UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of
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BRIARCH GARDNER...Managing Editor
J. EARLE MILLER...Sporting Editor
RUBELL H. CLARK.Ast. Sporting Editor
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I. E. KAMMEL... Business Manager
J. LEBRON... Business Manager
K. DAVIS... Circulation Manager
B. BARN... Circulation Manager
Earned as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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*LAWRENCE.*
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1912.
In spite of the fact that that the traditional long-haired master of music, often learned the art in an atic room with cracked bare ceilings, the modern generation of pianists, singers and artists rebel at such quarters—and righteously. Broken plaster and decrepit stirways may not interfere to a large extent with the mastery of music, but they are mighty bad advertisements for an institution like the University of Kansas.
Not another university in the West, can lay claim to a worse home for its musicians than Kansas. That reverend old building on the north brow of the hill, where the University had its inception in 1866, has long since served its term of usefulness, and should be razed or retired before it collapses upon the University's stock of pianos.
Too much has been asked of the old building, already, and for ten years it has stood, merely because there was nobody to demand in a loud voice, that it be relieved of duty.
Several years ago, "North College" found itself too small for the department of University work which it was supposed to house; and as a result, the School of Fine Arts, was robbed of its unity; split into three widely separated parts. One of these, crowded entirely off the hill, found quarters in a down town building. Such a condition as this, is deployable, and the time has come when the School of Fine Arts should be recognized as an important section of the University. It should now be tenderly gathered together again, by the Regents, and provided with an adequate campus building, where it may thrive to its fullest capacity.
STRAW HATS
A recent issue of the Scientific American enumerates ways in which to combat book pests, but one good preventive not mentioned is to keep reading the books.
Tomorrow is Straw Hat Day.
If the students do not care to make it Straw Hat Day on their own initiative, the Daily Kansan will, and take the responsibility for the movement.
Therefore all hestitating young men who have been waiting to bring the light head-gears out, but who have lacked the courage, recover
WATCH THE DAILY KANSAN GROW Circulation Statement May 15, 1912. Showing Gain for April, 1912.
Several there are who could afford to invest in one of the new modes and they have been able for the past week to flaunt them in the faces of their more or less unfortunate brothers, but on Straw Hat Day any old saw-tooth will be good—the veterans should be accorded some honor for their services.
them from the bottom of the trunk where you placed them when straw hats were retired last fall and wear them anyway.
A large contingent of straw hat wearers will make individuals feel unnoticed and they will carry off the spirit of the Day successfully. This day might be declared official Straw Hat Day of the student-body of the University and a holiday declared.
The expressed relation of the faculty of the department of English to the Daily Kansan staff ought to call forth comment from the Oread Magazine.
ALUMNI MEMORIAL PORTAL The plans for the completed Administration building provide an alumni memorial portal at the main entrance. This portal will be in bronze and it will be fifteen feet wide and thirty-four feet high with a space set apart for every class.
Class re-union spirit is something that has to be made and developed at the University of Kansas, and everything that in any way will aid the secretary in bringing the members of his class together again on the campus for the first re-union should be fostered and supported. After the first re-union is held, every classman will not want to miss the day on the University campus.
To start such a tradition as the inscription of a class memorial on an alumni portal will be following one of the customs of the oldest University in the world; a Chinese university which has for centuries been carving the names of its graduates, whose number has reached into the thousands, on three tall granite pillars.
With a permanent record of every class that leaves the University, perhaps, it will be possible for senior classes to perfect organizations that will hold the members of the class together more effectively than heretofore.
Unless our ears deceive us the Engineers have a hol(ler) day every day.
Do not do anything you would be ashamed of, for you will be caught sooner or later. For reference, see the senior play.
We are mighty proud of our state and our school.
THEY DEPEND ON THE DAILY
Just now I am waiting for the issues giving the election returns of the student council and the Tiger track meet results. You fellows should be given much praise and credit for the rejuvenated Kansas. It is a cracker and joy mightly live. By the way, the O'Leary slang article has gone the rounds of Eastern papers and today the Schenectady Union Star had an editorial on the Kansas boost for better English.
Schenectady, New York.
To the Daily Kansan;
The average daily paid bona-fide subscribers of the Daily Kansan, May 15, 1912, are...1,765 ...1,683 ..8
Exchanges, State and College Papers ...735 ...735
Correspondent copies...86 ...86
Advertisers ...160 ...160
Files for bound volumes...50 ...50
Total ...2,796 ..2,714
Press run ...2,880 ..2,775
The circulation books of the Daily Kansan are open to any bona-fide ad vertiser.
MILTON D. BAER,
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The Daily Kansan is self-supporting; it does not receive a penny from the state.
The Daily Kansan pays the journalism laboratory for its printing. And in turn the journalism laboratory is self-supporting; it does not receive a penny from the state.
Sincerely Yours,
Henry A. Hoffman.
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STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
AT LEAST AN HOUR HAND To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
STUDENT OPINION
After reading the communication from "A Nocturnal Grind," I thought deeply for a number of minutes. A. N. G. is right. It is a crime to label anything clock that is not a clock.
Anyone who doubts that such misbranding is unlawful, will please read the Kansas law.
I have no idea whose fault it is that the Library Clock has no hands, but it is my opinion that there is no money to repair it. If this be the case, I should suggest than an hour hand be put on first, and a minute hand could be added later when funds become more plentiful.
Surely no fair minded would object to an hour hand. This would enable one to tell the time approximately. Surely it will not be too expensive.
Another thing, the clock would not necessarily have to run all the time. The whistle tells the hour during the day, and the electric clock could be reserved for those who infest the library after the world has been left to darkness.
THE NUMBER OF
PENNIES IN A DOLLAR
—A DIURNAL THINKER.
From Letters from a Self-made Merchant to his Son, by George H. Lorimer.
The Self-Made Merchant Tells Pierreport How He Can Best "Get Along."
You know how I began—I was started off with a kick, but that proved a kick up, and in the end every one since has lifted me a little bit higher. I got two dollars a week, and slept under the counter, and you can bet I know just how many pennies there were in each of those dollars, and how hard the floor was. That is what you have got to learn.
I remember when I was on the Lakes, our schoener was passing out through the draw at Buffalo when I saw little Bill Riggs, the butcher standing up above me on the end of the bridge with a big roast of beef in his basket. They were a little short in the galley on that trip, so I called up to Bill and he threw the ropes down to me. I asked him how much, and he yelled back, "about a dollar." That was mighty good beef And when we struck Buffalo again or the return trip I thought I would like a little more of it. So I went up to Bill's shop and asked him for a piece
Bill's shop and asked him for a piece of the same. This time he gave me a little roast, not near so big as the other, and it was pretty tough, and stringy. But when I asked him how much, he answered, "about a dollar." He simply didn't have any sense of values and that's the business man's sixth sense. Bill has always been, a big, healthy, hard working man, but today he is very, very poor.
The Bill's ain't all in the butcher business. I've got some of them right now in my office, but they will never climb over the railing that separates the clerk from the executives. Yet if they would put in half the time thinking for the house that they give up to hatching out reasons why they ought to be allowed to overdraw their salary accounts, I couldn't keep them out of our private offices with a pole axe and I wouldn't want to; for they could double their salaries and my profits in a year.
But I always lay it down as a safe proposition that the fellow who has to break open the baby's bank toward the last of the week for carfare isn't going to be any Russell Sage when it comes to treating with the old man's money. He'd pick my bank account full of holes as a hood of wild Texans would a cool stockman that they'd got in a
MAY ON OREAD
"Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there!"
So plained the Poet from a land of fire
Forgetful of the gaudy melon-bloom.
Heart-hungry for his English daffodils
And for the elm-tree's crinkled green.
—He did not know the land of my desire,
The wild bees on the lilac's purple plume,
The sun-transfigured glory of the hills,
And May on Oread, glad and sweet and clean.
Willard Wettles 109, 111
Willard Wattles, '09, '11.
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
STOVER AT YALE
The world was made for nothing other than to produce a beautiful book.
—STEPHANE MALLARME
in "Stower at Yale," by Owen Johnson, (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York), is told the story of a man who rebelled against going through three years of college life afraid to call his soul his own, for the sake of being chosen by a Senior Society at the close of his junior year. In this book, as well as in articles now running in "Collier's" Owen Johnson is fighting the narrowing Society System of the colleges. As is so often the case with a book that is worth while, the story is the author's own history, "Stover at Yale" is really "Johnson at Yale." The author had the same share in abolishing the old sophomore societies that he gives to his hero, "Dink Stover."
The exigencies of fiction and the demands of the public for a happy ending would not permit Mr. Johnson to make the cases exactly similar. Mr. Johnson, on account of his attacks on the Sophomore Societies at Yale, while he was chairman of the Yale "Lit," was passed over on "Tap Day." Mr. Johnson himself was quite cheerful about his defeat, but he allows his hero to win out. "Dink Stover" makes "Skull and Bones" before the eyes of his bitter enemies, his admiring friends and his everfaithful lady-love.
This unobtrusive and long-suFFERING damsel puts up with Stover's vargories, from sea-green shirts to unsought knight-errantry, and plaudibly accepts him at last, but a long patient Griela for the rest of her days.
"Stover at Yale" is a serious book, written with a purpose. This deprives it of much of the sparkle of Mr. Johnson's Lawrenceville stories, which introduced to a ready and willing public such delightful characters as "The Varmint," "The Prodigious Hickey," "The Tennessee Shad," and "The Uncooked Beefsteak."
There is no lack of fun in "Stover at Yale," but back of the fun is the realization of the seriousness of life, the knowledge that college problems are only suggestions of the greater problems in the big world beyond. "Is the society system in American colleges good or bad?" is the question asked in this book, not only because of the society system's "influence on life in the colleges, but also on the character and attainment of the men graduated into American business and professions."
Owen Johnson has a two-fold right to a position in the world of letters, first by heredity and second by attainment. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of the Century Magazine, and he has been a writer since the age of six, when he had his first story accepted by "St. Nicholas." Since Mr. Johnson's tenure, he written novels, dramas, short stories, and there is now a constant demand for his literary wares.
At the age of thirty-three, Owen Johnson has already accomplished marvels. What heights he may reach in another decade, no one can tell. "Stover at Yale" is a book of much promise, and the hopeful ones, always on the lookout for signs of the times, feel in their prophetic souls that the great American novel will come from the pen or typewriter of Owen Johnson.
CHINAMEN AS STUDENTS
THERE are today in some of the universities of America and Europe Chinese students who in laboratory work, in physics and other natural sciences are distinguishing themselves even in comparison with western students.
The Chinese have a power of application and patience and a capacity for detail that is destined to bring success in scientific inquiry when once they get the background, adopt the method and make the start. The irresistible progress destined to be made by western science in the Chinese empire will surely undermine Chinese faith in the "Book of Changes," which is at the base of Chinese philosophy.
Whatever is permanently true will remain in imperishable blocks, but the structure as a whole will fall in ruins, with Chinese ideals pitilessly and irrevocably shattered. At this critical period of the disintegration of outworn forces, what new moral and spiritual ideas are to replace the old in order that the new state of these people may not be worse than the first?—Dr. C. K. Edmunds in The Popular Science Monthly.
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