UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1914.
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves...La Bruyere.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
STUDENT GOVERNMENT. Critics of student government at the University should consider, before they condemn the system:
(1) That the exercise of disciplinary authority was always a difficult faculty problem before the Student Councils were given any such power.
(2) That conditions at the University during the four years that students have had some authority, probably will compare favorably with any other four years in the history of the school.
(3) That no sort of government will be perfect until the class that is governed is perfect—and then government is unnecessary.
A LONG RUN POLICY.
The basic idea—that students are able to solve some of their own problems—ought to prevail. However both Councils undoubtedly realize their shortcomings under present conditions and each would welcome suggestions intended to construct improved instruments of authority.
Let's give the Union for next fall a flying start by paying up all delinquent dues and by bringing students to the club room who have not joined so they can realize the many advantages of the house.
With a successful half year behind, the Union committee ought to be in a position to attempt better things next year—besides laying definite plans for the permanent building of the future.
THE CARNIVAL
Each individual had his own opinion of the militant reception given the street carnival on its opening night but the fact remains that such entertainment is not a blessing for a college town.
No riots follow plays at the theater and no eggs are ever thrown during the annual music festival. Even the movies, after the free shows on the evening of the "night-shirt" parade, have a peaceful and profitable season. But the street carnival, with all its cheapness, is an insult to the people of Lawrence and particularly the students of the University.
It should either be abandoned altogether or confined to Woodland Park, where it could be avoided with ease.
SCORE BOARDS ARE LACKING
Were you ever so fortunate as to be late to a ball game played on McCook field? If so, you know what a nuisance it is to arrive in the middle of an inning and to inquire of a
lot of excited fans-intent on the progress of the game-what the inning is, the score, how many men are out, and all the other necessary statistics.
You soon realize the absence of that important piece of furniture known as a score board. Of course the board doesn't tell you everything you want to know, but it is mighty handy anyway.
If the Athletic Association whose financial status was set forth in these columns not many months ago, has lost its money, some patriotic (and economical) class in search of an idea for a memorial, easily could do worse than erect a large, handsome, score board. The name of that class would be blessed forever.
THE TUG-OF-WAR
If the proposed tug-of-war between the freshman and sophomore classes would accentuate any ill-feeling which may exist between these groups, few students would favor the plan.
If, on the other hand, the contestants would enter the tourney in a spirit of good-natured fun, and come out of the affair with a better feeling toward their opponents, the scheme would be successful. In this event the chance for such fraccasses as the one in the student district a week or so ago would be lessened. It was with a hope that this second result would be attained that the plan was proposed by a group of undergraduates and pushed to the point that it was receiving consider-
A RIVAL TO FOOTBALL
Time was when football at one of the big universities, not then winning many games, was lampooned by a stage representation of a team in dress suits which never made a move without courteous advice to his coach because it is the day coming when the ballroom will be actually rougher than the football field? A crack Yale track athlete is announced as lost to the team because he wrenched his knee while dancing. Boys whose fond parents imagined that their child would play for fouled baseball because of their precious fingers; things are getting reversed in these days—Springfield Republican.
KEEP KICKIN!
Spring is here at last—Spring with all her fancies, wiles and maladies. Being human, we can hardly expect to escape the wiles and fancies, but we must look out for the maladies. Spring Fever is a disease as old creation and few there are that have ever been able to evade the ravages thereof. None are immune. And yet—and yet—
We are on the home stretch of the semester. It will take every ounce of energy we can summon up to make this last lap the success it should be. Now is the time to begin fighting down that pestiferous malady, the fever of the Springtime. If you are already infected, don't let on. Languorous afternoons and mellow moonlight nights we must yield to sometimes in seashells or other studies and all other wise laborious--keep up that old pop! Don't let your fancies slip too far into the realm of Springtime's fancies. Don't let yourself slip back one single cog in energy, even if you have got the Spring Fever. KEEP KICKIN'!-De Pauw Daily.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
The Castle Walk and the One-step has been barred by the Board of Administration through the agency of Mrs. Brown, the Advisor of Women. At the Junior Prom last week the members of the Board were in attendance and were horribly shocked at the Castle Walk and the One-step, E.W. Hoch stating that he couldn't sleep all night as a result of the sights he had witnessed. I would like to ask the Board individually and collectively, do you know what the sights are and the One-step? If she said dances as done at the Prom shocked them, then I am willing to wager that their conception of the dances is badly twisted.
CAMPUS OPINION
DEFENDS NEW DANCES
The Castle Walk and the One-step properly done are recognized by fair and impartial critics as the most graceful and prettiest dances that have been before the public for a long time and that there is nothing objectionable in any of them. I was at the Prom 'and am free to admit
that there was room and plenty of it, for criticism in a great many cases, but in these cases the couples were not even dancing and what they were trying to do was more than I could figure out, it resembled the forsaken Boston more than anything else. These curiosities have been among, for three years, the most long dances, and we have seen them every week-end at the class dances as long as I can remember.
it is not the dance but the dancers, and if they are going to dance in an objectionable way, they are going to it regardless of what dance it is. It is possible to make anything immoral and vulgar; all depends on how it is done. A vulgar man or woman betrays lack of breeding even in walking across the room; sliding down may be performed in a vulgary manner or any other evil act. The modern dancer properly danced are not vulgar on the contrary, they enjoy grace and refinement; and seventy-five per cent of the people today, young and old, have taken up dancing in the last year because they recognized the beauty and innocent pleasure derived from them. They are, then, not immoral, not against any religious creed.
A great deal more might be said, but I merely make this plea in behalf of the great majority of students who recognize the virtues of the dance and make it one such as it should be. It seems to me also that it is rather hard on the sororites that have placed the ban on at the request of Mrs. Brown, his sister, only works a hardship because concerned. The proposal should either investigate the proposition thoroughly and not jump at hasty conclusions, and then either stop the dance for good and all or let it be danced. No half way measures should be resorted to.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
E. Z. A.
By Kate Stephens, '75.
"The trouble with you is." said Dr. Jimmie Canfield—we were standing by the Ionic columns of Columbia University. Library—"the trouble with you is that you take life seriouly." "Why, yes, I do," I answered a bit thrown off my base. "Don't you?" He laughed lightly and turned back to his study as I started down town. Yes, I have taken life seriously since college. I love it and I enjoy it, for I chose the best of parents, and an ancestry Puritan with enough of the opposite to make one love song and laughter.
But the facts that concern this sketch are that, in my pigtail and pincafore stage of evolution, when the sweet, dry airs of the West had cured my father of consumption, a family council decreed we should mount the seaboard to remote state, We came. And oh! that April morning the train bore us from Kansas City to Lawrence. A river gleaming like silver ran upon our left, and all the woods through which we sped burned with redbud—I never see the emplured beauty of that tree that I do not hear; and calling me to look from the car window at its flowering mode.
Seven years of study followed. What immortal jokes were made (in reaction from taking life seriously) while I was a student, the delightful "Reminiscences" of our Professor Robinson, and also files of our Graduate Magazine may, to any seeker, bear witness.
After undergraduate years time again passed, and I stood for appointment to the Professorship of Greek. "But," it was said, for this was the first time a product of the University's training had come forward for appointment to a full chair and people laughed at the notion that such an appointer did not have to be imported—certain laughed that you could be a woman. "But we want some one who has had advantages the ripe, not so raw, more cultivated colleges give," "Oh!" I answered, "it is that? You distrust your own work? You have little faith in what you turn out that you are unwilling to endorse it?" My argument, backed by certain facts, won, and since that day no K. U. graduate, I think, has ever had to meet the prejudice then laid against me in the Alma Mater. Math, Greek, and held it six years. Why I left it is another story, which I purpose some day to tell.
Here, Mr. Editor, please ring down the curtain. Already I have passed the minimum mark you set for my space. And yet I may say that since I left the University of Kansas I have been a diligent worker, mainly as constructive editor of many books and series of books, as critical and annotating editor of many, and as writer of our book of the Men and Women, "A Woman's Heart," etc. The last to be published, "The Greek Spirit," a general survey of the evolution of the old-time Hellenes' racial spirit, came out last month, March, 1914.
After all, it is not so bad—to take life seriously and to "bear witness unto the truth."
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