UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1912
AGAIN—THE COMMONS Do the students want a University Commons? Do they care to maintain a dining hall where they can obtain board of the finest quality, with large portions given, at a reasonable cost to the student—a place where experts are employed to plan and cook their meals, and provide them with the best food that may be obtained?
A Commons may not offer board to the student, immediately after its organization, at a lower cost per week than they may obtain already, but it will be enabled to offer a better quality of food for the money that is spent and in a short time the actual cost per week, may be reduced. The experience at other Commons among other student-bodies, shows that with an efficient management, the student may obtain better food at the Commons than outside.
If the students here want to show future patronage, to any organization that would care to invest the money in such an institution for the student-body, let them send in their ideas upon the subject to the Daily Kansan office on the coupon found on this page. Of the seven thousand meals that are served to University people every day, it is desirable to learn just what per cent, a commons could expect to serve.
In order to run and make expenses, it is necessary that a good portion should be served by the University dining system.
RESTFUL POSES
Most everyone nowadays, students,
professors, farmers, business men,
professional men and all, would like
to find some restful poses, but the
Ottawa Herald has simplified matters.
"Prof. Wilcox of K. U., a noted Greek scholar, has found some of the "restful poses" in Greek art. But anyone who has ever followed a cultivator all day and could get to the old sofa after supper, doesn't need any instruction in restful poses. That would be indeed unnecessary education."
THE ENGINEERS' CAGE
Observer is right when he suggests that after all, even though for the moment, the sight of some student caged and taking part in the Engineers' "doings" against his will and in a way that heaps ignominy and shame upon him, causes a revolt of feeling against the justness of such a trick.
It is, indeed, an easy matter for a half dozen stronger men to subdue one man and put him into a cage, all
Do You Want Commons?
But, how about the man in the cage? Suppose it were just anyone of the crowd who laughed at the predicament of the man who bore that shame, would all be so funny then? The altered point of view makes a difference.
as a prank for everyone else to laugh about and at.
Although some of our fellows seem, at times, to have queer spots in their "make-up"—are good-naturedly dubbed foolish or simple by their fellows—yet men should never forget that all are not so care-free that they lose all thoughts of a just pride for themselves, and to undergo shame such as was administered to one of our number by the Engineers is as painful to bear for the "queer" individual as for the best of jolly good fellows.
(If so, fill out this blank and drop into a University mail box tomorrow.
If the proposed commons were established on a satisfactory plan (1) serving three meals a day, (2) dinner at noon, (3) table d'hore or a la carte, (4) at reasonable prices, I should probably become a
If the department of English of the University of Kansas has really begun a campaign against slang, it deserves the thanks of everyone who has ears to hear. That there is something to be said for slang cannot be denied. Those who disuse it and those who use it are not always actuated by a desire to degrade speech. At bottom, there is the search for newly-minded coins which in a Shakespeare the world applauds. The methods of some the methods employed are common to slang-writer literaryists, the seizing upon metaphorical expressions, the drafting of a noun to do service as a verb. But the practice is so overdone in quantity that the principle has been buried under a mass of nondescript verbal concoctions. Such a fevered movement must die a natural death in the end, but meantime the most-over-sensitive twentieth-century ear is being so violently abused as to make it questionable whether it will long have any power of discrimination left. The virtue of the campaign said to have been undertaken by the University of Kansas lies in its endeavor to strengthen the sense of the word values in persons who are not too old to reform —The Nation, March 28, 1912.
STRENGTHEN WORD VALUES
That they brought to bear upon that question a wealth of fact and appreciation of political principles which would have been creditable to any legislative assembly, is only surprising upon supernatural view. For that they achieved this is only a logical outcome of setting alert, intelligent young men to the study and discussion of current public questions.
UNIVERSITY DEBATES
To the University Daily Kansan:
Four young men of the universities of Kansas and Missouri have just debated the question, stated affirmatively, that the state could be applied to the state judicialy.
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This service the collegiate and university debates are now doing. Incidentally, the extension divisions of the people's universities are carrying that same service out to the general youth of the state. Groups in most of the towns (limited in membership only by individual eligibility) may offer assistance and direction of the universities in the debating of problems which as voters they may need to determine.
One does not hear college and high school debates now on such subjects as "Resolved, that the pen is mightier than the sword," that Aaron Burr was a greater man than Thomas Paine, "that man is intellectually the superior of woman." As the schools are getting more into the common life—in what they teach the students, in serving as social centers, in co-operating with the State along all lines of practical endeavor—so in the department of debate they combine utilitarianism with the best of academic instruction.
This information is given as the only means of showing the demand for Commons to those who are considering their establishment.
From an intimate point of view it may be repeated that no intelligent person could hear the four earnest, finely equipped young men of Missouri and Kansas last night without being intellectually stimulated, without learning much that he likes to know, without realizing happily that there is a fine generation coming along.—Kansas City Star.
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THE MAN IN THE CAGE-HIS
VIEW POINT
STUDENT OPINION
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To the Daily Kansan:
Viewed from the sidelines, the enemers' parade was an exhibition calculated to increase one's respect for the School of Engineering and the students who stay there—with the exception of one feature of the parade. That was the cage, in which a freshman crouched, an unwilling participant in the "doings." There is nothing surprising in the fact that a dozen engineers can overpower an unsuspecting freshman—and nothing especially creditable to the engineers. The comments I heard along the line of the parade and afterward would not have pleased the men responsible for the cage incident, but they were conclusive that most students do not stand for play that is not fair play.
Observer.
AMERICAN ATLHEtic
SPIRIT IN GERMANY
And the French Are Devoted to Pugilism----Like Power of Self- Defense
WHILE in this country there is increasing discussion concerning the exaggerated cult of the body as it is practiced in the colleges, the athletic spirit is reported to be making conquests among the European youth. The peoples of the Continent, it is to be noted, have never been so averse to the pursuit of physical exercise as in our contempt we are often driven to imagine.
Taking athletics in its very broadest sense as the appreciation and pursuit of the open air, we find that in Germany, for instance, the love of the open is probably as widely prevalent as in England or this country. Only with the German as a national hero of the Confederacy may minor degree, the passion manifests itself in a diffused and well-regulated manner.
GERMANS EXERCISE FOR RECREATION
It is less a matter of games and contests and more of pastime and recreation. The German pedestrian in his plumed hat, and knapsack on him, is an historical figure that still lives.
Students and college professor, clerk and professional man, still spend their annual vacation fortnight on the roads of the Black Forest, in the Thuringian glands, or across the frontier in the Bernese Oberland and Tyrol. The workingman to whom a prolonged vacation is denied has his week-end camp out parties, his open-air gymnastic drills.
The consumption of food is not usually recognized as a branch of athletics, but even the pleasant German habit of dining by the thousands out-of-doors is a manifestation of the same fundamental love for the open sky and the green earth.
Nor is there about gymnastic drill and the pleasant game of ninepins that aspect of the heroic which inheres in the manly exercise of running, jumping, and hurling ponderous weights to great distances.
AMERICAN IDEAS WINNING But now the strenuous American idea of physical culture is winning its way against the older and quieter methods. German moralists of the 1960s have learned to do America as the exemplar of success, are now voicing dissatisfaction with the flabby athletic ideas of the university student as expressed in the ceremonious sword-contests of the Mensur and elaborate beer-drinking competitions.
OLYMPIC GAMES A SPUR
In part it has been the influence of America, but in greater measure it has been the influence of the Olympic Games, for the latest renewal of which at Stockholm in June the most elaborate preparations are being made for the victories won at preceding Olympic festivals by the representatives of America has stimulated competition.
There is no likelihood that our primacy in this respect is as yet endangered. We have too long a start and our resources are quite out of proportion to those any other nation can bring into the field. Nevertheless, in various branches of sport the Continental nations have been developing serious contenders. They have done very well in the recreative sports—like golf, tennis, swimming, and rowing; and they are now turning their attention to the more specialized events—like jumping and
the sprints. Admirable features of the Olympic programme are the prizes for all-around ability. At Stockholm the established pentathlonic contest is to be supplemented by a "decathlon."
French sport has gone quite mad over pugilism. In the person of Georges Carpentier the country has developed a champion of international calibre, whose priases are now being hymmed with a fine Gallie elan by statesmen, poets, and members of the Academy. The press teems with accounts of the triumphal progress of la boxe and man on the boule-tenue be very ill suited to the time in the intricacies of le round, le knockout, and le count.
FRENCH PUGILISTIC MAD
That most estimable of family journals, Les Annales, features in one of its recent numbers a philosophical prose poem in praise of the squared ring, by Maurice Maerterlink, supplemented by articles on la musique, the poetry of Bergstrom and on the hygiene of boxing by Carpenter, and illustrated with the familiar physical presentments of Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries. The Maerterlink essay is in the familiar tone of subdued mysticism.
FOEM TO BOXING
The author of the "Treasure of the Humble" compares the extraordinary physical debility of the human animal for purposes of offence and defense, with the amazing resources displayed by the lower creatures. Man has naked the anat's tremendous strength to protect his protective carapace, nor the almost impregnable ambulatory fortifications of the snail.
But he does have his two flats and the skill of directing them toward vital spots, and of pouring into them the water and nervous energy of his body.
About all this there is an air that is not altogether primitive and of the flesh. M. Masterlink's passion for the fine brutal impact of the clenched flat is largely cerebral. We detect the touch of the man whose interest is in the inner meaning of things; and what inner meaning can there be so obviously external a fact as upper-cut or le knockout?
But if M. Masterlückn's enthusiasm is largely poetic freenzy, it is safe to infer that on the part of the ordinary Frenchman this newly awakened fondness for ficticus is part of the present renaissance of the French spirit, away from feminine decadences and self-scariacifications and lotus-catings, toward masculine self-con-fidence, toward those simple, healthy, primitive appaise which help a nation to make a firm stand when some other nation wants to deprive it of Morocco—New York Evening Post.
WOMEN IN COLLEGE
The first Woman's League was established at the University.
THE first Woman's League was established at the University of Michigan in 1855, and since that time practically all universities and colleges have adopted this plan. Based on the same principle, to promote college spirit among the girls and to carry on work wherever it is needed.
In a great many schools the Y. W. C. A. and Women's League work together and any college girl may be a member. In many schools, among women involved in the women's association makes the rules governing the girl's social life.
Some of the largest organizations for women are at Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Cornell and Wisconsin. At Barnard, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, the Women's League holds the same position as the Associated Students and all girls are members. At Barnard a fine of 25 cents is made if a member is absent from a meeting. Such methods insure a large membership and an active interest in college.
In practically all the colleges the women have their own building and maintain it. Many have scholarship funds, and in Michigan the women helped to pay for the athletic field. This work is increasing in importance each year, and will soon be vital to the life of all colleges.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
FAIRIES' SONG
We the fairies blilhe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter;
Stolen kisses much completer;
Stolen looks are nice in chapels;
Stolen, stolen be your apples.
When to bed the world are bobbing.
Then's the time for orchard-robbing;
Yet the fruit were scarcely worth peeling
Were it not for stealing, stealing.
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