UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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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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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS.
LIMBER UP!
Why not limber up old arm and get out and join the baseball artist who are working out their rusty joints and stiff muscles this week?
Coach Sherwin issued his cell for battery practice the first of the week and only eight men have reported. Surely there are more nor than this in school who have ambitions to be the premier singers and receivers for dear old Alma Mater.
Come on boys let's get some pep in this practice and have a big squad out to show our eastern coach that Kansas has a great number of men who are interested in a variety of athletics.
Coach Sherwin is working with eight men now. Next week there ought to be a score of men out for practice.
If there is any one the students; would rather see as assistant to Coach Sherwin than Arthur St. Leger Mosse, we don't know who it is. Years ago he won his way into the hearts of every follower of University football and his return to a coaching position will be hailed with delight.
THE AHRENS MATTER
The University Board of Regents seem determined to make the most out of the Ahrens affair and their open letter to the Mens' Student Council makes it apparent that they consider the matter worthy of more consideration. They even go so far as to threaten the life of football at the University, and state in no uncertain terms that it is up to the student body, through its council, to "do something."
In their letter they intimate that a score or more of men knew of the irregularity, and they should be held to some account for their failure to report the matter. They insist that the Mens' Student Council has been granted complete disciplinary powers and that the students who withheld their knowledge of the Ahrens' violation should receive some public censure, which shall be taken as a precedent of the Council that it looks with disfavor upon such actions.
They interpret the answer of the Council that the Ahrens affair should be settled by the eligibility committee, as dodging the question. They admit that the eligibility committee was lax and did not perform its duty, but the withholding of the information relative to Ahren's absence from school, was a matter of discipline which obviously should be settled by the Student Council.
As far as the facts of the case go, the Regents are correct. The Student Council states that it is now conducting an investigation and that a report will be made later. They admit that it was morally wrong for the men not to divulge the information, but they insist that it is practically impossible to place
the blame on any one man or group of men. Their point is that as long as it is impossible to fix any blame on certain individuals and as long as no material good can come from a detailed investigation and consequent report, a protest from them is unnecessary.
The whole question is, what good will further action do and what good has the demand of the Regents done?
Henry Ahrens violated the eligiblity rules; he knew it and perhaps a few others did also. His eligibility is a matter that comes under faculty supervision. Ahrens cannot be punished for he is out of school. And every one believes that the Regents did not mean it when they threatened to take away football from the University. The schools of the Missouri Valley have accepted the apology of the University of Kansas in the spirit in which it was given and surely they will never impute to Kansas a desire to be unfair in matters of eligibility.
We cannot see why the unpleas antness was brought up again. Why not let it drop as it is? Let the Student Council go on record as being opposed to such irregularities Surely the Regents do not think that the violation of the eligibility rules met with popular student approval
By the way, what has become of that committee appointed to investigate and report on the mill tax? Everybody seemed to be in favor of the measure; but it would seem to be well to begin educating the public as to its merits.
THE DO, RE, MI BOYS
Talking about glee clubs, why not invite the Missouri or the Nebraska clubs to the University and allow them to give a joint concert with our own singers? Such a meeting could be arranged easily.
Why not invite the Missouri gleemen here early in the spring? A most favorable time for such concerts would be on the night preceding some athletic contest between the two schools.
In the eastern schools these joint concerts are a regular feature and draw immense crowds. Such a concert here would be a benefit financially to the clubs and would give the public a chance to compare the respective organizations.
And by the way, why shouldn't the glee club be put under the same management as athletics? Such a condition exists at Yale, Harvard Cornell, and other schools. This proposition will bear investigation.
$3 AND COSTS!
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
If the recent football irregularity hasn't been sufficiently ventilated it is not because the Regents haven't given it Abrens enough.
Syracuse Orange.
A campus beautiful for Syracuse University is now assured. The campus has been in a very bad condition for some years, due to the fact that so much construction and work in the building line has been going on. The city of Syracuse, however, has appropriated one hundred thousand and dollars to alter the appearance, and the work of improvement has already been started. The entire campus will be graded, quadrangles, cement walks and roadways laid out and trees planted. The Holden Observatory will be moved from its present position to the top of Mount Olympus and a winding roadway will be built leading up to it. This world will require some time but when it is finished the campus will present a much more inviting appearance.
THERE was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but—whack his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said:
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Senior Girl—Where are you going, dear?
Freshy Girl—Down to the library to study.
Senior Girl (approvingly)—That's right, dear. You can't get acquainted too soon.
Stanford Chaparral.
Teacher—Mind is all, matter is nothing.
Stude—Is money matter?
Teacher—Oh, in a money matter—
Stude—If you don't mind, there's a matter—
Teacher—Does it matter?
Stude—Oh, well, no matter.
Teacher—Never mind, no matter.
—Yale Record.
Do you know where Iwould be likely
to get something on this coat?"
"Oh, yes."
"Gee, where?"
"At our boarding house."
—Cornell Widow.
Instructor in Chemistry—Did you filter this?
Physics Prof. after long winded proof)—And now, gentlemen, we get X equals 0.
Youth- No. I was afraid i couldn't stand the strain.
A Prof., he had a little joke, It's point was hard to find
Sleepy Voice (from rear of room)—
Gee, all that work for nothing.
But every time he could, he'd spring
That joke—'twas hardly kind.
- —Yale Record.
But to each lucky student
Who would just 'lean back and roar'
That Prof. would give a mark of "1,
Or "1 plus" or e'en more.
But to each lucky student
—Wisconsin Sphynx.
He took a calendar in hand,
And learned with sudden sorrow,
Today, "tomorrow," yesterday,
Is yesterday tomorrow.
Harvard Lampoon.
STAY WITH IT
Our greatest glory is not in never failure but in rising every time we fail. Goal!
Success in most things depends on being like how long it takes to succeed. Better now.
Persuenceance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Bunyan wrote his "Filgrim's Progress" on the untwisted papers used to cork the bottles of milk brought for his meals. Gifford wrote his first copy of a mathematical work, when a cobbler's apprentice, on small scraps of leather; and Rittenhouse, the astronomer, first calculated eclipses on his plow handle.
Always watch with great interest a young man's first failure. It is the index of his life, the measure of his success power. The mere fact of his failure has interest; but how did he take his defeat? What did he do next? Was he discouraged? Did he slink out of sight? Did he conclude that he had made a mistake in his calling, and dabble in something else? Or was he up and at it again with a determination that he knows no defeat? Raleigh failed, but he left a name ever to be linked with brave effort and noble character. Kossuth did not succeed, but his lofty career, his burning words, and his ideal fidelity will move men for good as long as time shall last. O'Connell did not wri his cause, but he did achieve enduring fame as an orator, patriot, and apostle of liberty.
"Circumstances," say Milton, "have rarely favored men. They have fought their way to triumph through all sort of opposing obstacles. The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him as it is success, and there is no other."
Paris was in the hands of a mob; the authorities were panic-stricken, for they did not dare to trust their underlings. In came a man who said, "I know a young officer who has the courage and ability to quell this男男." "Send for him; send for him," they said. Napoleon was sent for, came, subjugated the mob, subjugated the authorities, ruled France, then conquered Europe.
One of the first lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat. It takes courage and stamina, when mortified and embarrassed by humiliation disaster, to seek in the wreck or ruins the elements of future suffering that measures the difference between those who fail. You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them.
Columbus was dismissed as a fool from court after court, but he pushed
BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND!
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thon art so unkind
As man's ingratiature:
The breath not, not seen,
Because thon art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the
green holly;
Most friendship is feigning, most lov-
ing in tears;
Then, heigh-ho!, the holly:
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thon dost not bites so nigh
Asbestus forget;
Though thou the waters warp,
Try sizing is not so sharp
As friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the
green holly;
Most friendship is feigning, most lov-
ing mere folly;
This life is most jolly!
Then, heigh-ho!, the holly!
his suit against an unbelieving and ridiculing world. Rebuffed by kings, scorned by queens, he did not swerve a hair's breadth from the evermastering purpose which dominated his soul. The words "New World" were graven upon his heart; and reputation, ease, pleasure, position, life itself, if need be, must be sacrificed. Neither threats, ridicule, storms, leaky vessels, nor mutiny of sailors, could shake his mighty purpose.
HARVARD GRADUATION
The long discussed changes in the commencement week at Harvard have been finally decided upon now that the dates for baseball games and for the races between Yale and Harvard have been definitely announced. Commencement week this year will open on Sunday, June 16, when the class of 1887 will hold service in the college chapel and the baccalaureate sermon is scheduled for the afternoon of the same day. Monday will be Phi Beta Kappa day and the usual oration and poem will be given in Sanders Theater. Class day comes on Tuesday, and in the afternoon of that day Harvard plays its first baseball game with Yale at New Haven. Wednesday will be given over to class reunions and dinners, and Yale meets Harvard at Soldier's Field in the second baseball game. Commencement will take place on Thursday, the annual regatta with Yale will be rowed at New London on Friday, and on the following day the third contest with Yale will be played in New York, if one is necessary. —New York World.
Bowl for a Banquet.
The sixteen national fraternities at the University of Illinois will hold an annual bowling tournament. Teams are divided into four divisions and each team will play every other member of its division twice for places in the semi-finals. Winners in the final contest will be treated to a banquet.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
ANNABEL LEE
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived, whom you may know
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love, and be loved by me.
But we loved with a love that was more than love,
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
With a love that the winged serapha
of heaven
And this was the reason that long ago in this kingdom by the sea,
So that her high-born kinsmen came;
And bore her away from me.
The angels, not so happy in heaven,
Went enviving her and me.
To shut her up in a sepulchre,
In this kingdom by the sea.
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know)
In this kingdom by the sea.
In this kingdom by the sea
that there is a place to the cloud
by night,
for the sun to shine upon it.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee
Of those who were older than we,
of many far wiser than we;
Of many a wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above
Of many tar wiser than we;
And neither the angels in heavest, show
nor the angels in heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the
soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
bring the dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bring me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
And so, all the night-tide I lie down by the side
Of my daring, my daring, my life,
and my bride.
In her sequestre there by the sea.
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
—EDCAR ALLAN POE.
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Every student in the University should see the paintings on exhibition in the Administration building.
Do not forget the Lincoln Varsity Matinee Party at Ecke's Hall Monday, Feb. 12th from 3 to 6
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"Count the Church Spires
in your town and I'll tell you whether or not it is the kind of town for my children to grow up in." That's the way a good many people feel about it. Anybody who counts the churches in Lawrence will find thirty, having some five thousand members on their rolls. Lawrence is a city of churches. She is also proud of her Sunday Schools, conducted with the same care for the pupils' advancement and with the same thorough organization of courses that characterize the schools of the week.
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