UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
LOUIS LACON
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Sporting Editor
Louis MILLER
Editor
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BAYLOR PINESENTER BICARD GARDNER JOHN MADENE DEDY EDWARD HAGENEY JOHN MADENE DEDY EDWARD HAGENEY
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
TURNING THINGS TO ACCOUNT With the word of commendation of the Santa Fe railway company for the work that the students in Fowler Shops are doing in casting, another field in which the University can aid in a practical way, the industries of the state, is opened. Moreover, this department was not organized primarily for the benefit of those industries, but rather the aid that the state can give them through the University is incidentally attendant upon the work of the department. The students are enrolled in the course and their work is turned into channels that pays for itself.
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE
A movement among the students has been started by the Men's Student Council to engender in the political struggle that will develop this spring in the election of the officers and members of the Student Council and of the Athletic Board, a spirit to keep from the campus all campaign literature of any kind that would be used to influence voters in the election.
Such a spirit should be encouraged and, by common consent, all those interested in the election this spring should make it a point to conduct their campaigns without the aid of such poor publicity as handbills thrown about the campus can give.
Two years ago, the University saw its worst epidemic of handbills and campaign literature in the class elections in the fall. Libelous statements by the opposition were rife and mud-slinging was common. The janitors worked harder to clean up that week than ever before or since.
Measures were passed in the Student Council at that time to put a stop to such practices in the class politics, and since then the classmates have behaved themselves with fair decency in their election turmoil in the fall.
For the election of the Student Council and the Athletic Board no such practice should ever have any encouragement from the students. The highest office that the undergraduate student-body can give to one of its members is a place upon their Council and the man that wins such a position bears the responsibility along with the honor. In the election of men who shall receive the honor and responsibility of the place, the best man should be elected, the man with the greatest executive ability and the man who appreciates all circumstances attendant upon his position.
In making the choice of such individuals, the student electoral body should not be worried, their minds should not be detracted from the main issue by poisonous libelous, mud-slinging, yellow handbills such as campaign literature often represents. These two elections, should be argued and decided on the basis of true merit and of the principles for which the men running for office stand as well as the personal character of the candidates.
A MEDICAL JOURNAL
A Medical Journal published by the Medical Society of the University would take the same place in that profession as the Law Journal published by the students in the School of Law and those who are working in that profession. It is unquestioned that there is a need for such a journal for the medical students—it would help form a closer relation between the members of the profession who are out of school and the students, the embryo doctors. It is to be hopeful that the committee that was charged with the investigation of the matter for the Medical Society will be able to organize such a publication.
WHAT SOME OF THEM SAY
ABOUT US
There were many objects of interest for the visitors, but the one thing upon which the editorial eye naturally focused itself most intently was the department of journalism, and pry about as much as the skeptical, have-to-be-shown, practical, hard-headed Kansas editors did, they found little chance for the use of their hammers. This hot-house nursery of budding journalistic genius stood the inspection well, from the live-wire head of the establishment, to the tenderest, freshest bud of them all, and there are some tender, fresh ones. One of them called up the dignified, serious-minded dean of the University the other day when he was busy with a class, to ask him about his accomplishments as a cheeker player. And shortly after Melville E. Stone, the head of the Associated Press, and one of the really big men of the world, arrived in Lawrence Monday, another one of these rising young journalists was posing around in the crowd asking "Who is this guy, Stone, anyway?" These young buds, however, are making good and printing the best college daily in the world, from about every standpoint, and to show that they were the real thing, they cut out sleep Monday night, and put out an extra for the visitors. By the time they were ready to leave town, the products of the old time newspaper school of hard knocks and from-the-devil-up had to give in and admit that this new University department is making good, and is far from being a foolish waste of Hon. Tax-payer's money.—Chanute Daily Tribute.
By a vote of four to one, students at the University of California, recently declared themselves against the use of liquors at the banquets, smokers, or other functions held at the University. A total of 765 were cast, 627 for the resolution and 138 against it.
Seven young women members of the senior class of Barnard College have completed their work for bachelors' degree a half year ahead of their class and are now working for their masters' degree at Columbia. Most of them were prominent in student activities, one having been an editor of the Barnard annual last year. Five of them are preparing to teach.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
So the Man ordered his Boy to get to the other house. "I hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: 'Shame on that they lout to let his sister go.'"
MAN and his son were once going with their Donkey to market goods along by its side a countryman passed them and said, "Our fools, what is a man?"
So the Man put the 'boy on the Dooley and they went on their way. Boy, boy, boy, boy—who is one of whom said: "See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk
"Well the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his Boy up boy time and they had come to the town, and the passersby began to jeer and point at them. The Man stopped and asked what they were so scoping at. The man said you ashamed yourself overloading your body. Do yourself of yours—von and our hulking son?"
The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the Donkey's feet to it, and rused the pole and the Donkey to their hands. Then the Donkey laughed of all who met them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and he suffered being tied together he was drowned.
"That will teach you," said an old
man, looking at me with a grim
"Please all, and you will please none."
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"There is a strong family resemblance between Jack and his sister. I believe it's in the nose."
"Yes, that does run in the family."
—Tiger.
"I was late in getting back because I was operated upon for appendicitis.
"That I had only one cut against me." —Tiger.
THE GIRL YOU'LL NEVER MEET.
The saddest words of tongue or pen Are the phrase, 'It might have
But just the thought, with gloom replete.
They pass you by the score each day.
To fascinate and glide away,
Lost in the crowded, rushing street—
These girls you see, but never meet.
Of girls you see, but never meet.
They have the glamor distance brings Unknown, idealized, there clings To all their smiles and nods discreet A charm unfound in girls you meet.
You're dining with a girl who dotes
On you, when in the room there floats
A charming maid jolie, petite;
She is the girl you'll never meet.
Her nose is slightly retrouse,
Her eyes are sparkling, teasing, gay;
The girl you know cannot compete
With this one, whom you'll never meet
And yet, some other fellow, too,
May like the girl, he sees with you;
So take this, then as comfort sweet,
That she asks, the girl boils, comes sweet.
— the girl he never meet
— Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
MONTICELLO, THE HOME
OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Mansion of the "Sage of Monticello," Thirty Years in the Building, Shows the Impress of French and Italian Art.
NOTE-The anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson will be celebrated with much ceremony at various places in the United States tomorrow, April 13. A movement to erect a public memorial to the author of the Declaration of Independence is now on foot in New York City. The Pultzer left in his will, for theearing of such a monument, $25,000 and a Thomas Jefferson Memorial Fund has been organized to give everybody in the United States a chance to pay tribute to the memory of the monument. The New York Southern Society recently gave a gift of $100.
Adapted from Francis N. Barksdale's article in Leslie's Weekly.
Monticello divides interest with Mount Vernon as the most historical homestead in Virginia. It is inseparably connected with the life of Thomas Jefferson, and his writings on philosophy, statemanship, history, political economy and the common affairs of life, accomplished in its classic shapes, have made him known as "Shakespeare's architecture of the building is unique. It is, first of all, Jeffersonian; but as the name of the estate is Italian, the builder preserved the harmonies in basing the form on Italian ideals.
The house was begun in Mr. Jefferson's youth and built in sections. Thirty years elapsed before its final completion, owing to the fact that the builder was his own architect and contractor, and the demands of his country required more of his time that he could devote to his private affairs. When it was finally completed, the influence of the architect lay on the builder's mind, and the interlocutions and furnishing reflected the taste of the Louis periods.
The summit of the "little mountain" was leveled to form a park of some ten acres, in the center of which the lines of the mansion were laid. It has four fronts, and it is difficult to determine which present the widest and most attractive view. In any direction there is outspread a superb view of a landscape that cannot be matched in its splendid setting of mountains and valley, highland and meadow, forest and stream. The prospect is an earth-scape limited only by the power of vision.
The birthplace of Mr. Jefferson, called "Shadwell," a few miles away, an estate of some four hundred acres, was originally purchased by his father for a "bowl of Arrack Punch." The mansion was burned just before Mr. Jefferson's marriage, and he carried his bride to the unfinished house at Monticello, where they arrived at nightfall, unannounced and unexpected. The larder was low, but a modest repast was found, and the future President
The central portion of the main building is a great, octagonal hall, open to the dome. From its tiled floors, grow, show, stairs lead away to the chambers above.
The latchstring of Monticello hung always outside and its hospitality was proverbial. The neighbors were ever free to call socially and for advice and encouragement. Farmer Jefferson was a scientific and progressive husband, father, teacher and other man of his time to uplift the agricultural interests of his State.
and his bride had a merry evening at setting up housekeeping, enlivened by music from the violin, of which he was a master.
In the foreground of the extensive view commanded by Monticello is the town of Charlottesville, and a mile to the northwest are the buildings of the University of Virginia. The University is three miles from Monticello as the crow flies. It is well known that Mr. Jefferson not only planned the buildings, but supervised their construction, and there is a tradition in the neighborhood that he kept a close watch on the work by a powerful field glass. When he detected something wrong, he mounted his horse and galloped off to the University to set it right.
DECALOGUE OF JEFFERSON'S
PRACTICAL RULES
1. Never put off till tomorrow
what can be done today
2. Never trouble others to do what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs as much as hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We never repent of eating too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain those evils cost us that never happen.
9. Take things by their smooth handle.
10. When angry always count ten before you speak.
THE PROGRESS OF A NEW SCIENCE
THE lightest practical aeroplane capable of carrying a man weighs, with operator and enough fuel for flights of reasonable duration, about 1000 pounds. Such aircraft are sustained—as are the birds in the sky—by highly effective dynamic reactions of the air streams flowing under their wings.
The volume of 1000 pounds of air is about 15,000 cubic feet—the approximate contents of a sphere 30 feet in diameter. By substituting for this volume of air something weighing less than 1000 pounds, the something weighing less will float statically in the air, just as anything weighing less than water, volume for volume, will float in water.
IT IS OF REAL USE
As a successful flying vehicle, the acrobase is a development of no more than a very few years. Yet consistently since its advent it has evolved faster than any other device in the history of transportation. Its genuinely utilitarian applications are already considerable. Its applications to warfare are even now a proved success.
The laws governing its action are exceedingly obscure. The limits of its efficiency are still unknown. Its best form is still undetermined. The difficulties of its equilibrium will still take much solving. And at every turn the aeroplane offers a field for investigation that seems as unlimited as it has proved fertile. While the aircraft are simple and cheap to build, their design is so baffling and involved, so demanding of the finest abilities of the best engineers, as to rank the problem of dynamic flight as one of the most difficult that modern science has to face—Popular Mechanics.
Yet the problem of the aeroplane is inherently complex.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
I'd rather be a Could Be
If I could not be an Are,
For a Could Be is a May Be
With a chance of touching par.
I'd rather be a Has Been
than a Might Have Been, by far;
For a Might Have Been has never been
But a Was was once an Are.
—Anonymous.
Athletics cleared $12,084 for the University of Michigan last year. The entire balance is due to the financial success in football
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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.
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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A Reduction of fees takes effect April 1, 1912.
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