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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Lost time is never found again; and when it does, enough, always proves little enough.
A CREDITABLE PRODUCTION "The Merryman and his Maid," which was given last evening at Bowersock's, was in many ways the best opera that the School of Fine Arts has ever produced. For several years it has been the custom to produce a Gilbert and Sullivan opera and in the previous performances of "Patience" and the "Mikado" the real merit of these light operas has been shown.
In the beauty of its musical numbers,
in its comedy, and in its stage setting,
"The Merryman and His Maid" is delightful, and it is fitting that the cast, the chorus, the orchestra and the directors be given praise for the performance last evening.
Student dramatics at the University are at their best now. In past years there has been a surfeit of "school plays" into which oftimes too much of the mediocre was allowed to creep. Dramatics present a phase of college life that is proportionally as important as athletics. It takes a different kind of talent to appear before the footlights from that required to engage in athletics, and this one talent should receive as much commendation as the other.
--shall be getting behind time, or ahead of time, beyond any possibility of ever learning how to be "on the dot."
"The Merryman and His Maid" as produced last night was a credit to the University.
1T PLEASES US
The action of the Jayhawker board in dedicating the 1912 Annual to Dr. W. L. Burdick, of the School of Law, will receive the hearty commendation of a large number of students who have made the acquaintance of the genial professor.
During his years of teaching at the University he has made himself extremely popular with all the "boys" in the "Lore" school and he has so identified himself with other University interests that he now occupies the enviable position of a campus favorite.
The honor recently bestowed upon him comes with the hearty sanction of a large number of students, who like the present editor, have made Dr. Burdick's acquaintance in the class room.
IT'S TIME
The Engineer is right. There is no real reason why, with a vast host of professors, electrians, and mechanicians, the two clocks at the University that are for public use, are not in proper operation.
That the Physics clock never was or is on time is one of the traditions of the school, and in reverence to the tradition nothing has ever been done to make this time-piece of any use. But we wish to add a word of protest to that of the Engineer. The clock in the Library has been bereft of both its hands for the past few weeks and it simply will not run without them.
Just who is the official clock lizard at the University we do not know. Why not assign some senior engineer to do the repairing and let it count on his thesis work?
If some one does not get busy we
WHAT WE FORGET
Those who have seen Daniel Stuart in "The Prince of Tonight" will remember his oft repeated expression "If I only knew what I forgot." This little sentiment might be applicable to every college student.
Did you ever stop to think how "awfully smart" you would be if you could exchange what you know now for what you have forgotten? A man goes through college and at the end of his course he has hopped, skipped, jumped, and waded through an imposing mass of facts and figures. Now it is hot possible for one to remember all he ever reads and the question naturally arises, what good does it all do him?
A recent communication to the Daily Kansan mentioned this fact in connection with Latin in our schools and it was stated that it is the mental training that we receive in these studies, rather than the actual knowledge retained, that makes it profitable for us. Which is quite true.
But—if what we forget constitutes mental training, there are some of us who are getting more than our share o training.
COLLEGE EDUCATION
Whether a man has a college education or not matters very little. Information is the important thing indeed, the essential thing. He may acquire it at college or he may acquire it somewhere else. If the college professors are good instructors college students must know the process of acquiring information; but, in my judgment, a teacher, like a put, a born, not made.
is born, not mute.
'value high the benefits which I derived from certain of my college professors. Some of them were most excellent teachers and trained some of them misfits. One of the very best and most serviceable of all my instructors was a drunken, strolling Englishman, but he was a born teacher. There is a great deal of time wasted at college by studying things which can be of very little service to the average citizen. The average college curriculum in the United States needs overhauling.
A youth who has not the advantages of a college education, whatever they may be, and they are many, can pursue his studies with great success if he has an acquaintance who can direct him what to study. The college professor who does not arouse in his pupil a love of learning is not worth his salt. —CHAMP CLARK
THAT RENTED SUIT
To appear in a rented dress suit is a mark of hypocrisy. It is just the same as harboring a rented piano or sitting in the orchestra circle when you owe the grocer so much money that he can't afford to advertise in The Daily Student. For several years the advance agents of the "Fore" Hundred have been laboring to get the dancing contingent of the university acclimated to fulldress affairs. Several organizations unable to hold out against the tempters, experimented. Owing to the short crop of dress suits annually produced among the student body, leased, borrowed, and with-love-father-costumes were generally conspicuous. More generally than otherwise, the effect of the scenic travesties were sobbingly theatrical. In time formal dress social functions will hold sway among the student body. There is always an element in society that is bent upon being progressive. People would dwarf in a hum-drum static environment. But to simulate the apparel to which one has not full ownership is not commendable. It may be a profitable experience, but it is insinacious and hypocrisy.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
INDIANA STUDENT.
THE Hares were so persecuted by the other beasts, they did not know where to go. As soon as they saw a single animal approach them, off they used to run. One day they saw a troop of wild Horses trapped in quite an panic all the Hares sutthout a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves rather than live in such a continual state of fear. But just as they got near the bank of the lake, a troop of Frogs, frightened in their turn by the approach of the Hares, jumped in and into the water. "Truly" said one of the Hares, "things are not so bad as they seem:
'here' is always some one worse off
than yourself."
Amorology--the New Major Subject
By Frederick A, Churchill, Jr.
IT is often asked in pedantic magazines—"What effect have college on girls?" It ought to be asked: "What effect have girls on college?" It might be asked that treatments of "Co-education and the Co-ed." It might be well to consider the co-ead as a part of the education of the more masculine residue.
Amorology is the only course in which the failure can honorably employ the eye-trouble excuse. Its tutelary deity is blind.
Perhaps the popularity of the Amorology course lies in the fact that its expenditures are attended by immediate blissful results, unlike the glassware outlay of the chem. major, who has to wait for years ere he can prove his merit by telling an admiring amplier that water is H2O. The Amorologist describes this as his purpose when he hears the sweet glad气yery, "For me? Oh, you do dear" or "How did you guess that I just love La France roses?"
While not found in the curriculum, "Amorology," if we may be permitted so to name that part of a boy's education which is administered by a girl or girls, is at the University a most popular study. This in spite of the fact that it is inexpensive, more so than the chemistry course of the most reckless test-tube smashers. Many a youth is trying to please a chrysanthemum sweetheart on a violet allowance; and more than one student is going about with rain-water in his shoes because there are stars in his soul.
There has been a great deal of discussion as to what type of coed
Amorology is generally a four years' course. The motto under which its students live and love is not that of the seemingly more serious learner, "Improve myself" it is rather, "Improve each shining hour." Yet though it be possible to understand the most amorousist is himself most wondrously improved in the process.
Not these, but cases, are the means by which the student is graduated. From three to six cases is the average of a complete course. These commonly referred to as Freshman, Freshman year, two; sophomore and junior year, one; senior year, two.
Profound psycho-amorologists have analyzed these averages thus: Freshmen, being young and tender, are susceptible; one must consider the puppy-love element with them. Sophomores and juniors are occupied with outside activities and are lamentably prone to neglect their regular work, hence they accomplish only one case apiece, on the average. Two cases may be placed to the crease of the senior amorologist's hand to the regular relation pinks and white finitions must be added the discovery of a soul-mate, the need of which is revealed to him coincidentally with the wider and deeper outlook on life he attains.
Professor James has nobly spoken of the sciences as being mightily foundationed on countless lives of great and unselfish workers. This is no less true of Amorology; for in the pursuit of this most difficult and dangerous form of knowledge, many have fallen by the way. "If the case lasts more than a year," say experienced ones, "he's a goner." Alas, a many, a case many and bravely undertaken for the furtherance of knowledge, has lasted more than a year. But the others are nothing daunted: firmly they press on toward a shining goal but with a passing tear for their comrades' Hymeneal fate.
Amorology has no classroom, no home of its own, except perhaps, the corridors of Fraser Hall. But there* not a lecture room or laboratory in which the sexes meet that is not its province. Who has not seen the youth with the far-away eyes, who sits in the rear-row and sees through the wall something vaguely joyous, that is not visible to the others? Instead of taking notes on the lecture, he draws a square white envelope, something crumpled, out of his inside pocket and studies his Amorology lesson. Or the lad that wanders the campus paths, "sighing like a furnace" because he has failed in this most delicate of subjects. Or the one who gazes fondly at the back of his watch to see what time it is, every ten minutes. A keen observer can pick out any one of the whole delightfully miserable crew.
In line with modern educational practice, there are no conditions in Amorology. No intermediate grades at all, in fact. One may either flunk, or pass with honors. Which depends entirely on something we have not temery enough to undertake here: the mind of his instructress. For let it be known to the prestige of the University, in her Amorology department, the high average of one instructress to every two students is maintained; though, as in other branches, some are more popular than others, and have a devoted class of as many as ten or twelve.
HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blesst! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Return to deck their hollowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter so! Then Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray;
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile return.
To dwell a weeping hernia there.
appeals most to the student whom assiduous pursuit of amorological knowledge has made competent to judge. It is as hotly debated that as other question which still agitates the department: Is a marriage certificate an honor diploma or a flunk notice? A thorough canvas, however, of students prominent in the work has established certain things.
It is impossible to ignore the fact that there are several types of co-eds. They range from the eager high-spirited maid who must constantly be into something, whether politics or hockey, to the duree, intense demoiselle with a numbness that stems from lack of embrorby. From the lax with the delicate air to the suetacued Minerva.
But, alas, how little the male sex appreciates its blessing. Diligent observation and inquiry have revealed one shameless thing. Of all the co-eeds that there be, the youth likes best the pretty ones. And the feminine ones. As a prominent social collegian remarked recently, with rather more force than elegance, "I want to wear the trousers!"
Opponents of the science may advance the argument that many irresistible youths find the greatest charm in a plain face and a purple vivacious mind. But there never was a true mind. But there never laughed at her, even when he approved that his lady was the fairest of all. He sees Helen's in a brow of Egypt.
In fact, as Anon has somewhere so ably said, "degustibus non disputandum." In other words, some like blonds, others brunettes, while as for others, give them the dusky golden locks of Titian. Such varying types of beauty or lack of it are heralded as the embodiment of supreme grace, by various observers not entirely disinterested, as to make one believe that feminine beauty is perhaps only a masculine state of mind, "All in one's eye," and not the mind's eye, either.
The trouble is that our race has only been evolving a matter of a few score acons. Allowing due time for development, the future man will doubtless be attached only by mental charm. This in about a million years.
Meanwhile, fair faces will continue to make trouble for the sons of men. Perhaps for awhile, it's the best thing for the race. However, the time of bondage may be materially shortened by the nobl and unselfish laborers in that branch of science begun at the University of the heroic army that marche under the apron-string banners of Our Lady of Cyprus.
"Pure democracy." It is the thing we most admire in the American university. More correctly speaking, it is the thing we most admire in the student bodies of our American colleges, for democracy has never had a peep in at our college faculties. There aristocracy rules—the wonder of the ages. —SYRACUSE ORANGE
Blue caps with green buttons are the penalty of flunking at the University of Colorado.
Williams has a new auditorium, a new dormitory, and a new infirmary for occupancy this fall.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT.
Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The smiles,the tears Of boyhood's years
The words of love then spoken:
The eyes that shone,
Now dimmed and gone.
The cheerful heart now broken Thus in the stilly night
shimmer's enchant has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light
When I remember all
The friends so linked together
I've seen around me fall.
Like leaves in wintry weather,
I feel like one
Who treasures alone
Snowy hills balloons deserted,
Whose lights are dead,
Whose gardens dead,
And all he hurt.
Thus in the still night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
Moore
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