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The University Courier.
FARE THEE well K. U., and thou too, poor college widow.
FROM ALL accounts the worlds fair will entertain a large present of Kansas students during the coming summer.
It is rumored that several fraterunities will have chapter houses in Lawrence next fall. That is about as far as the fraterinities in K. S. U. have ever gone yet. If however a well established rumor is started, the chapter house question dies a natural death in the airy nothing of intangible visions.
WITH THIS issue the present Courier staff retires. Under its management the present form of the paper was adopted and success, greater even than was anticipated, has crowned the efforts of those directly interested. There is still room for improvement and it is confidently expected that the incoming staff will make each succeeding issue newsier and brighter, and at the same time with fearlessness in criticism, with fairness in the treatment of all. Standing, as it does now, as the representative paper in the University, its future is assured and seems full of bright promise.
IF SOLOMON could be among the living and give his opinions of the different varieties of college students, one of the first expressions of his wisdom would be to the effect that the work of the student whose sole object is to gain a grade one, is not always superior to the work of the grade two man. There is something more commandable in an honest failure than there is in the methods of those students who attempt to divert the attention of an instructor from the main question to one of minor importance, in order to gain an opportunity to air knowledge which is not demanded.
To be sure the ingenuity of the student is often cultivated to an unusual degree, but it is extremely dangerous to rely soley on one's ability to evade. No one is better aware of the evasion than the instructor, and no one has less respect for that class of so called students.
THE SENIOR'S class day exercises have exemplified the ingenuity and enterprise so characteristic of our class of ninety-three. In the attempt to find something newer, we suggest that ninety-four inaugurate an Apache war dance.
TO ATTEMPT to give the plans of the various graduating students, for the future would be of course impossible, but many expect to enter the arena of newspaper work. Certainly no profession demands a more wide awake class of men than this one, K. U. has always furnished more than her share of enterprising and successful newspaper men.
IN VIEW of the fact that nearly every fraternity or social organization in the university has taken the opportunity during the past week or two to make the last few days of school the scene of continual and repeated social entertainments, it may be well to question the wisdom of such a custom. From a physical standpoint is certainly poor policy for students to indulge in such late hours and rich food as are the attendants of nearly every entertainment of this kind. From a moral and intellectual view it is a great deal worse. Common sense is outraged whenever such foolishness is tolerated during or just preceeding the examinations. To expect students to pass creditable examinations after late hours of social dissipation and possibly forms of dissipation not strictly social, is sheer nonsense. The student who attempts to pass rigid examinations with a clouded memory and a wearied body not only does an injustice to himself and his parents but even greater to the institution. While the subject may be outside the strict realm of faculty jurisdiction, yet it is hardly a good principle for the faculty to encourage such a custom.
Great bands of Freshmen now roam the fields and meadows for rare plants and flowers and each one asserts with a degree of self-confidence that would astonish a specialist, that he has found a new flower, because it cannot be classified by the key.