UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI
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THE INTERNAL EDITOR
Lori LACOME
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EARLY POTTER
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L. F MEISSNNR
JOHN MADDEN
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RICHARD GARDNER
RUNSELL CLARK
EDWARD HACKNEY
JAMES HOUGHTON
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS
They that will not be counseled,
cannot be helped.
THE IMPRESSION OF GOOD MUSIC
MUSIC
There is no doubt but that the music which students are hearing at the Festival will have the same effect upon their spirits that grand opera has upon those for whom grand opera is a treat, that comes only once a year or perhaps at even greater intervals.
A person listens and lives in the joy of the sweet strains brought forth from the human throat or at the touch of the master's hand from the fabric of stringed instruments. Greek mythology was never elaborated too much in the tales of Orpheus, the God of music.
A great audience of thousands sat mute and tense listening to Namara-Toye as she playfully sang for them, and to Willy Lamping as he brought his instrument to life, conducted his auditors through a maze of fairy lore and, at the close, left them waiting for the after impression of the music to return once more.
The recital last night given in Robinson gymnasium was the first of a series of great concerts, each one of which will introduce more and more of the entrancing strains. Tonight the climax of the festival will be reached when both artist-solists and the symphony orchestra will blend together in a final effort before the people of Lawrence, until they return next year.
This is the hard part of it all. One attends all of the concerts, becoming more deeply enwrapped in the flood of song and music, until at last there comes a day when it all is over. He can no longer go to the hall to hear those strains his car has learned in a short while to long for. Then the depressing mood envelopes the music-lover. He is spoiled and it takes only time and careful attention till the patient becomes healed.
Yet it cannot be said that it is in any degree unwise to let the spirit of music claim these days. The student is lead into a better part of the music world and memories coming to him later on at most unexpected times will set those days apart.
AWARDING "K'S"
At the banquet for the members of the basket-ball team given by the athletic management, Manager Hamilton contrary to custom was unable to present to the men who had won their "K"s the sweaters with the letters thereon, because the "K" committee and the athletic board had failed again to make the awards of the letters.
No question as to the right of any one of the men to his letter has been raised and certainly the committee has had all the time that is necessary to make the awards. Basket-ball season closed many weeks ago and final data of the work of the individual men has long since been collected.
Then why was the manager not enabled to give to his men on the evening of their last banquet together,
he honor that is theirs, their "K sweaters? The students look to their student representative upon the "K" committee to see that these acts of courtesy by the student-body are carried out and at a time when the athletes will appreciate them most, not six months after the close of their season when the emblem is quietly handed to them through the United States mail or in the closed sanctity of the manager's office.
Right now there are men on the track team who have won their letters this winter, but they have not been officially granted the right to wear the honor insignia that is their right.
It has ever been tflus. No one knew exactly when a baseball man, a track athlete or a basket-ball toser was awarded his "K." The committee rested in blissful content and repose after it year's work in awarding the football "K"s and somehow, somewhere the others got theirs by the time the fall semester opens.
Inasmuch as the "K" is an honor of the student-body, to have the awards made timely and quickly is a courtesay that is due those men who have won their letters.
THINKING AT COLLEGE
Been reading Stover at Yale, running in McClure's? A good story, a fine bunch of fellows, and well told, probably the best college book of the year. The number there is a very vivid discussion of what ails the college man.
Brockhurst, the spirit of Intellectual Unrest and Protest of the book, suddenly breaks out in a broadside of queries: "Well, what do you know? You've been here going on three years. You are supposed to be more than half educated. What do you know about —" and he goes through art, music, architecture, religion, literature, social progress, and reveals their ignorance of the great movements in these lines. He is right. Try it yourself, pick up his questions and try to answer them offhand. And as a college man you are supposed to know in general along what the lines is moving. And as Brockhurst says, the trouble is we do not think.
Go call on a classmate; you talk about prospects in athletics or oratory, politics, campus cases, but do you ever get up a lively discussion on the Ionic Theory- if you are a chemist—or the trend of modern literature, or any one of a dozen big movements you discuss in class room? Or listen to the average boarding house or chapter house table conversation; sporting andathletic events with others; or less really wii-that's it. It is true that here in the West we may have a little more seriousness, more interest in politics or sociology. But outside of that our ignorance is dense; we no not even know we are ignorant.
We are liable to learn the facts.
That is the system; hold it until exam time and then remember as much of it as will hang on. But the real signifiance of it all—why, bless you, we are off doing a hundred and one things else. We do not learn to think; to see the inter-relation of facts and their real meaning—just what they may have to do with life and ourselves. The man who needs them thought once a math whisker he needed to or not was an exceptional college man; most of us are too busy. We are having the time of our lives here, but we are missing the biggest thing of all—Washburn Review.
A list of freshmen at the University of Georgia who refuse to wear the red freshman cap is to be published in the college paper and "silent treatment" is threatened them for their negligence.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
So a course, was fixed and a star,
was made. The Hare darted almost
him, but he came back with him,
and, to show his contempt for the Tortoise,
lay down to have a nap. The
Tortoise then took a walk and when the Hare awoke from his
nap, he saw the Tortoise just near the winning-post and could not run up in
to have the race. Then said the Tortoise:
"That is a good joke," said the Hare. "I could dance around you all the way." "Keep your boasting till youve answered the Tortoise. 'Shall we race?'
The Tortoise said quietly: "I accept your challenge."
THE Hare was once boasting of his
mind. "I have never yet been
speed before the other animals,
"I have never yet been beaten," he says when I put forth my speed. I challenge any one here to race with me.
"Plodding wins the race."
The Highbrow—You have been in Stratford? Then you remember that passage from Shakespeare—
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Mrs. Richiquce—No; we didn't take it. We came by another route.
"Wait a minute You took my King with your Queen!"
"Well, that's all right. This is leap year."
Sphinx
Sorrowing Sarah (Eundevoraging to break the news gently) Peter, father has left us.
ELEGY
Practical Peter—How much?
—Williams Purple Cov.
Written in a College Yard. (Anchoring)
(Apologies)
Memorial clock tolls forth the hour of eight.
The drowsy squirrels in the treetons lurk.
The theater-goer hastes lest he be late.
low fades the last bright light from Hollis Hall,
And leaves the world to darkness and to work.
And all the air maintains a stillness great;
Of amorous incoherence to his mate;
Save where from yonder dormitory wake
Save where an obese pigeon sends his call
The raucous sounds of ribald beer-
night's glee.
These only serve to cheer us, and to break
Beneath these ancient elms (wherein the moth
Gnaws on, and makes the grand old trees defunct)
stand and introspect upon my sloth,
And on the grim exams that I have
funkt
lunkt. —Harvard, Lampoon.
Willie—Paw, what does discretion mean?
Paw-Picking out a small man when you are looking for trouble.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Well," replied the bright student, "if you're engaged in a controversy it's just the difference between two forms of argument and the other fellow's."
"What, then," asked the professor is the exact difference between logic and sophistry?"
SELF-SUPPORTING
Ohio claims the distinction of having the most unique village in America. It is Ironsport, with 700 inhabitants. Joseph Barney, the post-master, closed up his post-office declaring he had not sold a single stamp in five weeks, nor has he received any incoming or out-going maills.
The people explain that they have no friends to write to, that they do not receive any mail, and that they are all too busy howay. There has not been an idle man in Ironsport since 1909. The mines are running full time and every miner owns his own home... McKeel's Weekly Stamp News.
We shall do so much in the years to come.
WHAT HAVE WE DONE
TODAY?
We shall be so kind in the after-a-wile,
But what have we been today?
But what have we done today?
We shall give our gold in a prince;
We shall throw us
But what did we give today? We shall lift the heart and dry the tear, We shall plant a hope in the place of fear, We shall speak the words of love and
—Ex.
But what have we done today?
We shall reap such joys in the by- and-by.
But whom have we fed today?
But what we sown today?
We shall build large mountains tower
But what have we brought today?
We shall give to truth a grander birth, and to steadfast faith a deeper worth. We shall feed the hungering souls of
We shall feed the hungering souls of earth.
But what did we speak today?
We shall bring to each lonely life a smile.
We shall build large mountains towering so high.
But what have we built today?
'Tis sweet in idle dreams to bask.
But, here and now, do we do our task?
Yes, this is the thing our soul must ask
of this is the thing our soul must use
"What have we done today?"
—Louisville Herald.
THE NEWSPAPER MAN
AND AUTHORSHIP
Old Hands in Literature Recognize Good Writing]When They Happen to See It
When asked about the supposed gulf between journalism and literature, William Dean Howell, said that there was none, and added that the writing in newspapers was often as good as that in books. Newsman men have been very meek when assailed by the "literati" as corrupters of the language. They will, however, take a sneaking satisfaction in this tribute to them from the man who stands at the head of the literary profession in this country.
What has puzzled the workers on the daily press is, not that they should be criticized—for they know that their work is often faulty—but that_the men who criticize should themselves so frequently be guilty of using slovenly, and not infrequently atrocious English. Current fiction abounds in what its makers contemptually speak of as "journalese." The phrase "newspaper English" is often on the lips of the most careless and commonplace writers.
Their idea seems to be that the book form sanctifies and consecrates the substance of which it is composed—that book writing is necessarily good and newspaper writing necessarily bad. Here, no doubt, is the gulf which is supposed to extend. Now can the magazine in the magazines is much better than that in the daily papers The superstition is amusing rather than harmful.
The young person who launches his first novel on a saturated public by that very act becomes an "author." And, of course, the work of an author is "literature." As literature must of necessity be well written—else it would not be literature—the conclusion inevitably follows.
Newspapers, not being literature can not be well written. Writers for the press have many sins to answer for, but they can not help feeling that the mote in their eyes would be more easily removable by men and women who had first cast the beams out of their own eyes. That does not seem too much to ask, but it is probably more than will be granted. For when a superstition takes form in a phrase—such as "newpaper English"—acquires the dignity and permanence of an institution.
Old hands in literature, the professionals of the craft, do not give themselves any airs. They recognize good writing wherever they see it, for they know what he says and how hewls is a point. And he began his career in a newspaper office.
Between the real newspaper men and the real authors there have always been the closest relations. There have been many definitions of literature, but in spite of them all it is still hard to say what is and what is not literature. One thing, however, is certain and that is that publication between covers is not of itself enough to confer the royal patent. -Indianapolis News.
WOMEN ATTAIN HIGHER
SCHOLARSHIP THAN MEN
Students at the University of Iowa are making an advance in scholarship," said Prof. F. C. Ensign of the University of Iowa, recently. "For example, in 1911, 44 per cent of the men made a fair average record. Fifty-three per cent made the corresponding record this year. Last year 12 per cent received the lowest passing mark, this year only 7 per cent found them. The women on the lower bound of the ladder. The women as usual hold higher averages than the men. Twenty- three per cent of the women received one of the two highest grades while only 16 per cent of the men won this standing.
As a help towards the $1,000,000 which Peabody College wishes to raise by Sept. 1, 1913, J. P. Morgan has donated $100,000.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
NATURE
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
Leads by the hand her little child to
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comforted the promise of others in their stead. When it was difficult,
please him more— So Nature deals with us, and takes
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand.
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay
in need. full of sleep to understand
Being too full of sleep to understand How far for the unknown transcends
How far the unknown transcend
the what we know.
—H. W. LONGFELLJW.
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