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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1912
NUMBER 66.
MASQUERS SCORE BIG MILITARY HIT
"Boys of Company B" Mad Strong Showing in Initial Appearance
"The Boys of Company B," put on last night at the Bowersock Theatre by members of the Masque Club of the University, was a decided success.
With Lawrence Morris and Miss Helen Woolsey in the leading parts, ably supported by Milton Minor, Elmer Clark, Hazel Williams, and Joe Bishop, the show proceeded to a lively, old-fashioned "villain-holding-the-mortgage" plot to the final clinical clinic with credit to all concerned.
Owing to the fact that six members of the cast were declared ineligible at the last moment by University authorities, the play was put on professionally by the Younggreen Stock Company, directed by Mr. Charles Younggreen.
Judged critically, the show might have been taken from the airdrome circuit, so far as plot and character delineation are concerned. Many of the characters were types. However, a large audience saw the play and in it, most of them that dragged, liked it when things lived up in the following two acts.
You know the story: ambitious mother forcing petite daughter into hated marriage with asinine mutt to satisfy money-thirsty credit; father weak; blundering lovers that bungle things when hero obligates writes note for lisping lover; complication of love-tangle; daughter accepts hated lover to spite herself; sobs, military camp scene, much awkwardness by awkward squad; tight-wad' father of hero jarred loose by desire to soak old enemy; more complications; clinch; curtain.
But there was some mighty good acting by amateurs there last night in spite of the assertions frequently made that the University is very weak dramatic material. Lawrence Morris and Helen Wooley, in their respective leads of "Tony" and "Eileen," certainly deserve unstinted praise for the manner in which they handled difficult and heavy parts. Miss Wooley was altogether charming and vivacious as the company coquette, while Mr. Morris's enthusiasm and dash kept the play moving well.
Milton Minor, as the tight-wad father, lingers with us for various reasons. When he first enters, legs akimbo and with a octogenian cough, he's great fun; but in the excitement of the show he walks out with cough cured, lots of spring in his pedals, and talking in his debating club voice.
Elmer Clark as the asinine suitor played a strong part, carrying his part with probably the greatest ease of any player in the east.
Lawrence Penials, a sophomore in the College last year, will come back for the Beta “Turkey Pull” Friday night.
The play will be given again
Miss Sylvia Abraham, a junior in the College last year, will come for the Pi Phi Christmas dinner tonight.
Send the Daily Kansan home
COUNCIL WANTS RULE FOR MASS MEETINGS
New Morning Class Schedul Proposed for Days Studes Congregate
The question of mass meetings, supposed to have been settled for once and all by the University Council has again bobbed up.
Owing to various rulings that have been made on the matter, the Men's Student Council has requested that a method be devised to make mass meetings are absolutely necessary, more easily obtained. The Council requests:
First: That the Men's or Women's Student Council may call a mass meeting after securing permission from the University Council committee which has charge of the university program. Second: That the University Council shall not grant the request unless given at least two days notice.
Third: The mass meeting shall not be held at chapel if it conflicts with the previously arranged program of the committees, unless the committee sees fit to dispense with its former program.
Fourth: That on days of such mass meetings, the following class schedule shall be adopted:
1st period 8:00 to 8:40
2nd " 8:00 to 9:30
3rd " 8:40 to 10:20
4th " 10:30 to 11:10
© Finally, the Mdn's Student Council shall have charge of the mass meeting and shall see that the privileges granted are not abused.
KRIS KRINGLE CALLS ON
DER DEUTSCHER VEREIN
An old-fashioned Christmas program was given in the Deutscher Verein yesterday afternoon. A Christmas tree lighted by candles and decorated with tinsel was the feature of the entertainment. Boxes of candy, nuts, and apples were distributed among the audience by St. Nick.
Professor W. H. Carruth read the story of the Nativity of Christ and Arthur Mitchell Jr. recited a German Christmas poem. After the program he knelt, as an awake but formal chat while they consumed the contents of their packages.
Miss Mabel Stone, '09, is a guest at the Pi Phi house.
THE STRANGER
A stranger walked the crowded streets. Upon the Christmas Day,
In Tattered coat and ragged shoes,
That Christian folk who passed him by
And saw his patient eyes,
He paused in wonder at the Sight
of the Wizard.
The stinging wind was bitter keen And ice sharp the snow.
By Willard A. Wattles.
"But beggar-folk are often shams, And fukirs, don't you know."
While o'or the Stranger's gentle face
The veil of sorrow lay:
Not one in all the goodly throng Who called upon His name
I wish you all a Merry Christmas.
And fakirs, don't you know," With half-averted, doubting glance
Send the Daily Kansan home.
FRANK STRONG,
I gladly take the opportunity offered by the Kansan to extend to the students of the University Christmas greetings. While you are at home for the holidays make your parents and friends acquainted with the serious side of the University. Explain that while the estimates of the University as given in the recent budget are large, they represent no more than the expenditures of other universities of our rank. Make clear that the amount of practical work required is smaller than the cost of matte cost of that work alone for each year of the next biennium being in excess of $60,000. But interpret to them fully the life and spirit of the institution.
That day, or ever, knew Who passed
In lonely words of shame
Chancellor
With nan-apered, doubting glance
They hurried on their way
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IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
WE take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun;
"Dear Editor; I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says 'if you see it in the sun it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon.
115 West Ninety-fifth Street."
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the experience of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men or children's, are little. In this great universe of course man is a mere息ant, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreasy as if there were no Virginians. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.—From the New York Sun.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire them to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a well-worn, the unseen world which not the strongest man, even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, memory, and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond, is it all real! Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
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Miss Constance Carey of Wichita will be the guest of Ethel Houston, a senior in the College, for a few days.
Miss Leltia Foster, of Kansas City will come tomorrow for a short visit with Eith Laming, a senior in the College.
WHEN Mistletoe blows,
There's a hope in my heart!
For haply—who knows?
I may catch her apart.
When Mistletoe blows,
There's a hope in my heart!
THERE IS NO PLACE STUDENTS PROTEST LIKE HOME JUST NOW AGAINST STATE TAX
Stampede for Christmas Dinners Begins Friday Noon —or Before Resent Paying Fee Needed for Educational Purposes Into Treasury
Promptly on Friday when the 12:15 whistle blows, the long, unbroken Christmas vacation for 2500 students of the University, men and women, will commence. Not until nineteen good, well-educated students from a drudgerdge of University be resumed.
The question of spending a vacation, and having a good time is not hard for the average student, but just think of the Prof., the poor Prof., who will have to go thru the many thousand Christmas presents of his students and pick out those which he will keep or reject. Christmas for him is like the freedom and joy of a paroled prisoner, it is restricted. But putting aside these vagaries, and unpleasanties which so inopportunity exist, the University in general will spend a pleasant vacation. Dances, parties, hay rides, snow sledding parties, if there is any snow on the ground; theatre, house parties, and all kinds of Christmas festivities are planned for the student when he reaches home.
WHEN SHALL QUIZZES BE
GIVEN—THE QUESTION
As this jovialism, and cheerfulness fixes itself on everything the one sad aspect is the destitute condition of the University. Friday afternoon. No one here to look after it for nineteen days; all the class rooms will be desolate of the vibrant recitations of the students. But the University itself, that is the student body, will take care of the University will take care that each and every one enjoys his holidays, and comes back refreshed for hard work after the vacation is over.
TOPEKA KAN
Student Council Petitions That They Be Not Administered Just Before or Just After Holidays.
So think the students of the University, and the Men's Student Council have taken it upon themselves to ask the faculty of the various schools to think the same way. At present, we have been taught by unsteeing regularity, and students have been put at somewhat of a dead vantage at their proximity to each other.
On account of these conditions, the Mens' Student Council will soon present the following petition to the University Council. The Men's Student Council asks that a resolution be passed by the University Council, which shall address the future. The spirit of the University Council is the giving of examinations immediately following or preceding a legal calendar holiday.
Vacation for the professors means more than the enjoyment of the social, world, it means a time for rest from school work, and gives the professor a chance to spend his time in specializing work. Most of the faculty will leave for their homes as soon as the first outgoing train takes them.
"To flunk or not to flunk, that is the question."
GIRLS GLEE CLUB WILL
CAROL ABOUT NEXT JANUARY
The personnel of the Girls' Glee club was announced today as follows: Thornbury, Protrousis, Findley, Davis, Williams, Singleton, Harger, Hinckman, Stanwaity, Buchan, Foater, Nachatt, Blair, Dunnaway, Kuchera, Dedford, pianist and Murray, manager.
Tomorrow the club will petition the University Council for official recognition in order to plan for a trip to be taken throughout the state in the spring. A concert will be given shortly after Christmas. Elimilar clubs exist at Fairmount and Southwestern.
Miss Hazel Kelley of Paola is visiting at the Pi Phi house.
Protesting against the state law, which orders all student fees to be turned into the state treasury instead of using them for educational purposes, members of the Central Organization of County Clubs yesterday afternoon adopted the following resolution calling for the repeal of the statute:
"Resolved, that the Central Organization of County Clubs believes that the fees which we pay as students of the University should be used to provide the educational facilities which we need and should not be turned into the constituted a tax upon the young men and women of the state who seek education. No other state thus diverts the money paid to its state university and we respectively request the signature to restore these.
"Resolved, further that we pledged to know that our university receives less per student for its maintenance than almost any other university. In other words the income of the university is not in proportion to the wealth of the state nor equal to the amount spent for equal numbers of students in the unified system. We respectfully urge the legislature to invest the needs of our institution, learn of its tremendous and varied fields of service to the state, and give it adequate support. And we further ask that the legislature help towards providing a permanent income for the University, in line with the other states, by submitting a mill tax amendment to a vote of the people at the next election."
CHANCELLOR TALKS ON MILL
TAX IN CHAPEL TOMOROW
Chancellor Strong will speak to the students tomorrow morning in chapel in regard to the mill tax and the appropriation for the University next year. His object will be to ex- service these students so that during Christmas vacation they may work for the best interests of the school.
Spotts to Lecture Harvey's.
The Harvey county K. U. club will hold a reception in Newton on January 3rd for all the high school seniors in the county, Ralph Spots of the University Extension department will give an illustrated lecture on the University. The University club is working in connection with a well organized Alumni association of Harvey county grads which has held several other very successful receptions within the last few years.
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And to its readers, its advertisers, and its many, many good friends, the Daily Kansan, in the words of Tiny Tim, begs to say, "God bless us, everyone!"
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