UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WOULDS'T BE BRAVE? THEN GET EDUCATED
Chicago Dean Asserts Culture Begets Heroism—Study the Poets
If you would be valiant, study the poets.
Dean Walter T. Sumner the other day gave his advice in an address before the Young Men's Associated Jewish Charities at the Standard Club.
"The bravest men are those who are the best educated," said Dean Summer. "Culture begets a restraint, and those who win praise from the world for acts of heroism are those who are familiar with the works of our notable authors.
"This is aptly shown by the recent ocean disaster. Those who gave up their lives the more willingly, those who stood back that the helpless might take their places on lifeboats and go to safe-houses. These names are known to everybody through their great enterprises, which were made possible only by education.
"They had studied and learned.. When they were put to the test they were not found wanting. If we educate the poor, they will learn to care for others as well as for themselves. Let us have a nerness of poetry. Let us teach the poor and incarcerate and help them to better their own conditions.
"We are living under sordid conditions today, and the only way they can be mitigated is by more learning. One of the greatest things for the citizen to learn is efficiency.
"We should have a representative government, but we have not got it now because many of the men in political offices are not efficient.
"A man goes forth and does politically work, watching the polls or some such class of endearance. He is rewarded by a petty office. He is perhaps not a high class man and not officent. Therefore the government suffers."
"The highest class of citizen is the efficient citizen. My ideal of the effecien cient citizen is one who will fight against dishonest administration of public affairs and who will constantly and consistently battle against the wrongs which women and children have to suffer. And we can have this class of citizen only through education and culture."
ANIMALS ARE NEITHER MORAL NOR IMMORAL
No Ethical System In The Ways Of Wild Nature Says John Burroughs
I fear we cannot find much support for our ethical system in the ways of wild nature, says John Burroughs, in the Century Magazine. I know my friend, Thompson Seton, claims to find what we may call the biological value of the ten commandments in the lives of the wild animals; but I cannot make his reasoning hold water, at least not much of it. Of course the ten commandments are not arbitrary laws. They are largely founded upon the needs of the social organism; but whether they have the same foundation in the needs of animal life apart from man, apart from the world of moral obligation, is another question.
The animals are neither moral nor immoral; they are unmoral; their needs are all physical*. It is true that the command against murder is pretty well kept by the higher animals. They rarely kill their own kind; hawks do not prey upon hawks, nor foxes prey upon foxes, nor weasels upon weasels; but lower down this does not hold. Trout eat trout, and pickerel eat pickerel, and among the insects young spiders eat one another, and the female spider eats her another, and the male spider there is but little if any neighbour love among even the higher animals. They treat one another as rivals, or associate for mutual protection. One cow will lick and comb another in the most affectuate manner and the next moment savagely gore her.
Hate and cruelty for the most part rule in the animal world. A few of the higher animals are monogamous, but by far the greater number of species are polygamous or promiscuous. There is no mating or pairing in these animals, but among the rodents that I know of, or among the bear family, or the cat family, or among the seals. When we come to the birds we find mating
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--and occasional pairing for life, as with the ostrich and perhaps the eagle.
As for the rights of property among the animals, I do not see how we can know just how far those rights are respected among individuals of the same species. We know that bees will rob bees, and that ants will rob ants; but whether or not one chimpmunk or one flying squirrel or one wood-mouse will plunder the stores of another I do not know. Probably not as the owner of such stores is usually a hand to protect them.
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UNIVERSITY HAD TWENTY
AT A WORLD CONGRESS
Twenty University of Kansas men were in attendance last week at the sessions of the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry in New York City.
Talked About Applied Chemistry at Big Meeting in New York Last Week.
The list includes Prof. E. H. S.
Bailey, head of the department of
chemistry, Robert K. Duncan, F. W.
Bushong, Michael R. Tucker, F. W.
C. A. Nash, R. W. Tillotson;
and C. H. Humphrey of Lawrence;
E. S. Elosson, New York; F. W. Far-
agher, Boston; E. C. Franklin, Washington, D. C.; H. S. Bailley, Washington, D. C.; Edward Bartow, Urbana, Ill.; R. W. Curtis, New York; B. E. Nicolet, New Haven, Conn.; D. F. McFarlane, Urbania; and Will Hobbs, Paul R. Parmalee, Harry Kohman and W. E. Vawter of Pittsburg, Pa.
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Moving the campus 200 miles to Pentwater, Mich., during the winter is the ambitious plan of Burton P. Hall of last year* Panhellenic league.
Just how he wants to do it is explained in the following appeal from Sears received on the campus this morning;
B. P. SEARS, '12, WANTS TO
B. P. SEARS, '12, WANTS TO
SHIFT MT. OREAD 200 MILES
"I thought last June I could get along without the Daily Kansan but now I feel the call and want to bring the campus up here to Pentwater, so I must have the paper to tide me over an approaching period of homesickness. I want all the
C. E. Clewell, illuminating engineer with the Westinghouse Electric and manufacturing company, East Pittsburg, has accepted the position of assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale.
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