Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-14


copied from someone else is. to all intent'
and purposes, a liar. and that the Harvard
code does not tolerate liars. Dean Brigg:
is right. The sooner college students Learn
that they live in the same world as othel
people the better for the colleges and
for the world.
Professor Sullivan, late Of the prize ring,
has invented a phrase (or did the reporter
invent it for him0 which fills a long felt
want In a late interview. wherein he
enumerates some of his glories. but fails
to recall the occasion on which his wife
put him TO sleep with an Indian club. he
denounces "so-caIled Americans who turn
up their pants without cause." What a
stroke of genius. Everyone has felt the
injustice of the general denunciation of
those who turn up their pants. How many
OF us have dragged the edges OF our trous-
ers in the mud rather than endure the sus-
picion of being British sympathizers! Now
it is all clear. If we do not turn up our
pants without cause we may satisfy our
accusers.
If Professor Harry Thurston Peck had
had the running of the Garden of Eden
he would have improved on the arrange
ments there. He would have left out the
tree of knowledge, and then there would
have been no discomfort, whence all our
woes. Columbia university had better give
Professor Calvin Thomas a chance to talk
now, to remove the impression made by
Mr.. Peck. One thing he omitted from his
article, or perhaps two things. He failed
to state just where he would begin with
his restriction of education. whether with
the alphabet or the primer. or with The
third reader. He also forgot TO say what
Of a commission was to select the few
who are TO be entrusted with the torch of
learning. In fact, there are a number Of
things Professor Peck didn't think about
when he wrote that Cosmopolitan article.
Everybody, pretty nearly. is kicking T.
C. Henry just now. There was a time
when most Of the kickers regarded this
same 7. c. Henry as the Moses and the
Joshua Of Kansas prosperity. and they
knew just as much about his methods as
they do now. We suspect that Mr.. Henry's
reddest sin is that he is dead broke. And
when he turns up as a magnate in Mex
leo, as he is very apt to do. he will be
Just as good a fellow as he ever was.
Eugene Ware has been elected president
of the Western Association of Writers.
This is a club to which John Clark Rid
path, Maurice Thompson and James Whit
Riley belong. They have fallen into
mighty good company in the case of
Mr.. Ware. And if he would let law alone |
and devote himself to training for poetry
he would make any of the Hoosiers hump
TO keep in the same class with
him. 1t seems too bad to say so when a
man can be so very funny and so very
but Mr.. Ware ought to write more
In the serious line. II lasts longer.
The Eastern schools are setting excel
lent examples in various ways this year.
strictly exclude from her ath-
Ietic work all profession and men who
are hired or "encoura1 -" and Yale re-
GENTLY separated" some gilded youths
who tried to paint red a Sound passenger
Word now comes that over half
he freshman class in the medical school
1t Yale have been dropped for ineficiency.
is encouraging. A little more of this
Kind of thing. and a little more widely
spread. and the public will regain some Of
is respect for colleges and college men.
Statistics show that the number of men
lecting Latin and Greek at Harvard COM
'ares well with the number in other lines.
exceeded only by that in history. OF
curse this is a very different case from
THAT it was when everyone was compelled
o take these languages. but the impress
ion was common that very few would
AXE them if not compelled to. And the
apartments gain immensely in having
My willing students.