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ON SOCIETIES (Reprinted by Request
At the Convocation next Friday there will be announced the names of the nine young women who, since their election last May, have constituted the committee. The Chair of the Torch is the Senior girl's honor society; and, although it is one of the influential societies in the University, there are many students who have doubtless never heard of it, or, having heard of it, have formed a band to play with them, however, the Torch is not only a secret society but a society devoted to an object which can be attained only on condition that the names of the members remain concealed during a mighty battle, be defined as an organization for promoting good causes in an unorganized manner.
This is certainly an age of organizations, an age of machinery, from the social as well as from the mechanical point of view. That organization is an excellent thing that way goes with machinery, for there are many opportunities that can be effectively done only through systematic cooperative effort. Yet there are some things that can be better done in other ways. For example, a Society for the Manufacture and Diffusion of Delicious and Malicious Scandal would designate a person who has existed. A member of such a society would at once be suspect; no one would believe anything he might say about any one else. Now this, in general, is the defect of all organized parties and societies, that its members are likely to be judged in terms of the interests of the party or society, parentee or friend, time she himself may be attributed to them. If a newspaper, let us say, denounces President Wilson's Mexican policy the argument may seem plausible until you learn that the editor is the chairman of the Republican county central committee. Or perhaps a student, at election time, shows himself purposely friendly to you, and incidentally dilates on the excellent qualities of a certain candidate for office. Who is that fellow? you askOh, he is an Alpha Delt. That place him. You discount everything he said. It is the same with good cause as with bad. Young people are unlikely indigenies against the practice of late parties or cheating in examinations; but if it transpires that she is President of the Y. W. C. you shrug your shoulders. Or course she has to talk like that. The penalty of being identified with a society is that one's conduct is not to be judged, not on its interest, but in terms of the interests or the obviable binds of the society. The individual becomes submerged in the organization.
How fine it would be, then, if every student would, on his own initiative and apart from any party or class or society, set himself to work directly esthetically in the Department, as best while in the University. It was precisely to effect this end, in part at least, that in 1912 a group of senior girls formed themselves into the society called The Torch. It was to be a society without any object as a society, without any organized interests to serve; not so much a society as simply a group of girls, prominent in the affairs of the *University*, and recognized leaders among the women students, who were to bind themselves to work individually, on their own hook, for those thinks that were obvious in the society. In this reason the society as an organization had to be kept in the back ground, had to be a kind of self-denying organization; and for this reason it was necessary that the names of the members should not be generally known.
The Torch consists, so far as the active society is concerned, of nine girls, elected each May by the retiring members and a committee of the faculty. At least seventy hours credit is given to leadership, proven capacity for leadership, and discussion to take an active part in what are called Student Affairs, are the qualifications for membership. The charter members of the Torch were Lucie March, Isabel Thames, Grace Wilkie, Helen Burdick, Nell Martindale, Mae Rossman, Gale Gossett, and Nelle O'Connor. The office of president has been held by Lucie March, Emily Zwick, Marie Sealy, and Marie Hedrick. In all matters of vital import to the University the members of the society have taken an active individual interest; but they have devoted themselves more particularly, perhaps, to the promotion of a proper attitude towards matters as honesty in examinations, the subordination of social functions and amusement to the more fundamental work of the college, the observance of social regulations, and in general to the inculcation of the spirit of loyalty to the University and its abiding interests. And during the period of the 1960s the accomplished by the members of the society, in a quiet way, along all of these lines.
It is not for the purpose of calling attention to the society of The Torch that these remarks are printed, but to point out what is wrong, I will adopt for himself the purpose which gave rise to The Torch,—might well assume a sense of personal responsibility for the promotion of good causes. And therefore let itself be forced to wear the Torch itself, and remember only the punishment which inspires it.
CARL BECKER.
Football practice every afternoon at three and five o'clock. Coach Olcott wants every Varsity candidate out for practice at either time.
Ralph M. Buffington, a sophomore in the College, has a somewhat unusual record. Last year he received 's in all of his courses and last semester he got fourteen hours of 's and two hours of 2's. It was a long time before he got over the shock of that 2.
Friday and Saturday are fruit salad days at Wiedemann's.—Adv.
SOCIOLISTIST WILL TALK
TO STUDENTS THURSDAY
Your lady friend appreciates Alleerett's candy, at Carroll's--Adv.
Prof. J. L. Gillin, of the University of Wisconsin, will lecture on Thursday, March 2nd, at 4:30 in Fraser Chapel at the Rosewood Center and Deceptivence." Mr. Gillin is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, and is probably best known to Kansas people on account of his book "Blackmar in the publication of "Outlines of Sociology," which is being used as a text by sociology students.
Notice
All students and members of the faculty are invited to the lecture, and students of sociology are especially urged to attend.
I have sold my confectionery and ice cream business to Mrs. Ida E. Pollock who will conduct the business unless I agree that the liberal patronage that I have enjoyed will be extended to the new firm. They will give prompt service and courteous treatment, and the business will be maintained. The new firm will collect all bills due me. Anyone having a bill against me will please leave it at the desk for settlement. Thanking the public for the support given me these many years, I am.
K. C. MEET SATURDAY
Very respectfully,
99-3 Wm. Wiedemann.
Jayhawkers Will Compete In Annual Contest—Rodkey to Run Against Merideth
GERMAN VS. ENGLISH
In his latest book, "Oralde Bar Bok," he delivers the English political reformer across one chapter to a communication from a German student of the English form of government, which is of particular interest to all American readers, in that the basic idea of English government is that government in the United States—the belief that sound, crystallized public opinion by the masses, based on comprehensive discussion and thorough research, is the ideal control for government. German government also adheres and shows its inefficiency in the opinion of the expert and a thorough confidence in him by the masses. To prove his point he cites the greater loyalty of the German government to the English form of government inefficiency of the English government's conduct of the struggle.
The case that he makes out for his government is a strong one. He seeks out the vital defects of democratic system and flays its efficiency with pitiless and unanswerable logic. And the worst of it is that he is right. In the present war popular opinion says that it is up to the people of England to show that they are capable of ruling themselves and that it is not necessary to depend on a bureaucracy of highly trained specialists.
Mrs. H. A. Gibbons of Kansas City,
was the guest of her niece, Nell
Blurton, over Saturday and Sunday.
Everybody's for March at Carroll's.
Adv.
Over twenty Jayhawkner tracel athletes, including frashmen and Varsity men, will be taken to Kansas City Saturday by coaches Pat Tatum and Cindy Duffield, the annual K. C. A. C. indoor meet in Convention Hall Saturday night.
Lois' Risinger, '19, Fine Arts, was
called to her home in Fredonia.
A concert was held on May 15.
In two events, the K. U. track representatives will be featured. The relay team consisting of Elliott, Fiske, Campbell, and O'Leary will take the weak Nebaska relay team to the Rocky Mountain ever, will be the special half mile race in which Fred Rodkey will be pitted against the great Ted Meridith, eastern champion and holder of the American record in this event, and Ely of the Chicago athletic club and Ely of the Chicago athletic club and Ely of the Chicago athletic club and Ely of the United States.
Although the points in the meet will not be counted by schools the K. U. squand will probably live up to its reputation of former years and take more places than any other school entered.
Welsh Murphy, and Rustenback, the three freshmen entered will be camped in a special thousand yard handicap race. Murphy will run in the open half mile, while Rustenback has entered in the sprints and hurdles.
The Varsity athletes who will be in the meet are as follows: Rodkey, Elliott, Treweke, Cambell, Pattison, Herie Rice, Winn, Woodbury, Hudson, Hilion, Grady, Sproul, Herriot, Stateler, Groene, Crowley, and Small.
TWENTY-FOUR MEN ATTEND
ARCHITECTURAL BANQUET
The Architectural Engineers met and banquet last night at the Beta Theta PI house for their second annual banquet. Twenty-four architects from around the world well arranged series of toasts and engineering songs helped make merry the occasion after the six-course banquet. The hand printed rogromas and menu announced the following list of awards: A. Artec presided over Goldmith; "The Architectural Engineer," Prof. H. A. Rice; "The Senior Architect," Carl T. Baer; "The Junior Architect," Chas. S. Chase; "The Sophomore Architect," Gordon K. Kelsey; "Edward W. Tanner," W. W. Whiten acted as toastmaster.
After four and a half years of careful investigation, costing about $500,000, a committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce has reported that it is utterly impractical to electrify the steam railroad terminal in that city. Technically it could be done, but financially it is out of the question. The investigation was probably the most exhaustive ever made in the country for a similar project, and it could far the pollution of the air was due to railroad locomotives, and what it would cost to electrify the terminals.
The committee finds that electricity would subtract only 1,291,282 homes and 886 new consumed annually in that city and the cost of the change would be $354 million.
Dean Goss, of the college of engineering in the University of Illinois.
Oklahoma Club will meet Wednes day, 8:00, at Pt Upson house.
ARE YOU A LOW-BROW?
Are you a low-brow?
Some of us may eat pie with our knives at home and chardle with glee at the antics of Charlie Chaplin, but if we don't do it out in polite society we have a perfectly good alibi.
When the question, but the cell tell by appearances, you know,
Likewise, some of us may belong to exclusive clubs devoted to the study of art or literature or music or some of the sciences, and by maintaining an impressive reserve and hiring some student to write our books, weapers for us we may hoodwink the esteemed fellow-members for years.
Now you, for instance, may talk fluently and beautifully about some thing the rest of us don't understake. You don't use slang or shovel your food at the table, never would do to accuse you; but, really and truly, cross your heart and hope to die, are you an honest-to-goodness high-brow, or just a little weird?
Thanks. We just wanted to know University Missouri.
Seniors Begin Play Work Don Burnett, manager of the senior play has announced the first tryout for "Copping the Grapes," withimbithinn prime drama, for Friday afternoon at 11 in the baseboard of Gretn Hall.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary mining, metallurgy and geology fraternity, announces the pledging of Wiltaker, professor of metallurgy.
"Kansas of Today," second installment,
Court, Gentleman,
Thursday, Griggs Ringer
To Work For University
With a membership in the University,
With a membership in the University,
the Parsons' K, U. Club, composed of students in the University from Parsons,
organized at a meeting at the Kanza building and a meeting at the Kanza building.
It is the first city club to be organized at the University and has as its purpose the establishing of the Jaya-hawker school as a good place to send students in the minds of Parsons fathers and others with Malsed, middle law, is president, and Phil Bernardin, sophomore Engineer, s secretary.
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