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Show Through generations of acting the fool, students in colleges and universities uni-versities havo won a refutation all over the world for their wild performances per-formances To the average man B student Is a long-haired man or a short-haired woman, whose sole di- J version In to cut capers when the faculty Isn't looking. The students as a species are supposed sup-posed to have the habit of locking calves in the chapel, skinning the snakes in the laboratory for the purpose pur-pose of getting belts and hat bands, and engaging in class rushes. If the student belongs to the girl variety va-riety she Is supposed to spend hr time dancing the tango, eating chocolates cho-colates and accumulating frat pins. All arietlcs and classes arc supposed sup-posed to have Freshmen cut classes and have Initiations In these initiations initia-tions it is believed the candidates for admission into the fraternities and sororities usually are taken to the top of the college tower and hurled headlong to the campus, where they are tossed in a blanket until the police come to the rescue. Popular opinion has It that men students play football and study the Greek alphabet. The Greek alphabet alpha-bet Is for the purpose of providing the teams with signals the other team cannot understand. The team that has the most perfect knowledge of Greek usually wins the game hence the need of a faculty. The Greek scholars, after learning the alphabet, clothe themselves with moleskins and sweaters and trot out on the football Held. There tho quarter back yells "Alpha, omega, theta, delta, phi!" That la supposed to give the side with the ball the light to charge and knock the other elde down by kicking. After this charge the men and co-eds on tho side lines are supposed to Jump up and yell One man with a big voice gets out In front and shakes a stick at those who do not yell and soon the whole aggregation makes an awful aw-ful noise. The faculty, which originally was employed for the purpose of teaching teach-ing Greek, 16 soon called in to try to stop the slaughter, and at the same time give statements to the newspapers saying the loss of. life In tho football game Is not nearly so great as In moose hunting, therefore football should live forever. Popular opinions about college life, however, are the result of the actions of the few. The majority of students, both of feminine and masculine mas-culine persuasion, spend more money mon-ey for coal oil than they do for sweaters- Unlike Chinese students, Americans study without moving their lips, so tho occupation of the majority makes no noise. The actions ac-tions of tho minority are tho sensations. sen-sations. UNDERTAKER'S ARRIVAL GIVES PUBLIC NEWS. "When one enthusiastic Freshman climbs to the top of the chimney of the heating plant and inscribes his class numerals, the chimney is Immediately Im-mediately surrounded by a lot of noisy Sophomores. If the Freshman Fresh-man should fall to the ground there would be a funeral and consequently conse-quently the newspapers would be full of the actions of that particular student. When a preparatory student, desirous de-sirous of winning everlasting glory ajjiVl anxious to stand in well with the girls, goes forth and puts red paint on tho white horses used by the undertaker in drawing his hearses, the story is soon scattered broadcast and a new chapter is written about the Imbecile condition of students. College and university faculties have battled for years to abolish the freak stunts of the colleges. Their efforts have been only partially par-tially successful, for every four year9 a new college generation Is born. Each generation of Freshmen comes on the scene well read through magazine stories of the orgies of college life, but entirely ignorant of the faculty rules. Furthermore, there is a minority of students everywhere ev-erywhere anxious to outwit the faculty. In recent years, however, the majority ma-jority has grown tired of being Classed with the frea'ts, and In numerous nu-merous places student government bodies hao arisen to make the others be good. Unusual success has attended their efforts. At Falrmount College, Wichita, Kan . a co-ed ucatlonal Institution, a students' council was orcr;mized two years ago, at the demand of the students. The council was not organized or-ganized particularly for the purpose of making the students be good. The students, led by Joe Penner, a Junior, demanded a voice In the government gov-ernment of their affairs and good behavior was traded for tho right to help rule. Dr. Henry E. Thayer, president of the college. Miss Flora C. Clough, dean of tho woman's department, and other members of the faculty, gladly made tho pact. Penner was chosen as president and Miss Elinor Becbe, a Sophomore, was chosen vice president. The first thing the council did was to demand the library be opened nights, so they could go there to study. That didn't fit In with popular conceptions of collegians. Libraries and anything that sounded llko books were supposed to be farther-est farther-est from their minds, yet here were students demanding they be admitted ad-mitted to the library to study. The faculty for a time stood against opening the library. It sounded like a Joke for the students to be demanding de-manding entrance to the building at night. Students at night are supposed sup-posed to prowl around town and grease the rails on the street car tracks to tlo up service. Mentors are stationed around their dormitories dormi-tories to see to it that they come home before the last bell, according to the usual college statistics. FACULTY CONVINCED STUDENTS MEAN WELL. Finally the faculty was persuaded that these students did wish to study. The spokesman for the students stu-dents explained that it was a law of nature for students to take a little lit-tle exerce for a few hours a day. They took their exercise on the football foot-ball field In the afternoon. When night camo they wanted to do their research work In the library, as It was the only time they could do it If they took their outdoor exercise. After considerable argument and a series of editorials in the students' paper. The Sunflower, the faculty yielded and opened the library doors at night. The next move was a demand for a cleanup day. Violating all precedent, prece-dent, according to common belief, the students' council actually petitioned peti-tioned tho faculty for a day's vacation, vaca-tion, go they could rake tho leaves off tho campus and make It look smooth. The faculty was astounded astound-ed again. The Falrmount Campus covers many acres. Trees adorn It and every tree has millions of leaves. In common with many young colleges col-leges of the West with a comparatively compara-tively small endowment and with only about 4 00 students, Falrmount did not havo enough money to hire a corps of laboring men to clean tho campus, eo It was not kept as nea'dy as It might have been. Hero appeared the students asking ask-ing that they bo given the Job of scrub women and Janitors for a day to serve without pay. Tho faculty IfPPER left, Fairmount U College. Upper right, President Henry C. Thayer. Center, Miss Gertrude Whit-lock, Whit-lock, a senior. Lower left, Miss Edna De Mond, a sophomore. Lower right, Miss Flora C. Clough. went into executive session to consider con-sider this new hio sprouting on the heads of the students After a warm debate the faculty agreed to grant tho holiday and the campus was cleaned. At the beginning of tho present college year a Freshman enrolled In the college. He had long hair and owned a bulldog Just like college students do in advertisements for clothing tagged as "college brand." This Freshman was well read up on litch's Siwnsh Collcgo yarns and decided to leap into fame with one bound. He climbed to the college tower and there Inscribed his name and the class numerals. Did he receive re-ceive glory? No, Indeed! Tho students' stu-dents' council committee landed on him and made him efface his signature. signa-ture. Destruction and defacement of property was put on the toboggan by the council. Instead of helping the guilty students In evading tho faculty, the council turned Into a detective de-tective agency and punished the culprits. Gambling on athletic contests was tabooed The faculty long had a rule against gambling. The laws of Kansas strictly forbid It, but betting bet-ting on foot races and gomes went on secretly without sanction. When the long-haired Freshman with tho bulldog and the advertisement advertise-ment conception of a college career arrived at Fairmount the Incident of being punished for defacing college col-lege property was not the only one that surprised him. Several years before he had been regaled by his elder brother on college life. Tho Freshman assured his associates asso-ciates as he left home that he was going to bo a great man at school and have a time. Besides having both pockets full of money lie was given a bank account by his father, with instructions to draw on him for more. "Never mind, gov'nor," said the youth "I know how to make money mon-ey at the col." YANKED ASIDE AND GIVEN WARNING. But his efforts to make money did not meet with support. He wanted to bet on the first football game and instead of being cheered as a "dead game sport" he was quietly yanked off to one side and told to hide the money. The next week the college football team went away on a railroad trip to play a neighboring neighbor-ing college. The Freshman tried to steal a ride on the special train Just to show he could do what his elder brother had done, back in '04. But as the train was drawing out of town it was loarned ho was stealing a ride. Under Un-der the old regime the students would have remained quiet. Under month Tt meets oftcner In case tho supposed regime he would have been acclaimed a hero; but there was a stop post about three miles out of town whore the train tho students were on stopped to whistle before crossing an intersecting track. Tho Frcsbmrvn hero was seized by members of the student council and unceremoniously dropped off the train. As the Freshman trudged bark to the hill he wondered if his brother had not been mistaken about tho wild college days. The next day he sent his bulldog home, cut his hair and bought a trigonometry. Ills ambition now Is to be president of the students' council. The students' council believes in piny as well ns study. All kinds of sports receive the support of the students. Old-time traditions have no't been overturned, except when such traditions lend to brand the student as an idiot instead of an ordinary mortal seeking knowledge. Class contests are encouraged, but the business of breaking bones and punching out eyes in class rushes Is tabooed. On the day when the students stu-dents cleaned up the campus they ended the event with an Intcrcluss football game. Those who do not take kindly to the ideas of the student's council are phen a chance to hunt another college. Last year two students were expelled from the college on aoi ount of the council. The council coun-cil decided it wus for the best interests inter-ests of the school for tho two to get out. The faculty was informed of that opinion and tho olTcndlng students expelled. The working force of the council consists of two members from each class. One man student and one co-ed are elected from each plasa Ruymond Koby is this year's president. Miss Nellie Davis is vice president and Miss Talma Thompson is secretary. Tho Executive Ex-ecutive Committee moots twice a his old Job of teaching, leaving tho student to take caro of the discipline. dis-cipline. POUR HUNDRED STUDENTS EARN $57,703.7e. Another one of the popular suppositions sup-positions about college students Is that they do not work and do not know how to work Figures now coming In from all over the country show that students have earned large Bums c'uring vacations. Columbia University studcnt.s top the list. Four hundred working students earned $57,705.76 last summer. sum-mer. One boy showed an aptitude for work of many kinds. He earned (20 as a bootblack, $15 ;s a mason, $20 by plastering and painting, finishing fin-ishing the summer by putting In a month on a (arm. for which he received re-ceived another $20. A Senior earned $25 writing si'ns and trimming windows, win-dows, and then turned his hand to faking at country fajra, w hich netted him $100 and bis expenses. Another student conducted a party through Europe, which netted him all hid expenses and a little pockot money besides. An engineering student sold real estate and al ni.ht wus clerk at i soda fountain, earning in all $150. Another student worked at night as an automobile salesman and earned $320 In the four months. A Senior was sent to Buffalo by the office and earned $97.50 collecting statistics statis-tics on traffic at crossings in that I lit;.-. One engineering student was a pharmai lct and earned $150 thereby, there-by, and another put in the summer V as a mate on a filing yacht and . netted $50 In addition to his expenses. ex-penses. One of the journalism students spent the summer traveling in Europe Eu-rope as a private secretary to a col-lege col-lege professor. Ills harvest was $650. A F.arnanl girl hired herself out as a governess and earned $75 and expenses, A law student was a caddie cad-die master at a well known golf course on Long Island, and earned more than enough to meet his tuition tui-tion bill Another law student put in the summer in his father's bakery, bak-ery, while a graduate student sold life insurance at a profit to himself of $190. A Junior in the college worked as a train clerk, receiving ncarl $200, and a classmate was a chauffeur and earned $150. Another college student put in a month as a milkman, getting $48. He sold drugs for another month, earning thereby $70, and finished up the summer as a reported for a sociological paper, netting $75 at that. |
