The University Kansas. The official paper of the University of Kansas. JOSPH W. MURRAY - Editor-in-Chief EARL FISHER - - - Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF: BUSINESS STAFF: MEMBERS OF BOARD. HOMER BERGER - - - Business Manager CLARK WALLACE - Asst. Bus. Manager HENRY F. DRAFER - - - Treasurer J. E. MILLER - - - Circulation Mgr LOUIS LACOSS M. D. BAER GEORGE MARSH CARL CANNON RALPH SPOTTIS PAUL E. FLAGG 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. Address all business communications to Homer Berger, Business Manager, 1411 Tennessee street, Lawrence, Kan.; all other communications to Joseph W. Murray, 1341 Ohio street, Lawrence, Kansas. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance; one term, 75c; time subscriptions, $1.75 per year. Office in basement of Fraser Hall. Phone, Bell, K U. 25. TUESDAY, FEB. 14, 1911. COMING EVENTS. Feb. 16—Prof. E. B. Titchener in chapel. Feb. 16—Fairmount vs, College, at Lawrence. Feb. 17-18—Missouri vs. Kansas, at Columbia. Feb. 20-21—Iowa vs. Kansas, at Ames. Feb. 22—Grinnell vs. Kansas, Grinnell. Feb. 22—Washington's Birthday, Holiday. Feb. 22-23—"The Bachelor," by Thespians. Feb. 23—Cotner vs. Kansas, at Lincoln. Feb. 24-25—Nebraska vs. Kansas, at Lincoln. Baldwin, the seat of Baker University, is confronted by a situation which illustrates the possible unfairness of exempting fraternities from taxation. The town is so small that now, when it is planning extensive improvements,the exemption of any property from taxation is keenly felt. In Lawrence the fraternity property is comparatively so inconsiderable that the higher rate which other property has to pay because of its immunity would not be noticed. However, the situation at Baldwin indicates that the law is perhaps wrong in principle. While no fraternity can be blamed for taking advantage of the law as long as it is a law, those which have gone on paying taxes are to be commended for their public spirit. Many fraternity men have expressed themselves as opposed to the law, holding that they are amply able to carry their share of the burden of taxation. It is good to hear a talk about brains by a man who has them. Captain Waters' speech in chapel was one of the most entertaining and at the same time one of the most thought-provoking that the students have heard in many long hours of chapel going. Fashion Note. The Gazette has no desire to boss everything, but it does desire to say that those little hamsack caps the women are wearing certainly do look like the devil before he has his head combed.—Emporia Gazette. "Kansas." (Extracts from an article by Prof. Carl Becker in "Turner Studies in American History.") To understand why people say "Dear Old Kansas" is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a "state of mind," a religion, and a philosophy in one. In Kansas, as has been well said, "it is the ideas of the Pilgrims, not their descendants, that have had dominion in the young commonwealth." Ideas, sometimes, as well as the star of empire, move westward, and so it happens that Kansas is more Puritan than New England of today. It is what New England, Old England itself, once was—the frontier, an ever changing spot where dwell the courageous who defy fate and conquer circumstances. For the frontier is more than a matter of location, and Puritanism itself is a kind of frontier. There is an intellectual "West" as well as a territorial "West." The confident individualism of those who achieve through endurance is a striking trait of the people of Kansas...Kansans have been subjected, not only to the ordinary hardships of the frontier, but to a succession of reverses and disasters that could be survived only by those for whom defeat is worse than death, who can not fail because they can not surrender... The result has been to give a peculiar flavor to the Kansas spirit of individualism. With Kansas history back of him, the true Kan san feels that nothing is too much for him. How shall he be afraid of any danger, or hesitate at any obstacle, having succeeded where failure was not only human, but almost honorable? The Kansas spirit is therefore one that finds something exhilarating in the challenge of an extreme difficulty. Now, Kansans are eccentric in the same sense that Americans are; they differ somewhat from other Americans, just as Americans are distinguishable from Europeans. But a fundamental characteristic of Kansas individualism is the tendency to conform; it is an individualism of conformity, not of revolt. Having learned to endure to the end, they have learned to conform, for endurance itself is a kind of conformity...Kansas, it is true, has produced its eccentrics, but there is a saying here that freaks are produced for export only. In one sense the saying is true enough, for waht strikes one particularly is that, on the whole, native Kansans are all so much alike. Yet the patience, the calmness, the disposition to conform, is strictly confined to what is regarded as the natural course. Below the placid surface there is something fermenting which is best left alone—a latent energy which trivial events or a resounding phrase may unexpectedly release...Insurgency is native in Kansas, and the political history of the state, like its climate, is replete with surprises that have made it "alternately the reproach and the marvel of mankind." But this apparent instability is only the natural complement of the extreme and confident individualism of the people having succeeded in overcoming so many obstacles that were unavoidable, they do not doubt their ability to destroy quickly those which seem artificially constructed...A people which has endured the worst of nature's tyrannies and cheerfully submits to tyrannies self-imposed, is in no mood to suffer hardships that seem remediable. ON DISPLAY Stetsons and Imperials Entire Spring Lines! In his latest series of styles, Stetson has originated some of the cleverest ideas that ever came from the brain of a hat expert. We were so impressed with the new styles, in fact, that we bought the entire series and it will certainly be a pleasure to show them to customers. You may not know it, but it is very seldom that one has a chance to see Stetson's complete lines in one display. $3.00 Soft and stiff. Every conceivable new shape and shade, The Imperial still maintains its leadership in the $3 class and for that reason we have accepted the Lawrence agency for another season. The entire Spring lines are now in readiness. Soft and stiff, $3.50 Kansas is not a community of which it can be said, "Happy is the people without annals." It is a state with a past. It has a history of which its people are proud, and which they insist, as a matter of course, upon having taught in the public schools. There are Old Families in Kansas who know their place and keep it—sacred bearers of the traditions of the Kansas Struggle ...The belief that Kansas was founded for a cause distinguishes it, in the eyes of its inhabitants, as pre-eminently the home of freedom. It lifts the history of the state out of the commonplace of ordinarily westward immigration, and gives to the temper of the people a certain elevated and martial quality. The people of Iowa or Nebraska are well enough, but their history has never brought them in touch with cosmic processes. There is an alert attention to the quality of those who enter the state from outside. The crucial question is, are they "our kind of men?" Do they speak "the Kansas language?" Yet the Kansas language is less a form of speech, or the expression of ideas, than a certain personal quality. Some time ago a distinguished visitor from the East came to the state to deliver a public address. His address was attentively listened to and highly praised. But ...the great man was found wanting, for there was discovered, among his other impedimenta, a valet. It was a fatal mischance. The poor valet was more commented upon than the address, more observed than his master. The circumstance stamped the misguided man as clearly not our kind of man. Obviously.no man who carries a valet can speak the Kansas language. Kansas is America in microcosm. Within its borders, Americanism, pure and undefiled, has a new lease of life. It is the mission of this self-selected people to see to it that it does not perish from off the earth...The devotion to the state is devotion to an ideal, not to a territory, and men can say "Dear Old Kansas!" because the name symbolizes for them what the motto of the state so well expresses, "ad astra per aspera." About Harold Henry. An effort is being made to have Harold Henry, the pianist, come to Emporia to give a joint recital with Virginia Listermann,the famous soprano. Mr.Henry is a Kansas boy,a graduate of K.U. He spent six years in Europe studying with famous teachers, and for the past two years has been giving concerts throughout the United States. Mr.Henry is a credit to Kansas and since the death of William H.Sherwood, America's greatest pianist,Mr. Henry has been acclaimed as his successor.-Emporia Gazette. Protsch Spring Suiting FEBRUARY 1st A. G. 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