The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-11
Too Much Love Making-Sys.
TEN a Failure.
University Instructor Ridicules
Pretty College Girls.
ARTICLE CALLS 'EM PEACoCKS
"a Matrimonial Bureau" Is
Crack at Minnesota q.
Students Up in Arms Over
Faculty Edition of Paper.

Minneapolis, Mimi, March IL
Criticism of the ability of faculty
members as newspaper reporters and
editors was still heard on the campus
of the University of Minnesota today.
The murmuringS resulted from the
work of the instructors in publishing
for a time 1.-The Minnesota Daily
the university newspaper.
News stories, the students contend,
were put aside by the faculty to make
room for personal views. Particular
exception was taken to an unsigned
article which declared that. ''senti-
mental rubbish is a product of CO.
education
The educational systems in Amer
ica," the article said, ARE still in an
experimental state. For example, CO.
education has not yet proven itself an
unqualified success Many level
headed people have doubted the wis
dom of such a system.
Paris Beauty Contests
Certain growing tendencies at the
materially to the seriousness of these
doubts Beauty contests and balloting
for ideal husbands and other SEN
timental rubbish have done much to
damn the system.
When young men and women, as
ISOLATED in supposedly Intellectual
partnership, spend their time in hectic
jealoUsies and numerous rivalr1es.
self selecting The most
beautiful in their midst, preening'them-
selves and thowing their tail-feathers
like so many absurd peacocks then
surely we come perilously near to
treading the primrose path to the
everlasting bonfire prepared for the
silly.
siSuch sensational foolishness ex-
poses us to the ridicule of the whole
country, for Minnesota becomes adver-
tised from coast to coast as supporting
a state matrimonial agency. small
wonder that under the circumstances
many men and women turn eastWaro
to institutions less ep1cone, Wnere
mixed pink teas are almost unknown
and week-ends of ogling frivolity are
non existent.
srWhy shouldn't our athletics de-
cline when many of our men are nour-
ished or Oak Tree embellishments and
the o'clock cream puff; when dances
and receptions take the place of base
ball and the sturdier forms of exer-
else?
Luckily the men of the profession
al schools are tied to the mast OF their
work and the siren songs come only
family to their ears. They must look
on with amused wonder at the chatter
of Vanity Fair
Some people will stoutly deny the
allegations we have made. Among
them will be those who have succeed
ed in getting married under this sys-
tenn Naturally they throw over 1t the
roseate flush of their success"
NettIed by the article. several of
the girls who took part in the beauty
contest held a meeting and made re-
ply in verse through the columns of
1.-THE Minnesota Daily"
Girls Caustic Reply.
Under the caption. Choose by
Brains, Not Hair! Mebbe So-Mebbe
So" is the poem:
We congratulate the faculty
On it's undoubted knack to see
The sordid side of everything we do
If we merely try to rest us,
From the weary thoughts that pest us
We're disgraces to the college thru and
thru.
Still we're hazarding some guesses
That the girl with lovely tresses
Will outshine the brainful maiden just
the same"