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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Experience keeps a dear school;
but fools will learn in no other.
POLITICS
Believing that the undergraduate paper should aid the student-body for which the paper is published, in the selection of their officers for positions on the Student Councils, the Athletic Board and, this spring, the editors and manager of the 19'2 Jayhawker, the Daily Kansan will open its columns next week for statements from all candidates who are running for office subject to election by the students.
Some limitations must be placed upon the character of the statements published for the various candidates though. The statements should, in order that the Kansan may print them, contain no libelous references to other men in the field who are competitors for the same office. The editor will reserve the right to expurgate all such matter from the write-ups handed to him and then publish the statements, with the consent of the candidate signing it.
Announcements for officers on the Men's Student Council will be limited to two hundred words and those who are candidates for membership on the council will have to condense their communications to one hundred and fifty words.
The first installment of such announcements will be published in the paper Friday evening May 3. All communications should be handed to the editor before six o'clock Thursday evening.
The men entering the race for the editorship and manager's job for the Jayhawker will be allowed two hundred words to tell why they should be elected and what they will do if they are put into the offices, and likewise the men who are running for office on the Athletic Board.
CHILD'S PLAY
What's the use?
Here the men have been trying with all their might, have stayed up nights, lost sleep, funked classes and possibly everything else detrimental for the undergraduate in college, all to put out a daily paper at the University—and now they are pushed aside by the young women who will show them just how a paper containing matter most interesting to the students should be published.
Why, even the editor, or editors, says in an interview to one of the mere men reporters "Oh, we know it's no 'child play' to get out the Daily Kansan," but—well we can just infer "You just watch us."
Any of the men who have been working on the students' paper for the past three months agree heartily with anyone who says it's no child's play to put out a paper. Many are the sleepless nights in which they have tossed and turned trying to think of a new field to uncover that would yield stories to make the columns of the paper interesting. The men are all amateurs yet, and their ability to see the news sources is yet undeveloped, but there are those eighteen columns every day which have to be filled with live stories reflecting undergraduate life at the University.
Then after the sheet is off for the day, the editors merely grumble and turn about in their chairs to begin the making of the next paper, till six o'clock sends them to their boarding clubs for supper. There sitting on the porch waiting for the tardy supper bell to sound, the boy brings the paper to the house, and someone picks up the concentrated effort and work of many serious minded students to read the news.
"What's in the paper tonight?" someone, half curious to know what is going on, asks.
"Nothing much, just a lot of 'filler,' " that bright discerning student who has perhaps translated three whole pages of German or gone to the nickle shows that afternoon, replies, and then the editor cannot help but laugh and think, "What is the use?" However, the young women's number will change all this. Every word
However, the young women's number will change all this. Every word will be read and we are glad of it, too.
President Lowell of Harvard University, in his annual report, analyzes the choice of electives by students now entering. Learners are coming, more that formerly, from high schools and from a wider range of the United States and other countries.
FOR CONCISE THOUGHT.
Economics leads. History comes next. Language and literature follow. Then come the natural sciences, with engineering dominating in this group.
Last are the classical languages and mathematics. Of the fewness of the men who concentrate in this last group President Lowell does not hesitate to say that it is deplorable. Nor can it be denied. A generation of which only two per cent of the young men wish to know aught of the literature and philosophy of Greece and Rome, and of which even fewer care to undergo formal education though taught and character of pursuit of mathematics and the mental objectivizing which is involved therein, is bound to be rootless, under the domination of the contemporaneous, and unduly subjective in all its judgements.
Nor is there much doubt but that the formlessness and slovenliness of a vast amount of contemporary speech-making and magazine literature is due to the refusal of the speakers and writers, when they were collegians, to submit to the rigorous weighting of their statements that are involved in mastery of the speech of Demosthenes and Cicero, Plato and Horace.
A reaction from the exclusive claims once made for the classics was bound to come. Compulsory drill and concentration upon them no doubt was made impossible by the ideal of student liberty and the immense widening of the curriculum of a university during the nineteenth century.
But it is not time for a reaction against the reaction? Knowledge of economics is useful, and the world has need of engineers.
But it needs sound ethics and philosophy more than it does aught else; it needs beauty of style in speaking and writing as well as precise information and sound counsel. The modern world has vastly better raiment, shelter and dietary that the ancient world. Enormous ranges of information have been disclosed to the inquisition. Much wisdom that formerly was the possession of the few is now at the service of the many. Literature, art, statecraft and ecclesiastical administration are all being democratized.
But some skeptics venture to question whether the modern man has the moral depth of his ancestors, the mental toughness and sinew, the serious contemplation of eternal things. Concentration of youth on economics never saved a nation in the past. Nor will it now. - Christian Science Monitor.
LION once fell in love with a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to her parents. The old people did not know what to say. The young men could not resist to the Lion, yet they did not wish to erage the King of Beasts. At last the father said: "We feel highly honoured by your Majesty's proposal, but you see that your majesty should have been tracted, and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury. Might I venture to suggest that your Majesty should have been tracted, and we fear that in the vehemence of your proposal again." The Lion was so much in love that he had his claws trimmed and his big head taken out. But he was still required to take on the of the young girl they simply laughed in his face, and bade him his worst.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
Love can tame the wildest
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Janitor -Say, missis, donn' datteler in No. 16 evah do wuk?
Landlady—Nope, guess he must be one of them idle rumors I hear folks talkin' about.
"How was it that Van Scribber, the sporting writer, got in wrong at Tuskegee?"
"When he wrote up the track meet there he facetiously referred to the students on the bleachers as liceorrooters." —Stanford Chaparral.
Yale Record.
"22—What is an Opinionist?
10—Why, a man who will write
"PERSONAL" on a post-card and
not expect everybody to read it.
'22—What is an Optimist?
Mr. Johnson enlarged upon his ideas at his apartment on West Sixty-seventh Street. Did he think that the college was due to the social system?
Harvard Lampoon.
The discussion in Stover's room had given rise to the question why the undergraduates were all so totally unfamiliar with what go on in the world about them.
"I don't get what I deserve for my "jokes," sighed the alleged humorist. "You're lucky," comforted the con- ridden pessimist. —Coyote.
"That's a nice umbrella you've got."
"Yes, it was a present."
"Indeed! From whom?"
"I don't know; but it says on the handle 'Presented to John Robinson.'"
Boston, Trustee
Reporter—There were a couple of peroxide blondes at the Field Day who seemed to be slightly intoxicated.
Bearded Lady—Did you hear about the turble accident, Shorty?
City Editor—Put this head on your story; "Bleachers Full at Track Meet."
Boston Transcript.
Stanford Chaparral.
Bearded Lady—The Human Skeleton was washing his hands and got sucked down the waste pipe.
"Indirectly I do," he said. "Do you know that it is really absurd easy to go through an American college today, as far as the curriculum is concerned? Any one who can't get a degree here must have some inherited idocy. The trouble is, I think, that in the last twenty years, instead
OWEN JOIHNSON TALKS
ABOUT HIS CRITICISM
—Yale Record.
When Owen Johnson, the writer of stories and plays, took Dink Stover, the "Varmint," her of his Lawrenceville story, and entered him as a freshman at Yale, it was immediately apparent that he proposed to make the sequel a serious commentary on the undergraduate life at New Haven.
ABOUT HIS CRITICISMS
But the current installment of the serial, appearing in the April issue of McClure's Magazine, is far more than that, for it contains a vigorous arraignment of the whole schemes of social organization as it exists in the large colleges of the East, an attack that will probably receive wide discussion, coming as it does, not from the outside, as in the case of the Crane criticisms, but from one who was an active undergraduate at Yale in the class of 1900, and who loved and loves that college dearly.
The burden of the criticism is that the social organization of the colleges has so overwhelmed them that the intellectual life has been choked out.
Since "Stower at Yale" purports to be fiction, the criticism, for the most part, is put in the mouth of one of the characters, Brockhurst, who delivers it vigorously to a pipe-smoking roomful of dazed companions.
It is understood that the character of Brockhurst, who goes through Yale stubbornly independent of the whole social scheme of things, was drawn in no small part from one Hunt, a classmate of Mr. Johnson, who later became the fighting District Attorney of St. John's College, whom Mayor out there. It was not hard to guess that Brockhurst, however violently, was stating Mr. Johnson's own point of view—not his whole point of view, but one with which he thoroughly sympathizes. He confirmed this suspicion yesterday in the course of an interview.
BROCKHURST REALLY LIVES
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
Do read good books
best books are few, but know them is
a class that does not perish. Knowing
them, you can at all times enter the
haunted country, and find your favorite
places, and be at rest with that
which is perfect, more acquaintance
with the masters of language.
There are good friends as they are.
Do read good books
—ANDREW LANG.
of being regarded as an intellectual opportunity, college life has been regarded as a social experience. The undergraduates have organized college life and run away with it
"The fraternities and secret societies, which were formerly intellectual in their purpose and leanings, were the convenient instruments at hand when the great social struggle overthrew them. They were supported in opposition to the spontaneous democracy that finds its natural leaders and natural groupings. With the social movement in possession, everything became closely organized, for the sake of the gradations and positions which organization gives.
HOW FRATERNITIES EVOLVED
"The organization chokes out everything else. It is all-absorbing. Do you know that last year of the forty men who went out to 'heel the Yale News at the fiercest part of the competition, some had to drug themselves to keep going, and this year, the dean tells me, they had to put the competitors on their oath not to work for the News between midnight and 7 in the morning."
"Face to face with the social movement, the authorities perceived a different body before them. At first they sheltered themselves behind the convenient excuse of non-interference with undergraduate activities, and so allowed the social system to assume the proportions of a property institution. The property so owned at Yale alone is valued at $1,000,000. Instead of taking drastic measures, they allowed the system to build up to a strength that would make any university head quail. To them it is as the tariff question to a republican state. They afraid to teach it, and while they know and must admit that the men learn nothing and are only bluffing their way along, they find what comfort they can in talking of natural American ambition and calling the college a 'school for character.'
Mr. Johnson, who is making a special study of the problems outlined in "Stover at Yale" was not ready to discuss the remedy.
"I believe the treatment need not lie in surgical operations, so to speak he said, "and I believe it will be along with of a raised standard of scholarship."
ATHLETICS A DEMOCRATIC FORCE
Owen Johnson is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of the Century Magazine. He went to Lawrenceville, as Stover did, and in Yale he was the Chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine for the class of 1900. He is a member of Alpha Delta Phi. One of his more recent literary productions was the English version of "The Return from Jerusalem," used by Mme. Simone during her recent engagement at the Hudson theater. In all his criticism and comment on the colleges, this critic has nothing to say against the oft-attacked athletics.
"They're the great leveler," he said when it was pointed out to him. "They're the one democratic force at work.
"Well, I don't know," he said. "A French or German university man would have answered them all. It would been primer stuff over here."—The New York Times.
Mr. Johnson was asked if he did not think the questions fired by Brockhurst rather too stiff, rather too erudite, for a fair test.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
VIRTUE
Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright
The bridal of the Earth and Sky,
The Dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For they must die.
The Dew shall weep the fall tonight,
For thou must die.
Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave.
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,
Thy root is ever in its grave,
And thou must die.
Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses.
A box where sweets compacted lie, Mummy you have your closes, and all must die.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turns to
it.
—GEORGE HERBERT.
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A "CHRISTIAN SLAVE."
"A VOICE FROM THE DEEP"
A Vitagraph Feature.
Sensational production of the Halo-Turkish War. Actual scenes from Tripoli, by Circes. Also a Special Release Biograph.
"THE BLACK WALL"
And a side-splitting Comedy,
ALKALI IKE WINS THE RANCH WIDOWER'S DAUGHTER
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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.
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