UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MANY NATIONALITIES AND AGES IN CLASSES
Fifteen States and District of Columbia Besides Kausas Represented
Would you like to know the men and women who attend K. U. by proxy—the absence fifth class? They are real flesh and blood students. Kansas mothers most of these lusty sons and daughters but 15 other females and boys are also represented in the University's great family. Since the University pioneer extension student, Earl J. Sparks, of Burlington, registered in October 1909, correspondence enrollment has increased rapidly until the total number is approximately men and women from 197 towns and cities to help form this absent but energetic fifth corps of University students.
All Ages Study
you may think that the students in attendance at the University form a heterogeneous body but their motive character is nothing to compare with the hybrid existence of women taking correspondence work are various nationalities. Names of Italians, Greeks, Poles, Jews, Germans and Russians appear in Director F. R. Hamilton's office. Extreme diversity prevails among extension students. The ages of these persons range from 15 to 78 years.
steadiglass, however, of evident handicaps in age, distance, and lack of class inspiration, extension students excel scholastically those who reside in Lawrence. The former always attack their work with video. This they do properly must study especially diligently as their lessons are chiefly on reference material. Resident University men and women may, indeed, congratulate themselves when they think of the unfortunate students who have to prepare each lesson carefully as their opportunity for class cutting or bluffing. Everything the extension students say is put down in black and white before an uncompromising professor who deliberately weighs each word. Even spelling and punctuation must be reckoned with by the correspondence student or do these to their heir to a number of previous class note books. Theirs is a pioneer route to the seat of learning.
Probably you would like to know just why the men and women who do correspondence work so hard? Various reasons can explain it. Various reasons for their absence. Some of these students are pedagogues—school teachers or superintendents, others think themselves too old for active student life at the University—rallies and nightshift parades no poignant message for those who afraid yassped the allotted years of their lives. One enthusiastic woman of 78, however, thinks that she would heartily enjoy a Fox Trot or a Grape Vine as well as any freshman. A few correspondence students are somewhat your kind, and they are a lad of 15 years who anxiously waits his next birthday that he may become a resident student of Lawrence and wear a freshman cap. Many extension students say they cannot afford to live at the University; others feel that they refuse to live the haven of their own homes. Several traveling salesmen spend the greater part of the time in distributing footwear among anxious customers. Other non-resident students are ministers, lawyers, engineers, stenographers, and teachers who fell the call of their business preeminent.
Two Courses Popular
Practically all of these men and women schedule for the two studies which they are permitted to take. Occasionally, however, some correspondence students elect only one study. English is the subject men and women accredit by extension men and pet professors in law and women academics and lawyers, especially, seek to perfect themselves in language. One man, a father, said he wished to improve his education that his boy might find him a helpful business partner. A mother says she desires college training in order to panionobic ponanthe himself further in his mother tongue, a Kansas shoemaker is laboring through a translation of Caesar.
Although the men and women of the extension department do not belong to the "rah rah" student type, they catch college spirit wholesome as may be felt by their peers. All opportunities extended through the extension department of the University. Not one even remarks unfavorably about the University. Extension students, for the most part, are university students by upholding its scholarship. Few of these men and women fail. You may think that this fact is due to their lack of outside interests, but not so. Extension students are every inch alive; they are heartily in accord with current affairs. Should you learn to know these people better, their interests would no doubt compare quite favorably with your own.
A BLACK NECKERCHIEF
MOURNS HERO'S DEATH
When Women Wear Black With Sailor Blouse They Grieve for Lord Nelson
University of Kansas women unconscionedly mourn the death of an English hero of over a century ago. With Spring comes the year when she wears a back neckerchief with a big black square knot in front, she has adopted the bridge of mourning worn by the sailor who died Admiral Nelson, her of Trafalgar.
The sailor is superstitious and sticks close to tradition. His uniform is a relic of the seventeenth century, and he himself admits that it is impractical in modern navies. Many of the features of the sailor's uniform which excite curiosity and strike as queer have a history that dates back to the time of England's ascendency as a first rate naval power.
In honor of Admiral Nelson's
three great naval victories, the English sailors fixed three white stripes around the edge of the collar, which is now so out of place on fighting men. But that collar was useful three hundred years ago, and many men how to make salt water fit for washing clothes. In those days sailors wore their hair in braids and the broad collar protected the blouse from the hair. The collar was detachable and could be washed in a small quantity of water, and the sailor was able to wash on Sunday morning in a clean collar.
At Trafalgar, the last of the three great victories, Lord Nelson was killed in 1805 and the sailors adopted the large black neckerchief, worn under the collar and big square sleeves for a badge of mourning for their dead admiral.
So it is that every sailor in the American as well as the English navy, and the women of all countries, when the style book says, "Wear sail' or suits this spring," pay respect to the dead hero of Trafalgar.
These traditions of the American and English navy are recognized as useless and out of date. Attempts have been made to change to something more practical, such as the uniform worn by the soldier, but the seamen, until a change will be made and majority of the officers have been willing to let the picturesque alone. It is only a matter of time, say navy men. Until a change will be made and the American sailors will forget the
English traditions they have faithfully helped to preserve.
Take Cap and Gown Orders
Take Cap and Gown Orders
Friday is the last day orders will be taken for senior caps and gowns. Both teachers have signed up according to the records of Jerry Simpson who has taken Roy Springer's place as chairman of the caps and gowns committee. No engineers, no pharmacics, and but a few graduate students have given orders at the Engineering Building one day this week and will be at the usual place at the old check stand in the afternoon.
Nature is the true idealist. When she serves us best, when, on rare days, she speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us, that the light, skies, and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul—Emerson.
THE CURTAIN
The curtain rallies, the light goes out,
And alience ends the play.
And alience begins the play.
In dust are laid away.
And Pierrot of the nimbile heart,
And Pierrot of the star-
So must we laugh and go, my lass
Who knows but that their little tricks
Still live and still amuse!
Still live and still amuse,
And Pierrot still pursues.
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