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THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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VOL. VIII
TOWN AND GOWN.
Up and down paelling with nervous tread Yielding in turn to pleasure and dread; What meditation:
Wind rose
Had upon heart at the ring of the bell
Jo_2o startling at postman's yell;
Great expectation!
With light foot.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEB. 28, 1890.
door,
"Awwelope" dainty takes from the floor,
Opens in haste—
Craaculous what perfume! peculiar smell!
Must say I'm not fond of it,
Spouse its smell can go for taste.
Cries out in agony, horrible names,
Buried at the writer into the flames,
Hurled livery bili!
Wild are his curses, hands full of hair.
Falls down expires, more than could bear!
Bill unpaid still.
The long expected chemicals and apparatus for the Pharmacy department have at last arrived on this side of the Water and are on their way to K. S. U. as fast as the fast freight can bring them.
The explosions in the chemical laboratory are becoming too frequent to be amusing. Earnest Robinson had his face cut quite badly on Tuesday, by an explosion of Hydrogen in a glass vessel
Prof. Bailey has received a supply of "Lungston Steel" from Philadelphia for the Chemical Department. This is an exceptionally fine grade of steel and needs no tempering.
The Freshman class in Chemistry is the largest in the history of the institution.
Kansas Literary Society holds its first regular meeting to-night. The class in Logic will be examined Friday afternoon or Saturday morning of next week.
Although none of the students were condensed on the ceiling of the labratory, as the hero of Prof. Bailey's story was, an explosive mixture of gases made some of them "hard to ketch" for a while last Monday.
The proceeds of the University Ball were enough to cover all expenses—with the exception of a few(?) dollars.
Fashion's world revolves so rapidly that the pants you take off at night are out of style before you can get them on in the morning; consequently, the average student wears them all the time.
Let us have a University Mandolin Club. There are at least twenty-five students in the University who either play the guitar or mandolin. What a hit it would have been at the state contest, to have had an orchestra composed of twenty-five students, producing such melody as is possible from mandolin and guitar.
Will some one please inform us what is the possible sense or need of a year's drawing preparatory to entering the Freshman class? It is doubtful if one student in a hundred, after he has had drawing for two terms, can make a vivid representation of the most common object.
It is reported that Bill Nye has to sleep on a sheet of fly paper as a pillow to keep from falling out of bed.
The Senior moot court attendants shade their eyes or wear opera glasses when the rays of the western sun shoot athwart the nickle-plated cranium of their honored dean.
It is reported that John A. is working on his graduation oration, "Every Man His Own Daniel Webster, or How I Became What I Am."
The necessity of having to excuse absences from class offer good inducements for the members of the Ananias club.
Sub-freshies revels in Wentworth's Geometry, or a Tale of True Love by Onida.
The proverbial brass monkey is as usual the loser from the cold snap.
We are in receipt of the programme of the South-eastern Teachers Association, to be held at Parsons, March 28 and 29, 1890. In it we see many familiar names, among them Prof. J. H. Canfield and W. R. Cone.
The classes in elocution are quite large. In fact, the Freshman class has to be divided into several divisions.
What makes the man so confidential who possesses a breath that would fertilize a stone quarry?
When the verdant E. E. student seizes the wrong wire at the engine house he exclaims:
"I am sorry I came insulate,
Prof C:—What, Mr. B, is the number of "you," singular or plural?
Bright Boy.
[The COURIER is not responsible for the opinions expressed in this column.]
I am goling home to dynamo.
Mr. B:一( a bright German student) "You," sir, is singular.
WE WAIT FOR A REPLY!
Mr- B:—Why, sir, one would say, "you is!"
Prof. C:—Why, you are mistaken, are you not? How would you use "you". in the present tense?
The professor forgets his dignity and the students hold their sides; they were a little diverted, that is all.
EDITOR COURIER:—I am a student in the University and have been for several years, and in-asmuch as I have learned much of college life I have been disgusted with the narrow mindedness and contracted prejudices of the average student. The true student should be liberal in his views, should survey the world with broader and more liberal ideas than a mere aristocratic idea of his own greatness and grandeur. His head should be level and set firmly on his shoulders; but there is no need that he should view the whole remaining class of human beings through a reversed telescope and imagine that he is the only giant. There is no need of egotism becoming so abnormally developed in our colleges; for soon after entering upon the busy stream of life there is a vast shipwreck of this complacent self sufficiency. And about the first thing that our student learns is how infinitesimal a unit he is in the worlds great whole.
What is there in a University training that is so conducive to conceit? Do the Professors teach it? What is it that destroys the democratic idea of equality? Why is a student so aristocratic? Many things no doubt have a bearing upon this question but we think that one that exerts a direct influence to avoid this effect, is the college fraternities. They inculcate in the breast of each member a lordly feeling of superiority over his fellow students who are not fraternity men. By what reason he feels so superior it is hard to state He is no better student and generally is a poorer one than the "poor unkempt barb," as they are so fond of calling the non-fraternity man. He is not as much of a gentleman as the average "barb." His snobishness which he receives from his fraternity precludes true courtesy. His refinement is all surface. His heart is full of pride and treachery. He is a snob, a worshiper of his social superior. In this democratic country it is sad to find that there are so many of these snobs. And it is still worse to find in colleges and universities, where democratic equality should reign, this
college aristocracy, these cohorts of nobles, the special few, the chosen ones, who by their arrogance and inveterate hatred of those whom they consider beneath them in the social scale, exhibit the same spirit that was wiped out of France in blood. Fraternities? A sham aristocracy exclusive and select. Why? Because your father had wealth, some of your ancestors came over in the Mayflower or your forty-first cousin was President, you are invited to join. This is the fraternity as it is, not as it was instituted.
Nc. 23.
"The Rush." What is it? A mere helper skelter at the first of the year by those fraternity men for new victims to sacrifice at the altar of their God. The poor "Fresh" or "Prep" thinks that he has fallen into the hands of the most obliging and open-hearted boys in all this wide world. They cultivate his acquaintance so assiduously that he is fairly bewildered by the hosts of new-found friends. He don't care to join. He doesn't join. What then? His friends that were, are now his friends no longer. Strangers, they know him no more. Is this courtesy? Is that the true gentleman? How about the new man? Oh, he is relegated to the wild and howling hords of "barbarians." He finds friends there and his spirit turns to bitterness, and he howls with the rest of the "barbs" against those fraternities. Why shouldn't he be bitter? Has not he borne their snubs and slights beyond the limits of human endurance? Is not this I-am-better-than-thou air of the "frat" always thrust upon him?
Now, Mr. Editor, the point that we wished to make is that if more true honesty of the heart, more true courtesy was exhibited by the fraternity men and less of this bigotedness, treachery and surface refinement, there would not be this rank and bitter hostility between the "barb" and "frat." The "barb's" intolerance and hatred of "frats" will grow less as the "frat" becomes more generally a true university or college student. And can a boy go through college having either the pride of the "frat" or the intolerance and bitterness of the "barb" without becoming narrower in his opinions than would be so if the fraternities were abolished? The fraternity is a resurrected remnant of the old medievel age and the "barb" is the true democrat. A. BARB.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Simmons will go to Hutchison in March to take the State Board examinationin Pharmacy.
Pharmaceutical Society meets to-night in Snow Hall,
Gray has changed his room to 1116 Tenn. St.
Miss Priestly will go to Baldwin on Friday.
Earl V. W. Brown was up the hill Wednesday.
Kelly returned from Olathe Monday.
Hackett, Smelser and Pugh are going home for a short vacation on Saturday.
Edge returns to Leavenworth next week.
Ask Hackett about the test tube episode.
Amos went to Baldwin Sunday.
Kelly is going to join the Wizard Oil troupe.
Miss Sidney Dailey has been quite sick for several days.
Miss Belle Roberts spent several days in Kansas City last week. John Davis hasn't missed a class this week
Jim Slavens of K. C. visited Cub Bassett Saturday.
Miss Rudolph entertained the Caesar class with a reading Monday.
Ed Little, and old student visited in the city Tuesday.
Miss May Webster has been quite sick during the past week.
John Spencer came up from K. C. Sunday.
Miss Francis Steinburg went to Topeka Saturday to hear the Calfornia Opera Company.
Dent Hogeboom will be in town Sunday.
Miss Pennebaker is reported on the sick list.
Earnest Robinson was slightly injured by an explosion in the chemical laboratory Tuesday afternoon.
Walter Carson returned from Kansas City Sunday.
Charley Voorhis will sing in the opera to be given by the amateurs.
Miss Nellie Dow cf Olathe is in the city.
Will Higgins came down from Topeka to take part in the "Little American Lord."
Earnest Rankin came down from Topeka Sunday
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