The Weekly University Courier
The Largest College Joint Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY.
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Entered at the post-office at Lawrence Kansas, as second-class matter.
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 KAPPA 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.
KAPFA KAPFA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPFA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
BETA BETA Pi, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the home of members.
OEATACONIAL ASSOCIATION: L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary, Executive Committee; E. M. Muntord, C. Vachis, Fred Liddebeck.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION: Manager, Abe Levy; captain of the nine, John Davis.
PHILLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 4 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION: President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall Ed Estereley, President; E. S. Elsom, Secretary.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY, Meets Friday evening in their hall, K. S. U, R. R. Whitman, President
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY, Meets every Friday evening in their hall, K. S. U, President, W. D. Ross.
Y, M. C. A., Meets every Friday evening at 7:30 room 11, President, L. T. Smith; Secretary, & D. Brown.
Y, W. C. A. Meets every Friday evening at 7:30 third floor of University, President, Flora Newlin Secretary, Anna McKinnon.
COURER COMPANY: President, L. C. Cochler; Secretary, E. W. Palmer.
It is greatly to the credit of the students who have attended the University that no such barbarous practice has ever existed or found sanction here.
The papers are full of accounts of hazing operations in eastern colleges. We have several ball teams, a foot ball association and fraternities without number but no hazing. Let us be thankful.
Again we wish to remind the student of the importance of a large attendance at the University ball. If you don't dance go and look on. It will be worth the price of admission to see various party leaders, frat men and barbs and all those who make up the contending factions in K. S. U. dancing together in peace and friendship to the sweet music of Graebers peerless orchestra.
Take our board of regents, put them in a little stone pen; debar them from the partisan world, exclude party sentiment and Canfield will be Chancellor.
Otherwise this representative of free trade doctrine will not be permitted, as wise men have forecasted, to inculcate in the youth of K. S. U. the much hated policy of free trade.
The press of the state has been for some time engaged in discussing the question as to the most beautiful view in Kansas. Strange to say no one has mentioned Lawrence as a candidate for the honor. The first exclamation that bursts from a visitor's lips on reaching the top of Mt. Oread is "What a beautiful view." The town nestled at the foot of the hill, the silvery ribbon of the Kaw, and the timber fringed Wakarusi to the south make up a picture over which a painter or poet would linger for hours. If a committee is ever appointed to settle this difficult question let them come first to Kansas State University and their mission will be ended.
Some young free trade squirts of the State University, who run the COURIER, are booming J. H. Canfield for Chancellor, instead of pursuing their legitimate course of study. If Mr. Canfield aspires to such a high position, he should go South where his peculiar ideas of protective economy are better appreciated.-Olathe Mirror.
The above item emanated from the "cultivated instinct" that the editor of the Mirror possesses in common with other hot-headed radicals who believe in toleration only as so much as it is the representation of a deserving party.
The above little editorial gem betokens him as a man superior in instructive knowledge, to other beings of the same class and herd.
We need not comment on the gentlemen's wisdom.
The following letter, received a short time ago from an old student, shows the generous feeling which exists among the Alumni in regard to the present rivalry between college papers.
When I saw in a Lawrence paper the announcement that the Courier had expired, I was exceedingly sorry to hear what my
LEAVENWORTH, Sept. 28, '89.
Dear Old Courier:
receipt of a COURIER published subsequently to that announcement proved to be unauthentic news. The COURIER, even though its personal management does not appeal to my sympathies, is yet so closely identified with the brightest days of my life, that when it ceases to be something very dear to me, the memory of the old days will also cease to be
No paper will be the COURIER except the COURIER.
No competitor or substitute can fill its place.
A change of name is but the marriage of one's old girl. She is no longer the Isbel or Claribel of the old days. She is not even Sallie, even if she and her husband dwell in and indentify themselves with the residents of our alley.
Hoping that the COURIER will continue to appear and meet with all success, I am Sincerely,
VIEWS.
FRANK A. MARSHALL.
FRATS AND BARBS IN K. S. U.
Read by Hervey White in Athaeneum, Sept. 20.
Being of a philanthropic turn of mind and anxious to assist the new student, who is doubtless somewhat confused in the babel of college talk by mysterious though ever recurring words such as Barb, Frat, Sub-rosa, Sucker, Combination, rush, etc., and being also one who loves to see truth prevail, and who is ever desirous of pushing forward a good cause, I have taken advantage of this opportunity, so kindly granted, to give you a few opinions on the subject announced above.
My reasons then for this paper, for let us have no misunderstandings in this, so serious a matter, are two: First, to clear up in the mind of the new student any confusion which may exist from the use of so many technical terms; and second, though by no means second in importance, to show to him the many great and lasting benefits to be derived from a membership in the grandest of our college institutions—the Greek letter fraternity. Accompanying the whole by a set of valuable rules telling how to get into a fraternity, providing you are not so fortunate as to be asked.
It would perhaps be well to mention that I, a non frateruity man, do this of my own accord, not at the request of any faction,
and without pay or the expectation of it. I know that there are those here whose elbows even now are seeking the ribs of their neighbors, but those I leave to that slow but surest of eye-openers, time,
There are six of these fraternities (it is needless to enumerate them), and each one is superior to the others, while all are superior to the barbs. The word "barb," a term applied to non fraternity men, is only a contraction of "barbarian," and is not at all to be associated with that acute little cast-iron contrivance on the railings in front of a church, for the barbs here in college are the dullest things imaginable. When I say six fraternities it is not to be supposed that I am forgetful of the three lady fraternities here; God forbid! But feeling that my poor pen was utterly incompetent to write upon so tender a subject, which it could at best only splatter with ink, I resolved to confine it entirely to the boys. The barb girls in this University I do not know. Nobody does True they are nearly all hard-working students, but,—perhaps from this very fact,—they are invariably poky.
But to return to these fraternities. the boy fraternities. Their members are all gentlemen. Some of them are reported to be honest. They meet in their luxuriantly furnished halls every week, and, by friendly intercourse, sometimes with themselves and sometimes with fair and accomplished ladies, by singing, and by dancing they acquire that polish so delightful, indeed so necessary to one who is soon to join the band of educated workers that stand face to face with the great social problems of the world.
Here in these halls too, they have admirable opportunities for dividing with one another the few offices and places of honor among the students of the University and seeing that those members who have no merit of their own but rely upon the merit of their friends are not forgotten, but may share in the spoils. This very point I think is enough to convince any one of the advantage gained by belonging to a fraternity. You may be a numbskull, you may be idolent, you may be without a spark of originality, as many of our prominent fraternity men are, and yet, if you are a Greek, you
will edit our papers, you will preside over our societies, your name will be on every tongue, all because a few energetic men have chosen to call you brother.
Then in their own rooms fraternities can pledge themselves to vote for a man of another faction, providing that faction will in turn vote for their man, and do it without noise, and without scandal, perfectly undisturbed. There are those who argue that this promiscuous selling of votes is not honorable, is not just, and that fraternities should not be allowed to control all papers and publications under the name of students of the University of Kansas when in reality the opinions published are exactly opposite to the opinions of two-thirds of the body of students. Will these stubborn arguers ever lose sight of the greater question, and keep their eyes persistently fixed upon things of lesser moment? What if the frat men do learn to look upon their vote merely as a thing to be bought and sold? What if the students and University do suffer a little from these lies? Are not the fraternities benefited thereby? I frankly grant that fraternity scheming and warring will kill the best literary society in the University- It cannot be helped. But who will think of comparing the success of a paltry literary society to the lasting glory of our fraternities? In my mind, the society should feel it an honor, and most willingly offer herself up, a sacrifice to her superior.
[ Owing to the length of this article, we are unable to publish it in full this week. It will be concluded in the next issue. —Editor ]
GREEK CUTTINGS
The total membership of the Greek Letter Societes is nearly 75,000
It is rumored that the name of Madison University is to be changed to Colgate University.
The fact that the captain of the Freshman boat crew and the captain of the Freshman base ball nine at Yale University both failed in their examinations is calculated to deprecitate the athletic enthusiasm of many students,
The laughing and talking in the halls this week has had a disturbing effect upon some of the classes that were reciting at the time.
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