UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
LOUIS L. COOS
Editor-In-Chief
LOUIS L. COOS
Editor-in-Chief
EVERYBODY EARL MILLER
Historic Editor
HISTORY EDITOR
IKE E. LAMBERT...Business Manager
J. LIRSEN...Business Manager
J. BARKS...Bark, Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
STANLEY PINKETON RICHAE GARDNER
JOHN MADDER WILMINGTON JOB MADDER WILMINGTON WI. PURPURSON
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
ON TIME
Already, since the totoy tool has become the instrument of dismissing classes, some of the students have experienced trouble in being held overtime by their instructors. It is fair to suppose that, when the order was given out for class dismissal at the sound of the whistle, students were not supposed to have the right to jump from the chairs and leave on "the exact dot," when the instructor was finishing the explanation of one point. The courtesy of attention is due to the instruction. However, he should not attempt to utilize a part of that ten minutes intermission to introduce a new phase of the subject in hand.
Since no excuses for tardiness are accepted, instructors will aid one another by bringing their remarks to a close immediately after the blast from the whistle.
CRITICISM OF COLLEGE DRAMATICS
No doubt several of our readers have noticed the change in the policy of the Daily Kansan in regard to the dramatic criticism of student productions. It is quite certain that the members of the several casts are aware of such a change and many have been the trying remarks we have had to endure after the stories have been published.
Some of those who have not approved of the way in which certain student productions have been interpreted have expressed the sentiment that the character of "the write up" should be more laudatory—should make the statement for each one of the efforts of the dramatic organizations, that it is the best ever and none can compare with the excellence of the acting.
The criticism of these plays should certainly not be a column of colorless laudatory gaff that is meaningless and rotten in the paper that prints it. It is barely possible that any commendatory remark that has crept into the column of the dramatic critic is more highly prized than would be such a remark enclosed within a column of stuff that is its equal. If the members of the student casts feel that there is a judging power behind their show, that some one withholds his opinion till he is sure of merit, if the individual feels that there is a chance of being "scored" for slighting his role in the drama, a spirit will be engendered that will make for a better presentation by the students.
Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University in one of his recent lectures on the American drama said that dramatic criticism should be a seeking out of all that is best in the literary quality, in the acting, and in the staging of the scenes. The attitude of the critic is a very important thing. He must necessarily be personal in his criticism of actors, but he need not be flippant nor cruel nor dictorial; such writers are not real critics, and their work is the exact negation of true criticism. The office of a critic is
to transmit the true impression of the play to the public and to show them its value; to explain what the artist is trying to do and to help them appreciate his work.
FOR A DORMITORY
It is reported that $1,200,000 of the $1,860,000 needed for the construction of the proposed group of freshman dormitories at Harvard University have already been pledged to the alumnium committee that is in charge of the fund. This is significant of the interest that is taken in the University by the members of the alumni associations of some of the eastern colleges.
It also reminds Kansas of the dormitory building for the young women for which the alumni association is endeavoring to raise money, and it shows the difference in the spirit of the alumnus of the East and of the West.
For nearly four months the committee in charge of the fund, the young women and even the young men have been working hard to swell the fund for this dormitory building. Indeed, the young men added one of the largest contributions to the fund last night when they staged the Indoor Circus in the gymnasium before a packed house. Our dormitory is growing, but apparently too slowly to predict results in the near future. One fifteenth of the amount necessary to begin construction work has been pledged and that money represents the contributions of many of the members of the alumni association and others interested in the building. When the building is obtained it will represent the interests of many people of the entire country, being the fruit of the contributions of most of the roll of the alumni association. Many of the alumni have not yet handed in their share and the quicker they do that and larger portion they are able to give, the more speedily will results be obtained on the campus toward the erection of a home for the University young women.
GUM
We chew gum in America on account of nervousness and the dryness of our atmosphere.
We also chew it because we like to have something going on in our heads that doesn't tire our minds; Also because in company it saves
Also because in company it saves making conversation;
Also because we don't get exercise enough in other ways;
Also it lends a free and easy grace
and innocence to the face;
Also because we must bite on something;
Also because it is cheap.
Also because other people do it;
Also because the slot machine is everywhere.
New York World.
Western college graduates are worth at least $15 a week, in the opinion of Pres. Charles T. Thwing of Western Reserve University.
"An educator in the East recently placed the value of Eastern graduates at $6 a week," said President Thwing. "My experience is that Western graduates can command at least $9 more than that."
Cornell students have adopted the "no treating" rule, and so far as we have observed it isn't confined entirely to Ithaca, either.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
MAN had lost his way in a wooded area, and was roaming about, a SATyr came up to him, and finding that he had lost his way, promised to give him a lodging for the night, and went home early morning. As he went along to the Satyr's cell, the Man raised both his hands to his mouth and kept on blowing at them. "What do you do in this place?" he asked.
my hands are numb with the cold," said the Man, "and my breath warms
After this they arrived at the Satyr's home, and soon the Satyr put a smoking dish of porridge before him. But Mr. Satyr said the mouth he brought upon it. "And what do you do that for?" said the Satyr.
The porridge is too hot, and my breath will cool it.
"out you go," said the Satyr. "I will blow out a bottle with a man in a blowbowl and cold water me, break bread."
HOW THE OLD BOYS USED TO DO THINGS
From the University Kansan, April 18, 1900. vol. I, No. 27.
Will White is blooming out as a formidable rival of Ed Howe. Few people combine wit and philosophy in such pleasing proportion as Billy.
It is reported that the Regents will offer the chancellorship to Proferror Snow at their next meeting.
S. T. Fields has sent East to see if it is possible to obtain ball or tennis caps in University colors, corn yellow and blue. If the caps can be secured the number will be ordered immediately.
Nebuchadnezzar constructed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to please the eye of his Median queen and now Professor Dyche is building a range of mountains upon which to herd his goats.
Professor Green will deliver a lecture on the Hillman Murder Case before the Kent club tonight.
THE FRESHMAN YEAR
THE freshman, who is not under athletic discipline and whose financial circumstances are easy, is apt to enjoy about one month of exhilarating freedom, hilarity and frivolity. He finds that he is under no such restrictions as existed at the school at which he prepared for college. He cuts a recitation and nothing is said about it. He stays up—and out—half the night, and nobody seems to care. He smokes publicly as well as privately, and no one seems to care. In some of his courses he does not have to prepare a daily lesson, because there are lectures instead of recitations.
He goes to class with a note-book in which he jots down as many of the lecturer's points as he deems important. These notes, read afterwards, have a curious meaninglessness, a disconnected and hungled quality which gives him a rather low opinion of the lecturer's vague in his utterance. He can certainly not come into any very practical relation with one's life; probably he will never show that he is aware of one's existence.
It is a comfortable feeling. There is nothing to interfere with the delightful occupation of making and seeing friends—which includes seeing "shows," playing pool and billiards having late suppers and coming home in early morning taxicabs. It is a beautiful world in which there are no penalties. There are no study hours to be observed, there is no being "kept in after school" to atone for failures.
OMINOUS EXAMS APPROACH
Then one morning the lecturer in European history, who has been setting forth in tireless fashion the geographical altercations occasioned by the performances of Charlemagne, concludes by remarking, "Gentlemen," and not yet has the freshman quite adjusted himself to the pleasurable shock of being addressed collectively as "Gentlemen" instead of "Boys"; "Gentlemen, there will be an hour examination in this subject one week from today."
There is a low groan at the announcement; two or three relieve their feelings by a facetious whistle. The class is dismissed; groups saunter off in different directions, discussing the probable importance of an hour examination and the bearing that a failure in it may limit their careers. You don't take it very seriously until they meet some serious man and ask him for information. Then it appears that the first hour examination is about the meanest test that a man is ever called upon to undergo.
"No, they wouldn't fire him, but they might put him on probation. Then he can't play on any team, and he is watched all the time, and if he falls again in the mid-years, he's kicked out of school. And dwindles a lot after the mid-years. And it's the hour exams in the fall that start the trouble."
"They make it stuff on purpose," explains the upper classman. "There are always a lot of loafers and sports in the class that have to be weeded out, and the sooner the better. There are a lot of others that are not quite so bad but they do not want to anything." They wouldn't fire a fallow just for flunking an hour examination", asks the freshman, agast.
WEEDING OUT PROCESS
A TUTOR HIS SALVATION
A TURTLE IN HIS SALVATION
The freshman who has been having a glorious and untrammeled time is frightened. When he gets to
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his room and looks over his notes and finds how little they convey to his mind, he feels desperate. However, there are references to reading that may prove illuminating. He visits the library, and finds that other desperate freshmen have forestalled him. Every book that has been prescribed is now in someone's hands. Most of them are volumes in expensive sets, and the freshman who is ready, to spend money quite freely on dimmers and heaters, will talk as he heavy-outs for books of a scholastic nature which are not ornamental in their binding. He learns that there is another recourse open to him, and his hearts soak again.
There is an expensive tutor—there always is—who for years and years has made a practice of extricating freshmen from just such difficulties. He supplies the applicant with a volume of very full typewritten notes transcribed from the instructor's lectures. "Learn this date" is an adjuration found frequently upon the papers; and "Be sure to bear in mind this fact." But the freshman is given to understand that the printed notes alone are too precarious a guide; relying on them and nothing else he can hardly hope to pass.
SEMINAR A CRAMMING MATCH
He passes the examination—not with distinction but with a “Gentleman’s mark. Similar frantic exertions succeed in securing for him this same mark in the other hour examinations which are now in quick succession launched at him by Stanwood Pier, December Metropolitan.
The day before the examination the tutor gives a "seminar" which lasts from two to three hours. On the walls of his room are blackboards on which he has drawn various maps. He stands behind his class of students who are now literally thirsting for information, and lectures to them slowly, clearly, repeating and emphasizing certain points. The freshman comes from his three hour session exhausted, but with a number of subjects which he feels able to write a concise and definite paragraph upon. So defily has the tutor been able to select these subjects that the next morning the freshman is gratified to see that four out of the six questions have been provided for.
BETTER TREATMENT OF TEACHERS
THE details of the University of Chicago's mension system have
Chicago's pension system have now been worked out, and it is announced that the funds available will provide at once for 200 teachers, the pensions paid varying from $1000 to $3000. At present the university is paying pensions to six retired members of the faculty.
Under the new rule any professor or assistant professor of 15 years standing may retire at 65 or may be retired by the trustees on a pension based on length of service, but not to be less than 40 per cent nor more than 60 per cent of the average salary. The widow of such a pensioner will be entitled to half this allowance.
At present heads of the departments are paid from $4500 to $6000, professors from $3000 to $4500, associate professors from $2500 to $3,000, and assistant professors $2000 and $2500 after four year's service. It is estimated that the amount cost for each professor will be set aside for the purpose from Mr. Rockefeller's latest endowment of $10,000.
It makes no difference to the pensioner whether his money comes from steel or coal oil, but it cannot be both. Whatever may be the effect of these great gifts on the independence of colleges, they will do much to relieve the heartless treatment of teachers which has been a blot on the administration of American colleges.
A Vassar girl, the only American speaker at the Woman's Congress in Berlin, made a plea in favor of coeducation.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason! How infinite in
knowledge!
In form and movement, how express and admirable!
in action, how like an angel! In ap
prehension, how like a god!
The beauty of the world! The para
gon of animals!
— SHAKESPEARE.
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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 Laurence. It was Mr. Bowersock who put the Kaw on the job of turning out light and power for Laurence and her industries. His is the only power plant on the river.
Everybody knows what waterpower means to a town. Lawrence is a flourishing example of the benefits that flow from a big river hooked up to a big dam and a power plant.
In considering Lawrence as a location for business, look into its advantages in the matter of power.
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