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Delphic Kansas
Kate Stephens
1853-1938
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On a road in Kansas, one day when skies were gay, I met Mr. Think-of-self going his life-way; 'What' - you ask - 'said Think-of-self? - and what did I say?' 'Blamed I'11 be', quoth Think-of-self, 'blamed if I see' - In his right hand all the time holding his degree - 'What our University has ever done for me'. 'Now', said I, 'Think-of-self. think right steadily, Could you in life-service half as able be. If you were not in your hand holding your degree? 'Then Mr. Think-of-Self, the question is not what K. U. has done for you - perhaps she had not Just the right material to make the man she ought: And time - it's essential to make the grad she sought. The question is, my friend, - and its ethics ring true - Not what our Alma Mater may have done for you; But - What, in Return, Are You Doing for K. U. ? |
Delphic Kansas
Kate Stephens
(Woodstock, N.Y.: The Maverick Press. 1911)
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