The University Kansas.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSEPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
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HOMER BERGER -- Business Manager
CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER --- Treasurer
J. E. MILLER --- Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
LUCUS L. CACOSS CARL CANNON
M. D. BAER RALPH SPOTTS
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3. 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3. 1911
The Western Intercollegiate Magazine comments in a surprised way upon the fact that student organizations of the University of Kansas are required to submit their books for an audit by the University authorities. The Magazine calls it "self government reversed," and "espionage." The University has done the organizations good by making the ruling, and could do more if it would carry out the plans that have been made. Early in the fall arrangements were made to draw up a system of accounting as nearly uniform as the needs of the various organizations would allow, in order that slipshod business methods might be done away with, and the treasurers might be enabled to make clear, correct reports with the minimum amount of work. Nothing has been heard of the plan for some time and it looks as if the organizations would have to get along under the old methods as best they can. It is significant that the only persons who objected to the ruling as "espionage" when it put in force last year were a few who were loath to depart from the old ways under which grafting was possible.
A man saw a young fellow affix a stamp on an envelope in a peculiar cat-a-cornered fashion. "Why do you put the stamp on like that?" he asked. "Why," the young fellow explained, "I'm a student in a correspondence school and that's our college yell." Could a college get along without a yell? The president of Harvard has suggested that the yell is a barbarous survival and ought to be dispensed with in centers of culture. It is doubtful if his suggestion will meet with approval outside of the deaf-and-dumb schools. It is through the medium of the yell that the freshman first feels himself to be a college man, and the senior in cap and gown gives his college cheer in token of undying loyalty. We feel sure that the sonorous music of "Rock! Chalk!" would not prove distasteful even to the president of Harvard if he should be fortunate enough to hear it.
The intrepid lady, or the gallant gentleman, has mounted the little platform high up under the swaying canvas. The acts in the ring pause. The band plays madly and the slide for life or the loop-the-loop, or whatever the nerve-thrilling finale has been, is almost over in the same instant it began. In five weeks every student will be a principal in a slide for life down the precipitous quiz route. In order to come up bowing and smiling at the end of the act it will be necessary for nearly every one to devote the intervening weeks to painstaking study of the scientific principles involved and some careful rehearsals.
Just one week more and the Kansas Legislature will be in session. It is not likely that its members, who have much of the welfare of the state for the next two years in their charge, will neglect the educational institutions.
The lesson of the recent aviation disasters as showing the advantage of the ground as a place to stay on rather than a place to light on probably will not be lost on the three University men who have built an aeroplane.
As long as there is coal in the coal-bin and gas in the pipes, the University probably can worry along in spite of the cold zephyrs from Medicine Hat.
What skating there would now be on the University lake if only it had the water in it!
LET MUSIC CHARM.
"Chapelite" Thinks a Male Quartet Would Help Service.
To the Editor of The Kansan:
Some time ago there was much agitation by the powers that be regarding attendance at chapel. Now I have an idea that I would like to perpetrate upon this unsuspecting student body concerning attendance at chapel. People all go to prayers on Friday and on Tuesday, mainly because there something extra to be heard these days. Extend the good and noble work to the other three days of the week and make every day an extra day.
Here comes the idea and it is not a new one by any means. Have a Chapel Quartet. That's the key to the whole business. The organization of such a quartet would be one of the best things ever attempted at the University. Singing by a trained quartet at
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street, 5, 20, 35, 50 minutes past the hour, via. Tennessee street, for K. U. from 7:30 a.m. to 5:35 p.m., and 5 and 35 minutes past the hour, 6:05 to 10:35 p.m.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street, 10, 25, 40, 55 minutes past the hour via. Mississippi street, for K. U., from 7:30 a. m. to 5:25 p. m. and 55 and 25 minutes past the hour, 5:55 p. m. to 10:55 p. m.
K. U. Loop Street Car Time Table.
the daily exerciises would be just the thing to lend greater dignity and at the same time more interest in the service than is every present when all the students do the vocalizing.
Cars leave K. U. for down town 7, 22, 37, 52 minutes past the hour; 6:22 a. m. to 10:52 p. m.
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Other universities with small attendance at their chapel exercises have tried this plan and it has proven eminently successful.
I am for some male quartet music in chapel every day in the week.
K. U. CHAPELITE.
History Down to Date.
Our own Nathan Hale paused for rhetorical effect.
"I regret," said he, "that I have but one Kansan to give for my rooming house."
And forthwith he subscribed for another.
Philip W. Whitcomb of Washburn, the Successful Candidate.
CHOSE RHODES SCHOLAR.
Philip W. Whitecomb, of Washburn has been selected as the successful candidate for the Rhodes scholarship. He will attend for the three years beginning next October. The five students from whom the choice was made were: E. D. Cressman of Lawrence, F. H. Allis and G. S. Counts of Baker, and Philip Whitecomb and H. R. O'Brien of Washburn.
If the former system of rotation among the three colleges had been continued, Cressman of Kansas should have gone. However, the choice was exceedingly difficult and preference was given to Wash burn as both Kansas and Baker have men at Oxford; while the representative selected from Washburn last year could not go because of sickness.
The nominating committee,which met at Topeka Wednesday, was composed of Chancellor Frank Strong, Chief Justice W. A. Johnson, President L. H. Murlin of Baker, President Frank Sanders of Washburn and State Superintendent E. T. Fairechild.
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THE EAGLE
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Through that pure zone, eternal zephyrs bring
The cadenced echoes of Olympus by,
The strains supernal move him, but to die;—
Great Love no leave has granted him to
Great Jove no leave has granted him to sing.
My soul once fled that festered fen called Earth.
called Earth,
And gained Olympus, where life pulses strong,
Where harmony celestial has its birth,
And poet-gods loose language of its thong;
Returning, mortals mocked me with their mirth,
I dared behowl not one immoral man.
A Letter and an Answer.
I dared debauch not one immortal song.
A. B. Progran
The Letter.
The Answer.
The following tale of things as they sometimes are, is submitted by the Daily Nebraskan:
A. R. BUZICK.
Dear Dad: I take my pen in hand; I hope you're well and feeling grand. I'm doing pretty well, you know—it looks as though we might get snow. I'm working harder every day, and getting the results, they say. I've scarcely time to write to you, I have some studying to do. It's fierce, the way I work my brain—last week we had a little rain. I guess I'll stop —Oh, by the way, I've got my room and board to pay. The check you sent some time ago, I used to buy more books, you know. It's fierce the books I've had to buy, and prices now are awfully high. This education, so they say, is getting higher every day. Please send a cheek, I need the mon, your loving and devoted son.
My boy, when you left in the fall, you promised faithfully, one and all, that you would work with diligence and use a little common sense; avoid society so gay, and try to grab a P. B. K. Your statements filled our breasts with hope, and also filled us with soft soap; we had a vision of your name carved deeply in the hall of fame, a picture of a laurel wreath, your head reposing underneath, and we could see you bringing back degrees and honor in a sack. These pleasant dreams concerning you we figured out might soon come true. Alas, how weak we mortals be, for someone writes direct to me; it seems you've scarce looked in a book; they say it's time to get the hook; the laurel wreath you must have missed, your name heads the delinquent list. You'll never get a Ph.D. they'll put you through the third degree. You'd better come back home l fear, and try again some other year; please leave your school life with its charm, we need your efforts on the farm.
Dean Skilton Is Ill.
Dean C. S, Skilton of the School of Music, will be unable to meet his classes this week owing to sickness. Prof. Skilton has been confined to his bed since December 21 with a cold, which developed into pneumonia. The critical point was reached Friday and since then he has been improving.
Prof. C. E. Hubach of the School of Music has been confined to his home for a week with tonsillitis. He is meeting his pupils at his residence.
There were no classes in North College yesterday, as the building could not be sufficiently heated by the gas stoves in each room.
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