UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
LOUIS GROSS
MARSHI
EDITOR-in-Chief
GRONZI MARSHI
BUSINESS STAFF;
CLARK WALLACE Business Manager
M. D. BARRER Business Manager
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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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1912
The sleeping fox catches no poultry; there will be sleeping enough in the grave.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
WHY NOT AN OBSERVATORY?
Through the kindness and public spirit of Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson and her husband, Dr. Charles Robinson, the University of Kansas has been the recipient of many favors, for which the students of this institution will always be truly thankful. The latest favor has just come in the form of a valuable farm bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Robinson at her death a short time ago. The question now confronting the Regents of the University is: "To what use shall this bequest be put?"
The wish of the benefactors was without question that it should be put to the most practical and beneficial use that can be found for it at the present time. Some have suggested that the School of Medicine should be allowed most of it for its use. While there is no doubt some need of money by the School of Medicine at this time, it is not so pressing but that it can easily wait until the next legislature convenes. One of the things that the University of Kansas needs is a modern observatory. Nearly every other institution in the United States that has any rank at all as a University has an observatory. Many schools much smaller than the University of Kansas have well-equipped observatories.
It is almost an anomaly that this great institution, situated as it is upon an eminent hill, should be without an observatory,-native of hill-tops. The sum of money that can be realized from the Robinson farm should be just enough for such a project as this, and the finished observatory would certainly be a fitting memorial to the two great benefactors of the University.
It so happens that there is no good observatory anywhere near here. There ought to be one somewhere in this section of the country and the place for it is at the University of Kansas, and now is the time to build it.
FAVORITE FICTION
"Gas Heaters."
"Gas Heaters."
"Spiked Punch!"
"Beat Kansas."
"I'm sorry but I have a Class Next Hour."
"Really Mr. Smith I Can't Tell You Your Grade until I See Your Paper."
"Yes, in the Engineering School We Carry 85 Hours a Week."
"Sure, Miss Murphy, I Went From the Library Straight Home."
SWIMMING BY RULE
Several years ago one James Whitcomb Riley mused tunefully on "The O' Swimmin' Hole." His reflections on certain aqueous adventures struck a popular chord in that they showed the innate yearnings of the American boy. His little poem is a poem of the older days when
"dad" took the "kid" down to the pasture pond and threw him in, to watch him sputter and cry and kick and strangle.
His musings also bring back the days when we used to sneak out the back door on a hot summer day and take a "cross-cut" through the timber down to a shady nook in the "crick" there to float and dive. It also brings back remembrances of sun-burned backs, of clothes tied knots by grinning, impish companions and of a wonderful ability to "part my hair in the middle."
But how the old order of things changeth. According to a recent report, swimming is to be taught by rote and a course in aquatic education is made a part of a college curriculum. The boy of today must forget his hereditary instinct to learn by himself. He must now come to school, enroll in a course in swimming—speak "ing" plainly—and take his instruction with the system and precision that is the mark of culture.
Long years ago some one said "Mother, may I go out to swim?" The answer to this appeal was the well-known "Yes...But don't go near the water." It can hardly be imagined that the child of the long ago obeyed the maternal instruction, but it appears that the college education of today presupposes such a thing to be possible.
A course in swimming must be an intricate and wonderful affair The freshman year is no doubt devoted entirely to text-book work in which fundamentals are taught. In order to be a good swimmer one must be well grounded in the subject, and naturally the best place to get well grounded is on dry land. The freshman year follows literally the old injunction not to go near the water.
The sophomore year is naturally more advanced and in addition to a five-hour recitation course, two hours a week are spent in the laboratory where the teachings of the first year are put to the test. The junior year is the senior year in swimming. Here the student is given a complete set of "water wings," life preservers, and other paraphermalis and is coached in the finer points of the sport. The course ends with a graduating recital in which "treading water" and the "high dive," are exemplified in their more refined forms.
A course in swimming is no doubt an instance of the great benefit that may be derived from a college education, but it will hardly inspire Mr Riley or any other poet to celebrate its experiences in imperishable versi-
THE CAUSE OF DELAY
The delay to this issue is the result of some matter based on erroneous information being placed in the original edition. The mistreatment was serious enough to justify having a corrected edition printed, hence the lateness in reaching our subscribers. A more complete explanation will appear in the next issue...SCARLET AND BLACK,
Grinnell, Iowa.
Maybe your subscribers will forgive you this time if the "explanation" satisfies their curiosity to know just what the story was about and who squeled it.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A T one time the Fox and the Stork were on visiting terms and seemed very good friends. So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner, but she hadn't eaten her but some soup in a very shallow bowl. This the Fox could easily lap up, but the Stork could only wet the end of her long bill in it, and left the meal as hungry as when she began. "I am hungry," Fox, the "soup is not to your liking."
"Pray do not apologize," said the Stork. "I hope you will return this visit, and come and dine with me soon. So a day was appointed when I went home. When we were seated at the table all that was for their dinner was contained in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could not insert his snout, so all he must manage was to lick the outside of the jar.
"I will not apologize for the dinner," said the Stork;
"One bad turn deserves another."
THE SAD,SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Judge—Do you understand the nature of an oath?
Witness-I have played golf for the past five years, sir.
Williams Purple Cow.
"Why do they call it a spread?"
"Because it lays you out."
—Harvard Lampoon
Mandy—That boy of ours is getting nighty careless, Si.
Si—What's the matter now?
Mgndy—He writes that he has cut his metallurgy twice in the last week.
—Stanford Chaparral,
Spanker—Joe married a widow with three children.
Spinker--Oh, well he was always putting on heirs. -Yale Record-.
According to the statistics compiled at Yale from the senior blanks over one hundred seniors are total abstainers from intoxicants and ninety-seven use no tobacco. A large majority are members of churches, the ratio being 196 who are and 75 who are not. Some of the results follow:
THE YALE BUNCH
The average age of the seniors is twenty-two years, nine months and twenty-one days. The average height is five feet, eight and one-half inches. One hundred and fifty-one pounds is the average weight.
The average yearly expenditures for the senior class during the college course is as follows: freshman, $1,026; sophomore, $1,141; junior, $1,136; senior, $1,169. As compared with last semester, the student has increased $82. Four dollars increase in four man year, $66 in sophomore, and $11 in junior and senior years.
The number wearing glasses is 97, those wearing glasses before entering college 97.
The number of men using tobacco is 180, 97 abstain from it. As compared with previous years the number is increased. One hundred and seventy-three men used tobacco and 111 abstained from it, according to last year's ballot. While the number of men using intoxicants has decreased, 157 voted themselves users and 120 total abstainers, against 158 confessors and 123 abstainers in last year's vote.
A very great majority of the class are church members, 196 are members and 75 are not. This shows a decrease from last year's vote, when 226 voted themselves church members. The Episcopalians led with, 66, Congregationalists 54, Presbyterians 39, Roman Catholics 21, Jews 17, Methodists 12, Baptists 8, undenominational 8, and Uitarianists 4. The first three of these held exactly the same positions in last year's returns.
One hundred and two voted for required Sunday chapel and 171 against. Two hundred and twenty-two are in favour of daily chapel and only 51 are opposed.
The Republicans rule as to politics with 155, the independent voters are second with 40, and the Democrats third with 33.
The average number of men in the class with whom each individual is not acquainted is 36. This shows an increase last year when the average was 34.
Twenty men have won their "Y" and 49 their numerals. Tribes abroad have been taken by 102 men, 174 have been taken by 36 men, going to previous丸 95 had been abraed.
The average number of professors is four. Thirty-eight men have never taken a course.
The number of men engaged to be married is 39, two hundred and sixty-three voted no. Five are already married.
Only the students in liberal arts are henceforth eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics at Pennsylvania.
The University of Calcutta is the largest in the world.
The association of the Greek students of America, "Helicon," held its first monthly dinner in New York last Saturday evening, in memory of
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK
and the lyric work of the poet. Dr. Kratairos on his unfinished drama, "Hylysailantes," Mr. Constan on the Cretan drama, "The House of Kallergae," Dr. Kyriades, S. C., d. the poet's masterpiece, "Galatea" and Happ. Pannamicipalohous spoke of his personal reminiscences of the poet.-Boston Transcript.
Mr. Cassaretes spoke on the life the modern Greek poet and dramatist, Spyridon Basileides. Among the guests of the association were Mr. Pappamichalopoulos, late minister of education in Greece, and Mr. Sinadino, president of the Panhellenic Union of America.
THE JESTER
When I did hear
The motley fool thus moral on the
time,
My lungs began to crow like chantic-
leer.
That fools should be so deep contem-
pative.
And I didlung, sans intermission,
An hour by his dial—O noble fool!
A worthy fool!—Motley's the only
wear.
— SHAKESPEARE.
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not *responsible for the views expressed* by the authors; must be signed as a witness, or of good faith.
BUM CLOCKWORK
To the Daily Kansan;
A chronic kicker? I should say not! Far from that, but I still should like to register a gentle thrush through your new daily. There seems to be something wrong, yes radically wrong with a certain department on the hill.
As we amble up the hill each morning and round the library or the hedge, our wandering eyes instinctively lean toward the clock due south. If we see the correct time or anything like within an hour of it, it would be a miracle indeed. The time told us whether wandering of any Missouri Pacific Express.
You all know that the Physics clock is an electrical devise. And the inhabitants of the said building are geniuses of the said order. Now it seems to be the consensus of opinion that these learned professors of juice should have a little pride in their building. It strikes me that these exponents of the various manifestations of energy and its phenomena could put more time to better advantage by crawling up into the region of the clock and doing a tinkering, than by spending their time trying to find the aqueous tension of a bubble a mile below the level of the sea.
Not only would they be doing some good for the University, but their experience would be of some benefit to themselves and to the students in a practical way. And it is not all theory that the Engineers want but some knowledge of the problems of the day.
LIKES THE NEW SYSTEM To the Daily Kansan:
Too bad! Too bad! What a sad lot must be theirs if, as the Kanans say in a recent editorial on the new quiz system, by the end of the week their intellectual powers are so used up that they cannot do justice to the quizzes that come during the last few days." That must indeed be a pitiful condition It is certainly a shame so to overtay the delicate organism of one's brain.
AN ENGINEER.
For one, I am thoroughly satisfied with the new system, and I had "from to to four hours of quizzes every day for a week," too.
Now, I have talked with several reliable students and, strange to say, they have been almost unanimously in favor of the new quiz system. As for that student who found his eyes weakening and filling with tears as big as walnuts because he used them so much during school, Mr. Chau was wrong; would not have been bothered thusly if he had been in the habit of using his eyes a little more before this week.
The student who has done his daily duty toward a course throughout a semester will invariably find that at the end he can, even in a few hours, review the work and, with little difficulty, summarize it in his mind ready for one big examination. This summarizing, this rounding-out, unifying process is really very valuable, too, to the student who has a reasonable understanding of the subject. It is one grand final round up.
On the other hand, under the olo system there was really no final summary of the subject. It had to be divided into parts and each of these parts assigned to one of the regular class hours, and an hour is a measly little time in which to try to give even a part of an examination, anyway, by apossessiveness of effort, alack of unity, a valueless diffusion of energy
Intercollegiate baseball has been abolished at Stanford and football is expected to share the same fate.
C. G. F.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THREE DAYS
So much to do; so little done!
Ah! yesterday I saw the sun
Sink beamount down the vaulted gray,—
The ghastly ghost of Yesterday.
So little done: so much to do! Each morning breaks on conflicts new But eager, brave, I'll join the fray, And fight the battle of To-day.
So much to do; so little done!
But when it's o'er,—the victory won—
Ch, then, my soul, this strife and
sorrow
...
Will end in that great, glad To-morrow.
JAMES R. GILMORE.
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But the man who said this had forgotten that it is not only at the top that the educational advantages of Lawrence are exceptionally good. From the kindergarten on up through the grades and the high school are found the finest of equipment, most modern of methods, and best prepared teachers. Correlation is perfect. A child can begin at any point and make rapid progress. Lawrence is an ideal town alike for the little shavers, the middle sized ones, and the grown-ups.
"Move to Lawrence
To educate the children? Well yes, but not yet. Johnny's only eleven and Sarah's six—not quite ready for the University, you see."
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