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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POOR RICHARD SAYS:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1912
Let not the sun look down and say
Inglorious here he lies!
WELCOME, ARCHITECTURE With scarcely a word of introduction a new department has come into being at the University of Kansas. A new five-year course in Architecture has just been established in the School of Engineering. However inapp塑iously established, there is no doubt that this new department has a great future, simply because the science of architecture has a great future.
It is one of the best evidences of a high degree of civilization in America today and the American people are coming to appreciate refined architecture and to demand of builders a due respect for this public taste. Today our cities are filled with abominable buildings of the past, poorly designed, cheaply constructed, and positively ugly; tomorrow our cities, through the pressure of public opinion, will require beauty, dignity, and refinement of architecture in every public or semi-public building. It is the right and the duty of the people to demand beauty in the buildings they pass on the street every day, and they will continue to manifest this growing demand until it is satisfied.
To say nothing more of its practical economic utility in modern buildings, even as a purely cultural subject, architecture is a highly desirable course of study. It is a keen pleasure to be able to know the style of architecture of each building on the campus, and of other buildings we see. How many students know the difference even between an Ionic column and a Gothic pier?
The University of Kansas never could have been quite complete without such a course as this in architecture. In a few years it will surely gain a high rank at the University, and will become of great service to the state of Kansas.
So the dances May day are to be "pretty folk dances." We thought from observations in previous years, that it was only the costumes that had to be pretty.
KNOWING THE BIRDS.
If a group of twenty students, or professors either for that matter, were asked to name fifteen of the forty-one birds that live on the campus, how many do you think could do it? How many of the forty-one can you name?
Everyone knows something about birds. The picture of a brilliant cardinal feeding in the white snow is so vivid that no one who has ever seen it ever forgets that the cardinal stays with us all year. Who has not heralded the coming of spring by the sight of the first robin? Frequently the newspaper comment on the unusual occurrence of a solitary cock-robin seen in a tree top in the middle of January. Contrary to common belief, the robin does not leave us when the snow comes, but retires to the woods where he can find sumac, choke chespe, and other berries to eat. When the snow melts, he leaves the shelter of the woods and hops about the yards and parks in search of fresh green grass sprouts and early worms.
Who has not seen "the little chicka-
dee, 'way up high in the top of the tree?' Even the coldest nights cannot drive him from our doorsteps. When the ice becomes thicker and the snow falls deeper and all out-doors seems to be frozen up, he appears with the earliest sunbeams chirping and skipping in search of his breakfast. He is thought of only as a winter bird, yet he stays in the same locality the year round. There are many other less common birds whose acquaintance is well worth making.
In order that te student may learn something about the birds that live where he does when he does, two cases containing the birds of the campus and those of the seasons have been placed in the museum.
Have you seen them yet?
FAVORITE FICTION
"Post no Bills."
"Last Year My Roomate Walked to Baldwin in Less Than Three Hours."
"I Should Say Not! Why I Wouldn't Think of Wearing a Rented Dress Suit."
"Well, if I Had a Sister, I Certainly Wouldn't Let Her Wear a Hat Like That."
"This athletic ticket not trans erable."
"Special to Columbia and return."
"Special to Columbia and return."
"Our men averaged $675 each, clear gain, selling these books last summer."
"Yes. Professor I have the stuff all
"Yes, Professor, I have the stuff all written out to Ready to copy in Ink."
It was a real Greek that said last week that Mt. Oread is the Acropolis of Kansas, so it must have been Athens instead of Delphi that was the home of the oracles.
NOT SO MUCH NOISE.
The following editorial from the "Silver and Gold" of the University of Colorado shows that they have troubles. They are similar to those at the University.
"Some people say that the Library is the noisest place about the Campus. This is not true. We deny the charge. There are times when there is a great deal more noise in the Engineering Shops and the Library is very quiet compared with the gymnasium in the midst of an exciting basketball game. The library is not the noisiest place on the campus—but there is a great deal more noise there than there need be.
"It sometimes appears as if those who had failed to slam the outside door were trying to atone for their negligence by walking across the uncarpeted portions of the floor by going up the iron stairs, or down the wooden steps, some books a book or two, by moving some chairs and then sitting down to talk.
"No one expects or desires absolute silence in the library. No one expects healthy young people to move about like ghosts. No one wants to establish prison rules in the library. No one can object when one student greets a friend with a wisper or two. But why not use a little moderation?
Once in a while a student with a perverted notion of college life goes into the library to study. Such individuals may be rare but if so they should be encouraged to remain in our museum for curiosities, if nothing For them the library little less than give them a place where they can read and study in peace.
"Most of the confusion in the library is unintentional as it is unnecessary. We don't think what we are doing. We assume that the small amount of noise that we are making is not going to amount to much—and it would not if everybody else were quiet. But when everybody acts upon the same assumption, the result is a great deal of confusion. We all mean to do the fair thing but we forget."
The University of Toronto had 6,000 students last year. $1,500,000 was spent in students, resulting in a new stadium and athletic field gymnasium, students' union, Y. M. C. A., addition to library, museum and a central heating plant.
A TRUMPETER in a battle ventured too near the enemy. They were captured by them. Then they are held up to him to death when he begged them to hear his plea for mercy, "I do not fight," said he, "and indeed carry no weapon; I only blow this trumpet, and you give it to you; then why should you kill me?"
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"You may not fight yourself," sati-
tates Jake, who has a lavish carage
and "quide your men to the fighter."
Words may be deeds.
Jinks- How are you doing in your studies?
Binks—Derriere
Jinks—What do you mean?
Binks—Behind in French.
Williams—Bruce.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
Binks—Derriere.
First Stude—Whence cometh?
Second Stude—Organ recital.
First Stude—Chanel?
Williams Purple Cow.
Second Stude—No, lecture on the human stomach. — Princeton Tiger
15- I thought that you were taking the course in aeronautics.
'I4—I was, but I dropped out.
—Michigan Garovey
"Eavesdropping," exclaimed Adam as his wife tumbled out of the fig tree. —Williams Purple Cow.
Dorothy—How are you going to vote in the coming presidential election, dear?
"Your answer," said the History Professor to the Piker, "reminds me of Quebec."
Hortense—In my new brown tailor suit with the fur trimms. How are you? —Stanford Chaparral.
The Piker grinned uneasily. "Why sir?" he ventured.
The following article taken from The Yale News, is interesting as shown percentage of men in "The Hall of Fame" who are college men, and also showing the relative standing among the celebrities of the universities and colleges of the country:
THE HALL OF FAME
"Because Quebec is founded on such a tall bluff," replied the Professor.
Cornell Widow.
Taking into consideration the forty-two real members of the Hall of Fame, excluding the women and men of foreign birth, twenty-eight or, 66 per cent, attended college. Twenty-six are graduates, for James Fennimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Cullen Bryant left Yale, University of Virginia and Williams, respectively, before graduation. Of these twenty-eight, ten are Harvard graduates, making a total of 36 per cent of all the college men in the Hall of Fame. The Harvard representatives are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, both United States presidents, Joseph Storey, William Ellery Chamming, Phillips Brooks, George Bancroft, and three men of letters, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"Yale is second to Harvard in matter of representation, five Yale graduates having been elected to membership. James Kent, of the Class of 1871, has been awarded a place in the logio of jurists.
"Eli Whitney, of the class of 1792, inventor of the cotton gin, is one of the four scientists admitted to 'The Hall of Fame.' By his own efforts Eli Whitney earned enough money to pay his way through college. Samuel Finley Breese Morse of the class of 1810, likewise is placed among the immortal American scientists, having won through the invention of the telegraph, great distinction. Jonathan Edwards, Yale 1720, was elected to the Hall of Fame upon its establishment. The fifth and last Yale man in the Hall is James Fennimore Cooper, who although he never graduated, spent three years at the University.
"In point of numbers, the United States Military Academy at Wdst Point, though in the strictest sence not a college, has the next largest representation. Three of the four military men in the Hall of Fame, U. S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and William Tecumsher semah, all veterans of the Civil War, are West Point graduates. The fourth, Admiral David J. Farragr, received none but practical training.
RECOGNIZE ATHLETICS
The board of regents of the University of Michigan has decided to make support of Michigan athletes compulsory after Oct. 1, 1912, by issuing a $5 assessment on each student, to be payable as a part of the regular university fees. The fees of male students will
"Bowdoin has contributed two authors, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The remainder of the college representatives in the Hall are from eight institutions. Princeton is represented by James Madison, President of the United States; Amherst by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Penn by Henry Mann; Dartmouth by Daniel Webster; New York University by Asa Gray; University of Virginia by Edgar Allan Poe; Williams by William Cullen Bryant; William and Mary by Thomas Jefferson. There are fourteen men in the Hall of Fame who did not go to college."
go to the athletic association. Of the fees of the women students two-fifths will go to the association and three-fifths to an improvement fund for the women's athletic field. In return all students are to have free use of the athletic fields and free admission to all athletic contests.-New York Sun.
An international educational conference is proposed in a resolution introduced in Congress by Representative Lawrence of Massachusetts, which directs the Commissioner of Education to invite chief educational officers of all nations to discuss co-operation. It would appropriate $25,000 for the expense. Another interest is the creation a commission to investigate the advisability of a pan-American university or pan-American bureau of education.
WORLD CONFERENCE
—BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
OH, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD?
The following poem was a particular favorite with Abraham Lincoln. It was first shown him when a young boy asked it, "What did it cut from a newspaper and learned it by heart. He said to a friend, "I would give a great deal to know who wrote it, but have never been able to understand." Afterwards learn the name of the author.
O. why should the spirit of mortal be wrought?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud.
A flash of the lightning, a break of the ware.
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall tade, and together be
Be scattered around, and together be laid;
As in:
and the old, the low and
The infant a mother attended and loved.
Shall crumble to dust and together shall lie.
loved,
The mother that infant's affection who
The mother that infant's attraction who proved. The mother that mother and infant who proved.
proved,
The father that mother and infant who
knows.
Each, all, are away to that dwelling of rest.
The maid on whose brow, on whose
check, in whose eye,
Are the memories of mortals who loved her and praised.
The head of the king, that the sceptre
hath borne;
The head of the priest, that the mitre
The brow of the priest, that the mitre
hath worn;
The eye of the sage, and the heart of
the brave—
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was to sow and
to reap:
FIERLAND, who plowed with his
heart.
to reap:
The herdman, who climbed with his
hands.
The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up the steep;
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
So the multitude goes, like the flower
or weed,
So the multitude comes, even those we hold
To repeat every tale that has often been told.
That withers away to let others succeed;
For we are the same our fathers have have been;
have seen;
We drink the same stream, we see the
same course,
And run the same course our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers did think;
fathers did shrink;
To the life we are clinging our father
But it speeds from us all like the bird on the wing.
They joyed,-but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
They grieved...but no wait from their slumbers will come;
I they died—ah! they died;—we,
things that are now
They loved;but the story we cannot unfold;
The stubshed in the heart of the cold;
Then they ingested, but no wait, from their
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road.
the fur that ties over their brow,
and make in their dwellings a transient
Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain.
Are mingled together in sunshine and rain.
Can bake in the oven dyeing a transient
materials? Yes, meet the clues that they put on their
rain:
And the smile and the tear, and the
Still follow each other like surge upon surge.
'Tis the wink of an eye; 'tis the draught of a breath
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death.
From the guedo saddle to the ower and the shroud;
Ocean is a wave.
O. why should the spirit of mortal be
ground?
WILLIAM KNOX.
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TO THOSE WHO WORK-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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Every student in the University should see the paintings on exhibition in the Administration building.
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