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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
VOL. VIII.
A GYM.
For K. S. U. is the Fondest Hope of Prof. Winkler-His Plans and Opinions on an Interesting Subject.
Among all of the friends of the Athletic Association there is none more earnest or enthusiastic than Prof. Max Winkler. He is heart and soul for the success of the new organization. A gentleman of very extraordinary intellect, he is giving the Association the benefit of a splendid experience and an exceptional judgment. His sensible plans and hopeful nature is filling everybody with an inspiration for hard and continued labor.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JAN. 17, 1890.
There need not be the slightest fear as to the future success of the Association when such men as Prof's Winkler, Canfield and Carruth are giving it their earnest support and attention. In a pleasant interview with Prof. Winkler the Courier jotted down, among other things, the following:
"I believe the first thing that should be done should be the arrangement of suitable grounds. This is the present aim of the Board and we hope by spring to bring our efforts to a successful termination. With our grounds in order I believe there will be nothing to prevent the happiest success for the Association. We have committees on solicitations already at work and we have hopes of securing $700 or $800. I believe the Faculty alone will give something near a $100. And then we have reasons to believe that the Board of Regents will extend us a helping hand."
"You see what we want to do" and here a new light danced in the Professors bright eyes and he became as interesting as his subject. "You see, we must first fix our grounds, then organize and get our different clubs to work; that will stir up enthusiasm and college spirit. All this will be sure to attract the attention of the outside world, and create a strong and general interest and sympathy in our behalf. We will then get the eye of the Regents and that is exactly what we want. If we once win their sympathy and attention, we have every reason to believe that something interesting will result. What I mean is we will then have hopes of a Gymnasium. Our Association now is nothing less than a
neucles for a future gymnasium; our present efforts only made with that great object in view.
The present prospects are decidedly promising, and I earnestly believe that all we hope for will be fully realized."
What can be more cheerful and sensible than these plans? And what more gratifying than to know that such men as Prof. Winkler stand ready to make and to execute them.
The COURIER heartily welcomes the realization of efforts that are to add so bountifully to the good of the University.
Fearless Fred.
"You leave for South America before long, do you not, Mr. Funston?" asked the COURIER of that pleasant gentleman not long since.
"Yes, shortly after the close of this term."
"How long do you intend to stay, and what have you in view"? was the next very modest (?) question.
"Well, it is pretty hard to tell how long I will stay. That will depend a great deal upon circumstances and the course of events. And what have I in view? Well, nothing more than what will turn up. My visit you know is one of pleasure, business and adventure, and should I find any of these things in anything like agreeable quantities, there is no telling when I shall return. I want to see the world and I propose to go if I am compelled to rest a part of my happiness on luck."
And as Fred stopped the COURIER wished him an immeasurable amount of it. We also proceeded to the conclusion that fellows as determined and fearless as Fred are not as numerous as they might be.
Every lover of "sweet sounds" should by all means attend the entertainment of the Howard Quartette given at the Opera House to-morrow evening.
Don't Fail to Hear Them.
It is enough to know that the quartette is from Harvard. This is an assurance of a delightful performance. Anything from Harvard always bears her famous seal of worth and talent. You can be certain that this quartette is an honor to itself and the great institution whose name it bears.
ABOUT RIGHT.
Go hear and see it if you want to add another happy event to your life.
Something of Interest to the Rushed and the Rusher-To the Frat. and the Barb.
In last Saturday's Journal there appeared a double column article on college fraternities. It speaks at length on the divers forms of initiation, and gives many that would bear a fair comparison with the horrifying deformities of the late Rou Kappa Tau. A just and sensible partiality is shown the fraternities while there is seen through it all the happy scenes of a happy college life. We give below a few selections from what is a very delectable article: "The college secret society has become a great and powerful factor in American society. The writer has seen old men who, at the most, had but a few years to live, come back to the annual college society reunions, and with tears in their eyes and voices trembling, tell that they owed their success in life to the influence a'd training of their college society life, and that the truest friends were those first met within the charmed circle of the college club. They were men whose mark in life had been made; whose word was truth itself. It must have beer a great power that would drag them back, year after year to testify to the worth of college secret societies.
A boy's life begins as soon as he has declared his intention to enter any particular college. If his head is level he will make the best of that happy time. He is the object of the concentrated attention of all the various fraternities in that college. It is a dead struggle between them as to which will capture the prize. They flatter him, ingeniously feed his vanity, and make him think that he is about the biggest and best fellow alive. Suppers, with perhaps little wicked bottles of wine, flood in upon him faster than he can handle them. Nothing is too good for him. If he has a sister she comes in for her share of the fun, too. She goes to the theatre more times in a week than she usually gets opportunities to in a month. There's where the "rushers," as the society men who engineer this little game are called, show the largeness of their heads.
About this time we take it for granted that the youth has been "pledged." If he is particularly observing he will perhaps notice that, although the men of the society of which he is to be a star green continue to be very pleasant and polite, they do not tumble over each other in their neck-breaking efforts to afford him entertainment as before. They are sure of him now. He is left to entertain himself for many
hours that before were filled with engagements for suppers and theater parties.
From this period on till his initiation his mind is skillfully played upon by his future compatriots till he is about ready to go home. Hints of the darkest type are dropped in his hearing, a reckless disregard of human life is gloomily expressed in a stage "aside," the condition of the rack and the thumbscrews is casually commented upon, so that to a retiring and uncombatative freshman the whole atmosphere of anticipation seems tinged with a terrible red.
College life isn't the real article unless a man belongs to a first class society. The terrors of the initiation are but transitory, while the benefits derived from the associations and friendships of fraternity life are last ing.
Why Not ?
Nc.17.
There is at present some talk among many of the frat. men of giving a grand reception and University ball in honor of the delegates and visitors to the forthcoming Oratorical contest. Such talk bears the proper stamp, and the COURIER believes that nothing could be more clever. We must remember the entertainment we owe the honored guests of the occasion K. S. U. should maintain her enviable reputation for unstinted hospitality. Nothing could afford more pleasant entertainment than a well-managed ball. The U has already proved her wonderful skill at this business. What could have been more pleasant or successful than the University ball? If the glory of that event can not be eclipsed, it certainly can be equaled.
This question deserves immediate attention, and the COURIER urges that something be done at once. A meeting should be held, committees appointed and set to work. There is no time to lose. Whatever is done should be done well; and a ball if any, should be worthy the ability of its friends and the honor of the U.
Pocket knives, cigars, cigaretts and tobacco at J. D. Smith's.
Buy your quizbooks and drawing paper at Keeler's and at the same time get a package of that gilt edge writing paper.
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Have you heard the news? No Well go and buy a morning paper at Smith's.
Latest styles of soft and stit hats at BROMELSICKS.
CAUGHT.
These "Nctelinge"—As they Tripp- ed about the Halls of K. S. U.
What is the matter with Jo?
What fun?
Miss Emory, of St. Joe, is a pldedg
Theta.
Miss May Russell entertains this evening.
La gripe !—a craze that should go out of fashion.
Oratorical contest — orators
—digusted neighbors.
H. T. Bear has gone home to suffer with the grippe.
Enemies of progress—slippery hills; a la Mt Oread!
A. C. Markley is now practiineing law at Carbondale.
Prof. Wilcox is reported sick—la grippe or something or tother.
Snow—pretty girls—sleigh ride
livery bill—credit—la-grippe
such is life.
Prof. Blake delivers a lecture on "Sun Spot" at the High School today.
Help the boys. They need it. The Harvard Quartette sympathizes with them.
Church, of Lincoln, Neb., will enter the University e're long. They even come from Mexico.
Carson wao was delayed in K. C. for a week or more by sickness has suffered a relapse.
The Phi Gams will add four strings of mecy sleigh bells to the grand chorus to night.
Brother H. F. Roberts, is down with the gippe. For once we congratulate our worthy compeer that he is in fashion.
Prof. Green has returned I from Colorado He thinks Kansas is a dry State.
Dick Short has returned from the sunny south to continue his labors in the U., and a lot of Dick's friends are glad of it.
Deford has withdrawn from the contest, leaving Mushrush, Bowersock, Burney, Hall, Beer and Russ.
Elmer Engle, and Billy Taylor, and Ed. Allen, and Billy DeFord, and Ernest Robinson, etc., etc., have all adopted the latest fad la grippe
Mr. W. W. Wolfe and daughter, of Evansburg, Ohio, and Miss Stoub, of Chamney, Ill., are spending a few days with their friend Mr. Mushrush.
The most sensible move on foot now, is a combination to be formed by Athenian and Oraphilian.