UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912.
The name of "Wise" seems to me, O. Phaedrus, a great matter, and to belong to God alone. A man may be more fitly denominated "philosophus," "would be wise," or some such name—Plato.
THE GLEE CLUB.
Thirty-five students responded to the call for gleemen. Considering the size of the University this is not a very large per cent.
When the importance of the glee club is considered the percent is small. For the glee club is growing in popularity every year. In the large universities of the East, such as Yale, Harvard and Princeton, the glee concerts are beginning to be looked upon as among the most important social functions of the year, ranking next to the class proms.
A similar trip is being contemplated this year. If it materializes, the university wants to see the best men possible in the club's personnel.
It will be remembered that the club that represented the University of Kansas last year travelled to the Pacific Coast and back, visiting most of the larger cities along the route, and receiving a rousing reception in each of them.
It is indeed worth while for those who can sing to try out, not only for personal gratification, but for the glory of the University of Kansas.
One of the sororities entertained recently with a cooky shine. This is evidently much more filling than a shoe shine.
WHAT THEY NEVER TELL US
I'd have been to class on time, professor, but I had a chapel date.
No, I don't like Shakespeare.
I'm not learning anything in this course, professor.
I'd like to have joined a fraternity but I didn't have a chance.
It's quite a job to get out a paper, I imagine. I don't believe I could do it.
You need not work hard in this course. I won't funk you.
No, I can't play the piano. I never had a chance to learn.
My wind is all right but my legs are not strong enough for the mile run.
Oh, yes; I snore whether I sleep on my side or not.
It is Spooner Library. Why can't someone think up an equally appropriate name for the Museum?
"A Green Thought" is the title of one of Prof. Margaret Lynn's short stories. Evidently a psychological treatise on the first-year students.
THAT LETTER HOME
Now Mr. Freshman that you are enrolled in the University of Kansas and are probably fifty or a hundred miles from home, are you going to break gradually the ties that
bind you to father and mother and draw farther away from them each day?
Or are you going to cheer the hearts of those who made it possible for you to enter old K. U. by sending a letter home at least once a week.
Interest in you increases at you progress further in your studies. You have formed a partnership with the old folks at home. You know that they are keeping up their side of the bargain. Your side is to do the best that you can and to try to be an honor to them.
Now a news head has Cupid doing a Marathon. In the experience of a great many of us, Venus' son has proved to be a pretty good little ten second runner.
Let them know by letter that you have not lapsed into forgetfulness. See to it that they know from your own words that you are striving to be a credit to the University, to yourself, and to your home.
HUMAN NATURE.
The student was telling what he had learned in newspaper class. "Let's see," he said; "Professor Thorpe told us today about the news story; the feature story and the human nature story."
"Right is might," says the proverb. Whereupon another proverb rises to contend that "it's a poor rule that won't work both ways." And axiom states that "things equal to the same thing are equal to each other."
ENGINEERS NOT BARRED
In view of several inquiries, the Daily Kansan wishes to announce that in the contest for the twenty-five thousand dollars which will be given for the solution of a certain proposition proposed by the French mathematician, Fermat, engineers are not barred.
HAZING AS A CRIME
The trustees of the University of North Carolina, as a result of a fatal case of hazing, have petitioned the legislature to enact a law making hazing a crime. Such a law should be on the statute books of every state, for dismissal is a wholly incommensurate penalty when death or serious injury results. It is a curious anomaly that such a practice, cowardly in its very nature, should ever gain a foothold among young Americans, who are proverbial for their love of fair play. There is nothing which is farther from fairness than the brutality with which its victims usually are treated, without an opportunity to defend themselves. There was no chance. An instance of hazing where the victim had an unfair chance. It would not be a hazing if such were the case. "Surprise" and overwhelming numbers are the chief features of these assaults, which are merely occasions for venting the cruelty which seems instinctive in human nature.
Happily this form of brutality is becoming rarer each year. But this fact does not alter the nature of the offense, and when any perverted type of humor is displayed with serious consequences it should be declared by law to be just what it is际命, and painful; or simply winningly. Hodgson and any guise is un-American and unmanly, falling automatically into lists of offences of which the law should take cognizance—Kansas City Journal.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF WISE OLD BOYS
L'Estrange's Fables.
An ass was wishing in a hard winter for a little warm weather, and a mouthful of fresh grass to keep it moist, for the less truss of straw, and a cold lodging. In good time the warm weather and the fresh grass comes on; but so much with it, that this ass grows quickly as weary of the spring as he was of the winter. His next longing is for summer; but what with harring the wind, when the season, he is worse now than he was in the spring; and so he fancies he never shall be well till autumn comes. But then again, after the winter, he finds fuel, winter provisions, etc., he finds himself more harassed than ever. In fine, when he has trod the circle of his last prayer is for winter again, and that he may take up his rest where he began his complaint.
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OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
I shot an arrow into the air,
it fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
not could follow it in its flight.
THE ARROW AND THE SONG.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
"OUR BOY AT COLLEGE"
TOOK 100
To hundreds of mothers and fathers back home, Mr. Freshman, you are no longer just plain Sam, Henry or Dave. Time changes all things; and it has changed your name. You are now proudly referred to as "our boy at college." The neighbors and friends know of your going away; your many relatives have been notified of your change of address. Your intimate friends envy you.
True, there have been sacrifices. But what is a long cherished folding-bed for the parlor, or a new barn to shelter the hogs, compared with an education for "our boy"? These pieces of worldly goods soon perish. But you, lonesome chap, and your fame will live forever.
A lot is expected of you when you come out of college. Make up your mind while in your room these nights safe from the sting of a sophomore's paddle not to disappoint the folks back home. It will be worth while. —The University Missouri.
CAESAR TO BED AT DARK
By Thomas De Quincy.
With the lark it was that the Roman rose. Not that the earliest lark rises so early in Latium as the earliest lark in England—that is, during summer; but then, on the other hand, neither does it ever rise so late. The Roman citizen was stirring with the dawn, which, allowing for the shorter longest day and the longer shortest day of Rome, you may call about four in summer, and about seven in winter.
Why did he do this? Because he went to bed at a very early hour. But why did he do that? By backing in this way we shall surely back into the very well of truth. Always, if it is possible, let us have the why of the wherefore. The Roman went to bed early for two special reasons: First, because in Rome, which had been built for a martial destiny, every habit of life had reference to the usages of war.
Every citizen, if he were not a mere animal kept at public cost, held himself as a sort of soldier-elec. The more noble he was, the more his liability to military service. Now, it was a principle of ancient warfare, that every daylight had a value of valued amount of darkness. There was one reason—a reason suggested by the understanding.
But there was a second reason for more remarkable, and this was a reason dictated by blind necessity. It is an important fact that this planet on which we live, this little, industrious earth of ours, has developed her wealth by slow stages of increase. She was far from being the rich little globe in Caesar's days that she is at present.
The earth, in our days, is incalculably richer as a whole, than in the time of Charlemagne. At that time she was richer by many a million of acres than in the era of Augustus. In that Augustian era desery a desertry carriage, for her cleaning a hundred miles in depth, running in a ring-fence about the Mediterranean. This belt and no more was in decent cultiva-
The daylight furnished gratis, was
Man, therefore, went to bed early in those ages, simply because his worthy mother Earth could not afford him candles. She, good old lady (or good young lady, for geologists know not whether she is in that stage of her progress which corresponds to gray hairs, or to infancy, or to a "certain age"), would certainly have helped to hear one of her nations asking for candles. "Candles!" she would have said "who ever heard of such a thing"2 and with so much excellent daylight running to waste as I have provided gratis! What will the wretches want next?3
Beyond that belt there was only a wild Indian cultivation. At present, what a difference! Such being the case, our mother, the Earth, being as a whole, so incompatible with her support the expense of maintaining great empires in cold latitudes; her purse would not reach that cost.
certainly neat, and undenable in its quality, and quite sufficient for all purposes that were honest. Seneca, even in his own luxurious period, called those men "lucifune" (light-sunners), and by other ugly names, who lived chiefly by candles, and richly and luxuriously men—may, even among these, none but idlers—did live much by candle light.
The Roman, therefore, who saw no joke in sitting round the table in the dark, went off to bed as the darkness began. Everybody did so. Old Numa Pompilus himself was obliged to trundle off in the dusk. Taurinius might be a very superb fellow, but we doubt whether he were a fairthing, though it may thought that plots and conspiracies would flourish in such a city of darkness, it is to be considered that the conspirators themselves had no more candles than honest men; both parties were in the dark.
A GRATEFUL SPIRIT
A general was hard pressed in battle and on the point of giving way, when suddenly a spirit soldier came to his rescue and enabled him to win a great victory. Prostrating himself ground, he asked the spirit's name.
"I am the God of the Target," resolved the spirit.
"And how have I merited your godkind's skill assistance?" inquired
"I am grateful to you," answered the spirit, "because in your practice you never once hit me."—From the Chinese.
NOT RELEGATED TO CHIT-CHAT
A Wellesley college graduate tells in the October Woman's Home Companion what she got out of college. Following is an extract:
"In regard to the question of general culture, if you were inclined to be severe about it, you might say that I got only a superficial knowledge of many subjects. Nevertheless, those bits of information have given me much pleasure from time to time. They afford starting-points for more information, and furnish pegs to hang new knowledge on. Suppose her husband brings an old classmate home to dinner, or suppose we meet some interesting man at a party, or on an ocean steamer—it is my experience that most people interesting when you know how to draw men out; it is easy to win the alluring shalings from an crtist, a sociological experimenter, an amountless if you already know enough of his subject to ask him leading questions about it. I don't have to sit by 'like a bump on a log,' as one of my neighbors complainingly described herself, while men talk of big things like the political situation, the stamping out of tuberculosis, and the probable scientific value of air ships.
"Neither am I relegated to merely chit-chit, of fashions and sauce pans. I may love to cook, but, thank goodness, I am not 'kitchen-minded.' My range of interests makes me an all-around companion to my husband, and I think that is intensely worth while."
FLOWERS MUST BE BUDS
It is related that when the balloon was first discovered, some one said to Franklin. "And what will ever come of it?" Franklin pointed to a baby in its cradle, and said, "And what will ever come of that?"
OPPORTUNITY AND THE FRESH-
A college course is four years packed with opportunity. There are seniors, three-quarters of whose opportunities have been passed. Juniors have one-half of their opportunities yet to meet. Some are Sophomores, with three-quarters of their opportunities before them.
MAN
Every opportunity is a challenge and a treasure.
As those wealthy in opportunity, members of the Freshman class are welcomed to the student body. In that the future of the University rests largely with them, their welcome implies a responsibility. In that they have four full years of opportunity before them, they are envied by those to whom many of the opportunities are dead.-Ohio Wesleyan Transcript.
Ottawa has ceased giving credit for athletics and music practice. It is the first university to recognize officially the similarity.
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PATTEE'S
NICKEL.
"WhereAllStudentsGo"
Program for Wednesday and Thursday:
1. "Live Wire." American Pathe.
PATHE.
One of those good Pathe comedies
2. "Saving an Audience," Vitagraph.
This is the feature picture of the program, Mrs. Maurice impersonatin's Susan B. Anthony
3. "Beauty Parlor at Stone Gulch." Kalem.
A Good COMEDY worth seeing.
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