THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Published every Wednesday and Saturday night of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1906
The spirit of reverence for tradition is evidently on the wane. Who ever about any body getting sore about a charivari? Why, that used to be as much a part of the ceremony as the payment of the preacher. Verily, the world is going to the dogs!
It is said that a member of the ball team went to sleep on the bench the other day, and a special detachment had to be sent to his rescue to call him out of his stupor before the game could go on. He was probably seeing visions of bases full and a lucky drive for a home run.
From some unknown cause the baseball team has gone sadly to pieces in the last week. It is not because they cannot play ball, for they have done it this year, and have been playing a great game until the last three or four contests. The unity seems to have left the team. They need to get together and they can't help doing the rest.
Now would be a good time for someone in the university with a little authority back of him, to get the university into the honorary fraternity of debaters and orators. All the western state institutions are in the new movement, and a number have already been taken into the organization. It would be of immeasurable assistance to those interests in the university if our representatives were made members of such an honorary organization, with membership in the best schools of the country.
Tennis enthusiasts are having an inning this week, and the results and are very gratifying to the lovers of the game. The number of candidates to the tournament team was quite large, and the interest in the trials has been good. Next fall it is hoped that active work can be taken up at once. There is no particular reason why tennis should not have a higher place
in the sports of the University, and, if the movement is kept going, a new line of athletics will be opened for those who do not indulge in the more strenuous games.
Out-Talked.
The friends of C. O. Pingry and W. T. Clarkson got them together last week for a test of their volubility, and turned the talk to athletics. Both gentlemen immediately got intensely interested, and the talking match waxed fierce-almost violent. After a lapse of several hours the continued verbosity of his opponent began to tell on Pingry, whose loquacity was failing him. It seemed he was fast approaching a condition bordering on collapse when his backers withdrew him from the contest, and Clarkson was adjudged the winner. He now undoubtedly hold the championship in the line of perseverance.
Victor Iles Honored at Columbia.
The University council at Columbia University, New York, has just awarded a scholarship in history, value $150, to Ivory Victor Iles, who took his A. M. degree here last year. He has been assistant in history at the University of Colorado this year. Columbia awards forty-two scholarships each year, and the selection of the recipients is made from the list of graduates of the best universities and colleges in the country.
Dr. M. T. Sudler, dean of the Medical School, spoke in chapel Tuesday morning on "Typhoid Fever." He said thal almost every case of typhoid was caused either from impure milk or impure water supply and that the best way to avoid the disease was to insure that all water and milk used had been boiled.
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By
Writes Poetry.
The following poem on the San Francisco disaster appeared in the New York Independent under date of May 10. It is the work of Harry H. Kemp, the globe-trotting genius of the university. He contributes regularly to the Independent.
The God of Magnificent Cities, who maketh a fact of a dream,
SAN FRANCISCO.
And mountains up masses of granite to the tune of shrill whistlès and steam-
He said; "I will build me a city of temple and market and quay, To commerce with tropical islands
To commerce with tropical islands and yellow hordes over the sea."
As ants scale the trunks of high cedars, his masons kept on, one by one.
5 the clamor of sieuges went tinkling to the wondering face of the sun.
Along huge skeleton scaffolds, sure footed, practiced of eye.
and guided the long steel girders which swung thru the spaces of skv.
And thus there was builded a city, a million spired youth, a world-mart.
Which roared like a sea shell with noises of traffic and labor and art.
In the course of the days and the seasons the Titan of Earthquake awoke:
The human-placed burden it irked and weighed on his neck like a voke;
So merely he turneth him over with a primitive savage's mirth,
And sendeth out smoke from his nostrils, and tosseth a handful of earth.
And the lordly, tall buildings collapsed, of the strength of their sinews beguiled.
As a playhouse of blocks tumbles down at the blow of a petulant child.
Said the God of Magnificent Cities, the placer of granite and beam;
"My Rome is the laughter of nations my Carthage and Athens a dream;
My olden Assyrian cities, and those of the Pharohs of old.
Are one with the kisses of Helen,
are one with a tale that is told.
The haunt of the sun-loving lizard and jackal, the awe of the band Of wandering nemds which blun
Of wandering nomads which blunder upon them half-buried in sand.
But I will rebuild me this city and shape it to grandeur again;
For I never have meant it for marmots, but as habitation for men."
Lo! once more the church bells, the whistles, the ships that go out thru the bay.
With forward sweep and the sea gulls a-wing in the wake of their way!
And once again the hammers, the noises of traffic, the cry
Of artisan voices, the atomlike builders who climb in the sky!
O God of Magnificent Cities, O piler of granite and beam.
The nations are waiting and watching to see the refashion thy dream. HARRY H. KEMP.
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