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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1940
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
For Him Who Speaks No More, I Ring; For Him Whose Lips Are Sealed, I Sing
Editor's Note: The bells of the K.U. World War II Memorial Carillon which are given as memorials to individuals, will bear the individual's name, the name of the donor, and a brief inscription. The bell inscription used as the head for this editorial was written by K. E. Postlethwaite, assistant secretary of the University alumni association.
Far across the golden valley, glorious to hear, will in a few years ring the carillon bells from the tower of the University campanile.
Each clear sound will carry the prayers and gratitude of all Kansans for those who are now resting beneath the soil of battlefields from Pearl Harbor to the Aleutians, from Salerno to Iwo Jima. The carillon's singing bells will call their spirits back to eternal reunion atop Mt. Oread, the hill they loved so well.
Each note will hold a solemn warning to the living not to let the sacrifices of those Jayhawkers go for nought.
The campanile with its lofty bell tower will be a true memorial. Its sole purpose will be to preserve the memory of the dead and living who gave so much for the University and the nation.
The carillon will be an inspiration not only to University students, but to many persons who will journey to the campus to view this stately sentinel on the Kaw.
Yet, many University students seem to resent the choice of a campanile as a selfless memorial. A day seldom passes that one does not hear a derisive remark about it. Surely the students are merely speaking in that flippant way students have when they feel deeply about something and are ashamed to show it. They can't feel that a utilitarian memorial would have served the same purpose.
How many persons when they sit in the stadium and watch a football game or track meet think of that concrete horseshoe as a memorial? The idea of a memorial is inseparable from peace and contemplation. Needed "useful" structures can be obtained by other means than contributions from the loved ones of those we propose to honor.
One has only to read of the place carillons have filled on other university campuses or talk to students from such schools to realize the powerful integrating force it can be.
Three other schools in the Big Seven—Iowa State, Nebraska, and Oklahoma—have or are building carillons. The bells at Iowa State have been ringing at morn and dusk for 50 years. None of these will compare in size or grandeur with the one which will be ours.
Other universities which have carrillons are: Michigan, University of Chicago, Duke University, Michigan State College, University of Texas, U.C.L.A., University of Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Princeton University, Stanford university, University of Connecticut, Wellesley college, and the University of California.
An example of the unifying force the carillon has in the life of the University of California students was evident the past December when the conference fathers were meeting to decide whether the California or Oregon State football team
would represent the Pacific Coast conference in the Rose Bowl.
The students knew the decision would be made that evening. If the California team were chosen, the carillon was to play the school song. If the Oregon team were the lucky one, the number would be appropriately sad.
The student who told of this incident said, "You'll never know what it meant to the thousands of anxious students when they heard the joyous refrain of their school song."
That is one example of the part the carillon could play in the lives of future Jayhawkers. Far from being a "warbling rockpile," it will be the most "alive" symbol of courage and selflessness we could envisage. For each time its ringing toes soar to the heavens, the voices of 8,000 University men and women, living and dead, who served their country in the world's last great year, will be lifted in harmony.
Chalk Talk
The Men's glee club gave a short concert for members of the house of representatives in Topeka the past week. One member returned to the campus and reported he had talked with one of the legislators.
"It was rather a one-sided conversation," he added.
The legislator said, "Would you please excuse me."
One of the more colorful spinsters in the English department recently said, "Nothing in all this world is so destructive as a great and passionate love. It's just like a forest fire."
The student replied, "Yes, sir."
The students immediately began to conjecture on where and when she had been burned.
A popular professor was suggesting a list of reference books for his students. When he recommended Roget's "Thesaurus," a student asked what that was.
From the back of the room came the reply, "It's a mess."
According to our pipeline, the Sunnyside maintenance men are getting quite a number of requests for bathtubs to replace showers. The occupants say you can't make gin in a shower.
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Dear Editor:
Maybe some of us notice the little things and completely overlook the big ones, but in visiting an out-of-state campus recently I couldn't help noticing the contrast between our spic-and-span corridors and the mud and paper-strewn ones I was visiting.
Our building attendants are doing a wonderful job, in comparison. No doubt many persons in various capacities (many of them seldom heard of) make important contributions to the appearance and welfare of a smooth-running university.
T. C. R.
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