THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1920
IN RE THE PROM
The University is, supposedly, a comparatively democratic institution. Following this fact up, one would believe that, in the logical order of things, the Junior Prom should also be democratic. And, if one is to harken only to the voice of the Prom managers, as reproduced in the Daily Kansan, one might think that it was quite an informal affair, in spite of all the much-heralded preparations. One might think that no one wore flowers, and that everyone walked up the Hill to the Gym on the Auspicious night, and that if the auspicious night under discussion proved rainy or slushy, the Prom-embder would immerbden their galoshes and lie their lowest way to Robinson.
But experience does not bear this supposition cut. Far from it. Proma of the past two or three years, while informal, and advertised as "sans flowers—saus taxis," have been, on the contrary, replete with flowers; not o the fife fields, but the expensive ones that come from the greenhouse, at many dollars the dozen. And the taxi men have waited patiently outside the Gym with the result that many of the seutums by now have purchased large blocks of stock in the livery companies, not for themselves, but for the drivers and for the companies.
This year the Prom managers have announced in their customary way that taxis an ifowers will be taboo. And they will probably be heeded by the students in the customary way, which is not at all.
Why can't the managers make their "no flowers, no taxis" order stick? Each year the farce becomes greater, and their announcement more ridiculous.
Let's have some action by the managers on the "taxi flowers" proposition. The girls surely aren't afraid of ruining their party dresses on a fifteen minute's walk, and the men buy flowers only because they think it is the "thing."
ON CERTAIN LINES
M. Joseph Pennell who is a very distinguished art critic, says in his new book on "Ethers and Etching" that "a great etching by a great eacher is a great work of art displayed on a small piece of paper with the fewest vital indispensable lines of the most personal character." Mr. J. W. Hitchock, who has written a valuable little treatise on "Etching in America" finds that "Etching is not an initiative art, since there are no lines in nature, and the etching line is conventional. But it is suggestive, and that is enough." It makes the picture and conveys the idea.
And the process is endlessly fascinating: With all his highly different
dress skill he never knows just how the print is coming out, and when he finds it really good it is like a gift from the gods. The design is made with an ether's needle or point on a copper plate which is first coated with wax. The lines are then bitten into the metal with a corrosive acid so manipulated as to give the various values the artist has in mind. The wax is removed, the incised lines filled with ink and the impressions carefully made by hand. Variations of the method give an infinite variety of results. "Dry point" is made directly on the plate and gives a velvety texture to the prints, while water-colo edith supplies the charm of water color with the etching undermont "Soft ground" is like a pencil drawin and "aquatint" and "mezzotint" produce other desirable effects.
There are four outstanding names among the great etchers of the world; Rembrandt, Whistler, Meryon and Seymour-Haden. And Mr. Pennell says the greatest of these is Whistler, whom we claim as an American, though he has spent most of his life in England. Other leading etchers in this country are Church and Chase and Duveneck, Thomas Moran and Elliott Daingerfield. Mr. Pennell has also a distinctive place among the masters, having been the pupil and friend of Whistler.
The exhibit of etchings now in progress in the Art Department afford no opportunity for comparative study, since they are all the work of one man. But that man is Mr George Elbert Burr, a Western artist who has received the warmest endowment of fine connoisseurs. Both the public Library in New York City and the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. have secured full sets of his plates. He interprets many things "we never saw before, nor cared to see," and whatever our own lines may be, we should not pass him by.
EDUCATION AND THE REDS The charge has been brought by men in prominent positions that anarchy and socialism are being taught in our public schools and colleges, that socialists of the worst type have granted certificates to teach their doctrines to the children of the United States. If these charges are true, then the board of education in our cities has its work cut out for it, in endeavoring to suppress this anti-American spirit.
What good will it be to teach the pupils the star spangled banner, or to have them study the constitution of the United States or of the life of Washington, or Patrick Henry, only to have bred into their minds a hatred for which these things stand.
The mind of a child is more easily affected and more easily trained, so that the socialists starting with the children will build up a society in a few years, which will overthrow this government and put us in the place of Germany or Russia today. The teachings of doctrines like those in colleges is not so bad, since the average college student has come to the place where he can think for himself, but even here an avowed socialist who can see but one side of the question should not be an instructor.
The condition is becoming dangerous when colleges like Harvard, have to dismiss one of their professors, for teaching socialistic principles. This country will find that by harboring this sort of teacher in its schools, that it is but raising a cuckoo to bite off its own head, another version of the dog in the manger story.
Then he stopped and thought, and,
after thinking and waiting a long time,
greatly to the astonishment of
the congregation, he said:
A well-known preacher was giving one of his stirring discourses, when he remarked:
"Ah! that reminds me of something I shall never forget."
Reminded Him
The University formerly belonged to the Kansas State Orateral Association, but withdrew in 1903 after an exciting and almost bloody contest at Ackhison. Because of an alleged "coalition" among the denominational schools of the state against the University, K. U. quit the conference at this time. The organization is still in existence and its orators hold a state championship contest each year.
Ornamental and Useful
The teacher had sent some minutes imprinted on the correct pronunciation of the word "vase". The following morning she wanted to find out if children read it, but she did not tell his boy suddenly and demanded:
Ye Good Old Days
"Dear me, I can't think of what he is!"—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
WHEN K. U. ORATED
Malcolm Garnard entered the twentieth annual contest at Atchison, March 6, 1903, as the Kansas representative. The judges refused to accept his credentials and voted him out of the contest, alleging him to be a graduate of Washburn, though a letter from Chancellor Stay was received. HeGraduate.困境 tried to go on the platform but was not allowed to proceed with hi sadness, and was finally ordered off by a policeman.
Ornamental and Useful
J. M. Challis, county attorney, and Sheffield Ingalls, both K. U. alumni, tried to stop the proceeding, but were hooted down by the crowd. Many K. U. students had come up from Lawrence on a special train and a riot seemed imminent when Edward W. Hoch arose from his seat and advised the students to say saying the students might ruin the schools appropriation being cut by the legislature. Most of the Kansas students thereupon withdrew from the hall, and the contest went on without the K. U. entry.
"What do you see on the piece at home Jackie?" "Father's feet, miss," came the prompt reply—Detroit News.
At a chapel service the next week, Garrard gave his address, which was on "Wendell Phillips," and was received with voicemail applause by the students. At this chapel the withdrawal from the Association was announced and met with almost universal approval. The reason given was that it had been learned that the smaller schools had decided to combine against Kansas and oust the University from the organization.
Campus Opinion
CONGRESSIONALITY Editor Daily Kansan:
Many years ago, when I was a very small boy, I used to go out in the fields in the springtime ant pick flowers. These flowers I used to present to my teacher, my mother, or some little girl I knew. Now, past the half-way mark in my university career, I find that this same principle of choice which allows education is called into play when custom and convention demand that I buy a huge and expensive corsage bouquet of flowers for my partner to the Junior Prom.
In the days of my childhood, I used to cart certain of my most favored feminine acquaintances around in my small wagon. Not that we were going anywhere, but merely to meet them. That the same service is demanded—can you imagine that?—demanded of me by convention for the privilege of escorting a K. U. coe-toel of the University social services organization. But so unbuilt—I have made up
my mind to call at a certain house the night of April 16 on foot. If the girl of my choice sees fit to go with her choice is good; and if not, also well and good.
Herein I call on all good and faithful K. U, men to break away from the musty custom of taxi-ing and flowering a girl to die simply because she has promised to accompany you to a dance. And no woman is untrue enough to demand of a man that he thus squander money on her so that she may be saved a fifteen minutes' walk through the night.
Junior Jones.
Patty—"Hello, is that you. Harry?" Summers—"No, I not Harry I'm Fuzzy."-Silver and Gold.
Pure Horseradish
A high cost of living has its compensations. Turnips bring so much now they can't afford to put them in the horsedisel.-Detroit News.
We see that the Kaw Club will meet on the river Saturday. We think that they are the only organization that has any right to crow.
OREAD NOTES
We also see that the Seniors are getting some films made to preserve their activities. There are 1000 feet in a film, and as we have been noting the seniors, we have decided that if all their activities are snapped, only seventeen feet of the film will be used.
We learn too that Wilson wants miners and operators to meet and agree on something. He might as well ask Fidel to dog-walk the cat.
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