UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
RICHARD GARDNER
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J. EARLE MILLER.
Sporting Editor
RUBBELL H. CLARE. Ast. Sporting Editor
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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912
SENIOR RE-UNION
Public spirited members of the class of 1911 perfected an organization of their class last spring and drew up plans for activities altogether new at the University. The class selected a secretary and made it incumbent upon him to watch over the fortunes of the members of the class in much the same way as the secretary of the Alumni Association cares for his graduates.
Back of the desire to bind the members of the class closer together, there was the intention of creating a new tradition among senior classes at the University—a custom for senior classes to observe. At one of the meetings last year, plans for a reunion were completely worked out—this meeting of the class to take place at the dedication of the completed Administration building in 1915.
This determination on the part of the class of 1911 brought words of commendation from those who had watched senior classes graduate from the University and go away from Mt. Oread never to return again. At the senior men's smoker, vows were made and members of the class told how great a thing they were doing. They decided to give a loving cup to the first baby of the class and altogether aroused an unprecedented class loyalty.
However, since the close of the spring semester in 1911, nothing has been heard of a senior class organization comparable to that of the class of 1911. The class of 1912, although certainly offered the cooperation of the faculty and administration of the University, has never taken the steps to perfect their organization and make arrangement for their meeting upon the campus at the time of the dedication of the largest University building in 1915.
This is a project that is worth con sideeration by the leading spirits of the class and it is possibly not too late, even at this time, to undertake to get the class together for such ar organization.
Action should be taken quickly, though; a meeting held at once and a competent secretary selected to look after the interests of the members of the class after they leave the University.
Why not aid in the establishment of a University tradition that would be entirely worth while and would make for a better fellowship among the members of the class?
IS COLLEGEHYMNIA DEAD?
If it be not a crime against good artistic taste to consider the existence of a tenth muse, why not put in a call for the return of jolly Collegehymnia, the must of college songs?
On the University campus there never gather groups of students in the beauty of the evening, who sing together the old songs. In every other University and college there are traditions concerning certain songs, where and when they shall be sung, and by whom.
No such traditions exist here.
At other schools, especially in the East, it is different. There they "gather on the chapel steps and sing their songs once more." They celebrate some beauty spot of their campus, some glorious event on history, or some achievement of an old grad in full-throated melody that rolls across the campus like a solemn prayer.
The most precious recollections of a college life enduring when the last declension has vanished and the last formula has disappeared from memory and the last historical date has been forgotten, are the images that reveal the old times under the stars on the green campus grass when the company of chums blended their voices together in the moving chords of the old college songs—hymns they seem to an old grad.
The long-enduring effect of the singing of college songs by college students in the evening on the college campus is best lost at the University. Will not some one start a movement to revive the dying muse Collegehymia?
GAZING SOUTHWARD
GREENG SOUTHWARD
The Witchery of the Wakarusa!
You have stood—have you not—on the south edge of the campus and watched the southern hills of the Wakarusa dance and waver in the blue haze of warm May?
There is a charm about those dim hills and the level sweep of the valley between that almost eludes description. From the full springtide glow of their verdurous slopes they breathe the spirit of romance and adventure; they fascinate the eye of the observer; they lure the feet of the explorer. They have been the inspiration of youthful poets and the despair of budding artists since Mt. Oread became the home of growing genius.
Even the prosaic engineer has turned his gaze southward while on the pilgrimage between Marvin and Blake and let his fancy bear him above the moil of calculation and lead him to commune a while with the spirit of beauty. That spirit when followed by a mind artful enough to translate it into common thought and deep enough to keep its full message intact, is one of the greatest blessings a mortal worker can confer on the world that helps make him immortal.
And the surroundings of the University are very well fitted to inspire an artistic tinge and a flavor of romance to the character of the life work planned and prepared for on Mt. Oread.
YELLOW JOURNALISM ON THE WANE...
Dr. Calvin N. Stone, commissioner of education, in an address to the Pennsylvania State Educational Association, says that the newspapers and periodicals are a greater force in the education of the people than the public schools. He urges that the newspapers be more informed of study that a love of reading may be instilled into the mind of a child and nourished until he shall reach manhood
If the child is to read newspapers, the yellow journal should be frowned upon, and young journalists encouraged to practice memory and sympathy first, and always first.
Continuing, Mr. Brooks shows how visibly it is affecting pretty nearly everything we do and say and think. How it competes with churches, supersedes parliaments, elbows out literature, rivals the schools and universities and furnishes the world with a new set of nerves. And yet no one has attempted to trace out its consequences or define its functions.
Many Americans who believe that the most reckless days of yellow journalism have not passed will no doubt be glad to learn that Sidney Brooks, a careful foreign observer, thinks that already we have paid the price for this "precious product of American inventiveness" and can now begin to enjoy its fruitfulness. He feels that journalism, though a giant, is still a very young one and has been brought to its present form by a succession of astounding inventions, namely, the railway, the cable, the telegraph, the telephone, the rotary press, the linetype, the manufacture of paper from wood pulp, and color printing. These are, according to Mr. Brooks, the "discoveries of yesterday that have made the journal of today possible."
"It's youth," says Mr. Brooks,
"must be its excuse for whatever flaw and excesses it has developed. The yellow press, as I view the matter, is disorder of infancy and not of deep crepitude; is is a sort of journalist scurlet fever and will be cured in time.
Mr. Brooks does not think that the yellow press is irredeemably bad. In some instances he feels that it has rendered some real public services.
"The yellow journals have never failed to fly the rich perverter of public funds and properties, the rich gambler in fraudulent consolidations, and the far-reaching oppressiveness of that alliance between organized wealth and degenated politics with dominates America. They daily explain to the masses how they are being robbed by the treacherous applied with by the politicians and betrayed by their elected officers, *"* Their methods are wholly brazen, but it is undeniable that the public has benefited by many of their achievements."
In concluding Mr. Brooks says "Both Mr. Hearest and the late Mr Pulitzer have not only saved million of dollars to the public, but have fought a stimulating fight for democracy against plutocracy and privilege."—Washington Daily.
BUT THEY DEMAND A SQUARE DEAL
But this apparent instability is only the natural complement of the extreme and confident individualism of the people having succeeded in overcoming somany obstacles that were unavoidable, they do not doubt their ability to destroy them. But when they are structured. It thus happens that while no people endure the reverses of nature with greater fortitude and good humor that the people of Kanasa, misfortunes seemingly of man's making arouse in them a veritable passion of resistance; the mere suspension of injustice, rest
In a recent commencement address, Mr. Henry King said that conditions in early Kansas were "hair-triggered". Well, Kansas are themselves hair-triggered; slight pressure, if it be of the right sort, sets them off. Every one is on the quiteive, alert, vigilant, like a sentinel at an outpost." This trail finds expression in the romantic devotion of the people to the state, in a certain alert sensitivity to criticism from outside, above all in the contiguous enthusiasm with which they will without warning espouse a cause, especially when symbolized by a striking phrase, "We are native in Kansas, and the political history of the state, like its climate, is replete with surprises that have made it "alternately the reproach and the marvel of mankind."
MAKING LIGHT OF TROUBLE
There is a tradition surviving from the grasshopper time that illustrates the point. It is said that in the midst of that overwhelming disaster, when the pests were six inches deep in the streets, the editor of a certain local paper fined his comment on the situation down to a single line, which appeared among the trivial happenings of the week "A grasshopper was seen on the court-house steps this morning." This type of humor, appreciated anywhere west of the Alleghenies, is the type par excellence of Kansas. Perhaps it has rained for six weeks in the spring. The wheat is seemingly ruined; no corn has been planted. A farmer, who sees his profits for the year wiped out, looks at the murky sky, sniffs the damp air, and remarks seriously, "Well, it looks like rain. We may save that creep yet." "Yes," his neighbor replies with equal seriousness, "but it will have to come soon, or it won't do any good." When misfortunes beat down upon one in rapid succession, there comes a time when it is useless to strive against them, and in the end they engender an obscurity curiosity victim, who finds a pleasure in observing with philosophical resignation the ultimate caprices of fate. Thus Kansans, "coiners of novel phrases to express their defiance of destiny," have employed humor itself as a refuge against misfortune. They have learned not only to endure adversity, but in a very literal sense to laugh at it as well.
I have already said that the type of individualism that is characteristic of America is one of achievement, not of eccentricity. The statement will bear repeating in this connection, for it is truer of Kansas than of most communities, notwithstanding there is a nation abroad that the state is peopled by breaks and eccentrics. It was once popularly supposed in Europe, and perhaps is so yet, that Americans were all eccentric. Now, Kansas are eccentric in the same sense that Americans are they differ somewhat from other Americans, just as Americans are distinguishes from others. But a fundamental characteristic of Kansas individuals is the tendency to conform; it is an individualism of conformity, not of revolt. Having learned to endure to the end, they have learned to conform, for endurance is itself a kind of conformity.
fare sumptuously, the pressure of laws not self-imposed, touch something explosive in their nature that transforms a calm and practical people into excited revolutionists. Grasshoppers elicited only a wittiness, but the "mortgage fiends" produced the Populist regime, a kind of religion crusade against the infidel Money Power. The same spirit was recently exhibited in the "Boss Busters" movement, which in one summer spread over the state like a prairie fire and overthrew an established machine supposed to be the enemy of the revolution. "Higher Law" is still a force in Kansas. The spirit which pursued to obey "bogus laws" is still easily stirred. A people which has endured the worst of nature's tyrannies, and cheerfully submits to tyrannies self-impressed, is in no mood to suffer hardships that seem remediable.
Of course, some men are like pigs, the more you educate them, the more amusing little cusses they become, and the funnier capers they out when they say, "I'm sorry." Similarly, the place to send the boy of that breed is to the circus, not to college.
You bet it pays. Anything that trains a boy to think and to think quick pays; anything that teaches a boy to think quickly. You get things gets through biting the nervous pay.
College doesn't make fools; it develops them. It doesn't make bright men; it develops them. A fool will turn out a fool, whether he goes to college or not, though he'll probably turn out a different sort of a fool.
Your affectionate father, JOHN GRAHAM
EDUCATION OF THE
RIGHT SORT PAYS
It's simply the difference between jump in rough-and-tumble, kick-with-the-heels-and-butt-in-with-the head-nigger fighting, and this grin andlook-pleasant, dodge-and-save-your-wind-till you - see a-chance-to-land-on-the-solar-plexus style of the trained athlete. Both styles win fights, but the fellow with a little science is the better man, providing he's kept his muscle hard. If he hasn't, 'he's in a bad way, for his fancy sparing is just going to aggravate the other fellow so that he'll eat him up.
From "Letters from a self Made Merchant" to John Graham, head of the house of Graham, father-in-law of the first wife, famously known on *Chance* as "Old Man Charlie," accidentally known to his intuitions. Priya
"Education's a good deal like eating—a fellow can't always tell which particular thing did him good, but he can usually tell which one did him harm. After a square meal of roast beef and vegetables, and mince pie and watermelon, you can't say just which ingredient is going into muscle, but you don't have to be very bright to figure out which one started the demand for pain-keller in your insides, or to guess next morning, which one made you believe in a personal devil the night before. And so, while a fellow can't figure out in an ounce whether it is Latin or algebra or history or what among the solids that is building him up in this place or that, he can go right along feeding them in and betting that they are not the things that turn his tongue fuzzy. It is down among the sweets, among his amusements and recreations, that he's going to find his stomach-ache, and it's there he wants to go slow and to pick and choose.
Does a college education pay? Does it pay to feed in pork trimmings at five cents a pound at the hopper and draw out nice cunning, little "country" sausages at twenty cents a pound at the other end? Does it pay to take a steer that been running loose on the range and living on cactus and pertified wood till he's just a bunch of bar-birr and sole-leather, and feed him corn till he's just a solid barm of porter-house steak and ale ool!
It's not the first half, but the second half of a college education which merchants mean when they ask if a college education pays. It's the Willie and the Bertie boys; the chocolate eclair and the tutti-frutti boys; the la-de-diah and the baa-ba-bialy-bog-ton; the high cock-o-alo-rum and the cock-a-doole-do boys; the Bah Jove girls, hair-parted-in-the-middle, cigaroot-smoking, Champagne-Charlie, up-night-and-in-all-day boys that make 'em doubt the cash value of a college output and over look the roast-beef and the blood-gravy boys, the shirt-sleeves and high-water-pants boys, who take their college education and make some fellow's business hum with it.
A Self-Made Merchant, of Chicago,
Tells About the Bertie and the
Tutti-Frutta Boys.
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