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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
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LOUIS LACOS
Editor-in-Chief
Ellen PATTERY
Honorary Editor
Hip-Hop Book Editor
I.E. LAMBERT ... Business Manager
J. LEWISON ... Asst. Business Manager
C. WILSON ... Director
BUSINESS STAFF
REPORTORIAL STAFF
BRANLY PINKETON
RICHARD GARDNER
JOHN MADEN
EDWARD HACKENSLEY
JOHN MADEN
EDWARD HACKENSLEY
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910 at a market in Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students of the University of Kansas and the press of the department of journalism.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Lying rides up on debt's back.
THE RIGHT KIND OF FELLOW. SHIP
Contrary to the general notion that the college and university fraternities are groups of men who segregate themselves from the student body for their own social benefit and to foster a spirit of purely good fellowship among themselves and perhaps snobbery, the national Greek letter organizations and societies are conducting an uplift campaign among their chapters that tends to bring the men in college who are the best students from the academic viewpoint into the fraternal organizations and makes for a more wholesome spirit in the fraternity and in its relation to its school.
Many of the national organizations now are supporting travelling secretaries who devote all of their time to visiting the various chapters, studying the institutions and advising the members of the local chapters in ways that will aid their university or college. Coincident with the desire for the welfare of the school is the insistence of the secretaries upon a high standard morally of the men who shall compose the various chapters of the fraternity. Chapters have been withdrawn from men who allowed the standard of their membership to fall low, upon the recommendation of such traveling secretaries.
Such a spirit in the fraternal organizations will undoubtedly make them a more potent factor in the advancement of higher education—it draws the best in the institutions together for the mutual benefit of all.
CUMULATIVE EXPERIENCE
At the meeting of the Student Council Tuesday night, a resolution was passed advocating the election of the editor-in-chief and the business manager of the jayhawker by the members of the junior class, the officers so elected to act as assistant or associate editors under the senior men in office.
Undoubtedly, such a plan would give the men in charge of the Jayhawker a more favorable opportunity to improve the senior book, add new features and obtain material that often is hard for the board under the present plan of election, to get. It would mean that the benefit of the accumulation of the experience of all the staffs of Jayhawkers would be obtained for the latest number published.
There should be no question regarding the matter of securing men to fill the office that requires two years' work in place of the job that required but one year's effort before. The very fact that the efficiency of the men in charge, their ability to undertake the work for which they were elected, is doubly increased by the change should induce any man in the class to devote such time as would be necessary to the work. When a man enters his name upon the list for election to the position of either manager or editor of the Jay-hawker, it is understood that he is willing to do all in his power to increase the efficiency of his staff and raise the excellence of his book
Only an office seeker who does not have at heart the interests of his publication would refuse to devote two years to the job of putting out an annual, of securing material improvements.
The measure should be adopted as a step in advance in the history of annual making at the University of Kansas. It means that the annual board will have the character of those self-perpetuating boards of University publications, in that the fruit of experience of all the editors is accumulated in the last Jayhawker that is published.
WOMEN STUDENTS BARRED
Newspaper men who have learned their business in the hard school of experience are naturally interested to see what the school of journalism that has been established as part of Columbia university will accomplish Through the generosity of the late Joseph Pulitzer, the teaching of journalism will now have a fair trial with unlimited facilities for demonstrating just what can be done by way of equiping the young college man for a newspaper career. It is surprising, however, that with all the money at the disposal of the trustees, no provision has been made for enrolling young women in the school. With privileges and advantages much greater than any other similar institution possesses, it is beyond the understanding of the active newspaper writer why discrimination should be made against woman in a field that she has entered successfully and in which she is proving her usefulness.
The newspaper profession was one of the first to welcome women into its ranks. From the very nature of the work it is attractive to women who are sincere in their desire to excel. Of course, there are no places for the dililetante. Nothing about newspaper work is easy, and the professional writer is confronted with the daily necessity of "making good" on his own account. The newspaper, as a rule, does not play favorites and the field is wide open to every man and woman with the right sort of qualifications. But there is no other occupation in which the rewards of real merit are more certain. Nor is there any other occupation which is so pleasant and fascinating to its earnest devotees.
Every metropolitan newspaper now employs women for certain kinds of work. There are many things which a trained woman can do on a newspaper better than her male associates, just as there are many things in the making of a newspaper for which women are not adapted. But as long as women have access to journalism there is no reason why they should not have equal advantages in schools of preparation.
In view of this, it will be the verdict of many able newspaper men that the Columbia school of journalism has made a mistake in debarring women students. Yet, after all, the harm may not be great. Women with an aptitude for newspaper work seldom need them. If they are to succeed at all they will demonstrate that fact sooner, as a rule, than men.
As yet no large newspaper takes a school of journalism diploma very seriously. This is no reflection upon the schools themselves. It simply means that journalism, like law or medicine, must be learned in the actual laboratory of experience and all that the school can do it to fit young men and women to enter as intelligent apprentices. And in doing this it unquestionably has value.-Kansas City Journal.
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE
All we have to say to the former K. U. football star who is about to marry is that he will find it a rough game—Dob Gaston in Topeka Capital.
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
NCE upon a time there was
Miser who used to hide his golf
den; but every week he got to go out
dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and due up the golf and decamped with it. He took some treasures over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and in the neighbours same around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "What did you do to loot"
"Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it."
"Then come again and look at the hot jeans on your feet. "It will do you just as much good."
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
The Phil Pais have given up their hall in the opera house block.
From the University Kansan April 11, 1890.
HOW THE OLD BOYS USED TO DO THINGS
Robinson and Hadley have just presented to the museum of natural history a fine specimen of loon killed at the lake during vacation time. It will be mounted in a few days.
The Law and Music schools had no vacation. We congratulate them.
For the benefit of the interests of the University, the athletic board will present the farce comedy, "Sweetpen's Pleasure Trip," at the Bowersock, Friday April 25.
Professor Wilcox lectured before the young ladies of Pi Beta Phi last Saturday afternoon.
The sophomores are carrying canes and several pointers are missing from the recitation rooms. Stretching painlessness.
THE HUMOR OF BEING FUNNY
Strange coincidence.
Judd Mortimer Lewis in the Magazine
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NOT long age I found a letter in my mail, a letter which was signed by, a name unknown to me and which read: "Dear Judd!—Have your jug uncorked and some good whittin' handy, I'm gain't to drop in to see you on Tuesday. Yours, etc. ..."
So many strange things drift in the mail that I did not give the matter of who my correspondent might be a second thought. Tuesday morning, however, he came. A middle-aged man with a weatherbeaten face, dressed like a vaudville farmer and carrying a dejected and discouraged six-bit telescope. He dropped the 'scope and rushed at me with both hands extended. I am something like Lincoln was when he lifted his hat to the old negro. He couldn't afford to be less polite than a negro. I cannot afford to be less cordial than any person who invades my den, so I met my visitor half way and we hung to one another and did a sort of a barn dance about my diminutive den. Then I removed my foot from the waste basket, righted my paste-bowl, and we had a good visit.
THOUGHT HE WAS FAMOUS
After careful maneuvering I succeeded in learning that my visitor lived in a wide place in the road up the state and that he had written one set of verses, and they had been published in the local weekly. And on the strength of that he believed himself famous. And I succeeded in getting rid of him after a time without waking him! That is some of the humor of being funny.
Yesterday a sweet appearing old lady knocked timidly at my door and in answer to my invitation came in and occupied my chair while I stood up. An extra chair in one's office is too handy a perch for a stistil. She said that she wanted to ask a favor of me. I replied that the favor was granted before it was asked. It was then she turned around and she came to state the nature of it. All she wanted me to do was to permit her to rub my head until it was covered by a complete coat of hair, and then pose for her for an advertisement. "A famous man would make such a good advertisement."
I claim that sometimes I am a思享师. I offer in proof of the truth of that claim that without any appreciable pain I began to grieve with the lady because I had already begun the use of a hair grower which I thought was really making my hair grow; so that even if I did take advantage of her kind offer and achieve a brush-heap neither she or myself could be certain that it was her treatment which had caused the death of her husband and sister. She saw the soundness of my argument and drifted away to call on another famous baldhead to whom I directed her. And I'll lay she's rubbing his head right now. My better half hints that had she been young and pretty instead of old and sweet she would be rubbing my head. But that is manifestly unfair. If she was young and pretty she wouldn't need to. That is some of the fun of being a humorist.
MORE VISITORS
It is the unexpected that is always happening which makes being a humorist funny. One day not long ago a man came into my den, hauled his purse out of his pocket, and told me with tears coursing
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nown his cheeks that he wanted me to write an obituary to his mother-in-law. The same afternoon a richly dressed young lady came to me and offered me a pretty price to pen an obituary to a defunct a-band-tan purp. A little later a lady called me over the phone and asked to know what I would charge to write an obituary to a little baby. When I had named the price which the necessity for self protection has compelled me to set upon such work she replied that I did not think recourse was available and of verse, and that since it would cost so much she guessed she would do without it. There is an example of the fun of being a humorist. A mother-in-law, a dog, and a baby. And the baby got the worst of it!
The humorist attends a party, or any kind of a gathering, and a large, overflowing lady rushes up to him with both hands out and greets him as "Fellow craftsman!" He learns that she one time writ a pome. All the other guests at the party are the humorous people in a cary turn of mind," and they promise to bring him their effusions to read.
HUMORIST HAS EASY TIME
And yet it is a beautiful and a funny world, that in which the humorist lives and moves and has his being. The very nature of his occupation compels him to seek out the funny side of life and walk on that side. The saying that being a humorist is serious business is pure drivel.
Doing a column a day is one of the easiest things the humor does. Suppose, for instance, he is to have his column ready to hand in at high noon. He drifts into his sanctum at 8 a.m., reads the morning paper leisurely. Entertains a book-agent for a time. Answers a few telephone calls. Smokes a pipe or two, and waits for the inspiration which is to be freshish. He is to read his column. He thinks of four thousand themes without a splinter of inspiration about them, and rejects them with disgust. Then, at half past eleven, he hears music and looks from his window to see a band which is parading past, followed by a ra-gail little nigger. He swings 'round to his typewriter and hammers out some "ompham" verse.
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"But what if a band doesn't come along?" Oh, then he gets his theme elsewhere; but he is always done in time to go to press.
HIT OR MISS?
TROTS are generally used by college Freshmen in translating Greek and Latin because students are not taught the art of translation, according to an editorial in "The Classical Journal" for February. The editorial, under the caption, "A Neglected Art," points out that the deficiency is not one of lack of knowledge of the grammatical forms in question but of ignorance of how to translate.
"Observation in preparatory class rooms leads the writer to believe that much of the trouble lies in over emphasis on drill in grammatica terminology in distinction from ineternation," says the author. "That is, a boy is asked in school twenty times to say that erunt is "future indicative, third person plural," where he is asked once to say that erunt is "they will be;" and he is asked twenty times more to give the "future indicative, third person plural" of sum, where he is asked once to give the Latin for they to ask the Latin for a Greek of a Latin or Greek word his first thought is to locate it in his grammatical formulae and to give it in a grammatical name not to catch its meaning and to speak it in his own tongue. His training has stopped short of the end for which the training was intended; the grammatical terminology was a means to an end he has mastered the means and stopped there. It has been fine men gymnastics but it has not enable him to read Latin and Greek."
That teachers fail to give their pupils training in the art of transition is another contention which the writer holds. According to him the boy needs months of constant practice in this line before he gains the power of applying his grammatical knowledge to the translation problem. "Hit or miss" sight translation, "where two or three bright pupils together patch up the meaning of the sentence while the rest sit in helpless amazement as to how they do it," the writer believes to be a travesty on real teaching—Daily Maroon.
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