The o University Weekly.
Editor-in-Chief, CHAS, HARKER RHODES,
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EXECUTIVE BOARD.
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LAWRENCE, KAN., SAT. APR. 12. 1902
THE "SCRAP."
"He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." Prov. 13-3.
Upon the Department of Discipline rests no slight responsibility. To it the great state of Kansas looks for the proper conduct of the students committed to our great institution. In the course of its duties this committee is often placed in most delicate and embarassing positions. Honor and duty demand inflexible justice to them. The students, in their fiery impetuosity, often do not approve the findings of this court. Imbued with the feeling of deliberate injustice, they impute improper motives or accuse the individual members of this committee with partiality.
It is highly absurd to doubt for one moment the sincerity of this committee or its loyalty to the best interests of this institution. Nor can we deny that the best welfare of the University weighs their every decision. Again the buoyancy of congregated youth needs the curb and restraint of such a body. And in the elimination of ruffianism or vandalism that unbridled enthusiasm often engenders, in the soberer demeanor of the student body, may be traced the workings of this committee.
The students realize their individual interest in the welfare and reputation of K. U. As a whole they are keenly alive to the responsibility that devolves upon them in maintaining a pure and laudable name abroad.
Since the student body has such a vital interest in the public institution itself, but has no voice of representation in the policy of discipline, it can assume without presumption the right to criticize any policy that may be in vogue.
The members of the D.C. are human and therefore subject to error. Indiscretions committed even with purest motive or in best of faith, cannot be championed.
The editor has just returned from a short vacation in Southern Kansas and Oklahoma. The fracas of last week was the subject of much adverse comment there. The patrons of this institution had read the heavy head line notices of the wholesale sus pensions of last week and o the subsequent action of the stu
dents. News of the scrap itself had not come to their ears, but in the light of later results, their imaginations had naturally pictured scenes of "hoodlumish" unparalleled in the chronicles of student outbursts. It was our pleasure to confer with several of the leading educators of the state—men who as students had passed through these experiments; men who now as superintendents deal with such knotty problems in the administration of their schools. After hearing an unprejudiced recital of the whole affair, these men asserted unreservedly that the authorities of K. U. had made a "bad break.' The triviality of the affair would not justify such a severe sentence The action of the committee magnified the offense and prevented the real purpose of the punishment. They defeat their own ends, for K. U. suffers its result and the competing denom inational schools acquire new data for telling argument against us
The men who manage the youth of this institution should above all be conversant with the caprices of boyhood. They should be men who were once boys themselves, men who are in sympathy with the buoyancy of youth and who are not prone to read calamity into every situation. They should be Ph. D's in "child-life." They should properly interpret that expression of young life which the poet extols in liquid measure. Coercion is not always the only resource It often occurs that coercion fails with waywardness where "hummoring" accomplishes complete subjugation. The students of K. U. are not a gang of irresponsible ruffians: They have been reasoned with in the past, they can be appealed to now. In the case of the last scrap, a censure and a warning against a repetition of the offense would have been very effective and salutory.
The WEEKLY is anxious to cooperate with the authorities in maintaining a proper reputation for this school. Far be it from its purpose to abet insubordination or discontent among the students or loudly approve their every deed. It appreciates that the members of the D.C. have a thankless job, rewarded often with only censure and unpopularity. Yet we feel it our duty to depreciate that growing tendency to magnify triviality into pressing importance. These columns have presented the great importance of class spirit. With the approach of spring, spirit wells up in the youth as sap in the tree. Surely it is not the prime policy of the parties in power to squeech this spirit. Since there is evidently a mutual misunderstanding as to legitimate class spirit, would it not be advisable for the authorities to issue a bulletin defining legitimate spirit and specifically stating just what will be tolerated hereafter. Defiance and bluff are not salutary for either party. Both students and authorities have one purpose in common and they should work harmoniously together.
paves the way for this happy cooperation. Laudations in song and story shall perpetuate the praises of these exponents of student reform.
Years ago when the student body of K. U. was composed largely of vandals and ruffians, color fights were often indulged in. 'Twas in the days of '91 that the Freshmen after a series of exciting battles with their natural antagonists, the Sophs, finally planted their flag on both domes of Frazier hall, barricaded the stairway opposite the elocation department with board obstructions and bade their enemies defiance. The legend gleam from the alumni archives, state that the Sophs made fierce assaults only to be beaten back, with fingers badly bruised; that fiercest among the fighting was a certain white headed chap named Barber, who towered among the students as Saul did among men. Freshmen strategy and whacked fingers filled our Mr. Barber with consuming wrath and the memory of impotent rage alone recalls the incident to many a participant of the fight.
IN DAYS OF YORE.
But those were barbarous days, days replete with debauchery and disgrace, the memory of which even now suffuses the face with the crimson flush of shame. With such environment and such pernicious customs countenanced little wonder that our institutions produced in those dark times such men as Regent Scott Hopkins, Hon. Chas. F. Scott, Herbert Hadley, Prof. Higgins, Prof. Barber, Angelo Scott, William Allen White, Gen. Fred. L. Funston, and numberless others of the Black Wolf's Breed, whose names smirch the record of this institution and whose purposeless lives are proverbial.
O, thou tutelor divinity of colleges, whoever thou art, we devoutly thank thee that the sun of an enlightened era has dispelled the gloom of a benighted past; that the time has come when college spirit and loyalty are dead with us. We thank thee that he who lifts his voice in "Rock Chalk K. U." must now repent in sack cloth and ashes; that the millennial day has dawned when under the faculty's benign rule of suppression, we must pass away "unwept, unsung," into the joys of a students' oblivion.
Our John Brown's of modern martyrdom will have done a good work if their punishment
Solomon evidently anticipated the modern college scrap and the consequent complications arising therefrom: "Go not forth hastily to strive lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof." —Prov. 25-8. "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."—Prov. 22-15. "Who hath we? Who hath sown? Who hath contentions? Who hath wounds without cause?" Prov. 23-29.
It might be well for class and college spirit to divert some of its surplus enthusiasm from the physical contest to the legitimate channel of athletics. This latter is worthy of your zeal and offers opportunity for engrossing interest and excitement.
Vacation is at an end and the school work is now panting down the last quarter. Many students spent with their parents the few days respite granted from their labors.
The over-credulous Latin student who translated "cur" dog, the other day made a curious but natural mistake.
"Yes," said the disgusted fee filched tourist," we're going home, no more to Rome."
The eagle should be adopted in our official seal because the bird is so talented.
Twenty-eight of our friends have been temporarily exKUsed from further work.
The medies will soon be treated to "stiff" exams.
EXCHANGES.
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MARY: "Meble I'm ugly now, mama,
but in my day I've broken many a heart."
Mistress: "Well, Mary, if you handle
hearts the way you do my chin, I believe
you."
Because K. U. has a "Quill Club" is no evidence that there are a lot of geese up on Mt. Orend.-Western Life.
Said a whiskered med. to a fair cored.
"I'm like a ship at sea;
Exams, are near and much I fear,
That I will lusted be."
"Oh me," she said, "a shore Pill be,
Come试心 your journey over?"
"I'll do," she replied.
For the ship that hugged the shore. Northwestern.
The widow (to herself): "The coal man!
Why didn't I pay his bill?"
DARK OUTLOOK.—Fortune-teller: "And I see a dark man who will give you trouble."
The hunter in the mountains,
Can most always get his deer.
But the hunter in the city,
Has her name in the root.
Northwestern
Has her papa in the rear.
Ethel, coxy): "What a pretty month you have. It ongter to be on a girl's face"
Jack: "I seldom miss an opportunity."
- Princeton Tiger.
In Latin and Greek
He was quick as a streak;
he tilted his head toward Tony.
The latter was due to his being mischievous.
The former was due to his pony.
"I fear," said the postage stamp on the college girl's letter to her far away lover. "I fear that I am not sticking to facts."
The board of arbitration between a father and a bad son consists of a shingle.
"The Midnight Owl," is the midnight spoil"—spoiled health, spoiled scholar ship, spoiled ambitions.
"The monkeys, our ancestors. (2) were educated in the higher branches.
Professor. "What are you doing, learning anything?"
Pastor: "Were you ever baptized? Applicant: "Yes, but it didn't take
Question: Why is a bald headed man like heaven?
"We're in a pickle now," said the man in the crowd. "A regular jam," said another. "Heaven preserve us," said an old lady.
Answer- Because there is no dying or
parting there.
revenue.
which a wise man cannot miss.
Pupil-I suppose that is the reason so many of us think.
Tommy—Pa what is a board of education?
Father—When I went to school it was a pine shingle.
Prof. in chemistry—Remembling that carbon dioxide is heavier than air how could you remove it from a well.
Freshie—By boring a hole in the well.
1st Freshman—What is science?
2nd Freshman-It is the systematic classification of guess work.
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