UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The official paper of the University of Kansas. EDITORIAL STAFF LOUIS Brown Chief GEOEN MARSH Managing Editor BUSINESS STAFF* CLARK WALLACE Manager Manager M. D. BAPAR Manager Manager Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910; at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHED every afternoon by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism. Subscription price $2.00 per year, in advance; one term, $1.52; time limited Telephone, Bell, K. U. 25 Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1912. POOR RICHARD SAYS: Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP The University has started well toward a victorious season in basketball. The two games with Nebraska showed plainly that the team was not in form, that they were not used to playing with each other. This was due to their handicap in practice. The evident improvement that was displayed in the K. C. A. C. and the K. S. A. C. games brought joy to the heart of every rooter. The team is fully capable of bringing back another championship to Kansas. The victory over K. C. A. C. last Thursday evening was a great victory. The Kansas City men are as fast as any college team that Kansas will play. The two victories over them puts Kansas decidedly in the running. Don't you think so? STUDENT NARROWNESS STUDENT NARROWNESS The narrow knowledge of most students concerning the buildings and the larger interests of the University is hardly believable. It is nevertheless a fact. For instance, how many college students have been inside the Engineering buildings, the Physics building, the Chemistry building, or even the Museum? How many have been in old North College hall? How many engineers have been here? How many lawyers have been through the Museum? Here on the hill is a magnificent array of state buildings and equipment put here for the benefit of the whole body of students. Yet a large number of students come here, lose themselves in their own little sphere of activity, and forget to look about them at the greater University. They intend to go through all the buildings and see every thing sometime, but that sometime never comes. The Museum, especially, is a building with which every student on the hill ought to be familiar. It contains a wonderful display of material that is both fascinating and instructive. Yet how many students have seen through the Museum? How many have been it even more than once? Most strangers who visit the University go away with actually a broader knowledge of the buildings and equipment on the hill than is possessed by a large portion of the students. Don't graduate without seeing and knowing your Alma Mater. Get a habit of looking about you. EXTREME An exchange says that a student at the University of Minnesota has been declared ineligible for athletics because, years before, he had received a prize of one dollar for winning a race at a county fair. Even the most radical sticker for technicalities will probably declare that this is undoubtedly carrying it a little too far. This brings up the old problem of one best way to obtain clean athletics. This cry of "professionalism" is one that sounds well and means, possibly, that the victim has played on a bull team at a salary of three hundred dollars a month, or played ping pong for a ten cent cigar. There are probably men on every football team in the West this year who have received some remuneration for some form of athletics at some time in their life. It often merges into a game of hide and seek with the eligibility committee to keep these facts from becoming known. This brings up the question as to the "why" of the eligibility rule on the professionalism score. If a man comes to school and keeps up to the requirements of his courses there are many who can see no reason why he should not participate in athletics provided he has been in the school a year as an evidence of good faith. The recognition of this principle would probably make cleaner and better athletes. As long as a man is doing his regular work and keeps up to the mark set for all students in the school he should not be barred from playing on a team. If he cannot keep up to the mark he should be dropped from the rolls of the school. THE SOLICITOR Now is the time for all good men and true who haven't a good job for next summer to step up and sign away their birthright. Every year after the Christmas holidays, the University is alive with keen eyed and velvet tongued solicitors for Bibles, C. Book of Facts, aluminum ware that will wear, etc., etc, who by hook or crook—mostly both—induce the bravest of our brave to take up a lucrative agency in Missouland or Dingbasa or some other place, there to separate the natives from their hard earned kale . This year is no exception. The solicitors are here and they have a smoother line of talk than they had last year. Already a goodly number of our usually wise and judicious studies have agreed to spend their summer vacation in an attempt to sell unwilling ones their wares. The condition is the same in every college. Within a few weeks the host will leave our University to travel to some other educational center there to ply their trade. All hail the solicitor. WHAT PROFESSORS DO. The university instructor was for mierly considered a recluse. Whether he is to-day, let Harvard answer. Professor of Geology W. M. Davis is in France, representing exchange of lecturers with the French Ministry of Public Instruction. Professor of History Edward Channing, on leave of absence, is at work upon his history of the United States. Professor of History R. M. Johnston is in London working on a book. Professor of Pedagogy Paul H. Hanus is engaged in an investigation of the New York public-school system for the city authorities. Professor of Breek C. B. Guliek is at the American School at Athens. Professor of Mathematics E. B. Huntington is studying English methods of teaching mathematics as applied to engineering landscapes. Professor of Landscape Architecture James S. Payre is investigating municipal planning in Europe. Professor of Law A. W. Scott is helping to establish a law school at the University of Iowa. Makers of our dictionaries, in using the phrase "academic leisure," might almost mark t' its "obsolete." —Colliers Weekly. AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP GREAT conflict was about to come off between the Birds and the Beasts. When the two armies gathered, when the beasthesiated which to join, the Birds that passed his perch said: "Come with us;" but he said: "I am a Beast." Later on some Beasts who were passenging came in and said: "Come with us;" but he said: "I am a Bird." Luckily at the last moment peace was made, and no battle was fought against them in the Birds and wished to join in the rejoicing, but they all turned against him and he had to fly away. He then went into hiding and retreated, or else they would have harm him to pieces. "Ah," said the Bat, "I see now le that is neither one thing, nor the other has no friends," Clayton S. Cooper in the Century Magazine. COLLEGE STUDENT AN ENIGMA Indeed, to people of the outside world, the American undergraduate presents an enigma. He appears to be not exactly a floy, certainly not a man, an interesting species, a kind of "Exhibit X." prismatic habitats that can fascinate, or illustrate, say, a creature "run by galvanized and possessed by the devil." I mustify part of this lies in the fact that the college man seems determined to keep up this illusion of his partial or total deprivacy. He reveals no unchastened eagerness to be thought good. Indeed, he usually fails to realize this. He levels in his unmitigated lawness, he busks in the glory of fooling folks. We must find out what the undergraduate really means by his whimsicalities and picturesque attitudinizing. We must find out what he is thinking about, what he reads, what he admires. He seems to live in two distant worlds and his inner life is securely shut off from his outer life. If we would learn the college student we must catch him off guard, away from the "fellows," with his intimate friend, in the chapter house or in his own quiet room, where he has no reputation for devilment to live up to. On some long, vague walk at night beneath the stars, when the great deeds of his life loyalties are suddenly broken up one will discover the motive of the undergraduate, and below specious attempts at concealment, the self absorbed, graceful, winome spirit. Here one is held by the subtle charm of youth lost in a sense of its own significance, moving about in a mysterious paradise all his own, "full of dumb emotion, undefined longing, and with a deep sense of the romantic possibilities of life." The American college man worships at the shrine of reality. He likes elemental things. Titles, conventions, ceremonies, creeds—all these for him are forms of things merely. Sham heroes and mock sublimity are specially odious to him. The undergraduate is still sufficiently unsophisticated to believe that things should be what they seem to be—at least his entire inciliation and desire is to see men and things as they are. The undergraduate's worship of reality is also shown in his admiration of naturalness. The modern student has relegated into the background the stilted elocutionary and oratorical contests of forty years ago because these exercises were unnatural. Furthermore, the college man's love of reality is kept in balance by his humorous tendencies. His keen humor is part of him. It rises from him spontaneously on all occasions in a kind of genial effervescence. He seems to have an inherent antagonism to dolefulness and long-facedness. His life is always breaking into a hugh. He is looking for the breeziness, the delight, the wild joy of living. Every phenomenon moves him to a smiling mood. The whole student mood is as light and warm and invigorating as summer sunshine. He lives in a period And Clear Havana, Too! "Tis bliss to be alive." The student forgives and usually forgets the next day. The sense of humor is a real influence toward this attitude of mind, for the student blots out his resentment by making either himself or his antagonist appear ridiculous. The University Daily Kansan for Jan. 24th, portrayed three Chancellors. Two "long-fillers" and one "club-house." They were respectively, J. A. Lippincott, 1885-89, Frank Strong, present incumbent and F. H. Snow, 1890-1904—Osa-watomie Graphic. The college boy, with the manner of young men somewhat ashamed of their young men somewhat ashamed of their emotions, does not want to talk much about his religion, but this does not prove that he does not possess the feeling or the foundations of religion. Fact, at present there is a deep current of seriousness and religious feeling running through the college life of America. The honored and influential students in undergraduate circles are taking a stand for the most worth while in academic life. I have often been asked by people who only see the student in such playful and humorous moods, "Is the American college man really religious?" The answer must be decidedly in the affirmative. Furthermore, the standards of morals and conduct among the American undergraduates are perceptibly higher than they were fifty years ago. There is a very real tendency in the line of doing away with such celebrations as have been connected with drinking and immoralities. To be sure, one will always find students who are often worse for their Bacchie associations, and one must keep in mind that the college is on earth and not in heaven. HEROIC HEARTS Though much is taken much abides; And though we are not a snow that strength Which in old days moved earth and heaven; That which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate; But strong in will to strive, to seek, to trust. find, and not to yield. OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE THE FAMILY IS CORDIAL Greetings to the 35th college daily in the United States, the University Daily Kansas, the first issue of which came off the press Tuesday afternoon, January 16. Judging from the first issue, the staffhas all the judgement, energy, ability and interest that go to make a college publication worth while; and with the avowed support of the students and alumni of the university, there is small chance of its failing to make good when many other college dailies under less favorable conditions are still doing business at the old stand. -PURDUE EXPONENT. The first number of the University Daily Kansan contains plenty of news, the editorsials are good and the paper contains more reading matter than any other university daily that we have on our exchange list. Here's our good wishes for the future success of the University Daily Kansan.—STUDENT'S HERALD K. S. A. C. Arrived at The Varsity office on Monday, No. 1, Vol. 1 of "The University Daily Kansan. Printed on really good paper, in good clean type, the first glance at the paper is rereshing. A further perusal confirms the first impression. Breezy, well written, the style is typically western, and reads easily and smoothly. The editorials we expected to find written in the same bright but rather free-and-easy style as the news columns, but were pleasantly surprised. No less readable than the rest of the paper, the editorials showed none of the looseness in style which characterizes too many inside pages of American and Canadian newspapers. We assumed the suggestion of dignity which, in our opinion, is essential in the editorial columns of a really good paper. Altogether, we do not hesitate to say that the new arrival is undoubtedly in the very first rank of our numerous exchanges. —Toronto (Canada) Univ. Varsity A PRAYER One of the breeziest and best of our college exchanges is the new daily of the University of Kansas. The first issue is a praiseworthy journalistic achievement; it equals those of larger and older schools. In addition to the college news, one department is given over to the high schools of the state. Excellent as it now is, it aspires to greater things and its editorial staff imbued with proverbial originality and perseverance of Kansas, will undoubtedly accomplish this result.—UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA STUDENT. The University Missouri is understood to be reserving mention until the year 1942 when it will chronicle the arrival of the Daily Kansan in its column of "Happenings Thirty Years Ago." In Shakespeare's and Milton's time it was the custom for gentlemen to ride home from the theater on horseback, hiring the horse, as we do a cab, at a stand. Naturally, each one wished to have the best horse and much confusion ensued, while some poor animals were never taken. A university carrier and the first keeper of a haackey stable at Cambridge, England, named Thomas (or Tobias) Hobson (1544-1631), the idea of placing his horses in line and forcing his customers to take the one nearest the door of the theater. It then became no longer a matter of personal selection, but of "Hobson's choice" that is, "is or none." Milton wrote two poems dedicated to Hobson.—Current Literature. HOBSON'S CHOICE Purge out of every heart the lurking grudge. Give us grace and strength to forbear and persevere. Offenders, give us the grace to accept and to forgive offenders. Forget ourselves, help us to bear cheerfully the forgetfulness of others. Give us courage and graciety and the quiet mind 1. if it may not, give us the strength to That we be brave in peril, constant in Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. tribulation, temperate in wrath, And in all changes of fortune are Bless us if it may be, in all our innocent endavors. And in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death. down to the gates or death, Loyal and loving one to another. WILSON, ROWLANDS "Where Students Go" Text Books and Supplies at Lowest Prices. A Farmer who lives a few miles east of Lawrence has owned and worked his farm for forty-five years and reports but two crop failures in that time--one from grasshoppers and one from infundation. Douglas county is situated in the richest farming region in the state. The farms are fertile, well stocked, and well improved, and produce fine crops of wheat, corn, potatoes, fruit and garden stuff. Allied to these are large dairy interests, blooded cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, and poultry. An investment in Douglas county is gilt edged. The Merchants' Association Lawrence Visit Our New Talking BELL BROTHERS PIANO CO., Machine Rooms where you can hear your favorite orchestra, or singer, or vaudeville sketch without being disturbed. The February Records are all in. Come in and hear them. A. G. 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