UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Creditors have better memory than debtors.
DEBATING
The debating teams of Kansas and Colorado will meet in chapel tonight. The intellects of the two institutions will be matched, the power of oratory and the keenness in argument, the ability of men to take advantage of their opponent's faults, to find flaws in their argument, all these faculties of the undergraduates will be tested.
And, judging from the interest that the members of the student body have taken in debating work this winter at the University, the men who speak tonight will address a large audience. Those who are in charge of the debating work that the men have been doing this winter assure the students that when they attend the debate tonight, they will not only support one of the best activities of the student body, but they will also hear a statement or argument that really will be interesting and which the auditors will never regret hearing.
Of course, there are those yet who declaim against a lack of seriousness on the part of the undergraduate in his attitude toward his work in the room. There are men who deprecate the decline of the spirit of the "good old days" when men attended school to learn from the books and when scholarship was so highly prized, when, so they say, not so much of the student's time was devoted to the pursuit of pleasures and the easier path.
Such an accusation upon the work of the undergraduate can not be defended, however, in the light of actual experience. In the state of Kansas in the past few years, the time that the students in the secondary schools and the colleges have devoted to debating has shown that they are interested deeply in something else than athletics and dancing.
What better scholarship may be asked than that of the man who can mount the rostrum and deliver an address, what other activity will interest the students in their academic work more and make for better young men than the work on the rostrum?
COVERED KANSAN ASSIGNMENTS
The pages of the Daily Kansan were given life and color that makes the best part of a newspaper working in any field, by the paragraphs and illustrations of many of the different editors who attended the meeting of the state Editorial Association here. For these paragraphs we are indebted to Frank Jarrell, of the Santa Fe railway company, who through his intimate acquaintance with almost every man in Kansas who tries to get out a paper was able to tell us many of the little inside incidents in the lives of the editors, that made all feel better acquainted.
The little pictures, the caricatures of some of the men who were on the program, some who had to work so hard in putting out their own papers that they could not attend the meeting here, and some who have been
in the business of newspaper making so long that they have won the respect and love of all their fellow workers in the state, were the work of Harvey Parsons of the Topeka State Journal.
We wish to extend to Mr. Jarrell and Mr. Parsons our thanks and appreciation of their work in enabling us to add two such features to the columns of the paper while the editors of the state were with us.
WILL THEY CHECK IN THEIR
SUITS?
Members of the baseball squad who attend the Junior Prom Friday night will be requested to check in their suits according to instructions given out by Coach Sherwin.
On first thought, this seems to be an unjust edict—unjust to the members of the team—for in depriving them of the pleasure of Prom night they are denied one of the greatest social functions of the year at the University. There is only one junior Prom in a year and there are many baseball games, but anyone of those games may decide the championship of the Conference. It is a good ruling then that is for the best interests of the team and their record.
No man can revel half the night and expect to play creditable baseball on the following day. Proms are events from which the most of us require several days to recover. Then too, the memory of a certain game of ball with Missouri several years ago in which our team, a nine that was really better than their Tiger opponents, received an awful defeat after most of the men had spent the preceding night at the Prom, lingers in the minds of some of the older students. A repetition of that same spectacle of Jayhawker baseball men waltzing about the diamond trying to play ball when they were dreaming of gaudy gowns and vari-colored punch is not desired by either the coach or the student-body.
ELIMINATE THE MERE BOOK
WORM
In one of the recent campus publications appeared an editorial which advocates some special reward for the book-worm, something different from Phi Beta Kappa, which, in the opinion of the writer, seemed to have too many other qualifications for membership.
To this view The Michigan Daily is decidedly opposed. The pure bookworm is a genus that ought not to be encouraged, because it develops an unwholesome type. Anyone, who has the required persistency, and general lack of life and red blood, can sit down and learn all that the printer has inserted between the covers of several books.
If a man continues this mode of existence he may, if his eyes hold out, learn about the interior of a great many books. If this be meritorious, well and good. But what has happened in the meantime? Has the man of this type made many friends, has he taken any real work among men, has he learned that the practical side of life is what we must deal with and not the etheral atmosphere which permeates books? He may have become learned but he has not learned life.
Reward for this type, has little place in our modern life. Yes, reward in the shape of a mandate, "learn to live." The aim of this university, we take it, is to develop men, not visionaries-Michigan Daily.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
LABOURER lay listening to a A NIGHTingale's song throughout the day, when he was he with that the next night he set a trap for it and caught it. "Now thou shalt sing to me," he cried, "thou shalt always sing to me." We Nightingales sing in a
"Then I'll eat thee," said the Laoburer. "I have always heard say that nightingale on toast is a dainty morsel."
"Nay, kill me not," said the Nightingale; but let me free, and tell me what to do. "But I don't my poor body." The Labourer let him loose, and he flew up to a branch of a tree where his wife's promise; that's one thing. Then again. Keep what you have. And a woman is there, it's. Sorrow not over what is lost forever." Then the song-bird flew away.
"We Nightingales never sing in a caze," said the bird.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Query - Could the sheets of fielders averages be called fly paper?
Tiger.
Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes my darling daughter But hang up your clothes and hickory limb. It'll warp in the water.
It'll warp in the water.
—Punch Bowl.
"Does it cost much to feed the giraffes?"
"No; you see, a little goes a long ways with them." —Judge.
"Why do so many of the fellows go to the big dances, stag?"
"On the account of the scarcity of doe, perhaps."
Cornell Widow.
"Are you working your way through College?"
"No, I am taking Arts."
Cornell Widow
"How do you get gym credit?"
"I wrestle with my emotions."
—Cornell Widow.
If you'll watch the baseball pitcher
You will presently be shown
That every little movement
Has a meaning of its own.
The poet is born, not paid.
HARVARD AND THE WEST
Life.
OTH the spirit and the result of Harvard's new plan of drawing undergraduate students from the lesser high schools of the Middle West deserve the heartiest commendation. Under the old rigidity of entrance examinations only the fortune few who happened to have been trained in the exceptional high schools or secondary schools of the West could weather the rigors of those examinations. The others were likely to find themselves either ill-prepared in the studies in which they could undergo the test or prepared in only a part of the required subjects.
Frequently, with these Western schools, the student has his choice as between modern languages or the classics; between a "literature" course and a "science" course. Harvard's entrance requirements assumed all these in an applicant.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
WESTERN STUDENTS ARE EARNEST
The new system by which these students are received on a basis of the quality and extent of their work without a material compromise with former standards promises to reward Harvard quite at much as the boys thus admitted.
If Harvard can give them things which the Western colleges cannot, they can give Harvard an earnestness and an appreciation of these gifts altogether different in kind, even though it may not differ in intensity from that of the above gates. In fact of the gates, that this seems to be the college gates, that this seems to be realized may be inferred from a remark in the Harvard Bulletin:
The new plan is strengthening our hold on the class of schools which, especially outside of the larger cities of the East, is training the most substantial and the most typically American portion of American youth.
THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT SPIRIT This group of young men, keenly alive to the value of their academic opportunities, ready and glad to make sacrifices, and with all their studies informed by zealous purpose, have made the strength of such institutions as Cornell and Michigan, and they will add materially to the strength of Harvard.
There is still another reason—to these youth New England, Boston, and, to be exact, Cambridge, is a land of history and romance in a sense quite unintelligible to those born and bred here. Just as New Englanders go abroad for their own history and romance, the people of the West seek New England as their Europe of song and story. These boys from farther West come to Cambridge with an altogether different spirit, and so depart. There has been for them a glamour and an historic dignity about the institution which is often missed by those whose vision has been norrowed by proximity to the object—Ex.
Sorority young women of Northwestern University have offered their services in the campaign to gain votes for woman suffrage in the April primaries. They will distribute pamphlets on the subject, in schools and theaters.
Books are the money of Literature but only the writers earn it.
TOMORROW, DENY HELLY
KANSAS
Prof. Carl Becker, of the department of history,
in the "Turner Essays in American History."
SOME years ago, in a New England college town, when I informed one of my New England friends that I was preparing to go to Kansas, he replied rather blankly, "Kansas? Oh?" The amenities of casual intercourse demanded a reply, certainly, but from the point of view of my New England friend I suppose there was really nothing more to say; and, in fact, standing there under the peaceful New England elms, Kansas did seem tolerably remote.
"DEAR OLD KANSAS"
Some months later I rode out of Kansas City and entered for the first time what I had always pictured as the land of grasshoppers, of arid drought, and barren social experimentation. In the seat just ahead were two young women, girls rather, whom I afterwards saw at the University. As we left the dreary yards behind, and entered the half-open country along the Kansas river, one of the pair, breaking abruptly away from the ceaseless chatter that had hitherto engrossed them both, began looking out of the car window. Her attention seemed fixed, for perhaps a quarter of an hour, upon something in the scene outside—the fields of corn, or it may have been the sunflowers that lined the track; but at last, turning to her comely companion, he hurried toward the return axle, she said, "Dear old Kansas!" The expression somehow recalled my New England friend. I wonders vacuely, as I was sure he would have done, why any one should feel moved to say "Dear old Kansas!" I had supposed that Kansas, even more than Italy, was only a geographical expression. But not so. Not infrequently, since then, I have heard the same expression—not always from emotional young girls. To understand why people say "Dear old Kansas!" is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a "state of mind," a religion and a philosophy in one.
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The confident individualism of those who achieve endurance is a striking trait of the people of Kansas. There, indeed, the trait has in it an element of exaggeration, arising from the fact that whatever has been achieved in Kansas has been achieved under great difficulty. Kansas have been subjected, not only to the ordinary hardships of the frontier, but to a succession of reverses and disasters that could be survived only by those for whom defeat is worse than death, who cannot fail because they cannot surrender. To the border wars succeeded hot winds, droughts, grasshoppers; and to the disasters of nature succeeded in turn the scourge of man, in the form of " mortgage fiends" and a contracting currency. Until 1895 Kansas was a series of disasters, and always something new, extreme, bizarre, until the name Kansas became a byword, a synonym for the impossible and the ridiculous, inviting laughter, furnishing occasion for jest and hilarity. "In God we trusted, in Kansas we bustured," became a favorite motto of worn employees, worn out with the struggle, returning to more hospitable climes; and for many years it expressed well enough the popular opinion of that fated land.
Yet there were some who never gave up. They stuck it out. They endured all that even Kansas could inflict. They kept the faith, and they are to be pardoned perhaps if they therefore feel that henceforth there is laid up for them a crown of glory. Those who remained from 1875 to 1895 must have originally possessed staying qualities of no ordinary sort, qualities which the experience of those years could only accentuate. And as success has at last rewarded their efforts, there has come, too, a certain pride, an exuberance, a feeling of superiority that accompany a victory long delayed and hardly won. The result has been to give a peculiar flavor to the Kansas people, a feeling of superiority that accompany a Kansas history back of him, the true Kansan feels that nothing is too much for him. How shall he be afraid of any danger, or hesitate at any obstacle, having succeeded where failure was not only human, but almost honorable? Having conquered Kansas, he knows well that there are no worse worlds to conquer.
DEVELOPMENT OF KANSAS GRIT
The Kansas spirit is therefore one that finds something exhilarating in the challenge of an extreme difficulty.
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.
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.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
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"No one," says St. Augustine, "loves what he endures, though he may love to endure." With Kansan, it is particularly a point of pride to suffer easily the stings of fortune, and if they find no pleasure in the stings themselves, the ready endurance of them gives a consciousness of merit that is its own reward. Yet it is with no solemn martyrs' air that the true Kansan endures the worst that can happen. His instinct is rather to pass it off as a minor annoyance, furnishing occasion for a pleasanty, for it is the mark of a Kansan to take a reverse as a joke rather than too seriously. Indeed, the endurance of extreme adversity has developed a keen appreciation for that type of humor, everywhere prevalent in the West, which consists in ignoring a difficulty, or transforming it into a difficulty of precisely the opposite kind.
THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY
T. P. O'CONNOR, like many other travelers, has been profoundly
The outstanding note of absolute equally is the chief mark of differentiation between east and west. Teachers and students at El Axhar, meeting in their different courts of the vast inclusion, according to their different nationalities, all squat on the marble floors, and rich and poor mingle without the slightest mark of rank The families of the pashas and of the fellows attend together, and when weary throw themselves down and peacefully sleep just where they are, in the open court under the blue sky.
institution which the great majority of visitors to Cairo appear to miss—the oldest university in the world, El Azhar, which was founded nobody can say for certain at what date, although it was in full activity as far back as 975 A. D.
It is the finest of all examples of simplicity and equality, and it is this simple life that goes far to account for the marvelous recrudescence of vitality just now manifested throughout the Moslem world, to the perplexity of all Christendom. And the orthodoxy of Islamic doctrine is being rapidly broken up, for no longer are these hosts of the Koran tough enough to the Karun in their hands, though that which is flat or that the sun moves round the earth. Self-abegation of the noblest kind marks the life of the professors, for these have no fixed salaries, but only certain meager allowances for plain food, with some small perquisites for ecclesiastical duties—The Homoletic Review.
It is to-day, as in past ages, by far the most instructive, momentous, and picturesque sight in all the near East. But not only is it by far the biggest academic institute on earth (its scholars from all Moslem lands reaching the number of scholars) but it is a chief fountain of the intellectual energies of Islam. It is the symbol of that universal brotherhood that makes all Islam one.
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