THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
Vol. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., APRIL 13, 1893.
No. 28.
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EDITORIAL BOARD.
T. D. BENNETT, Editor-in-Chief.
C. R. TROXEL, Local Editor.
E. F. ROBINSON, Literary and Exchange Editor.
E. P. LUPFER, Athletic and Amusement Editor.
J. A. Rush, Managing Editor.
W. H. H. PIATT, R. R. WHITMAN,
Business Manager. Circulator.
THE WEATHER is inspiring to the athletes and McCook field is the scene of daily practice that betokens defeat to all opposers of the crimson on the field of athletics.
NOTE TO THE PRINTER-If the athletic editor kicks on this article, tell him to slide for second
THE PRODUCTION of "Twelfth Night," given last Friday was considered by many the most creditable entertainment presented in the Lawrence opera house this year. The entertainment was a decided financial success and the generous contribution of time and services given by our amateurs deserves the thanks of all University people. The Athletic Association is indeed fortunate in being so well represented before the footlights.
OF ALL venomous reptiles, the gossip carries the largest supply of poison.
A PUERILE attempt is being made by the lecture bureau and its subservient minions to prove that the student body does not know enough to take care of itself and is in need of a wet nurse. The statement is openly and brazenly made that the autocratic faculty committee of three, which now absolutely rules the lecture bureau, can select better representatives of the student body than can the students themselves. Shades of Reno and Riggs and Steele and Templin! Are we come to this? The very men who once cried loudest for student representation now declaring that the students don't know enough to attend to a little business transaction and must needs have a guardian committee appointed! It is indeed strange that the student body in a reputed democratic institution shall be thus subjected to paternalism most obnoxious and highly detrimental. If the faculty is determined to run the lecture course then let it be called by its right name, and not by the false title of a "student's course." But by far the wiser policy, and the only one that will succeed, is to make the entire management elective by the student body. The students of K. U. can be trusted to take care of their own interests as they have amply demonstrated in the Athletic Association and in the Oratorical Association and in every organization in which they have entered. Then away with this paternalistic wet nurse theory that treats our students as babes and not as men and women.