UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University
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Fortune is like glass—the brighter the gitter, the more easily broken—Pubilius Surus.
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1914.
WORK FOR THE COUNCIL
WORK FOR THE COUNIL The foolish "complete heaval" policy of the Student Council is shown up at its worst when the new representatives are installed in office. Instance the Men's Student Council.
Nineteen men have been elected and they will spend much of the meeting time this spring as well as part of next year trying to find out what is expected of them, becoming acquainted with details of methods of procedure, learning the present status of such activities as the temporary Union plans and the permanent Union campaign—in short, “getting on to the ropes.”
The experience of the retiring Councilmen is lost. The present Council starts out from a fresh mark and it can easily make exactly the same mistakes made by its predecessor. A system where half of the Council members retire in the fall and half in the spring would be much more sensible.
The same reform is needed in the W. S. G. A.
Both Councils would be more permanent, more effective and more highly respected if they would change the election system so that only half of the Council members would take office at one time. A better reform to start the new regime would be difficult to suggest.
PEACE SUCCEEDS WAR
The sophomore and freshman classes will bury the paddle at the "bum" which will be held Saturday night. The idea is a new one at K U. and good because of its intent. Every classman should take a part in the festivities especially those sophomores who waved the paddle with undue abandon and the freshmen who profited by said waving.
BUT TIME FLIES
Monuments, stone markers, benches, clocks, and bells are inanimate things, but they reflect something of the age in which they were established. The historian takes things such as these into account when attempting to form an opinion of the mode of living and thinking peculiar to the age he studies.
Senior classes, of course, will never compel the historian to resort to such methods as this in finding what manner of people comprise their bodies, but any class memorial will always be a silent witness that those who erected it were "alive."
With more than half the necessary amount of money collected, it looks as though the class of '14 will be able to testify to the future that it is not dead.
NOTHING GAINED?
Ivy on the Museum tower will make no one richer; the Marvin bust will not aid graduates in procuring better positions; the row of trees out toward the Marvin Hall doesn't pay a single freshman's way through college; and the class memorials will never increase the salary of faculty members.
Such improvements merely add beauty to the campus, they only make life a little more pleasant, they simply appeal to the aesthetic nature of man.
THE SUNFLOWER PARNASSUS
Kansas is noted for several things, including grasshoppers, Vie Murcko Ed, Howe and poets. The grasshoppers have not hopped *disastrously* since away back in 76, or thereabout, but the poets Kansas has always with it. Every season there is a fresh crop of sunflower bards, springing up along with the onions, the spinach and the cowpeas. With the alfalfa flourishes the duing of status seems to the season. Kansas is a level plain topographically, speaking potentially it is a mount of Parnassus, since the sweet singers are heard in every county.
Just now Miss Lelia Swarts of Winfield, is preparing a thesis on Kansas poetry, as an endeavor toward a master's degree from the University of Kansas. To one learned in the lore of Kansas troubadours it is distressing to discover that the fair Lelia has omitted—not to say ignored—the most illustrious of all the Kansas bards.
The Kansas City Star prints a list of the Kansas poets discovered by Miss Swarts in her explorations, or excavations of the sunflower Parnassus. It mentions John James Ingalls, the "Opportunity" sonneter, also of iridescent dream renown; William Allen White, not heretro accused of poeticizing; Eugene F. Ware, the lovable "Ironquil" minstrel; Prof. William Herbert Carruth, who went to New York degenerated into a magazine editor; Walt Mason, the proud prose-poet bard; Alber Biegelae, Paine, who drew albus and rhymes from Fort Scott shop, but got mixed up with Mark Twain and wrote the great Missouri's biography; and Harry Kemp, who never wears a hat, but bares his sun-singed locks to the sky in every clime where the walking is not bad.
Well and good thus far, O Lelia!
But why--aslaa! why--charmed and charming digger in the Parnassian sand hill, seeking buried treasure of immortal bards, dost thou neglect the name and fame of one Kansas poet who in the course of an epic on the mingled careers of Clark Quantrell and Jesse James penned an innermish couplet?
Even as Homeric strophes have survived the disintegration of Babylon and Tyre, so shall this deathless couple outlive their brethren, the king and Dodge City. The sweet song of Sappho and the lovely lyrics of Lucan, for the most part, are as the snows of yester-year, but time' mutations cannot malm nor mar his jews from the frost of the forefinger of Thomas Browner Peacock of Topeka, author of the border-bandit epic hereinfore mentioned:
CLEVER THINGS THE
OTHER FELLOW SAYS
On her he then took pity And took her up to Kansas City. St. Louis Republic.
"Why did they discontinue the Medical School?'
"What are the pledge colors of the Milwaukee Club?"
Fresh-Doctor, will you please give me something for my head? Dr-He dear boy. I wouldn't take it as a gift.-California Pelican.
Economics Prof—Do you believe in taxing the breweries?
"Not enough stiff courses." — Dartmouth Jack 'o' Lantern.
"How do you manage to wa your wife in the morning?" "I take off my shoes, assume an all-night expression and come up the stairs wobbling. It never falls." —Cornell Widow.
"I haven't paid out a cent for repairs on that old car of mine."
Student—Sure. To their fullest capacity.-Wisconsin Sphinx.
WITH K. U. POETS
"Blue Ribbon."—Exchange
Theyre plowing corn in Kansas upon the old home farm,
PLOWING CORN IN KANSAS
"So the owner of the garage told me the other day." Texas Coyot
the a
the the
the the
the Morning is sunny
the dew is fading t
see the yellow breast
Of Father Meadow-lark, come home
He's had his morning whittle while the meadow-lands were dark
And he's brought a squirming breakfast back to Mrs. Meadow-lark.
So harry up them horses, boys, and
catch old Jim and Kate,
Hop down and leave the water-ing beside the open gate;
state the open face.
I've got my red bandana on and op
end up my stairs
you move the carrots are a jong
at through the dirt
and the calculator-shots are a gongy in 'through' the dirt.
it's half a mile before we turn and take another row.
For it's playing-time in Kansas and the morning sun is low.
you hit him with a claw!
Gate a hard one, that's the ticket, or a
bottle.
Hi, Tommy, there's a gopher, can I
take him with a child?
Shh
I heard another chipper over yonder
dogg. lol, huh!
And old Kate has wipped her break-fast over half a city-lot;
But you can't be minding horses and a chatting animals, too.
a clothing jacket.
The girl wasn't have a kitten
caused老王Had a chew.
Say, you're'r crowding pretty close there, can't you hold me in a spell? You must think a horse's sneezing suits my short-airy personality. I'll get that 'un, when she creeps up close behind She is sure to swallow something and to snort herself plumb bit. Blamed if I'd a rode so near you, if I didn't think that you Knowed enough to know them horses you ought to do.
That rabbit's mighty impediment *a*'brows
'in round so brash,
Just reach me that 'ere back-snake and I'll give his legs a last; And that crow will lose his tail-piece if he gets so near the wheel, Servie him right the greedy beggar— worms its right the messy meal. Servie him the prairie citters act as sort of confident— That! I said'gil它 in trouble-
Tiarr' I said ye'd 'git in trouble-
wish I lost some liniment.
think 1. see the gate-post, Tom, and
those the water-tug.
I'll beat you we there. Oh, drat the luck,
old Pete has dropped a tug.
old Pete has droops a day.
Look out, you're learning up the corn.
that isn't the way to do,
I'd give you walking-papers if I was
You're drunk w/p half a gallon—but I
guess there isn't no harm.
**press**
more. Both drove back to fetch some.
**wash**
I feel unclean again. I wash.
**pour**
I pour.
They're plowing corn in Kansas, the noontime sun is high.
They're in Kansas, they'll hear sun is high. You'll hear a cow-bell ringing through the silence by and by; And then an apron waving nearly half a mile away. It's dinner time, I think there'll be some rubarb-biryte today. But I'm in Massachusetts, *and we've* and I've always just this morning that I heard a robin sing. Amberth, Mass.
May 10, 1914
DUNKIRK
COLUMBIA FRATERNITIES REFORM
After a long fight sixteen of Columbia's twenty-four fraternities signed an inter-fraternity agreement yesterday pledging themselves to put into practice several reforms. The terms of the agreement dealt chiefly with the pledging and a stipulation of new membership, fixed for the first Wednesday in November of each year. Furthermore, the fraternities agreed to initiate only students whose scholastic standing was above a certain grade at the mid-term examinations. The fraternities in the agreement pledged themselves a pledge of college status of student of Columbia University, and students in the extension courses were excluded.
No fraternity was to accept a pledge from a student before the Monday following the November pledging day, and in the period between the pledge day and the day on which the pledge fell eligible to be pledged was to be permitted within any of the fraternity houses.
The agreement was the outcome of a long fight at Columbia, beginning several years ago. Such measures were proposed back as far as 1980. But interfererity conferences were organized and the movement never died out. The action taken last year by the faculty suspending the Barnard secret societies stirred up the Columbia fraternity. The agreement was the result of many secret meetings and conferences.
The working of the plan will be closely watched, the colleagues expect, not only at Columbia, but at other universities where fraternity reform is being agitated.—New York Times.
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