UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University o
RICHARD GARDNER    Managing Editor
WARD MANAGER    New editor
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STANLEY PINKERSON  WARD MARIS
JOHN MAYBEN  JOHN WASHINGTON
JONATHAN HOUSTON
Faterned as second-class mail master September 20, 1870. Entered in Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1870. Published in the afternoon five times a week in Kansas, from the press of the department of postmaster.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1912
Naw, I ain't homesick.
Well, well, well! When did you get in?
But I do kinder miss that south pasture.
Of course the latest hallucinations in haberdashery are again in our midst
Speaking of rings, the freshmen will find it wiser to keep their caps upon their heads.
HERE'S HOW!
And it is about the time for some bright young man to invent that gay pun about the fraternities doing a "rushing" business.
Every good college editor travels back to Shakespeare in these opening issue days to mention a certain schoolboy who set forth to the institution of learning much in the manner of the snail. Thus, having shown his, the editor's, erudition, does he proceed to draw his initial sermon from this text.
We are confident that the good bard of Avon had the University of Kansas in his mind's eye when he sharpened his quill and scratched out his well-worn passage. For even the most sanguine of poets could hardly expect to see the shining-faced seeker of knowledge speed up the sleek red bricks of Mount Oread in 10 flat. Clearly the figure of speech involving the slow worm of the roadside suggested itself quite naturally to the Elizabethan.
Such a simile of course stopped abruptly this morning when the 2000 of us reached the summit, wheezed for a minute or two, and then leaped off on the too-short sprint that these college years always prove. And on this lap, whether it be first, second, third or fourth, the Daily Kansan bogs leave to observe with Tiny Tim, God bless us, Every One.
UP FROM BARBARISM
Baiting freshmen still appears to be a popular sport in some of the smaller universities and colleges. No later than last week a first year student was killed at a Southern institution as a result of a hazing prank.
Kansas at least has risen above the old semi-barbie days when the newcomer was welcomed to the campus with an axe. A saner era has succeeded the slap-stick comedy age and the younger student is now received with a kindly courtesy.
And things are still veering around to the better; as illustrated by the recent request of Registrar George O. Foster to the young people of the churches that they look after the freshmen and keep in touch with them during the first long week away from home.
Yet this work really offers a proper missionary field to the upper-classman. Theirs should be the part of mine host with a hospitable greeting or, in college parlance, a "glad hand" for the freshmen.
Away with the sinister warning, "Leave all hope behind, ye who enter here."
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S MAP
"What one man of the world writes to another," said Lord Chesterfield to his son in one of his letters to his boy in college. "Surely it is of great use to a young man before he starts out for a country full of mazes, windings and turnings, to have at least a good map of it by some experienced traveller."
And so the "ideal statesman of his time, and the most polished gentleman" sets forth in regular letters to his son, whom he passionately looed, sound advice concerning his life at the German and French universities. He dealt with the faults and purposes of undergraduate life, and although he wrote nearly 200 years ago, there is such a present day ring about his observations that the Daily Kansan will reprint from time to time some of these letters.
We hope that they will prove as entertaining and suggestive to our readers as they have to us.
THE BURNING QUESTION.
O we are not real interested
In your age or favorite food;
Nor do we care to know about
Your previous servitude.
Got tell all that to the registrar—
But—J. Hawker now please note,
Write down the answer for us:
"How are you going to vote?"
A "WHITE COURSE."
The college yell characteristic of American institutions of higher learning has, with some degree of plausibility, been explained as a custom adopted from the savages who, before us, in imbited this country. With perhaps an equal plausibility a common undergraduate conception may be correlated to an idea similar in its origin. Westermark, in his "Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas," (volume I, page 380), quotes from Adair's "History of the American Indians" to the following effect:
"In almost every Indian nation there are several peaceable towns, which are called "old beloved," "ancient," "holy," or "white" towns; they seem to have been formerly "towns or refuge," for it is not in the memory of their oldest people that ever human blood was shed in them; although they often force persons from thence, and put them to death elsewhere.
It was a source of some perplexity to me during my university days why a given professor or his course should be thought "white";"If there is any probability in the above conjecture might it not be said that a "white course" is really a modern version of the "town of refuge," and a "white professor" one who in the memory of the oldest under graduate has never been known to shed human blood?
The president of the university had dark circles under his eyes. His cheek was pallid; his lips were trembling; he wore a haunted expression. Every now and then he turned and glanced apprehensively behind him. "You look ill," said his wife. "What is wrong, dear?"
"Nothing much," he replied. "But—I I had a fearful dream last night, and I felt this morning as if I—as if —" He hesitated and stammered. It was evident that his nervous system was shattered.
"I—I—dreamed the trustees required that—that I should—that I should pass the freshman examinations to admission!" sighed the president.
"What was the dream?" asked his wife.
—Youth's Companion.
TO GET $25,000 A YEAR
Bacon—"What would you do if I sent you a message by wireless?" Egbert—"If you sent it, I suppose I'd have to pay for it."
He must take infinite pains in small things as well as in large. He must demand of himself as well as of others nothing but the best.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
—Yale Record.
"How is it I never hear you say a
thing about your old college days?"
a very good baseball team.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
"The college I went to didn't have a very good baseball team."
He must win and retain the confidence and the friendship of his superiors, his associates, and his subordinates.
"Yep, Old Hampshire Bond." —Purple Cow.
"Zat so?"
The man who earns $10,000 to $25,000 a year must first of all know his business from the ground up.
"My dog took first prize at the cat show."
"Yep, Old Hampshire Bond."
—Wisconsin Sphinx.
"How was that?"
He must be absolutely efficient; that is, he must have ability, judgment, courage, enthusiasm, self-confidence, energy, initiative, foresight, experience, a great knowledge of human nature and personality enough to be a real leader of them.
Pitcher—"What did the coach say to you for missing that fly?"
He must always be ready to take responsibility, to decide quickly, and he must be right more than half the time.
Wharton '14—"How did you lose your hair?"
Catcher—"Oh, nothing much. Just a few cursory remarks."
-California Pelican.
Theodore N. Vail, head of the Bell-Telephone Company, and Western Union Telegraph Company, gives the following as qualifications for a $25,000 a year man:
Wharton "14—"What did you worry about?"
Wharton '12—"About losing my hair."
Wharton '12—"Worry."
Bing—"Has she many sultors?"
Sting—"Oh, yes, but none of them do
—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern.
Bing—"Do what? Sting—"Suitor."
First Stude—“Got the makings?”
Second Same—“Nope; left all my Bull in English exam yesterday.”
"Eavesdropping" exclaimed Adam as his wife fell out of the fig tree.
—Princeton Tiger.
-Stanford Chaparral.
"13—"Smith has been given the acid test."
Williams Purple Cow.
Hazel="That girl over there hawful loud."
'13—"You bet; that is the fifth lemon he has danced with this evening."
Maude-"Yes; the girl with the bang"
"Slender? She can bathe in a fountain pen."
LORD CHESTERFIELD'S
LETTERS TO HIS
SON IN COLLEG
The Cornell Widow.
"No, she went of her own accord." —Princeton Tiger.
"Well, saw my wife off for the West Indies this morning."
I always take it for granted that you are well when I do not hear to the contrary; besides as I have often told you, I am much more anxious about your doing well, than about your being well; and when you do not write I will suppose you are doing something more useful. Your health will continue while your temperance continues; and at your age you are well enough to move about body, provided she is left to herself, and that intemperance on one hand, or medicines on the other do not break in upon her.
But it is by no means so with the mind, which at your age particularly requires great and constant care, and some physical. Every quarter of an hour well or ill employed, will do it essential and lasting good or harm. It requires also a great deal of exercise to bring it to a state of health
"Is she slender?"
-Wisconsin Sphinx.
Dear Boy:
A PRAYER.
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns He hopes to appeal to, help us to perform the tasks with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business. Give us to feed weedy beds weedy and content and undishonoured and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
-R. L. S.
and vigour. Observe the difference between minds cultivated and minds cultivated, and you will, I *l* am sure, think that you cannot take too much pains or employ too much of your time, in the culture of your own. A drayman is probably born with as good organs as Milton, Locke, or Newton; but by culture they are much more above him than he is above his horse. Sometimes, indeed, extraordinary geniuses have broken out by the force of nature without the assistance of education; and they are too much like anybody to trust to; and even they would make a much greater figure if they had the advantage of education into the bargain.
People in general are what they are made, by education and company, from fifteen to five-and-twenty; consider well, therefore, the importance of your next eight or nine years; your whole depends upon them.
I will tell you sincerely my hopes and my fears concerning you. I think you will be a good scholar, and that you will acquire a considerable stock of knowledge of various kinds; but I fear that you neglect what are called little, though in truth they are very material, things; I mean a gentleness of manners, an engaging address, and an insinuating behaviour they are real and solid advantages, and none but those who do not know the world, treat them as if they were less important than you speak very quick, and not distinctly; this is a most unraceful and disagreeable trick, which you know I have told you to the correction of it. An agreeable and distinct manner of speaking adds greatly to the matter; and I have known many a very good speech unregarded upon account of the disagreeable manner in which it had been delivered, and many an indifferent one applauded, for the contrary reason. Adieu.
ANNOUNCEMENT
EXTRAORDINARY
In step with the recent movement to adopt the moving picture to supplement the work in school and church, the University Daily Kansan will show a highly educational film in Room 11 of the Journalism Building each morning between 11 and 11:15.
In order that none of our readers may miss the intellectual treat, we shall reproduce in our columns from day to day a brief scenario of the picture play to be exhibited the following day.
Moving Picture No.1.
HIS LITTLE PET
Scene 1
Jerobam Watts of Wilks City, Kansas, a brave country lad owns a pet pig. One day while frisking in the pen with his little playmate, he, Jeroboam, carves his initials upon the hide of the porker.
Years pass. Jeroboam enters the University. He is pledged by the football team.
Scene 2
Scene 3
The fatal day arrives. The ninth inning, in fact. All hope seems gone. A fumble. Jeroboam seizes the ball. Half on the other team is about to fall on him, when there upon the side of the pigskin he spies the faint mark—"J. B."
By a superhuman effort, he bowls the enemy aside and dashes down the field, saving the day for his alma mater and the corpse of his little pet.
Cheers.
FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL
Flower in the crumpled wall, that
sheltered by its shadow. I hold you here, root and all in my
Little flower--but if I could understand
Church
What you are, root and all, and all
all
I should know what God and man is.
—Tennyson
Trinity Lutheran
ONE BLOCK EAST OF COURT HOUSE E. E. STAUFFER,D. D., Pastor
Services at 11 A.M. and at 8 P.M.
A LIVE WIDE AWAKE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT 9:45 A.M.
A Cordial Invitation to all Students to Attend Our Services
TELL US
Your Piano Troubles
We sell pianos
We refinish pianos
We make pianos
We move pianos
We tune pianos
We rent pianos
Visit our talking machine department, we have the most complete line in the state. Anything and everything in sheet music and music books.
BOTH PHONES 375
Bell Bros. Music Co.
925-927 Mass. Street
GLAD
YOU
TO
Freshmen this is the place to buy your black gym suits
Shake! Greetings to new students as well. We are introducing to you today Spalding's exclusive sweaters and jerseys, gym shoes and gym suits.
Headquarters for exclusive smokers' articles, high-grade cigars and tobacco.
A rest room has recently been added to our store for your comfort and convenience. Write your letters and talk over things here, that's what it is for.
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT
CARROLL'S
Phone 608
709 Mass. St.
Students downtown meeting place for 30 years
Raymond's Drug Store for Toilet Articles, Perfumes, Kodaks and Supplies 831 Mass. St.
We Solicit Your First Order.
You will give us your second one.
Give us your first order and we give you such good satisfactory work that you will ever after send your laundry to
THE MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY FRANK W. BROWN.
Phones- Bell 156; Home 145 11 and 13 West Warren.
"Watch for our student representative."
Prop.
Particular Cleaning and Pressing FOR PARTICULAR PEOPLE
Lawrence Pantatorium
12 W. Warren
Both Phones 500