UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WHAT IS THE MAT-
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students in similar danger of reprimand? Have the faculty members themselves and through their relatives quietly held back from extravagance and waste, thinking of the possible influence of their example? Are not some of the faculty members themselves in the student body and shove of "social existence"? The "pretty boys" and the "baby dolls" do not exist in the student body alone. The faculty has its saviettes and its diplomacies, its nursing hopes and its incubator fraternities. Can you blame the students if they sometimes spend five dollars for favors at their spring break? Have you ever been mortgaged to provide for Haley's orchestra? Well, can you?
Then, there are others, devoted teachers, wholesome personalities, in no way flashy, moutry, or pan-helenic, who became members of certain organizations in other colleges where fraternity life is subservient to the college and not the polychromatic factor, and where the alumni put first pride in their man in what sort of Who's Who they may stand enrolled the name of Princeton, or Dartmouth, or Amherst, and second the name of their fraternity. I do not wish to be understood as attacking fraternities. I have too many friends here in K. U. among them, and particularly in certain Eastern colleges where fraternity life in my opinion is a better and more useful place than it can be found to find it here, to seem for one moment against a system which, though at present in Kansas fanned with serious dangers, is yet capable of the highest and most devoted service. But I do say that the faculty members of fraternal organizations have not exerted the influence they should have exerted themselves or the influence they should have taken in this situation here more normal and more like the Eastern situation. And in that respect at least have good men and women been at fault. I don't mean that faculty members should interfere in undergraduate interests; but that the young people of Kansas are with almost no exception open to friendly suggestion and that many times they would welcome older counsel in matters of interest. This is the most difficult to handle by themselves. But to the undergraduate phase of this problem I will return later.
There is the type of faculty member here whose whole knowledge of the Commonwealth he is serving consists in the geographical observations he may make from the train windows of his home, and Lawrence. What he knows of the great people of this State is drawn from his observations in the classroom, of a group in only a small degree representative of the great mass of the population. Students are not, however, educated to the vantage of the communities from which they come. Education has changed them by a magic touch; they are or may be citizens of the republic of letters or of science; but there are other republics than the republic of letters, one of them is the republic of folks.
Such a faculty member, especially if he be young, is apt to lament over the fact that "our students are not trained in foreign languages," or that they think the Apollo Belvedere a sort of corn-plaster. These young gentlemen are academic, very. They are also opinionated. They are good leaven. Some of our dough is rather flat. They stir things up, but they
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Now, I have seen some very salutary changes in certain cases, so that there is always hope. And even academic gentlemen have melted in the warmth of Kansas country hospitalization and have been sent to Kansas. The trouble is that we don't acknowledge it, but veneer it over with the cheapest and handiest varnish we can lay hold of. Having learned that the Apollo Belvedere is a marble works down town and set him in front of the house to hold horses—only now all our horses are Fords. We go after culture with a club, and spell it with a capital K. But we are aware that we do not stand along with it, and we don't mind finding out a better way to decorate our lawns, and our persons, and our church steeples, if some one will just tell us how to go about it, instead of murmuring "How fortunate it is that we have Endora have never had any French"
This type of faculty member is apt to be rather closely related to the man who says, "What do students come here to work their way for? I have no patience with that sort of thing. Why don't they bring enough food to school without working?" This matter strange, but I am quoting exactly. Such a person reminds me of the famous little princess of the Bourbon House who, when told that the people were starving for lack of bread, exclaimed, "But why don't they eat cake?" Such a faculty man has never found the loss of a golf ball; smarter for a day's grumbling, and with all his personal vigor is a drag upon the best interests of his profession.
I yet I have no doubt that he, like others, and like myself as well, did not mean an impatient utterance to him as his genuine and sober attitude.
And then we have the fog-horn. He is known by the tinkling brass and the sounding cymbal. Verily he is a man of the zephyrs, and putteth up his own portrait on the family mantle-piece. Like the morning-star he rises and like the setting-star he sets. And the place where he lives will him no more, and the peoples rejoice.
"Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history" is the out-and-out, ranting, rip-roaring, swashbuckling, fire-eating, regular devil of youth. "It has a vague hopelessness; he is indulgent to youth, but he knows the scheme won't work. He isn't a rabbit, for he will fight; and I must confess that there is something in his sardonicly patient smile that is real at least. He was very young when he was he never young? Was he born that way? Alas, what sin is he now expiating that he finds so little to hope for, so little that is fine and true and gentle in human nature, so tender and human. That governs himself is greater than he who takes a city; but verily he enjoys the joke of his own existence is on familiar terms with God. I cannot think but that Allah now and then shakes with human laughter, then Paradise were dull indeed.
And in closing this article, let me say that if any one desires to ticket and label me as I have classified my colleagues, in the same amiable spirit, I shall be quite able to furnish him with any data desired; for I am in a position to know my own deficiencies far better than those of others, and
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Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debating fraternity, held initiation at Westminster Hall yesterday afternoon for Paul Schmidt; c'18; Joe P. Harris; c'18; A. B. Richmond; c'17; and John Donaldson; c'19.
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The Summer Session
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Miss Sybil Woodruff will take her class in "Economic Uses of Food" to Kansas City, Friday. They will visit the following places: Market, Armour's Packing House; Ridden-Burer-Co.; National Biscuit Co.; and the Baltimore or the Muehlebach Hotel.
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Break the tradition of wasting the summer months.
Seventy-three per cent of students last summer testified that they liked the arrangement of study used in summer better than the arrangement used during the regular year. That is, they preferred to study not more than two or three subjects during any one term.
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