good health—J. M. A. in New York Times.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
"THALATTA"
CRY OF THE TEN THOUSAND
I stand upon the summit of my years.
Behind the toil, the camp, the march,
the strife.
The wandering and the desert; vast,
after.
Beyond the weary way, behold the Sea!
The sea o'erswep by clouds and winds
and wings.
By them, and wishes manifold,
whose breath
Is freshness and whose mighty pulse is
peace.
Palter question of the dim Beyond;
Cut loose the bark; such voyage itself
is rest:
Majestic motion, unimpeded scope,
a widening heaven, a current without
Eternity!—Deliverance, Promise,
Course!
Time-tired souls salute the from the shore.
-J. B. BROWN.
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JOHN BUNNY—Vitagraph. Four Reels of Selected Feature Subjects.
AURORA--Always Good
"Let's see, you're away from Lawrence now?" inquired one man of another, the other day.
"Not entirely," was the reply, "Nobody who has been in Lawrence ever quite gets away from the town, you know. It is a place that one does not grow indifferent to through the intervention of mere miles or years. There's something fascinating about it—the long stretches of unbroken lawns bordering deep-shaded streets, the clean, wide pavements and walks, the atmosphere of health and cheer. All this, along with the spirited commercial activities that distinguish Lawrence citizens, go to make the ideal town for a home—the town that a man may leave if circumstances require, but may never forget."
The remarks of this man express the Lawrence feeling and spirit. It's a town well worth considering as a home, as a place for educating the family, or as a place for business investment. Let us hear from you. We will try to answer questions fully, promptly, and sincerely.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
TRACK MEET Kansas vs. Missouri Kansas City, March 29th Santa Fe Offical Route
Team will go in a special car on train 114 at 2:22 p.m.
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.
SPECIAL TRAIN
Returning leaves Kansas City 11:30 p. m.
Turn out, ginger up, and help K.
U. bring home Missouri's scalp.
Phone 32
W. W. Burnett,
College Where all the students go. Barber Shop At the foot of the hill.
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Kans Ele
717 Mass. Street Lawrence, Kan
Easter Cards The Fred Rust Style,
THE INDIAN STORE
Engraver, Watchmaker and Jeweler.
ED. W. PARSONS,
To Order that Easter Suit PROTSCH, TAILOR
Last Chance
A Fine Line of SPRINGSUITINGS KOCH THE TAILOR.
"Everybody is Doing It-" DOING WHAT? GOING TO
The Peerless Cafe after the dances. 906 Mass. St.