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The University Weekly Courier.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
BY THE
COURIER COMPANY
FRANK LUTZ ... Editor in-Chief
KALPH E. VALENTINE ... Local Editor
BUSINESS MANAGERS
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
J. F. MESSENGER | F. W. BREWSTER,
Entered at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
SOCIETIES.
Pharmaceutical Society—Meets in the lecture room, Chemistry building, other Friday at 3 p.m., E. F. Wallick, president, Miss Mary Chapin, secretary.
Adelphic Literary Society—Meets in Adelphic hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
FRATERNITIES.
Phi Beta Kappa—Honorary collegiate fraternity.
Sigma Xi—Honorary scientific fraternity.
Beta Theta Pi—Meets every Saturday evening on fourth floor of Opera House block.
Phi Kappa Psi - Meets every Monday evening at the homes of its members.
Phi Gamma Delta—Meets every Saturday evening at the homes of its members.
Phi Delta Theta—Meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Journal building.
Sigma Nu—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House block.
Sigma Chi—Meets every Saturday evening on the third floor of Opera House block.
Kappa Alpha Theta—Meets every Sat urday afternoon at the house of mem bers.
Kappa Kappa Gamma- Meets every Saturday afternoon in its hall 2d floor K, of P. hall.
CLUBS.
Pi Beta Phi-Meets every Saturday afternooon at the homes of members.
Science Club—Meets in Chemistry Building every other Friday at 8 p.m. President, Dana Templin; Secretary, E. S. Tucker.
Seminary of Historical and Political Science—Meets in room 14, University building, every Friday from 4 to 5. F. W. Blackmar, director.
Philological Club—Meets in room No. 20, University building, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
Camera Club—Meets once a month President, Prof. Williston; Secretary E.C. Case.
Telegraph Club—President, Prof. L, l Abate; Secretary, E. Blaker.
Kent Club-Meets in North College every Friday afternoon at 1:30. Admits law students only.
Memorabilia Club—For the collection of statistics and relies relating to the history of Kansas State University. President W. Sterling; Secretary, V. L. Kellogg.
University Glee Club—Meets in Music Hall every Saturday, 11:30 a.m. m. Prof. Penny, director; John A. Kush, business manager.
Y. M, C. A.-Meets in Music Hall every Sunday at 4 p. m. President, S. j. Hunter,
Oratorical Association of the Students of the Kansas State University—President, Albert Fullerton, Secretary, J. W. Park.
University Athletic Association—President, Prof. Marvin; Secretary, W. H. Pratt; Treasurer, K. K. Moody. Includes Tennis Association, Base Ball Association and Foot Ball Association.
Lecture Bureau—President, Professor Templin.
UNIVERSITY JOURNALS.
The University Review - Editor-in-chief Albert Fullerton, Published monthly by The Kansas University Publishing Company.
The University Weekly Courier—Editor in-chief, Frank Lutz. Published every Friday morning by The Courier Company.
The University Quarterly. -For the publication of the results of original investigation, V. L. Kellogg, Managing Editor.
Seminary Notes—Published monthly by the Seminary of Historical and Political Science, Prof. F. W. Blackmar, Treasurer.
The regular grind will soon begin.
THE K. U. Glee club has changed the college yell to Rock Chalk! Full House! K. U!! Round Table.
THE Christmas number of the Nebraskan is a very neat issue. The cut of the foot ball team looks splendid.
WASHBURN students may be orators, but there were only two of them in the local contest Wonder if they are ' Nailors '
SIXTY-ONE Freshmen, at Harvard, reported to the captain in response to his call for candidates on the base ball team.
PRESIDENT JORDAN, of Leland Standford University, receives the largest salary of any college president in the United States
THE Board of Regents, of the University of Wisconsin, have raised the incidental fee of that school from $10 to $25 per annum.
THE faculty investigation has evidently become an annual afair. A few students have been called before the disciplinary committee, but nothing startling has been developed.
A REFLECTOR six feet in diameter and one hundred and forty in length, is now in course of construction in Paris. It will bring the moon within a few hundred feet of the earth.
WITH a new library building, costing ninety thousand dollars, and many other additions to the over crowded departments of the University, we shall begin another era of increased prosperity.
THE winning orator of the local oratorical contest received three ones on thought and composition. We have no fears for a high position at the state contest. — College Life (Emporia).
THE state oratorical contest of Kansas has been won three times by Washburn college, three times by K. S. U., and twice by Baker college. Of course K. S. U. will win it this year, which will make her four times the victor.
The College Round Table objects to having the state oratorical contests held at Topeka each year. The Courier does not agree with the Round Table. The advantages to be gained under the present regime are apparent. The method of having the contest held at the several college towns has been tried and found lacking. Let good enough alone.
Don't be too "sartin."
"FEAR, shame and shake." may be characteristic of Sui Generis, but of the five orators, never.
No one has attempted to throw out Lease from taking part in the contest, as stated by a certain weekly.
THE present examination system, instead of giving the student an opportunity to cram for a single examination of three hours' length, will offer an opportunity to cram for five examinations of one hour's length.
Sui Generis says that his paper never makes use of stereotyped matter. Of course he is joking, and does not really mean it. If so will he please let us know who wrote up his account of the Baker oratorical contest in last week's issue. It was taken bodily from the Lawrence Journal.
We do not believe that there is a single professor in the University who would so far forget his dignity and the great importance attached to his office, as to go to any one student, or body of students, and to them make the assertion that immorality and licentiousness exists among a certain class of students. To make such a statement would be to defame the characters of two hundred ladies and gentlemen who constitute this class.
In no community of this or any other place is morality toned higher, and yet our weekly contemporary has the audacity to make the statement that a "certain professor" told him such was true. Quite a compliment for a professor to pass on two hundred ladies and gentlemen of the Kansas University! Of course no one believes it. Sui Generis was writing against time and to fill up space when he penned that article.
Fred MacKinnon and Thornton Cook are being trained by Otis Holmes, Bennet by Prof. Brownell, and Riddle by Prof. Jones of the English department. Lease is being trained by his mother.
Long hair and spectacles are generally indicative of intellectuality. But in one noticeable instance in K.U., long hair and short sense; spectacles and short sightedness, go hand in hand. And thus there are exceptions to all rules.
KANSAS is proud of her State University. From the small confines of a Lawrence high school it has grown and developed until now her reputation has penetrated in every nook and corner of this and many other states. The students who have graduated from her halls are coming into prominence in every vocation of life. Among
them are included senators, prominent lawyers, professors and educators.
But these are not the only ones who are making the reputation of our University. In no institution in this country can be found a more energetic, fostering and progressive corps of instructors than here. No labors are too arduous for them when the wellfare of the University and students are in question.
But even here their work does not cease. Beyond this boundary their labors are bearing fruit. Chancellor Snow has been the means of saving millions of dollars to the farmers through his discovery of "the chinch-bug exterminator."
All these facts are known. The ability of our professors is telling. Increasing numbers of students are crowding the halls of the University each year. As a result of all this we have outgrown our present quarters. Something must be done else our continued growth will be dwarfed. More room is imperative.
It is to be hoped that the honorable body now in session at Topeka will look into this matter and aid the University in its onward progress by timely appropriations, and thus give further impetus to the growth and enlargement of an institution of which all Kansas is proud and many other state institutions envious.
To the Courier:
As the time for examinations approaches the much worn and thread bare question assumes prominence
Should the system be abolished? Enough words have been written in answer to this question to fill many volumes, yet the question seems unanswered. What, after all does that ponderous recording volume signify which is enthroned in all its majesty in the sanctum of the recorder's office? Are its grades a true criterion of a student's ability, of his mental calibre? If so why is it that so many grade "two" students make a perfect success in life, while the grade "ones" look on and wonder?
Why? Because the former has a more rounded education; he is better balanced, and the balanced student is the true student. To be a grade one student it is necessary to attend to your studies to the exclusion of outside reading, as well cut off intercourse with the college world in general.
A knowledge of books is all right, and, indeed, very necessary; but to make it practical and beneficial something more is necessary. That something is what the book worm lacks, and is only attained by cultivating the acquaintance of fellow
students, whether it be in the dancing room, in the parlor, upon the base ball field, or in the college halls.
But says this book worm. I have no time to attend to anything but my studies, my books. Well that may be, and as a reward grade "one" will be yours; but, remember, when your college days are over, grade "one," without a few necessary corollaries will not buy bread and butter.
The ability to solve problems in trigonometry or parse a Greek verb will not make friends nor purchase success.
The book worm, to be sure, gets the best grades, and why not? But in the meantime while he is thumbing his books the wide awake and balanced student, who, in after life, is the man who "gets there" is browsing around acquiring a knowl edge, not only of men in books, but of men out of books.
The latter knowledge is the key which unlocks the door to success when it becomes neces sary to apply what little learning one has. It is because of its lack, so many grade one students make failures.
Let the grading system be entirely abolished. Because a student gets good grades is no sign he is a thinker, in fact in most cases it is a sign that he or she has "boned," and in consequence has a superficial knowledge, skin deep.
Open the doors of the class room, put the student upon his own merits. If he is at school to work, he will work; if not, you can't make him, by enforcing pernicious final examinations upon him. But, as long as the grading system lasts, and as long as a student has pride, just that long will he persist in骨ering and depending upon a knowledge acquired in a few hours to carry him through. This is not true of all, but of many, it is.
It is not always the highest developed student who receives the best grade, rather the opposite. The one who does outside reading, who is active in literary societies, who takes part in college publications, in the glee club, athletics, in contests; it is he who is the all around man, and the successful man. Of course he does this outside work at a sacrifice of time and in consequence gets poor grades, but is none the less as well, and better prepared to face the problem of life, which we all must face, and that better then the book worm.
After all, what is the sequel of a college education, but to make life easier and better prepare one self to enjoy it and solve its intricate questions of every day life with greater ease! A STUDENT
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