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THE TRAGEDY OF BRAINS.
Wins Education Through Tribulation but still a Failure.
The following pathetic wail from a struggling law student, minus the stage directions, appeared in the Topeka Capital a few days ago under the caption "Does Education Pay?"
Virtue Has No Reward.
"Some with lives that come to nothing,
Some with deeds as well, undone."
These lines frequently come to me as I think of the vast number of young men in the colleges and universities of this country who are paying their own way through these institutions of higher education. I could not say this perhaps if I were not a college student myself.
When very young I was thrown upon my own resources. I completed a four year's high school course. Then some friends told me to go to college and my success would be assured. All would be smooth sailing thenceforward. I followed the advice of my friends and entered the University of Kansas. I took my bachelor's degree last June and am now in the school of law. During my entire college career I have worked and skimped and struggled. I have denied myself every social pleasure and taken absolutely no part in university life. I have scrubbed floors, washed dishes and lived in attics, garrets and basements. I have studied hard and tried to make something of myself. I have been honest and conscientious in everything I have done.
Cruel, Cold K. S. U.
Now that my college career is so near the close, for I leave it forever next June, I feel that the only words I can utter as I cast my last long, lingering glance over the campus on Mount Oread, the only thought that can come to me will be: "Farewell, scenes of all my bitterness and my keenest humiliations!"
Romance Begins and Ends.
Many men say that the happiest days of their lives were their college days. My bitterest and most unhappy days have been my college days. I met some months ago a beautiful and accomplished girl. She was a very good friend until she learned that I was poor and compelled by force of circumstances to be honest. Then she quit me. The girls find it awful hard to love a poor devil nowadays.
There is no premium on brains anywhere. More brains have rotted and decayed in the wretched dwellings of the cities's poor than have adorned the parliaments, thrones and council chambers throughout all history. There are more and better brains in the attics of Lawrence today than have been in the State House at Topeka for twenty years.
Where Brains Are Cheap.
Students Starve.
You will ask, perhaps, why these young men of ability do not go out into the world and do something. The fact of the matter is they can barely find enough of the necessaries of life. More bright and talented young men starve to death in
American colleges every year than you can find on the staff of the average big daily newspapers.
$40 a Month Salary.
The point which I wish to make is that a college education is of no benefit to the average young man without means. He can employ the four years he would spend in college to better advantage by learning some trade or getting a start in business. Had I gone to work at something after leaving high school I could have accumulated by this time $2,000. My five years in college have cost me $1,500, counting all the work I have done and the money borrowed. No man today would be willing to pay me more than $40 per month. I gave up a $40 job to go to the university.
Does a college education pay?
Does a college education pay? The article is signed by Wilbur Winthrop, which is a fictitious name, as there is no five year university student by that name.
IN OTHER COLLEGES.
135 co-eds are out for basketball practice at Wisconsin. What a job it must be to pick a team.
The most successful play invented on the American gridiron this year was the fake punt, end around forward pass, which is credited to Coach Sheldon of Indiana. This play was responsible for Indiana's victory over Purdue, for Chicago's score against Cornell, and was a factor in many other games throughout the West.
James J. Storrow, chairman of the Boston school board and a close friend of Dr. Eliot, is being mentioned as a likely successor to the presidency of Harvard.
Swimming and polo hold prominent places in the athletics of the University of Illinois. By arranging water polo meets with Pennsylvania and Yale, as well as the colleges of the middle West, Illinois hopes to make it possible to settle the championship of the country in this sport.
Student control of athletics has been formally ended at Iowa.
The engineers at Michigan will get four exams. extending over a period of four weeks The faculty thinks that on long exams better work is accomplished.
A stereopticon is being used to aid in stirring up enthusiasm at California mass meetings.
The University of Washington, with the co-operation of the United States Bureau of Forestry, has inaugurated a ten weeks course in Forestry. No examination is required if the applicant is over 19 years of age.
There are no college papers in England against over three hundred in America.
The University of Washington fears that a freshman will be elected captain of their football team.
The Federal Government is taking an interest in the college rifle clubs. Clubs affiliated with the National Rifle Association have been organized at Harvard, Yale, Cornell and
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Columbia in the east and the State Universities of Idaho and Nevada in the west.
Miss Sibyl Betts is just completing an interesting piece of work in taxonomy on some of a collection of Kansas mallophaga made by F. A. Wetmore, a junior in the college.
Hiawatha after the party.
Mr. Howard Stough, a graduate of Midland College, is working on his masters thesis in the department of entomology. His thesis will deal with the biology of certain insects which produce galls on plants.
Carruth's Poems in New Edition
The second edition of Professor W. H. Carruth's book of poems "Each in His Own Tongue and other Poems," will be ready in two weeks. The first edition, which was issued December 20th, has been sold out.
Everybody should go and see that war picture in Shenandoah Valley at the Aurora tonight.
The Phi Delts had a group picture taken Saturday at the Squires Studio.
The various preparations of vaseline in tubes can now be bought at McCulloch's Drug Store.
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Hiawatha after the opera.
WE'LL SHOW NEBRASKA.
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The Thespian Dramatic Club had their pictures taken at the Squires Studio Monday afternoon. ___
Oysters at the Hiawatha.
Seniors-Rates are now on Squires.
Our $1.50 ticket is a snap. If you don't know about it you should. Phone 506, and we will gladly explain Lawrence Pantatorium, the oldest and best equipped place in town where the workmen make their work a science, each in his own department.
Raymond's Drug Store will carefully fill your prescriptions or furnish you a reliable cough syrup or their fine Cream of Roses for rough hands.
SENIORS: You have as much time to sit for a picture now as you will have later; they will cost you no more now than later. You may want the money worse later than now but remember, the place to get the photographs you will want to go down to posterity with the Annual, are made at MOFFETT'S, 829 Massachusetts Street, where every picture is guaranteed and work finished when promised.
Special rates from now until June for cleaning, repairing and pressing at the price of pressing alone. You had better investigate. Phone 506; we do the rest. Lawrence Pantatorium, 12 W. Warren St.
The "K" men of the ever victorious football team will have their pictures taken at Squires this week.
Sanitol, Elcaya and Hudnuts cold creams are sold at McCulloch's Drug Store.
Ladies, too, will find the Lawrence Pantatorium the best place in town to get their fine clothing cleaned, repaired, dyed and pressed.
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