UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Silks and saisons, scarlet and velvets put out the kitchen fire.
ROY MURRAY
Although he was denied the honor of breaking a record in the two mile run in the indoor meet with Missouri last Friday night on a technicality, Roy Murray established a mark for that race that should stand first in the chronicles of the Tiger track meets.
Murray's success came after years of patient work and long waiting for the time, when he could score a "first" for his University.
During his first three years in school, Murray tried out unfailingly for the team and even after he was hopelessly outclassed by other men, stronger and swifter, he continued training for his race, the two mile. He was determined to win that event.
Last year, he won a second place in the meet with Nebraska, but it was not until his senior year that the honor that he deserved so well came to him. In one of the greatest races ever run in Convention hall, he defeated the best that Missouri could send from Columbia in time that has never been equalled by a Kansas athlete.
It is the patient, hard, consistent work that the midget two miles of Kansas has done that makes a winning squad of track athletes, and it is that same spirit infused in every man on the team that will win for Kansas this year.
Earl O. Eager, formerly general manager of athletics at the University of Nebraska, has been let out in favor of another man who represents the spirit in inter-collegiate athletics that will tend to degrade and declass amateur sportsmen in any college or university. Manager Eager was simply too decent for other individuals concerned at Nebraska.
SO-CALLED PLAGIARISM
SO-CALLED FLAGAURISM
A professor at the University of Chicago has discovered that Irving cried "Rip Van Winkle" from Erasmus. Someone has remarked "it is very sad, but as both gentlemen are dead, what is to be done about it?"
Why should anything be done about it? How many of the world's great authors have created entirely their best works? Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, Browning and all would have to plead guilty to plagiarism.
What if the original idea of Rip Van Winkle did come from Erasmus, its development and artistic elaboration is the work of Washington Irving and there the credit of the greatness of the work should fall.
Would it not be of far more value if men would spend their time in making such an elaboration rather than in attempting to undermine the reputation of someone before them, who has succeeded in making a classic?
VENTILATION
Investigation of the mechanical devices for the regulation of the ventilation of the class rooms in the University buildings, shows that practically all of the buildings are
equipped with apparatus that is in good working order. Fraser hall and Spooner library, the two buildings in which trouble has been experienced in obtaining proper ventilation, do not have such means of ventilation.
Those who are forced to use the class rooms in Fraser must ventilate as best they can by means of the windows.
Then it is no wonder that, in those classes that prove so interesting to the instructor that he cannot attend to ventilation, the members of the class become drowsy before the lecture is finished. The professor cannot always attribute the tendency to neglect their work, to the late hours that the members of the class keep—and sunry other things,—but the blame must fall to himself when he is careless enough to forget that fresh air is conducive to more real attention than any other thing.
SUPPORT FOR ANTI-SLANG FORCES
The example set by the department of English in the University of Kansas in opposing slang is worth imitating in other universities, and the reform might well begin with the faculty. A dread of academic purism has driven not a few professors to the opposite extreme; Vidiment melora, probanteque, deteriora sequum tur. They know good usage and admire it, but they use the language of the street. Perhaps they are afraid of seeming stilted or pedantic, but the world has a sound instinct; it does not object to dignity in a clergyman or to choice language from a man of learning und letters.
The temptations of slang are great, and the most austere need not be ignorant of the piquant phrases of the day. But it cannot be said that America needs any further help in the production or circulation of slang, while it does need all guidance and support possible for the cultivation of taste and distinction in spoken English. This is something to be achieved mainly by social contact, but if those who write do so necessarily reverently set a good example, where are we to look for guidance? Slang need not be absolutely barred, but it ought not to be the staple of talk more than on writing. It is not in Kansas only that there is need of reform.—SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.
MR. BRYCE ON AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES.
We are bound to ask whether the modern undergraduate is not truly interested in the deep aim of all true scholarship, namely, the spiritual and concrete construction of life by means of ideas made real. Ambassador Bryce's opinion of the American universities carries weight, and of them he has said:
"If I may venture to state the impression which the American universities have made upon me, I will say that while of all the institutions of the country they are those of which the American speaks most modestly, and indeed depreciatingly they are those which seem to be at this moment making swiftest progress, and to have the brightest promise for the future. They are supplying exactly those things which European cities have hitherto found lacking to America; and they are contributing to her political as well as to her contemplative life elements of inestimable worth." - Century.
ENGINEERS ISSUE MAGAZINE The Colorado Engineers' Magazine has been organized by the students at Boulder, Colorado and will be published quarterly by the Enginers themselves as the organ of the engineering students, the alumni, and friends of the College of Engineering.
Volume one Number one contains an article on "The Value of a Technical Education" by the dean of the School of Engineering at Colorado. Other departments in the magazine are devoted to organizations and chronicling of events of the Engineers.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
CROW, half-dead, with thirs came upon a Pitcher which ha once been full of water; but when the Crown put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found this one he could not reach far enough down it get at it. He tried, and he tried, but a last had to give up in despair. Then thought came to him, and he took another pebble. Then he took another pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he too another pebble, and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. At last, last he saw the water mount up on nees sitting in a few more pebbles he was able to quench his thirst and save his life.
Little by little does the trick.
County Clerk—What did you tell that man?
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
New Office Boy—That this was no blacksmith shirt.
Cleek—What did he want?
New Office Boy.—File a mortgage.
—Chaparral.
Gusher—Everybody is crazy about this house.
Busher—What is it, a swell hotel?
Gusher—No, it's a private asylum.
—Chaparral
"Had a big time down at the boarding house the other night."
"Darn Nonsense."
"Smatter? Fight?"
"Not exactly. The weenies barked so loud at the hare in the butter that it made the horse radish run off. The milk also ran, and it would have tickled you to death to have heard the cream puff after the race."
Silas Wayback (reading) — Dear dad,
I broke into the Four Hundred—
—Drake Daily Delphic.
Mandy W.—Sakes alives, Henry in society already!
S. W.-that you sent me for next semester's expenses. I went to the Prom. —Chaparral.
Jones—Dat so? What did you do when the ship struck?
Bones - Grabbed a cake of soap and washed myself ashore.
Bones — I was in an awful boatwreck last summer.
Chorus—Come be my rainbow—
Cornell Widow.
Willyam Taft had wandered aft—
Willyam swallowed, the warship wal lowed.
And that is all,—Tee-hee!
—The Minne-Ha-Ha.
They sit beneath the apple blossoms.
The moon shone softly.
Suddenly he broke the silence:
"What's to prevent my kissing you?"
"Why my goodness!" she exclaimed
But it didn't. —Ex.
Hiram—Wall, Maria, here's Dave
from a frontpage sayin' as
how he's a grown-up.
Marie—He always did have a toler able bad temper, Hiram.
STUDENT OPINION
STUDENT ORDER
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
WANTED—A NEW WORD To The Daily Kansan:
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
Also I note the word co-ed applied to women students of the University of Kansas. A woman student of the University of Kansas is no more a co-ed, than a man student. The University was founded for women as well as for men. If you consider facts, you will see that the word in our University, and with such application as you give it, is without reason or truth. Perhaps also you may see that the spirit of the word in your university which was probably in vulgar and tawdyr theatricals. I regret that your printing it may bring it into more general use in our beloved University. I can not be party to such diffusion by subscribing to your paper.
You have courteously sent me a copy of the University Daily Kansas, that of the 14th, and enclosed with it a blank for my subscription. I regret I can not subscribe to your paper. I could not find it in my way to subscribe to any publication assuming the attitude toward men, and especially women of the University of Kansas, which I find you present to me. (In other numbers of your paper, we have noted it also.) Illustration of what I mean is in the lower, left-hand corner of the first page of the number you sent—the spirit of the whole write-up.
Now still further, let me make a suggestion: It lies with you, a part of the vivid and generating genius of Kansas, to look about you, in the great range of our English speech, and find some fitter and truer work to use as you use co-ead—some word expressing your young men's spirit and attitude toward those fine girls who are your fellow-students—of whom you are the fellow-students. Your department of English has lately praised here in the East and elsewhere, by its militant stand against the use of slang. Can not the board of the University Daily Kansas cooperate with that very able and eminent department of English, and find, adopt and bring into general use in the University some word which shall designate the girls of the University, and still another words
Books—lighthouses erected in the sea of time.
— EWEN P. WHIPPLE
which shall designate the boys?
Then you would have originality, equity, distinction, and freedom from association—none of which characterizes mark your use of the word co-ed.
In appreciation of your courtesy and unvarying interest in whatever you may accomplish for the right,
Faithfully yours,
KATE STEPHENS.
I am
Miss Stephen's version of the origin of the word "co-ed" may be called into question and perhaps after all, its spirit and influence may not be considered so baneful. Arising from the term "co-educational," to distinguish those schools which restrict their matriculation to men only, the word came into use, introduced probably by the students themselves—not from vulgar and tawdy theatricals—before this recent wave of women's uplift swept over the country.
Perhaps, though, it will be possible to offer a prize to the person inventing the best word to describe our world. If we will they will have to continue to be such.
O. HENKY ON THE EMERGENCY
VALUE OF SLANG.
From "Fox-in-the-morning." By Sidney Porter, O. Heaven.
IT had been his task to send a confidential message to his friend.
in Coralio. This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English, for the eye politic in Anchuria was an active one. The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard. But Englehard was a diplomatist. There existed but one code upon which he might make an important statement of potent code of Slang. So, here is the message that slipped, unconstrained, through the fingers of curious officials and came to the eye of Goodwin:
"His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the cush in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The booole is six figures短. Our crowd in good shape, but it seems so much more. The main guy and the very goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. Bon."
This scree, remarkable as it was, had no mystery for Goodwin. * ***
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital with the contents of the treasuryFurthermore, that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning adventures Isabel Gulbert, the opera singer whose troupe of performers had been entertained by the president at San Mateo during the past month on a scale less modest than that with which royal visitors are often content. The reference to the "jack-rabbit line" could mean nothing less than the mule-back system of transportation that prevailed between Coruillo and the capital. The hint that the "boodle" was also figures in the made condition national treasure clearly. Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party—its way now made a pacific one—would need the "spondilus." Unless its pledges should be fulfilled, and the spoils held for the deletion of the victors, precarious indeed, would be the position of the new government. Therefore it was exceedingly necessary to "collar the main guy," and recapture the sinnes of war and government.
"Read that, Billy," he said. "It's from Bob Englehard. Can you manage the cipher?"
Goodwin handed the message to Keogh.
Keogh sat in the other half of the desk and carefully perused the notebook.
“‘Tis not a cipher,’ he said, finally. ‘‘Tis what they call literature, and that’s a system of language put in the mouths of people that they’ve never never been introduced to by writers of imagination. The magazines invented it, but I never knew before that President Norvin Green had stamped it with the seal of his approval. ‘Tis now no longer literature, but language. It’s so much harder to make it go for anything but dialect. Sure, now that the Western Union indorses it, it won’t be long till a race of people spring up that speaks it.”
"You're running too much to Philology, Billy," said Goodwin.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
BIRDS
Birds are singing ring my window,
Tunes the sweetest ever heard,
And I hang my cage there daily,
But I never catch a bird.
But I never catch a bird.
So with thoughts my brain is people,
And they sing there all day long;
But they will not fold their pinions
In the little cage of Song.
—R. H. STODDARD.
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If a river has feelings and is human enough to dislike work, the Kansas river has no friendly regard for J. D. Bowersock of Lawrence. It was Mr. Bowersock who put the Kaw on the job of turning out light and power for Lawrence and her industries. His is the only power plant on the river.
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