UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
POTENTIAL SCHOOL EDITOR
Loris LACOY
Education Editor-In-Chief
Earl POTTER
High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
IKE E. LARBERT...Business Manager
J. LEHRER...Ast. Business Manager
J. HARRIS...Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
REPORTORIAL SANI
STANLEY PINKETON
RICHARD GARDENN
CARL KAUKE
JOHN MADDEN
EDWARD HACKNEY
ROBERT SELLERS
JAMES HOUGHTON
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910; at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 31.
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MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
WHY NOT?
One thing that was noticeable at the last three baseball games that the University team has played—notifiable for its absence—was the sound of the University yell. Good crowds have attended all of the games, the rooters have been on the spot, but either none have had the gumption to start a yell, or their cheer leader has failed in his office. Doesn't the student body think it would be just as profitable to cheer their diamond athletes as the men of the gridiron? Certainly football days are not the only times that McCook field should hear the rising, swelling sound of "Rock Chalk."
For the first time in recent years, the students will be able to compare all the track athletes of the University classes with the quality of work that is being done by the men yet in high school. On April 27, the day of the annual inter-class meet, the teams of Central high school of Kansas City and Lawrence high school will meet. Their events will be run alternating with those of the interclass meet. And these high school boys can promise University critics of track talent some good races too.
A COLLEGE DAY
Although the nucleus of the University of Kansas was formed in the College and the other schools and departments were built up around that as a center, the College will be the last department in which the students will form an organization among themselves to forward college spirit and make a union that will be able to accomplish something for the University.
Many are the arguments urged against such a union on the part of the collegians when such an organization is suggested, but nevertheless it has been shown that such an organization is possible. At the University of Colorado the men students in the College banded together to form a union comparable to that of the Schools of Engineering and Law here.
Every class of students at the University is represented in the College; no other school has more diversity of talent and the possibilities to make such an organization a success. Every other department in the University has a day that is set apart and is distinctively their own. The Engineers have their day on which the students are brought into closer contact and to which they look forward and plan for from year to year. The Law students have their "Scrimmage" and "Uncle Jimmy Day" which they cherish more than anything else in their University life.
The College alone has no distinctive function which it can call its own. With a student body having a great diversity of purposes, scattered in many different buildings and composed of nearly an equal number of men and women, organization is difficult at first, but once
established it would be possible to maintain it.
There is an opportunity for someone to start a union in the center, the heart, of the University and do something really worth while.
What do some of the collegians think about this?
THE MOTHER WHO GETS NO
LETTER
Thousands of sons and daughters there are who are away from home living their own lives. Some are earning their own living; some are married; all are busy with their own concerns. And, unconsciously, they have forgotten their mothers. At least their mothers think so, and how can they think otherwise? For their children do not write. The mother looks every day for a letter, but the postman's hand or the post-box in the country store is full of other things. The mother says nothing, for silence is the badge of the suffering mother; but she unconsciously thinks over twenty years or more of care and pain and self-sacrifice, when there were nights without sleep, and weeks of nursing, when social pleasures had to be put aside for the children's sake, and a hundred economies had to be practiced that the children might be clothed and educated, when her noble life was devoted to the children. And the silence is pretty hard to bear.
Of course the mother makes allowance—a mother always does. "The children forget" she says. "Their lives are full and mine is empty." And she thinks to herself that some day her children, when they have children who have left home, will understand. Mothers are so patient!
All the same a letter is so small a thing. True, that is why it does not get written. But it gives such pleasure and heart satisfaction to a mother. And the mother-heart do rejoice so when she feels that though her children are far away from her, and no longer need her—they show they think of her the only way they can. Put yourself in her place, son or daughter, far away from the old home; think of how little comes into that home, and then fancy how big an event would be a weekly letter from Mary or John in the city! It is so worth doing—this writing to mother while she is still letters can go to her! It won't always be so, you know. So many are there who would give their all just to be able to write a letter to mother. You can—yet. Ladie's Home Journal.
YOU KNOW HOW IT IS!
From The Loyola College Journal
that was determined to discredit the witness.
"You are positive this happen on Wednesday?" he demanded.
"Sure it was Wednesday?" "Yes."
"Can't be mistaken?" "No."
"Because," answered the witnes with some spirit, "we had chicken that day. Chicken day is Wednesday where I board."
"Why couldn't it have been Thursday or Tuesday? How is it that you can fix this day so positively in your mind?"
The Harvard tutor who offers a 80,000 touring car to the student prepared by him who passes the best entrance examination in geometry has discovered a way of making scholarship popular at colleges.—New York World.
Hereafter the Dean of the University of Chicago will think over the matter carefully before asking a coed where she get that hat.-New York World.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A FOX after crossing a river got its tail entangled in a bush, and it cannot move. A number of Mosquitos seeing its plight settled on the bush disturbed by its tail. A hedgehog strolling by to pity upon the Fox and went up to him: "You are in a bad way, neighbour," said the hedgehog; I relieve you by driving off those Mosquitos who are sucking your blood?"
"Thank you, Master Hedgehog,
said the Fox, "but I would rather not."
"Why, how is that?" asked the hedgehog.
"Well, you see," was the answer, these Mosquitoes have had their fill; I drive these away, others will some with fresh appetite and bleed me to death.
UNCLE NICKELOUS
SULFIDE SAYS
The general ideal is, that a body can't get everything he wants, but the world's progressed a lot because some men couldn't see it that way.
Down on Kentucky street there is a boardin' club where they serve beans on the tenth of each month only. An' the boys look forward to that date as if it was a holiday, an' when the bean dish is brought on they all rise and give rise rahs for the waiter. You couldn't coax one of 'em to cut dinner on bean day.
A feller I thought all year was a Lav prof, came by the other day with a yella-buttoned freshman cap on.
They always say you can't get in the junior Prom after six o'clock, but I never heard o' the Prom manager with nerve enough to refuse admission to a man from whom he'd just separated seven talents of silver, no matter if he came at eight or nine.
Now is the time to haul the reserve coal to the heatin' plant for next winter's zero weather.
'我 gittin' tired o' hearin' fellers say they 'coin' to walk out to Blue Mound. I've heard 'em say it for the last 27 years, but I've seen mighty few of 'em that ever done它.
Make your 1913 Prom dates early
WANTS MORE ORCHESTRA
To the Daily Kansan:
The programs of the concerts to be given during the music festival this week, as announced in your paper, are a distinct disappointment to a large number of the patrons. Whoever made up the programs seems to have shown poor judgment. In the first place, it seems unfortunate that so splendid an organization as the Milpitas Symphony orchestra should have such a limited participation in the programs. The time allotted to local talent might be advantageously be devoted to the orchestra, brought to Lawrence from such a great distance and at such an expense. The people of Lawrence would like to hear at least one program given entirely by the Symphony orchestra.
The music festival is such a rare opportunity to hear something that cannot be heard in Lawrence during the rest of the year, that the patrons naturally wish to make the most of it. This is not to disparge the local talent announced on the programs. Lawrence rates them very high, but it is fortunate in having many other opportunities to hear them throughout the year. Let the music festival programs be given up entirely to the symphony orchestra and the artists coming with it. — A GUARANTOR.
GREAT SONGS BORN----NOT MADE
HICAGO has not discovered a substitute for the 'Star Spangled
So, the old song will stay, to be sung by little ones in the city schools, as it has been these many years past. Morning prayers will run the failure of Chicago's quest.
Great songs are born, not made. They are not to be ordered, like a suit of clothing. They are not put to use in carpenter puttogether a dry goods box.
metropolis endeared to find a more stirring anthem—and failed.
The author may not have known how great an achievement he had accomplished, but the songs "go marching on" and "give thanks for verses and music has passed away."
They spring from the pen of genius under the stress of excitement and they possess, in a strange, inexplicable way, the power of imparting that excitement to multitudes long years after the author has passed away.
"The Star Spangled Banner," "Dixie," "Marching Through Georgia," "Maryland," "Marsallise," "Die Wacht am Rhein," "God Save the King," "The Campbells Are Coming" these and a score more, possibly, of that mean something to the people of that land where they took their birth.
These songs are part of the warp and woof of a nation's destiny. They cannot be rudely supplanted by the force of a peaceful era,—Kansas City Star.
Such songs have swung men to victory on hard-fought fields, have changed the destinies of nations, have sustained the hopes and dreams of the widow and the bereft mother.
DO ATHLETICS
AFFECT ENROLLMENT?
Results of Football Games Between Harvard and Yale Correspond Exactly to Fluctuations in Attendance
THE HARVARD Advocate in a recent number gave proof that it pays even for colleges like Harvard and Yale to advertise, and that success on the football field has a great bearing on the number of students who enroll in the university the year following.
When Harvard wins from Yale at football Harvard's enrollment of students in the entering class the following year jumps above the previous year, and when Yale wins there is a jump in the figures. When the score of the classical football game is to the figures are normal.
"The next year it climbed to 237,
but a 12 to 0 victory for Yale went
the enrollment down to 210 the following
September. Then came the 4 to 0 score that Harvard made against
Yale in 1908, and in 1909 the registration went up again, this time
from 210 to 240. The 1909 game was
a defeat, and again the figures came
down—to 217 this time.
The Advocate says;
"A study of the registration figures at Harvard shows that in the year following a Yale football victory there has always been an increase in the enrollment of freshmen from the public schools. The same variability is not apparent in the registration from private schools. Most boys who go to prizefights are held by their collars. But in the public school, where there is no traditional preference for one college, the choice is often made during the school course, or maybe at the end of it.
An athletic victory may or may not be the determining influence. At least there is a curious relation between the varieties and the increases in registration.
“Beginning with the year 1901, which followed a severe defeat at the hands of Yale, one finds 230 freshmen entering from the public schools. Harvard won the 1902 game, and the registration jumped from 230 to 293, a gain of twenty-seven per cent. Yale won the next game, and in 1903 the public schools sent only 247 freshmen. Continued defeats by Yale are followed by continual depressions in the registration—235 in 1904 and 205 in 1905. This 1905 registration was the lowest reached, and it is significant that in the preceding season rookie Yale was awarded a high salary. Yale had severely defeated Harvard. The following year Harvard failed of a victory, but held Yale and Pennsylvania to a low score, and in 1906 a slight increase in registration was made, an increase from 205 to 212.
"The relation of football success to increases in the enrollment and of football failure to decreases in the enrollment are apparent in the records. Athletes have become the most important graduate life. It is reasonable to believe that successful athletics are good advertising."—The Herald.
WHAT PRINCETONIANS DO
The records of fifteen of the twenty-six classes graduated from 1884 to 1909 show the nine most popular occupations as follows—Business, 1,519; law, 674; engineering, 380; medicine, 288; ministry, 281; teaching, 260; government service, 120; journalism, 97; farming and ranching, 86.
The earlier classes sent more men to law than to business. In 1909 only seven men entered the ministry; twenty years earlier, when the classes were much smaller, two or three times that number went to the theological seminaries. In recent years the number of men going into engineering has increased greatly, forty-five men taking it up in 1909. One-third of the graduates engaged in business are in banking.
Statistics showing the occupations followed by Princeton graduates have been compiled by authorities of the university in view of recent agitation regarding the overcrowding of the professions. These statistics show a reduction in the number of jobs which leaves the other professions far in the rear.
The Cardinal is the name of the new daily at the University of Southern California. The institution has supported heretorefo only a weekly magazine, "The University Courier," but owing to its recent rapid growth the change has been made necessary.
Michigan will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary in June. The celebration is to be known as the diamond jubilee.
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