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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TIME FOR REFLECTION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1926
A half semester has gone, quizzes are over, grades are being given out and students and faculty are again settling down to the customary rhythm of daily affairs.
For some it is just a marker, a range of effort, a label of quality, but for others it is a turning point where resolutions are made and habits changed. For these perhaps more Friday and Saturday evenings will be spent studying in the library and fewer at the theater. They will bier less outside the buildings and away from the tempting but time consuming "hull-fests." Books will take on a new interest and that natural desire to learn will become the master.
For still others it means that there is another long period ahead during which assignments may slide along unnoticed. Studying has become monotone, text books dull and classes bareme. "Ball-fest?" last longer and become more heated than ever and cards and the theater are delightful pastimes. It is the summertime of University life, it is play time, and the faintly echoing wolf-ery is drawn by the gay tumult of today's biliary.
Others look back and see only the days and weeks which they have frittered away through useless activity and idleness. Nor does a vision such as this bring satisfaction. It weighs down like a lonthsome disease; it makes waking moments mean; it torments, gently at first, then increasingly day by day.
But mid-semester is the time when students pause, whether they are the best or the worst, and look back over the weeks that have gone; weeks of labor and earnest effort for some, weeks of accomplishment and satisfaction with and with them are grades that are in least confirmation, and incentive, perhaps, to further effort.
Mid-semester, however, is only the half-way point. There are hours and days and weeks to come to redeem the ones that are wanted and to build upon the good work that has already been done.
LOCAL AND FOREIGN PROBLEMS
This evening the students have a chance to hear an address by Tso Yan Wang, Chinese philosopher and educator, and a speaking contest on campus problems. It is unfortunate both take place on the same evening. Mr. Wang will speak on "What Is Confucianism?" a subject about which we know little. It will be highly entertaining to those interested in foreign problems, for he will be able to give actual facts regarding the far east. Mr. Wang is a graduate of Peking University and has been in this country the past few years.
Those interested in local problems can attend the speaking contest. To many it will not be the manner of speaking but what the speaker has to say about certain subjects. In the contest there will be discussions of such subjects as "Honesty Is the Best Policy," "Campus Politics," "The Honor System" and a number of other topics on campus problems.
This is the second annual contest
and the hall should be filled with students. By attending they can hear other people's opinions regarding questions that are of importance on the campus. It will be an evening well spent.
Unfortunately as it is to have two such worth-while events on the same evening, certainly any thoughtful student should take in one of them.
"UNCLE JOE" CANNON, THE POLITICIAN
The death of "Uncle Joe" Cannon marks the end of one of the most remarkable and pictureque figures in the history of American politics. His unquestionable cleaness of character and his integrity in private mutteries gained him a host of friends, but the friends of this extraordinary man loved him as a man and not as the politician that he was.
Cannon, though a public servant in the greatest democracy in the world, represented a complete negation of the principles of democracy. His policies were ruthless and his rule was oligarchic.
His power was enormous during the eight years that he was speaker of the House. It was literally a dictatorship, and the legislation which was enacted during those four sessions of Congress was distinctly marked with the Cannon brand.
He made committee assignments, chose committee chairmen and dominated the committee on rules which determined what legislation should be brought forward and what should not. He was not only the speaker, who he was the House itself. Anyone who dived to defy him, even though of his own party, found himself on a lowly committee and with no chance to attain prominence.
To his chosen friends he was kindness itself, but he was the answerenemy of those whose political or personal conduct he did not like; an enemy not merely to be respected but greatly to be feared.
As a fire-eating debater and a truly phenomenal "cusser," positioning lattingly from one end of the platform to the other and all the while clinching savagely a long black eagle between his teeth, he may have occupied a necessary place, at once in the great drama of American politics, but certainly not as late as 1910, the year of his downfall.
“An old guardian who never sur-
rendered to new ideas directed to the public welfare . . . an obstacle in the reform of government” were some of the comments of his critics. A rea-
tionary in the extreme and an enti-
ly uncompromising one.
Cannon was a member of the old school. His admirers have even elassed him with the Lincoln type, but Cannon was the opposite of Lincoln, who knew how to subordinate his personal comfort and desires to the needs of good government.
Cannon was a picturesque figure but not a great one.
Special initiation service tonight, Nov. 16. Also discussion of "The White Plains Commissary Issue." DUDLEY L. HORTON, President.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
K. U. P. S. :
Dr. Tse Yang, Director of the Commission of Education, from Manchuria, sent here by the Chinese government to study American education methods, will speak at the Y. M. C. A. open forum at 7:30 tonight, Nov. 16 at Myers hall. His subject is "What Is Confusionism?
Y. M. C. A. FORUM:
Tuesday, November 10, 1826 No. 57
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There will be a bouquet for all members at the Thimble ten room Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, at 8 o'clock. Professor Stevens will speak from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday.
BOTANY CLUB:
HAROLD SMITH, President
Fischer's Shoes Are Good Shoes
There will be a special meeting of Mu Tau Alpha on Wednesday after
noon, May 17, at 9 o'clock in room 208, Fraser hall.
MU TAU ALPHA:
Square and Company will hold regular social meetings Wednesday evening at No. 19, at 6:30 a.m. at the Colonial Tuxedo Room, with a driver. Mirta Ruttenberg will be the host.
OTTO FISCHER
SQUARE AND COMPASS
The second number of lectures on Contemporary Literature will be given
daily afternoon, Nov. 18, at 4:30 o'clock in room 266, Friens hall.
By Thursday, Nov. 25, at 6:00 o'clock in room 266.
TWILA SHOEMAKER, Secretary.
Lambeon on Thursday evening, Nov. 18, at 5:30 o'clock in room 304,
Stonewall Dr. Hamer B. Latimer will speak on "The History of the Pearl
Baton Johnson."
FRANCES DUNMIRE, Secretary.
As to acting, Mr. Fairmanks has lost nothing of the dramatic appeal of his vigorous actions that have long characterized him as one of the foremost actors of the film world. Billie Dove, as the captured Princess loves beauty and grace to the play and adds to her magnificence of nothos and romance that has to do with her life and a mud. The old pirate MacTwain is the only pirate in the cast who has the unusual quality of honor among thieves, and though he has only one arm and is old and gray he wields more influence than the leader of the pirates. He is the truly ruthless man who comes from the whimsical heart of an old man who loves a love story better than a chest of gold.
ENGLISH LECTURE:
The beautiful backgrounds and scenic effects make the entire production. The rollout action of the bare-backed pirate, with their monkeys, their glittering dials and ragged dirty, clothes lend an atmosphere that carries one back to the Spanish Main and hygiene days.
PHI SIGMA:
Filmy Froth
W. A. A. BOARD2
There will be a meeting of W. A, A. Board on Wednesday afternoon,
Nov 19, at 2:30 PM. No regular meeting of W. A. Board this week on
Wednesday. Call [GRIGEK] at (855) 423-7890.
ALICE WINSTON, Chairman of Committee.
The Black Pirate, the latest production of Douglas Fairbanks, comes up to the high standard set by his former co-star, Dennis Hopper. The technician staff surprised even the remarkable effects found in The Thief of Biggar although the plot of The Black Pirate has not the thrill and excitement portrayed in the film from the Aesopian tale.
"The Black Pirate"
Pity the poor trash man. more wear left in them, than he might be able to worn-out Walk-Overs for worn-out Walk-Overs for a living, he'd starve. There's one consolation when you throw them for him. That is this—away. Better yet, be careless, not steal. Buy Walk-Overs here, ever wearing out your Walk-Overs, the trash man is due for a Walk-Over uncompatible pair of shoes with fort, really means.
The remarkable use of the soldiers, with their awards fastened in their helts and swimming under water (in the early 1930s) helped pirates show the great possibility
there is in tinted pictures. They swim like a school of fishes in the green translucent water and swarmed on the side of the pirate ship like dripping sea men wreaking venomance on the pirates.
The University of Wyoming is the only institution in the United States to have 12 varsity debating teams of equal rank.
On Other Hills
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Smoking, which has been prohibited on the campus of the Colorado Agricultural College for more than fifteen years, is now allowed. Smoking in buildings will not be permitted because of fire hazard.
Library dating is being censured at the University of Idaho and resolutions have been passed against it by the Associated Women students. The group's argument to coerce in an attempt to stamp out this hindrance to study.
The Law School at Harvard is opening its 100th year with a drive for $2,000,000 to add to its enrolment.
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