UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University o Kanyas
EDITORIAL STAFF
RICHARD GARDNER
WAYNE WINGART
BURKE HACKEN
RUBEEL HACKEN
EDWARD HACKEN
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Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Campus Editor
Sporting Editor
t Sporting Editor
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STANLEY PINCENTON HIGHTON
JOE C. MADEN RAY ELDINGER
ROBERT SELLERS HERMET FLANL
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912.
Moneyed men are always listened to—From the Chinese.
IS IT, OR IS IT NOT?
A question has been aroused as to whether the custom which decrees that the freshman shall wear a distinguishing cap is, or not, having hat.
In a signed communication to the Daily Kansan yesterday, the wearing of distinctive headgear by first year men was denounced severely. The communication contended that instead of fostering a class spirit, the wearing of caps with colored buttons brought nothing to the freshman but a feeling of humiliation; that this rule, or custom, caused the freshman to shun the upper classmen, and to regard them with hatred.
There is no doubt that the freshman cap is distasteful to some men. To others it is not. The great majority of new students look upon the diminutive cap as one of the traditions of the institution, and are glad to wear it.
Surely there is no disgrace in being a freshman. All future upper classmen must come from their ranks. And to be a freshman means that four years of University life are yet to come. In those four years there are wonderful opportunities. In the other classes the worth of a man is already tried out to a considerable extent. The freshman is the man of unknown worth; in him the most wonderful things are yet to be disclosed.
That he should feel humiliated when asked to wear a cap which denotes him as a freshman of the University of Kansas seems hardly possible to a man who was once a freshman himself. We believe that the Kansas Spirit is strong enough and far-reaching enough to cause the first year men to be proud of his class and of the University.
Harvard has hired a rat catcher. It is thought that he would no doubt come to grief if he went after some of Kansas' educated rats.
Still there is no decision as to the pay of the editor and manager of the Jayhawker. Why doesn't some candidate for these positions come out politically for either the honor system or the salary system.
MAKING FRIENDS.
The student who has enrolled in the University for the first time but who has formerly attended some smaller institution may be somewhat depressed by the evident lack of cordiality with which his fellow students greet him. He may even pine for his old Alma Mater and think that he made a mistake in changing universities. He should, however, consider this as one of the great advantages of the larger institutions. There are too many students for each to know and notice the other. There are many sympathetic hearts here whom he needs and who need him friendship. He must however, exercise his own power for making friends and mixing with the world.
Before him lies the opportunity for cultivating that faculty which will be his most valuable asset in later years.
There are many who are only waiting for him to make some advances as he is waiting for them. He will find the friendship of the greater majority of the student body easily cultivated.
In the smaller schools he had that friendship thrust on him, in a way, but here he must look out for himself and make his own friends. If he does not already have that ability, the University of Kansas is the ideal place to acquire it.
The young women in the University must take an "aquatic quiz." Some of them are hoping that the main part of the quiz will not be very deep.
NO CAUSE TO WORRY
Some enterprising reporter has figured that if all the sheets of paper used by the freshmen in writing themes were "laid abreast end to end, they would make a three-foot walk from Fraser hall to Haskell Institute." Who wants a paper walk?
A freshman was complaining yesterday because there was no place in Administration building where he could hang his cap. He need not worry. After Friday he can easily put it in his pocket.
THINGS THEY NEVER TELL US
Why I wouldn't vote for you.
No, really, I don't find your conversation interesting.
Mr. Stude, you covered every point. Your answer could not have been better.
Classical music? No, not for me.
I can't stand it at any time.
I don't enjoy smoking. I think it looks manly.
I don't know anything about politics.
I couldn't break a habit if I tried.
My hair was never thicker than it is now.
I never wore a dress-suit, and never expect to.
I can't talk intelligently about anything.
Personally we do not believe the story about the first year student who asked what the seismograph's wages are, and if there two of them and if they divide the work into night and day shifts.
FRESHMEN, GET BUSY!
The way for a freshman to find out about the new conditions which now surround him is not to spend most of his time sitting idle, mulching over the abruptness of the change from high school to college routine and merely await further developments with his hands folded. Four years look long now, but four years look mightier in June of the senior year. Get into things you have learned. You will not have to search far for outside work, and if work is desired that opens a field of varied interest, enter any of the student organizations for they all offer an ideal chance.
Everyone cannot win but if you put forth your utmost efforts to gain a certain goal, you are as much honored by the student body as the one who is a little better and takes the place you wished to attain. It all takes time, in the warrior's charge, and you will feel yourself an altogether different student from the idle one who never tries.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS
OF WISE OLD BOYS
A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swelling of the heart all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous to the body; and you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flour of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the lungs, cardiomyopathy the heart of a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, suspicions, counsels, and bravery the heart to in a kind of civil shirr or confession—Bacon.
Friendship
So, we repeat, get busy.—Drake Daily Delphic.
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OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The Tiger
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand pr eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Burnt the fire of time eyes.
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinnes of thy heart?
?
What dread hand forged thy dread feet?
What the hammer? What the machine?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread
Dared its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their
and watered heaven with their tears,
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
And wafted heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he make me make
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night.
SOME STUDENT IDEAS
OF RESPONSIBILIT
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Hilke?
By Roy Stockwell,
Secretary, Young Men's Christian Association.
Not long since a young man of my acquaintance was washing dishes at one of the clubs. He left the job Tuesday evening after supper without giving the landlady any intimation that he would not be on hand for Wednesday morning breakfast. His explanation to me was that he did not care to keep the place any longer and that he told a friend who said he knew a man who wanted a job.
Now this sort of thing is inexucable. Certainly a man has some obligation to his employer, even the he is only washing dishes. And such instances are entirely too common. In my employment canvass this fall I met a good many people who said they would not use student help because they had found they could not depend upon them.
There are many complaints from the good people of Lawrence who keep roomers that students frequently cause them much embarrassment by vacating their rooms without notice or by engaging rooms which they never occupy. In some cases where the rental derived from rooms is the chief source of income, there is a real hardship, and in any case there is an obligation which is worthy of some consideration.
Now such disregard of the plain simple obligations of life is not characteristic of all students. Perhaps it is not typical of a very large class. But it is quite too common. We need a student sentiment which will frown upon such conduct as unworthy of any true gentleman.
Agricola no doubt made the Roman yoke easier upon the necks of the conquered people, and suggested the rotation of crops. He also included a number of traps, including a number of Scotchmen, whom he took home and domesticated.
MR. WILLIAM BILL NYE THE COMIC HISTORIAN
Afterward, in 121 A. D., the emperor Hadrian was compelled to build a wall to keep out the still unconquered Caledonians. This is called the "Picts' Wall," and a portion of it still exists. Later, in 208 A. D., Severus built a solid wall of stone along this line, and for seventy years there was peace between the two nations.
Towards the end of the third century. Carausius, who was appointed to the thankless task of destroying the Saxon pirates, shook off his allegiance to the emperor Dioctelian, joined the pirates and turned out Diocletian, usurping the business management of Britain for some years. But, alas! he was soon assassinated by one of his own officers before he could cry for help, and the assassin succeeded him. In those days assassination and inaguration seemed to go in hand.
Under Constantine peace again reigned, but the Irish, who desired to free rieland even if they had to go aborand and neglect their business for that purpose, used to invade Constantinera' territory, getting him up his knees on the night of his dangling that he should free Ireland.
After Constantian, who died 306
A.D., came Constantine the Great,
his son.
These men were called Picts, hence
Trouble now came in the latter part of the fourth century A. D., caused by the return of the regular Roman army, which went back to Rome to defend the Imperial City from the invaders when their stock in the palace of the Caesars" as the historian so tenderly puts it.
the expression "picked men." They annoyed Constantine by coming over and trying to introduce Home Rule into the home of the total stranger. The Scotch also made turbulent times by harassing Constantine more likely to produce their unreligious belief at the muzzle of the cross-run.
In 418 A. D., the Britons were extremely unhappy. "The barbarians throw us into the sea and the sea returns us to the barbarians," they ejaculated in their petition to the conquering Romans. But the latter were too busy fighting the Huns to send troops, and in desperation the Britons formed an alliance with gist and intent of traveling on foot in 440 A. D., landed on the island of Thanet, and thus ended the Roman dominion over Britain.
The Saxons were at that time a coarse people. They did not allow etiquette to interfere with their methods of taking refreshments, and, though it pains the historian at times to speak unkindly of his ancestors who have now passed on his line, it is doubtful he admit that as a people the Saxons may be truly characterized as a great National Appetite.
Let us not swell with pride as we refer to our ancestors, who lives were marked by an eternal combat between malignant alcoholism and trichinosis. Many a Saxon would have filled a drunkard's grave, but wabbled so in his gait that he walked past it and missed it.
To drink from the skulls of their dead enemies was a part of their religion, and there were no heretics among them.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for纹章 expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
STUDENT OPINION
FORGET IT
FORGET IT
Editor, Daily, Kansan;
Editor Daily Kansan:
The loyal Jayhawkers should give no thought to the criticism of the West Pointer who contrasts our school spirit with that of West Point.
The writer, having spent five years in one of the best known Military Schools in the country, (which carries out the West Point idea almost to the letter), feels that he has an idea as to the conditions at the
The cadets are under the strictest kind of discipline at all times, and are allowed VERY few liberties, so when there is an Athletic contest on, they are more than glad to avail themselves of the opportunity to witness it, while HERE, there are the distractions of “town”, the “Nickles”, and many others, to lure the Jayhawker away from the game. We are bucking competition—the cadets are not, so why should we fear that the KANSAS bull-dog is losing its grip? The Kansas Spirit is just as strong as ever.
OH, JOY! HERE'S A BOUQUET
Dear Mr. Editor;
A. D. B.
In this busy world of kicks and knocks please permit me to hand you a compliment. The student who does not feel proud of the Daily Kansan is surely a chronic grouch and should have an experienced machinist to tinker up his internal workings at once. There is no college daily in Miamisburg, NJ for comparison with it; while in size and excellence it ranks ahead of most of the publications of the great eastern universities and needs not admit any of them as its superior. Most of us fail to appreciate, I believe, what a good thing we really have in the Daily Kansan.
"Dimp."
WANT MORE TENNIS COURTS
Editor Daily Kansan:
In line with the views of the Chancellor in regard to general athletics for all the students it not be a good plan to provide accommodation for the tennis players of the University? At present there are but two courts available for the students and faculty and work is at a standstill on the other two that the school possesses. If athletics all is what is wanted the game is no greater possibilities. At Missouri and other neighboring universities there is an abundance of courts provided for the use of the students and kept in condition by the school. Why not do the same thing here?
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