UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
by diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable.
Just as a cry is heard that professionalism is creeping into athletics, so has a sentiment arisen among a number of the student body in regard to "professionalism" entering into the candy sales that are conducted regularly by the girls of the University.
A series of these sales has so educated the college men to the favorite brands of fudge and other homemade sweetmeats, that keen disappointment was felt last Tuesday when the girls offered the familiar cakes of Hershey with the umistakeable "store marks" instead of the accustomed home-grown varieties.
Why, oh why, do the girls allow this? Isn't it enough that three times a day we are forced to eat everything that reeks of the factory? Why do the girls rob us of a few moments of blissful reveling in delicacies created by feminine hands and concocted over the stove at home?
A SOCIETY EVENT
Within a few days the University Glee Club will give a concert which is to be their final public appearance before their tour of the West.
Kansas has many things to learn from the eastern colleges and one of these is that a Glee Club concert is a social function that should be reckoned among the real society events of the year. The popularity of glee clubs increases every year and the recent tours of the eastern clubs, some of which extended as far west as Kansas City, and the approaching tour of our own club, show that as an advertisement for a college they are considered as without an equal.
At Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and at all of the other eastern colleges the public appearance of their glee club is a social event that has no equal in affairs of that nature.
Why not adopt a similar custom here? Let us make the concert of the University Glee Club on February 15 an event that will reflect the appreciation that we owe the club.
COME ON GIRLS, WE'RE
This is a great year for the girls. First the suffrage campaign was launched in our midst and then, Mit Oread's hungry were placed at the mercy of the fair domestic scientists Now comes the announcement of a Girls' Athletic Association. This is not a concerted effort on the part of the girls to root for the home teams or to help support them, but is a movement coming from a great yearning that certain of the athletically inclined of the young ladies possess to have athletic events, that will be for girls only. And thus it is that the domains of baseball, soccer, and track, hitherto sacred to the
less deadly of the species, are to be invaded by the gentler sex.
The fact that all the girls interested in athletics are to be placed in different divisions and that contests in all the well known forms of outdoor and indoor sports are t. be arranged, shows that our University co-eds intend to be as thorough in their recreation as they are in things educational. Of course it is presupposed that the realms of football will not be invaded but it is whispered that next fall Coach Sherwin will be asked to coach a squad of—but hush, child, who may forecast the spread of femininity's sphere?
Quite naturally the girls expect to adopt the closed-door policy with respect to the boys and it is forseem that a vast host of the "un-elect" will rise in mighty wrath and demand that the latest creation in athletics be placed on the same fair basis as are all our other college activities.
After thinking it over, the plar for a Girls' Athletic Association appeals to us as being quite the thing
PRINCETON TRADITION
The first address made by President Hibben, of Princeton University, since his election, is conservative rather than radical, and should displease none but those who would hasten changes of administration. His first duty, he finds, is "to conserve the old Princeton traditions." Some of these President Wilson had tried to overthrow, regarding them as too aristocratic. But President Hibben defines conservation not "standing still," but "going forward." It means, he says, keeping old values when they are good and discarding them when they are bad, which is a safe enough definition to satisfy the most progressive. Particularly President Hibben would conserve "the democratic spirit of Princeton," which judges a man by his character and not his birth or wealth. He believes Princeton democratic, and he desires "to preserve the simplicity of our campus life." There may be dangers in his life; life in upper class clubs, but "their defects hinder him" grown into serious evil. He strongly commends the honor system of student government, the preceptorial system of teaching and the development of the graduate school, the quarrel over which is a thing of the earth. He finally will feel it his duty to hold Princeton to its tradition of "the Christian religion interpreted in a broad and tolerant sense." And he ends thus epigrammatically:
"I would close with the confession of my faith in what I believe to be the Princeton idea, to which the Princeton spirit renders its loyal allegiance, and devotion: No pedantry in scholarship; no affectation in manners; no hypocrisy in morals; no disimulation in friendship, and no cant in religion."
Thus the Princeton tradition is the traditional aim of all good high education everywhere as we take it.
THE INDEPENDENT
BET WE WILL
Quite a number of Kansas newspaper men are throwing big bouquets at the new Kansas University daily, and the rest of them will add to the collection, if the University reporters are kind enough to tell about them being in town when they go to Lawrence to attend the State Editorial Association.
CHANUTE TRIBUNE.
From the bulletin board: "Good girl's medium sized gym suit and shoes for sale." We hope the young lady realizes a fair profit on the transaction. It is not meet that virtue should be ever its own reward.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
FAVORITE QUOTATIONS
"Yep, let's of coal."
"No, where is the Exhibit?"
"Gee, I wist i was on the Glee Club."
ATTY, the Milkmaid, was going to market carrying her milk in a Paill on her head. As she went along she began calculating what she long should have given she would get for the milk. "I'll buy some from Farmer Brown," said she, "and they will lay eggs each morning, which I will sell to the parson's wife, with the money that I get from the schaw that I'll get a new dinithy frock and a chip hat when I go to market, won't all the young men come up and speak to me! Polly Shaw will be that jealous; but I don't care. I shall just look at her spike, the one he spoke, she tossed her head back, the Paill fell off it and all the milk was split. So she had to go home and tell her mother what had occurred.
"Ah, my child," said her mother. "Do not come before before we are hitched."
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the clues expressed here. Communications must be signed as an evidence.
HAVE 'EM SEWED To The Daily Kansan:
The time will soon be rolling 'round when the University catalogue for 1912-13 will be ready to go into the hands of the state printer and in view of this fact it seems to me that a suggestion for a much-needed improvement in that volume will be entirely a propos.
The 1910-11 catalogues of Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Michigan, Chicago and Leeland Stanford, and in fact all the first class institutions are bound in the new pinellis binding. This allows the leaves to open much more easily and increases the working efficiency of this much thumbed volume at least 50 per cent.
Get hold of one of these catalogues and try it. I have a catalogue of Michigan which is a treasure indec compared with the old-fashioned stiff-backed volume which we have been using, oh—so many years. That the binding is practical and has no serious objections is evidenced by the fact that many of the biggest and best institutions have adopted it.
We've achieved the University Daily Kansan since January 1. Wouldn't it be a good idea to tighten up our belts another notch and take some more of these scalps of progress while the year's yet young.
Here at K. U. the question will, in its last analysis, be up to the state president of Topeka. But it ought to be easy to handle the few material obstacles aside.
"I DON'T KNOW"
To The Daily Kansan;
H. R. M.
That students come to the University and learn of various branches of knowledge without learning of the University itself, is a demonstrable fact. Visitors to the University campus have expressed their sentiments regarding the inability of students even to direct them to all the various museums and laboratories. Students of English classes have been tested on their amount of information concerning the various departments and their work, with the result that their instructors have found them woefully lacking in what should be common knowledge.
Such students are poor advertisers or the University when they get outside the school and attempt to describe its work and scope. They are also poor advertisements, themselves, for their Alma Mater.
There are various ways through which University students could be presented with the common knowledge of their institution each should possess. English teachers can assign more theme subjects along these lines. Student annuals, the daily paper, and literary magazines, can have occasional write-ups of features of the institution which are now vague in the minds of most students, but nevertheless interesting. Why not a compulsory examination, during the junior or senior year, testing the amount of general information concerning the University?
FROM THE LETTER-BOX
The Daily is a step forward Hurrah!-Dr. F. A. Wilber.
The paper is a "dandy." I fail to find anything to deserve criticism, either typographically or from a news standpoint. The typographical work is skillfully handled, and especially is the general makeup deserving of special mention.
I am glad to see K. U. getting lined up in this work. It will no doubt have the effect of raising the standard of Kansas papers in the course of a few years, and there are a number at the present time which could well afford to study the Daily Kansan and apply the knowledge gained to their advantage.
I want to congratulate the management upon its general appearance and particularly because it's a genuine news paper. It is very creditable.-A. V. Draper, Baltimore, Md.
C. R.
I have enjoyed the Daily Kansar and believe you have quite a field to cover, which I feel you will do profitably—R. H. Faxon, The Evening Telegram, Garden City.
In the Daily Kansas of January 25 you ask the question, "Who is representative of the University?" This called up the thought, is the University Kansas a representative of Kansas newspapers, and I wish to
Wishing you all success in the undertaking—J. B. Miller, Editor Bucklin Banner.
DISTANCE
How he tilt From heaven they fabled, thrown by
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy
eve.
A. summer's day; and with the setting sun
Sheer o'er the crystal battlements;
from morn
Dropt from the zeith like a falling star.
say so far it has passed the tests, in the qualifications required in workmanship, subject matter, and we hope it will pass financially.
While "the thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think" those thoughts must keep pace with time and the latest improvements, so that it can never be said of the University of Kansas as told recently of Princeon, that a graduate was worth only $6 per week in the practical, work-a day world.
The field is the world and among the sowers and the reapers in this department of instruction are both men and women. Christ commissioned the men to preach; but it was the two women who were commissioned to "tell the news, and go quickly."
The world is watching you as pioneers for the future and from one who has wrought in this line in Kansas 29 years (the oldest newspaper woman in Kansas) is the message God speed you on your way —Emma B. Alrich, Public Record, Cawker City.
Allow me to congratulate you upon the excellence of your early numbers, and I wish you the utmost success in your undertaking. Your paper sets a distinctly high mark in college journalism. I am pleased to see the West make these Eastern college dailies take notice, for I am from the West, myself.
We have suspended publication during examination period, but you will have an opportunity to criticize our efforts in the course of a week or so. You are fortunate in not having the conservatism of the New England college with which to contain in making innovations in the accepted type of college publication.—H. K. Urion, Managing Editor, The Dartmouth.
We wish you every success in your new enterprise, and think from the looks of your first paper that it will be a best picture of the kind of Crimson, by S. H. Bowles,
I want to compliment you on the "Daily Kansas. It is so much better than I thought the boys capable of that I must admit I am sitting back waiting for them to fall down on their first efforts. If you can keep up that kind of a paper, you will make some of us boys who have been in the game ten or fifteen years almost as shamed to compare our papers with it. It is surely a wonderful little paper. Without knocking on the Lawrence brethren, it might be worth their while to turn their papers over to the class of Journalism, and take a few lessons in the art of all arts."—Chas H. Browne, Horton Headlight-Commercial.
I want to compliment you fellows on breaking into the daily game. It is well worth while and I am sure you never will regret having had the experience once you have finished your college work - Edgar Markham, Assistant City Editor, Des Moines Tribune.
Several numbers of your bright, neat, newsy paper are on our desk. We consider it the most up-to-date college paper we have seen, and wish it abundantly—which it surely will attain if it picks up the lick with which it starts out.
I have been reading the Daily Kansan with much interest, and want to congratulate you upon it. It is a well edited paper, and Kansas people ought to feel grateful over the college paper. I assure you that I shall be
Our Junior Commander, "Pip Demid," who was a K.U. man for two years, thinks the Kanson great stuff.—Thos. E. Thompson, The Howard Courant.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
ANNIE LAURIE
Maxwelton banks are bonnie,
Where early fa's the dew;
Where me and Amie Laura
Made up the promise true:
Made up the promise true,
and never forget will I:
I'll lie down and marie
I'll lay me down and
She's backit like the peacock,
She's crestist like the swan,
She's Jimmy's neck.
Her waist ye well might span;
Her waist ye well might span,
And for bodies she a rolling eye;
And for bodies she a rolling eye;
I'll lay me down and die.
DOUGLASS.
glad to assist you in any way possible.—J. W. Howe, Sec. Dem. Editorial Association.
Your first issue was a very welcome
Visitor at our desk and will be very
glad to exchange with you. I was a student on the hill during the first semester '10-'11 and will be back again next fall to stay until I finish. So you see I have more than the ordinary interest in your publication.—Edward S. Kennedy, The Beaver Valley Booster
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You have heard the story of the farmer who chalked his accounts on the barn door, which later burned.
Let us handle your money--do your bookkeeping; relieve you from worry and work. A bank account will give you safety and credit. Checks are your personal coinage system.
You are in a like rut if you don't use modern methods.
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