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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931
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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931
DR. BLACKMAR
The University mourns the death of Prof. Frank Wilson Blackman, who was for forty years a member of the faculty and head of a department, and for twenty-five years dean of the graduate school.
Students who are in the University now will perhaps have heard the brilliant series of lectures which Dr. Blackmar delivered in the past few years on "The History of Man." But hundreds throughout the state who were once students here will remember the inspired teacher during the years of his active service as professor and dean.
Professor Blackman was active in juvenile legislation, prison reform and other movements to benefit Kansas. He was the author of the state's juvenile court law and of the child labor law. A towering figure in the early day Kansas history, his foresight and his stamouth support of what he believed to be for the best will remain a memorial to the spirit of the man. It is a significant fact that his last published statement was an appeal to Kansas to repudiate the effort to establish capital punishment in this state. Kansas has lost a leader, a teacher, and a friend.
Children who used to get slapped on the wrist for a midemurder now get their convertible coupe taken away from them for the afternoon.
"GENIUS AND DISASTER"
The appearance early this month of an article in Harper's by an anonymous writer called "The Moderate Drinker" created considerable discussion throughout the country concerning the actual effect of liquor, even in well-regulated portions, upon the mind and the will in their functional interaction. The conclusions reached by the "moderate drinker" was that alcohol destroyed, on the "day after", all executive power in the imbiber. He could not discriminate in matter-of-fact things, much less affairs calling for a sound weighing. The conclusion was sane. Every drinker will admit that a laitude envelopes him following his tipping; temporarily his zest and the quality of judgment are suspended, and capability his better.
Not many years ago jenneline Marks published her "Genius and Disaster," a splendidly done study of the effect of over-indulgence on some of the world's most literary lights. She mentioned, among others, De Quincey, Coleridge, Poe, Rossetti, Thomson, Mrs Browning, Swinburne, and Baudelaire. Their writings have obvious evidences that drugs were instrumental in their works. The story of Poel's life is the property of every school boy. Be
Quincey's habits are almost as well known; COLORidge once said, after a long siege with opium, that he would like above all else to discover the "good and beautiful" but that "I see, not feel, how beautiful life is."
Miss Marks is kind with those way-ward geniuses. They might never have achieved the distinction they did, had it not been for the intoxication that carried them along. But such a hypothesis is doubtful.
There is a strong belief that great writing comes only through poverty, pain, and difficulties; critics contend
only genius will persist in the
of those barriers. Admittedly Poo-
ork is great, along with that a twineur is bourne, Coleridge, Rossetti, and the rest of their kind, but great genius has floured under more favorable conditions. The habits of Thomas Hardy, Kurt Humann, Leo Tolstoi, John Galsworthy, Anatole France, Heinrich Wasserman, and the late Arnold Bemssen were regular and free from the mental phantasies which liquor and drugs evoke. Their are substantial lives, and their literature itself has a substantiality that persists because an energetic mind is coupled with genuine talents. The factors in success, whether it be in literature or in balletmaking, are rarely ephemeral. Where a few men found greatness despite the tentacles of a mereless habit, dozens of others, free from outside exhilarations, have carried their fame far. And often theirs is the more lasting fame.
"Don't let Neglect take any of your Shoes," warns an advertisement. It isn't neglect that is bothering most of them t is old age.
ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSORS
Yesterday the American Chemical Society released a report explaining why absent-mindedness is often a characteristic of professors. Great minds often deliberately go unthinking through every-day habits in order to get a hunch on some problem that is perplexing them. A professor may take three baths in one morning, wear his pajamas to class, walk into a church instead of the classroom; yet he always has an excuse. His mind is seeking the answer to some problem that overshadows all those other minor duties.
Any student, no matter how humble or proud he may be, will tolerate the faculty on that explanation. It sounds feasible. In fact one could find undergraduates by the score who have, simply because they were thinking of some nice-eyed girl (and the professional ranks themselves will admit a nice-eyed girl is a problem, especially when the economic depression is as bad as it is now), put on two pairs of socks or shaved twice or read the same comic three or four times. When a man is deliberating, whether he be professor or student, he has a right to be absent-minded.
Despite his name, there has been nothing fraternal about Brothers' activities as a gangster.
INTRAMURALS
Not every man student in the UiU university is gifted athletically to win it "KC". In fact, very few in comparison are even considered by students comprise the different teams.
Intramural athletics answer the call for those who are not on the "varsity." For the past two years the interest among the organizations and the non-frauen men has greatly increased.
In 1928 there were approximately 356 students taking part in basketball. That total included very few non-fraternity men. During the past basketball season over 500 men participated in the cage sport. The increase in number of contestants has also become larger in the other sports events on the calendar.
Students and organizations have cooperated with the intramural management in its progress, but the success of intramural development is due to the efforts of E. R. Elibel, who has been manager of intramural athletics for three years.
He has worked out plans for a systematic schedule of events, started two new games, speedball and murderbale, and originated the "B" basketball teams in that play so that more students could play.
The director also would like to have a short series of events between the different schools, engineering, laws, medical, and business.
Intramurals are on the up grade. Almost every student has some favorite sport and through the present system the manager makes it possible so that each can participate in different sports With the co-operation of the organizations and the non-fraternity men the manager will be able to carry out the proposed plan having students look on intramural competition as a part of their physical education.
ENEMIES OF REFORM IN INDIA
Action has been the downfall of reformers ever since revolutions started. Minds mellowed with learning formulate plans, and start movements, and then the element which desires speedy change enters, and the older, more sensible men are shocked at what they have started.
This is the case in India at present.
Although Mahatma Gandhi seems to be able to keep the violent elements in control, there is always danger that sometime he will not be able to preserve that control.
In Italy, fifty years before the unification was started, a movement for the combination of the various small states was started, but that movement failed because the youthful impetuous group of reformers wanted too rapid a change. Secret soilies were formed, and instead of a valuable result, there was a triumph of the very thing which the reformers were fighting.
Such is the case in India at present, potentially, and actually in some measure. If the violent party will leave the control in the hands of Gandhi, who is slow and certain in his progress, there is a much greater chance for the success of the revolution.
“Skirt Lengths Left to Madamoiselle’s Discretion.”—At last an explanation of why some women are lengthening dresses.
Honest doubt leads to conviction. Al Capone doubted if the courts could ever touch him.
A person who repeats overworked slang phrases in a parrot, a poster informs us. Oh, yeah?
At the Play
By Sara W. Thompson
Enthusiastic applause was W. S. G. A's reward last night for the hard work it had put into making its musical career. Catey tunes, comely choruses, and facetious references to Hill topics, were some of the features that made the album so much enjoyable.
Apple-polishing, professionalism, the Faculty mall club, sporting, and community activities, for a share of wit, and in one scene the women even went the WGS of Green
The opening scene is laid in Mr. Duccio's schooling school where the girls sing their songs and dance to Simpkins (Katherine Newman). And what pajamas they wear that is, all except lovely little Nine Clue Characters, are on a flannel nightgown. The old colored junior, "Poke" (Harry Haught), plays on the girls in the college, and do a delightful "Snow Dance" in nights-to fool Miss Simpkins. The all-blonde
The circus comes next. The girls have entered college and are off for college, where they must old Hardtier) gets the crowd into the tent to see Miss Fiji wiggle her shoulders, and then help he baby Zimna Zimna to bore Professor Burham (Bob Milton) into her booth. Madame so goes on and turns out that she has a half Ape song and dance with her and finally (shades of the faculty!) emerges from the booth entangled in a
Other masquele characters are Billy Austin (Dick Hammond) who displays some starling orange corduroys, and some marbled blue (Brian Overfend), over-fend of his books.
Then we learn that some of the girls' boy friends are competing in a song competition, Philip Pendleton (Maurice Bennett) and Joan Curtis (Dan Burrell) in particular. The rest of the plot is concerned with Phil's efforts to keep his inspiration (Lucille Ball) on track and to outwit the egistical sister, who in spite of his (assumed) faults know how to sing "Blue Bird Blue" from her You" in a most appealing fashion.
Best wincrack—"My name may be Nina Cina, but here's one little curfew that will never ring for you."
Especially popular musical numbers were "Start Looking at Me," by Phil, Lucile, and the chorus; and "Who's Gonna Miss One Little Kiss or Two?" Of the chorems the "Two by Two" and "device station girls won most favor.
Phi Beta Kappa events were announced several days ago. I wont elected, I did not expect to be, but they made me feel important. I made Phi Beta Kappa, and would have made it, if I hadn't been so inexactly involved in a large number of college activities. It is quite impossible for me to attend such an event, morning, attend committee and club
Campus Opinion
--meetings all afternoon, and study all evening. In the feverish enthusiasm of the freshman year this might be considered a "great life" but after four years, she may give up her hearted support to movements in which one has not even a half hearted interest. I admit frankly that a great many acquaintances are made through participation in activities with friends if proportionally small.
PHI BETA KAPPA
Editor Daily Kansan:
The annual ALEE banquet will be held Wednesday, April 1. Every electrical engineer is expected to be there. Tickets are on sale in the front hall of Marvin between hours. Be sure to sign the date list in Professor Jackson's office.
F. L. SHINER, Secretary.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXVIII     Tuesday, March 31, 1921   No. 115
A. S.M.E.;
There will be a meeting of the ASME this evening at 7:30 o'clock in room 210, Macbain Hall. Important business.
A. I.E.E.：
CLOSING HOURS FOR WOMEN'S RESIDENCES;
The closing hours for women's residences during the Easter vacation are as follows: 11:30 Wednesday; 11:30 Thursday; 11:26 Friday; 11:30 Saturday; 10:00 Sunday; 10:30 Monday. MYRA LITTLE, President, W.S.G.A.
KAFPA PHI:
There will be a meeting of Kappa Phi this evening at 7 o'clock in Myers hall. All tickets for the Kora convention must be bought at this meeting.
Le Cercle Francois se remira mercredi a quatre heures et demi dans la salle 306 Frasseur hall. RUTH BREIDENHALT. Secretariat.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS;
There will be a rehearsal Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Mr. Pilcher's studio.
This will take the place of the regular 8 o'clock rehearsal on Wednesday.
MEN'S CLEE CLUB:
PEN AND SCROLL:
There will be a meeting of Pen and Scroll tonight at 8 o'clock in the ree room of central Administration building. VIRGINIA RIGGS, Secretary.
Phi Chi Theta will have a short business meeting this evening at 7:15 p.m. in room 4 of the Union building. IBENE MALONE, President.
PHI CHI THETA:
Regular meeting of Theta Epiphany will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in
1124 Mississippi street. All members are expected to be present.
THETA EPSILON:
Jayhawk Taxi
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB
The April ten of the University Women's club in honor of the housemother will be given Thursday, April 9, in Myers hall.
LUCINA WILLA OVA, FERROBENI
TAXI
WEDNESDAY VARSITY:
MRS. THOMAS ATKINSON, Corresponding Secretary.
One of Several Thousand
When some professors require a minimum of from three to five hours previous to an exam, they become incompetent that a student can do justice to both his studies and his activities. And professors never take the action to have their students in their own department. For four years now I've gone to committee meetings where I had a bridge played, had bridges dated, studied or read. What they did does not matter. And no one has ever done so if I had had the time does matter.
And yet, "although the moon has spots on it, it remains a creditable luminary."
I don't suppose it really makes any difference after all. If I had made Phi Beta Kappa I would have womitted the question and soon been forgotten. The question has bothered me for a long time, and I've just about decided that college activism is not my thing.
There will not be a mid-week varsity this week.
FERN SNYDER, DAVE NEWCOMER.
A recent news story telling of the activities of Alexander Hawen as head of the outlaw miners in Illinois calls to attention a small town of Pitburg when Hawen was president of the Mine Workers' Association of that district and was locked up by many of the Italian navy as the highest executive in the world.
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An old Italian from the town of Arma
had been trying to pass the naturalization test for several years. Away he beailed. He could not remember how he worked, but tutored thoroughly and put on the stand before the Judge. "Who was in father of his country?" the Judgic
The old Italian's eyes lighted "Adam" he declared knowingly. "No, no," said the Judge. "Of America."
"Brightman Young," was the reply. The Judge paused and well, another question came up: Who presided of the United States today? Alexa Howat, crowded the old Capitol building.
"You're hopeless," the Judge said. The Italian advanced on the Judge, his eyes bet with wrath. "Lista" he stalked, a man who stalked a banana? You know. I know how man* da banan* on ona stalk a banan* I know my beezniz; you know he flounced out of the courtroom and ever appeared again.
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Tennis Rackets Restrung During Easter Vacation
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Even in this store of dependable merchandise
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At Ober's you can pay
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