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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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1912.
POOR RICHARD SAYS:
Handle your tools without mittens the cat in gloves catches no mice.
THERE'S A REASON
We wouldn't want it generally known, but we are inclined to believe that there's a reason, as our friend Post says, why Washington State co-eds, who show ability along athletic lines, are granted the college letter as a reward for their services.
You know, Washington is a great state for the ladies, and if any University man takes his wife to Washington he will find that she will have as much to say about taxes, and the tariff, and Schedule K as he has For in Washington they have woman suffrage.
What is it that has secured woman the right to vote? It is the initiative that she has taken to secure this right, and when the initiative has been forceful enough and conditions are not too adverse, she has gained the franchise.
And we have a suspicion that it is this same zeal that secured the right to vote that made the Washington girls demand the right to wear their university letter.
Here's a hint, women of the University. Take a tip from your sisters in the West. You have organized an Athletic Association and you have a woman's suffrage league. If you wish to wear the University "K," now is the time to assert the qualities of the suffragette and demand the letter.
SOME FIBS THAT ARE TOLD
"Of course I wouldn't join. I belong to too many things now."
"John Doe has withdrawn from the University and will assist his father in the bank until school opens next fall."
"You article was extremely good, Mr. Bingledorf, but a trifle too long for us to use."
"Not prepared today, professor My cousin from home is visiting me."
"Just came home from church and before commencing to study ———" (Used exclusively in letters to the home folks).
SERENADERS
The serenade has become such a part of college life that to do with it would seem a death-blow to all "the good old times" that are to be so fondly cherished. Yet when analyzed, one would question the in-
"Just came home from church—During the spring nights an entertainment of this sort is a pleasure not only to those who receive but to those who give. Sometimes ever then it is overdone. One night last spring the throats of all the young Romeos must have been affected with the germ, for by actual count there were six performances. The
first two or three were highly enjoy able but the last few agonizing, according to later information, partly because of the early hour and partly for the thought of the "eight o'clock" next morning.
Serenades in winter are as bad as a mother-in-law on the honeymoon; they remind one of the stories of Jack London where the four-footed hero gets out in a clear patch of snow and moonlight and serenades the aurora borealis. To pet out of a warm bed at some creepy hour and applaud an indifferently rendered harmony would tax anyone let alone a poor over "rushed" Co-ed.
It might be a good thing to pass some sort of legislation regulating these; first have an "open season" (spring) and next week-night rules with some sort of automatic register whereby one band of bards could tell what places had already been visited, thereby enabling the recipients to get more rest and assuring a more hearty welcome at some other House, hitherto unvisited, for the entertainers.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
A bas to the Sophomore Party. Never again will we inveigle a coed into allowing us the pleasure of her company for such a Prom, for an edict of the University Council puts the taboo on the Prom suffix and makes the affair now a Sophomore Party—with emphasis on the Party. But we suppose it is all right, and we are not losing much sleep over the change, for what's in a name anyway? A Prom by any other name spells a good time just the same. The main idea with us is to have a party of some kind when we can put on our best bib and tucker and do a little butterflying ourselves.
Whether they call it a prom or a party makes no real difference. What is wanted is the same good time of previous years.
ADVANCE INFORMATION
ADVANCE INFORMATION It is asserted that of 680 young women taking a domestic science course at the Kansas State Agricultural college, 210 are engaged to be married.—Wellington Monitor Press.
That's getting next to a fairly large number of heart secrets. Wonder how Brother Dillon did it.
TAINTED SPEECH
Much is said in these days about tainted food, and a greater knowledge of the noxious character of these tainted foods doubtless has added to our dread. Pure food laws have, and the placing of illumination, and the products upon illumination, has been forbidden.
The ancients were not unfamiliar with the fact that substances become putrid. St. Paul found a Greek word with such a meaning, and he defined "corrupt speech" as words which have become tainted. How much of the speech we hear is tainted? How many irreverent words are uttered? How much of the conversation profane may carry with them distinct taint of insincerity. Even good words may be used in such a manner as to carry a taint with them.
Profanity is the cheapest and most utterly senseless of vices, and the student who indulges in it is cheap indeed. It was Emerson who remarked that profanity is a proof of mental poverty, of a scant, insufficient vocabulary and a sad lack of culture. But it is not confined to the poor, the vicious and the illiterate; the better class of society and cultured students are just as guilty. Profanity, without sense or reason but just for swearing's purpose, is the beast of our moral failings. What respect can a man expect who cheapshek his manhood by the use of impure speech? Fresh, pure speech is just as necessary to the moral life as fresh, pure food is to the physical life.
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
—Syracuse Daily Orange.
A SERPENT in the course of his wanderings came into an armourer's shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skin peaked by a file lying there. In a rage he knelt down and slapped dart his fingers into it; but he could do no harm to heavy iron and had soon to give over his wrath.
STUDENT OPINION
It is useless attacking the insensible
A GOOD IDEA To the Daily Kansan:
The editor is not responsible for the clauses expressed. Communication must be signed as an acknowledgment.
Is it not with a feeling of irritation even akin to wrathful resentment when you flop into your seat in the classroom in the Administration building at 9:08, to have the professor quietly remark that he doesn't particularly like students as lute ones in awake but he hakes to see it occur as a regular habit.
The class you had previously attended in Fraser Hall was interesting, it must be admitted, and the professor inadvertently held it until 9:03 instead of dismissing at 8:55. By the time you drew on your overcoat and scampered down the stairs quickly peopled walk you were hopelessly, lamentably, inexcess late.
The fault was not yours nor the professor's. It was because there is no reliable alarm for dismissing classes. The bells ring on occasions when the weather is nice or during chapel hour to ensure no one pays any attention to them.
Why would it not be a good plan to supply the chief engineer with a reliable timepiece and invigle him into blowing the whistle at the time classes should be dismissed? Then if anyone was to blame for being late it would be the student. R. S.
STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH
To the Daily Kansan:
Since the Administration building has been opened it has been manifest that the walk running west past Snow Hall and on toward the Engineering building is entirely too narrow. Especially in this true when there is snow on the ground. It is extremely irritating when in a hurry to reach the class of an exacting professor on time, to have a whole string of slow moving snails retarding your progress. The only way to get past them is to jump in the snow and flounder along until you get to your desired destination. This is likewise true when meeting others coming from the opposite direction.
Girls (no, I'm not a girl hair) seem to delight in sweeping down that walk in broadsides of three wide and twenty deep and when they see a mere male student, continue on their gladstone, or possibly even "gladdomer" way and allow him to spoil his recent shine in a dress. They are the side of the problem; are two ways to solve the problem: Make a wider walk or instil into the students' mind that two abreast is necessary for convenience to all concerned. PUDDLE
WANTS TO SWIM
To The Daily Kansan: I'm a coed- but mayn't I object once in a while, please? You know the girls are given two after-noms, Monday and Thursday, to go swimming. (Perhaps you have noticed that many of them hurry hardy in past years.)
We have wandered gymward eight times this year in hopes of a glorious swim. Eight times we have met a locked door,—though the water called to us through the keyhole. If one is really half mermaid the effect of an island swimming would be to uptake the pool today" or "if you will wait until 4:34 o'clock we will see what we can do about it" fairly makes our fins stand on edge.
What was the nice white pool with a blue stripe made for if not to swim in on Mondays and Tuesdays?
Many years ago in the ante-bellum days there was initiated into the University of Virginia the first formal code for an honor system in an American college and its students were intrusted with all the rights and duties of self-government. As is well known this university was founded by Thomas Jefferson who infused it into the spirit of liberty and equality which is known the United States over as the Jeffersonian Democracy. A prominent writer in discussing the results says: "No element in the education finished by the University has been more important than the rebuilding of students in the principles and practice of a democratic society. One of the most characteristic and inspiring features of the life there is the confidence reposed by the faculty in the students, and the respect paid by the students to the faculty. The relations between the two bodies are delightfully free, cordial and courteous."
It is easy to understand why southern colleges should have been the natural home of the honor system. This does not mean that the ethical code of northern students is inferior to that of southern students, but merely that the cherished traditions of the South have made it the most natural harbor. The southern college is not so badly infested with that money-mad materialistic manner of living which has been so marked in the north. This is also
A SOUTHERN INSTITUTION
A FISH MAIDEN.
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you.
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all me doubt you.
But make allowance too.
If you can wait, and not to wait,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating;
And you don't look too good or talk too wise.
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master:
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster;
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can hear to hear the truth you spoken
Twisted by knives to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken.
And start and build up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winsin-
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toos.
And you, and start again at your beginnings.
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and snew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you.
Except that Will that says to them "Hold on!"
If you talk with crowds and keep your virtue.
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the com-
motion, but neither. If you can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute.
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything
and which is more—will be a man
that's in it,
And—which is more--you'll be a man
—RUDYARD KIPLING.
my son!
the reason that the honor system should be still more generally adopted in the South, for it is the one best way of instilling into our college men and women—the future leaders of the Southland—the principles of just living and love of the right. The honor system in college is merely an application of the standards which Washington and Jefferson and Lee stood for in political life. Can it be said that such standards are too antiquated and simple for a twentieth century college? Not for a minute should anyone think so, for the honor system is not a fad or fancy of the past, it is a living fact.
The originating in the South it has not stayed below the Mason and Dixon line. Cornell, Amherst, Williams and other northern colleges have adopted it. At Princeton it has given perfect satisfaction for many years. Nor is it confined to other small or large colleges. Many minor institutions declare best universities numbers bespeak its blessings. In none is it said to be perfect—man-made plans could not be expected to be so—but in most all cases it has bettered the conditions existing under the old regime.
The Lariat, Baylor University.
COURSE IN NUTRITION
The subject of nutrition will be universally studied in higher institutions of learning in a quarter of a century hence, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food expert of the Department of Agriculture, predicts. Scarcely a college in the world today treats the question of what the eating of pure and wholesome food can do for the prevention anemia. This is no accident Dr. Wiley. This will be changed, however, he declares, and "with twenty-five years a chair dealing with this subject will be established in colleges throughout the world."
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.
O YET WE TRUST THAT SOME
HOW GOOD
That nothing walks with aimless feet.
That not one life shall be destroyed,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete.
O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, ans or will,
Defects of doubt, and tants of blood
That not a worm is cloven in vain;
That not a womb with coat deers;
That not a moth with vain desire
is shrivelled in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another's gain.
Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last—far off—at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying in the day;
And with no language but a cry.
——ALFRED TENNSON.
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