UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
TORTONAL ST
LUCAS LACY
Earl POPPEY
High School Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
BUDENSTEIN
E. K. LEE, President Business Manager
J. LEIBER, Assistant Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
BRIANKY PINSTERTON
RECHARD GARDNER
JOHN MADDEN
ENWARD HACKEYEN
ENWARD HACKEYEN
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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS
POOR RICHARD SAYS.
If you will not hear Reason, she
will surely rap your knuckles.
BOARDING CLUB BASEBALL
BOARDING CLUB BASSELBAL
The baseball "bug," that obnoxious thing of the spring time, has found subjects in the various student boarding clubs. Several of the clubs have already organized teams and games have been played on McCook field.
This marks the beginning of more complete athletics at the University—baseball for every man who is able to get out on the green and use a glove and ball. The University Athletic Association is not prepared to accommodate all of the baseball teams that it might wish on account of the lack of diamonds on which these men can play their games. At present, they have to make an early morning dash for the field and the first teams on the spot are permitted to play first.
However, the desire of the men to play the games will undoubtedly bring improved grounds in the future as soon as the management is able to get the grading done and arrangements made for more complete athletic fields.
With a baseball team representing every boarding club in the University, more than one hundred men would be playing the game for the fun of playing—not resting easily on the benches of the bleachers and watching their varsity players play with the experts of the other universities and colleges, but getting the same benefit for themselves that the varsity men can obtain from their exercise.
To encourage in any way whatever, that it may, the Daily Kansan will open a column to deal with baseball games entirely of a local nature among the students. This column will be called the "Amateur Baseball Notes" and it will advertise games to be played in the future, notes of challenge from one club to another, practice-calls, and the results of all the games. Those interested in the inter-club baseball series will merely call the Kansan office and notify the sporting editor or the news-editor of their games. Such notices must be handed in at the office before half past eleven every morning.
THE STARS
Spring. Night. A High Place.
The south wind, damp with the dewy promise of a thousand flowering trees. The curved moon, gleaming with a luster at once the delight and despair of an artist in fine porcelain.
And then the Stars! Palyel glowing at the zenith, like they are lights. Blazing yellow like trimmed lamps. Leaping-flamed like an single eye through a window across wintry fields, at the horizon; low sunk in the fountains of the night winds.
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Low in the Southwest burns the titan Sirius, monarch in size and brilliancy of all the starry legion. Above him is yellow Procyon, the less fervid imitator of his more powerful brother.
Between them stretch the fields of
Canis Minor and Major, the Great and the Lesser Dog.
North of here, in a region richer in celestial beauties, extends the jewelled band of the Zodiac, the royal road of the sun, and his calmrayed company of earth-stars, that wander steadily among their fixed and twinkling neighbors.
In the Northeast the great Arcturus, second only to Sirius himself, entirely outshines his lesser companions, in Bootes, the star-limbed Huntsman. At the zenith, is that friend of the amateur star gazer, the Great Bear, commonly known as the "dipper." And a perfect dipper it is, too, upside down now, pouring down upon the Earth below whatever of blessing it may hold in its sparkling bowl. The old Greeks called it the Great Bear, and the legend assigned the valiant huntsman Bootes to pursue continually the fleeing animal around the fixed pole, the apex of the northern heavens.
Around the Pole Star, Cynosura, roll once a day the whole fabric of the constellated heavens. Of course, it is your viewpoint that moves, but you never think of that. The Earth of the Race of Man, is your center of the Universe.
And, of course, you know that She doesn't care a rap about the Zodiac, or the Copernican Theory of the angle of the Earth's Orbit to the plane of the Ecliptic, or whether or not Bootees ever catches the Bear. Your astronomical lecture might just as well be a discourse on the respective merits of Whist and High Five.
For it is Spring. The night is clear. The flower-flavored breath of the prairies is cool on your face and sweet in your lungs.
But the material for the lecture must be at hand. The year must be spring. The night must be starry. And the South wind must whisper in the blossoming trees and twist the stray tendrils of hair across Her cheek. Then, under these conditions the Stars are mighty good friends of you tarriers along Life's springtime paths.
GO TO SCHOOL IN SPAIN.
Acting on a suggestion made last summer by Charles M. Strong, instructor in Spanish, University of Washington, the University of Madrid, Spain, will for the first time hold a summer school on the Spanish language and literature from June 15 to July 24. Apparently the idea of the summer school had never entered their heads before," said Professor Strong, "but when I asked them why they did not hold a summer course they decided to use an idea, with the result that they have been working on it ever since, and they have just sent out their advance pamphlets. They have also asked for a list of names of students from American universities who may be in Spain during the summer.
Germany has about 55,000 students in her principal universities. The University of Berlin has nearly 8,000; Munich, 7,000; Leipzig, 4,600; Doun 4,000; and Heidelberg 2,400.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
HARE was very popular with the other beasts who all claimed to be her friends. But one day she heard the bounds approaching and honestly threw him away of his heels, Friends, she went to the horse, and asked him to carry her away from the hounds on his back. But he declined, stating that he had important work to do for his master. "He felt afraid," she said. "I applied to friends would come to her assistance." She then applied to the bull, and hoped that he would repel the hounds with his own hands. "I am very sorry, but I have a opportunity with a lady; and I feel sure that our friend the goat will do what you want." The goat, however, feared that his back might do her harm if he took up her arms. "I could not proper friend to apply to. So she went to the ram and told him the case. The ram replied: 'Another time, my dear friend, I do not like to interfere on him,'" she said. "He has been known to cat sheep, as well as hares." The Hare then applied, as a last hope, to the calf, which regretted that he was unable to help her, as he upon himself, as so many older persons than himself had declined the task. By this time the hounds were quite near, and the Hare took to her heels and luckily escaped.
many friends,has no friends.
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STUDENT OPINION
I would like to suggest to the School of Music, through your columns, that a course in sign language be included in its curriculum, so that, when music students at a concert wish, during the pianismo passages, to comment on the singer's costume, or to identify their favorite first violins, they may do so without disturbing those near them who some for another purpose.
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
THE DAILY KANSAN.
HONOR CODE GETS REBUFF.
To the Daily Kansan:
ONE WHO SUFFERED.
The introduction of the honor system in examinations at Washington received a body-blow Friday, when a class under Joel M. J. Mohanson, instructor in education, was awarded to adopt the gentleman's code on the ground that it was impractical.
"If a man wants to cheat, he's going to cheat whether you have an honor system or not," declared the spokesman of the undergraduates in explaining the negative vote. "I've seen the honor system tried in a lot of different ways, but the only system I ever saw was through the keyhole, on my class on its honor, then left the room and watched through the keyhole, failing those who cried."
The vote against the system was unanimous.
TO SEE OUR SCHOOLS
A party of engineering students and engineers from various universities and polytechnic schools of England and the United States. Tour of the United States and Canada.
The great railways, bridges, tunnels, breweries, steel works, and latest buildings will be inspected. Other works will also examine financial and banking arrangements.
The Honor Court of Ohio Wesleyan has recently tried and convicted a student of the institution for plagiarism. The crime was that of copying an English theme from a book. The student was given a grade of "F" and dropped from the course.
Most of the graduates wait three
most of the days after commencement
before marriage.
Of 4,086 seminary and college graduates 44.79 per cent are married. Fifty-eight per cent of the husbands are college graduates, and the percentage is still rising. Forty-one per cent of the husbands are business men. Seventeen per cent are teachers. Lawyers, engineers, and physicians are chosen about equally and clergymen are fourth choice.
Judging the future by the past, it is concluded that 41.9 per cent will marry. The statistics are divided into two parts, those for the alumnae who graduated between 1889 and 1910, after Mount Holyoke had become a college, and those for alumnae graduating between 1842 and 1892, while Mount Holyoke was still a seminary. The average age of marriage for the seminary graduates was 27.21 years.
According to statistics the average age for graduation has fallen from 23 years and 5 months to 21 years 8 months.
S OME interesting figures have been compiled concerning Mount Holyoke graduates.
The college graduate mother, according to statistics compiled with reference to a certain group, has two children, and more boys are born to college women than girls. No divorces have been reported in fifty years.
Missouri Wesleyan has elected a "Board of Control," composed of members from the faculty and the different societies, which will have charge of all debates and oratorical contests.
COLLEGE WOMEN MARRY
COLLEGE MEN
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
All who would study with advantage in any art whatsoever, ought to betake and certain books oftentimes over; for to read many books produceth confusion, rather than learning, like as not anywhere at home.
Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book.
-MARTIN LUTHER
The Female of the species is more deadly than the male.—RUDYARD KIPLING.
"THE SHEMALE OF THE SPECIES"
when the Modiate of the City meets
the shopper in her pride
windows.
He hangs gowns in all his windows with the doodads all outside,
with the doodads all outside,
For he knows she'll stop and grab 'em
as the harpion nags the whale,
For the Scalge. Shonpetina is more
For the Shemale Shopperino is more grasping than the Male.
When the early Pilgrim Fathers ate their Puritanic beans
in those days of savage peril, 'mid those grim and rugged scenes,
Hemale cooks were sequestrated in the poor house and the jail
For the Shemale Chef-de-cuisine cooked beans better than the male.
He will seek a Lady Manicure as quickly as can be
For to get a polish prilliant and a pinkier finger nail,
For the Lady Manicure is popularer than the Male.
When a lover takes his lassie to a supper on Broadway.
And secures a quiet table at some ultra swell cafe.
She rejoices, he is weary, and his pocket book grows stale.
For the Shemale of the species is far hungrier than the male.
So it goes through all the species—doesn't matter what you do—
Wait, line 4 ends with a period.
The whole thing is:
So it goes through all the species—doesn't matter what you do—
You will find the little shemale is the better of the two.
And, no matter what her foibles or her quality of mind,
You will find her in the forefront, with some male not far behind!
Doddgast Stripling, in Harper's Weekly.
SENIORS GIVE A YEAR OF TRAVEL
The William Borden fund of $1,500 has been awarded to Dorothy Baldwin of Tlofig, Pn., by the senior class at Vassar College. The object of the fund is to enable the student to spend a week in New York and view to some active work through which she intends to support herself and be socially useful.
Parson's College has taken a definite stand against gambling on athletic contests. This is a very common evil, no matter whether the contest be inter-collegiate or merely within the college, but many of the others often leads to questionable facies, especially where the players have placed money.—The Stylus.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
LITTLE BOY BLUE
The little toy dog is covered with dust, but sturdy and stanchs he stands. As it does, the dog looks like a sheep.
And his muskert moulds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was
And the soldier was passing fair, And that was the time when our Little
Kissed them and put them there.
"Now, don't you go till I come," he said.
"And don't you make any noise!"
So toddling off to his trundle-bed
So toddling off to his trundle-bed
He dreamt of the pretty toys.
And as he was, dreaming, an angel song
Awakened our Little Boy Blue,—
Oh, the years are many, the years are long.
But the little toy friends are true.
Ay, but the Little Boy Blue they
stand.
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
The smile of a little face.
Each in the same old place,
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
I
And they wonder, as waiting these long years through.
just of that little chair,
What has it on our Little Boy
Blue
blue Since he kissed them and put them there
—EUGENE FIELD.
Everybody knows that fraternal orders perform an important function in society and that they are worthy of the encouragement that they receive. Lawrence has always been hospitable to such organizations and in return has become a large place on the map of fraternaldom. One of the most impressive Masonic temples in the West may be seen in this city. The Eagles lodge has a fine new building. The Fraternal Aid Association has its general offices here, housed in a magnificent three story office building. Other orders enjoy the prosperity that comes with large membership. The fraternal spirit is strong in the Athens of Kansas.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
STUDY PHARMACY AT H
The instruction in this course is given by the members of the faculty of the School of Pharmacy.
A full two years' correspondence course in Pharmacy, with only twelve weeks' absence from business, is now offered by the University of Kansas through its Extension Division.
Tuition for the correspondence instruction is twenty dollars for the two years, payable in installments.
Write at once for a free catalogue, explaining in detail this opportunity. Address
The University Extension Division
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