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The University Courier.
The true representative paper of the University is that paper which is the truest and most accurate record of University events and affairs. It is our intention to express the University sentiment irrespective of class interests, to preserve an unprejudiced attitude toward all individuals or organizations and to make the issue of University patriotism paramount. There is enough of general interest to all without recording either personal feeling or class prejudice, but when the occasion demands the justification or defense of any University interest we trust the COURIER will not be wanting.
THE part which some of the students assumed in the recent political agitation at Topeka has met with severe condemnation by the faculty.
The University is not a political machine. If its students are of one faith they are permitted the full enjoyment of their opinions, so long as they do not identify themselves with the University while participating in political agitation. Our college yell was meant for the relief of effervescing spirits of youth on the field of athletic tournaments or in the halls of an oratorical contest, but as for a cry to be used in ranks of political agitation—never.
WHEN the temporary trouble of the legislature has passed, we have every reason to believe that our institution will receive a full appropriation for the pressing needs of the different departments which are at present waiting, as it were, with bated breath for the action of the legislature. It is well known that the present allowance does not fully meet the demands of our growing institution, we are held down by the lack of funds necessary to the expansion of any great enterprise. The department of nearly every professor in the University is crowded by Kansas young men and women who understand the great importance of higher education, who expect to use the knowledge acquired on Mount Oread toward strengthening and building up the Kansas commonwealth.
With such motives, and with the necessity of expansion which is so earnestly advocated by all, we can truthfully believe that our cause
will meet with the legislative recognition so urgently needed. It is to be hoped that the munificent bequest for the library, to which the attention of the State legislators has recently been called, will furnish a precedent for a more generous policy which will be pursued in the future toward the greatest institution of the State.
The following from the Kansas City Star is the acknowledged feeling throughout the State in regard to the enterprising spirit manifested by the University and Prof. Dyche in securing room at the Columbian exhibit for his unrivaled collection:
In view of the possibility that Kansas may not be able to furnish any legal appropriation for an exhibit at the World's Fair, it is comforting to know that Prof. Dyche's collection of stuffed animals from the State University is already on the ground, and they will make quite a respectable show, even if the obstructionists at Topeka shall succeed in withholding the means for an agricultural display. Besides the women of Kansas are preparing some things for the Fair on their own hook, and that means that the State will not be quite left out in the cold.
THE Record has extended some very malicious crumbs of comfort to the K. S. U. representative at the Topeka contest. The local contestants have been indiscriminately characterized as plagiarists and a lot of honor seekers. The article is altogether uncalled for and evidences a malicious and unaccountable antipathy toward any one who has been connected with the local contest. In defence of the K. U. orator we are certain that he has done as well as he could, which is all any one can do. The University is not disgraced nor will it ever be by the honest efforts of any student, however lacking he may be in ability. The deepest disgrace which can attach itself to our institution is the fact that such a man as the writer of the article in question, who was formerly a student at the University, should publish anything so unpatriotic, so illustrative of the spirit of Benedict Arnold.
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