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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1941
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HE FACED THEM
"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
The above quotation was spoken when our country faced a far graver problem than it has ever faced since. It was during the Civil War in the United States. The speaker was Abraham Lincoln whose birthday we commemorate today.
Some universities have their fairy godfathers who shower their campuses with currency of an agreeable green color; others have that changing sky-line that a new building every year brings; others are old and sage; still others are new and publicity-wise.
The events that faced Lincoln during his administration as president of the United States were a greater threat to American liberty and unity than those which face us today. Lincoln, in his quiet solemn way, met these events, preserved this nation's unity, and added to its way of life by establishing liberty and equality for all. Earlier patriots had given us a constitution constructed to make a nation that was united and free; Lincoln put the rights into effect for all of its people.
But the University of Kansas, which will soon tie on pink ribbons for its seventy-fifth birthday, is doubly-blest. God has given that only He can take from us. The first of these is a view, not the kind you point to with pride and say, "And this is our view," but the sort of view around which you can build a whole landscape.
At this time, when a threat to our way of life is again apparent, it is well to remember this great American and the words he spoke. In them he gives us an answer to what we should do now. Don't try to control events, meet them!
WHAT'S HARVARD?
Without the Wakarusa and Kaw valleys our University would be a dull place. These local piles of native limestone need that violet and blue background drop to give them allure.
The University's second blessing is the more intangible one of outstanding scholastic achievement even without the best of equipment and facilities. Kansas lawyers, doctors, and chemists, for example, are tops in their field, and they make their achievements in spite of the handicap of inadequate equipment and insufficient funds.
CUPID VERSUS ECONOMICS
But given also a spring night, a moon, and a man, what will a co-ed be? Not a human calculating machine with an eye to budgets but a woman with visions of tulle in her eyes. Somehow, a warm breeze laden with perfume of iris
In a recent questionnaire which he gave to his class of co-eds he discovered that eight-five per cent of them demanded that their prospective husbands be earning $2,500 before marrying them. Since less than 15 per cent of the salary earners of the nation receive so much, he foresees a state of single blessedness for the majority of his class.
Given a college education and a proposal of marriage, what will eighty-five percent of the feminine population be? Prof. George Haskell of the University of Iowa believes they will be old maids.
or lilac seems to undermine even the strongest resolution a practical-minded woman has.
Cupid may have an unfair advantage in his stage props for romance,but we'll bet on him against economics any day in determining the future of the college woman.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1941 No. 84
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
A. I.M.E.: Dean J. J. Jakosky will give an illustrated lecture on the practical application of geophysics at the regular meeting of the local chapter of the American Institute of Mining Engineers on Thursday, Feb. 13, in 101 Haworth hall. All persons interested are invited to attend.—Oren C. Baptist, president.
CERAMICS EXHIBITION: An exhibition of ceramics by Miss Gladys Bate, guest instructor of the Design department, made while she was studying in Sweden is being shown in the halls of the third floor of West Frank Strong hall—Marjorie Whitney.
DELTA PHI SIGMA: There will be a meeting of the Congregational sorority at the church Wednesday evening at 5:30 sharp. There will be pledging and a supper. Bring 15 cents—Freda Zimmerman, reporter.
EL ATENEO: The first meeting of the spring semester will be held Thursday at 3:30 in 113 Frank Strong. A most interesting program has been arranged. Dr. N. H. Huffman and Miss Helen Huffman will speak on Puerto Rico. All those interested in Spanish are cordially invited.-Merle Simmons.
GRADUATE STUDENTS: If you are a graduate student you are invited to an all-graduate party Thursday evening, Feb. 13, from 8 to 10 at the Union ballroom. A program has been planned - Edith Borden.
K. U. TOWN MEETING: K.U. Town Meeting will be held in conjunction with Town Hall of the Air, at 8:30 Thursday evening, in the main lounge of the Memorial Union building. Students and faculty members interested in the discussion of current issues are invited. The topic will be "Snould the English Speaking Democracies Unite Now?"—Keith Spalding, Union Activities Committee.
QUILL CLUB: Feoh run of the American College Quill Club will meet at 7:30 Thursday evening in the Pine room.-Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
SIAMESE ART EXHIBITION: There will be an exhibition of Siamese art in room 320 West Frank Strong Hall from Feb.10 through Feb.23. This exhibition includes hand-woven textiles and craft work of Siam from a collection belonging to Mr. Wallace Lee, Federal geologist—Marjorie Whitney.
THETA SIGMA PHI: Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the sky parlor of the Journalism building for a professional meeting. The speakers will be Maurine Mong and Mary Jane Sigler. —Mary F. McAnaw, secretary.
W. N.A.A.: The Women's National Aeronautical Association will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb.13, in the lounge of the Memorial Union building—Ruth Spencer Aschrift, secretary.
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No Ghostwriter For Gettysburg Address
The question "When and where did Lincoln write the Gettysburg Address?" has been asked and answered many times and in many different ways. The most prevalent theory, because it is the most popular, is that, on the journey from Washington to Gettysburg, Lincoln wrote his masterpiece on the back of an envelope or a scrap of paper. This fiction probably first derived from a statement in "The History of Abraham Lincoln and the
Overthrow of Slavery," by Isaac N. Arnold, published in 1866.
Ward Hill Lamon, close friend of the President and his erstwhile law partner, leaves this story: "A day or two before the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Mr. Lincoln told me that he would be expected to make a speech on the occasion; that he was extremely busy, and had no time for preparation; and that he greatly feared that he would not be able to acquit himself with credit, much less fulfill the expectations of the public. From his hat, the usual receptacle for his private notes and memoranda, he took a sheet of foolscap, one side of which was closely written with memoranda
for his intended address. It proved to be in substance, if not in exact words, what was afterwards printed as his famous Gettysburg speech."
"A brief address" was the stipulation put on President Lincoln's speech by the man in charge of arrangements only the night before the consecration service.
From the original notes on fool-scap, President Lincoln rewrote his message the morning of Nov. 19, 1863, not more than an hour before he took his place in the procession.
The silence during the speech and lack of hearty demonstration of approval immediately after its close caused the President to say to his associates, "The speech was a flat failure, and the people are disappointed."
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Jason Yordy and Frank Baumgartner's Kappa Sig bus, big and windy, has a back left window with a big jagged chunk missing. For winter, it's a bit too much on the fresh air side, but Frank says maybe by spring they can afford to have the heater connected.
Last night Curly Crowell and Helen Kay Moore were walking west across campus when they saw about ten men walking to meet them. Thinking they were brother Sigma Chi's, Curly said, "Let's avoid them. They're going to the basketball game and would wonder why I'm not going, too."
But when the ten turned in at the gym, Curly saw that they were not Sigma Chi's but Beta's. Which proves that we are all more or less alike, after all.
To whom it may concern, Bill proclaims a new policy, a flat rate two dollars a ceremony.
In a Myers hall classroom the other day, an early comer was saving ringside seats for two of his friends by throwing his coat over the chairs. He had already turned down several requests for the seats when he saw Helen Johnson coming.
Immediately he removed the coat and made ready for a pretty neighbor, but Helen passed him by for a vacant chair across the room.
After class he found a note in his car outside—sweet, and signed "H. Johnson." But masculine handwriting.
LETTERS
Editor, Daily Kansan:
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you have said about student government; the only thing is you haven't really gone far enough in showing just how really dirty campus politics is.
I've been on the inside of student government for three years and I want to tell you that I'm sick of the whole stinkin' mess. One of the students in those interviews in Sunday's Kansan hit the nail on the head when he said that members of the M.S.C. go into politics for the honor, and that as soon as they are elected they quit; "all is for the dear ole party, and not for the school."
I sat on the student council for a whole year; so I know from experience that the bickering between the parties that is done in the Pine room is not for the best interests of the school but is for party political reasons.
Your argument for combining the councils is a sound one, and I think I could get my party to propose the measure in the council. The trouble is we might do more harm by proposing your measure than not. You see, I happen to be a Pachacamaca, so no matter what sort of a bill our party puts before the council it will be defeated. The P.S.G.L.'s don't look to see how good a measure is that comes before them; they look to see which party submitted it. Of course, our party would very likely be doing the same thing if it were in power, so I'm supporting you in taking politics out of government by combining the councils into a single representative body.
Let me know if there is any way I can help the campaign.—A DIS- GRUNTLED POLITICIAN.
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