UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, MAY 20, 1912
Good morning! Have you answered Owen Johnson's questions?
The German newspapers think it is a joke, that Susie and her sisters should be enrolled in the University. Over there they have a more practical use for the canine race.
The Regents have high praise for the cafeteria cooks. Perhaps they think so highly of them that they will give them a nice large Commons to work in instead of the present restricted quarters.
KNOCKERS
It is said that a well known sulphur magnate who quotes much scripture for his purposes, has as his favorite quotation, "Knock and it shall be opened unto you." And although the better class of knackers is excepted it is safe to say that the greater number of these gentry, the hoi polloi, as it were, are truly inspired of the evil one.
There are several brands of hammer artists. There is the old-fashioned kind who knocks to reduce expenses. He is the primal ancestor of all knockers, and there are at least one of him in every community. He knocks a lot, but never when it costs anything. If he happens to be uptown, he may drop in and tell the editor of the local paper his troubles, but he never mails out his grievances under good, government postage stamps. His knocks are worthless, but he knows not that they are worthless. He is a fool; scorn him.
Then there is the knocker who knocks for the pure lust of knocking. He looks not to the result of his slams, but bangs away without let or hindrance, sparing neither the strong or the weak, the just or the unjust, this fat or the lean, the quick or the dead. His efforts may be fruitful or unfruitful, but he lists not, neither does he heed. He lives to knock, he does not knock to live. Be his knocking profitable or useless, he knows not to what extent it is either. Nor does he care. He is a mania; watch him, or if possible, lock him up.
Then there is another knocker, the consummate master of knockery, who knocks with his eyes open. He is not like the hero of this little epic: "Mary got a little knock
Which was a boost instead Because the hammer singer used His arms and not his head."
This type of knocker always selects just the right instrument for his purpose. He does not attempt to demolish a cobweb with a pile driver, or to exterminate mosquitoes with a double barrelled shotgun, or to stamp out forty-foot hedges by legislative enactment. On the other hand he does not try to destroy massive windmills with a wooden lance, or to undermine a stone wall with a salad fork, or overthrow the constitution of the United States with a letter to the local paper.
But with care and forethought, he singles out objects of real harm to the community, chooses his weapons
intelligently, and directs them with exactness at the vulnerable points of the enemy. Then he swings and swings hard. His knocks are efficient and he knows that they are efficient. He is the wise knocker; boost him.
The farmers of Kansas, according to a news report, are going to raise a fish crop. Some public-spirited citizen down on the Arkansas river will shortly demand that the board of Regents of the University establish a state university of fisheries at his town.
The Kansas Institute of Criminology met at the University last week. It is hoped they devised suitable punishment for the crime of appropriating the University's books from the library and for the criminal who refuses to pay the subscription to his college paper.
THE COST OF A CHEAP SYSTEM
From the Ka Kasa City Star.
The recent decision of the Kansas Supreme Court uphold the law to establish a school of mines at Weir City affords the people of Kansas another illustration of the incompetency of its present legislative system.
There is a general impression over the state that the school of mines at Weir City is to be established as a branch of the State University. That is where the school fooled the people, and doubtless, fooled a majority of the legislators themselves.
The law provides that the school shall be a "separate and independent institution of learning, and one of the colleges of the state."
It provides for a course of study, a four years' term, and that the school shall issue its own diplomas of graduation.
The joker is that the lawreally establishes another state university, and in its course of study does not provide for a single branch that is not now taught at the state university or the agricultural college.
To establish the school $12,500 was appropriated this year and $12,500 for next year. The entire sum is not sufficient even to make a fair beginning for the kind of a school the law provides for. No less than a quarter of a million will be required for the institution planned in the law, and for that amount will not be the state will not obtain a single education advantage for their children which they are not now paying for in the university or the agricultural college.
During the past few years Kansas had the greatest difficulty to obtain from the legislature the appropriations demanded by the two state schools. The last legislature was particularly antagonistic to liberal appropriations, and yet it was established so cheerfully another university to tax the resources of the state.
Every dollar given to another school to teach the same things already taught in the state schools merely increases the cost of education without adding anything to its value. But that is precisely what the state legislature "put over" on the people of the state. That is a part of the price of a cheap legislative system.
Mr. McCormick's gift of twenty-five thousand dollars to last year's victorious football team at Princeton is a commandable step in the direction of putting athletes on a really sound commercial basis. Football finances have already enlisted some of the finest minds in our colleges, but the happy-go-lucky spirit of play has still been too prominent in the management of our leading intercollegiate interest. The elaborate system of recruiting material from the preparatory schools, the long and arduous period of training, the spirit that makes defeated teams walk weeping from the field, all these facts have gone far towards removing the silly notion that intercollegiate games are played just for the fun of the thing. Football is real, football in earnest, even if the graves sometimes lies beyond the goal. Spring practice and fall practice, the enlistment of an army of expert coaches, the long blackboard drill in stratagy, the dispatch of trained watchers for the purpose of studying the peculiarities of rival teams, all these things have happily contributed towards making football a business and not an amusement. What was needed was the prospect of a substantial money reward for the victorious team to free football contests from any intrusion of the play instinct which is so injurious to the winning of games and now it has come.—New York) Evening Post.
Five hundred cadets of the Louisiana State University responded to the call for able bodied men when the situation became critical during the recent floods. They carried sand bags and shovelled mud, working eagerly to do their part in saving the levee.
Friend—I see you're learning to play golf.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Jones — No I'm just learning how to curb my temper. You see, I have a lusty side.
The Siren.
Mary had a hobble skirt
Tied in a tiny how,
And everywhere that Mary went,
She couldn't hardly go.
—The Siren.
Freshman(reading Macauley)—What is a noble chareer?
Soph— A tailor who lets your bills run a year without writing to your old man. —Williams Purple Cow,
"What kind of leather makes good shoes?"
This spurt finds him six feet behind the gliding enemy, and two miles from his friends. And then, in the
"I don't know, but banana skins make good slippers."
The Siren.
"The prof. told me I had the best aper in English." """
make good slippers. —The Siren.
"Yep! Old Hampshire Bond."
—Purple Cow.
And next the dog notices that he has getting fagged, and that the coyote actually has to slacken speed a little, to keep from running away from him. And then that town-dog is mad in earnest, and he begins to strain, and weep, and swear, and paw the sand higher than ever, and reach for the coyote with concentrated and desperate energy.
Maiden with a powder puff
by Mark Twain
THE COYOTE
Daubing here and there; This reported "weather-wise."
Maiden with a powder pin
Dauhing here and there;
Means "Continued Fair."
Means Continued Fair.
—The Siren.
The coyote of the farther deserts
(a long, slim, slick, and sorry-look-
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stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever says down with a despairing expression of forsaken and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth.
All this time the dog is only a short twenty feet behind the coyote, and, to save the life of him, he cannot understand why it is that he cannot get perceptibly closer; and he begins to get aggrivated, and it makes him madder and maddder to see how gently the coyote glides along, and never pants or sweats, or ceases to smile; and he grows still more and more incensed to see how shamefully he has been taken in by an entire stranger, and what an ignoble swindl is that long, calm, soft-footed tret is.
He has a general slinking expression all over. The coyote is a living, breathing animal.
sill all over. The coyote is a living, breathing allegory of want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck, and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede. He is so spiritless and cowardly that, even while his exposed teeth are pretending a throne, the form of the fleas it uses. And he is so homely! so scrawny, and ribby, and coarse-haired, and pitiful!
When he sees you he lifts his lip and lets a flash of his teeth out, and then turns a little out of the course he was pursuing, depresses his head a bit, and strikes a long, soft-footed trot through the sage-brush, glancing over his shoulder, at you from time to time, till he is about out of easy pistol-range, and then he stops and takes a deliberate amount of weasel.
He will trot fifty yards and stop again; another fifty, and stop again; and, finally, the gray of his gilding becomes white on the side of the sage-bush, and he disappears.
But, if you start a swift-footed dog after him, you will enjoy it ever so much—especially if it is a dog that has a good opinion of himself, and has been brought up to think that he knows something about speed. The coyote will go swinging gently off on that deceitful trot of his, and every little while he will smile a fraudulent smile over his shoulder that will fill that dog entirely full of encouragement and worldly ambition, and make him lay his head still lower to the ground, and stretch his neck farther to the front, and pant more fiercely, and move his furious legs with a yet wilder frenzy, and leave a broader and broader, and higher and denser cloud of deserts and smoking behind and marking his long wake across the level plain!
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instant that a wild new hope is lighting up his face, the coyote turns and smiles blondly upon him once more, something about it which seems to say;
LO, THE POOR REPORTER
"Well, I shall have to tear my self away from you, but—business is business, and it will not do for me to be fooling along this way all day." And forthwith there is a rushing sound, and the sudden splitting of a long crack through the atmosphere, and behold, that dog is solitary and alone in the midst of a vast solitude!
AN excellent sedative for nervous excitement is found in using the voice at its lowest comfortable key. Immediate relief from stuttering is often obtained by dropping the voice from a high pitch to a lower tone. Teachers whose pupils become restless and unruily as they themselves grow tired and nervous will find that a low-pitched, quiet tone will relieve their own nervous tension, and prove wonderfully quieting to their pupils.
in the Bromley lectures on journalism at Yale University, A. Maurice Lowe of Washington said the modern newspaper had become a commercial enterprise and sells the kind of news demanded by the greatest number of its readers, and made a pretense of leading popular reforms.
FOR A' THAT, AND A' THAT
Advertising rules the paper and the influence of the reporter on a newspaper is the worst at the present time, Mr. Lowe said. "Men of trivial minds without perspective, without education, are the ones who decide what the public is to read," he said. "These trivial minds habit of the nation. No other class of men are supposed to have educational power, so little training and selected ability for their work as the great body of newspaper reporters."
This simple expedition is also useful when you are trying to control or prevent weeping. There are times when a person fears to talk tell he breaks down and cry, yet must answer a question or carry on a conversation. Again, the
deep lower tones of the voice, joined to slow, deep breathing, come to the rescue, and self-control is gained.
In any situation where one must struggle for self-possession, the low-pitched voice, with its impression of poise and self-confidence, is a wonderful aid. Even under ordinary circumstances the lower register of the speaking voice is richer and more musical.—Youth's Companion.
Is there for honesty poverty
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocefully divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.
Isaac Barrow.
What though on hamely fare we dine,
Were happy.
their play, and a 'that;
Gie wine their silks, and knaves their
fools in
A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that.
is there for honesty poverty
Wha hauls his head, and a' that?
The coward slay, we pass him by;
We dare be poor for a' that.
For it, and a that,
Our toils require the a' that;
The rank is but the guinea's stamp-
The man's the gowd for a' that.
Their tinsel show, and a' that;
Though hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for *a* that.
For what a coif does not work.
e *see yon birkie c'ad a lord,
Wha struts, and stares, and a'
a'*
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a 'n that.
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, and a' that,
Their faith.
The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that.
His riband, star, and a' that; man of independent mind
A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that.
Then let us pray, that come it may—
As come it will, for a that...
The pitch o' sense and pride o' worth
Are higher ranks than a' that.
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
May bear the gree, and a' that.
For a' that, and a' that.
But an honest man's aboon his might—
It's coming yet, for a 'that— When man to man, the warld o'er.
When man to man, the warid o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that!
—Robert Burns.
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