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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1921.
THE MECHANICAL MAN
The Mechanical Man was a success in more ways than one. The plot was excellent; the tense moments really gripping; and the acting excellent although slightly marred by lapses in memory on the part of the speaker.
The place of each character in the cast could not have been more perfectly adapted if the play had been written to order for him. Each fulfilled the demands of his part excellently. At times the conversation was scarely audible, but this defect was more than balanced by the clever situations scattered through the play.
In one or two instances the conversation verged on the melo-dramatic and provoked laughter rather than an anime, but the continuity and smoothness of action and word in general has not been surpassed in any amateur production given by University students.
The senior class, Professor Mac Murray, the cast, the manager, and the writer of the play are to be congratulated heartily on the success of the production. The sentiment of the audience was expressed in the absence of empty seats, and the excellent attention throughout the play. Another "best" senior play has been given. The classes of the future will have to put forth added effort to surpass the success of The Mechanical Man.
One reason the city of Lawrence has done away with an eight owlck curfew came from the fact that the noise awoke too many students.
SOVIET RUSSIA
For a great many reasons the entire truth about the situation in Soviet Russia has been hidden from us. Just whether sovietism was a natural outgrowth of the chaotic conditions existing in Russia before the war or whether it is largely attributable to German propaganda is itself perhaps debatable.
There are many factions battling for supremacy in Russia today, including the Nibilists, Communists, Social Democrats, Social Revolutionists, and perhaps the reputed sprinkling of anarchists.
Such reports as come to light are in no respect trustworthy, and our preconceived notions of the Russian Reds are only hazy. One thing seems to be tenable in regard to the Russian conditions. There was no tendency to stagnation nor indifference after the Russ-Japanese War, or after the forced abdication of Czar Nicolas II. Subsequent events have not indicated which way the people are moving but that they are emerging from the darkness of the past with faces either forward or backward is almost certain. Communication between the United States and Russia is apparently functioning as little as along inter-steller lines. But on that account there should be no hastily drawn conclusions to the atmosphere or the number of stones upon the soil. Through the past four years movement has taken place and out of it all there may finally by some fortune turn evolve a government that will last.
Germany has now suggested an "elastic" repairation plan. She probably stole that new idea of payment from our famous elastic Watchful Waiting Policy.
STUDENT SUPPORT
The trait of relaxing just a little too soon seems to exist not only among college students but in all workers. In athletics the University must accept the fact in facing the spring baseball season.
After the victories in football and basketball there is a tendency to sit in the shade somewhere, enjoying the verdancy in the great out-of-doors, and neglecting the actual fighting for the last few minutes of victory on the diamond.
The attitude is rather surprising considering the nature of the great American sport, baseball, and also in view of the fact that baseball is perhaps the only connecting link between the sports of the college and a certain amount of bealthful and necessary sport indulgence in after life.
The University is having an opportunity to show its appreciation for the efforts of the athletic supporters of the school by buying baseball tickets and assembling for all the home baseball games. Get the stadium spirit! Come on!
Now that Bill Haywood has gone to Russia we can turn more of our attention to the finer things in life.
CHANGING FACULTY
With the resignation of some of the prominent faculty members, the University is facing a very critical situation. The danger does not lie merely in securing men to fill the vacancies, but in getting men of sufficient calliope to carry on the work in as efficient manner as it has been carried on in the past.
The reasons for these resignations have been pointed out, as purely financial. For many years these men have stayed with the University when better offers awaited only their accent-
ence, and were wavd aside by visions of something bigger and grander than more financial gain—those of service. But service unrener媚 does not provide for later life. For that reason these faculty members had to leave. The salary situation at the University has long been in a critical state. Other schools have paid larger salaries and it seems a miracle that the present force has been kept as long as it has.
In the last session of the state legislature the appropriation for salaries of the instructors was sadly neglected. In full appreciation of the great work done by the legislature, it can truthfully be said that the disregard for the salary appropriation was a serious oversight. The sooner the legislators of Kansas realize that if the University is to compete successfully with other schools, necessary funds must be provided to keep them who can uphold the present standard, the better it will be for the University.
"Prof. Paul West, of the University of Wisconsin, doesn't believe college students know much" says a recent newspaper article. Certainly, the professor ought to know. He was a college student once.
One by one our illusions go!
By diligent scholastic research the real status of the civilian knight of old has been revealed. Instead of the noble and romantic individual he has always been held to, the medieval knight has been found to be a rough behaved person without a spark of chivalry in his whole make up.
Suppose some cold-hearted scholar should prod into the past of the American cowboy and with unromantic eye emerge with facts which would totally change our idea of him today. Just suppose that instead of the rough yet big-hearted knight of the plains that we have pictured him it were found
IS CHIVALRY A MYTH?
out he had been a very commonplace sort of being. Instead of rescuing beautiful maidens from Indian hordes or bandits bold he would be reduced to the very unromantic figure of a sort of a home man, peeling potatoes on the door step of the ranch house, or playing checkers on a soap box in the general store speaking in unroman-
tite tongue of cattle, cows, and calves,
它 cannot be! The Wild West cowboy must ever be associated with bandits, Indians, rescues, and every thing we have always pictured as typical of the big romantic west. Better the scholars leave untouched the past of this truly American knight than dispel our illusions with cold unromantic facts.
At Michigan the first annual Military Ball was in inaugurated April 8. The entire dance was martial in effect. The dancedecestor with a grand dress and a loud call to Colors." At eleven o'clock afternoon was served.
On Other Hills
Opportunity for summer employment on government forestry reservations is being offered to students of the University of California. The University has created opportunities for higher positions when the students are graduated.
Students at Ohio State paid from $10 to $12.50 each for a trip to Urbana III, last fall and now an investigation is being conducted to see where the money went. The trucks used were owned by the state and the mechanics were civil service employees. State oil and gasoline were also used.
The seniors of the University of Pennsylvania elect the honor men of their class. They are chosen as a leader, and are most to promote class spirit and the interests of the University during their four years of college life. Eight men were nominated by secret ballot and eight were voted on and the four receiving
the largest number of votes were elected.
Six o'clock morning drill is being considered by the faculty at Iowa State University. It is planned to have the morning drill three times a week of April and five times a week during the month of May.
The Ohio State Lantern asks: Have you an artistic temperament? Do you fall in love easily? Do stiff collars make you angry?
If you are suffering from any of these things, your thyroid gland is probably either too big or too little. At least there is something wrong with your thyroid gland; firmities of life can be blamed on to some gland or another. That is, if one modern theory of psychology is correct. Even if it is not correct, it is theory anyway, for it gives you something on which to blame your defects.
The Registrar of the University of Texas has succeeded in getting the railroads of the state to offer the students, who wish to attend the summer session a reduction in railroad fare. The students may obtain certificates when they purchase their tickets so they will be assured of the reduction in railroad fares. This means a great saving to many of the students whose homes are at some distance from Austin, the site of the University.
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