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EDITORIAL STAFF :
ASSOCIATES:
R. R. WHITMAN... Editor In Chief
LOCAL EDITOR... E. F. ENGLE
PERSONAL EDITOR... W. M. CURRY
C I. L. HARUER
MARIAM TINDALE,
A J. GRAHAM,
DILLIE HONMAN
BUDINESS MANAGERS:
I. H. E. COPPER, | C. A. PEABODY,
Entered at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second class matter.
THE COURIER greets you to day, the only weekly newspaper in the University. For sometime it has been manifest that two weekly papers were not needed; that they were a burden to those who managed them, to the business men of Lawrence and besides were no particular credit either to the University or to those connected with them. A consolidation between the KANSAN and COURIER has therefore been effected and the long and useless newspaper fight is at an end. The name of COURIER has been retained because that name is associated with University journalism from its very beginning. The KANSAN will hereafter be only a worthy and respected name. The COURIER will make no great promises for the future for it knows that any great improvement will only come slowly and by hard work. It shall be its constant endeavor, however, to bring more aim and purpose into University journalistic work; and by introducing more thorough and systematic methods of management to make work on the paper pleasurable and profitable. For if those connected with the paper are doing the work because they love that work, then a University paper will be a credit and may become a beneficial factor in University life. On the other hand, if those connected with the paper are only so from a sense of duty and under compulsion, then the work will be done half heartedly and a paper will fulfill no mission what ever. It is to be hoped that one weekly paper will be the beginning of better things in newspaper work.
A CLASS LEAGUE.
The question of an inter-fraternity B. B. league has been discussed and agreed upon, i. e., agreed that a league should be formed, but no one was courageous enough to lay hold of the problem and unravel the tangled threads so that the championship would be with our and only our frat; In order that the prize or honor may indisputably be awarded each frat must play each of the others, making five games each, or a total of thirty games. It will readily be seen that the season is too far gone for such a schedule. Instead, each fraternity may claim
the championship until wrested from them. Thus: the Phi Psis are champions now by reason of their victory over the Phi Gams until their team is defeated by some other fraternity nine. This would develop base ball talent if each frat would play at least one game for championship but in as much as several would concede their lack of powers on the diamond, we fear the games would be few and far between.
The solution of this difficulty is the organizing of class nines and a series of games between them this fall. The seniors need the practice for their coming game with the Faculty next spring, the juniors can have a chance at their enemies, the pompous senior, and the wily Sophomores can develop strategy by inducing unsuspecting Freshs to leave the base and be put out.
Such a league would develop class spirit and would bring out much better than the frat league, whatever good base ball material there is in the University. Let us have a class league and bring in the Laws andPharmacies too if they think they can play ball a little bit. A class league will be of far more benefit to the K. S. U. B. B. team than the inter-frat. We have said our say. Let it be done.
AULD LANEY SYNE.
While in Topeka a few days since the COURIER representative visited the State Historical rooms and spent an hour looking over the files of the great Religious Weekly for the years '84-'87 inclusive. Those were lively days in K. S. U. journalism. Jno. Sullivan seems to have been the moving spirit and the make up shows evidence of business activity as well as editorial excellence. The issue of Nov. 7th, '80, contains telegraphic dispatches giving the result of the result of the presidential election. But perhaps the most remarkable feature of those days was the COURIER motto: Fraternity rule must be broken and yet the COURIER staff seems to have been made up of fraternity men. Along in the fall of '85 the startling announcement is made that fraternity rule is broken, and it has remained broken ever since. The "virous" column of those days were filled with a discussion of ninisection by the lady students. It seems that the young ladies of six years ago were decidedly opposed to the way Professors Snow and Doyle disposed of the surplus cats of the historic city.
Another topic much discussed was whether students should frequent billiard halls, but then we must remember those were the days of compulsory chapel attendance, and even such an attendance as that may lead people to talk and write abent morals and cruelty to animals.
REV. F. W. GUNSAULUS, pastor of Plymouth church, Chicago, will next Tuesday evening deliver the first lecture of the University course, entitled "A Chapter in the
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History of Liberty. This snoot be cause for congratulation, as Mr. Gunsaulus is widely known as a powerful and effective orator. He is at home upon the platform, graceful and easy in gesture, fluent in delivery, convincing in argument. His vocabulary is rich and varied. He posesses all of those arts which go to make up an orator. He has a perfect mastery of his subject, and treats it with the feelings of a true scholar. Mr. Gunsaulus is not as well known in the west as in the east where he has done most of his work, but his reputation is rapidly extending and he is becoming more widely known every day. Mr. Gunsaulus is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University. He began his ministerial career in a humble manner. He preached in several small towns, but his ability and power as an orator were early recognized, and he passed rapidly from Chillicothe, O., to Columbus, O., thence to Newton, Mass., thence to Baltimore where he was the pastor of Brown Memorial church. But after a brief service of about three years he was called to his present responsible post as pastor Plymouth church, Chicago. This is the first appearance of Mr. Gunsaulus in Lawrence and he should be greeted by a crowded house. No student can afford to miss this lecture.
Yes, dear Annex, we will run down in the near future as we have in the past. The Courier will "roll down the corridors of time" and bump against the pillars of eternity, making a stir and fuss all the time. We are not here to show off our rhetoric and Freshman English but to tell you that John Smith dropped in to see me and Prof. So and So has raised a beard. If you want literature, dear Annex, raise your standard high enough to exchange with the Review and you will get literature that even you will have to praise.
The Exonian prints a set of rules made by the Faculty of P. E. A. having bearing on the billard halls of Exeter. Certain hours are set apart during which the students may visit certain prescribed halls and while there must conform to certain set down rules. The rules themselves are broad enough but the whole thing seems little advanced from the rubber rings and tin rattle age.
A favorite theme with our would be literary exchanges seems to be, at present at least, "German University Life." Credit is due one of these papers and we would like to know which one. We noticed one fellow who had moral courage to write "selected" after he had bodily reproduced the article. Why is it not as easy to write the name of a paper as Selected or Exchange?
College Life had better send their funny man to "Judge" or "Puck" or he is liable to get hurt when the fool-killer makes his rounds. Articles about cattle playing tennis
Will the Hillsdale College Herald rise and explain its mission on earth?• Are you a college newspaper or are you here for a discussion of religious affairs with metaphysics on the side?
The University News is one of the most welcome papers that finds its way to our table. We don't just like its arrangement of its local and editorial matter, but then all in all in it is a "crack up" paper.
The Baker Beacon has improved more during the vacation than anything we have seen and she did not have to go to the sea shore and wear a bathing suit to do it either. It is one of the wheel horses of college journalism.
are much to be preferred to a page and a half of dullness about Alexander the Great.
The Washburn Reporter and the Argo are shaking each other up in a manner that would suit the queen It seems that they had a contract for "you kick me and I'll kick you" and you kicked I too hard. The result is that you and I have gone to throwing English around in a mean manner. The new third reader about to appear will contain some of their editorials.
The Wesleyan Echo makes a very good apology for its life in Vol. 1, No. 1. We welcome you.
See the Midget, the Little Princess and the Montague Hair Curlers at Raymond's.
B. Glick has hundreds of law books on his shelves, they are as good as new and at greatly reduced prices.
Mr. L. M. Spray, of the class of '82 was in the city last Saturday. Mr. Spray is now teaching in the Fairmount, Kan., schools.
PASSING along Massachusetts street we were attracted by the handsome display of Millinery Goods in Mrs. Savage's show windows. We went inside and found everything looking as new and bright as new goods and artistic taste in arrangement could make possible. Mrs. Savage had only a few moments to spare the reporter, but she said her fall opening, Wednesday and Thursday, was successful beyond expectation, that people appreciated the handsome stock of Millinery Goods which she was now offering at prices within the reach of all. Mrs. Savage says the new Prince Albert Tips are much worn this fall. Anyone with an eye for the beautiful should visit the rooms of Mrs. Savage, 901 Massachusetts street.
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