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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
A Stud ent's Lament.

To the Editor of the University Missourian:
An instructor in economics illustrat-
ing point to his class recently told
them that every man believed that the
ested were the only ones that counted.
For example if student left the
matter to his economics professor he
would be told that what he most
needed in his college Work was eco
n0mics. No young man should ever
leave college without thorough I'M
derStanding OF economics. Ii is the
most important subject. Then if he
goes TO an instructor in English he
will be told that the first thing the
college man should know is his own
language. 1t is disgrace..i and re
fleets to the diScredit OF Il college
when her graduates are not we'll
verScd in English and English ltera-
ture. 1t is surely the most important
subject.
In the professional courses it is
the same way. The instructor in
steam engines sees no merit in alter
mating currents. The instructor in
animal hushandry thinks agronomy
a waste of energy and the cultivation
of the soil inferior to the breeding of
cattle. 1t would not be so bad for
the student if these various special
lists merely confined themselves to
thinking as they do. The trouble lies
| in that most of them are so intent
on the student becoming master
in the particular subject that he is
teaching that he fOrgetS the student
has other work. A teacher in the five
| hOur course in French insisted that
/ her students spend at the least two
and a half hours in the preparation
! OF each days lesson. The teacher in
/ freshman English insists that his sub
/ ject receive at the least two hours
of the students time out OF class.
! The history instructor usually assigns
| forty or fifty pages in the text book
and a few hundred more in reference
| books
The one consolation of the whole
/ system is that the heads of the schools
! or OF the departments use broader
! judgment and appOrtion the students
work with some degree of fairness.
w. F. J.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
NEWSPAPER COMMENTS
ON ARTHUR BRISBANE

The authorities Of the University
OF Kansas school Of journalism n
Lawrence selected as the star attrac-
ticn for the first annual conference
OF Journalism the editor OF the Hearst
publications. This is unpleasautIy
significant. or will be so considered. OF
the trend OF training at Lawrence in
respect to the newspaper business.
Mr.. Arthur Brisbane hold; chief dis
tinctiOn in the newspaper world by
reason of the fact that he represents
a departure from all accepted stand
ards OF the craft and gets a salary. il
is said. greater than that OF the Presi-
dent OF the United States for doing so.
In fact. it is the salary he receives
rather than the place he holds in the
profession as a leader that cOmmends
him to the popular mind 1t is as
sumed that because Mr. Brisbane gets
the largest pay he is the best editor.
whereas the fact is overlooked that
anyone doing what Mr.. Brisbane does
should be paid most handsomely for it.
He is a yellow journalist" and it is
natural to suppose that he is in the
business for the money he can make
out of it,
Of course, in a general journalistic
training it is necessary for the stu
dent to be familiar with all classes OF
newspapers. including the infamma-
tory publications owned by Mr.. Hearst.
Yet it is regrettable that on such an
important occasion as the first annual
journalistic conference at the Kansas
university so much Importance should
nave been attached to the kind of
journalism that should not he held up
as model. The laudation of the S11-
an-hour editor is an effrCnt to the
earnest and scholarly editors of the
land who hold their work above mere
price. Kansas is not yellow Jour
nal state and il is to be hoped that
none of the students OF journalism at
Lawrence will be beguled hy the lure
OF Mr. Brisbane's success" to follow
/ in his footsteps.
/ We have 10 quarrel with Mr. Bris-
bane. He works for his money and
! gets it, and as a commercial proposi-
ton he is an immense success. He
/ has turned his talents to account
Yet of all the types of journalists in
this country Mr.. Brisbane is probably
the least valuable TO society. He has
violated all the best traditions of
Journalism and his example would be
undesirable for young men to follow
Still. the authorities of the University
of Kansas school of journalism over.
looked scores of strong, capable edi.
tors in the great cities of the countrv
men of higher ethical standing in
the profession than Mr.. Brisbane and
went to the fetid atmosphere of New
York sensational journalism for their
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
University Calendar

Fourth Annual Exhibition of oil
paintings daily in Museum of Archae,
ology until March 6.
February II. Geology lecture. Prof.
NJ F. Marbut in non-techncal scien-
titic series. at assembly.
February 17-Paul +. More, editor
of the Nation, will talk on "CriticiSm''
at assembly.
February 1I-Prof Percival Lowell
on Recent Work on Mars" university
auditorium. Admission free.
February 22-Holiday. Washing
tons birthday
February 22-John +. Swanger. state
bank commissioner for Missouri. in
the auditorium. Subject: "Citizenship
the American Ideal"
March l. Botany lecture. c. 5.
eager at University Assembly.
March st. Louis symphony Or
chestra.
March :. Prof. W. {. Curtis on
Experimental Zoology at assembly.
March II. Pref. George I.efevre on
Evolutionary Zoology at assembly.
April 1-QUarterly meeting cf Board
of Curators.
May 30 to June Final examina-
lions.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
Doing Things at M. u.

Ran, Rah, Rah-rah-rah. Missouri,
Hats of to the University Of the
ShOw-me state!
It's going TO do things. genuinely
new things. piping hot off the novelty
sriddl". Keep your eyes on her.
4 plan is being perfected in that
worthy institution OF learning where
by the fair and unsophistiCated coed
will be taught how to care lor babies
Babies-mind you---Hral. live. wriggly,
rosy-mouthed ba5ieS. Ry the Great
Stork.
Mothers. while they go downtown
shopping or to a Suttragette rally. will
be asked to leave their chubby little
darlines in care OF the university
classes. And during the maternal alb
Sence the charming varsity damsel
will be initiated into all the intricacies
and mysteries of baby-tendna.
E,xceIlent-thrice excellent. What
matter if the hnils of learning grow
redplent of Soothing syrup and frag
rant catnip tea? What matter if
crescendo walls of infantile grief echo
where before only the subdued mur-
murings OF musty professors We're
heard.
Better, far better, for the cause OF
higher education that Grac!e Of the
fluffy coiffure should master the manip-
ulations OF a steriliZed nursing bottle
that Alys with the SchuHimr- Heink
voice should Groom sedativc lullabieS
to a pink cherub. or that Idalia
should become proficient in cradle Es-
perantO-knCwn the world over as
baby talk-than that they should wear
their young brains and throats out in
an effort TO translate VerlaIne and Vii
Ion or give the latest vOvi.l twist to
the aria from Lucia di I.ammerInonr. .
Great is the eXperment-ard the
world Will wait upon the outcome with
bated breath.-Amarillo Panhandle.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
LOOKING AT
THE UNIVERSITY
President Hill to Remain.

pr..iL,ut d.. IJiII, ,,,,,,.,,,,-.-
,,.'. .,,.. 49, "''','''''
university doyn;,o rho nrotiarn, j.,
crease in s,r,r,. :. .,oa no,... ,n ,ro
friend. If ,ro l,i..o,,r; ,,,,i,.,r.;,,. :.
the Eaws-urr,Id said vbor rho sub
lee, first became nublic wa rouId NOT
believe thar pr Hin wnulJ ouir the
struggle in rhis srnte for The Iooves
and f,r,-. :, ,I;,,,,,,.,,. H..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
Where Women Dc the Proposinu.

Women do all the proposing in New
Guinea. There it is beneath the dig
nifty Of a man even to look at woman.
and tor a man TO propose would he
TO l0Se all social standing When
girl in New Guinea is attracted by a
youth and wishes him for husband
she sends a piece of string to his
sister or mother. who delivers the
string as token of her desire for an
engagement. If the girl elects to
change her mind her fiance is privi-
legged to fog her, and if he breaks
the engagement the girls relatives
are free TO treat him in the same way
1t Is seldom an engagement is broken.
however. for the courtship goes on at
a distance. From the moment the
string is passed until the Wedding tn"
couple must not meet. or approach
within hundred feet of each other
New York Press.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
COLLEGE PAPERS.

The Chicago Tribune. in a page ar
ticle on university newspapers, Sc
lects as the eight best in the United
States. the Daily Maroon OF the Uni
versity of Chicago. the Daily Illini OF
the University of Illinois, the Michi-
gan Daily of the University of Michi-
gan. the University Missourian of the
University OF Missouri. the Daily Ne
braskan of the University of Nebraska
the Daily Eowan of the University Of
Iowa. the Daily Cardinal of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, and the Yale
Daily News of Yale University. Ac-
cording to the Tribune, these are the
most thoroughly read newspapers in
the United States. From the first
headline to the last advertisement
they are read and re-read and read
again by students. faculty members
and town-folk in their various COM
munities." Again the Tribune says:
The college daily is modelled more
and more at least in the Middle West,
after the leading metropolitan papers.
Coupled with the opportunity offered
by the training in the classroom, jour.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS.

Man lives to do and does to live
To do well, he must have the knowl-
edge of the art of doing what he in
tends to do.
The purpose of vocational schools is
TO provide young men and women
the opportunity of acquiring knowl-
edge of some trade or profession that
will be to its pOssessOr means OF
livelihood The vocational schools in
the last decade have increased in
number and extended to all trades and
professions.
The object of man. however is not
ability, alone, but happiness. Ability
may earn for him wealth, but there
are pleasures that are essential To
happiness but which wealth cannot
buy. Schools that enable one to spa-
'i"llHe ior profession only, nut pro
vide for no general culture, are doing
but one-half OF what they might do
The University OF Missouri. by requir-
ing two years collegiate work as IA
preparation for entrance to its pro
fessional schools, should help one to
do and to live well.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
ACCURACY! ACCURACY!

The following is from the society
column OF a Kansas City newspa-
per:
Miss Elizabeth Bacon. with
Judge and Mrs. LawtOn of Column
bia. Mo, and Miss Carrie Mitchell
OF Columbia, Mo, left last night for
New York to sail Saturday. Janu-
airy %, on the Cincinnati for a
trip to the Orient They will be
gone indefinitely
The item refers to Judge and
Mrs. Lawson and Miss Pearle
Mitchell, of Columbia. OF the
three names OF persons used. two
are correct. Otherwise the item
may be accurate.
Suggestion: lnaccuracy, even as
to details, is seldom, if ever, ex-
Cusable.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
Notes of Society.
Slogans.

Last fall Beat Kansas was the
slogan. 1t was successful.
If every student will take up the
new slogan For a Greater Univer-
sity,' and work as enthusiastically
and devOtedly for its realization Its
success will be as brilliant as Beat
Kansas"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
Why Not?
W +. J..

No poem has been submitted at Mis-
souri, good enough to draw the 500
prize. Why not draft ID. McVay to
the ranks of the poets?-kansas City
Sar.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
Program as Fans.

Programs for the junior prom at the
University OF Iowa will be celluloid
fan shaped. and can be used as fans.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
VIEWPOINTS

lIh" University M!>-nUran invites cuutribtl-
tl"n> "u matters ri University and Columbia in
l"r''>t. IT." nam" ui thu wriI"r>huu d daccnmrauy
sired
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
Reform.

When reforms in football.
Have Knocked the roughness out,
Wha wants to see it played,
When he knows he cannot shout !?
c. II.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
The Seuenth Column
The Overshot.

The Overshot.
shot poem into the air;
1t was reprinted everywhere,
From Bangor to the Rocky range
And always credited to exchange
New York Mail.
And long. long afterward it CHANGED,
AS book OF verse | gaZed upon,
| found the poem published there,
And it was simply signed Anon"
Denver Republican.
And now that bit OF vagrant verse,
Has gone much farther and Jared
worse;
In the Podunk Times last week |
read it.
And London Tit-bits" had the
credit.
Chicago Tribune.
A simple lesson is taught:
When poet smites the Tyre,
He should aim at the mark,
And not little higher
Speaking OF the value of poet lays
the Missouri hen has them beaten Il
mile.
St Louis hasn't become accustomed
to suffragettes. A women OF that city
was recently fined SD for masquerad-
ing in mems attire
The succor OF Paris seems to have
been caught in the Seine.
An Appeal.
Dear father wrote the student.
In exams got thru nifty.
I'm busy counting NJ my grades.
But / wish you'd send that fifty"
Th" red-hcadrd soph. says:
Competition ruins The best inten-
tions.
Don't fret over the -; You were
only one OF the unfortuna,cs who .
made up the pr centasa"
It's a wise father who knows his
own Son-by his class grades.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
CLASSIFIED ADS.


Rates ior aiVcrti-,.l;..'iIrs J.;iCrr t..- LraIaH
follows:
Three lines tor .,>-' one p g.
Three lines thrr" I"~............... -
Five lines thr-,. times = g.
Every evening for uIr week. Ter liH"--... Il ~
Count six average wor,iS to th'. linz
Want ads should h'. i"fr ~ either TIE Ms
store I lac Drug shop Tn" N;>.DtriGn Of.c'
Box i'll Academic Hall
All want ais cash in u.?vaUc".
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

Call - Double - to get the Mis-
sourian business office by telephone.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

WANTED-BY STUDENT, WI"
evenings after $50. l.. L. c. 'g'
Sixth ST.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

LOST-PLAIN SIGMA CHI r.
Return to Sigma Chi house anu
ceive reward.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
VARSITY NOTES

Miss Ida Settler OF st. Louis, who
has been visiting her brother, H. A
Setter. senior in the School of
Engineering. returned home Sunday.
The county count is appointing the
road overseers for BOone County this
week. About loo appointments will
be made The work will not be fin
ished for several days.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

nalism is bound to be profited by its
existence"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15
A GENERAL ATHLETIC TICKET

Why should the athletics OF any
university be one-sided? That this
is fact only few viii deny. Step
into the street any Saturday afternoon
during III" football season and crowds
Of he-thbou-d persons will be seen
going Ia the football field, TRY to
picture similar scene when a base
ball or basketball game is being
played. 1t is impossible Further.
more, comparatively so little interest
is taken il basketball Or baseball that
on the day after the game many
students are ignorant OF the names
Of the opposing team and of the
score.
Who is responsible for this state OF
affairs? The only answer is the stu
dent body.
Why are the football games so
we'll attended and the others So poorly
attended? There is but one answer
TO this-the absence OF the general
athletic ticket. By means of this
ticket games other than football would
be well attended. Before the football
season is here let the students urge
and obtain this means of having a
well-balanced athletic interest.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

The fattest men in the University
of Missouri are to play the smallest
men basketball game at the Univer-
sity Carnival If the midgets will use
the Roper style OF playing. the result
will doubtless be disastrous for the
heayyweights.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

FOUND-PEARL BROOCH. wv
er may have by describing and pay,
for this ad.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

FOR RENT-CORNER ROOM 0
second floor in pleasant, we'll Order
home, where only few boys are kel
Cos S. 4th. Phone 100 Black.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

Is il p"ssibi" that til, people who
threw eggs at the Columbia thea.er
thought that Nostand's "Chanjirlrr"
W&S in progress amd that The egg
would serve Tor bouquets?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-15

Dear father wrote the student.
In exams got thru nifty.
I'm busy counting up my grades.
But / wish you'd send that fifty"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19

AN incident of passing interest last
week was the kissing of President Taft
by members of the National American
Woman Suffragette association in con-
vention in Washington. The president
accepted an invitation to address the
convention on the assurance that even
if mis- views did not fully agree with
the views entertained by the conven-
ton. his address would nevertheless he
welcome. In the course of his remarks
the president said he thought "One Of
the dangers in granting suffrage to wo-
men was that the women as a Who'll"
were not interested in it, and that the
power of the ballot so far as women
are concerned. would be controlled by
the less desirable class" When these
words fell from the presidents lips,
there was q chorus of hiSSeS that
sounded like the sudden breaking IF
a valve of a steam engine. The prcsi-
ident paused until the kissing had sub
sided. and then went on To say: Nov,
my dear ladies. you must show your
selves capable of suffrage by exercising
that degree of restraint which is nee
essary in the conduct Of government
affairs by not kissing" The rcbuke
had it's desired effect. and after the ad-
dress. many prominent leaders uf the
convention went to tine president and
expressed their modification that such
an incident had occurred. Later. the
convention adopted a resolution dis
claiming all approval of the kissing
and the president sent Il reply 10 the
effect that he had not been at all Of
Tended. and hoped that tn" whole mat
ter would soon be forgotten.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19

Manchester, Ga, April 16: The
town of Woodland, nine miles south Of
Manchester on the Atlanta Birming-
ham and Atlantic railroad, experienced
a destructive cyclone this afternoon.
practically every house in the town
being more or less seriously damaged.
A number of stores were almost COM
pletely wrecked. as were several resi-
dences and big trees were uprOoted
throughout the town. A number of
persons are reported seriously injured.
A relief train was sent to Woodland
from Manchester but no details of the
storm had been received mere at s
o'clock tonight. No traces of the cy-
clone were felt here. The railroads
ing Of two freight trains and a badly
damaged track. When the cyclone
struck Woodland, five cars on side
track were blown over on the main line
and a moment later another freight
dashed into them, making kindlins
wood Of the box cars and tear
ing up the track for a distance of
100 yards. No member Of the crews Of
the trains was injured. More than
40 houses, ii is reported, were wrench
ed from their foundations and the oc-
cupants in many instances had narrow
escapes from serious injury or death.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19

A RIG sensation developed through
publication of information to the effect
that Attorney General Wickersham
had ordered an investigation into the
cotton bun movement now being engi-
neered by Messrs. James Patten Of
Chicago. Frank B. Hayne and William
p. Brown of New Orleans, and Eugene
Scales of Texas. Havne and Brown
have been made defendants in the pro-
ceedings and a number of prominent
cotton SPECTATORS have been summon
ed to testify before the Federal grand
Jury in New York. The investigation
is understood to be based on the pos
sibility of a May corner. in violation
of the anti monopoly laws. The un-
derstandng is that the alleged bull
nOOl has contracts for more than 400
600 bales of cotton and that with the
large shipments from Liverpool and
purchases in the south. the bears are
not going to be able to deliver more
than $4,000 bales The bulls charge
that the legal proceedings were insti-
tuted by the bears in diSrcputable
effort to get out of their contracts;
but at the same time are insisting that
they will carry their deal through sue
cessfully. Nothing of the kind has ever
occurred in the history Of the cotton
trade before.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19

CLIFFORD Pinchot, the former chief
forester of the United States. met
ex-President Roosevelt in Italy the
other day. and had a series of long,
close, confidential conversations with
him. The common inference, of course
is that Mr. Pinchot, who is a close per-
sonal friend of the eX-president. went
to him for the purpose of discussing
the Ballinger matter. Neither Colonel
Roosevelt nor Mr.. Pinchot would give
out what occurred: but there went out
a report that Col. Roosevelt has stated
that he will probably be candidate for
president again two years from now
Mr. Roosevelt is reported to be very
angry at the publication of any such
unauthorized statement
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19

solution as to the primary adopted by
the Legislature inStructs the state Dem
ocratic executive committee to call the
election to select a party senatorial
nominee for the regular term which
will begin in 1918, to be held during the
month of November of this year. In
this primary Mr.. Nardaman and Mr.
Percy will both be candidates. Should
the result be unfavorable to Percy, he
agreed in his address yesterday t. ten
der his resignation as United States
senator for the present term to the
next session of the state Legislature, an
appointment to be made by the gov
ernor to hold until the nominee select
ed at the proposed primary is seated
in 1913. Both Senator Percy and Mr.
Vardaman have addressed letters to
Chairman LOmaX of tine Democratic
state executive committee agreeing to
the plan.