UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Istanbul
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Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1912
Patience is one of the first means to attain success.—From the Chinese
THE DODO AND COURTESY
The Daily Kansas has been asked to tell, "Why is a College Editor?" We promise the answer to follow immediately the Christmas holidays. We do not expect to feel grouchy then.
If you are not sending it to the folks, take a copy of the Daily Kansas home with you and see what they think of it.
A young man hurrying frantically somewhere the other day jostled roughly against a woman on the crowded sidewalk. Without a word of apology or more than a careless backward glance he hastened on.
This is not a plea for wider sidewalks. It is merely a comment on the disappearing art of courtesy.
Ages ago the dodo was a worthy member of animal society. He had a place to fill and fitted in as a useful worker in the scheme of things. But in the process of evolution some usurped the dodo's niche and failing to longer fit in, the dodo passed away. Today he is to be found only among stuffed fowls in the museums.
We can only hope that some stuff specimens may be preserved for the future.
Courtesy, the consideration of others, seems to be undergoing the same evolutionary process. It has fitted in for several ages, but to many today it has no place in the world. Most people agree that it is often somewhat useful, but in time or incursion for its practice.
Perhaps courtesy, like the dodo,
will become entirely extinct. We can
each do our share toward helping on
its evolution out of the world, and
when it shares the dodo's fate need
not drop even a tear on its bier.
Twas a quiz before Christmas, and all through the class, not a lip but was puckered, all ready to sass. Knowledge was nestled all snug in the book, while neer a chance was given to look. The prof in his sternness, the stude in his woe, were longing the hour the flunk they could know. Professor, have mercy.
SHOCKING
There are two kinds of professors; the professor who takes a personal interest in his classes and the one who thinks that he is smart and clever.
There is a world of difference between the two. The first is considerate of the students and does not endeavor to make life for them a hardship. He refrains from personal remarks about the appearance and intelligence of those fortunate enough to draw him for their instructor. And best of all, he would like to see every one in his classes pull through the quizzes with good grades. Flunks, to him, are not funny.
On the other side of the fence is the man who smirks when he enters the room, and delivers some witticism with the idea perhaps, of making the students think that he is a good fellow. The intelligence of the class is the subject of his carefully worded irony and sarcasm. He delights in springing quizzes unexpectedly, and seems to regard a flunk as a sort of a joke.
Of course, it is seldom that one man ever possesses all the attributes last named, but it is true that all three of them are to be found here to a greater or less degree.
What the remedy is, no one seems to know. Otherwise, such things would not be permitted. At present all the students can do is to make the best of a bad proposition.
Do your Christmas shopping early. All firms collect on January 1 anyhow.
THE WILD, WILD WEST
In keeping with the other reforms that are spreading over the country, the abolishment of the hold-up pictures that areature films, the burglaries, and the cowboy-Indian combats with a fusilead of shots as an accompaniment is fast approaching. Moving pictures of the proper sort have a worthy mission to perform in providing amusement and entertainment to the young and old alike, and the educational purposes to which they are now being put are highly commendable.
Clean, healthy plays are of worth to any one, parent or child, student or professor. One can devote his time to this kind of amusement and gain instruction as well as entertainment. But the fictive Wild West, the sensational melodrama should go. Its insidious influence over the young men and women in the country, causing them to become criminals to a greater degree, causing young children to wish to break home ties and startle the wild and wooly west. This influence must be counteracted in some way.
It is not the moving picture show that should be abolished, it is the pernicious influence derived from these cheap thrillers that should be prohibited; the instructive and entertaining slide should be encouraged. it is a pertinent benefit of the public amusement of the day.
RECOGNITION FOR CEEER LEADERS.
The football season is over; the men who have worked hard to make the team have been awarded their “Its,” but the cheer leaders have been totally ignorant and forgotten. Last year there was a considerable agitation to institute certain rewards for the men who led the cheering during the football season, these rewards to consist of emblems for a sweater which would signify the part which the men had taken in University activities. The agitation resulted in giving a certain amount of money to cover the same question has been brought up, but so far the cheer leaders have received no recognition. There has been a certain amount of complaint during the last several years in regard to the scarcity of material for cheer leaders. Only a comparatively few students turn out to compete for this position. The reason is apparent. There activity receives no commendation, no reward. Until the athlete board sees it to take this matter up and make arrangements which will bring out larger numbers of good men to try out as cheer leaders, cheerleading at the University of Illinois will be inferior to that at other institutions. The latter in a great many cases provide emblems to be given to cheer leaders who prove themselves worthy of the title. The University of Illinois does not and until it does, the rooting will no be as efficiently led as it is in other institutions, ammy of them far smirk than this.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS
OF WISE OLD BOYS
Daily Innini.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The nothing of which God creates the world are the eternal possibilities of his will, which are the sources of all the actualities of the world. But as God can only have power over these things in his body, so far as he is open and manifest to himself, and as these eternal possibilities are only known to him in the S.n., the proposition that God creates the world is a parable from the other proposition, that he creates the world through the Son.-Martenson.
The Daily Konsum will publish in this space laterword version of its reader magazine.
Bereft of light, their seeing have
forgot.
TO CYRIACK SKINNER
To outward view, of blemish or of spot.
Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
forgot;
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight ap-
**pun**
of sun or moon or star throughout
the year
Or man or woman. Yet I argue not
I don't know her hand, or will
Against Heaven's hand or will,
nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer
Right onward. What supports me,
dost thou ask?
The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied
In liberty's defense, my noble task,
In liberty's defense, my noble task,
of which all Europe takes from
of which all Europe takes iron
side to side.
He had laid me through
This though might lead me through the world's vain mask
—Milton.
The Little One—I'll bet you feel just too stuck up! A man man strutting around with two pretty girls.
Content, though blind, had 1 no better guide.
Cornell Widow.
Him—Mere man! Huh, I'm no mere man; I'm a Morman.
better guide. Milton
RAWTHER EXPENSIVE
The following article, dated from Topeka, is reprinted from the Kansas City Star:
Kansas has wasted $25,000 on the school of mines the last legislature established at Weir City.
Everybody believed the legislature was creating a vocational school in Southeastern Kansas to teach the young men of the mining district to be mining engineers. After the legislature adjourned it was discovered that what really had been established was a full ledged university.
Comte de Champagne—Yes, he still is. He's a bartender now. —Harvard Lampoon.
The board of regents of the state university tried to delay the matter of creating the school in the hope that the coming legislature would correct the law and make it merely a vocational school under the direction of the state university. But a governor compelled the "regents to go ahead and spend the $25,000 appropriated for an independent university.
So the reps established the school. A building was rented and equipped. Three professors were employed to teach the studies designated by law. The $2,000 has been spent, or will be by the end of the year.
What is the result? Three students have applied for admission in the new university—one student for each professor.
It was supposed to be a "mining school," but one of the three students is studying only French. Two of the three are making a regular university course.
The regents of the university say that the equipment of the new school could be utilized at the state university and at the state agricultural college, and thus save a large part of the $25,000 already wasted on the Weir City school if the legislature should decide to abandon it as a university and transform it into a vocational school.
But the law creating the Weir City university specifically demands that the same course of study be maintained there as at the state university. Mining engineering is a part of the course at the agricultural college, also. At the present rate of attendance Kansas is paying $8,333 a year for each of its three pupils in the Weir City university.
And, of course, the $25,000 is only the beginning of the cost to the state. In the coming legislature another appropriation will be necessary. The "down with the taxes" contingent, always present in legislative sessions, will be demanding a reduction in the appropriations for the state university and the agricultural college. But the members from Southeastern Kansas will be here demanding a larger appropriation for the new university with its three students.
The new university is only one hundred miles from the state university, and eleven miles from the state manual training school at Pittsburg. The state university has an elaborate system of labor, the science of mining engineering.
St. John Leatherhead—What became of Sturtevant? He used to be very popular, because he was such a good mixer.
Throw it away
That old murderous razor.
Get one of those
New Safeties
and enjoy a shave for once.
Old style razors of all kinds
Kennedy & Ernst 826 Mass. St
Dec. 18—Lecture on the "Montessori system of Education," by Miss Anna E. George, head mistress of the Montessori School, Washington, D.C., 4:00 d'clock in the chapel, Fraser hall.
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If you like taffy try ours. Wiede- nam's--Adv.
Johnson & Carl
announce that after January 6th,1913,they will have associated with them
Mr. C. C. Carl,
formerly of this city. Mr. Carl will be pleased to serve all old University acquaintances and meet new ones at his new home at
905 Mass. St.
Look Here!
These books sell for 50 cents each. Nicely bound and just the thing for Christmas
THE FOUR MILLION-O. Henry
CARDIGAN—Robert Chamberb.
THE DANGER MARK—Robert Chambers.
CASTLE CRANEYCROW—George Barr McCutcheon.
THE DAY OF THE DOG—George Barr McCutcheon.
LAURA JOHNSON—George Barr McCutcheon.
DAUGHTER OEF ASTREA—Oppneinhe.
GAMBLER—Cecil Adelaide Thurston.
GRAUSTARK—George Barr McCutcheon.
BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK—George Barr McCutcheon.
THE FORTUNES OF OLIVER HORN—F. Hopkinson Smi.
THE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA CRAH
Chewling
THAT PRINTER OF UDELLS—H. Bell Wright.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESEME PINE—John Fox, Jr.
Tomorrow evening we print another list of books that you can purchase. It will mark those you wish to purchase, it will help you in your shopping.
University Book Store
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