THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
VOL. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., MARCH 23, 1893.
No. 25.
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EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. F. MESSENGER, Local Editor.
T. D. BENNETT, Editor-in-Chief.
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.
MAN's CONCEIT is rivalled only by woman's volubility.
THE WORLD'S fair seem to demand lots of attention lately—they always did.
THE KANSAS man who wanted to kiss Baby Ruth was all right with the exception of being a little premature. Baby Ruth will not always be a baby.
THE APPROBATION given by students and townspeople to the stand taken by the COURIER on the present lecture bureau management is an evidence that there must be a change in the constitution, so that those who pay their money may have the privilege of selecting the attractions and not be dictated to by a faculty committee.
JUST WHY the faculty appointments for commencement were rushed through with such unseemly haste is cause of much comment at the University. The senior class had requested that no appointments be made by the faculty until after an effort had been made to secure some distinguished speaker to deliver a commencement address and thus do away with the alleged orations sprung upon the public by so-called orators. The faculty not only paid no attention to this request as presented by a committee from the senior class, but proceeded to make the appointments in direct opposition to that request. And these appointments were autocratically made a full month earlier than usual, without allowing the members of the class the time-honored privilege of handing in orations to contest for the places of honor. Not only this, but the plan that proved so acceptable last year, of having but one commencement day, in the exercises of which representatives of the various schools should participate, was, for some unknown reason, dropped, and a commencement day for each school of the University was decided upon.
But it was decided that the commencement day should be given exclusively to the School of Arts. Just why the School of Arts should be considered as being superior to the Schools of Engineering, Law, Pharmacy and Music, and therefore entitled to higher honor, is not self-evident and needs some explanation. The students of the School of Engineering do as much work to secure their diplomas as do the students of the School of Arts. The School of Law would, from its very nature, furnish cred-