THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1906
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Friday, January 19.
Professor Paul Shorey, of Chicago University, will lecture in the evening.
Professor Shorey will speak in chapel.
Saturday, Jan. 20.
Sophomore party.
Tuesday, Jan. 23.
Professor Barber will speak in chapel.
MIDAS.
A PERMANENT STUDENT OF CHEMISTRY II.
One who studies the various departments of the engineering school and comes to know the sturdy young fellows who are preparing to go out into the world and get it into shape so that we can live a little faster is attracted to a certain young mining engineer called "Midas". "Midas" is known as the fellow of all fellows who has preeminently the faculty of adjusting himself to his life.
When the freshman first hears the name "Midas" uttered by some member of the apron brigade in the Chemistry building, he jumps at the conclusion that this king of gold must be either the store-keeper or else a tutor engaged in pulling the ill-prepared freshmen through at the usual Shylock's price. But the freshman is wrong. This twentieth century alchemist has won his name in the chemistry laboratory from the fact that everyuhing he touches turns not to gold, but to pieces—and "Midas" somehow digs up the gold to make good the breakages.
"Midas" has been paying laboratory fees for some time. The professor is one of the strong men of the institution, a man whose great heart throbs with such a love for these boys that he frequently retains more than half the class for another year. "Midas" has been the object of this clinging affection several times. For him chemistry has lost its novelty. When the freshmen come in in the fall to explore all the mysteries that lie in their path, "Midas" merely smiles knowingly: "That inspired look of yours will fade about quiz day Boy." He knows too much of the mysteries supplied with a lavish hand and is in no hurry to get to them. He feels a certain compassion for the "Arts" student who elects Chemistry 11 because he thinks it a clever thing to do, and when this same "Arts" from his seat in the back row, adds a postscript to everybody's recitation and asks carefully thought out questions at the close of an explanation, "Midas" merely yawns wearily and murmurs: "Lay up for yourselves treasures of nervous prostration if you want to, Deacon, back there in your amen corner." "Midas" himself usually employs the recitation period in plotting a curve to show graphically how near his grade is approaching to the flunk line. On quiz day the "Deacon" undoubtedly has the best of it. He writes volumes. "Midas" merely sits awestruck at the genius of the man who wrote the quiz. Yet the advantage is not all on one side. There are the traces of a long night's vigil on the face of the "Deacon". "Midas" hasn't troubled himself about it. Cramming is a thankless job at best, and if he should happen thereby to "kill a quiz" it would deceive the professor as to his real standing, and it is a comfort to know that he wouldn't stoop to that. In his opinion chemistry is a black art at best.
Do you picture "Midas" as despairing and downtrodden? No. For he has a philosophy equal to to the occasion. He has been through freshman rhetoric classes that lasted all through chapel; he knows all about some other freshman institutions; he knows as much as he cares to about what lies before him. He realizes the difficulties that be-
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set the path of the engineer and does not offer battle. In chemical terms, he is in equilibrium with his life and his fate. This burden of unfinished and apparently unfinishable chemistry has not saddened "Midas." Perhaps he has never gone into it deeply enough to appreciate the difficulty of it. He looks on the sunny side of affairs even though he has to look at it through a pretty deep layer of something not so sunny. It was "Midas" who in his characteristic good-natured way proposed the yell:
"Red and blue, red and blue What's the matter with Chemistry II? Nothing at all, nothing at all, We'll take it again another fall!"
(To be continued.)
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