UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
MUSIC
Only upon rare occasions do the students and the people of Lawrence have the opportunity to hear musicians as great as those who will appear upon the three programs of the ninth annual Music Festival Thursday evening, Friday afternoon and Friday evening of this week. The eight soloists and the fifty players of the Minnesota Symphony orchestra, are the best that may be secured for an engagement before a university audience.
In 1904 the Music Festival was established by the School of Fine Arts with the aim of providing music of the highest quality and broadest scope for the University and the people of Lawrence. This aim has been abundantly fulfilled. The festivals have become the leading feature of the musical life of the community and have attracted many visitors from outside. Each year an orchestra of national repute has been engaged with a quartet of singers, and their concerts have been supplemented by the work of the local artists and music organizations of the University.
The Festival committee that made the arrangements for the programs this year has earned the praise and appreciation of the music-loving people of Lawrence.
A HIPPODROME SHOW
With the announcement that the fund for the women's dormitory has reached the six thousand dollar mark, interest in the accumulation of money for the fund has increased among the students and alumni of the University.
A spirit of rivalry has sprung up among the various organizations upon the "hill" that are working for the fund, a rivalry to see which can make the largest addition to the fund. The services of the men students have been enlisted, not only for the Indoor Circus, but also to go upon the boards at the nickel shows down town that have been turned over to the workers for the doriptyory fund. These men are doing all in their power to make this next series of beneficial entertainments successful and they deserve credit. There should be opportunities for more of the men in the University to do some work that will help.
Perhaps next year a great dramatic production, comparable to the hippodrome shows of New York, may be given. Such a feature when supported by the spirit that was shown in the entertainments given at the Football Smoker would undoubtedly be a financial success.
THE RIGHT INTERPRETATION Final word from the Missouri Valley Conference commit upon eligibility states that Theodore Hackney, the Tiger football star, will not be permitted to play on a Conference team next year, even though he did not take part in any of the Conference games during his third year of service. The Conference officials then, even though white-washing
rather freely on the baseball field, are accepting the spirit of play and amateur athletics as being of some importance in the determination of their decisions.
It is with an appreciation of the spirit in which baseball men have received pay for their playing, that the Conference has declared them eligible, and it is with a like appreciation of amatuerism that the committee declared Hackey inelegible. He tried-out for the Tiger team and made it. He did not voluntarily resign his position upon the team, had circumstances permitted, he would have played, so he was in reality a member of the squad, and played his time out.
STUDENTS AND THE LAW
A policeman in a college town, con-
tairy to popular opinion, has a
comparatively easy time as far as the
students are concerned, according to
members of the Columbia police force.
As a rule students are only playful
and mean no harm. They have
their pranks, their customs and tradi-
tions, as they are wont to call them for
the sake of justification often times,
and sometimes, not often, in the carry-
ing out of these "duties," they do harm.
J. L. Whitesides, chief of police,
has been on the police force since
1903. "Students have given us very
little trouble," said Chief Whitesides.
"In fact, taking into consideration
the number of them here, they
have been practically no trouble.
Even the 'rushing' of the 'Nickels'
in their playful way, so common a few
 years ago, has ceased.
"We have always tried to be as easy as possible on them. They were allowed to "rush" the shows in an orderly manner. We have seldom seen fit to do this. Our college pranks. Only a few times have students been put in the holder."
STUDENTS ARE NIGHT HAWKS
"When I first came on the force I served seven months at night without missing a night. It is at night that the students usually do their meanness. Though they were much worse then than they are now, we had very little trouble with them. We knew when they were going on a 'tear' and we only saw to it that they did no actual damage. Liberal allowances were made for football victories. Everybody was feeling good then and liberties were perfectly proper if they did not go too far."
"We are very lenient with students," said another copper. "We do not go on the run every time we hear a bunch yelling at the top of their voices. We know that they are students and they mean nothing. Students are playful and, as a rule, mean no harm. Of course, there are always a few that really want to do some one harm. We aim to get them and no others. The majority of students are perfectly orderly." — University Missouri.
SCHOOL
Sometimes the terms by which students designate their various alma maters in their conversations which others count greatly in the impression made of their particular alma mater upon the outsider. The man who states that he attended "school" or is attending "school" at the University of California very often creates the wrong idea of the University in the minds of his hearers, best the term school should be used to describe learning of the scope of this University is exceedingly undignified. Probably the word is teachnically correct—it denotes a place for instruction—but by American usage the term has come to signify only the most elementary of places of education. The connotation of the word "school" is that it is
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
ONG ago, the mice held a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their enemy even though some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. "You will all agree," she replied. The men in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily eschew it and propose to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was in the neighborhood so easily while she was in the neighborhood."
This proposal met with general appeal, until an old mouse got up and said it is to bell the Cat? The mice looked at the old mouse and spoke loudly. Then the old mouse said:
"It is easy to propose impossible remedies."
HOW THE OLD BOYS
USED TO DO THINGS
From the University Kansan, April 18, 1890.
The bicyclists are intending to organize, and if possible get a representative on the athletic board at the next annual meeting.
To see Ackley lead the University cohorts reminds us of the balmy days of Professor Franklin.
The Senior Laws presented an alarm clock to Professor Green which goes off at 12:15.
The chapel attendance is small and is getting smaller.
S. T. Gilmore came up from Kansas City to take part in "The Little American Lord."
applied to a grammar grade, or a preparatory, private or boarding school. The University of California does not belong in such a classification, as we all know, yet the term is constantly used by a few of the undergraduates of this institution, some of whom are upperclassmen with a reputation of knowing better. One of the first things the freshman learns is to cast aside his preparatory school phraseology. By some chance the word "school" has not been entirely eliminated; let us obliterate it from the University vocabulary!—Daily Californian.
Professor C. G. Dunlap is now full professor of English Language and Literature in the University.
COLLEGE SONG STOPPED A PANIC
"On Wisconsin," the students' battle hymn, had a magical effect on a panic stricken audience in the FULLer Opera House. Frances Starr in "The Case of Becky" held the stage when a cry went up from the crowded balcony.
Immediately the curtain was run down and a rush for the fire escapes in the balcony began. Two women in their excitement fell from the iron stairway and sustained minor injuries. Immediately the orchestra struck up the varisity song. The big audience, recruited largely from the university, calmed down instantly and the rush of life was blocked. Someone whose self possession had not deserted him used the house chemicals with effect and put out the fire, which was caused by a smoker.—St. Louis Republic.
"OPEN SHOP" FOR TEACHERS
UP To the present education in the United States has been run on the "open shop" plan. The national idealization of education has induced an extraordinary turning toward it by youth as an aid to culture and also to success in a career. The supply of teachers, especially of women, has kept pace measurably with the institutional demand for instructors of the growing army of children, and the process of selection has not been complicated, at least in many sections of the country, by a plethora of applicants.
While it is true that leading universities of the country now provide definite training for teachers such as did not exist a generation ago, and while it is true that a larger percentage than formerly of university graduates deliberately decide on a permanent career as educators and abide by their choice, it also is true that the largest percentage of youth now graduating choose business as a calling. None of of the three traditional professions, not journalism, and not teaching has proved as attractive to the youth of the past decade or two as engineering or business.
These being the conditions, it is the more surprising to find a university professor now insisting that the time has come when American college and university teachers must "organize" a kind of "protective" trade union, which will exist to provide ways and means of lessening the number of teachers, of raising rates of pay and creating better economic conditions.
As it is now, so this professor says, the superfluous number of teachers, constantly being sent forth by colleges and universities, is having precisely a similar result to that which excessive immigration is having on scale of payment of laborers in America. In short, the demand of the time educationally is for the "closed shop," viewing it from the stand point of a subordinate
That too many trustees, school boards, school superintendents and educational administrators do take the purely commercial" demand and supply" attitude when employing teachers is indisputable. Such cases of shorttightness exist often where last suspected, first suspected, not in the country by and large, there is far less of this penny-wise, pound-foolish policy than to used to be.
educator, who desires a steady job and at a progressive, not a lessening, job.
The status of the teacher in community life is higher relative than it was formerly; tenure offender is based on proved merit shown in examinations, and is put above the caprice or whim of the superior official to a degree not known in early days. Increasingly do pension systems guard veteran teachers from want. Such being the trend of things it must come to pass that increasingly American youth will take up education as a calling.
But even when they do, let them abstain from an exclusive policy that would create a guild monopoly. The country" is torn with stifle today largely because the forces of capital and of labor have bowed down to the whims of American society by the few. American education needs no "closed shop" to enable it to compete with German efficiency.—Christian Science Monitor.
Mrs. Struckit Rich-"Our waiter is a student. He is working his way through college."
Mr. Strucktik Rich "You don't tell me! Well! if the colleges would only turn out a few more good waiters to you, we respect for them seats of learning."
—Puck.
One of the fellers told me this mornin' that he'd been to call on a girl last night, an' about eleven o'clock she told him he remixed her o' the trees after a hard winter; he was such a long time leavin'.
A course in the high cost of living will be offered to the students in agriculture at Columbia. The work will deal with the cost of the various commodities and by research, the students will attempt to determine why prices are high and how they can be lowered.
Yale is seriously considering the adoption of the semester, or two-term system, in place of the three-term arrangement now in force. It is hoped to lengthen the vacations so that students living at a distance will have a reasonable time to spend at home.
BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE
PRAIRIE
BURY me not on the lone prairie!*
These words came slow and
delicate.
From the pallid lips of a youth that lay;
On his dying couch at the close of day.
He had wasted and pined till o'er hisbrow Death's shadows fast were drawing nigh;
He had thought of home and the loved ones nigh.
As the cowboys gathered to see him die,
How oft have I listened to those well known words,
The wild wind and the sound of birds;
He had thought of home and the cotton-
sack.
Of the scenes that he loved in his childhood hours.
In the old churchyard, on the green hill side.
"I have always wished to be laid when I died,
By the grave of my father, O let my grave be;
And a sister's teean exam mingle there;
Where friends can come and weep or
O, bury me not on the lone prairie.
O, bury me not on the lone prairie.
"I wished to be laid where a mother's care
"O, burye not on the lone prairie.
Wild where wolcotes will bow o'er me;
By the grave of my father O, let my grave be;
O, bury me not on the lone prairie.
"O, bury me not," and his vise failed there.
They paid no heed to his dying prayer;
In a narrow grave, just six by three.
He laid him there on the lone prairie
Where the dewdrops fall and the butterfly rests.
The wild rose blooms on the prairie's crest
Where the coyotes howl and the wine sports free.
They laid him there on the lone priеre.
—Author Unknown.
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