UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
EDITORIAL STAFF
RICHARD GADDNER...Managing Editor
J. EARLE MULLER...Sporting Editor
RUSSELL H. CLARK.Ast. Sporting Editor
EARL POTTER...High School Editor
RUSINESS STAFF
IRE E. LAMBERT... Business Manager
J. LEEHN... Assist. Business Manager
BARR... Barr
REPORTORIAL STAFF
STANLEY PINKERKEN
WARD MANIA
JOHN MADDEN
EDWARD LAUPON
JOHN HACOUNT
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912
ERNEST VAN DYKE
The death by drowning of Ernest Van Dyke, brings to the students of the University another of those most trying experiences in the history of our community. A large number of the students here did not know Mr. Van Dyke intimately, but, bound together by the spirit of fellowship and esprit de corps that makes all University people friends, they feel the deepest sorrow at his loss and wish to express their sympathy to the heart-broken parents.
Ernest Van Dyke was one of those serious minded students who make the reputation for institutions of higher learning. His standing in the School of Engineering was an enviable one. Both professors and classmates say that he was not one of those brilliant students who acquire their work easily, but rather a man who ranks first because of faithfulness—his peculiar efficiency in being prepared at all times won for him a record for scholarship of the most worthy kind.
All those who came into contact with him were attracted to him by his manly personality, his firm convictions in the principles for which he stood, his affable bearing and his generous heart. He was one of those students who are working their way through the University.
A young American who was about to enter upon the most efficient years of life, he had completed a portion of his training for higher service among men. The University feels the most sincere regret that one of its best members should be thus removed from the community.
NIGHT SCHOOL
Night school has been organized among the students of their own volition—a school that is new in one sense of the word and old in another. At any rate the attendance has been increasing every time the moon rises over the tops of the trees on the eastern shore of the Kaw river.
It was thought for a while that night school classes would not be held this year, on account of the late spring, but spring is here now and the "song of the bubbling brook is beautiful to hear." In this case the "bubbling brook" happens to be the wonderful Kansas river and its inviting waters furnish the work for the oarsmen, who are the grinds in this flourishing night school.
It is the same old story—we find some taking the burden and pulling the others through the course. And always the awful dam below warns the students (of the night) of their horrible peril if they do not keep up in their work. In our school, most of the oarsmen are excellent and none of them ever fail. Most wonderful of all there are no assigned teachers.
The courses offered are: navigation, landscape gardening, athletics, astronomy, bugology, reckoning of time, (sand) banking, surveying, and (social)ology. Any one or all of these are offered to all students upon filing application at the boat house any night.
THE POOR MAN'S COLLEGE Some of the large Universities of the East are showing decided rivalry to be known as "the Poor man's college," and all are careful to quote exact figures on the number of men who earn a part or the whole of their expenses while attending the University.
Perhaps Kansas with eighty per cent of the men students earning a part or the whole of their University expenses according to statistics gathered last year, might enter this rivalry for the reputation of being "the poor man's college."
It is a pleasant and significant fact that there is now a decided rivalry among even the biggest universities to be known as "the poor man's college." And there are plenty of facts and figures to sustain such claims in regard to most of them. Harvard leads off with the statement by the Harvard Bulletin that from one-third to one-half of its undergraduate earn money either during term time or in vacation, and thereby pay wholly or in part for their university course.
A recent statement as to student employment in Harvard shows that in round numbers between 750 and 1,100 men are working their way through college, and that instead of being in a caste by themselves an this account, they are honored according to their respective merits. Yale has more than 500 students who are helping themselves through its courses, and from Princeton comes word that ten acres of land were in trucks into truck companies where undergraduates are earning money for themselves and also helping to reduce the cost of living of other students by raising vegetables for the college eating-clubs and college commons.
On the whole, this is the most satisfactory piece of information that has recently come from our leading universities. It shows the democratic spirit is not dead but is flourishing vigorously. The fact that hundreds of students of Columbia and New York University and the other colleges of New York annually pay in whole or in part the expenses of their college course is well known. —New York World.
COLLEGE POSSIBILITIES.
There are some differing opinions of the relative value of the various phases of college life. On one the extreme, the view, that one should specialize in some activity other than his studies sufficiently to excel in it. On the other side, the view is that the class room and library work is all important.
Some people believe they are getting the most out of their college life when they make B grades. This class is relatively small. There are others, however, who would sacrifice studies to student activities. In their opinion a good athlete, a good debater, or a good leader generally, may barely make passing grades in class room work and still be deserving of much credit. These are narrow views. Primarily a person is at college to study. But if he is not living up to his possibilities. On the other hand, though a man may show extraordinary ability in athletics, in debating, in dramatics, or in any outside work, he should not consider himself worthy of being permitted to remain among college associates if he is not of average proficiency in strictly collage work.
Although he may not be a star in either studies or student activities, the all-round man who does as well as the average in what he undertakes, may be getting the most out of his college life.—University Missouri.
One of the least unpleasant ways for men who are supporting themselves in college to economize, is the management of eating clubs, whereby man who "signs up" a certain business, such as boarding house, is given his own meals gratis in return. The natural interest that all such arrangements which mean so much to the man who cannot rely upon the monthly cheek from home, should be taken solely by those who are working their own way. Unusually this is the case; but every little while we find in charge of eating clubs men who are of quite comfortable means, and to whom the lucrative result is a more added luxury. This is really an infringement of the rights and privileges of those who need to work for their education.
THE HEART AND THE STOMACH
We feel, however, that it is thoughtlessness rather than deliberate self-fashion which prompts this invasion of the legitimate field of the self-supporting man. Such a man we are proud of; his type conforms to Yale's
One of the least unpleasant ways for men who are supporting them selves in collapse or economic is the
highest ideals, and those who are better situated financially will do well to realize his frequent dependence upon the eating club, and to show more regard for his neighbor of narrower means.—Yale News.
THE WAY THE GRADS
WATCH US
An opportunity was offered by the circulation department to the members of the alumni association of the University and several of the old students to subscribe to the Daily Kansan and keep in close touch with their University. Many and varied are the enthusiastic replies that come by return mail.
To the Daily Kansan:
Your courteous and eloquent suggestion that I become a regular reader of the University Daily Kansan was received. I beg to inform you that I already enjoy that privilege, it being part of the priceless privilege enjoyed by all students of the university, the cult far more than the lure of lucre or the realization of the lure.
Iola, Kansas.
The Daily is a mighty creditable paper, deserving the best there is. It should receive a state bonus for exchanges among the printshops of Kansas, and should go to every high school in the homes of the families of students.
F. W. BREWSTER.
ONE ANSWERED IN VERSE.
That happen at the good old school,
That we afar may know with pride
The movement of your rapid stride,
Now here enclosed a check you'll find,
And bear this uppermost in mind—
To rush the sheet to me on time.
Your Daily Kansan is the thing—
It has the old time K. U. ring.
It tells about so many things
Dear Kansan:
ANOTHER GUESS COMING.
I like your push, but fear that you will join the other defunct college papers in 3! June. I knew the old "Kansan," and the "Courier," and the "Students" Journal, and the "University Weekly." You are the latest and the ambitionist. You laugh, you'll join a good crowd. Meanwhile, here is my trial subscription.
E. S. RIGGS.
"LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM"
BEFORE the journalist can influence his time, he must represent it.
BEFORE the journalist can influence his time, he must represent it. He did so during the last century's second half, after the fashion and in the instances here set forth, by mirroring in his diction and treatment the literary tastes which the influence of Dickens and Thackeray had done something to extend and deepen, but which was really rooted in the intellectual prejudices as well as the educational methods of the time.
All that is now changed. Among newspaper people the good all round man, who may have had how and then a smattering of science, but who is particularly at home in politics and letters, and could do into flowing English couplets, for appearance in his newspaper next morning, the Westminster play, prologue and epilogue, has been replaced by the specialist of a few departments, by the manufacturer of literary pemican, and the condenser, sometimes of old-world folios, sometimes of the chief points in the universal Press of this planet, into tabloids to be taken as a whet for breakfast or for a digestive for lunch. This new work affords the performer as much real display, no doubt, of ability and resourcefulness, as tasks of a very different kind provided for his predecessor. No comparison between the merits of the two is here made or even hinted. The one concern has been to point out and illustrate the contrast between two epologies. J.-H. S. Escott in Fortnightly Review.
Wheaton has completed plans for a new era in that that next fall it will be opened as a college for women. Wheaton is the newest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts.
The late Dr. Francis Bacon left $400,000 to be used as a scholarship fund in the undergraduate department of Yale University for the benefit of needy students.
Services marking the centennial of the Princeton Theological Seminary began yesterday and will continue through the week.
The Yale club of New York is planning to erect a $1,000,000 20-story house at Vanderbilt Avenue and Forty-fourth Street. The club has 3,400 members.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
"And thus my book hath been so much more pleasing to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it, all other pleasures in very but trifles and troubles unto me."
-LADY JANE GREY.
Following the publication of Miss Helen Logan's editorial on slang in the Wellesley College News, of which she is editor-in-chief, word has been passed around to the students to "cut out the slang." Each girl who is heard to use the word fined, and the money will be added to the Student Government Building fund.
WELLESLEY TABOOS SLANG
The college girls call slang "undressed English." Here are some of the stock slang phrases which have been used at Wellesley and how they are said, with guesses by a more man as to the meaning of some of them:
Bat—To bat, or to go off on a bat.
Bat—Me, ME—always accented on the "lieve."
CALEB — A woman or girl you admire and respect for her achievements.
CALLEE — A woman or girl,
and respect for her achievements.
CRUSH — A thing a senior may fall
back on when she is out of town.
CUTS CHUNKS — Cuts great chunks
of ice.
**musculine** *kisses*
DUMPS - The misery that that doesn't love company.
DEWDABS—Masculine kisses.
EL—Staircases.
FREAKS—Persons one doesn't like.
FUDGE PIPELE—Purely exclamatory,
Gym—Good for promoted ankles.
NMT—Spoken always in
an endearing tone.
JAM-A flurry.
LAH-DI-DAH—Dressed up.
PEACH—Form of admiration, applicable to anything from a Harvard freshman to a new spring hat.
PEANUT—Persons who are not square.
PERFECTLY SWEET AND PERFECTLY WFLU—Used literally but frequently.
PILL—Same as peanut.
QUIa—An ordeal arranged by the faculty.
RIG—Costume.
**SCREAM—Anything that is comical.**
**SHAGGY—Mystery; used frequently.**
**SHARK—A person you secretly envy**
**publicly malign for her achievement.**
SWELL-Perfectly glorious.
V. L.'s—Persons you like; derived from violent likes—The N. Y. World.
VILL—Wellesley square.
WRITTEN AT MISSOLONGHI
My days are in the yellowleaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are done;
The worm, the canker and the grief Are mine alone.
The hope, the fears, the jealous care
The exiled portion of the pain
And power of love, I cannot share.
I wear the chain.
Glory and Greece around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free.
Yet—see—the sword, the flag, the field!
Awake! (no Greece—she is awake!)
Awake my spirit! Think through
your words.
Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake, and then strike home;
Up to the battle! There is found
A soldier's grave—for thee the
best;
Then look around and choose thy
ground,
And take thuy rest!
—Lord Byron.
And take thy rest!
The college fraternities throughout the country are protesting against the portraits of the undergraduate Greek letter man, drawn by a certain school of authors. It is maintained by the fraternity men that these stories not only injure the standing of the organizations, but that they give the impression of the men's impression of the fraternities and that he is thus induced to adopt exaggerated clothes and habits in hopes that he may be elected to one.
The students have a chance to "rest on their axes" this week and do some real hard work. Nothing has been scheduled to happen till Saturday, the dual track meet with Missouri and that is out of town.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
A crowd of troubles passed him by
As he with courage waited;
He said, "Where do you troubles fly
When you are thus belated?"
"We go," they say, "to those who mope,
Who look on life dejected.
Who weakly say good-bye to hope,
We go where we're expected."
—FRANCIS J. ALLISON.
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