UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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STANLEY PINKERSON WARD MAUH JOHN MADDEN HAWTHORNE HAUCTIONT
JOHN MADDEN HAWTHORNE HAUCTIONT
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Kansas, Kansas under the act of March
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MONDAY, MAY 13, 1912.
The organization of the college students is progressing nicely this year since its inception several years ago. At the election of officers the other day nearly a half hundred of the five hundred enrolled attended, and such was the enthusiasm expressed and displayed that the election was held in the first two minutes—the men were in such a hurry to get to their dinners. It is rumored that the collegians expect to do something in the next few years.
POTTER LAKE
The closing of Potter lake to swimmers is no doubt justified under the present condition. The lake is big enough to demand some kind of life saving apparatus. As it is there are no ropes, no boats and a raft has proved unwieldy in emergency.
The lake is a great place to swim, and it is very convenient for the students of the University. Young men, as a rule, like to go swimming well enough so that if they are driven from Potter lake they will go to the next best place—the Kansas river.
Why would it not be a good plan for the University to purchase a boat with some life saving apparatus and install it at the lake? Then open the lake to all of the students, and place a guard or a watchman on duty. This together with regular swimming hours would eliminate all the danger of drowning.
From five o'clock in the morning till night-fall the various tennis courts that have been put into shape this spring are in continuous use by both men and women students. Some of the enthusiasts forget their meals in their desire to play that best of games. And even then some of the courts are lined with players waiting their turn. Anything that could be done to provide more tennis courts for the student players of the University would be appreciated by a great number who have to wait a long time now before they can play for their half hour or hour.
"TIPPING"
Several kinds of personalities must be considered in connection with the important subject of "tipping" hats. There is the man with the tendency toward baldness. He, proud in the knowledge he gives the world, of a heavy gloriously grown crop; exposes his two horns from beneath his cap and wisely refrains from revealing the threadbare condition of his head.
Again, there is the shy man. He, hastily and fearfully takes a fleeting glance at the approaching peril and if she looks particularly worthy of cultivation, manages to touch his foretouch much in the manner of the Irish peasantry to their Landlord; if she fail's to pass inspection, he suddenly takes exceeding interest in the landscape and shuffles past.
The lazy man is classed with the overworked "Fusser." Both of these, if the occasion is extraordinary, manage to lift their caps or nats clear—being careful not to disturb the hair. But they have found from experience, a broad grin does about as well and is not nearly so tiring.
The politician has a class all to himself—one hesitates to pass judgment on him. The analysis is also that if the true, psychology of the that if the true, physiology of the politician on the art were only known, one would not have to pose as the lowly philosopher. However, one notices that except just before election the politician is generally too busy to stop to tip his hat, a hasty nod is sufficient and more duly impresses one of the importance of being a politician. Before elections though, the most Chesterfeldian bow seems to be appropriate, this to be used to everyone without discrimination of beauty, age or sex.
SLANG VS. CULTURE IN KANSAS
In spite of politics, Kansas has time for the cultivation of pure and dignified speech. Her state university has started a campaign against slang — or rather against hackneyed, offensive, uninteresting slang.
Some of these phrases and idioms that students are advised to avoid are national—unfortunately. A few are peculiar to Kansas or the section she is the center of. Of course, students from Kansas are national in their again" or in "That will be about all!" There are other wholly innocent or proper expressions in the list. The offense lies in wearisome repetition of them, in the bad habit of overworking them on all occasions. This destroys originality, freshness and variety of of speech. Slang is permissible when picturesque and lively, but stale and threadbare slang is without any excuse for existence.
Success to Kansas in her crusade
Success to Kansas in her crusade
Records her example. Chicago
Record-Herald
A VALUABLE EXPERIMENT
From a very interesting experiment with four rats, recently made by Prof. James Rollin Stonaker, of the department of physiology of Stanford University, a great many illuminating facts can be drawn from the conclusion that Prof. Stonaker draws is that vegetable eaters have less endurance than meat eaters.
Placing four rats in rotary cages with speedometers attached, the professor discovered that in 25 months a meat-eating female rat ran 5,447 miles and a meat-eating male rat ran 1,447 miles, while a vegetable-eating female covered 447 miles and a vegetable-eating male 200 miles.
Far be it from us to take exception to the professor's conclusion that vegetable eaters have less endurance than meat eaters. One is apt to wonder, however, whether all the rats had equally good dispositions. There is just as much difference among rats as there is among men. Some rats are very disagreeable. Some of them might absolutely refuse to give an imitation of a college athlete running around the cinder tracks.
From the fact that the female rats, the vegetable ladies as well as the meat lady, ran away ahead of the male rats, one might infer that female human beings should have more endurance than male human beings. With the exception of bargain days in department stores and the ability to talk more, the inference is not supported by good evidence. It might be that meat-eating rats can run longer than vegetable eating rats, but who can say that meat eating humans can run longer than vegetable eating humans?
Until there is a race between a human meat eater and a vegetable eater—a race extending over 5,447 miles—we must decline to accept the result in the case of the rats as having any bearing on the endurance of humans. It may be that the particular female rat that covered 5,447 miles had a hallucination that a meat-eating cat was after her. Or it may be that the two male rats paused to talk over the base ball score.
One can never tell about rats. In justice to Professor Stonaker, however, it should be admitted that his experiment does prove that when a rat is in a proper mood it can run a good race —Washington Post.
NATURAL HISTORY
A ton of oil has been obtained from the tongue of a single whale.
For a short distance a lion or a tiger can outrun a man, and car equal the speed of a fast horse.
Tortoises and turtles have no teeth
The largest egg is that of the ostrich. It weights three pounds, and is considered equal in amount to 24 bens' eggs.
A vulture and a carrion crow are said to be able to scent their food for a distance of 40 miles.—Ex.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed. Here, Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
To the Daily Kansan:
I would like to see the following published in your "kick" column—
Why can't Oread High School classes which complete their courses May 18 be dismissed that the University students in them have the much needed time to expend upon University subjects? There are two such courses at Oread this year the teachers of which, who by the way are seniors at the University needing the two weeks as badly as the students, have been ordered to spend the two weeks reviewing the completed subjects. One class petitioned the faculty and the petition was arbitrarily disregarded.
Why do some students pay tuition at Oread and others do not? Conversation with fellow students reveals this condition.
AN OREAD UNFORTUNATE.
THE NATIONAL GAME
WE got our language from the English and most of our institutions from the Dagos and Dutch. But there are two things I tell the boys that are all American. One's the good old flag and one's baseball."—Tim Murnane.
While you may not have heard of Tim Murmage and you could never guess that he was the first baseball player to “discover” the bunt, it doesn’t tax your imagination to figure just how nearly correct the foregoing statement is. But baseball did not come with the flag. For seventy-five years the young men of New York were more likely about the coming national game. But they were learning, blazing a way, as it were.
As early as the Colonial period the boys of this country were playing a crude game of baseball. It was descended from the English game of "rounders" and "and was known as "round-ball". When it was played, at the time of town meetings, it was called "townball". In 1809 he called it in a train localities, "baseball". In others they named it after the town in which it was played, as "Boston Ball" and "New York Ball".
It took from six to twenty players on each side to make a game. The regulation number on a field in the game was played on a field in the shape of a polygon. The ball was made of soft substance, usually rubber. There were no fair or foul balls; all that left the bat were "hits." The runner was hit with the ball when he was off the base and thereby put out. That was the reason for the soft ball. The pitcher was called the "giver." A ball caught on the first bound was an out. This game lasted for a number of years even after real baseball came.
But the "real baseball," a crude form of the great game of today, sprang into existence first in New York City. It was first played on the present site of Madison Square Garden. The first New York boys to work out the plan for the game in somewhat similar form to the way it is played now were organized into the Knickerbocker Club. The exact date of this game remains baseball game in New York is not known. It was possibly about 1843 according to a majority of the writers on the subject. Alex. J. Cartwright of New York is given credit by many as the real discoverer of the new game.
The first set of rules of the game was published by the Knickerbocker Club in 1845. There were fourteen of them to govern the way the game should be played. Only three of the original rules have been changed. The Gotham Club was the first rival of the Knickerbocker Club.
The game was quickly launched by the various clubs that sprang up and before ten years it was the popular sport of Manhattan. But it had a competitor for attention in many of the Eastern towns. That was the English game of cricket. In 1856 the newspapers of the country treated baseball and cricket equally in the sports columns.
By the late fifties many baseball clubs had started. There was the Tri-Mountains of Boston, and clubs at Portland, Buffalo, Rochester, and Chicago. 1858 Milwaukee organized a baseball club and it played annual games with the Chicago club. In 1859, the Eagles Club was organized at San Francisco by several New York clubs. The first baseball of Baseball Players was organized in 1859 and the first baseball commission was held. Many minor changes in the game were instituted at this first convention of the ball players.
When the Civil War came many of the clubs were broken up when the members left the bat for the gun. From 1860 to 1863 the number of
enthus in and near New York dwindled from sixty-two to twenty-eight. But the interest in the American game did not dwindle perceptibly. There were always odd moments when the soldiers in camp had time to play ball. Many of them became skillful with the practice thus obtained. A knowledge of the game spread further over the country as soldiers from the North and South met.
When the war was over the whole country was playing baseball. Many more clubs sprung up. In 1886 when the association issued a call for a convention of the baseball clubs of the country, 202 clubs responded. They came from the East, South, and the Middle West.
The first college team of baseball was formed by Harvard, combining with the town boys of Cambridge, in 1865. Tufts College followed next, then Yale. The first controllable curved ball was pitched by Arthur Cummings in a game between the Excelsiors of Brooklyn and the Harvards of Cambridge.
The game in the late sixties was slow. It was not half as fast as the game that we have today. Then there was no protection for the catcher's hands and the pitchers had certain restrictions placed on them regarding the delivery of the ball. Games often lasted four or five hours. In 1886 when the Atlantics of Brooklyn and the Athletics of Philadelphia played the second national championship game, they began at 2 o'clock and quit at the end of seven innings because of the darkness. The score of the game was 33 to 33.
From time to time the regulation outfit for the baseball came into use, piece by piece. Up through many associations the game of baseball came. Many of the early players were professionals who were dishonest. In 1871 the Amateur Association of Baseball Players gave up the struggle and about five years later the National League was formed. Eight clubs were in this first organization of the National League—C. A. H. —In University Missouri.
COLLEGE EDUCATION AND BOOKS
It is a question whether in escaping a college education I made a hit or a miss. I am inclined to the opinion that a little systematic training, especially in science would have been a gain, though the systematic grind in literature which the college puts its students through, I am glad I have escaped. I thank heaven than in literature I have never had to dissect Shakespeare or Milton or any other great poet, in the laboratory. I am pleased to dissect any animal in the laboratory. I have had the poets in their stimulating unity and wholeness, and I have had the animals in the fields and woods in the joy of their natural activities.
In my literary career I have escaped trying to write for the public or the editors; I have written for myself. I have not asked, 'What does the public want?' I have only asked 'What do I want to say?' What is there in my heart craying expression? What have I lived or felt or thought that is my own and has its root in my inmost being?
I have few of the aptitudes of the scholar, and fewer yet of the methodical habits and industry of the man of business. I live in books a certain part of each day, but less as a student of books than as a student of life. I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. My memory for the facts and for the condition of books is poor. But my absorbible power is great. When I meet in life in my walks or my travels I must be me, or in the line of my interests and sympathies, that sticks to me like a burr, or better than that, like the food I eat.
So with books. What I get from them I do not carry in my memory, but it is absorbed like the air I breathe or the water I drink. It is rarely on my tongue or my pen, but makes itself felt in a much more subtle and indirect way.—JOHN BURROUGHS in May Atlantic.
ARTHUR W. THOMPSON, general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was riding in a freight engine in the Cumberland division of that road a time ago.
The train was a heavy one, made up of refrigerator cars loaded with the maximum tonnage for the engine. As they approached a grade the engineer leaned over to the fireman and rolled her up, old tallowpot, warm her up. She paused into her so she'll be katish to take the big dj for the knob."
"Will you kindly translate that for me?" asked Thompson.
"Why sure," said the engineer. "I told him to slip some chow to her so she'll rattle-dazzle the hump."
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Question: Will all the seniors be alumni after commencement?
Answer: Yes, certainly—barring accidents.
Question: Will they have to go out into the cold, cold world and forget their Alma Mater?
Answer: They will have to go out into the cold, cold world.
Question: But they will not have to forget their Alma Mater?
Answer: Not if they subscribe for the University Daily Kansan.
Question: When may the senior properly do this?
Answer: RIGHT NOW, because a subscription for next year turned in before May 30 entitles the subscriber to the Summer Session Kansan free.
Question: Isn't that a very liberal offer?
Answer: Very.
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