UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published in the afternoon five times a week, by students of the University of Kanaas, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the undergraduate life of one teacher, then more than printing the news by standing up and speaking, to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to have more serious problems to wiser heads; in all, to understand, to satisfy the students of the University.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1915.
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. George Eliot
POLITICS AGAIN
A GOOD EXAMPLE
Now cometh your class politician with glad hand extended. He wears a smile reaching from ear to ear and his words are pleasant. Your studies interest him and he too would take them if it wasn't for something else that was required. Your ideas on weather, football prospects, woman's suffrage, preparedness are the same. And as he turns down another street, he hopes that you can give him your vote at the class election.
As an example of what ought to be more common on the campus, the north wall of Spooner Library might be cited. Virginia creeper has been run up between the windows and now students entering the campus on Oread Avenue pass not a bleak, ugly wall but one half-hidden with heavy foliage. Such a wall is productive of tradition. It has a touch of mellowness which breaks down the severity so prevalent on our campus and enriches the picture which we carry away of Mount Oread.
Training these creepers over other buildings on the campus is one way we can repair the atrocities which have been committed here in the name of architecture.
GETTING A START
It is a serious fact that the reputation a man makes and the standard he sets in the first six weeks of the first year usually serve as an index to his standing in the entire college course. Rumors have been rife that some of the professors in our Alma Mater do not even grade a student's papers nor listen to his recitals, but just go to the office and look up his record for the first six weeks, and give him the average they find there. Of course, that's rot, but the fact remains that if a student does well at first, he usually gets along well in the course, and if he does poorly, his grade on the course is low.
So let's "crack to it."
GOING DOWN TO McCOOK?
If time passes slowly these fine aftermoon, or if your lessons get tiresome and your eyes hurt and you feel stretchy, a walk over to McCook might do you good. Go down there and see Coach Olcott pushing a squad of huskies through snappy practice. See them spring and fall on the ball, that's the way they'll do when we go after the Cornhuskers or Missouri. Hear the dull plunk of the ball as Lindsey's toe sends it spinning through the air—he'll do that again when we meet Missouri. See the men line up in scrimmage and watch those new men. They keep their eye on the ball and then one of them darts out of the mass and plunges—and brings his man down. Such a tackle as that will bring us up with
a yell next November when some Cornhusker is making a dangerous run.
Then you want to know who this man is—he looks as though he might develop into a star. You never heard his name before. And there's another new man—he's a comer too. And so you go on asking questions of some faithful bug who already knows all the new men on the squad. You come to feel more at home after you can call the players by their nicknames. You go home for dinner and the food really tastes good. This is the first time you ever did laugh at that fellow's story. Then it's seven o'clock and you have lessons still waiting and you run upstairs and dig into them.
You don't mind working now after you have been down at McCook.
To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose.—Ecclesiastes 3:1.
GREEK STAGE OF TODAY
While the modern Greek is anxious to make for himself a literature of which he may be proud, it is extremely difficult for him to choose which of his varied past experiences shall be his theme and what shall he have done with his dialects have not yet been welded into one strong, forceful tongue.
The Greek stage of today has also suffered from the isolation of the country, because of the lack of suggestion and criticism from outside. But it has also gained by this same isolation in that it must reshape what is allowed to its native, and for form to its own admirable old masters.
However, although the foreign view of life has not greatly influenced the Greek stage. Isken is known and admired, but chiefly for his teaching that there is such an abundance of material for drama in everyday life and among the common people, Kenedy, if they have influenced it at all, have done so through their wonderful imaginative powers.
Greece today has among her sons and daughters those gifted with great histrionic ability. They draw large audiences whenever they appear where the Greek language is spoken. There are equal opportunities to play Greek in successful ancient Greek plays would indeed be long. The favorite theme, the one most dear to the hearts of the people, harks back to the days of old.
Just at present the Greek stage suffers from the lowering of comedy into vaudeville. Some of the best known writers of Greek comedy have tried in vain to support the dignity of the stage, and they look with much regret upon the rise of pure vaudeville. The play interspersed with songs opened the way for vaudeville and since its advent the enthusiasm for it has increased. Almost equally popular at present however, is what in Greece is called the "Review," which consists mainly of a "great show of feet and much inartistic music"—a kind of "passing show."
Although the prospect at presmey may be gloomy, the Greek stare will no doubt in time come into its own. With her growing importance Greece will in time come to stand out with it will acquire a new dignity and pride which will cause her to return to what conforms with her best traditions in dramatic art.
The Smithsonian institution, at Washington, has got together a very interesting collection of ancient inventions. Among other objects belonging to the same category are thimbles 2,500 years old. They are of bronze, and their outer surfaces show the indentations for engaging the head of the needle. Indeed, these thimbles are much like modern ones, barring the fact that they have no tops to cover the end of the finger. For that matter, however, many thimbles of today are toppless.
Thimbles Not New
Hatpins Are Ancient Weapons
The women in those days had bronze bodkins, made just like those in use now, and for toilet purposes they employed small tweezers of a pattern that has not been altered in 2,000 years. To hold their hair in place, they had not hit upon the notion of bending a wire door that twisted for the purpose straight bronze pins, much exactly like modern pins, with big spherical ends. It is from the early type of hairpin, in truth, that the hatpin of today is derived. Mayhap the ancient Roman virogau, when aroused to rage, plucked an improvised dagger from her back hair and employed it vigorously.
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A WISH
This awaits you and beaches fit thatatch.
Oooh! How much time to spend on Oooh!
Oh she'll pilgrimage the latch has
been built for.
And Lacy, at her wheel, shall sing,
in russet gown and apron blue.
Around my ivy lined porch shall spring
Each fragrant flower that drinks the
sunlight.
The village church beneath the trees,
When our marrion vows were given,
given,
With merry peals shall swell the
THE COLLEGE KIDDER
"Do you still keep in training since you left college?"
Penred—Yeh, a peach. Knew the
came, too.
The college man is an intellectual silk-worm. About his私自 self, by a process of years, he has woven a thread of manner, of joke and jest, so long and deep, that it is seldom that his real friends penetrate into his heart, is anywhere but on his sleeve. And few would have it otherwise.
Of the characteristics of the college man today, the one which is perhaps the most distinctly marked is the ability and habit of "kidding," a practice redeemed to a great extent by the training which the college man receives in learning to give back as good as he receives. A man who has spent four years in an American institution of higher education is usually prepared for practical jobs of every known species, such as "kidding," clever, asinine, subtle or painfully obvious. He is about as easily ruffled by a jess as a hippopotamus is put to flight with an airgun.
breke
And point with tamper spike to heaven
Samuel Boger
But, growing out of such an attitude towards the men with whom he comes daily in contact, the college man has reached an extreme. So long have his daily conversations and chats at the dinner table or in his study been more "kidding matches" that in many cases he has lost his power to talk logically, consistently, upon a topic of any nature more than once. But the Varsity's chances against Penn. And, if perchance he has that power, he is afraid to use it, knowing well that the opening of any serious topic means that is the recipient of a choice and assorted collection of wif.
Patricia—Quite a girl you had at the game!
Patricia—Well, she ought to. She hasn't missed one in twenty years.— Cornell Widow.
Undoubtedly this results from one or two men, college simians whose capacity for "cleverness" is greater than that of the undergraduates with whom they come in contact, and who cannot allow an opportunity for the exercise* of this faculty to go by unheeded. They have a melancholy reward. Ever, their most serious remarks are to be taken as a joke, it will not hurt them, but equally the humor of the old circus conversation has its touch of pathos. "Why did Jones become a clown?" asks the tattooed man; "in college he was always the life of the party," answers the bearded woman.
Enter the House Baboon
Ex. football here—"Well, some
one I contradict my wife."-Misha
bal Rei Lilly
Picture a group of men in a fraternity or boarding house engaged in talking over a matter of any importance. The conversation is becoming interesting and logical. The men are intellectually on edge. Of a sudden a rustling sound is heard. The house baboon, scenting his opportunity, utters his racial noise and swings nimbly into the conversation. Immediately seriousness is at an end. The rest of the group, from force of habit join in with that species of comment that can only be described as "clever." The subject is forgotten.
Such a situation which tends towards the discouragement of any serious discussion among undergraduate is no small contributor to that intellectual sloveniness which educators declare to be perhaps the paramount problem in American universities. The average undergraduate reads what? His text-book on occasions, the "Saturday Evening Post" always, and some of the monthly magazines. The remainder of his reading course usually retails as $1.08 per volume.
No one would ask that the dinner meeting of students should resemble an undertaker's convention. But once in a while a serious thought outside of the classroom would not be amis; a little wit could be well exchanged for a bit of real intellect.—Cornell Sun.
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