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Labor is so Dignifying.
Perhaps some one noticed the lack of ushers at Prof. Marsh's lecture last Tuesday evening. This was probably owing to an oversight on the part of the two literary societies. Students and visitors straggled around and finally seated themselves.
But there was one thing, Mr. Editor, which occurred to my mind during the evening, before the lecture, rather forcibly. That was the unwillingness of the students of the two literary societies to supply the deficiency by volunteering to usher, themselves.
Athenaeum and Orophilian members crowded up to the doors and then turned around, and with wise, very wise expressions, said, "somebody ought to usher, boys."
I proposed to a "wise-looking' fraternity man, and then to a barb that we usher, ourselves. "Well,—Well, I'd rather not." "I don't be believe I want to usher to-night."
One of these men will, in the course of time, be a smooth-faced public man; the other will be a politician also. One of them will, when he preaches his democracy to the public, dwell on the dignity of labor.
He will exhort, and plead, and eulogize on that popular subject, yet he would "rather not" practice the nobility of labor for a few minutes in case of an emergency in the State University of Kansas. I have no doubt he thought that it would be unbecoming for a fraternity man; and I've no doubt that the ambitious non-fraternity man thought neither fraternity nor fair sex would think much the better of him for putting himself on such questionable level. In fact as I interpret this it means that some things are nice to talk about, but not to do. That to do work is to endanger the social recognition of a student.
Well, I guess this is right. I think,—I am thoroughly satisfied, that the dignity of labor is all bosh. I like the idea that a man who does not work is a gentleman. I think a man who works is out of place when he appears at college or tries to pass himself off as a gentleman. I believe in a studied reserve, in a scrupulous exclusiveness. There is danger of contamination from such vermin. I know the theory is the other way, but I'm talking facts. The ancient Greeks shunned labor and—well you know the rest. I believe in a "survival of the fittest" and no "fit" person needs to stoop to work. Good day, Mr. Editor.
J. RACSO NEDROW.
Exchanges.
The Pennsylvania has a new board of editors.
Crain & Urbansky have the finest line of spring suits in town.
The Howard Advocate classes the girls of the Annex as a slow set.
The record for the 100 yard dash was recently broken by Kettleman, of Yale. Time, nine and three fourth seconds.
Prof. Norton of Harvard has been been urging the wealthy citizens of Cambridge to subscribe $150,000 to purchase the Greek town of Castre and unearth the ancient Delphic temple of Apollo.
There once was a gallant young Mr.,
Who loved his girl so that he kr.
She said "I want you
To stop that P.D.O
To stop that P. D. Q.,
I can love you only as a sr."
-Virginia University Magazine.
The barbarian host at the K. S. U. is to-day without a leader. Their great chief has left them and joined himself unto the Greeks. George M. Culver is a Beta Theta Pt. Less than a month ago we asked Mr. Culve to prepare an article for us on 'The evil effects of the Fraternity system,' which he very readily promised to do. We doubt not that in the preparation of this article he became lost. It is sad to see how nearly all the apparently bright, promising young men of K. S. U. drift into one or another of these mastrels of college life. — Washburn Reporter.
Die Freshles spieleen bull vollig wohl,
Die Sophs, gewinnen jedes game;
Die Juniors konner
Die Juniors können nicht spielen ball zu all,
Aber die Seniors bekommen da just the same.
The following are the correct times made by the University men in the Olympic Field day. One hundred yards, scratch, winner W. A. Magee, 10 4-5 seconds. One hundred and twenty yards, hurdle, H. C. Moffitt, eight yards behind scratch, time 19 2-5 seconds. One hundred and twenty yards, fourth heat, winner, W. A. Magee, 12 2-5 seconds; fifth heat, winner, Mays, 12 3-5 seconds; run-off, win er, Mays, 12 1-4 seconds. W. A. Magee came in 59 1-5 seconds in the 440 yards. In the running long jump, Moffitt,'89, and McNear,'90, both broke the American college record of 21 feet 5 inches the former jumping 22 feet one inch, the latter 21 feet 9 1-2 inches. W. A. Magee made 21 feet 10 1-2 inches.—[Occident.
The Virginia University Magazine for March contains its usual amount of good things, notable among which is a poem entitled "Levona," and an article entitled "Amelia Rives' Last Novel," in
The Pandora, the annual published at the University of Georgia will not be published this year owing to the lack of time on the part of the editors. They must be industrious people down there.
New Books,
"On Horseback and Mexican Notes," by Charles Dudley Warner. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, $1.25
The name of the author is, in itself, a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of this book. In his pleasing, urrrative style he takes the Professor and the Friend of Humanity on a horseback tour over south-western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina. They enjoy the scenery, become acquainted with the people, study the queer manners and strange customs of this out of the way part of the world, test the cuisine of the region—eat corn bread, bacon, and "honey on pie"—and enjoy the delightful sense of leisure which seems to pervade the South. The shiftless "white trash," the droll humor of the colored people, the strange admixture of religion and politics are all described in an immutable manner. Then the resorts of the region are visited, and Mt.Mitchell and other places of note. The reader grows acquainted with the people and the scenery and enjoys the time spent with the author in his descriptions.
The "Mexican Notes," written in the same pleasant narrative style, can best be illustrated by a couple of selection. "To me Mexico is one of the most interesting countries I have seen, and so novel on every hand that I enjoyed in a way that which is disagreeable almost as much as that which is pleasing. It is novel, and yet, now and again, strangely familiar; for in its life it is a patchwork sort of country, with a degraded civilization, constantly suggesting, in a second-hand way, a half dozen other countries and people. Mexico—for it is not there that the life, except a certain sort of artificial society life, is more advantageously to be studied—and in these papers I propose to touch upon general life and manners and aspects of nature that came under my observation, with the intention of replying to some of the questions that a returning traveler is commonly asked about the psendo-republic" In speaking o
the government the author says: "In his first term Diaz took an enlightened view of the needs of Mexico and its external relations. * It is universally believed in Mexico that Zonzalis in his term of four years saved out of his salary between twelve and eighteen millions of dollars which is now well invested. These leaders are astute diplomatis, as wary and as supple as the Turks. Whoever makes a treaty with them is likely to be confused by the result. Whoever invests money in Mexico, either in public works, or in private enterprise, does so at his risk. Any basis of confidence is wanting in business. The Mexicans do not trust each other. They always seem surprised when a foreigner does as he said he would do. The moral condition is something like that of Egypt. The atmosphere of Egypt is one of universal lying. We who are accustomed to do business on universal faith—the presumption being that a man is honest until the contrary is proven—cannot understand a social state where the contrary is the assumption.
One can readily grant to Diaz patriotic intentions, and the desire to have Mexico take an honorable place in the world; but justice is not had priceless in the courts, the officials are all serving their own interests, and official corruption is universal. And yet travel is now safe, public order is maintained, and there is marked progress in education. Still, whatever the government is, there is no public, no public opinion, no general comprehension of political action, no really representative government or representative election. There are few newspapers, the people are not informed, and the mass of them are indifferent, so long as they are personally not disturbed. In only one case (the action of the Congress in regard to the English debt-action promoted by a determined demonstration of the students in the city) has there been any sign of the independence of the legislature. Mexico remains, in effect, a personal government with no political public."
The pretty towns, charming landscapes and great resources of the country are described with just enough of humor to make the book entertaining and the style pleasing.
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