UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS.
Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
BE KIND TO YOUR MOTHER National Mothers' Day will be celebrated by all the men of this country on May twelfth. On this day all men should remember their mothers and according to the custom established in former years wear a white carnation in their coat lapel to signify that they remember their best friend in the world. If they are far away from home, some token of love would bring unlimited joy to the hearts of the mothers.
This clipping shows what news of their sons means to the mother:
"Honor your dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowy flakes on her brow, plowed deep furrows on her cheek—but is she not beautiful now. The lips are thin and shrunken, but these are the lips that have kissed many a hot tear from childhood cheeks, and they are the sweetest cheeks and lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance of holy love that can never fade. The sands of life have nearly run out, but feeble as she is, she will go farther and reach down lower for you than anyone else on earth. When the world shall despise and forsake you, when it leaves you by the wayside to die, unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you up in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you all your virtues until you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vice. Love her and cheer her declining years with tender devotion."
MAKING BAD THINGS WORSE
Once in a while something of a more or less unusual nature takes place in connection with affairs at the University. Such things happen at every institution of higher learning. This is perhaps inevitably so at every place where two thousand vigorous human beings live and associate with one another. It is impossible that occurrences of an extreme nature should not happen in such a community.
These things do not occur with the sanction and approval of the University. They occur in spite of the University. But for every such occurrence, some unprincipled writer is prepared to color up and distort the facts to place the story, in truth, far beyond the bounds of possibility. And the University is usually called to account for stories issued in such wise.
It is eminently unfair to the University that such stories should be given out in this way. Even though they may have a basis in fact, they are sure to convey a wrong impression; many people will interpret them wrongly and a stigma will be cast upon the name of the University, though the institution is in no way at fault.
Everybody who loves fair play and who has at heart the best interests of the University ought to be very careful about allowing such misleading stories to get started.
A new custom at Yale will be the planting of an elm tree by each class. The class of 1912 will plant the first tree.
THE WOMEN IN JOURNALISM
Owing to a rule of Columbia University, New York, which excludes women from every department of that school, only men will be admitted to the new Pulitzer School of Journalism when it opens next fall.
There is scarcely a profession these days in which women have not successfully endeavored to fill a place. In journalism women have proved not only their ability to compete with men in certain lines of work but their real value to the profession. Women are doing work in journalism that would be difficult for men to do properly and their presence in the profession has not tended to disturb the salaries naid.
It is admitted that there is not the same need in the East for co-educational schools that exists in the West, for ample provision is made for the education of women in the arts and science. As to the professional schools, particularly in journalism which has but recently been added to the list recognized by ed-icons, it should be known the impartial provision. Women should have an opportunity to compete in any profession with the same training and the same equipment as men.—University Missourian.
AMERICAN STUDENT FRIVOLOUS
The American college man, says a critic, shows little tendency to discuss matters that are worth while. Unlike the English student who airs his views upon such subjects as religion, art and government at his clubhouse or at social gatherings, the American student talks what is known as small talk, that is, he talks about local social conditions, petty personal events or the relative chances of the American who has opinions about things worth while his silent about them when he is among his fellow students for he knows that his opinions will be laughed at.
It seems that men who are preparat it for active life in an American commonwealth would put aside such frivolous subjects as society, clothes and athletics for open-minded discussions of government, politics and business, and to interchange of ideals and modes of thinking, so that all who entered into the discussion would come away better informed—Daily Iowa.
CARD INDEX FOR ATHLETES
H. S. Brooks, '85, a member of Yale's track team while in college and who is one of Yale's Advisory Committee on track athletics today outlined the new plans proposed by this committee relative to developing a winning track team for the Blue. He said:
"At the meetings of the Advisory Track Committee, which have been recently held in New York, many plans were proposed with the object of furthering the general interest in track athletics throughout the university, and of reducing the management, training and accommodation of the men to a more systematic basis.
“The idea of registering the candidates for the team by a card system, which I understand has been adopted, was proposed to one of the previous meetings, but it was still further resolved to emphasize this method of keeping in connection with the men by paying particular attention to the space on the cards reserved for ‘remarks.’ This will be carefully filled out in the future and preserved in order that it may prove of guidance later if the candidate does not at once attain success. In this manner the coach will be materially aided in training a man during successive years. We aim not only to make this year a success, but also to insure the future of succeeding teams.
"Another plan which was adopted for the present season was that of dividing the squad into separate groups and placing each event under a thoroughly competent coach, either an undergraduate coach or an alumnus. It is impossible to expect John Mack to coach the entire squad without active cooperation of this sort."
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A N old labourer, bent double with age and toll, was gathering gists tired and hopeless that he threw down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: "I cannot bear this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would only come and take
As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to him: "What wouldst thou, Mortal? I heard thee call me."
"Please, sir," replied the woodcutter,
"would you kindly help me to lift this
tagoff of stairs in my shoulder?"
We would often be sorry for our wishes
we were gratified
THE REWARDS O'
Though Not Always Apparent, to the World, the Collegian is Nearly Always a Leader.
COLLEGE TRAINING
From "The American Undergraduate" by Chayton S. Cooper in Century's
College training brings with it responsibility and reward. The responsibility is that of leadership—the kind of leadership which comes to the man of advanced knowledge and unusual advantages, who sees the needs of his time and does not flinch from the hardest kind of sacrifice in view of those needs. The reward is not always apparent to the world, but it is more than sufficient for the worker. Indeed, the American undergraduate is becoming more and more aware that his pay is not his reward. He is learning that the world is not keen to pay the cost of new ideas or to reward professional leadership with material values. Furthermore, his help-paid service does not tell the whole story of his sacrifice. His work is often lost in the successes of some other man who follows him. But the college-trained man who has weighed well these needs, and has deliberately chosen, is not to be pitied. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any one is more to be envious. He is under the impulsion of an inner sense of mission. The college has given him faith in himself and his mission. Many a graduate, going out from a university halls of learning, feel somewhat as Carlyle felt when he said "I have a book in me; it must come out," or as Disraeli enthused in his answer when he was hissed down in the House of Commons, "You will not hear me now, but there will come a time when you will hear me."
The undergraduate, spending laborious days upon the invention which shall make industrial progress possible in lands his eyes will never see, is carried along by an impulse not easily expressed. He realizes the feeling that Robert Louis Stevenson expressed when he said about his writings that he felt like thanking God that he had a chance to earn his bread upon such joyful terms. He has deliberately turned his back upon certain temporalities in order to face the rise of some new ideal for social betterment or national progress. He has heard the gods calling him to some far-reaching profession that is more than a position. There is stirring in him always the sense of message. He has caught a unique life-work. It urges him on to the occupation of his own land of dreams. Is this leader worried because some one misunderstands him? Does he envy the man, who following another ideal, sweeps by in an automobile which perhaps his own particular genius has made possible? The pioneer of letters who has known the sweetness and light of literary satisfaction, the fire freeway of that creative, imaginative activity in which ideas are caught and crystallized in words, does not despair when his earthly rewards seem to tinger.
The college, then, is a means only to the larger life of spirit and service. It exists to paint out the goal of attainment of which lies inherent in the student. The college is like the tug-boat that pulls the ship from the harbor to the clear water of the free, open sea. The curriculum, the play-life, the laboratory, are only torches gleaming through the morning shadows of the students coming day.
BOOK REVIEWS
In "The Prosy Romance", by a Kansas man, Mr. T. F. Sproul, the author describes the manner in which "a lady teacher and a rich bachelor try to harmonize their views on love, logic, religion and sociology."
The story is flavored with a great deal of local color, which makes it interesting to Kansas people. The author's views on matrimony, woman suffrage, individual drinking-cups, pure food, clean hotels, commission government and fly-swatting, all agree beautifully with the wave of reform which has inundated the Sunflower state.
Mr. Sproul lives is Bogue, Kansas, according to an article by Mr. Jay E. House, of the Topeka Daily Cap and spends his winter in Topeka.
The love story "never would be missed," as they sing in the "Mikado." The author tries to give a Dickensian flavors to his characters by giving them peculiar names; Dash Blank for the hero, Lina Gona for the heroine, and Vina Vintage, the heroine's niece, who allows the
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot, at pleasure, obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any knowledge, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind will at last find a place in it, when it is disposed to receive them.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
hero to kiss her, and then weeps over it.
The scene "in the Dome of the Capital," where Dash Blank and Lina Gona gaze out over the panorama of Topeka, hold hands and talk pure Johosense, is too good to miss. It is equal to the famous stairway scene in "Sapho." The best thing about the book is the name: 444.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The best thing about the book is its apt and expressive title.
A real book for real boys is "Elliott Gray, Jr." by the late Colton Maynard (Fleming P. Revell company). It is a story of a boy's first year at Arlington, a school with well-established traditions and a system of self-government among the students, which brings out the best in the boys. Elliott Gray is elected president of his class, and proves that he possesses the same powers of leadership that made his father a great man. Elliott meets all emergencies, fires and forbidden cigarettes, mutinies and football, with equal equanimity, and manages his campaigns with the genius of a general. In the midst of these difficulties, the young leader cultivates the school spirit in his class, and makes the class a force in the school. The author has preached a sermon, taking for his text these lines from Kiplinger's "The Brushwood Boy," quoted opposite the first page: "Above all, he was responsible for that thing called the tone of the school, and few realize with what passionate devotion a boy will throw himself into this work."
One of the chapters is entitled "Yale," and through the book, side by side with the olive and white of Arlington, waves the blue penant of Yale. The author, Mr. Maynard, was a young Yale man who died a few years after graduation. The book is to a large degree autobiographical, and although it was left unfinished, at the time of his death the book was compiled from portions of various manuscripts, it is a well-written book, with dramatic situations and cleverly-drawn characters.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale says: "The story is true to the best things in school life." It is to be regretted that the author's death makes impossible a series of books which would have carried Elliott Gray through Arlington and then through Yale.
THE FOOL'S PRAYER
The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us prayer!"
The jester doffed his cap and bells, and stood the唱ck court before They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore.
He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!
"No pity, Lord. could change the heart
From red with wrong to white as
a
The rod must heal the sin: but, Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!
"Tis not by guilt the onward sweep
Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay;
Tis by our follies that so long
We will never leave."
Among the heart-strings of a friend.
"These clumsy feet, still in the mire,
Go crushing blossoms without end;
These hard, well-meaning hands we
thrust
"The ill-timed truth we might have kept—
We hold the earth from heaven away
We allow flowers still in the milies.
Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?
"These clumsy feet, still in the mire,
co. crushing blossoms without end."
"Our faults no tenderness should ask,
no tears. Our stripe must cleanse
them all."
The word we had not sense to say—
Who knew how grandly it had
ung?
But for our blunders—oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall.
*Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;*
*men crown the knave and scourge*
That did his will; but Thon, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!*
The room was hushed; in alliance rose
the room, and sought his gardens
cool.
And walked apart, and murmured low
"Be merciful to me, a cool"
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