THE KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas.
Entered as second class mail matter September 30, 1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1970
LISTEN TO THE CRY OF WOLF! WOLF!
The Lawrence Gazette objects to Professor Carruth's candidacy for mayor on the ground that he is a University professor and therefore a theorist. It frankly asserts that The Gazette will be lined up for Bishop. The down town paper can find no fault with Professor Carruth aside from the fact that he has too much education and is therefore impractical. The Gazette is of course voicing the sentiment of a fraction of the down town people—a sentiment which grows more pronounced as one travels to the east and north of the city. But we would not question the sincerity of the Gazette. It is an idea borrowed from the time of the cloister and the hermit philosophers, that the educator is impractical and visionary. That notion, however, perished with the coming of the educator out into the world of everyday affairs. Professor Carruth has demonstrated beyond a doubt that he is an immensely practical man. He has served with distinction six years in the city council and on the city school board. The Gazette says it would be glad to support him for Chancellor, which, of course, is a position requiring much more executive ability, much more business sagacity than the office of mayor. If Professo: Carruth is an impractical man it must be impractical to live upright to start in adversity and through one's own efforts become a great scholar. It must be an impractical man who has taken a lively interest for many years in all the affairs of a city and a great university and in every case has made a decided suc-
The notion that a man cannot be an educated man and still a man of practical things is obsolescent if not obsolete. It would take too much space to comment on the long list of college professors who have served in public life with distinction. To the critics it would
be well for them to read something of the life of Seth Low or of Professor Royal Copeland, who was the best mayor Ann Arbor ever had. Woodrow Wilson, a university president, has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for the presidency of the United States. One is inclined to suspect that those who think Professor Carruth an impractical man are the same ones who consider clean government as a Utopian delusion; the same ones who agree with Ingalls that purity in politics is an iridescent dream; the same ones who believe law enforcement is an unreality, and decency in government as radical as it is repugnant to them. But it is not easy to delude Lawrence people with a false cry for there are too many in the "impractical" educated class here who have the ability to separate the crass from the true, to vote for good government, a greater and united University and city of Lawrence.
James Metcalfe, the dramatic critic of Life, comments on the changed attitudes of the universities of the country toward the drama on the occasion of the presentation of a play in New York by Yale students. A few years ago, if they did not actually frown upon the staging of plays by students, there was an attitude of passive acquiescence in such things. Now, however, all that is changed, and the universities instead of studying
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only the drama of the past are disposed to regard the drama of the present as a living force in literature. The Yale students were trained for their New York play by the best professional talent that could be secured and other schools are giving help to students who show a liking for the stage. The University of Kansas has not developed to that point as yet, but it can and does exert an influence to developing a taste for the best drama. Along this line is the effort of the University to secure a return engagement of "the Servant in the House" which made a profound impression at its first performance here.
President Hill of Missouri, in his chapel speech yesterday, said that it was not better to come to school and loaf than not to come at all. He evidently thinks that the atmosphere of Mt. Oread is not so permeated with culture that the very breathing of it makes a man wise, and that the walls are not yet so classic as to impart learning to those who lean against them.
The pessimistic correspondent of the Topeka Capital says he lost a girl because he was poor. If he has only lost one girl in five years he is much more fortunate than hundreds of others who have plenty of money.
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