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F, IN THE DAYS of long ago when the class of '04 first came to the University, any optimistic Y. M. C. A. worker had ventured to say that the time would ever come when chapel exercises would be regarded as an important part of student life, his predictions would have been ranked along aside of Mr. Connor's weather forecasts. Then it was that two professors and a few faithful followers held chapel services without fear of interruption by the student body. True the rippling laughter of fair girls, and the more persuasive talk of their gentlemen friends blended in the halls below; true the fragrant funes of Durham might be wafted up to chapel from the front steps of Frazier Hall: but all understood that no offence was meant. The chapel hour then corresponded to the recess hour in a country school, and the student's right to talk and smoke was not denied.
Now we have the new regime. People all over the state are praising and the sectarian schools envying the University of Kansas for its chapel exercises and attedance. How did it come about? Why the change? Our Chancellor—that's the cause. No arbitrary rule, no compulsory attendance—just the fact that Dr. Strong leads chapel is sufficient to bring out all classes, including the laws and the faculty. At present, one knows that during chapel he will feel the force of a great and sympathetic personality: that he will realize what college spirit means, and that he will always get something worth the while. And so most of the students go to chapel day after day and Kansas University, the barbarian of old, boasts of the largest chapel attendance in the west—and best because it rests upon the free and vouluntary support of all.
IF THE STUDENTS and faculty want the Kansas-Nebraska game played in Lawrence, all they will have to do is to subscribe for six hundred dollars worth of tickets before Monday night. The Athletic Association would like to have the game here and are looking for students and faculty to do their part. Subscribe for your tickets now
THE ADDITION of two assistant coaches to our football team shows the rapid advancement that the game has experienced in the past four years.
Formerly the burden of developing the team rested upon the shoulders of one coach, and he was oblidged to look after both development of individual and team work, calling upon some of the more experienced players to assist him whenever their services were needed.
But now the coach will be enabled to devote his entire attention to the development of the team as a whole, while the assistants will look after the individual players.-The Daily Nebraskan.
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In answer to your article in last week's WEEKLY regarding the greatness of England's poet laureatte, I should like to advance the following opinion. Being of a decidedly literary turn of mind, everything pertaining to poetry interests me. When I read of your predicament I had very fortunately just finished reading a criticism on "Wordsworth and His Work." I believe I have at last the key to Sir Alfred Austin's greatness. It might be advisable to repeat the beautiful stanzas you selected from "England's Darling." Surely it can do no harm.
The hogs are nosing in the must.
The tees are in the fold.
The norland flakes are flying fast,
And oh, 'tis nipping cold.
So let us to the steading slink,
Still trolling as we gang;
So let us to the steading slink,
Still trolling as we gang;
Now is the time for meat and drink,
Now is the time for me to introduce So let the world go hang.
Wordsworth, according to the critic, loved the simple things. He believed that poetry is an adhesion to the truth of Nature, and that Nature was to be found in the simple, the ordinary things in every day life. It was the work of the poet to combine the simple truth with the imagination. For example there is Wordsworth's beautiful poem written around the little lamb. The poet was simply out walking, no doubt, drinking in the beauties of the external world, when he saw the little lamb at the brink. As the pretty creature pushes its downy little head into the clear, sparkling water, and, holding it up again to let the water trinkle gently down into its little stomach, the act, common enough to most men, moved the soul of the poet. How inevitable the words "Drink, pretty creature, drink."
And I fancy it was the same way with Austin. There is a similarity in men who enunciate the truth. Being in the country of course he would come in contact with more or less pigs, and, taking a poet-like interest in the simple, he stood beside a pen watching the industrious animals rooting around in the mud. But with the culture and imagination of a true gentlemen and poet he could not say
"The pigs are rooting in the pen." Oh no, that would be vulgar. It is here that his rare genius presents itself—
"The hogs are nosing in the mast." How much better—how poetic! No one but a genius could get poetry out of a pig pen.
"The tegs are in the fold."
How natural! Just the place they should be. Who ever heard ot tegs being anywhere else?
"The norland flakes are flying fast."
What choice of words! What alliteration! Three f's in a line. The mark of a true poet, 'And oh, 'tis nipping cold.' See, 'tis nipping cold. How exquisitely put! How spontaneous! Just the words a poet would utter on opening the door on a winter's day.
"So let us to the steading slink,
Stitr tealling as we rang."
One must take those lines as a whole if one would get the full value of them. How musical the lines. What perfect meter. And what perfect transition. From the pig pen to the steading slink. Just the place a real poet would go.
And now,—now is where he is supreme. The very thought of it appeals to the student. I'll repeat the first two lines so as not to loose any of the effect.
So let us to the steading slink,
Now is the time for meat and drink,
So let the world hoave.
Isn't it beautiful? If Words-
words were only living! Long
live Sir Alfred Austin—poet laur-atte of England.
"There are two opposite ways by which some men get into notice—one by talking a vast deal and thinking little, and the other by holding their tongues and not thinking at all. By the first many a vaporing superficial pretender acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts—by the other, many a vacant dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of all birds, comes to be complimented by a discerning world with all the attributes of wisdom.—Washington Irving."
Voltaire, writing of Shakespeare in 1765, said, "Shakespeare is a savage with some imagination, whose plays can please only in London and Canada." In 1775, he wrote to his friend M. Cidwille, "Shakespeare is the Corneille of London but elsewhere he is a great fool."
Poor Voltaire. With Pope we may say, "It's strange, very strange how opinions change."
5. Pittacus—Know thy opportunity.
6. Solon—Know thyself.
7. Thales—Suretyship is the forerunner of ruin.
THE SEVEN WISE MEN AND THEIR AWS
4. Penander—Nothing is impossible to industry.
2. Chilo-Consider the end.
1. Bias-Most men are bad.
3. Cleobulus - Avoid extremes.
Richard I was the first to adopt the title "King of England." The previous kings called themselves, "Kings of the English."
The raven was the emblem of Denmark and standard of the Danes.
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