UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas
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RICHARD GARDNER...Editor-In-Chief
WATNE WINGATT...Managing Editor
WARD MANIA...Campus Editor
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EDWARD HAWKENY...Ast. Sporting Editor
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Enter as second-class mail matter Sep-
ter 1879. Received by M.T. Russell,
Ransas, under the order of March 3, 1879.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1012
Every man stamps his value on himself.- Schiller.
THE SPOTS OF THE LEOPARD
It's the same old freshman—this thousand headed class that's now with us for the first time. He comes with his confident outlook upon life, with his "turned-up pantaloons, with his merry whistled tunes."
It's the same old freshman. True, this year he's piping, "In the Shadows" in place of last season's "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Five years ago he trilled something not unlike "In My Merry Oldsmobile;" a decade past, he stamped his foot in waltz measure to the "Shade of the Old Apple Tree;" and fifteen years back, he blew, "Just One Girl." Beyond that, the memory of man runneth not, but we are confident that with each succeeding year, he shrimped the very latest air of that day as he sauntered to his classes.
It's the same old freshman. To be sure, only in the days of Whittier could one designate his nether garment as "pantaloons" or the briefer "pants." They're "trousers" now-a-days, and upon his clothing, two buttens flourish where but one blossomed before. But even as J. Hawker, '83, could detect a freshman a block away in his time so can J. Hawker, Jr.'13, pick him out in spite of his changed garb.
Even as the leopard loses not its spots, so does the freshman drop none of his points. For he's the same old freshman. And we like him in the same old way.
Yale has reached the boiling point in age, being just now at the beginning of her 212th year. Whether or not she is 212 in the shade will be known after the Harvard game.
It is understood that while the researches of the alumni office disclosed that only one in three of the University women graduates are married it was made perfectly plain to the census takers that all had been asked.
T. R. TO K. U.
"Don't foul, don't flinch, and hit the line hard!"
That was the terse advice which Colonel Rosevelt, himself a unversity man, gave to a thousand K. U.emen Saturday.* It was given in football parlance but we have an insistent idea that the former president of the United States didn't have football entirely in mind.
Classroom? Yes, why not?
There's some fouling there semi-occasionally, and as in football it's the man who fouls and not the professor who is eternally hurt. And as for finching there's not a little of that to be found in the classroom. In another month when the football season ripens into a twenty-four hour hysteria a good many of us will flinch before the high-minded resolves to keep up our University work.
And as for hitting the line hard—but what's the use? Kansas men and
women are noted for hard-hitting, whether in classroom, laboratory, or athletic field. It only remains for the Daily Kansan to set down the fact for the 1,000 and more nephyes who will soon be lining up shoulder to shoulder with the old boys, never fouling, never flinching, and always hitting the line hard.
THE GRAFTER.
The grafter meets you as you step from your train at the Lawrence station. He speaks kinetly to you. His face is wreathed in smiles as he eagerly extends his hand and takes yours in a hearty grip, peculiar to his kind. His voice has a pleasing intonation as he asks you if you spent a good summer. In an off-hand, matter-of-fact way he hands you a card. After a few seconds of earnest conversation he suddenly remembers his gift.
He calls your attention to it. He strives to exact a promise from you. You begin to speak about anything under the sun.
"Well," you say, and before you can proceed further your name is down in the little account book that all graffiti must always carry.
The grafter is always on the job. He meets all trains. Others may fail you but not the grafter.
The lowly freshman, unknown and unheralded, is made to feel at home. He realizes that here is a person who has his welfare at heart. His meeting with the grafter is his first touch of University life. Herein lies the grafter's greatest worth.
Long then may he flourish, the freshman's first friend and adviser.
Dean Green seems willing to accept the smaller enrollment in the junior law class, due to the raising of requirements as to include one year of College work, without offering a demurrier or even asking a writ of certerior.
Other universities lose 'em too. Harvard has just accepted the resignation of Prof. George Santayana, known the world over as a writer on philosophic subjects. And the strangest thing about it is that what took him away was a desire to return to Spain.
HOW DO THEY DEFEND IT?
Efficiency is the slogan of the age
is it?
Then how do the University au-
thorities defend the change in the time of blowing the warning whistle in the morning which now gives the student body thirty minutes instead of fifteen in which to wake up and stretch itself and get its clothes on reasonably straight and wash its shining morning face and eat its breakfast and climb the hill to class. Why should anybody use thirty minutes for a few little motions like these?
The thing the student can do most efficiently from seven-thirty to fifteen minutes of eight in the morning is to sleep. The half-past whistle takes fifteen minutes from the most industrious part of his day. That means an aggregate for the entire student body each morning of some 30,000 minutes or 21 days.
It will be no surprise to find within a week's time that students are forming the habit of sitting at the breakfast table to eat instead of performing that task as a filler during the idle moments while climbing the hill.
After having heard a red-roaring "Rock Chalk" from a thousand admiring students who helped to welcome him to Lawrence Saturday, how will Colonel Roosevelt be able to hear any charm in a mere "Whopee!"
Sheer waste!
Auditor Davis may understand it, but there are several present and former students of the University who just can't make it seem real that the University rejoices in the decrease during the past two years in the number of failures.
In spite of their well merited reputation for bringing in the biggest and the largest number of fish stories at the end of their summer vacations, there are members of the University faculty who have something to learn from Scott Thompson of Vinita, Oklahoma, who is reputed to be the luckiest and most truthful fisherman in those parts.
FACULTY FISH
The dispatches tell his story with convincing circumstantial detail;
This week Scott came in from the Spavinaw with an eil to which was attached 17 rattlers and a button, all of which may now be seen on exhibition in the front window of a local dral store.
Thompson tells a queer story about catching this freak eel. He had baited his hook with rooster gizzard and was smoking his pipe, half asleep, when he heard a sound like water gurgling down a drain pipe. He shifted his pipe. Then his cork bobbed under. He was fearful he had barbed a snake, when he saw the end slashing the water. The eel hitched itself around a dead limb and began making a noise with its rattles. When he tried to take the eel off the hook the rattling noise was deafening. He put the eel in a sack and brought it to Vinita.
But Thompson relates another experience more remarkable than the caching of the eel. This happened on Four Mile Mile. Fish were biting briskly, Suddenly, there was the greatest commotion among the perch and crappie. There was a jerk on Scotts line and when he pulled a peculiar gray catfish which struck the bank at his feet. Then Thompson's hair stood up. The catfish began barking like a small dog.
Thompson did not have the heart to kill the fish, so he took it home and said today that he had it in captivity in a tub of water by his wind-
This fish has betrayed unusual intelligence. It recognizes Thompson when he appears to do the barn lion chores and barks at his approach.
LISTEN FRESHMEN
Old Grads of a half-dozen colleges exert themselves in the interests of the American freshman through a symposium of more or less conventional advice in the Sunday Magazine. Everybody knows that it is advice that saves the freshman, and that the quality does not so much matter as the quantity.
The Harvard man tells his young friend—among many other things—that he should not begin with the idea that Harvard has been waiting for him. Undergraduate spirit and opinion as a whole are a great leveler, and generally refuse to classify a man until he begins to prove his own merit. Harvard is in his opportunity, not his achievement. In starting his college career, the freshman plants his acorn, so to speak, along with all his fellows, and four years later must account for it with an oak tree or a worm.
Provided a man is human and does not permit the race of intellectual honors to make a freak or a hermit of him, the better the work he can do in the classroom, the greater the respect in which he will be held by his own class and those above him. The freshman will do well not to allow himself to worry over the future. If he is properly busy, he will not have time to; but in any case he should remember that the first year is a mere apprenticeship to real participation in the life of the university.
The Yale man:
A man in a Princeton examination does not feel constrained to keep absolute silence, except that he must not disturb his neighbors. Whispered conversation invokes no suspicion. Occasionally a few of the men leave the examination room for a chat or a smoke, and there is no thought of giving or receiving assistance. This tradition is practical because the students have entire control of the examination and the workings of the honor system. Every undergraduate considers himself part of the system, and has every right to enforce it. No monastery tendency would dare ask assistance. Infractions of this old custom have been few, and guilty ones have always been summarily expelled and ordered by the committee, which is composed of undergraduates, to leave town within twenty-four hours. This tradition is so firmly entrenched, and the implicit confidence in one's honesty is so strong, that cheating is foreign to Princeton.
The Princeton man gives Freshie a hint about exams:
The Pennsylvania man has the right idea about the college paper:
Every freshman should subscribe to the daily "Pennsylvanian." He should join the Houston Club to get the privileges of Houston Hall, the great students' clubhouse right in the center of the campus.
If the freshman has a voice, or even very amateurish ability on any musical instrument, let him present himself without fail at the trials of the musical clubs held at the beginning of his freshman year. The dramatic clubs also afford their opportunities for men with inclinations along that line. His efforts will always be met with appreciation. But if a man is without any particular interest in any of the things, let him enter the competition for "The Cornell Daily Sun" board. Nothing in the university will so quickly place him in touch with everything that is going on. It is the center of the student activities of every nature.
The Cornellian prescribes:
After reminding the freshman to keep in the background, the Chicago man points to dramatics;
Anyone who knows the University of Chicago knows its dramatics. There are few colleges in which the art of the stage receives more attention and gives better results. The Dramatic Club produces good plays and produces them well. The Blackfriars is the comic opera of the Blackfriars write the music, book, and lyrics of their operas, and stage them. The freshman, if he be modest and careful, may have an opportunity to shine in later years in either of these organizations.
The Michigan grad has a good word to say for sport:
Just one more suggestion. The American Rhodes schools at Oxford have specially admired the keen interest of all Englishmen in sport. No matter if a man can never by any chance make a Varsity team, he should nevertheless go out and play on minor teams. We must develop in this country intercollegiate athletics. Too much attention is now paid to the picked men. The mediocre and average athlete must be given his chance. At Oxford and Cambridge it is literally true that seventy-five per cent. of the students are engaged every afternoon during university terms in some branch of sport. There are no bleacherites.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Department of Botany. Fall Term.
New Course.
A course of lectures on microbiology and public health. One hour, Tuesdays at 9:00 in the lecture room Junior Hall and two hours half. Junior and Senior credit
The lectures will be illustrated with lantern slides and will deal with the relation of micro-organisms to food and water supply; origin and control of epidemics; immunity; parasitology and problems connected with health from the standpoint of bacteriology. Prof F. H. Billings.
Woman's Student Government Association will hold its first mass meeting Friday, Sept. 27, immediately after chapel.
Students enrolling should bring note books to the first lecture.
Announcement—Modern Norwegian, as well as Modern Swedish, is for both Graduates, and Undergraduates: Either one course or the other or both will be given this year according to demand. The aim of both courses is to acquire a practical knowledge of the language, as well as to teach both Scandinavian literature. In Norwegian Ibsen and Bjorson and the Danish Authors Holberg and Ochlenchlager, in Swedish Tegner and the
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