THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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LAW, ORDER AND THE OLYMPIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1920.
The bywalls of the new student constitution, adopted recently by an almost unanimous vote of the mer students of the University, provide that the question of whether or not the freshman class are to wear their distinctive headgear shall be decided as far as the spring session is concerned by a number of track and field games in the manner of an Olympiad.
The student council has arranged, on very short notice, to put on the new games this week, to decide the yearling headgear question for this spring. A series of contests or various kinds, with pointscoring in each event, will determine the supremacy of the two lower classes, with the understanding that the freshmen, if winners, are to be allowed to go capahes this spring, while if the sophomores triumph, the freshmen will be required to wear the postage-stamp headgear.
This orderly arrangement for a settlement of this question is very reasonable, but reason may not govern the actions of the spectators and participants in the game. Already rumors have been floating around the campus, in re "Rushes, paddling, and ducking" from both the yearlings and the second-year men. It would be well, then, for both sides to discard any real or fancied plans of retaliation on their opponents, and to save their energies for the contests alone. The same honorable ideals of sportsmanship that apply to intercollegiate contest should also apply to this Olympiad.
Long live Law and Order!
Doctor Bacon has made the statement that University women go without their breakfast in order to have money to spend for clothes. Our guess on the matter is that the number of women that miss their morning meal for this reason is small compared to the number that prefer an extra half hour's sleep to eating before making a first hour class.
SUFFRAGE LAGS
When the legislature of Delaware failed to ratify the nineteenth amendment to the federal constitution the chance of the women of the United States to vote in the coming presidential election probably was lost.
The action of the Delaware solons placed United States behind seventeen nations in the matter of women's suffrage. Women have already been granted full suffrage in the countries of Austria, Belgium, British East Africa, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Poland, Rhodesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sweden. In France, Italy, Uruguay, Argentine, India and South
Africa bills are pending to grant women the right of franchise. Movements are on foot in various other countries to give women the ballot.
With the defeat in Delaware the women will now turn toward North Carolina where the legislature meets in July. There is not a great deal of hope that the action of the southern body will be favorable. The possibility that Vermont or Connecticut will come to the assistance of the women is greater than that favorable action will result in North Carolina.
If only one of the three states ratifies, an interesting question may arise. Thirty-five states have ratified and only one more is needed. In Ohio the legislature passed on the proposition, but that state also established the referendum and the question arises as to whether or not the amendment will have to be resumitted to the people of that state. Anti-surfragists have been quick to grasp at anything that would deprive women of the vote in other states and undoubtedly will attempt to force a referendum in Ohio.
"INEFFICIENT" TEACHERS
The problem involved in the movement to secure adequate payment for teachers cannot be reduced to any such terms as are comprehended in the view that if the "inefficient" teachers were employed, demand that the remainder should receive suitable compensation.
That is not the problem at all. All highly competent teachers are by no means adequately remunerated at this time. In fact, very few of them are. When laundry drivers, bakery drivers, etc., are paid more than high school principals; when bricklayers and stonemasons and plumbers receive more than high school students when unskilled laborers receive more than grade school teachers, with a high school education and special normal taining can hope to attain, under existing shelves, in twenty years of service, it is obvious that "inefficiency" is an inconsequential factor in the situation. The problem of inefficiency enters into the matter only because the personnel when inefficient are able to command better salaries in other occupations and this ability comes from the inadequacy of their present salaries.
It is starting at the wrong end of the problem, therefore, to suggest that if "inefficient" teachers were dropped the dingles in the text could be considered should protect them. Let the public demand this protection now and the problem of inefficiency would be automatically solved, for the ablest teachers would be retained and their places would not have to be filled with those who, in a small percentage of instances, are not up to the requirement, have the greatest rank and file of the under-paid teachers to represent them, directly or indirectly, as members of a teaching force honeycombed with incompetence. Hundreds of teachers in this city are struggling along under the most disheartening conditions, though qualified for the most effective and able to command more than one classroom refusing to desert these posts. These are the teachers in whose behalf the public or some other agency should be exercised. Merit, experience, service, efficiency—these should be rewarded with some approximation to the wages of the diggers in the streets, before too much attention can be given to those who is lowering the educational standards of the community.
These standards are being lowered by the indifferent people who refuse to realize that their children are worth being taught by the most efficient teachers obtainable and that this refusal is the sole cause for any lowering of standards which may occur. —K, C. Journal.
Congress has been devoting some of its valuable time to severe criticism of General Pershing's uniform. From speeches in the House, it appears that his riding breeches and the tail of his coat bear a suspicious and unpatriotic resemblance to the British uniform. Congress does not hold a passing sight in general propanda, and in doing so it shows characteristic wisdom. Truly, General Pershing is not what we have thought him.
CONGRESSIONALITY
Ye Good Old Days.
THE FRAASER HALL SKLETON
Here's the pet story of the gennials
olintimer, number of the class of "78"
that lives in the hortex he cords back
for commencement;
But Congress is! It is seldom disappointing. We know just about what it will do. With tremendous problems before the Nation, we know that congress will devote its time to consideration of great questions, like liberal Porsche's policy in Iraq. In this it shows consistent congeniality that is truly congressional! -Boot and Shoe coorder.
The first commencement exercises of the University were held in 1573 in Fraser Hall, which was still incomplete and in a chaotic state. The south wing and the main wall were still to be finished, all the walls were rough, and scaffolds and builder's materials were everywhere. In April 1626, a large hole eight feet across in the center of the ceiling.
The Chapel was instantly in a hub, but with much rushing to and fro to find the culprits. Only two clues were ever found: a rope hanging in the middle of the shaft, and the foot of the shaft. The latter was taken to the Chancellor's office and kept there for several months, but no claimant ever appeared, and the identity of those who let the skeleton into the Chapel was never learned.
The Chapel was crowded and the exercises were at their most solemn moment, with the band playing slow, music, when slowly through the hole in the ceiling came a skeleton, clattering about and dancing a ghostly dance. On the big toe of the skeleton was a printed sign reading "Prex."
The young wife of the Chancellor, sitting beside him, pointed to the sign on the toe of the skeleton as it clattered down from the ceiling and asked, "What does that word mean?" "The faculty," he quickly replied.
"MARGINS" OF TIME
"MARGINS OF TIME"
Uncle Dudley in the Boston Globe.
A ask a highly educated man who leads a busy life how he ever found time to study, think and learn, and you always get the same story. ("Highly educated" does not necessarily mean college educated, for people who are really educated get it themselves, no matter what their schooling.) The story they all tell is this: they used their "margins."
Our days are full of waste minutes which grow into waste holes. You find that these well-educated people a'ways carried a book in their pockets; that they memorized irregular French verbs while shaving; that they read science or law or literature books; that they waited for railroad trains. A young Gloucester fisherman, who learned trigonometry braced in his bunk on days too blowy to fish, when the schooner was jouncing around on Georges, and his mates were playing poker, eight years later is in command of a 10,000-foot freighter. Mine. Schumann-Heink learned her early operatic parts while washing dishes, cooking and cleaning a kitchen sink. She was a poor widow with a bevy of little children; but she had grit and used her margins.
- freshmen's motto: "Together we're paddled and united we stand—there's a reason." -College Life, Emproria.
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NAZIMOVA'S
Interpretation of Sigrid Tersen, the volatile dancer of the London music halls, whom Fate throws into a vortex of conflict and intrigue in the heart of India, demonstrated why Nazimova has been called "the star of a thousand moods" and the greatest force in the pressive features registered every shade of meaning and all of the tumult that raged in the dancer's soul.
A widely read novel by I. A. R., Wylie was adapted by Charles Bryant as a vehicle for Nazimova. It is a romance of the thrilling sort, with a love story that reaches altitudes of poetic beauty. The scene is in a small British community in India.
Thither comes Sigrid, the cancer, in quest of a rest and a change. She falls in love with a physician, known as the hermit who devotes his labors to curing the natives ill with cholera. Because of the cruelty of the British commander of the post and a wrong he had perpetrated against "the bride of Vishnu," the sacred shrine of the city, troops incited by the high priest of the temple, plan a revolt.
On the night the uprising and massacre are to take place, Sigrid, in pensive mood, goes to the moonlight, she takes the moonlight, as her lover often imagined her doing. Her little figure in flowing white, fills the Hindus with religious awe, and believing her to be the returned spirit of the bride of Vishnu, they themselves before her in worship.
"Stronger Than Death"
Sigrid's heart has been allaying her, but in desperation she dances on knowing that when she ceases the natives will discover her corporeal nature. She manages herself enough to enable the loyal British regiments to rally to the defense of the whites.
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