2. PAGE TWO THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1986 University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas Editorial Staff Author-In-Chief Alice Van Mempel Associate Editor John Shirley Associate Editor Robert Slightman Camus Editor Robert Shirley Sport Editor Ronald Kawahi Roland Kawahi Dentley Taylor Plain Tail Editor Lamara Lawnery Pliner Exchange Editor Business Staff Advertising Manager .. Wm. Elder, Riverson Asst. Advertising Mgt. .. Kerry C. Kunda Miss. Other Board Members Offer Board Members Eric Ekman Filkin Noline Miller Mary Strimple Gettrude Sunny Floyd Russell John Sparkle Telephones Business Office K. U. 66 News Room K. U. 25 hint or Journalism. Entered on second-class mail matter September 17, 1918, at the post office at Lafayette, Kansas, under the net of March 3, 1924. Published in the afternoon, five times a week and on Sunday morning by students in the department of Journalism of the University of Illinois at Chicago, on the First of the Department of Journalism. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1926 WALLS AND MEN "Stone walls do not a prison make," sang the poet. He might have added, "Neither do they make a university." The best buildings on the campus of the University of Kansas express the spirit of the men who have devoted themselves to the things for which this University stands. Were the Hill to be leveled overnight, chasses could be held in the open fields. We would still have a university. But should some catastrophe wipe out the lives of the ablest members of the faculty, and destroy the accumulated wisdom of other such lives embodied in the books in Watson hall, the empty walls as well constructed buildings would stand as a mockery to those who pin their faith on the tangible. A great teacher gains immortality here on earth. His influence goes on and on. Whether, like the Greek philosopher, he retains his identity, or whether, as with the early Greek poets, his lore finally becomes only a myth, his addition to the total of human knowledge is still the man himself, speaking and guiding, long after the earthy body has returned to its mother earth, long after the walls within which he taught have crumbled. The old hand falters. The young hand, once guided by its predecessor, takes up the pen. But the old is in the new. While the years go irresistibly on, the new becomes the old and is in turn reborn in the succeeding generation. Censelessly, though, change has its way, the institution grows. Form and substance alter, but the spirit remains the same. The spirit is the University. "The Best Place to Eat and Drink After All," reads the sign on a new local soda empirium. We presume that the painter intended to make it read "· . -After All Boarding Club Meals." SPIRES As a tall spire completes an edifice, skill in some special field completes a student's intellectual structure. The spire in either case is nothing without the foundation. The aim of educators is to give each student a broad foundation of general knowledge upon which to erect the spire of specialized effort; but all their plans, all the group systems of electives, all the required studies count for nothing without the co-operation of the student. The most perfect system fails when the human element is not in sympathy with it. Students who go to extremes in their college life thwart this wise provision of the faculty. One grinds. Another, the fantastic, makes a brilliant record in his chosen field but falls miserably out of it. Still another devotes all his energy to social life, while his antithesis ignores it entirely. All are wrong. Each misses a portion of life which should be his. Each attempts to build the spire without he foundation, and each fails. THE "K" BOOK One of the most treasured possessions of the University student, and one that is always kept and referred to in after years is the "K" hook. This year it is doubly attractive in its new crimson and blue leather binding. Many will carefully keep this little OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Copy received at the Chancellor's office until 12:30 a.m. ALL-UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION- The first all-university convoction will be held in Robinson gymnasium at 10 ackcl Friday morning, Sept. 17. All members of the faculty are requested to meet in the central corridors of the Administration building at 9:50 Friday morning, and proceed together to the gymnasium. Vol. VIII Wednesday, September 15, 1996 No. 4 BOOK EXCHANGE: The book exchange will be open Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Sept. 15, 16, and 17. Hours = 8:30 to 11:30 and 2:00 to 4:30. E. H. Lindley. book for the value that it will possess when they are far away from the Hill; others, persistem enough to keep the diary day by day, will find that there will be no more fitting reminder of college days than is this book. Outside of its value as a momento of life at the University there is the fact that the "K" book contains probably the most concise and comprehensive outline of the various organizations on the Hill, social, professional, religious and athletic, has an explanation of the Men's Student Council and the W. S. G. A, which upperclassmen would find it profitable to read; and the most valuable of all, a memorandum of the important events of the year and space to keep that most interesting of all things—a dairy of one's life at college. Truly, the committee in charge of the 1926 book is to be congratulated for producing this souvenir of life on Mt. Oread. "That's timely advice," commented the dash man as the track couch told him how to knock a second of a record. "just striking out for myself," declared the pinch hitter from the bushes as the hull whizzed over the pan for the third time. Whittier at Close Range, by Frances Campbell Sparhawk; Riverdale Press, $2.00. Book Notes Olive Figgs, Manager. Intimate bits of the life of the poet, of his tender sister, Elizabeth, centering around the garden room. That is what the daughter of the beloved poet's physician gives us in her new book. There is no continuity of incident; what the writer does is to collect loose, fragmentary expressions, not a complete portrait. She mansages however, to convey in her charming words what she sees in the moophe. Because her father was a close friend of Whittier and she herself associated with the poet in her youth, Mrs. Spainkaw is able to reveal the spirit and the sources of his inspiration and to help us to understand him. Her attitude is decidedly that of n whole-hearted admirer rather than a critic. There is a little attempt to evaluate the different works of the SCHULZ THE TAILOR 917 Mass. St Suiting You—That's My Business THE KANSAN GIVES YOU— Complete Campus News Sport News Official Chancellor's Bulk letin United Press Service Full Science Service State and National News Official Student Paper Delivered to Your Door Six Days a Week A Necessity for the up-to-the-minute Student. $4.00 for the year University Book Store 803 Massachusetts We do not carry the University texts because of the uncertain demand down town. But students will find it to their advantage to buy their supplies at this store. HARL H. BRONSON, PROP. For Sale on Very Attractive Terms Fine Upright Pianos Famous Chickering & Sons Grands. The fine Conover Grands. The wonderful Gulbransen Grands. The Baby Starr Grands. Fine pianos to rent. Fine phonographs to rent. Band instruments, stringed instruments Latest records and sheet music. Fine Grand Pianos Peirce Piano Company 811 Mass. St. poet in a comparative work, Serra of the more important works of Whittier are quoted. "Of all his poems, the most beautiful was his Life," she wrote. "And the most beautiful is his admirers, the book will be a useful one; for the rest of us, it is alive and personal and intimate enough to be worth while. And, when we finish the first page, if we do, we feel as if we were in the midst of a garden and at atmosphere of that garden room. Creme Papers, Serpentine, Nut Cups, Party Decorations, Phee Cards, Programs, Engraving, Printing, Stationery, Publisher Stamps. —Grace A. Young A. G. ALRICH Tel. 288 736 Mass. Where students go For— Fountain Pens Stationery (Crested and Plain) Laundry Boxes Brief Cases Memory Books Pennants Pillow Tops Textbooks and School Supplies Store No. 1 14th & Ohio Store No. 2 1237 Oread LIGHT HEAT POWER Everything Electrical THE Kansas Electric Power Co. Phone 880 7th & Mass. On your way home from the show or shopping stop in at Rankin's Drug Store We have We have Magazines Papers Pens A great fountain service Corner 11th and Mass. BETTER HURRY Seats are now selling rapidly for the 24th University Concert Course The World's Greatest Musical Talent Offered to Lawrence People At a Price-Amazingly Small EFREM ZIMBALIST—Violinist An Artist Known Wherever Music Is Heard Season ticket holders will hear—— ALFRED CORTOT—Pianist One of the Master Pianists of the World KANSAS CITY LITTLE SYMPHONY 25 Sterling Musicians MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Again Returning in TWO Superb Concerts With Distinguished Solists. MARIA KURENKO— Coloratura Soprano of the Metropolitan Opera—A Russian "Patti" RICHARD CROOKS—Tenor A Sensational Success This Past Season— A Voice of Rarest Beauty. Season ticket holders have priority reservation of seats for the following Extra Attractions— MANHATTAN OPERA CO. With Celebrated Cast and Symphony Orchestra. With PAVLEY-OUKRAINSKY BALLET In Probably Greatest Musical Event of the Season. Also PERCY GRAINGER—Master Pianist and Composer—Re-engaged After Triumph of Last Season. Season Tickets - $5 and $6 According to Location Send Check and Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope to University Concert Course - School of Fine Arts Seats reserved by mail only in order of receipt DO NOT DELAY IN SENDING IN YOUR ORDER IF CHOICE SEATS ARE DESIRED