UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STORY
LOUIS GARSHI
Editor-in-Chief
GEORGE MARSHI
Managing Editor
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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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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1912
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
God gives all things, to industry;
then plough deep while skuggars sleep,
and you will have corn to sell
and to keep.
LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln needs no eulogy; the honor that an entire nation is paying to him today, shows that his memory will never die, that his life and his deeds will ever live in the affections of his people. Since his death each successive generation has paid homage to the man who was the martyr of freedom, and all the reverence that can be shown the dead has been given to him.
The anniversary of Lincoln's birth should bring a message to us today. While we eulogize, we should seek also, to draw a lesson from his life. And to thd college man this uncouth, untutored man presents an interesting study.
Lincoln was deprived of the schooling that even the poorest child of today receives. What he learned was by observation in God's out-of-doors and in diligent application whenever the opportunity for study presented itself.
He was in no way a college man; he knew nothing of those problems that the university man of today learns. But he seemed to be able to grasp them all by intuition. We see in his life something of the struggle for an education that many of our less fortunate people of today are having. Abraham Lincoln is one of the vast host of men who have always looked at the stars and have struggled for the light.
We who are the favored of the generation should gain from a reflection on Lincoln's life, a keen sympathy for our fellow men. We should recognize that in the rough, untrained, and uneducated man there is the stuff that goes to make our leaders and our rulers.
There is no pride that is more worthy than a town's pride in its schools. The Neodesha Register of this week gives a fine front-page illustration of the new $60,000 high school building just dedicated in that town.
THE POSTER NUISANCE
If several of our ambitious studies persist in bedecking the telegraph and telephone poles of our fair city with posters and announcements, they will soon find themselves in the toils of the law, from which toil escapes, without some embarrassment and a slight outlay of cash, will be impossible. This comes direct from headquarters, too.
Last year the city authorities woke up one bright morning and in mighty dudgeon invaded Mt. Oread and came within an ace of arresting a number of our most exemplary students. The cause for this disturbance of the official equilibrium was the same as is now agitating those invested with the police power—that of an unlawful posting of signs and advertisements upon the various telegraph and telephone poles of the city. Nothing came from the agitation except a good scare for the offenders, but the city authorities assure us that they are in earnest now and that the next transgressors will receive summary punishment.
The city authorities are supported in this matter by a great majority of
the student body. No one believes that the flaming placards that assail us at every step up Adams and Lee street, are any more than the mere outlet of the enthusiasm that certain people have to gracefully extract from long suffering students a great part of their patrimony.
The University of Kansas, its campus, and its adjacent streets and buildings form a little city. In every city of any size public announcements are regulated by law. Such laws exist in Lawrence, and they ought to be obeyed.
We hope that the city authorities will make their threat this time more than a bluff. Future offenders ought to be punished.
No doubt the pictures of the debaters that are to be hung in the rooms of the debating society will be speaking likenesses, but it seemed hardly fair to one of our readers that only those will appear in any photo who were on the negative.
DON'T KNOW NOTHIN'
Registrar Foster' s announcement that several students had better brush up a little on their English or they will lose credit in Freshman rhetoric, will probably cause more real anxiety among the student body than one would suppose. It is a lamentable fact that a great majority of students are poor spellers, and more, that they seem to have a vague and indefinite idea of the correct way in which the English language should be put together.
For several years University professors have attempted to discover some way in which this defect could be remedied, and only last year they conceived the idea of "recalling" a man to his Freshman rhetoric course, if at any time during his college course, he showed signs of forgetting the fundamentals of our language.
This "recall" is bound to work a hardship on some students. Some of them may be able to solve the most difficult problem in Calculus, or to penetrate the innermost sanctuums of profoundest philosophy, but when it comes to a simple knowledge of the English language, they are found to be deficient.
Why does such a condition exist? Will we find the answer in our grade school system? We do not propose to disuse matters pertaining to these lower schools, but the undeniable fact remains that an amazing percent of our University students are not adequately trained in spelling and grammar when they enter college.
The activity of the city attorney against the bill posters suggests to the major student something new in the diplomacy of Europe: Russian to save the Poles from tax.
TIME-WASTERS GONE
A large number of students who wasted a good deal of time throughout the past semester are not with us now. They did not come up to the best of scholarship required by the faculty and failed to qualify as worthy of membership in the under-graduate body. In some cases, real chagrin is felt; in others, there is a bit of bravado; but it is safe to say that in no case was there a failure due to causes not in control of the student.
The method of procedure here in regard to the student's attitude toward his work is designed to promote initiative and personal effort. A student is helped whenever he asks for it but if he becomes indifferent one is going to prod him along. He exercises his own will in the matter and must abide by the consequences, and he must be prepared for the student who is industrious and alert. The curriculum is arranged for normal persons, not for the brilliant students or for the grind. All that is necessary to succeed here is a fair amount of intelligent industry judiciously applied.—Daily Iowa.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
A FOX had by by some means got into the store-room of a theater. Suddenly he observed a face glaring at him, and he varied frightened; but looking more closely he found it was only a Mask, such as actors use to put over their face. "Ah," said the Fox, "you look like a pity you have not got any brains."
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
of the War Department a statement of the department
fellow of Massachusetts that you are the mother of
five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and frail must be any word of
morse which should attempt to secure you from the
grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot regain
from among you the conviction that may be found
in the shanks of the republic they died to save.
I pray that our Remembrance may ensue the origins
of your benefaction, and leave you only the cherished
memory of the loved lost, and the solitude pride
which must be yours to have kind as well a sacrifice
upon the utter of praises.
LINCOLN'S LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY
Washington, Nov 21/1864
Mr. Rinky, Boston, Mass.
Mr. Dressler
Yours my sensing and respectfully
Missed you.
Among the truly great aims of the Emancipator must be counted the thoughtfulness which impelled him to write this letter of consolation to a sorely afflicted mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN*
You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier,
You, who with mocking penent wilt to trace,
to trace,
to trace,
to trace,
British
to trace,
Broad for the self-complacent British
sneeze
His length of shambling limb, his
furrowed face,
His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt bristling hair,
His garb uncouth, his bearing ill a ease.
His lack of all we prize as debaonair,
he will to shine, of art,
please.
You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh.
were pain
Reckless, so it could point its paragraph
Of chief's perplexity, or people's pain;
pain.
Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet
The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew,
view.
Between the movers at his head and feet.
ess; he had lived to blame me from
to lame my penile, and constitute my
pen;
To make me own this kind of princes
This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
My shallow judgment I had learned. nce
Now how to occasion's height in
How his quaint wit made home-truth
seem more_true;
How, iron-like, his temper grew by blows.
How humble, yet how hopeful, he could be.
How, in good fortune and in ill, the same;
He went about his work,—such work as few
Nor bitter in success, norpos...,
Thirsty for gold ,nor feverish for
As one who knows, where there's a task to do,
Man's honest will must Heaven's good grace command:
As in his peasant boyhood he had pile
His warlike rage rude Nature's
nature's might;
mights;
That God makes instruments to work his will,
So he went forth to battle, on the side
of the clear was clear is Liberty's and
Right's.
Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow,
if but that will we arrive to know
No good and ill, the weight of
good and ill.
good grace command;
The ambushed Indian, and the prowl-
in bear,—
The iron-bark, that turns the lumberer's axe,
The prairie, hiding the mazed wan derer's tracks,
The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil.
The rapid, that o'erbears - the boat- moul's tail
tweets,
If but their sweets be of right girth
and grain.
Such were the deeds that helped his youth to train.
Rough culture, but such trees large fruit, may bear
So he grew up, a destined work to do
Amanda. He said it: "four long-suf-
fering years"
The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise.
And then he heard the hisses change to cheers,
ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report, lived through.
*This tribute appeared in the London Punch, which, up to the time of the assassination, was magnified and maligned in Lincoln, had rida well-known powers of pen and pencil
And took both with the same un-
Till, as he came on light, from dark ling days,
And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood,
A felon hand, between the goal and
him,
received from behind, his back a
trigger prest,
And those perplexed and patient eyes
were dim,
Theas long-laboring limbs
were laid to rest;
The words of mercy were upon him
Forgiveness in his heart and on his
When this vile murderer / brought
wildly.
to apase
To thoughts of peace on earth
good-will to meet.
The Old World and the New, from
Utter, one's sense of anatomy, and
Sore heart, so stopped when it at last heat, high;
Utter one voice of sympathy and shame.
Sad life, cut short just as its tri umph came!
A deed accrust! Strokes have beer
before.
By the,assassin's hand,whereof men doubt
hears. But foul cues, like Cdn's stands darkly, out.
Vile haird, that brandest murder on *x*
strife.
Whate'er its, grounds, stoutly and nobly striven;
And with the martyrs' crown crown.
With much to praise little to be for
given.
—TOM TAYLOR.
The statement of President John Hibben, of Princeton University, that the average Princeton man's value at graduation is about $6 a week, does not apply to the average Harvard graduate, who, statistics show, receives $15 a week in his first position.
An official of the Harvard appointment office, where one-third of the graduates register when they take up their chosen vocations, said today:
"The report for 1911 has yet to be issued, but in the case of permanent positions filled by the Harvard Alumni Association, the average wage per week is a trifle over $15. There are many instances where men receive $20 and more." —Washington Post.
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The man.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; Raisin's hand is on his shoulder.
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and the bells the
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—
for you the bugle trills,
for you the fire.
for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon's wreaths
—for you the shores a-crowding.
For you they call, the swaying mass.
their eager faces turning;
He has torn his sleeves.
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lip are pale and still.
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor wilt.
its voyage too.
From fearful trip the victor ship
comes in with object won;
But I will fight the bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck; my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
The ship is anchored d sale and sound its voyage closed and done,
WE= PRIDE
WALT WHITMAN.
Ourselves on the fact that our customers feel at home here. Our place is the down-town home of all the students and has been since goodness knows when. Meet the other fellow here on the way to the theater, use our phones, cash your checks, call up about the scores, be at home in this old stand always.
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT.
Phones 608. 709 Mass. Street
The Leading Periodical, Athletic and Tobacconists
Every student in the University should see the paintings on exhibition in the Administration building.
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Pure Worsted Suits and All Wool Cassimere Suits values worth up to and including $20
NOW $10
(See South Window)
M. J. SKOFSTAD
829 Mass. Street
WATCH FOR
Swede Wilson's Opening
731 Mass. Street
"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.
The Merchants' Association Lawrence
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Open After all Theatres and Decs
PEERLESS CAFE
Hours 6:30
To 12:00
Banquets and parties a Specialty.
R. B. WAGSTAFF
Fancy Groceries
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730 Mass.
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