UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912
If fortune smiles—who doesn't? It doesn't
do it—who doesn't? Does? -From
the Chinese.
HOW WOULD YOU DO IT?
A good system of enrollment seems to be the crying need of the hour, and now that the sufferers from the present system are to have a fling at it, it seems that something better should be in store at the beginning of the second semester.
As the system is, those students who are classed regularly do not experience so much hardship. But those who wish to change from one School to another, or who are back in some group, or who have flunks registered against them (unless they have nothing but flunks), are sure to meet with considerable difficulty and delay.
It remains now to see if the students really feel bad enough about the slowness of the method that was used this fall to send in their plans to remedy it.
It is hardly probable than any one person will think out the ideal scheme, but with a number of thoughts to choose from, several points ought to be selected which will at least furnish improvement on the way it has been done in the past.
It seems no more than right to expect each student who is not satisfied with things as they are to give the matter serious thought; and if he believes he sees a way out of the difficulty he should submit his plan.
Even if an athletic woman did not make an ideal wife, the husband would probably show considerable hesitation in admitting that she did not.
CONCLUSIVE.
"Honest," said the candidate, "I am better fitted for the office than any one else."
"Prove it," said the cautious voter
"Prove it!" shouted the candidate
"Why I don't have to; I admit it."
"Three tickets will be put out by fourth year men," reads a headline. Whereby it immediately becomes plain that there is more "putting out" than there is "putting in," even in politics.
ANOTHER COMPARISON.
Comes now, not a criticism, but a comparison of the Kansas spirit with the Harvard spirit. An old K. U. man says that the spirit of the Atlantic Coast institution is stronger than any we have yet developed.
It is true that the eastern university has been in existence much longer than the University of Kansas, and therefore has had a chance to develop a stronger spirit. Nevertheless the seed has been sown in Kansas and is bearing fruit already. For example, witness the K. U. club in this same university to which we are compared, or with which we are contrasted.
A student's loyalty to his Alma Mater must rest on something firm and tangible. The fact that a university is a good place at which to acquire an education, or the fact
that a student actually attends a first class institution does not imbue him with school spirit. This must be fostered by traditions.
The traditions of Kansas are not as venerable as those of Harard, but this does not mean that they should be disregarded. Indeed they ought to be nursed along all the more until such a spirit is developed that it would be impossible to ignore them.
DON'T ASK US.
Why the sidewalks are narrow.
Why the Library clock has no hands.
Why more students don't but athletic tickets.
The professors' idea of a day's work.
To define a cooky shine.
To boost your candidacy
To stop the paper.
To stop the paper.
When the seats in chapel were made.
Who started the souvenir post ard fad.
How to catch fish.
Why liquid air is.
To use a slang expression, the cafeteria is what one might call "sewed up."
NAMES.
Names will change. Two years ago the name insurgent went the rounds of popularity. Indeed some spoke of insurgency as being their nationality. How often does one hear it now-a-days?
A news item says that it's not cold.
That it's all imagination. If so, our imagination has been working overtime these mornings.
When Dr. M. T. Sudler addressed the students in chapel yesterday, he warned them not to overwork. it is generally believed that he made friends.
One thing about university life is that if you don't make a good start, it's pretty expensive to have to start over again.
"PEP."
Extract from a letter from Hank to Cub:
OUT OF THE MOUTHS
OF WISE OLD BOYS
Spirit, the right kind of spirit—Enthusiasm—Pep is the finest thing a fellow can strive for—do you know that, Cub? I'll leave it to you, kid. Who in this world has a better chance to be a real big man—the pretty-faced Latin-Greek shark who has a keen intellect and a fine sense of perception (for translating Cicero, pronounced Kickerow, mind you) or the clear-skinned enthusiast who has an eye for everything, and perhaps a con. after his English grade. I'll give my vote to the latter man. He's onto his job. His college won't give him a scholarship nor a gold medal, but this world will give a man's job. A half dozen times I have been on the point of prancing up to Prey in the arena, and I will more Pop at assemblies. Give us the band once in a while—not once a semester. Give us some more Drs. Akeds, Rabbi Meyers--young men speakers. Invite Jack Johnson one week, Billy Sunday the next and the student body will absolutely guarantee to turn out in force to hear a Jew's harp duet in the third. We want assemblies, but we want what we want when we want it, and not what we are supposed to need when we don't need it."—Daily California.
One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the more good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, and deep devotion. Itself selves. It will give us more comfort on our death-bed to reflect on one deed of self-denyng mercy, purity, or humility, than to recollect ourselves in the recurrence of frequent transports, and much spiritual exultation.
"NEVER SIGH, BUT SEND."
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
I would have a man disbelieve he can do jot or title more than he has already done; refrain from borrowing things; and avoid giving away; however good a security he seems to be able to show, and never to take his good feelings and wishes in pledge for one single untried deed. Nothing but past acts are vouch-
Nothing but past acts are vouchers for future...Newman.
The Daily Kanan will publish in
Contributions welcome—The Editor.
OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT.
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The queen, the princess,
O boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
New dimmed and gone,
The queen's broken!
Thus in the still night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light
Oft in the stilly night,
When I remember all
The friends, she linked together,
I've seen around me fall.
Like leaves in wintry weather,
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,
Those hares are fled,
Garlands dead,
Are all but he departed!
Thus in the stillly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
Moore
around me.
—Thomas Moore
Speaking of college colors, Black and Blue would be highly appropriate at a football game.Boston American.
Pyramus was the handsomest youth, and Thisbe the fairest maiden, in Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned. Their parents occupied adjoining houses. Propinquity brought the young people together and acquaintance ripened into love. They would gladly have married, but their parents forbade. One thing, however, Parents could not forbid (for Cupid and Venus favored the match), that love should glow with equal ardor in the bosoms of both. They conversed by signs and glances, and the fire burned the more innately that it was covered. In well beamed eyes two houses, there was a crack, caused by some faction in the structure. It afforded a passage to the voices; and tender messages passed back and forth through the gap. When night came and they must say farewell, the lovers pressed their lips upon the wall, she on her side, he on his.
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
Now Pyramus approached the place of meeting. He saw in the sand the footsteps of the lion. He found the veil all rent and bloody, "O, hapless girl," cried he, "I have been the cause of thy death; and I follow thee!" So saying, he drew his sword and plunged it into his heart. The blood spurted forth from the wound, and tinged the white mulberries of the tree all red, and sinking into the earth, reached the roots, so that the sanguine hue mounted through the trunk to the fruit.
One morning, when Aurora had put out the stars, and the sun had melted the frost from the grass, they met at the acustomed spot, and arranged a meeting for that night, at a well-known edifice, standing without the city's bounds,—the Tomb of Ninus. The one who first arrived should await the other at the foot of a white mulberry tree, near a cool spring. Evening came. This be, arriving first, sat alone on the monument in the dim light of the evening. Suddenly she described a lioness, her jaws sharp, approaching the fountain to shake her thirst. The naiden fled at the sight, dropping her veil as she ran. The lioness, after drinking at the spring, turned toward the woods, and seeing the veil on the ground, tossed and rent it with her bloody mouth.
By this time, Thiise, still trembling with fear, yet wishing not to disappoint her lover, stepped cautiously forth, looking anxiously for the youth, eager to tell him the danger she had escaped. When she came to the spot and saw the changed color of the mulberries, she doubted whether it was the same palce. While she hesitated, she saw the form of her lover struggling in the agonies of death. She screamed and beat her breast, she embraced the lifeless body, poured tears into the wounds, and imprinted kisses on the cold lips. "O, Pyramus," she cried, "what has done this?" It is tine own Thisie that speaks." At the name of Thiise, Pyramus opened his eyes, then closed them again. She saw her veil stained with blood and the scabbard empty of his sword. "Thine own hand has slain thee, and for my sake," she cried, "I, too, can be brave for once, and my love is as strong as thine. But ye, unhappy parents of us both, deny us not our united request. As love and death have joined us, let one tomb contain us. And thou, tree, retain the marks of our slaughter. Let thy berries still serve for memorials of our
blood." So saying she plunged the sword into her breast. The two bodies were buried in one sepulchre, and the tree henceforth produced purple berries.
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. The vulgar, far from hiding their will, blab their wishes. A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passion into a thousand crackers of desire—Lavator.
THE PHILOSOPHER
The editor is not responsible for virus expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
STUDENT OPINION
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Editor Daily Kansan:
An early issue of the "Kansan" this year, contained an editorial in which the statement was made that no form of hazing, (or something to that effect), was practiced in the Kansan community. The writer of that article forget for the instant, the "Freshman Cap" proposition?
The writer (A Junior), is a strong believer in class organization, but he believes that the wrong method has been chosen to bring this about among the freshmen. And furthermore, he believes that it works well when people feel this way about the matter. Let's hear from someone else!
And now comes Monday's "Kansan," which, under the heading of "Freshman Caps," hints as to what will befall the freshman who fails to wear a cap when the appointed day arrives. To a steady reader of the paper, the two articles do not appear to be at all consistent. The writer agrees with the former editorial, and believes that hazing should be made a crime, and he believes also, that the "Freshman Cap." idea is nothing more or less than a form of hazing.
And the Student Council, a body of representative Kansas men, passed this rule! Does that speak well of our school? Of course, it is explained that the wearing of those caps teaches the freshmen the "value of class spirit and organization," but does it rally do that? Rather, doesn't it have the effect to make the freshman shun the upperclassmen, and create in the first year men, a spirit of hatred and ill-feeling toward our school? No man like to be humiliated—every reader of this article will admit the importance of man who has to war one of these so-called caps—and is more than humiliating to the unfortunate one who, for some cause, does not wear the cap. The Freshman girls do very well without any such foolishness—why cannot the boys do as well?
-A. D. B.
THE STRATEGY OF A BIRD
The secretary bird of South Africa feeds upon rats, mice, lizzards and even insects, and is especially fond of snakes. So valuable are its services in this respect that in certain quarters of Africa heavy penalties await the person who kills one of these queer birds. The name "secretary" was suggested by the large feathers that project from the apex of its head. These give it somewhat the appearance of a clerk or secretary, with several quill pens stuck behind his ears.
The secretary bird is about four feet in height. Its hawk-like bill is a formidable weapon. A secretary bird was seen to fight with a snake seven or eight feet long. The serpent was of the species known in South Africa as "ringskaal," by reason of its scaly skin and sharp neck. It is an active reptile, endowed with the power of ejecting its venom to a considerable distance.
For several minutes the activity of the belligerents displayed itself in feints and light blows. The bird then withdrew, uttering a prolonged harsh note. In a moment it was joined by another secretary bird, and both birds then attacked the snake, which, after a few failed attempts, the same time received frequent blows from the assailants' strong wings.
Finally a blow stupefied the snake.
Instantly one of the secretaries seized the serpent near the neck and the other got a hold near the tail. Between them they bore it aloft, wriggling and struggling, and then dropped it. With closed wings the described so with my aim to reach the ground almost as soon as the snake did. Quick as a thought one of the secretaries struck the serpent a blow on the head that killed it—Kansas City Star.
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1. Coronets and Hearts.
One of Vigilraph's best.
2. Alone in New York.
An Edison Feature. This picture is the second story of "What Happened to Mary," reproduced in motion pictures. This is the "Ladies World" serial story that is receiving so much favorable comment.
3. Alkali Ike, Plays the Devil.
You all know that Alkaliike pictures are always the wowest comedy. An essay production.
Added Feature: Betty Hen;
drix in high class operatic
Selections and ballads.
Remember That Here Is Where You Always See Good Pictures
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Under New Management
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Opening Select Dancing School.
Oct. 2—Wednesday night; Oct. 5
Oct. 2—Wednesday night; Oct.
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Miss LeOra Strahl, Instructor.
Private Lessons by appointment.
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