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LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. MAY, 3, 1907.
UNIUST PUBLIC PREJUDICE
The report has gone forth that a wholesale suspension of students has recently occurred at Baker University. (Baker is a Methodist institution, situated about sixteen miles south of Lawrence, in a quiet, little, inland hamlet, called Baldwin.) It appears that the authorities forbade the boys witnessing a certain basket-ball game, to be played by the girls, and in the face of this order a goodly number of rollingick youths broke into the gym, and watched the performance. For this offense they were suspended. Outside of open insubordination the offence is trivial, but in the hands of an ambitious newspaper correspondent it could be magnified in into grossest criminality. Marvel at the rich possibilities for an aspiring reporter! 'Tis twilight. The retreating sun has left a gory scar upon the western sky. "Bed time" has not yet toled from yonder spire. With meditative look and pensive air, the students amble along their different paths. Some unusual, ill-concealed excitement seems to thrill these sturdy youths. Is there a "Punch and Judy" show on the corner or ear it be flattering prospects for pancakes in the morning? His eye glitters like the flash from a falchion. No. These sober, solmn, embryo ministers are congregating from their orisons to invade the privacy of a ladies game, to flush their ashen, student pallor with an illegitimate excitement. Then would follow the inevitable words, "Heaven is not reached by a single bound," or that the corset-like structure built by the contributions of ancestry, towering till it pierces the surface of the sea, may build too high, and, top-heavy, crasl into the abyss of diabolical endeavor.
But opportunity in this instance might grow hair by the skein and still it would not be seized, because we are dealing with Baker. On the other hand, if K. U. students had committed the indiscretion, every nook and cranny of the State would have been cognizant of the fact inside of twenty-four hours. Skilled reporters would have reeled it off by the column and dyed it in gaudiest hues. We do not glory in the misfortune of any institution. The late affair at Baker will not hurt her, nor would we
willyful circulate any story that might possibly injure her reputation. The "knock" we have is this: Student outbursts occurring at any other institution of the State, no matter of how serious nature, are passed over lightly by the State at large, but let the K. U. swerve one iota from the path of rectitude and she finds no defense at public hands.
"HAIL TO THE CHIEF."
A new Chancellor has been appointed. For practically two years this institution has been groping in uncertainty. While the affairs of the University have not suffered, yet the lack of a definite administrative power has been keenly felt. We commend the action of the regents in selecting the new Chancellor from a foreign field. To be sure, we have in our faculty men capable of successfully running this institution. Again as a general proposition, we believe in promotion for faithful and efficient service. Since our schedule of salaries is so small, under this hope of higher succession is held out, there is little encouragement for our leading men to remain with us in the face of better officers. One sided loyalty is rather discouraging. But our faculty is not entirely free from petty jealousies and dislikes, and the ascendancy of one faction to the detriment of another would have meant the eventual loss of some of our best men. Again, there is with us already too much of a tendency toward inbreeding. Especially is this so of our sub professors. In some lines our step is wavering; we are becoming torpid. We need an infusion of fresh blood. In our semi-isolation we have elung to antiquated ideas. Revering our ancestral policies with Oriental tenacity, we are fearful of innovation.
In Dr. Strong, the regents made a very apropos selection. He is an eastern man graduated from a leading eastern school and afterwards professionally connected with his alma mater. He is a scholar of recognized ability. He is thoroughly acquainted with eastern methods; is abreast of the times; has dealt with the problems of school administration. He is conversant with the most approved solutions for these problems. He is also acquainted with western customs, manners and ideas. He has assimilated the fruits of his advantages and has been able to accommodate eastern ideas to a western application. He is a man, then, peculiarly fitted for the Chancellorship of K. U.
Broad scholarship is by no means the prime requisite for the head of a University. The record of Dr. Strong shows him to be a man possessed of marked executive ability. To restore K. U.'s depleted energies such a qualification is peremptory. Dr. Strong will be Chancellor in fact as well as in name. The comparative youth of our new executive is to our advantage. He is in perfect accord with boy nature, and the caprices of youth that often incite indiscretions and pranks. He will interpret them in their proper sense and
correct them accordingly-a thing hardly possible if senility or indigestion sways the seperter. He is interested in all student enterprises and will take immediate steps to further their progress.
Our new Chancellor is an organizer. He will summon the alumni to his assistance and utilize their services. Again by reason of his affable manner and easy approach, he will become personally acquainted with the student body, gaining in their sympathy a powerful ally. Dr. Strong will clean house. He will overhaul and renovate the policies now in vogue, relegating the old fashioned to the memory files and substituting the fresh and modern ones in their places. Further, Dr. Strong is an active earnest Christian. In his late visit he made more particular inquiry as to the religious status of the school and the work accomplished by the Christian Associations. Another good indication is that Dr. Strong realizes the grand opportunities of K. U. and is enthusiastic over her future. With all these qualifications, through him the school must prosper. Here's to the success of the New Chancellor! "Hail to the Chief."
STUDENTS ESCORT THE
NEW CHANCE!
Last Saturday night the students gave Dr. Strong, the new Chancellor, a rousing ovation that was both hearty and unique. Early in the evening there might have been seen congregating in the park, shrouded forms flitting among the trees like ghostly butterflies, or cavorting under the electric lights in the most demoniacal manner. One would have thought the graveyard had givenup its sheeted dead or that the Ku Klux Klan had been revived. Bedecked in night gowns, about one hundred students paraded up street, followed by mobs of others in civilian attire. Thus, in "evening dress," they called upon the Chancellor-elect. From a neighboring livery barn, a carriage had been previously secured and this, drawn by thirty or forty of the white brigade, conveyed Dr. Strong from the Eldridge hotel to the Union Pacific depot, where he was to take the train for his home, Eugene, Oregon. At the depot a general hullaballoo was indulged in. Speeches were made and the air resounded with loyal yells. A merry good time was the result. No vandalism or rowdyism arising from the evening's fun has reached our ears. The new Chancellor was received in true student style and we are assured he heartily enjoyed the occasion.
Good motive alone cannot justify an indiscretion. No court can acquit on such a claim. No more can public opinion entertain such a plea. Good motive may extenuate, but cannot excuse. Czolgolz was undoubtedly impelled to his dastardly deed by a most sincere belief in the ultimate good such an act would accomplish. From the view-point of the few his motive was pure and his deed heroic. Yet the people clamored for his death. Deliberate murders, unless committed by human brutes, are
generally actuated by some feeling of good intent or justification. The Jews saw their ancient faith defiled, their church upturned, their God blasphemed, and roused to a wholly wrath, they crucified the impostor. Good intentions could not spare the Jews a universal hate, nor prevent them, an outcast people, from living a cursed life. Until the revolving earth wears out its axis, men of all stations will commit indiscretions, and by their imprudence countless will suffer. Hasten the time when it is more than noble to swallow pride and subordinate dignity in rectifying a wrong. Priceless boon.
Why is it that a lot of overnice people have an unconquerable aversion to the objective case of the ordinary English pronouns? To judge from their conversation one would think that there were no such forms as "me," "us," "him." "For you and I," "Of we girls," are examples of what these ignoramuses palm off as the coin of culture. It is easy to tolerate the "Him and me done it" of the small boy, because there is no pretense of niceness; but the pseudo-culture of those people to whom a pronoun in the objective case causes a panic is intolerable. Happily, however, this assumed elegance is no more of a disguise than was the lion's hide for the donkey in the fable.
Describing a musical entertainment recently given at Hiawatha, the Brown County Republican says: "On the program was a violin solo by Frank J. Jehlik, with piano accompanied by Miss Hazel Kelsey. Mr. Jehlik proved himself a musician of the highest type and will some day be complete master of the bow."
Since Mr. Clifford is incapacitated for work, by reason of his injury received last week, the Local Department has been given over to Mr.C.A.Gardner.The public will kindly co-operate with him to keep this department up to the proper standard.
"Ah, ever the irony of Fate," sighs Empress Josephine ruefully as she espies the back of a chicken among the articles of her supper. "Always a bony part, to recall bitter memories."
At a meeting of the Weekly Board, held Tuesday, Messrs. C. L. Robbins and Carl H. Myers were chosen to fill vacancies on the board. No further business was transacted.
The tour of the baseball team is proving highly successful.
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