UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official paper of the University of EDITORIAL STAFF Richard GARDNER...Managing Editor J. EARLE MILLER...Sporting Editor RUSSELL H. CLARK Asst. Sporting Editor EARL POTTER...High School Editor BUSINESS STAFF IKE E LAMBERT - Business Manag- London - Asset, Business Manag- Bank - Bank REPORTORIAL STAFF STANLEY PINKETON WARD MAUR JOHN MADRID EDWARD HAWKES JACKSON LACQUER Entered - and second-class mail must be mailed to the United States Post- Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 18. Published in the afternoon five times and in the evening ten times. Bananas, from the press of the department Subscription price $2.00 per year. It increases to $2.50 per year; one term is $1.25 subscriptions. $2.00 per year; one term is $1.25 Phones: Bell K. U. 25; Home 1105. Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANBAN. LAWRENCE. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1912 AMATEUR POLITICS AND WO- MAN'S SUFFRAGE The election today of the officers of the Womans Student' Government Association may tend to determine whether or not the women of Kansas really want the ballot. The measure is now open for ratification by the people of the state and the interest shown in the choice of their officers by the young women who are representative of the state, may indicate strongly if they are ready for the ballot. If, however, there is apathy in the ranks, or if, as is usual, half the women show that they even do not know the candidates and vote only because they are hustled to the polls by the political workers,—and if the University is at all representative of the state—Kansas women are satisfied with present conditions. The milk supply at the boarding clubs is being tested. It is expected that the ancient satire, "May I trouble you for the cream?" will lose some of its point, for a few days at least. At present, the building of the School of Fine Arts is at a safe distance from the remainder of the University—in a "ten acre field," where perhaps the best results may be obtained. However, if the Board of Regents gives them a new building and draws all of the Fine Arts students together, it may be surmised that the state architect will have some little trouble in securing another vacant lot on which to place their building. All the noises put together would make quite a conflation. A School of Mines will be established at Weir City, but so far no exodus of boarding house keepers from Lawrence to the mining town has been noticed. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SLIP OUT FROM UNDER A collection of head lines of the Daily Kansan that showed, in a great measure, the influence of slang on the University graduate was published in this column on May 4. It was a collection that a communicant to the editor of The Nation had submitted following the editorial comment by The Nation upon an alleged campaign or crusade that the members of the faculty in the department of English here were making against the use of slang by students. In this same connection, Professor O'Leary, of the department of English, immediately supplied the editor of The Nation with the accompanying paragraph in which the only accusation he failed to make against the Daily Kansan workers was that the entire story of the "crusade against slang" was the product of the imagination of a reporter and was developed at the Daily Kansan office: To the Editor of the Nation: Sir: In view of the somewhat wide publicity recently given to the report that the department of English at the University of Kansas has entered on a crusade against slang. entered on a crusade against it. It may be proper to say that it has done nothing of the importance the department has always opposed the department slanginess of N." illustrates so amply from recent issues of the University Daily Kansan, in his letter published in your issue of April 25; and think it will continue to do so. Obviously its efforts have been unavailing, so far as the Kansan is concerned. It is but fair to note that though the Kansan announces itself as "the official paper of the University of Kansas," the department of English is not allowed to sustain any relation whatever to it, not even that of occasional advisor. No doubt, it may be said that this fact affords all the better evidence of the departments' failure to impress the young men and women of the University of Kansas with an abiding sense of truth that a reasonably dignified and respectful utterance is a thing from every point of view well worth while. Perhaps that is true. But now, am sure that our young journalist at the University of Kansas looks for the university as a fellows, genuine newspaper men who know a thing or two about American journalism as practiced today, and whose freedom to practiced verbal capers that will keep such academic person R. D. O'Leary. University of Kansas, April 29. It is reported that the senior play has a plot. The patrons of studentwrought plays at the University will welcome the little stranger with great interest. INFLUENCE OF COLLEGE MEN As educated men filter through the community, reforms are obtained that twenty years ago seemed millennial. The separation of local from state sources of revenue, the separation of local from national elections, the treatment of a franchise as valuable property, the discriminating between ordinary industry and natural monopoly, the practice of scientific charity and penology, the concentration of responsibility in government—these and a score of other good things which once seemed as far above popular comprehension as four-dimensional space, have came to pass, thanks chiefly to the radiations from the classrooms.—Century Magazine. CORNELL'S COMEBACK IN 1897 President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, now of the University of California, was faculty representative of the Cornell navy. Cornell and Yale were leaving reunions for twenty years, and they returned to Professor Wheeler a race was arranged. Wheeler was aboard the Cornell launch at the starting -point. Harvard and Cornell were ready, but Yale had not appeared. The Yale shot out shot here and enquired "Yale cannot be here for twenty minutes. Will you wait." Cornell?" When the crews qf Harvard, Yale and Cornell met at Ploegeakees in July of that year there was much rowing contest, and a great crowd was present. "We have waited twenty years to beat Yale," Wheeler replied, "and I guess we can wait twenty minutes longer," which in those days and at every Cornell banquet since has unanimously been considered a glittering example of the ready comeback, the quick-as-a-flash stuff, to say nothing of repartee. It is always produced just after the close-harmony boys at Table G have yanked the excelsior out of the Stein Song. THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE 12-Try Anthropology. I read the whole text of the Saturday Evening Paper. '15—Can you recommend a good reading course? "What is the difference between pomme de terre and potato?" —Harvard Lampoon. Democritus—Sorry to hear you've been confined to your bed. Very sick? Aristocritus - H-h-h haw-haven't b-been s-sick-s atsick in. G-got R-rush rush-r russian v-valet, and sh when I w-wake up in the m-mnoring and st-st start to t-t-t tell him to draw my b-bub-bub-tab. n-n him p-p pup-pronounce its n-name, its t-time to g-ggo to sed again. We read in the newspapers that the gas was found escaping from an old maid's room last night. Do you blame it? Harvard Lampoon. Jester. "Yes," said the prospective buyer, I "judge a machine by its motor alone." Newlywed—My wife took a domes tic science course. Friend—and you? Newlywed—I took ill. "But the exquisite finish," said the salesman, anxiously patting the voluptuous upholstery. "Boo-hoo! My kite won't fly." "Why don't you make it out of fly-paper?" —Darmouth Jack-o-Lantern. "Just as soon as my son gets home from college, my dear sister, he attends the celebration." —Harvard Lampoon. A—Who was that girl Binks was with the other evening? B—Why, that was his intended. A—Well,, all I can say is that he hasn't the best of intentions. Anstruher-What would you say that fat girl at her husband's wedded? Friend—What about the rent of a place like this? I suppose the landlord asks a lot for it. that fat girl at Huyler's weighed? Carruther—Oh, about a hundred and sixty-five. Anstruther—Wrong again. Candy —Harvard Lampoon. —Pelican. Hardup—Yes, rather. Hes' always asking for it. PIERREPONT'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT COMES HOME London Opinion. Then the Self-Made Merchant Shows Graphically the Close Relation Between His Earning and Spending The only sure way that a man can get rich quick is to have it given to him. From "Letters to a, Self-Made Merchant to his Son," by Geo. H. Lorimer. making a fool of yourself in the way that some of these young fellows who haven't had to work for it do. But because I have sat tight, I don't want you to make me look bad; that the old man's rich, and that he stands for it, because he won't stand it after you leave college. The sooner you adjust your spending to what your earning capacity will be, the easier they will find to live together. Chicago, May 4, 189- Dear Pierreport: The cashier has just handed me your expense account for the month, and it fairly makes a fellow hump-shouldered to look it over. When I told you that I wish you to keep it, I didn't mean that I wanted to buy a camibird. Of course the bills won't break me, but they will break you unless you are very, very careful. FROM John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University. Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities. I have noticed for the last two years that your accounts have been growing heavier every month, but I haven't seen any signs of your taking honors to I haven't said anything about this before, as I trusted a good deal to your native common sense to keep you from justify the increased operating expenses; and that is bad business—a good deal like feeding his weight in coin to a scalawag steer that wont fat un. him or to inherit it. You are not going to get rich that way—at least, not until you have proved your ability to hold a pretty important position with the firm; and, of course, there is just one place from which a man can start for that position with Graham and Company. It doesn't make any difference whether he is the son of the old man or of theeller boss—that place is the bottom. And the bottom in the middle. The boss is a seat at the mailing-desk, with eight dollars every Saturday night. I can't hand any ready-made success to you. It would do you no good, and it would do the house harm. There is plenty of room at the top here, but there is no elevator in the building. Starting, as you do, with a good education, you should be able to climb quicker that the fellow who hasn't got it; but there is going to be a time when you begin at the factory when you won't be able to lick stamps so fast as the other boys at the desk. Yet the man who hasn't licked stamps is not fit to write letters. Naturally, that is the time when knowing whether the pie comes before the ice-cream, and how to run an automobile isn't going to be of any real use to you. I simply mention these things because I am afraid your ideas as to the basis on which you are coming with the house have swelled up a little in the East. I can give you a start, but after that you will have to dynamite your way to the front by yourself. It is all with the man. If you gave some fellows a talent wrapped in a napkin to start with in business, they would swap the talent for a gold brick apartment and there are others that you could start with. In that napkin, who would set up with it in the dry-goods business in a small way, and then coax the other fellow's talent into it. I know that when a lot of young men get off by themselves, some of them think that recklessness with money brands them as good fellows, and that carefulness is meanness. That is one end of a college education which is pure cussedness; and that the one thing which makes nine business men out of ten hesitate to send their boys off to school. But on the other hand, that is the spot where a young man has a chance to show that he is not a light weight. I know that a good many things make nine pretty close proposition; that I make a few things which goes through my packing-house give up more lard that the Lord gave him gross weight; that I have improved on nature to the extent of getting four hams out of an animal which began life with two; but you have lived with me long enough to know that my hand is usually in my pocket at the right time. Now I want to say right here that the meanest man alive is the one who is generous with money that he has not had to sweat for and that the one who is a good fellow at someone else's expense would not work up into first-class fertilizer. That same ambition to be known as a good fellow has crowded my office with second-rate clerks, and they always will be second-rate, so that they down until you have worked for a year. Then, if your ambition runs to hunching up all week over a desk to earn eight dollars to blow on a few rounds of drinks for the boys on Saturday night, there is no objection to you gratifying it; for I will know that the Lord didn't intend to你 own boss. STUDENT OPINION WHOSE FAULT IS THIS? To the Daily Kansan: The editor is not responsible for the letters expressed here. Conventions must be signed as an e-mit. Since "A Maturdul Climber" has voiced his sentiments in regard to the P. C., I have done considerable thinking and have come to the conclusion that it is a tradition that the electric clock in the library should have no hands at all. While it is only a little thing there are but few students who enjoy having the librarian tell them that is closing up time every night. Time flies so fast in the library that one must look as at his watch often, there, and be very valuable moments and worse still, having his chain of thoughts broken. Will the Daily Kansan please tell me if this is the case? If it is not one of the University's time-honored traditions, I should suggest that the electric clock be fixed up so that it can have a hand in telling library habitants the late-ness of the hour. A Nocturnal Grind. OPTIMISM Table manners are being taught at the Kansas State Agricultural College. We shall not, after this, expect Kansas young men to try to balance peas on their knives or to tuck the napkins under their chins or to dig out the chutney with their 'ingers—Chicago Record-Herald. Page 23 from the Daily Kansan Primer 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? Question: When may the senior properly do this? Answer: Not if they subscribe for the University Daily Kansan. Question: Isn't that a very liberal offer? Answer: Very. Answer: RIGHT NOW, because a subscription for next year turned in before May 30 entitles the subscriber to the Summer Session Kansan free. A fine thing The Merchants' Association Lawrence about attending the University of Kansas is that the student also has the privilege of attending Lawrence —typical old New England town in a Middle West setting, combining in just proportion the beauty and quiet of a charming residence city with the initiative and bustle of a live business center. It thus has the perfection of attractiveness that appeals to youth. Attend Lawrence four years and you can never forget the place where center the historic associations of Kansas —the Athens of Kansas. MedicalSchool Washington University Admission requirement two years of college work including English, German, physics, chemistry and biology. 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