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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
Vol. XI.
LAWRENCE, KANS., FEBRUARY 15, 1893.
No. 20.
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T. D. BENNETT, Editor-in-Chief.
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J. F. MESSENGER, Local Editor.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
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.
There is a girl who talks so fast that she says "pfsr," for professor.
The youth who scales Mount Oread at the most rapid gait is not necessarily the first in the class-room.
The girl who talks to the Professor after recitation the most, does not always have the least numerical aggregate in the registrar's grade book.
The dry and wet theory, which was a noticeable point in the lecture Monday evening, is not altogether a thing of the past. The resubmissionists and the W.C.T.U. are the most eminent advocates of the respective theories in Kansas.
The demand for the new COURIER assures us that we have filled a long felt want in adopting the present style of the paper.
The primary qualification of the student is the power to concentrate his mind upon one subject to the exclusion of all else.
If the public insists upon sending cartoon valentines to the editorial board, we respectfully request that they do not leave one cent of postage to be paid by the recipient.
THERE is no authentic information that the legislature will duplicate the Spooner legacy, as some have supposed, but as a matter of legal form the legacy is appropriated by that honorable body for the pnpose of establishing a library in compliance with Chancellor Snow's wishes.
The February number of the Seminary Notes is a publication of unusual merit. The two leading articles by Supt. Meserve of Haskell Institute and B.W.Woodward deserve especial notice. The literary value of this publication is not thoroughly appreciated by all the students, and the present editors deserve great credit for the merit of the pamphlet.
The amount of sensational journalism that has been published over the recent oratorical contest and has continued to flow in an uninterrupted stream from the city press,has certainly awakened the staid old city of Lawrence to a knowledge of the fact that University politics cut no small figure in every University affair.