UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS
He that rishth last must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him.
Eight Days TILL EXAMINATIONS.
NO DEBATE WITH MISSOURI?
Is Kansas going to meet Missouri in debate this year? At the last meeting of the Debating Council of the University, it was decided to reject the question submitted by Missouri and a letter was sent to the Debating Council at Missouri urging them to propose another question. If they refuse to do this debating relations may be broken off with them for this year.
It is to be hoped that Missouri will submit another question. Their original question was entirely too intricate and uninteresting to repay the debaters for the necessary work needed to work it up properly.
GOVERNOR WILSON'S VISIT.
The probable visit of Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey to the University is a distinct compliment to this institution. As an ex-president of one of our largest universities, as a governor of one of the Eastern states, and as a candidate for the president's chair, he is highly regarded both as a statesman and as a scholar.
His visit to Kansas is, no doubt, in his political interest, but we may feel assured that when he is once again within the accustomed collegiate atmosphere, he will address the students on topics that are of general interest.
THE BASEBALL PROBLEM.
The University now has an opportunity to assume an athletic leadership. The other schools of the Missouri Valley Conference are admittedly waiting for Kansas to solve the knotty problem of summer baseball, as she has solved several other athletic puzzles in the few years past. It is the expressed opinion of all of the members of the conference baseball committee, that the University is in better position to produce the right solution than any other Missouri Valley School, because of her more centralized system of athletic control and because of the stronger demand of the student body for real amateur sport.
The athletic authorities here, expect soon to introduce a scheme whereby the baseball problem can be handled, but in order to make it a success, they must have the strong moral support of the students. The plan is to debar entirely, all athletes who have ever played baseball in any league which is supervised by the National Baseball Commission, but to allow men to try for the team who have accepted sums of money for games played in unorganized baseball, provided they promise not to accept pay for any further games they may play during their college career. This will permit men to play
for the sport that there is in the game, but will not professionalize them for having received money in the past nor for having played on teams with other paid players.
This plan is now being considered by the baseball committee of the conference, and unless that committee can strengthen the scheme, it will go into effect in all Conference schools this spring. However, it can never be successful unless the students of the University realize its merits and uphold it. This can be done only by creating a sentiment which will make every athlete live up to the ruling of the Conference.
Here is a chance for the University of Kansas to demonstrate that those schools which say that amateur baseball is impossible in colleges are wrong.
NEED OF CLASS SOCIETIES.
Class societies are comparatively a new thing at the University. It is only within the past few years that the need of these societies has become apparent, but the rapid growth of the student body has made them almost a necessity. With an enrollment that reaches over two thousand the common sentiment of the school is not easily obtained. Together with the growth of the school the several classes and Schools have come to have diversified interests and it is only on general University affairs that they all come together.
In order to advance the interests or all classes and to foster a better University spirit, the Sachems, the Friars, and the Black Helmets have been formed. The members of these societies are chosen as representatives of their class and it is incumbent upon them to take the initiative in matters that would be otherwise neglected.
The smoker given by the Black Helmets to the Sachems this week was the first of a series of informal meetings that the several societies have planned for each other. The good fellowship that was exhibited at this meeting can result in good not only for the individuals but for the University. Plans for class and school affairs were made and the result probably will be another big gathering of all the men of the University for a general good time, similar to the football smoker.
The class societies are young but they have proved their usefulness. Their influence will increase as they grow older and within the next few years membership in these orders will be reckoned as one of the University's choicest honors.
COLLEGE FASHION NOTES.
The Drake Delphic contains the following fashion note, but it spoils an otherwise good story by omitting the Kansas engineers and their green shirts;
Every college has a little fashion all its own. Indiana seniors wear corduroys exclusively. Wisconsin and Minnesota favor sweater jackets. Columbia sofas wear grey slush gowns as their royal insignia. Colorado freshmen wear green skull caps with a big red button on top. New Mexico affects the Mexico sombrero, and Wyoming the inevitable cowboy lid. It is whispered that Harvard students go to class in dress suits, and it is a well known fact that Drake students wear checked horsebackkerns for overcoats.
THE Lion went once a-hunting along with the Fox, the Jackal and the Wolf. They hunted and they hurried till at last they surprised a Stag, and so soon came the question how the spoil should be divided. "Quarter me this Stag" roared the Lion; so the other animals skimmed it and cut it into four parts. One took his stand in front of the carcass and gave me instruction: "The first quarter is for me my capacity as King of Beasts; my second is mine as arbitrer; another share comes to me for my part in the fourth quarter, well, as for that, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it."
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"Humph," growled the Fox as he walked away with his tail between his legs; but he spoke in a low growl—You may share the lament of
may share the doors of the great but you will not share the spoil.
(With Apologies to S. H. Lewis, and George Ade).
ANOTHER "DUB"
Two Young Hopefuls had started forth from High School with the Awarded Intention of becoming Law Sharks. Before the Process of incubation had been fully Accomplished the Theory became Prevalent that one of the Eratwhile Advocates was a Dub. According the Principal Compressor of Elevated Knowledge of the Institution, where the two were Allowing Information to catch up with them, otherwise known as the Dean, called the Dub into his Sanctum and gently and Amiably placed Him in Juxtaposition with the Information that he was a Dub and would never be able to exert Leverage enough with his Gray Matter to make Twoveg Good Men and True believe Black was White and consequently extract the Mazuma from the Unsupertaining Populace and thus become famous as a Legal Luminary. He Counselled the Dub to return to his Pastures Green and busy himself in Personally Conducted Excursions with the Hens to the Aqua Receptacle. The Dub, believing that all the Wit and Wisdom of the Ages were Centered in the Dean, absorbed the Advice and returned to the Rural Regions where he broke the news to Father and Mother that the Legal Profession would have to Worry along without him in the Future.
The other Youth attended classes Once in a While and Pulled Good Grades without so much as opening a Text Book and his Instructors greatly Marveled and Predicted great things for his Futures because he was so Original that he Knew the Law without having to Delve in the Musty Volumes to Corner it.
He enjoyed his Moments by Escorting the Queens to the Nickel Parlors and otherwise being truly Frivolous.
In Due Course of Human Events the one who was not a Dub was Graduated from the great Brain Improvement Plant and went forth into the World firmly Convinced that he Had the Key to the Situation and would be Fixed for Life if he could find the Key-hole.
He finally decided that Birdcenter was the most Likely Place for a Bright Young Man with Talent and that there he could fill a Long Felt Want. He was Determined that he would Tackle the Law Business with an Agate Ware Heart and put the Old Boys out of Business in Crisp Time.
Within a Week he was sorry the Chair was not more heavily Upholstered. He wished he had placed a Mattress over the Seat of it. Every time a Step sounded on the Stair he had Palpitation of the Heart.
So he had a large Sign painted announcing that he was an Attorney, and looked around for a Convenient and Cheap place to hang it. He finally decided to Locate over the Undertaking Emporium as a Lively place so he bought a Desk and a Table and a copy of the General Statutes and "Somebody on Torts" and moved in .
About that time the Insurance Business began to look good to the Brilliant Youth and he decided to Embark in Insurance and leave the Law to Others.
He determined to Dispose of his Growing Practice and Embark as an Agent for an Insurance Company or a Patent Washing Machine.
Within three Months he found he would be unable to even Beat a Digitified Retreat.
After he had sold his Desk to the Two Hand Store and given the Chair with the Adamantine Bottom to a Deserving Creditor he Made Ready to Depart from the City that had been so Cruel to him .
As the Bright Youth whom the World had awaited with Open Arms boarded the Mixed Accommodation out of Town he Reflected and Pondered deeply and finally reached the Conclusion that You can't Always Tell and neither can the College Prof.
At the Wheel he noticed a Sunburned Person with a Face like Hali Done Toast and a Hand like a Seal Flipper who was smoking a Twobit Clear Havana. As he strained his Glims to get a Second Look at the strange Apparition he was able to Recognize the Dub and upon Inquiry the Proud and Haughty Personage who presided over the Destiny of the Railroad Company at that Station condescendingly confirmed his Worst Pears.
As he stood on the Depot Platform, taking a Last Look at the Painful Place of his Failure, a 1918 Model, One-Hundred-Elephant-Power Gasoline Wagon with all the New Inconveniences hove in Smelling Distance.
MUCH IN LITTLE
A little bin best fits a little bread,
A little garland fits a little head,
As my small stuff best fits my little
head.
seed
V little heartth best fits a little fire,
V little chapel fits a little chair,
Vs my small bell best fits my little
spire. Power Uhuru.
From Lafcadie Hearn's Japanese Letters:
THE JAPANESE STUDENT
-ROBERT HERRICK.
My grind has begun again. This tern twenty-one hours a week. Every year, I remark, they try to make my work more practical, and less theoretical. I have no books, and now three fresh conversation classes.
Japanese studets do not lack one thing—spontanity. Conversation must be always painfully forced by questions. Original questions original suggestions, original ideas are seldom uttered. They are written sometimes; but out of four hundred—no, out of fully one thousand that I have taught, I do not remember ten accustomed to ask or to say original things. Perhaps there were eight. Out of that eight, two are dead.
I have no belief in the worth of a literary course for Japanese students. The standard is too low. No class has sufficient mastery of English to feel an author nor even to understand the difference between poetry and prose. "Teacher! it is no use to put that into rhyme for us—we see no difference between prose and verse." I fancy the literary course must be of little value to those who follow it. The great rush is to the Law! The reason seems to be that this branch of study requires especially the strong faculty of Japanese students,—memory; while the scientific and technological branches require a faculty seldom developed among them to any degree,—mathematics. At least I imagine this to be the case. One disheartening thing the teacher has to face is that he need never expect to be able to influence his classes much through imagination—so powerful an auxiliary elsewhere,—not because his students have no imagination, but because he can offer them nothing capable of stimulating such imagination as they have. Now what the devil is the use of trying to teach English literature to a class totally insensible to European imagination? It is pure waste of time and money."
* * * * *
The other day some Japanese books were brought me to look at. On them was the name of the father of a student now at the university. The poor old man could only pay his son's expenses by selling his library,—a wonderful library. It is all scattered now. Nothing could be more touching than the history of the sacrifices being made every day in every part of Japan for the education of sons and daughters;—the unwritten goodness is the most wonderful.
"Once upon a time there was in Italy a man who was a very rich and most venerable.
Here is a specimen of an examination composition on the story of the Three Caskets (Merchant of Venice):
"He has a daughter, very beauty—the bride of the all village.
"She has this fate when her father has die,—then all his furniture was to fall on her.
"The father became old and sicked into his bed," and couldn't get up once more, and he foreseed that sick is the last sick of his life.
"So every man wanted to marriage to her.
"So he called his remarkable girlie to his bed and said,—I cannot get off of death, and I want a successor to my house—"
(I skip the instruction about the three caskets, and the description of the princes of Morocco and Arragon).
"This Prince chosen the casket of gold, and find inside the skeleton of the old man—which wondered him unfortunately.
"The other Prince choosened the casket of silver, and find a Tool-Man inside, and in slowly runned away."
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
The Daily Kansan will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome—The Editor.
PERFECTION.
o gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
to throw a perfume on the violet,
to smooth the ice, or add another mur-
into the rainbow, or with taper-light
o seek the beauteous eye of heaven to
garnish
garism.
Is wastish and ridiculeb excess.
— SHARESPARE.
WHERE STUDENTS GO ROWLANDS COLLEGE BOOK STORE.
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BOWERSOCK THEATER
Wednesday, Jan. 24th An Attraction Worth of Lawrence New Theater ADVANCE MAIL ORDER NOTICE
Sheehan English Opera Company With Joseph F. Schechow, Americal's greatest tenor, and the most remarkable cast of artists ever held in an English Opera, in the Operatic sensation of two continents.
Realizing the fact that in as much as this is one of the most notable love attractions heard in this city, and that the demand love will be unmusual, the management has arranged to allow staff to work proactively procuring desirable seats at once for this engagement. This is a positive response to many requests from theatregoers who do not wish to stand in line yet desire to be assured of good seats in advance.
Kindly fill out below how many seats are required, and the date of departure by money order, express order or check together with a sticker and addressed envelope and mail to BOWERSOCK THEATER, LAWRENCE, KANSAS, seats will be promptly sent you.
LOVE TALES OF HOFFMAN
It is with great pride that the management of the Bowersock Theater announces the engagement of the Sheehan English Opera Company. From the Atlantic to the Pacific coast press adaption takes along this organization the finest opera company in the English language.
HI
nees for this Engagement, 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50 & $2
$2.00 $1.50 $1.00 75c 50c
--in Lawrence?" This is likely to be the first question asked by the man looking for a good location. He may not wish to go into business but he likes to live in a wideawake town just the same.
For a quick answer, right to the point, tell him that the five Lawrence banks show in their regular statements resources aggregating more than three and a half million dollars.
The weekly clearings of the Lawrence Clearing House are more than a quarter million.
"HOW'S BUSINESS
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
Bell Brothers Pianos
Are Made for Discriminating Musicians and are sold where really artistic pianos
are appreciated.
Baker University, Baldwin, Kan TO ALL INTERESTED-
I have used the Bell Brothers Piano for the past three years for teaching purposes at Baker University, and we use to which a piano may be put that will more severely trit it than the teaching of vocal music. I use the instrument individually satisfied with the Bell Brothers Piano. I use the piano about nine hours every day and find it necessary to have it tuned only two times a year. The great merit that I have achieved in the Bell Brothers Piano is that it will
stand a very great deal of hard work. There seems to be no particular "talking points" about the instrument—it is good all over. I feel perfectly free to heartily recommend it.
R. G, McCUTCHAN,
Dean Vocal Dept., Baker University.
BELL BROTHERS PIANO CO.,
LAWKENCE KANSAS
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