UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.-From the Chinese.
THE OLD STUDENT'S RETURN The old student arrives on the campus Monday of enrollment week. He has come early in order to avoid the rush.
Tuesday he unpacks h trunk and greets friends.
Monday he spends viewing famili-
sights and gretting friends. By
nightfall he has secured a rea-
Thursday, several more of the old boys arrive. He greets them.
Wednesday he assembls Mt. Oread with the avowed intention of enrolling. He sees a line of students extending from the gymnasium door far down the cement sidewalk. He hastens down the hill to greet friends.
Friday he attends chapel and greets friends.
Saturday he registers and is surprised to find that he cannot enroll until Monday.
Sunday he meets a few new students at church. He greets them.
Monday he ascends Mt. Oread. He means to enroll. Classes are short and the campus is dotted with chatting students. He must keep up his reputation for friendliness. He greets every one.
Tuesday he enrolls.
Next year he will know more. That it,he will be better acquainted and have more friends.
Wednesday he laments. The courses he wanted to take had been closed to him. To his friends he laments at length and criticizes the University in general.
Shakespeare's second age, the knickerbockered schoolboy, is now with us. And of course, no one would have any trouble picking out his third.
O, O, O! O, O, O! O, O, O! OREAD! The Oread high school seems as confident of the success of its athletics as if it had already found a yell. There could hardly be a worse case of cart-before-the-horse. Athletics rests on yells. Somebody ought to see that the Oread school starts out right.
Comes now a freshman girl to be an engineer. She will undoubtedly be known as "Carrie Jones."
GET INTO POLITICS.
The open season for candidates is upon us. Not only are national issues coming to a head, but also those of the four classes of undergraduates.
Already is the aspiring president of his class beginning to draw up imposing statements suitable for campaign pledges.
All of which is right and proper. It behooves the undergraduate to get in touch with his fellows and what medium is more successful than the political gridiron?
Moreover, no class can advance without leaders; no university can; no nation can. It may be that the
young man or young woman who is trained in politics in university life, will later use that training in a national struggle.
Get into the game; politics at the University of Kansas are clean enough and broad enough that every one may take some part.
"There is nothing new under the sun." Perhaps not but it is being contended that there is a chance. Ever see a sophomore carry a parasol over a girl, and do it gracefully?
No signal at the close of chapel?
No one needs a signal except the chapel daters and they wouldn't hear it.
USE BUSINESS METHODS While there are many in the University who, no doubt, are in favor of the continuance of the honor system in the management of the Jayhawker, how many of them have given a thought to the work connected with the manager's position?
Th management of the Jayhawker mans neglected classes, hours of worry and several trips to the firm that does the printing.
Doubtless the honor is worth more than a salary. In fact it is the concessious of opinion that the honor is priceless. The fact remains, however, that a salary means business; and to be successful the Jayhawker must be run on business principles.
What is going to be the final decision?
Have you noticed that we have re-frained from mentioning the P. C. so far?
If this cold spell continues, it may freeze even that high water mark in enrollment.
DON'T SQUEAK.
Did you see that man out early this morning greasing the curves in the car track to keep down the squeak? Good scheme.
All of us strike a good many short curves these first weeks of school. Oil them well with optimism. Keep down the squeak.
"Former students heed cupid's song," says a news head. We've heard of cupid's dart piercing a heart, etc., but we never knew that the winged youngster was a member of any celestial glee club.
IT DOESN'T SOUND HARD
Twenty-five thousand dollars awaits the student who will prove a certain proposition proposed by the French mathematician, Fermat, about 250 years ago. This prize will remain open to all comers for a century. Prof. G. A. Miller, tells of it in a recent address on "Modern Mathematical Research," fears that such a large inducement may set all sorts of mediocre mathematicians to wasting their time. The proposition to be proved is that the sum of no two powers except squares is itself a power of the same degree. Sums of squares are often squares. For instance, the square of 3 is 9 and that of 4 is 16. Add 16 and 9 and you have 25, which is the square of 5. But this has never been found to be true for cubes or fourth powers, or any powers above two, and Fermat asserted that no such cases would or could ever be found. Some of the world's greatest mathematicians have been working on this problem for centuries—New Orleans Daily Pleasure
OUT OF THE MOUTHS
OF WISE OLD BOYS
I make no more estimation of repeating a great number of names or words upon once hearing, or by reading them in order to know the forms or rhymes extempore, or the making of a satirical simile of verything, or the turning of every thing to a meaning, or by reading everything by cavil, or the like (whereof in the faculties of the mind there is great copia, and may be brought to an extreme degree of wonder) than I do of the tricks of tumblers, fun-ambules, baladies—the one best known of which the latter is in the body; matters of strangeness without worthness.
QUICKNESS OF WIT
Bacon.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The Daily Kanman will publish in
the New York Times, and the
Contemporary welcome. The Editors
TO THE MUSES.
The chambers of the sun, that now
From ancient melody have ceas'd;
Whether on Ida's shady brow,
Or in the chambers of the East,
The chambers of the sun, that now
Whether in Heav'n ye wander fair,
Or the green corners of earth,
There lies a treasure.
Where the melodious winds have
birth;
Whether on crystal rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea.
Beneath the bosom or the sea;
Wandering in many a coral grove,
Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry;
How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoyed in you!
The languid strings do scarcely move
The sound is ford'd, the notes are
few!
William Blake
MOVING PICTURE NO. 3.
Special Privilege.
Scene L.
Seth Heaves, of Bottsville, a poor but honest lad, on a mild July morning sets forth to seek his fortune and raise the mortgage which hangs
he is, pays no attention to these taunts, other than to pick up a cobble stone and hurl it at the citizens. He shakes his fist and flickers off the picture.
heavy on the farm of his ancestors. As he wanders through the driving snow, the villagers sneer and jeer at Seth. Seth, brave had that
Seth, still poor although years have evidently passed, limps up the hill to K. U. His eyes jump from side to side of the road, so that it is apparent even to the freshmen and children in the audience that he is still seeking his fortune. At the summit by the entrance, he sinks exhausted. Streams of star-
Scene II.
more. And more. Sometimes a professor trips along. Then more students. Suddenly Seth bounds up, rebounds and throws his derby hat over the museum. He has observed that the students are entering the grounds. He is off his hat and coat and sets to work. In a trice, he has constructed a toll-gate and is charging five cents admission to the campus.
More come. And
Scene III.
A a real stylish man, although he wears a moustache descends from an automobile before the Heavens home in Botttsville. The villagers each
lady. The villagers cheer. They see it is Seth. Seth stoops. He lifts the mortgages. He hands. Final. The villagers of villagers scrambling after pennies scattered by Seth.
wearing an open mouth stand about as the stylish stranger steps briskly up the path and embraces old man Heaves and kisses the old
LORD CHESTERFIELD TO
HIS SON IN COLLEGE
were I to begin the world again, with the experience which I now have of it, I would lead a life of real, not of imaginary pleasure. I would enjoy the pleasures of the table and of wine; but stop short of the pains inseparably annexed to an excess in either. I would not, at twenty years be a preaching missionary of abstemiousness and sobriety; and I should let other people do as they would, without formally and sententiously rebuke them for it; but I would be most firmly resolved not to destroy my own faculties and sentiently in compliance to those who have no regard to their needs. I would play to give me comfort, but not to give me pain; that is, I would play for trifles, in mixed companies, to amuse myself and conform to custom; but I would take care not to venture for sums, which, if I won, I should not be the better for; but if I lost, should be under a difficulty to pay; and, when paid, would oblige me to retrench in several other articles. Not to mention the quarrels which deep play commonly occasions.
Dear Son:
I would pass some of my time in
reading, and the rest in the company of people of sense and learning, and chiefly those above me, and I would frequent the mixed companies of men and women of fashion, which though often frivolous, yet they unbend and refresh the mind, not uselessly, because they certainly polish and soften the manners.
These would be my pleasures and amusements, if I were to live the last thirty years over again; they are rational ones; moreover I will tell you, they are really the fashionable ones; for the others are not, in truth, the pleasures of what I call people of fashion, but of those who only call themselves so. Does good company care to have a man reeling drunk among them? Or to se an another tear in his hair, and in pain for having lost, an injury, more than he is able to pay. No; those who practise, and much less those who brag about make no part of good company; and are most unwilling, if ever, admitted into it. A regal man of fashion and pleasure observes decency; at least, neither borrows nor affects vices; and, if he unfortunately has any, he gratifies them with choice delicacy, and secrecy.
I have not mentioned the pleasures of the mind (which are the solid and permanent ones), because they do not come under the head of what people commonly call pleasures, which they seem to confine to the senses. The pleasure of virtue, of charity, and of learning is true and lasting pleasure; which I hope you will be well and long acquainted with. Adieu.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Perey-"Imogene is so chanceable!"
Arthur—“What's the matter now?” Percy—“First she told me that she didn't like anything about me, and when I proposed she said, 'I like your nerve!'
Williams Purple Cow.
Bobby—"This sailor must have been a bit of an acrobat."
"Jammu—"Why, dear?"
Bobby—"Because the book says, 'Having lit his pipe, he sat down on his chest.'"
Mamma—"Why, dear?"
—Sacred Heart Review.
Row Q.—"Great show! She played the star part splendidly!"
Row Q.—"Don't you think she was well supported, too?"
R. A. (enthusiastically)—“Oh fine, so far as I could see”
Harvard Lampoon.
"My friends," fervently exclaimed one of the temperance spell-binders in recent campaign for local option in an up-state country, "if all the saloons were at the bottom of the sea, what would be the inevitable result?"
And from the rear came the answer, "Lots of people would get drowned."
—Michigan Gargoyle.
"What's that bump on your head?" "That's where a thought struck me."
—Cornell Widow.
"Because they knew the actor wasn't really dead."
Wisconsin Sphinx.
"Why did everybody cry in that last death scene?"
"That so? what'd she have to say?"
"It wasn't my wife!"
—Dartmouth Jack-'o-Lantern.
"Just met your wife."
Shorty—“A dance reminds me a great deal of a trip to New York.” Longy—“Why.”
"I threw a kiss to her the other day."
Shorty- "Getting on and off the trains."
—Yale Record.
"What did she say?"
What did she say?
"She said I wasn't much of a business man if I couldn't establish a delivery system."
Wisconsin Sphinx.
She—"George, dear, has an octopus really got eight arms?" George—"Yes, love."
She (wistfully)—"Wouldn't it be nice, George, if you were an octopus?"
—The Chaparral (Stanford).
The Purdue Exponent has issued a call for athletic reporters. Work on the Daily Kansan is must less strenuous.
No branch receives more careful attention than our hat tree. Four crops a year, all carefully selected and hand picked. This week the Derby is in full perfection.
Prices - $2 to $3.50
Plenty of children's and boy's hats and caps.
Get yours tomorrow.
After Saturday night dances do not forget the luncheonette at Soxman & Co., 1031 Mass.-Adv.
Pure ice cream, pure maple sugar, fresh nuts, is what you get in maple nut ice cream, at Wiedemann's.—Adv.
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Program for Wednesday and Thursday:
for drugs, prescriptions, eastman kodaks, developing and printing. Everything we sell is the best we can buy. We started on that plan before K. U. came into being. It pays us and you.
1. "Live Wire," American Pathe.
One of those good Pathe comedies
2. "Saving an Audience," Vitagraph.
This is the feature picture of the program, Mrs. Maurice impersonatin6 Susan B. Anthony.
3. "Beauty Parlor at Stone Gulch," Kalem.
A GOOD COMEDY worth seeing.
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