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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950
The Editorial Page-
On Editorial Eating
An editorial writer for the Daily Kansan, student newspaper of the University of Kansas, has publicly eaten one of his own compositions, with pepper and salt. . . .
The incident interests and saddens us, not as a basketball fan, but as an old editorial writer. The salt and pepper were particularly distressing.
To add condiments to an editorial before eating is like soaking a steak in strong-tasting sauce. It is an admission that the food is inferior. An editorial that does not contain its own spice is not worth writing or printing, much less eating.
Had we been that hapless editorial writer we would have waved aside the salt and pepper with a disdain as lordly as a New Englander confronted with the suggestion that tomatoes be inserted in the clam chowder.
We would have eaten that editorial with all the enthusiasm of a gourmet tasting something served under glass at the monthly meeting of the Wine and Food society.
Bystanders would have been invited to try a morsel.
Bystanders would have been frightened. "Note, if you will," we would have said, "the delicate irony of the adjectives which seem to melt upon the tongue like the memory of a dream. Judge of the deceptive fluffiness of the rhetoric, composed as it is of the juice of sun-ripened nouns, crushed by lovely native girls treading barefoot upon a vintage edition of Webster's. Thrill to the crunchiness of the verbs. Dangle this participle upon your taste buds. Roll these sonorous sentences in your mouth."
Editorial eating has admittedly fallen upon evil days. Oh there are people who will gobble down a quick paragraph now and then, but what a contrast to the easy, spacious days of our grandfathers who thought nothing of consuming a three-column leader from the Times of London, topping with a filet of Horace Greeley and ending the meal by rolling up a copy of the editorial page of Dana's Sun and smoking it like a Corona Corona.
Who now revels in the delight of hitting up a chewy "however" in the middle of a salty second paragraph or savors that delicate, indescribable taste of a properly qualified "on the other hand?"
The "whereas," a favorite of editorial eaters of another day, is not much in favor currently as it tends to get in the teeth.
Not all editorials, of course, are equally suitable for the table. Those on foreign affairs, for example, while they highlight the festive board, may be too rich for everyday tastes.
One doesn't ordinarily eat duck curried Persian style for breakfast, and by the same token it is a mistake to include an editorial on anything so exotic as the Formosan question or Whither Jugoslavia? on the menu for that meal.
Whatever suggestion is made, by mid-day a person of normal appetite should have something more solid—perhaps about a half column of analysis of the drift toward the welfare state.
of the drift toward the world. For dinner why not try a fricasee of opinion on the British election, followed by something light and frothy about the hydrogen bomb?
. . . Some forms of editorial are, of course, completely indigestible. Among these are humorous editorials. We once heard of a man who was shipwrecked for two weeks with nothing but the Chicago newspapers. Finally, after he had eaten his way through most of the others, he was forced in desperation to consume an entire humorous editorial.
"It really wasn't so bad," he told us. "Only it tasted a little funny."
This we can hardly believe. Bill Vaughan in Starbeams, Kansas City Star.
This we can hardly believe.
Spring Fever
Boy: "It sure is a nice day, isn't it?"
Girl: "Yes." (Sigh).
(Pause)
Boy: "Pretty warm out." (Soft murmur).
Girl: (Sigh) "Pretty warm."
Boy "I've got a class in 10 minutes. I suppose I ought to go." Girl:"I suppose so." (Pause) "I've got one, too."
(Pause)
Girl: "I suppose so." (Pause) "I've got one, too."
**Boy:** "I like to just sit here and watch people go by..."
**Girl:** (Sigh) "Me too."
Boy: "Well, I ought to go." (Struggle to rise).
(10 minutes later).
Boy: "It sure is a nice day, isn't it?" Girl: "Yes." (Sigh).
'Small Things'
A scientist said the other day while discussing the H-bomb that he valued his liberties more than his life, and that no doubt is the reason Henry Luce is retiring from active journalism.
Famous last words, overheard in front of Frank Strong: "That's what I like, a new semester. With a clean start I'll really knuckle down and study this time."
Dear Editor-
The article on the "Four University Dance Bands" which appeared in last Friday's Daily Kansas was very enlightening, but several of the facts were wrong.
Dear Editor:
Sorry 'Note'
The Jim Sellards band which "lays claim to having the oldest band on the campus" cannot truthfully make such a claim. The Sellards band is an outgrowth of the Charlie O'Connor band which was started in 1947. O'Connor did not come to K. U. until 1946 so it seems quite unlikely that the band has been going for six years as the article states.
When speaking of age, I saw Clyde Byson and his orchestra play for a pep rally in Hoch in 1939. His name has been in "dance band talk" since that time. The Harlan Livingood band has been going now for three straight years with very few changes in personnel. To my knowledge, this is the longest that any band has stayed together on the Hill.
Sellards' statement that "his band is the most highly representative of the University" smells to high heaven, too, for both Livinggood and Bysom have as many K. U. students as Sellards does.
The article is just another example of "dirty politics" which has been going on in the K. U. dance band world all this year. Some people seem to be afraid of rough competition.
--Charles Steeper Journalism senior
University
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TODAY
COLLEGE MEN
Museum of Art display of original covers and illustrations from the Saturday Evening Post from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
P. O. Box 55,
WEDNESDAY
Student Hall, 7 p.m., Strong
auditorium.
THURSDAY, FEB. 23
WEDNESDAY. FEB. 22
Albion, Mich.
Atomic Energy and Man lecture series. Dr. Max Dresden will discuss "The Physical Basis of Atomic Energy," 7:30 p.m., Strong Auditorium.
Varsity Tie Swap
On KFKU
Art lecture by Prof. Clayton Fowler on "Duerer," 8 p.m., the Museum of Art.
2:30-3:00 "Art by Radio" with Miss
TODAY
9:30-10:00 "Symphonic Favorites"
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
3:20 "Musical Matinee"
2:30 Musical Marina
2:45 "Peace Is Worth Working For." a talk by Gilbert Yates, secretary of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
9:30-10:00 "Salon Soiree"
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
2:30 "Pleasures of Reading" with Miss Frances Grinstead.
2. 45 "The Flying Carpet" narrated by Tom Shay
9:30-10:00 "Sharps and Flats"
FRIDAY
2:30-3:00 "Music by Radio" with Miss Mildred Seanam
9:30-10:00 "The Opera Box," Last act of Bizef's "Carmen"
4:00-5:00 "Vespers" special broadcast
SUNDAY
Name Change Nets Larger Classes
You can't tell a book by its cover nor can you tell courses at the University by the name.
the University
When Dr. Harold G. Barr, dean
of the College of Religion, taught
his class called the History and
Literature of the Bible, only 12 to
14 students enrolled in the class each
semester.
semester.
During the fall semester of 1940, Dr. Barr changed the name of the course to English Bible. The next semester 23 students enrolled in the course. There have been as many as 51 students in the class since the change in name was made.
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