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The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
WALTER JAY SEARS,
Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR... J. M. CHALLES.
PERSONAL EDITOR... J. O FOX.
SPORTING EDITOR... S. M. SIMMONS.
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, meets second floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPKA Psi, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA NU, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on fourth floor east of the Opera House block.
BETA THETA Pi, Meets on the fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPKA Gamma, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of the members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of the members.
PI BETA PHI, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of the members.
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION of the University of Kansas, W. H. Carruth, President; F. H. Kellogg, Secretary, and C. B. Vcorhls, Treas.
OBATRICAL ASSOCIATION J. D. Rowersock, President; W. D. Ross, Secretary, Executive Committee; M. E. Hickey, W. E. Carry, C. H. Sears.
PHILOGOAL CLUB, President, Miss Anna McKinnon; see secretary, Dr. A. M. Wiak, Meets every other Friday night.
SCRENT CLUB, President, F. E. Sosson, Secretary, M. A. Barber, Meets in Snow Hall every other Friday.
ADELPHIC LITERARY SOCIETY, Meets every Friday evening, Howard Peatts, Secretary, E. C. Hickey.
KNASAS UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB, President, Howard Peatts, Secretary, J. E. Baker.
Y. M. C. A. Meets every Friday evening at 5 p.m. room H. President; E. L. Ackley, Secretary, C. P. Chapman.
Y. W. C. A. Meets every Friday evening at 7 p.m. third floor of University President, Emma Dunn; Secretary, Laura Lockwood.
COURIER COMPANY! President, F. A. Foster, Secretary, L. C. Poehler.
KANSAS COMPANY, President, M. McKinnon, Secretary, W. A. Snow.
REVIEW COMPANY! President and Editor-in-Chief, H. F. M. Bear.
EMINARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, Director, Prof. J. H. Craidle, Meets every office Friday from 4 to 6.
KENT CLUB, President, J. W. Walli, SecRETARY, W. A. Foster, Meets every Friday night.
PHARMACRETICAL SOCIETY, President, V. L. Bozzi, Secretary, Miss Laura Gauber, Meets every Friday night.
CAMERA CLUB, President, Prof. Bailey, SecRETARY, E. E. Blossom, Meets every month.
TELEGRAPH CLUB, President, Prof. Blake
We are heartily glad the report that Prof. J. H. Canfield had resigned his professorship is utterly false. The Kansas State University can not afford to lose such an able and eminent instructor. The loss would be wholly irrepairable.
ALL will wait anxiously for the termination of the leave of absence of Prof. Ed Franklin. Kind, earnest and able, Ed Franklin is a prime favorite among all the students. He leaves with the hearty good will of all.
If it is true that Miss Rudolph has resigned her position as assistant to the chair of Latin, there is indeed great cause for regret. Miss Rudolph is an excellent instructor, and it will be hard to find one so suited for her position.
In the resignation of Prof. Will Franklin the University loses an able and earnest instructor—an instructor possessed of a mental breadth and strength far beyond his youthful years. Determined and energetic, Mr. Franklin has a future of superior promise. It is possible that he will resume his labors here after the completion of his studies in Germany; it is the unanimons hope that he will.
THE selection of Prof. Snow for the chancellorship of the University is certainly a wise and judicious one. He is preeminently fitted for the responsible position. That his masterly executive ability and broad intellectual will add to the strength of the University, and that he deserved this honorable recognition, none will deny. One thing is sure, the people of Kansas—a people to whom he has given a long and inestimable service—will hear of his election with hearty approval and satisfaction. With hearty congratulations, the COURIRER welcomes Prof. Snow to the leadership of the Kansas State University.
THIS howl for the ejection of Prof. J. H. Canfield from the University is becoming extremely senseless. It is almost impossible to believe that Kansas—that state whose name is synonomous with all the noble triumphs of modern civilization—that Kansas should father such arrogance and such bigotry. And this yell is all the more intolerable because it is undeserved. As an instructor, Prof. Canfield is guiltless of every charge thrown in his face by those frothing demagogues, these bigots know it; but making a fortress of their ignorance, they then secure a chance to turn their puerile fire upon private and personal opinions. For shame that American men should stoop so low! The friends of right and honor and decency pray that this howl may cease.
READING THE NEWSPAPER
Bv J D. MOPFAT
'Should the college student read the daily paper?' It is not necessary that he should in order to do well his work as a student. The branches of learning set before him in the college curriculum are sufficient to occupy the whole of the time he can give wisely to the acquisition of a liberal education; and, if he master them, he will be a liberally educated man, even if he is ignorant of all that mass of miscellaneous information and misrepresentation gained by indiscriminate reading of papers. The purpose of the newspaper is simply to inform, to put the reader in possession of facts, rumors and guesses. Even if the paper selected for daily reading has a high character as a newspaper, and publishes only carefully selected facts, expressed without exaggeration, and can be relied on to report only the true events of the preceding day, still it exerts little or no disciplinary effect on the mind of the reader. At its best it but furnishes raw material, and the ultimate product will vary according to the power, delicacy, poise, and subjection to sound principals, of the mind into which the material is poured. This is by no means disparagement of the newspaper. Its place in the world of thinking and acting men is of great importance. But it is not a teacher of the young; though it may be called an instructor of informer. It cannot take the place of the school, nor do the main work of the educator. It must be noted, however, that papers are usually more than news reporters, and discuss and advocate principals, political, social and literary, and so far do a work for the reader similar to that of the teacher; but as a rule this is a subordinate function, and a large proportion of readers ignore it altogether. So far, too, as the ordinary newspaper advocates political principals its methods differ widely from those of authors whose text-books have educational value. The chief motive of the political article is to gain some advantage over the other party, and the reasoning is often more specious than sound. So far as this mode of advocacy cultivates the habit of giving a ready and unquestioning acquiescence it is virtuous. Men are trained to be good followers, and true independence of thought is hindered. The book, on the other hand, worthy of a place as a text-book, whilst it may advocate definite principles, can be relied on to do full justice to the other side, and by its quotations and citations, it stimulates inquiry and invites to the study of the other side.
"But if the college student is not bound to read the newspaper may it not be helpful to him to do
so?' It may be so in some measure. If he never reads it, he enters the world at the end of his college career quite too ignorant of the affairs about which men generally are concerned to be of much service for awhile at least. A wise and limited use of the daily paper furnish many occasions for the applications of the principles he is considering in the class room, and for the exercise of his partially educated powers. The mere book-worm and antiquary is not the ideal outcome of any college course, even if dead languages, abstract mathematics and the literature of past centuries do constitute the principal mental pabulum. The observing and judging powers and the habit of persevering study are cultivated for use in the actual world of the present; and a part of that actual world lies outside the college world, and is brought into it by the newspapers.
"But what is a wise use of the newspapers?" This is not an easy question to answer, for the reason that all use is individual, and wisdom may have a different dictate for each reader and with respect to each newspaper. Rules applicable to all readers and all papers are apt to be too general to be of practical value. But let us try a few.
First, read no more of your paper than you can be profited by. No paper is designed to be read through by any one—even its own editor. It is prepared to furnish something for a greater variety of people. It is like a bill of fare from which wise people select according to taste. It is astonishing how little time it takes to read an ordinary daily when we scrupulously observe this rule. It is true the rule is vague, and therefore one student will spend ten times as much time as another over his paper, and try to defend himself; but an honest inquiry, "what do I really care for that item?" will cause the skipping of many a one which an idle and profitless curiosity would otherwise lead us to read. A mere glance at the arrests, the accidents, the scandals, the fires, robberies, murders, prize fights, congressional squabbles, politician gossip, interviews, will show you whether any of your friends are involved; and if they are not, where is the profit of reading?
Second. read only what is intended for people of your taste, education and moral character. All classes and conditions of men are provided in the papers with information suited to them. Some items are not for students, but for fellows of the baser sort, who could not be in all low places in one night and must be informed of detective work and brutal scenes. Several columns are devoted to market prices: these you really
skip, as not for you; but unfortunately we all have something in common with the immoral classes and interest in their immortalities springs up in us too easily. But students are aiming at a nobler type of manhood and cannot afford to feed on such stuff. Imagination lends itself as readily to the forming of low ideals as of high: and familiarity with the low soon weakens that wholesome disgust for the low which contact with the pure and noble in life and thought tends to create.
Third, do not allow your opinion to be readily changed or formed by what you read in the papers.
Personally editors are as truth-loving as any other class of men, but their chief concern as editors of news papers is to gain reputation for promptness and reliability. The desire for the reputation of promptness is inconsistent with the care needed for thorough investigation; and the acknowledgement of mistake would break down the reputation for reliability. Besides error and exaggeration attract more attention than commonplace events, and they obtain a far more prominent place than correction of them. When the papers brought us news of the Johnstown flood, the matter of first importance was "how we got there before the other paper." When we had mastered that report we were allowed to read about the flood itself. This craze for getting ahead as a newsgatherer makes the news itself of dubious character. We shall not lose much if we adopt the principle of withholding credence from any item that seems at all improbable, until it be confirmed by later reports.
With caution one may learn from newspaper reading the actual state of society and be enabled thereby to correct false impressions gathered from text-books or find illustrations of established principles, and so obtain some help as a student. Washington Leffersonian.
MRS J. K. HUDSON, wife of the editor of the Topeka Capital, is possessed of literary ability of a high order, and has already done considerable good work. A serial story, "A child of Erin," is now running in her husband's paper. As yet Mrs. Hudson's fame has penetrated but little outside of her own state, but it will not be long before her fame will be confined only by its author's possibilities. —Printers Album.
By the consolidation of the Lawrence Journal and Tribune Mr. John M. Steele has been retired from his position as local editor of the former paper. As a member of the Law School, Mr. Steele is well known in University circles. His work on the Journal has been perfectly satisfactory: earnest, able and energetic, his first efforts in journalism give promise of a pleasant, and distinguished future. As a laborer with him we have been convinced of his stirring and exceptional qualities. In his endeavor to climb the ladder of life as well as that of journalism, Mr. Steele has our best wishes.
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