UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University o Kwara
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STANLEY PINKERKIN      WARD MARIS
JOHN MADDEEN          EDWARD HACKNEY
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THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1912
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence—Hogarth.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.—Emerson.
The news that the text books take on value with age will come a surprise to the local dealers in second hand stores.
THE COTTONWOOD
In these Aeolius times when the atmosphere of a half dozen western states is changing places, the cottonwood tree ripens its tiny winged seeds and sows them far and wide over the western country.
The cottonwood is more emblematic of Kansas and its people than the sunflower itself. The sunflower does not appear until the summer is nearly gone, whereas the cottonwood, like most Kansas people is always first in getting its work in the public eye. Its leaves quiver in the slightest breeze, it is never asleep. No trend of popular opinion is too tight to be noticed by the alert citizen of Kansas.
Then too, the cottonwood, though so responsive to each passing breeze is of a texture stout and durable enough to resist the parching heat of summer, the blistering drought and the premature frosts of early autumn. In a like manner the Kansas man is immune to hardship, the terrors of drouth, the sourge of famine, and the ruin of flood-swollen rivers. He can adapt himself to any climate, succeed equally well in barren desert, fertile valley or brick-pavemented city. So the cottonwood flourishes wherever the panting winds send the feathery little seed, on rocky bluff, barren hilltop swampy river bottom, or fertile prairie.
But like the Kansan, who flourishes at his best on his native prairie, the cottonwood grows tallest alone on the level, black-soiled upland where his roots sink deep in the fertile loam and he towers wide-armed and unshaded into the wind-swept blue, while his leaves sing incessantly to the sweep of the never dying breezes.
It is about time for room mates to "square-up" accounts and trade back clothes. There will be enough questions to answer this summer; no need to spring anything new on the home-folks.
Have you noticed how fine the milk is getting since the recent investigation and series of tests have been started? Cream isn't in it.
It has been announced that on Students' Day full sway will be given to the student-body. They may rectify wrongs then, "view with alarm" and "point with pride," but won't some outsider ask himself if this isn't a queer bunch of University students that don't hold full saw all the time and take the liberty to view things with alarm at any time the pleasure seizes them. Certainly, the students always point with pride to the various institutions about the campus on all public occasions.
JUST DOGGEREL, WE ADMIT IT
'Twas half past twelve, and (what do you think)
Susie, the dog, and the maltese cat—Side by side in their Paych room sat;
Nor one nor t'other had slept a wink! They appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going to be a quiz at eight.
And if they failed, Dockeray did state.
As he quietly closed their tiny gate, There'll be a sale at an early date. Susie, the dog, went "Bow-wow-wow!"
And the maltese cat replied "Meeow!"
Then all was quiet an hour or so, And both, their lessons tried to know, While the Physic's Clock in its lofty place
Up with its hands before its face,
For it always dreaded to see students
sad
(Now mind I'm only telling you What the Physics' Clock declares I true).
Now mind I'm only telling you
The Maltese cat looked very blue,
And wailed, "Oh, dear! what shall we
do?"
But the learned dog in her wiser way
Said, "we'll open the door and run
away."
So Susie, the dog, and the Maltese cat
Wallowed this way and tumbled that Employing every tooth and claw
und, oh! how quickly and proudly they flew!
When the lever came up and they left K. U.
Next morning where the two had sat They found no trace of dog or cat; And some folks think until this day That burglars stole that pair away! But the truth about the cat and pup Is this: They kept their lessons up!
THIS WILL PLEASE THE WOMEN
"Do girls do as well in college as boys?"
"As well or better."
"Indeed? And how do you account for that?"
"Well, they have more opportunities to study, for one thing. A girl doesn't have to put in a lot of time coloring a meerschau pipe."—Kansas City Journal.
Professor Dyche has been busy making the farmers over the state smile by filling their ponds with fish. He could perhaps make the students here and the prospective summer student smile also by planting a generous "crop" in Potter Lake. If the lake is no longer to serve as a swimin' hole, it would at least make a good fishin' place and picnic grounds for anglers.
TWO MINUTES WITH
CAMPUS CELEBRITIES
Q. —"Good morning, Mr. Rice. Awful windy, isn't it? Well, its here anything new or startling around the Physics Department?"
A. —I won't have anything to do with the Daily Kansan. I think they have slandered us shamefully."
A—"I said I wouldn't talk to you."
Q—"Do you believe in the Homo
Diluvii Testis theory?"
Q. ——The Daily Kauan sent me over to see if I could get hold of a little news of the Physic Clock or something to get them to get to a few jokes about the P. C."
Q. —"Is it true that the works of he clock are full of pigeons?"
A. —“What do you want?”
Q. "Are you any relation to H. A.
Rice, doctor?"
Q. “About how many molecules are there in a doughnut, Doctor?”
A. ___
Q. "Are you paid extra for winding the P, C, Mr. Rice?"
Q. "There is a report, doctor, that you drink a pint of—er—liquid air every night without hurting you at all." A. "I refuse to talk. It's thirty feet from this window to the ground. I wear a number eight shoe."
A lazy man is of no more use than a dead man, and he takes up more room—O. S. Marden.
HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS PLAY
ERS HAD LEEWAY
To the Kansan:
The editorial on "Courtesy" which appeared in yesterday's Kansan requires but a statement of fact to answer the question put in the concluding paragraph. The writer happened to be on the courts from 4:30 to 6 o'clock on both days of the tennis tournament and can therefore vouch for the following facts—all of which have been corroborated by the captain of the University team who had charge of the matches.
Sometime between half past four and five several members of the tennis club came down to their courts and found one of the four usable courts being played on. Therefore they began a game. A little later one of the judges said there was to be another match of doubles played and the question arose as to where it should take place. One of the so-called "faculty players" asked very pointedly whether the court in question was wanted and was told very coutheously that since the other courts were not in use the set could as well be played elsewhere.
On the second afternoon (Saturday) the writer saw two of the faculty players voluntarily give up the better of the two courts and retire to the other so that the finals in singles might be played more satisfactorily. Now on which afternoon was the discourtesy shown?
In further explanation it might be added that the south courts are kept up by private subscription by a group of men most of whom happen to be faculty members. These courts were turned over for the tournament to be used as auxiliary courts when the court below Mr. Hamilton's residence and the north courts were in use. Two of these three courts were quite usable. One of these University courts was used for the tournament play and a second was used but infrequently. And finally no member of the faculty went upon any of the courts while high school boys were using them and therefore could not "have compelled the high school players to vacate."
Very truly,
C. A. Dykstra.
Very truly,
STUDENT OPINION
A PLEA FOR THE MUSICIANS
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communications must be signed as an defense of good faith.
Kansas University undoubtedly needs a new Fine Arts building and every University student should give his aid toward obtaining it. The present building, "Old North College" is a disgrace to the University and to the State of Kansas. Its extreme old age and rapid decay is plain to see. No amount of remodeling and patching can ever mend its facade, but its ruined wind wheels through its broken panes and thin walls and as a result many of its inmates go to bed with pneumonia. In extreme weather it freezes up entirely and no one, not even the janitor dares enter.
To the Daily Kansan:
It is then that those Fine Arts students who are not suffering with colds, meet in different homes throughout the city for their classes. What a deplorable condition this is!
Visitors who are shown to this "office" make a quick retreat and no one enters who does not have business of extreme importance.
In rainy weather, teachers discover their pianos warped and blistered from a leak in the ceiling and often great stacks of music are ruined.
An old chair, a scarred desk and a rickety table furnish the so-called office and waiting-room combined. A clock on the wall almost as old as North College itself is too feeble to tell the time of day.
The location of the present Fine Arts school is also a great disadvantage to its students. It is a good fifteen minutes' walk from North College to the hill proper and at least a half-hour's walk from Dick's building, downtown another part of the school is sited beneath consequence the Fine Arts students can seldom attend chapel and often they are late to their college classes.
Their center of work is so far away from the University that they miss most of the College life.. So isolated are they from their fellow- students, that they often suffer loneliness. Sometimes they are called exclusive by some misled College student and if so whose is the blame?
Is it for these accommodations and these conditions that the Fine Arts students pay their large quarterly check? Is it for this that fathers and mothers sacrifice to send them to the University? If so, it is not
FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS
that the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain of voice. We need an environment the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some meloist of the mind created and set vibrating with a simple rhythm of perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of flowers made vocal and soured into the ear.
strange that this department does not grow as rapidly as it should and that many leave at the end of a year not to return. Surely it is time for the students of the University, its friends and the people of Kansas to protest and demand that "Old North College" be either preserved as a relic of antiquity or torn to the ground.
-JAMES LANE ALLEN.
THE RELATION OF THE COLLEGE TO BUSINESS
Jim, the Collegian, Took a Step Forward for the Self-Mude Merchant and Made Money
From "The Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son," by George Horace Lorimer
From "The Letters of a Soft Made Morgan"
Jim pretty nearly seized me to death
that first year. At last he had got
into something that he took an interest
—in spending money—and he fairly
wallowed in it. Used to lay awake
night, thinking up new ways of getting
rid of the old man's profits. And he
found them. Seemed as if I couldn't
get away from Graham's Extract,
and whenever I saw it I gagged, for I knew
it was costing me the money that wasn't
there. He just told me to draw in my horns Jim talked to me, and showed me where there was a fortune waiting for me just around the corner.
Graham's Extract started out by being something that you could make beef-tae out of—that was all. But before Jim had been fooling with it a month he got his girl to think up a hundred different ways in which it could be used, and had advertised them all. It seemed there was nothing you could cook that didn't need a dash of it. He kept me between a chill and a a sweat all the time. Sometimes, but not often, I just had to grin at his foolishness. I remember one picture he got out showing sixteen cows standing between something that looked like a letter press, and telling how every pound or so of Graham's Extract contained the juice squeezed from a herd of zebras, an explorer started on North Pole. Him word seemed him a case of exposure, and then advertisue that it was the great heat maker of cold climates; and if some other fellow started across Africa he sent him a case too, and advertised what a bully drink it was served up with a little ice.
He broke out in a new place every day, and every time he broke out it cost the house money. Finally, I made up my mind to swallow the loss, and Mister Jim was just about to lose his job sure enough, when the orders for Extract began to look up, and he got a repreieve; then he began to make expenses, and he got a pardon; and finally a rush came that left him high and dry in a permanent place. Jim was all right in his way, and I hadn't been broad-gauged enough to see that it was a better way.
That was where I caught the connection between a college education and business. I've always made it a rule to buy brains, and I've learned now that the better trained they are the faster they find reasons for getting their salaries raised. The fellow who hasn't had the training may be just as smart, but he's apt to paw the air when he's reaching for ideas.
According to a statement issued recently, Harvard University has stocks and bonds valued at $17,362,-797. The total of its productive funds is placed at $25,000,000 which gives it an income of $2,500,000.
Gertrude—When Tom asked you for a kiss, last night did you give him glue?
Gonevele—No, but I lent him some.
Manager—Did Smith pay any atter to you when you tried to collect the bill?
—Chaparral.
Clerk--Yes, but that was all, sir.
—Chaparral.
Optimist—Silence is golden.
Pessimist—Taint, cause if it was you could make it jingle; then you wouldn't have it.
—Chaparral.
Cheerfulness is the best promote of health.—Addison.
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