Kansas University Weekly
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ARTHUR JACKSON
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS; SEPT 25, 1897.
THE TRUT 4 ABOUT THE GINERIL
Sez Bill Bryan to Joe Bur-rton. "Ave yez saw the Giner!"
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"Flwat Gineril?" sesJoe Burr-r-ton.
"Gieneri Prosperity" 302 Bin Bryan
laitla it to kill. For it was considered a
killer.
—From "The First Bottle," by W. J. B
Oh O'ave saw the Gineril; he's 'lokin' vury
well!
Well,
He's ridden in the cushion cairs and livin' looke a welf.
On the door mats of the farmers are the pho, too or his fate.
An'hé drops d'e the money question while He's talking dollar whate.
Oh the Gimberl'in a sly od dog, just listen to the cans
A-rattlin'in in the milk house where he's gone to find the puns.
Oh he's firld'n'wid the farmer's wife an' hugging her girls.
An' givtn'him the mime they're too goo for jinks an' carls.
Oh Gimberl'in just takes the brist, the dark mate and the wing.
We have no band to grate I'on, But we're mighty grab to mate you. An'你 be we're go'n to trace you
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Oh General we're sorry you was druv here by
Oh Generali we're sorry you was drunk here by distress—
By the famine that's in Inju' an'in Europe more or less.
We're sorry for the shortage that has come in Inju' whate.
We're sorry for the Inju' hogs that makes our bacon swate,
We're sorry for the Inju' steers in Inju' cattle pens,
We're sorry for the Inju' stroke that's shut down Inju' heens.
An 'the Ginner she shckered as he tuik a hunk of pie.
A 'A't he never said a wormur
That oy av as heredd
But the Ginner'i a burrud
—So he wink the other eye
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An' Ginnerl, you say you've come to visit quite a while;
Then it's here's to skin' at you as we have a little smile.
Don't feel that you are company; just feel at home an free.
To eat a cold snack in the night—like one the families.
For you are our old army friend, An' Ginnerl, we know
The best we have is none too good to make yer whislers grow.
Ant' while you drill the tarriers at work these give way?
Remember that we love ye
An' as sure's the sky's above ye
We'll bust the ear drum ay ye
A hollerin' yr praise.
A hollerin' yer praise.
—William Allen White.
The Groping of the Blind.
The number of those who go through life blind to the beauties of the great world about them is not greater in proportion than the number of those who go through a university without receiving a university training. If "it is not all of a life to live" neither is it all of a university training to dig into books.
He who goes forth into the world weighted with knowledge would fare better if he knew the ways of the world and the estimate which the world places on such knowledge as he carries. If this seems like saying that the student must have had a certain experience before he has had an opportunity to get it,
nevit it be remembered that a university is a miniature world in itself. The student who, outside of his own department, visits seminary and workshop, lecture and debate; who takes part in athletics and in class politics, works in the social and religious organizations—that student is getting a university training. All others might as well be in a one-horse college or be a member of a school by correspondence. Notwithstanding all that may be said in regard to the breadth of University work, the freshman who gives almost his entire attention to the work outlined for his first year, is to be commended. He is laying a good foundation. Very few of the men who in their first year attempt to astonish the natives, or to run the University, ever stay to graduate. But in the last years of his course, the student owes something to the social, religious and political life of his alma mater.
The Orange published at Baker college has a new exchange policy. This week's issue comes to us with a marked announcement as follows:
If you have received a copy of the Orange, we wish to call your attention to the fact that unless you notify us that you do not want the paper you will be considered a subscriber.
Really, is not the Orange too severe? As a matter of delicacy we hesitate to come right out plainly and acknowledge that we do not want the paper, while we confess it is a luxury which in these hard times would be expensive to pay for. But then to do without the Orange entirely would be to deny ourselves rural pastel gems like this for instance:
Standing on the steps of Centenary hall and casting our evs around on the familiar scenes of the campus, a new thrill of life seemed to course through our eyes. We spoke with young people reclining in the pleasant shade intupon upon their newly imposed tasks.
After all the Orange is well worth paying for and we hope that every college journal in the state will subscribe. There is such an ever present effect of the "rigorous process of combing" we are forced to remark in the language of our contemporary: "We look almost in vain for the hay seeds."
Kansas City Journal: Mr. T. W Higginson is a member of the visiting committee of the Harvard overseers, and is old-fashioned enough to suppose that he is intended in this capacity to visit. He finds to his surprise that other members of his committee do not so understand their functions, but think they can do what is desired of them by looking over the catalogue. Mr. Higginson well says that "fifteen minutes spent in the recitation room are worth more in giving a knowledge of the general aim and plan of a course than learning the whole programme by heart." How it would embarrass the average teacher of a western college, appointed for denominational or political reasons, to be required to visit the classrooms of the teachers they employ. And, indeed, what would they do there?
That too much of the effervescence commonly called college spirit interferes with the work of a university, nobody will deny; but let us not think that we approach perfection as we eliminate all such demonstrations. The early settlers waged indiscriminate war on the forests and today their descendants are planting trees to make good the loss. The connection between college spirit and the efficiency of a college may become quite as apparent as that between forest and rainfall.
Already the club steward swaggeath or is busted; the fraternity man hath placed a first class mortgage, or is muttering "sour grapes"; the intricacies of the schedule are as nothing to the new student; likewise he hath sized up his profs; the schemes and petitions of the old sudent have gone the way of all the earth; the registrar goeth to his meals on time—in short the University, like Kipling's ship, has "found herself."
Hugh Blair, who is one of the best friends the Athletic association has ever had, was right when he said that we ought to be glad that Missouri is trying to get Wharton. The prospective strength of Missouri and Iowa ought to urge us on. We do not want simply to win. We want a contest which will develop an athletic spirit in the west.
Many of the boys who smoke beautifully ornamented pipes while in school, carefully pack them away in their trunks during vacation. There are qualms of conscience at home which are quelled when the boys get together.
In another column is printed the report of the Kansas men at the Lake Geneva conference setting forth the objects for which the college Young Men's Christian associations are to work. There are
The seminary rooms in the library are now opened at eight o'clock. Heretofore they have not been opened until nine. One hour is not a long time to spend in the library, but it is a long time to gain from the librarians.
eleven of these, all good and proper. The twelfth object is not mentioned and we deem it would not have been sanctioned by the conference. We go farther and hope it is not the rule unwritten though understood of the associations in the other colleges throughout the state to attempt to manipulate politics. This does not come within the scope of a religious organization and is in ill taste where is expected to include members of all factions who have a Christian faith. Is it not time for this unwritten twelfth rule to be formally or titally repealed? The Young Men's Christian association is not a popular organization in the University of Kansas. Perhaps the suspicion of this twelfth rule is the cause.
This is the time of the year when the Freshman wonders why he has such a warm friend in his landlady. Doubtless he will know later when he learns that he pays more room rent than older students.
This will be a gay winter in University society. The fathers of a great many of the socially elect have sold their wheat at good prices
SHARPS AND FLATS.
They were just two girls passing through the lower hall, but they were very, very thirsty and wanted a drink very much. Timidly they sauntered by the new water tank, but it was surrounded to a depth of about ten feet by a solid mass of men each wildly gesticulating and discussing the football prospects or the new man the frat had got or the class elections or most anything like that.
The girls saw that nothing less than a flying wedge would break that solid phalanx so they passed sadly on.
"I wonder why they don't put that new water tank where the girls could get a little good from it, too," said one, a new student
"Oh my, that's not intended for the girls' answered the other who had been at K. U. before. "You know girls never do get as thirsty as boys do."
And then girls don't count for much down in the lower hall, anyhow.
The time has again arrived when the librarians announce in sepulchral whispers the time worn fact that "these walls are just like a sieve and you can hear a whisper all through the building "
"Well, is that the way they play football, just run after the ball and fall all over each other that way?" said one as they watched the men practicing on the campus. "Yes!" said the other and what horribly dirty old suits and how hot and dirty they look. And I should think they would get themselves all scratched up." "They do," said the one decisively. "football is a tough brutal game and I'm sure I shall never watch it played."
This was because they had only been here a week. About the time of the Thanksgiving game their conversation will be something like this:
They won't know any more about football than they did before but you see they think they do which makes a great difference.
"Oh have you been out to see the boys practice lately?" "Yes and they do splendily. They say we won't have a bit of trouble in beating M. U. You know the quarter back's shoulder was put out of place and the half back had two or three ribs broken and one of the other boys got such a blow on the head, they thought he was going to brain fever but they are all getting better now and will be able to play in the big game." "Oh. I must go out to see them. It's so exciting and the boys do look so sweet in their suits."
The Kansas City Journal says the attendance at K. U. this year will reach the 1500 mark. We wouldn't wonder ourselves. ___
It was in the class room. He was some thing of a literateur, and was able to talk quite glibly. What was more he had a Bostonian accent which must have been acquired anywhere rather than in the east. The professor called upon him to recite upon a topic that had been gone over the day before.
"Well—ah—excuse me. The fact is that I am seriously disturbed in my mind as to whether I am able to elucidate the statements which were propounded to us yesterday. It is a very interesting question to me indeed; and the fact is that it is a matter of old reading rather than recent reading." And the professor, with a far away look in his eyes, turned over the next card.
"Well, really, Professor I can not tell any more than what was told yesterday. "Tell that."
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Judging from the light that beems from behind their love languid lids, the University future-in-law's are happy once more.
W. BROMELSICK.
A prominent K. U. professor's definition of dancing: "A clinching in time to music and then a skirmishing around a hall.
Better keep your mouth shut and say nothing than to utter a lot of words that mean nothing.
"A man talking to a bright girl" observed a clever University girl the other day, "makes me think of our team of horses. The off horse pulls along very well until he gets the near horse to trotting in good shape, then he lags behind and lets her do all the pulling."
Don't think that the girl who laughs the most is the happiest; her unceasing smiles may veil an aching heart Don't think that the girl who is always frowning is ill-tempered; she is only trying to "look smart."
He was a Freshman and she was a Senior, but he didn't know it.
right, he included "No," she answered laconically.
"Are you going to the reception to night," he asked.
she answered accordingly:
"You're not! Why—why, it is to be the biggest event of the season, they told me."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, and a dress affair too. Do you suppose I can go without a dress coat, because I haven't any?"
"I presume so."
"But maybe it is a select affair. They sent out invitations, I got one. Say—I'll find out and tell you."
The next day he rushed up to her exclaiming, "Say! Anybody can go. You'd better go and get acquainted with some of the students. You must feel very lonely among all these strangers."
"Thank you," she said, "but I have all the acquaintances I care for."
"Why! Have you been here before?"
"Yes; I'm a Senior."
"Oh!" he gasped, his eyes and his mouth wide open from astonishment.
And the moral is—but that is a secret to be found out in some future Senior class meeting.
She was a gay young girl who had spent several "seasons" in University society. He was a "new man" whom she was to pilot through the intricacies of making his debut.
He invited her to a 15 cent hop. "By the way," he said, "What is your address?" "Oh, any hackman can tell you," she answered in sweet simplicity.
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