THE UNIVERSITY
COURIER.
VOL. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., MARCH 2, 1893.
No.22
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EDITORIAL BOARD.
T. D. BENNETT, Editor-in-Chief.
J. F. MESSENGER, 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.
MIDNIGHT oil does not always indicate the presence of the bookworm, it is just as possible that something not quite so legitimate is illuminated by the student lamp.
At the meeting of the Seminary of Historical and Political Science last Friday the officers failed to materialize, but having appointed a chairman pro tem., the students carried on the discussion of the Hawaiian question without the assistance of the Profs. At the next meeting resolutions will probably be passed in regard to the growing tardiness of the professors.
THE condition of the sidewalks leading to the University from some of the principal streets of Lawrence is simply unendurable. Mississippi street has about a hundred yards of decent
sidewalk in the half mile nearest the University, the rest is mud-pure mud, sticky and fathomless. Occasionally there are a few steps of rotten sidewalk, but the most of it is inclined about 45 degrees toward the ditch running parallel. The crossings resemble a continuous pig-sty; they are cleaned on an average of once in two weeks and it requires about two hours to completely cover them up with the mud from passing vehicles. In order to reach the top of Mount Oread in damp weather, we will soon be obliged to use life preservers. These sidewalks are used as much as any in the city excepting in the business part. The municipality of Lawrence needs jogging. The street commissioner has paid no attention to the needs of the family on the hill and we feel that the registration of a kick is highly in order.
Every voter in school is obliged to pay the three dollars poll tax or else work out his indebtedness by the sweat of his face, when the labor endured by wading through the sea of mud, if rightly applied, would have built sidewalks from here to Topeka. The money spent by the student body in Lawrence approximates two hundered thousand dollars yearly, when about one thousandth part of that sum would build at least passable sidewalks, and still we continue to wade.
The gist of the article in the Record last Friday in regard to the connection of the University with the State Oratorical Association, is the best possible argument for one of the paramount needs of the University—a chair of oratory. The University cannot afford to withdraw from the association, not at present, any way. We