UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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Louis M.麦伯森 - Editor-in-Chief
Gregor M.麦伯森 - Editorial Editor
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
God helps them that help them selves.
ONE.
WHO IS REPRESENTATIVE?
In yesterday's Daily Kansan was a communication in which the question was asked whether or not our class societies are representative. This query naturally makes us ask who is the representative student and what are the tests by which he is to be known?
Is the representative student the one who has won his letters by hard service on the gridiron or in track or in other athletic activities? We think not. Because a man can knock a "home run" every time he comes to the plate, or because he can "shoot a basket" from the center of the court, or because he can drop kick a goal from the fifty yard line, these things are no reason why he is a representative student.
Is a man representative of his school who leads a monotonous life of grind and study? We should say not. He has missed a great portion of his college life.
What then, if these men are not representative, are the qualifications that go to make up the representa tive student?
Is the man representative of his school who spends all his time in an attempt to be a good fellow; who never studies but spends his time in an attempt to have a good time? We should say not.
He ought to combine elements from all the various phases of life that a University offers. The really representative student should be an athlete, a student who really studies and knows, a man who is able to meet his fellowmen and sympathize with them and see something interesting in everyone he meets. Such a student is rare. He is the ideal.
Referring to the criticism of the editorial it might be said that in no instance does any one man come up to the standard of the representative student. Sometimes mistakes are made in the selection of members. Several of the world's greatest college men, who have done more to advertise their college than a hundred others, have not been considered representative when they were in school.
The members of several of our class societies have been criticized as being "inferior" even. Maybe they are but they have been elected to membership because they possess some of the qualities that go to make up the representative student True it is that there are any number of University men who are the equals if not the superiors of any one member of any class society.
Class societies are new and any order that starts cannot hope to be perfect from the beginning. They must have an ideal toward which they strive and it takes time to attain it. The Black Helmets, the Trias, and the Sachems do not pre
tend to be perfect now but with gradual evolution they will attain a perfection that will place them beyond a great amount of criticism.
The freshmen at Leland Stanford pledged two thousand dollars in almost five minutes toward the erection of a new Union building. By the way, what has become of the movement that was so enthusiastic before the holidays to have a Union building on our own campus?
THE GYM. MADE TO BE USED.
How many times a week to you go to the gym, and take a little exercise? This isn't for you, freshman, nor for you, sophomore, but for those students who are not forced to take gymnasium work.
Do you realize that a healthy body is conducive to good study? Do you realize that if you have some good red blood coursing through your veins your efficiency for study will be increased fifty per cent?
Don't you think you ought to take a little time off and go over to the gym. and get the kinks out of your muscles and the rust off your joints?
You can find time for it if you just make up your mind that you will.
A choice bit of poetry was submitted to the Daily Kansan's "Old Friends in Verse" column by a student of the University. He says that it has brought much comfort and solace to him during his darkest hours. The verse follows:
A tramp sat in the box car door; His feet dragged on the ground.— Longfellow.
WHY MR. BACON RESIGNED
Ambassador Bacon's relinquishment of his diplomatic job to become a member of the corporation of Harvard College seems to excite some surprise in the newspapers. That is because they don't know Boston. Mr. Bacon was born and raised in Boston. Membership of the Corporation of Harvard College is Boston's blue ribbon. It is reckoned there a much higher distinction than to be Governor of Massachusetts, and ambassadorships are not in its class at all. It ranks about with the Senatorship that Charles Sumner once held, and the chiefjusticeship of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
It is an agreeable promotion in a social way of a qualified Bostonian to become a member of the Somerset Club, but there are 500 members (we believe) of the Somerset Club, whereas the sum of the 'belows of Harvard College (excluding the president and the treasurer) is only five. So the distinction of being a fellow of Harvard College is at least one hundred times as great as that of being a member of the Somerset Club. Perhaps that will help to make it clear to our contemporaries why Mr. Bacon shed his ambassadorship like last winter's overshoes when the invitation reached him to be a fellow of Harvard College—Harper's Weekly.
The members of the Southern Illinois Editorial Association visited the University on November 18. They expressed themselves as greatly pleased with the University in general, but are quoted as saying "Illinois should provide better facilities for students in journalism, to keep up with Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kansas."—Illinois Alumni Quarterly.
ORIAL
3Y MR. AESOP
A COUNTRYMAN'S son by accident trod upon a Serpent's tail, which turned and bit him so that it broke. The Tamarite got his axe, and pursued the Serpent, cut off part of its tail. So the Serpent in revenge began stinging several of the farmer's cattle and caused him to eat it. The Tamarite it best to make it up with the Serpent; brought food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it: "Let's forget and forgive; perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take vengeance on him, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him; now that we are both satisfied why should not we be friends again?" The Serpent; "take away your gifts; you can never kill the death of your son, nor the 'loss of my tail'."
Injuries may be forgiven, but not for- gotten.
The editor is not responsible for the views expressed here. Communication must be signed as an evidence of good faith.
BAD MANNERS To The Daily Kansan:
STUDENT OPINION
An editorial in the Kanan for January 23 deplored the fact that some of the students in the University of Kansas still carried with them their high-school ideas concerning the way in which an opponent should be treated while visiting the school. The editor was correct and just in every particular but could it not have gone wrong? The answer is that, whichever some of the students treat their own fellows and visiting spectators who itten't the game?
At the basket-ball games the other night some of the students who arrived early congregated in one end of the hall and as the other arrivals walked across the floor to their seats these "cu-ups" would whistle in time to the steps taken. While this in itself was not a criminal offense if you were not able lack of food breading and respect? It certainly is not pleasant feeling for even the least sensitive to walk across a broad expansion of floor and be made cohesive by having a note sounded for each step taken.
Besides making it embarrassing for the persons this treated it brings great discredit on the student body as awhole. It is certainly not a very high recommendation for the University to have visitors say that the students at the University of Kansas do not even know each other. In reality, fellow students with respect. This sort of advertising will not make a larger and better University.
The plan should be discouraged in all of its phases and the toleration by the part of the student body of such acts should be brought to a sudden and decisive end. R. H. C.
HISSING EXCUSABLE
Your editorial on the rooting at the games of last week impresses me as a little ill-timed or hasty.
To The Daily Kansan:
The hissing and unfairness that you commented upon, in my belief, did not come from a spirit of unfairness but from a wish to see dirty playing and infringement of rules stopped. The individual players of the team upon several instances were applauded when they made good plays and a spirit of friendliness was evident to observers except in the above mentioned cases.
If a few remarks that were not meant in the right spirit were heard they can be attributed to over-wrought nerves during the stress of exciting play. One who was up in the balcony where such remarks generally are forth-coming could say that there was perfect spirit there during the entire game Friday night.
The Princetonian, in reply declares the figures given by Mr. Hale are not correct, that men of all stations in life, the rich as well as the poor, form the clubs and that the thing least tolerated at the university is the snob.
If too much editorial comment is directed towards our rooting it will have an evil effect upon it. Where there is a particularly rank foul, objections of the most strenuous sort should be raised, if only to call the referee's attention. The reputation of Kansas is well enough founded to make us worried about rooting Friday night. They themselves were friendly to a degree extraordinary. This is the spirit that we should cultivate, not a rather too critical inspection of each and every follower of the game. A. FAN
Let a university but become large and flourishing and it is certain to be accused of being undemocratic. That has been the lot of Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the past; that is the lot of Princeton in the present. Greatness, it seems, is an admirable target for the average marksman to shoot at, chiefly because it is an easy tarve to hit.
SIZE AND DEMOCRACY
William Bayard Hale directs his fire against the famous club system that has prospered at Princeton for so many years. And his fire is returned. A pretty little controversy is the result. According to Mr. Hale, the situation at the university is substantially this: Three hundred and fifty students have arsenal points and fifteen bitter pointed and moning because they did not "arrive"; the other 750 are "climbers" and striving might and main to "arrive." Briefly, "arrive" is the key of the Princeton puzzle.
It might also have called attention to the fact that a college is not undemocratic simply because a few men of similar tastes and the same temperament see fit to band together into a fraternal association. Absolute equality is far from a reality in the world at large. Why should anyone expect it at a university?—Boston Transcript.
TOO LATE I STAYED
But I had scerce the CRAM thing tried when the surviving warrior died, and o'r his lifeless companion went home. QWEK, breathing flame.
Too late I stayed—forgive the crime!
Unheeded the hours:
How noiseless falls the foot of Time
That only treads on flowers!
And who, with clear account, remarks
The cbiblings of his glass,
When all its sands are diamond sparks,
That dazzle as they pass?
O, who to sober measurement
Time's happy swiftness brings,
When birds of paradise have lent
 Their plumage to his wings?
-WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER.
I sought to pierce him with my half-formed weapon; uttered he a laugh both pitiless and cruc; when its rude point crumpled in blood he began to be me by the nerveless hand and led me off to dread Flock-land.
Ah, what's this darkling cloud that lowers before us, glooming happy hours? The fair co-eds look sad and grave and next men studes forget to shave. The worried Fhrash wilt thin and pale; jesters grow dull and athletes frail. Alas, this Quiz Week's ghastly pall, that brooding nigh, at rights us all.
DAYS FIGHT IN VAIN
Last night I ate the pie plate round, and ergo, knew no slumbers sound. Instead a Quiz Week dream I dreamed. I trembled on my knees, it seemed, before a Monster, huge and grim, who sought to rend from limb to limb my crouching figure. And to stay his dreadful onslaught stood a Dav
This little Day, with comrades three, staved off the Monster valiantly, but as I stood and cowered, there before the Monster's fiery star, my gallant Day succumbed and died. Sing weep, we cry. The sun shines on me there sprang a brother day—and stoutly fought my doom away
COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD.
The Monster yet his efforts bent to seize me. Clearly his intent my ruin; still I could but gaze and trust my three remaining d Days. Aheu! As hotter grew the fight another Champion's effort to place him on the floor, a faithful comrade stepped, once more.
And still the Monster battled on more fierce! My courage nigh was gone. Two little Days What should I do? For I am lost when die the two. Then as I grovelled there and wry my hands and tore my hair, another Day gave up the ghost.
I deemed me now most surely lost. There struggled but a single day between the Monster and his prey. Wherefore, I truly desperate grew; to help myself I sought anew. I found some ill tools called "CRAM," and tried with a nasty slash to forge a weapon that would make the Monster his attuned to forake, and save me when this last time he brave Day was vaquished. Then I would afloat my deadly foe and with my weapon, lky himlow.
Grouchy Gilihan.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
A plan is being worked out by the board of education in Kansas City to have every boy and girl enrolled in the grad schools in the city work in a garden next spring and summer in connection with their school work.
YOUNG CITY GARDENERS
If the right spirit and interest are taken in this plan, many tables will be supplied with fresh garden truck and flowers and the little gardeners will become better acquainted with nature. In the garden should afford as much pleasure as a game of black-man or a stroll around the streets.
A search is now being made for an expert to have charge of the work so that the proper instruction will be given.
Come into the garden, Mand,
For the black bat, night, has flown!
Come into the garden, Mand,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafed
And the musk of the roses blown.
* * * * *
She is coming, my own, my sweet!
Were it ever so airthe a tread.
My heart would hear her and beat,
ecre it earth in an earthly bad;
My heart would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for century dead.
Would start for tremble under he feet,
and blossom in purple and red.
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And blossom in purple and red.
—ALFRED TENNYSON.
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