UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
LOUIS  R. BERTS
GEORGE MARSH  Managing Editor-In-Chief
MARK M. MANSON
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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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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS.
If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you able to learn your idle, be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
OPEN ON SUNDAY?
A year ago the Kansas legislature enacted a law requiring the University authorities to keep the Museum open on Sundays so that the working people could enjoy the collections there assembled. At the time of this enactment, the annual art display was held every winter in the Museum and the motive that prompted the proposal of the law was that the wage-earning class might have a chance to see the pictures.
With the completion of the Administration building the picture exhibit has been moved from the Museum to this building. But as this building is closed every Sunday the pictures are still out of the reach of those who work through the week.
At present the pictures are to be seen on week days and on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The large class of working people in Lawrence, who have only Sunday for recreation and enjoyment, are deprived of the pleasure and profit to be derived from the exhibit. Is it in accord with the policy that the University is attempting to follow, that of serving all the people?
There still remain two Sundays before the paintings are to be removed. Why not open the doors of the art display to the working people of Lawrence on these days?
THE NEW CAFETERIA
If you believe that they don't teach home economics in the way it should be taught at the University, just put a few shekels into your purse and meander through the new University Cafeteria some day about noon.
We always imagined that a course in domestic science was a sort of a chocolate frappe affair, interspersed with various sorts of au gratin, Anglaise etc., all of which were the very essence of fine cooking but were of little value when a man wanted something that would stick to his ribs.
Well, we're feeling pretty good today; fit as a fiddle, and it's all because we have paid a visit to the emporium presided over by Miss Edna Day and we've had a nourishing and satisfying meal and we didn't have to chase a mile and a half off the hill to get it, either.
The new cafeteria opened yesterday, and judging by the patronage on the first day, it has promise of becoming a permanent feature at the University. The service was good, sufficient variety of food was offered and for a satisfying lunch at the noon hour at a moderate expense it would be hard to find a better place than our own University Cafeteria.
For several weeks the students have been clamoring for a lunch room. They have it now and if they
want it to stay it is incumbent upon them to patronize it.
The new Cafeteria is a mere force runner of the permanent commons that the University hopes to have before another year. At the present time it appears that either the Regents or the Alumni Association will attempt to establish such a commons.
If you wish to convince the people that we need such a place, the way to do it is to make the support of the present lunch room so strong that the necessity of a bigger and better commons will be obvious.
THE TROPHY ROOM
Every freshman who ever entered Robinson gymnasium has stopped and gazed through the glass casements of the dark little room in the north-west corner.
The bright color of a pennant or the glimpse of a loving cup has caught his eye and attracted his attention. He has closely read the inscriptions on the banners and pennants. He has been fascinated by the old footballs, baseballs, shoes, pictures and other trophies, and has strained his eyes to decipher the engravings and the inscriptions so that he may know of the hard-won glory that they represent. But the room is not too well lighted and he is far away. A carefully locked door shuts out the eager hands that would soil the banners or confiscate some of the trophies as souvenirs.
Yale has its trophies arraigned in glass cases along the sides of a long hall down which the student or freshman or visitors may pass and gaze upon the reminder of triumphs over Harvard and victories over Princeton. The freshman is able to read the inscription under the old decadent shoes with which Walter Camp kicked the long-remembered field goal that defeated Harvard.
And Yale is a school with traditions.
SAM WELLER'S VALENTINE
To Mary, Housemaid, at Mr. Krup kins' Mayor's, Ipswich, Suffolk.
"Lovely creetur i feel myself ashamed and completely cincum-scribed in a dressin' of you, for you are a nice gal and nothin' but it Afore I see you I thought all women was alike. But now I find what a reg'lar soft-headed, ink-red-lous turp must hea' been for there ain't nobody like you though I like you better than nothin' at all.
So I take the privilege of the day, Mary, my dear—as the gen'l'mn' in difficulties did, ven he valked out of a Sunday,—to tell you that the first and only time I see you your likeness was taken on my heart in much quicker time and brighter colors than ever a likeness was took by the profeel macheen (which p'raps you may have hareed on Mary my dear) altho it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by and all in two minutes and a quarter.
Except of me Mary my dear as your valentine and think over what I've said—My dear Mary I will now conclude."
"Not a bit on it," said Sam. "she'll vish there was more, and that's the great art 'o letter writin' going to end with a verse," he added.
"That's rayther a sudden pull up ain't it, Sammy?" inquired the elder Mr. Weller.
"That's all," said Sam.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
Sam signed the letter— "Your love-sick Pickwick."
HE Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble ladies of the kingdom.
ingure he made there. "Ah," said he, "where you can see such noble horns as these, with such antlers!" I was glad to see the noble crown; it is a pity they are so slim and slight." At that moment a Hunter approached and sent an arrow whistling his away. Away bounded the Hart, and soon, by the aid of his sword, he drew up the sight of the Hunter; but not noising where he was going, he passed under some trees with branches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, so that the Hunter had time to come back and see what happened. We also deserve what is most pre-
lespise what is most use ful to us."
STUDENT OPINION
The editor is not responsible for the expresed message. Communications must be signed, at an evel. rate.
The democracy of the American university is being seriously questioned today. The institution of higher learning is being placed on the defensive by eminent critics. Although many of the charges that are made are unfounded and unjust, there are too many that have a real foundation.
UNIVERSITY DEMOCRACY To the Daily Kansan.
This matter is coming to demand the serious attention of educators and of students. It can not be brushed aside with a wave of the hand. The American institution of higher learning is founded upon the great common people of America, and to them it is answerable. "The moment it forgets its obligation to the race, the community, or the becomes alienated from the common people, that moment it loses its useful position in American civilization.
Happily, the University of Kansas can claim a place among the most democratic universities of the land. The spirit of aristocracy and cliques and snobbery has never yet taken hold on Mt. Orland to flourish as it has in the large universities, and this the University of Kansas can indeed take pride.
This, however, can not be said of all American universities. It is a deplorable comment on a modern institution of higher learning in a civilized country that such a news-item as the following is made possible:
"Not less than $50,000 will have changed hands when the festivities connected with the annual Junior end Sunday night:"
No better denunciation of just such conditions as this could be given than the following passage from a notable address by Woodrow Wilson, scholar and statesman:
"You can't spend four years at one of our modern universities without getting in your thought the conviction which is most dangerous in America—namely, that you must treat with certain i. fluencies which now dominate in the commercial undertakings of the country.
"The great voice of America does not come from the seats of learning. It comes in a murmur from the hills and woods and the farms and factories and the mills, rolling on and gaining volume until it comes to us from the homes of common men. Do these murmurs echo in your mind? I do not hear them. The universities would make men forget their common origins, forget their universal sympathies, and join a class—and no class ever can serve America."
"I have dedicated every power that there is within me to bring the colleges that I have anything to do with to an absolutely democratic regeneration in spirit, and I shall not be satisfied—and I hope you will not be—until America shall know that the nem in the colleges are saturated with the same thought, the same sympathy, that pulses through the whole great body politic."
C. G. F.
Friend "Cub," I have a sorrow deep,—my Kansas' ceased to come. The world's assumed a dull gray shade and life is on the burn. But when I stir my memory up, and dry the flowing tear, I have a hunch that I subscribed for only half a year. I thought perhaps a note you'd send, not too abrupt, that my subcription had expired, and would I please cough up. I little thought, while other woes I struggled to forget, that you'd come down on me like this, with payment two, and we were bone two, though the bone-yard's getting low, and any numbers that I've missed just send along, Old Bo. For if I had to walk to work, or give up chewing gum, I know I'd manage still some way to raise this patry sum; that all so cheaply purchases the model daily new, beloved by all the loyal "studes," the Kansan of K. U.
HIS IS A SAD TALE To the Daily Kansan;
How to rest is the newest thing to be taught in the modern university. "Classes in rest" have just been added to the gymnastic curriculum of the University of Wisconsin, according to reports received by the United States Bureau of Education.
TEACH STUDES TO REST
Kansas City, Mo.
In reporting to the Bureau, George Wehler, director of physical education at the Wisconsin institution, says: "We do not go on the theory that the gymnasium is good for everyone, and, therefore, everyone must take gymnastics. The purpose of these classes in the gymnasium is to teach 'fidgety', and who grow weary from the performance of tasks that ought not to produce fatigue, how to acquire control over their own nervous systems." —BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
Though the birds flies far
And the fair flower goes,
The sweet of the year
Is set in the snows.
The wind o' the winter
It breaks into bloom
And suddenly songs
Are sung in the gloom.
And winging hearts cross
And whisper together,
A night and a day
It is perfect weather
EUGENE FIELD.
STUDENTS EAST AND WEST
"It goes without saying that in Japan, as in America, there are students who are lazy and indifferent and who fall by the wayside; but on the other hand, the average college student of Japan looks upon his education with an unyielding opportunity and more in the nature of a call to serve his sovereign and his country.
College spirit is with him synonymous with patriotism. It is not local, but national. With him, as with the American, education is a matter of personal ambition, but always with the ideal of serving his native land. Although, therefore, the fundamental motives that move the Japanese students are the same as those that move the American student, the fire of the natural Japanese spirit touches the ideals of the Japanese student with a warmer glow of devotion to the national service.
The influence that goes far to conceal from the outside observer the fact that the underlying ideals of the Japanese and American student are much alike is the difference in the philosophy of life between the East and the West. The philosophy that the Japanese student learns teaches him to repress his emotion, to conceal from the world the evidence of danger and an anguish of hate. The philosophy of the Westerner permits him to exhibit freely these emotions; and yet the underlying human nature is the same in both.
The difficulty comes in the effort to estimate the real motive when the superficial symptoms are so different. In many qualities the Japanese and
the American student are singularly alike. Indeed, the points of friction that arise in Japanese and American intercourse come generally out of the characteristics which they have in common, rather than from those in which they differ. Both are alert, ambitious and aggressive and both are good 'buffers!' A distinctive characteristic of both Japanese and American students is individual ambition to succeed and a certain idealization of success itself. On both sides of the Pacific there is a tremendous sentiment among college students that the great object of life is to succeed at something."
—THE YOUTH'S COMPANION.
NASSAU HALL RESTORED
Nassau Hall, one of the most famous college buildings in America, after a lapse of over a century, has again returned to an innovative center of Princeton University.
Although in 1756, when Nassau Hall was built, it not only served as the administrative center of the College of New Jersey, but also as the sole dormitory and recitation hall, the executive offices outgrew their quarters, and sought room elsewhere in 1803. Twice almost destroyed by fire, once riddled by bullets, in turn a peaceful institution of learning, a soldiers' barracks, a hospital, and the seat of the Continental Congress, Nassau Hall surely has a large claim on the affections of Princeton men.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
It was there that Washington received thanks from Congress for his services during the war, and the first foreign ambassador to this country was received in the same room.—Boston Transcript.
THE BANKS O' DOON.
tair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary, fu' o' care?
Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird.
Ye banks and braies o' borneen Doom
Now can ye bloom e save fresh and
brent
That motions through the flowering
thorn.
Thou minds me o' departed joys,
Departed—never to return.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird.
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wistia my fate,
Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and woodline twine
And ilka iba sang o' its luve,
And, fondly, sae did I o' mine.
She had only sung 'U' as love,
and, fondly, sae did 'I' o mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pould'a rose,
Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree;
And my tasse luver stole my ros,
Ab but he! al lover burns-
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Every student in the University should see the paintings on exhibition in the Administration building.
ED ANDERSON
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