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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Praises the Behavior.

Editor The Missourian. The roofing
at the game between Missouri and
Nebraska Thursday night was compli.
ment to the Missouri students. A
great deal of enthusiasm was display.
ed and, while there was of course crit
icism of some plays and decisions, yet
there was little of what might be
termed knocking. The yelling was
also more organized, and helped the
team great deal. So far this season
the students have not paid much at.
tention to the fortunes of the basket.
ball team, and the cheers the players
received Thursday night made them
feel as If there was something to work
for. Another pleasing feature was the
treatment of the visiting team. When
they made a good play the crowd
cheered almost as much as when Mis-
souri, was doing the good playing.
When either team was making free.
throws the rooters remained quiet un-
til after the throw was made. At all
times during the game the opponents
were treated as guests and not as
enemies. A PLAYER.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Grades and Grades,

Editor The Missourian: The best
way to raise the efficiency of students
in class. and as well to work har.
mony in the grading, is to apply the
new grading system as 1t is supposed
to operate. Rather than conform the
grades to limit of three or four "S's'
and few more MS" let the stu
dents standing as compared with
other students of the class determine
the grade,
No system of grading will depart
far from the personal element that
unfortunately enters into the grade.
The professor or instructor can arbi-
trarily give a high or low grade if
he chooses, and the student has no
recourses. This condition would re-
suit under any system where the CIV
ing of grades rests on the supposed
fairness of professors absolutely.
But it is possible to relatively de-
termine the standing of students in a
class Independent of the Instructor.
The students themselves. by their
Judgment Of the grades of the others
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
TO ADVERTISE THE CAPITAL

Chamber Of Commerce of Washington
10 Sending Out Booklets.
Washington advantages and attrac'
|tions are not to be hidden If the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce can help
it. Assuming that everybody is inter
ested in the capital Of the United
States, that organization has compiled,
in a, neat booklet, information touch
ing every phase Of the city's posses
sions, exceptional as well as ordinary,
including its institutions, parks, park
ways and streets, manufacturing es-
Establishments, railway systems, chief
sources of incomes, banking facilities
and even the climate.
Following are some Of the things
mentioned:
Parks and parkways, 314, with 3,413
acres. One hundred educational estab-
lishments, including three universities
George Washington, Georgetown and
the Catholic University of America
Deaf Mute College at Kendall Green,
the Army and War College, the, Army
Medical School and others. Public
school system with five high schools
Tone commercial, one technicaD; 135
grade schools and a school attendance
of $4,000. The finest union station in
the world. A splendid water supply,
unlimited electric power at low rates.
No strikes or lockouts. A winter eli
mate which makes it the most desir-
able residence city in the country.
The Carnegie Institution of Science.
The National Museum. The United
States geological survey. The Smith
sonian Institution. The Naval Obser-
Patent office. The State, War,
Navy. Treasury, Postoffice, Interior,
and Commerce and Labor
Excellent stores and
four country clubs.-Wash-
ington Star.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Miss Taft Likes Athletics.

Miss Helen Taft, at 10, is whole
some attractive girl, with never a
trace of pose or affectation in man
ner or conversation. She possesses a
sufficient sense of humor, inherited
from her father, to prevent her head
being turned by the attentions she has
received. Most of the intimate friends
of the Taft family are wont to declare
that in features as well as in temper.
ament Miss Helen favors her father,
but there is no doubt that the daugh.
ter of the house has many of her
mothers traits as well.
To suppose that just because Miss
Taft has always been an inyeterate
reader, and has won scholarship at
Brynl Mawr and all sorts of prizes at
school, she must necessarily be a
bookish sort of person, is to do the
young lady a distinct injustice. Al
though she each summer pursues A
definite course of reading, she in.
dulges in a wide range of outdoor ath-
letics:-Harper's Bazaar.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Tho Grades Again.

Editor The Missourian: About the
most unpleasant thing in connection
with the final examinations is the
"cussing" and kicking over low grades
handed out. 1t is not the purpose OF
this article to say that no student was
ever unjustly dealt with in this matter,
but it is safe proposition that about
three fourths of the howl over low
marks comes from persons who could
heve done better with a little more
consistent work, or from persons who
expected genius or native ability or
some such thing to take the place of
real effort.
If the low grade is deserved, then
kicking only shows up the student.
If, by chance, the teacher did cut down
the grade on general principles" a
howl will hardly cause such a person
to hitch up the grade. If the low
grade came from failure on the part
OF the student to do good work, or
from an exalted opinion of his ability,
kicking on his part not only does no
good, but places among that well
known variety distinguished by it's
long ears. A. B.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

That commission form. of govern
ment gets results is shown in the
filing of charges of incompetence
against the four members of the com
mission in Tacoma, Wash, Saturday
and the circulation of petitions which
probably will result in the recall Of
the members. Under commission
form, when the people believe the
managers Of the city's business are
not conducting it properly they may
call halt; they are not compelled to
allow their affairs to get into worse
condition in waiting for the expiration
of terms.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
DRAMATIsTs ARE CREATIVE
Their Literature is an Alloy Of Body
and Spirit.

'"S' !'Ne'dto'e - On AIoy 'oI 6ooy
and Spirit.
l will just glance at symptom, or
perhaps a fact, in your national life
and character which appears to frown
upon your hopes. There is one thing
to note about dramatic literature. 1t
is essentially creative, essentially
masculine-more SO than any other
kind of literature. 1t must, therefore,
have something of brutality in it, how
ever much this may be disguised or
concealed. l will ask you to say
whether there is not amongst you a
certain prudishness, certain narrow
ness of view, which tends to drive
away from your literature and your
theater those works which frankly ac-
cept the whole body as we'll as the
w..ole spirit of man for their founda-
tion and their substance, and are a
compound of all humanity? We have
this same narrowness, this same one
eyed squint in England. 1t is a sworn
and eternal enemy to literature.
Is not all the greatest literature of
the world cunningly fashioned from an
alloy of body and spirit? 1t is true that
many of the most exquisite Jewels of
literature are wrought from pure gold
Of the spirit. But these are not the
things, not the supreme
things. The greatest writer's of all,
and especially the great dramatists,
lnstinctively work with this alloy of
body and spirit-sbmetimes indeed
with a very base mixture of it. But
he alloy is necessary if the coin is
20 get current and stand the constant
of everyday circulation. You
'annot have great literature, unless
t is forged of this alloy, human body
Ind human spirit. Young ladies' lit |
'rature soon dies. Indeed it never
ives. Two little canoes of comedy |
ire hung in my memory: Wordsworth |
Robert Burns's sons not
o fall into their fathers evil ways,
md Mr.. Bran Stoker begging Walt
Whitman to remove the improprieties
rom his poetry.-Boston Transcript.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
LABOR AND CAPITAL PROBLEMS


The problem for the economist
regarding wages has reached the
point where the solution rests with
the contending factions-for capital
to be more just, and labor more rea-
sonable. ..
In the competition of labor, wage
earners are at a decided disadvantage.
The influx of cheap, unskilled immi-
grant labor brings the standard of
Americans to low level. Immigra-
tion is encouraged by the large en-
ployer. In the raising of prices.
wages Is the last to advance. The re-
suit is increasing poverty.
In the effort to enforce demands
for higher wages, questionable meth
DDS are sometimes used by strikers.
In strikes, the public is the greatest
sufferers, Capital depends on the rela-
tive supply of labor and demand for
It in the regulation of the scales of
wages. 4
Its injustice on the one hand and
the demands of labor on the other
should meet with arbitration. The
public demands it. Neither party,
working independently, will be able to
reach satisfactory solution of the
labor problem.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
TWAIN MANUSCRIPTS SOLD
Estate Realizes $3.50 From Samuel L
" CIemens's WRITINGS.


NEW YORK.-The sale of many OF
the manuscripts of the late Samuel l.
Clemens MARK Twain) at a Fifth
avenue auction, did not include, as
has been advertised, a short article
he had written criticising Theodore
Roosevelt. 1t was withdrawn at the
last moment on request of the estate
as was an article on Congress. 1t was
explained only that the estate desired
to retain them.
The 125-page autograph manuscript
OF "a Double Barreled Detective
Story" was sold to dealer for $3.50.
Twenty-eight pages from Adams
Diary" went for $3.50. The total rea.
lized was $3.50.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Viewpoints.

The Missourian invites contribu.
tions on matters of University and
Columbia interest. The name of the
writer must accompany such letters,
but will not be published unless de-
sired.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Real Art.

What has become of young Mr..
DAuber. who showed such signs of
talent in drawing? Has he made a
|success?" "Oh, yes indeed. He's got
all the work he can do now" "Maga-
zine or studio work." HE draws the
Maltese cross, showing where the
body was found, in the evening pa
pers. cleveland Leader.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

in the class, could possibly raise the
standards of certain grades where alb
solute fairness may not result. If a
professor be in doubte about grade,
a majority of students in class might
decide for him. STUDENT.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

A paragrapher in the Chicago Daily
News asserts that some would be
brighter If they reflected more, and
some would reflect more If they were
brighter. He might add that some
would be brighter IL they reflected
less on their brightness.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

An Oklahoma town, whose citizens
were all negroes, was destroyed by
fire recently. 1t is thought that
"black hand" started the conflagra-
ton.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

Music was intended to calm the
savage breast" not to make savage
q calm breast Let this be remembered
by the boarding house warbler, who
persists in singing" while others try
to study.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
Might Have Been wors..

Your wife is gone to the dressmak
er's to try on a new Dress" Il am
glad OF that. l feared she had gone
to pay for the last one."-Fliegende
Blaetter.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

The streets are kept clean in cities
where there is commission form of
government Isn't this big induce
ment to Columbia to try the new plan?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

One Is often accused of not practic-
ing what he breaches when he is
really preaching against what he prac-
tees.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

"Puny" Bucks appointment to An
napolis may be a part of a plan to
increase the size of the navy.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

Just received two car loads Of Col.
orado alfalfa hay. H. B. Bush. Phone
sss. q.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

Car load OF Glasgow -four just ar.
rived. H. B. Bush. Phone 399. -
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

LOST - WEDNESDAY AFTER
noon, Phi Beta ri pin; initials m. M.
NJ" engraved on back. Please return
to Miller at Medical Building or phone
SIS Black.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

TYPEWRITERS-L MOD
ell Underwoods. No. 4, $3.50; No. 2
l.. C. Smith, $3.50; No. 3 divers, $50,
Nos. 6 and RemingtOns, $47.50. Five
days trial allowed without cost. IS
down, S. per month. Old machines
taken in exchange. F. w. Cooke, 71S
Maryland. Phone 403.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

FOR SALE-LADIES' WRITING
desk, single bed and mattress, small
table, dining chairs, child's gO-cart,
2 wash stands. Call at lilo Paquin.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

FOR RENT-TWO SOUTH ROOMS
in a modern cottage; one and one-half
blocks from campus; apply 1912 Broad
way or telephone TAG Black.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

FOR SALE-6O ACRES IMPROVED
on good road, near Columbia. Will
ake half value in city property. w.
H. Goldsberry.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

FOR RENT--ELEGANT FRONT
rooms in the Thilo building, second
floor Also the basement in this
building is for rent. For particulars
see ]. X. Fyfer, or telephone 606 Black
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

FOR SALE-A DAIRY, CLEARING
over $4,000 per month; will sell
cheap, as am offered one-half interest
in a larger plant in another state.
This Is a snap. For particulars ad-
dress, P. o. Box "a, Columbia, Mo.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
FOR RENT.

Four or five nice modern once
rooms in our new building at corner
of Eighth and Broadway. -
Also ono nice business room, sixs
2ox2e feet, suitable for . small busi'
mess. .+s-srts
A fine basement, size 2sx1oo feet
suitable for pool hall, bowling alleys,
barber shops, etc.
For particulars see ~
C.. a. MILLER.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13
TAX PAYERS
NOTICE

MY office will be closed against re-
ceiving taxes from
FEBRUARY 20IH TO MARCH 9Th
inclusive. This is done that ] may
make a correct and verified copy Of
delinquents. and to prepare my final
settlement. All persons not wanting
to appear on
BACK TAX BOOKS
must settle before February goth.
&C. BRADFORD, Collector,
Boone County, Mo.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-02-13

wANTEDLTO BUY A F0UR-ROOM
house on instalIment plan. ". H.
Goldsberry. Exchange National Bank
Bldg.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
Weddings Approved.

An old-fashioned man who wished to
hire team for the afternoon saw a
nice pair of bays which he thought he
would like to drive.
Cant let you have them," said the
liveryman. They are wedding horses"
whats that?" asked the innocent
pleasure seeker.
Horses that won't shy at old shoes
and showers of rice. Some horses
seem prejudiced against matrimony.
Anyhow. they lose their temper If
they happen to be hit by any Of the
good-luck emblems that are fired after
a bridal couple, and run away If they
get half chance. Every livery stable,
however. keeps two or more horses
who take more cheerful view of the
welded state. Those bays are that
kind. They are slated to head we'd
ding procession for tonight and are
resting up for the job"
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
TWO MULES WITH HISTORY
The Only Hybrids In the Geographical
Service Are Sent to
Kauai.

Two mules with a history were
shipped down to w. B. Hardy on tho
Island of Kauai recently. He is car.
rying on the work Of the geograph-
ical and water research branch Of the
department there, and it was found
that animal transportation was the
only way to meet the difficulties.
There were only two mules In that
branch of the service and they were
over in California. Likewise Hardy
was the man who worked them over
there when he was on the mainland.
Now he and his friends will be re-.
united on Kauai.
The work of the department on that
island is arduous owing to the fact
that where the water runs are not al
ways roads. Accordingly. some means
have to be found by which the In
vestigator could get about. He has q
saddle and pack and can ride the
mules as far as he can get them over
the tracks, and then do the rst OF The
work on foot The work necessitates
constant travelling Of rough sort
Honolulu Bulletin.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
Was Too ObIiqjno,

Fresh from the lecture on polite
ness the street car conductor went on
duty resolved to extend courtec5 to
ALL From the car barns up to Goth
street he put his resolution into ef
feet. He assisted tie feeble and
heavy-laden, he smiled serenely under
unmerited abuse and he hurried no
one unduly. AT 9Sth street he no.
ticed that woman in the middle seat
was preparing to leave the car at the
next corner. The child beside her
was too big to cause her any particu-
lar trouble in alighting, but the con.
ductor had been pleased with the way
the woman smiled upon the child, so
he hurried forward to help.
The woman stepped down first and
the conductor, with one sweep of his
arm. set the child down beside her.
His signal to go on was followed by
scream. then another and another.
boo hoo" howled the boy, and my
child! Bring my child back here"
cried a woman in the car. Half a
block further along the car stopped.
He isn't mine" gasped the woman
when she and the boy had caught UP
with the car Il only just smiled at
him."-New York Sun.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
Test for Sufferers.

A new method Of voice control was
tried by the lifelong stutterer. In a
few lessons the impediment in speech
was overcome.
That's fine," said candid friend.
Now wish you would take bit Of
advice. You talk all right today, but
just keep watch on yourself and see
how you talk this time next week."
You're a wet blanket, all right"
growled the ex-stutterer whats. the
matter with next week?"
We'll be In the full moon then,"
said his friend. "It's fact that every
body who has ever suffered, shutters
worse when the moon is full than at
any other time. Until you get SO you
can talk smoothly then. you can't
count yourself really cured"
The man with halting speech took
notice as advised and found that sew
eral full moons waned before he could
control his speech at that time.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
YOUR WEIGHT AND HEALTH
Better Be Over the Average When
Young and Under When Old,
Say Insurance Men.

At the annual meeting Of the AS
sociation of Life Insurance Directors
some facts were brought out in re-
gard to the best build of men and
women from the insurance mans
point of view.
In the New York Life Insurance
company efforts have been going on
for many years to determine the ex-
act influence of build on longevity,
says the Medical Record. It is sug-
gested that mistake has been made
in assuming that the average build
of any age is the most favorable
build that that age or the build from
which it may be expected the most
favorable mortality will be sustained.
For instance, figures show that at
the age of twenty all risks from "a
per cent overweight to 10 per cent.
underweight are better than average
risks. Does 1t not then seem prob
able that the point Of most favorable
build is about half way from "a per
cent. overweight to 10 per cent. under
weight. or in the neighborhood of
z per cent. overweight? If this in
ference is correct the tables now
used are too favorable to the under
weights by about per cent.
At age sixty, on the other hand,
the super-standard risks begin at about
s per cent. overweight and extend to
about 20 per cent. underweight. The
mean point between these extremities
lies at about per cent. underweight
and the conclusion appears evident
that the present !. table based on
average weights is too high by about
per cent. At the intermediate ages,
so to so, the mean point lies not at
the zero but on the heavyweight side
of the zero at the age of thirty and
at the lightweight side of the zero
at the age of fifty, and only at the
age of 40 is the table apparently cor
rect.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
He WAS WILLING TO WATCH
Burglar Wanted His Pal to Tackle
the House With the load
ed" Key.

The man with his coat collar turned
up, and his derby pitched down over
his eyes, who was slouching along in
the shadow of the building, suddenly
beckoned to the man on the other
side of the street. Here's an easy
one, Pete" he growled, hoarsely.
where's an easy one?" snarled
Pete.
This here house. It's like taking
gum from stenographer that's fixin'
her hair. Some chump has gone away
an left his latch key in this door,"
Pete took a swift look at the house
and began to back up. You can go
to It," he said. Il don't want in on
it."
Are youse nutty?"
NAV, amt nutty. But de feller
wot lives dere is a low down sneak
widout no feelin' fer nobody, an
don't want nothin' ter do with i'm
No, don't know him, but I'm next ter
his game. He sticks that key in dere
to ketch suckers like you. Dere's a
wire on dat key, an a million-volt
battery attached to dat wire.
wouldn't touch it If yer'd gimme de
First National bank. But go ahead
I'll be acrost de street watchin' wot
happens"
Nothing happened.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
cor THEM AGuMMY-sIDE UP"
Cranky Man Also Got one-cent
Stamps When He Had Paid
for TWos.


The man who keeps a watchful eye
on the federal government bought
five postage stamps. The drug store
cashier laid them down. picture side
up, whereupon the customer con-
founded her with his knowledge Of
the government. He unfolded q news
paper and pointed, to headline:
Stamps must be delivered gummy
side up"
"see that?" said he. "By laying
down stamps the way you did you
are loading me up with germs. This
window sill may be alive with germs.
They will stick to the gum on the
stamps. and shall carry them home
and lick them Off and maybe be laid
up with spell of sickness"
The girl gave the stamps another
little push, and he showed them back.
What do you want me to do?" she
asked.
Take these stamps back" he said,
"and lay out five more gummy side
up as the government directs"
She obeyed. He folded the slip,
still gum side up. and put 1t in his
pocket. He went home and wrote
letters till bedtime, and prepared to
stick on the stamps. Then he said :
Hang that girl"
The drug store cashier had given
him one-cent stamps.
Gilpin observer., 1911-11-09
Not a Cheap sulldin J.

It has been estimated that to re-
build tho pyramid Of Cheops under
modern conditions an expenditure OF
$100. 900, 900 would be necessary and
the labor OF 10000 men for two years
required.
It has been calculated that the work
really required the services Of 100000
men for thirty years. f-.t
The pyramid occupies space OF
twelve and three-quarters acres, Is 746
feet high and contains about 1896
900 cubic yards Of stone and gran
lite.
The material alone represents an
item of $36,000,O00. while the labor
would increase this amount to $72.-
100000. To this must be added $s.-
100000 for tools. transportation, and
similar items.
The pyramid is built on solid rock
$50 feet deep. and to build founda-
ton of this character would add to
the cost to the extent of making the
total of 800. 0o0.000.-Scientifc Amer.
lean.