UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FEBRUARY 20,1919.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1919
Nothing but harmony, honesty, in dustry, and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.—George Washington.
It was a sane meeting.
A SANE MEETING
Students did not bombast the University Senate in the mass meeting Wednesday. They did not forget their chief end to gain was a better scheme of governing student affairs. The meeting was not one of indignation only, but one that showed the co-operative spirit of the student body.
Co-operation with the Senate to bring about some satisfactory plan of joint government was initiated by voting to have a student committee appointed to confer with the Senate in this regard.
Not every wrong was attributed to the Senate, but the grievances against that organization were set forth, and means to overcome them were discussed. The general opinion was that unfair methods of directing student activities could be bettered by a joint committee from the 'Senate and the students, each having the same number of members on the committee.
What was started with conservative, thoughtful action must be kept up in the same manner. No doubt several different plans of government will be suggested, and from these must be formulated one that best represents the interests they are made for and that specifies the most fair and equitable direction of student affairs.
Don't be utterly discouraged because you are told to take a lesson over and over again. Nature has been staging warm and wintry days for years and yet she doesn't complain.
CONVOCATIONS WANTED
The popular insistence for reguli convocations was demonstrated by the resolution passed by the students in the mass meeting Wednesday. With no objection whatever, the meeting declared itself in favor of convocations and adopted a resolution recommending their re-establishment. The plan of setting aside a definite hour for convocations and not having class work that hour was endorsed.
Student government is no more an impossibility now than it was four years ago. What is needed now since the resolution has been passed is to put the saddle and bridle on the horse and ride it to market without stopping on the way to use a whip.
Campus Opinion
BOLSHEVIK1 METHODS WRONG
Editor Danny Kansas:
Revolutions have come and gone. The Great War has produced a host of them throughout the world. And now, lo and behold, new revolution has sprung in Russia? No, In Germany. No. This time it is in the University of Kansas. Yes, the lawyers have rebelled and have declared war on the Senate. Their great liberty-loving hearts can no longer tolerate the yoke of tyranny. Now they are on the warpath, and ready to lay down their canes, if need be, on the altar of liberty.
I am a law student. I have, at times, felt keen resentment toward the University Senate for some of the seemingly unnecessary encroachments on Student Body rights. I would welcome a move on its part to give us what I believe is inherently ours. I want to say, however, that the demonstrations of a majority of the law students this morning (Wednesday), was, to say the least, kiddish. I believe we are a bunch of spoiled school kids, and acted the part splendidly this morning.
The students want self-government. They should have it. How can my fellow lawyers hope to get it? By foolish and nonsensical methods? By cheering for the Bolshevik? Why, of the countless standards they could have adopted, did they choose this outlawed standard? On the face of it I can see nothing but a thoughtless, unconsidered scheme for a little fun on the part of a few; and the rest—like a flock of sheep, babblingly followed.
The only outcome, if not otherwise disastrous, will be a great joke on the Laws. O, boy, how the squeaking collegians will squawk at our failure. But that is not the point. Why should the School of Law be instrumental in spoiling a good chance for the students of K. U. to get their rights? Why should the School of Law be the cause for the Senate to say that a group of asses can't govern themselves?
Every law student would be proud he is one if his school, by its activity and pep, got self-government. I, as one of them, can tell them they will never get what they are clamoring for, by today's demonstrations, or by similar hurrrah-for-the-bolshevik-to-tell-with-the-Senate activities. This morning's outburst of zealous patriotism was nothing more than a cheap vaudeville stunt, unworthy of university students, and which the cheapest of vaudeville houses would turn down as too poor a show.
A. J. GRANOFF.
No, my follow law students, you will never get us any rights by cheerleading.
Other Opinions
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
"The American University is a coffee mill; young men and women are dumped into it, some one spins the handle and out they will come mixed together, individuality gone; all just the same; little grains the same size, the same color, the same smell."
Today those who prefer charges against college training have to a great extent abandoned the arguments which so long provided the favorite ground for objection. This remark sounds a note of extortion which has been used by criminals in the value of a higher education and find in this indictment a popular expression of their disapproval.
This quotation from a modern author of some reputation represents a modified, if not an entirely new attitude, toward the American College.
Granted that the American university is a mill—into that mill is dumped in heterogeneous confusion thousands of young men (and women), differing as to race, creeds, home influences, social position, habits of life, habits of thought, and inherited advantages. They undergo a milling process which knocks off the rough corners of provincialism and grinds to small bits many long-cherished rights and privileges. They no longer find themselves the centers of little solar systems but discover that they in company with multitudes of others revolve around great interests upon which the attention of all is focused.
"Individuality gone?" Well, per hapus, but what a tremendous social gain! "Little grains the same size the same color, the same smell!" But what a chaos of thought and ac son would result from a differentia
tion based upon individual fancy and caprice. Put students together for four years under the same influence of college traditions and it would be strange indeed if a certain uniformity of attitude and habit of thought did not develop. That is as true of the community or the nation as it is of the college and as a mere observation is valueless.
One thing alone concerns us: At the attitude which the college group develops magnanimous or petty? It is habits of thought wholesome and healthy or is it malicious and vengeful? Is its conduct fair and above board or is it deceitful? If the ideal are high nothing could be better than the collegiate body be permeated with so desirable a leaven. If the idea are objectionable, then to lament the fact that they are emulated. Father strive for their health and improvement and the very tendency which it is claimie makes for monotonous sameness will lift the American collegian to a higher plane of living and thinking.—The Colgate Maroon.
LIGHT ON PLANTS
The attention of botanists has lately been recalled to experiments made at Juvisy, near Paris, by M. Flammarion on the effects of exposing the seedlings of sensitive plants to lights of different colors. Having placed four pairs of mimosa seedlings in four separate pots in a hothouse, he covered one pair with a bell of blue glass, another with a bell of green glass, a third with a bell of red glass, while the fourth was exposed to ordinary white light. At the end of two months the plants subjected to blue light were only one inch high, having hardly grown at all. Those exposed to white light were four inches high, those that had grown in green light were five inches high, while those whose light had been red were no less than sixteen inches high. Experiments with other kinds of plants gave various results, but in every instance blue light impeded growth and development.—New York Sun.
Mental Lapses
THE REASON WHY
"Pa, why do they say in the market reports that wheat is nervous?" "I guess, Son, it is because it expects to be thrashed." American.
THE TRUTH
As a steamer was leaving the harbor of Athens a well-dressed young passenger approached the captain, and pointing to the distant hills, inquired: "What is that white stuff on the hills, captain?"
"That is snow," replied the captain. "Well," remarked the lady, "I thought so myself, but a gentleman had told me it was Greece."—American.
“in other words,” butted in the smart student, “the more one sits, the less one can stand.”
"Sedentary work," said the college lecturer, "tends to lesssen the endurance."
A PLAIN TRUTH
"Exactly," retorted the lecturer, "and if one lies a great deal, one's standing is lost completely."—American.
American Soldier: So you are in the military corps? I thought you enjoyed the job.
Gentleman of Color: Ah dam change.
Gentleman of Color: Wal, suh, suh one thing, an airplane, after it throws yo' out, very seldom walks over an bites you. —London Opinion.
it happened at a Red Cross tea held at a country club. The fuzzy old penchant of the white vest tapped the good looking young man on the
American Soldier: What was the reason?
"My boy," he said, "why are you not in the army?"
RUBBING IT IN
The boy smiled. "To be frank with you sir," he said, "I don't like it. There's all this business of sleeping in the mud, and uncooked food, and rain all the time—blamed unfortable, you know."
Yes, sound as a drum. Just twenty-two, no dependents." The young man was still cheerful. The inevitable group gathered about them.
"Uncomfortable." The white vest- front heaved indignantly. "Are you not of age, in good health and physically fit?"
"Disgusting! Have you no patriotism—no love of country? What is your reason for not being in the Army? Confess, coward!"
"I can't be" said the cheerful youth. "I'm in the Navy. Eighteen hours' leave and special permission to wear 'cits'"—American.
The Thought that is ever master of iron and steam and steel.
That rises above disaster
THE THINKER
The drudge may fret and tinker or labor with dusty blows
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought,
Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find Thought.
By which the steel is wrought,
Book of the workshop's clamor
And tramples it under heel.
But back of him stands the Thinker,
The clear eyed man who Knows;
For into each plow or saber.
Each piece and part and whole. Must on the Brains of Labor
For into each plow or saber,
Each piece and part and whole,
Which gives the work a soul! Back of the motors humming,
Back of the hammers drumming,
Back of the cranes that swing.
There is the eye which scans them
Back of the motors humming,
Back of the belts that sing,
Watching through stores and strain There is the Mind which plans them
Back of the letter since singing,
Back of the hammers drumming,
There is the Mind which plans them—
Recipe of the known, the Brain!
Back of the cranes that swing. There is the eye which scans them.
Back of the brawn, the Brain! Might of the roaring boiler.
Force of the engine's thrust,
Strength of the sweating toiler;
Greatly in thee we trust.
ut back of them stand the ScheME-
ter, the driver who drives things.
trough.
Back of the job—The Dreamer
back of the job — The Dreminer
Who's making the dreams come
true!
BUTTON BALEY in the Kansas Teacher
BERTON BRALEY in the Kansas Teacher THE HUN IDEA IN A CAKE
Fancy a cake fifty-four feet high, twenty-four feet broad and three feet thick, will you? Thirty-six bushels of flour, one ton of butter, 5,000 eggs and 200 gallons of milk were required to make it. And it took a whole ton of yeast to "raise" it.
That's the dessert Frederick William I of Prussia gave to his 30,000 soldiers 180 years ago. Imagine finishing a more than ordinary heavy meal and looking up to see an immense vehicle drawn by eight horses bringing in a dessert like that. That's rather barbaric hospitality, isn't it?—Philadelphia North American.
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