The Weekly University Courier
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOHN A. MUSHRUSH, EDITOR-IN-CHEIF.
EDITH CHAIRMAN
JOHN A. MUSHIHUSH, EDITOR-IN-ChIEF
ASSOCIATES
J. M. SHELLABARGER,
MARK OTIS,
MARK WEBBER,
M. E. HICKET,
EDITH MANLEY,
J. O. WORDEN
CLARENCE SEARS.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
J. M. CHALLIIS, | H. S. HADLEY.
P. T. FOLEY, Printer, Lawrence, Kas.
Entered at the post office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
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PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block
PHI KAPPA PI, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA NU, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on the fourth floor East of the Opera House block.
BETA THETA PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
Pi BETA PHI, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
OATORHICAL ASSOCIATION; L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary. Executive Committee: E. M. Munford, Chas. Voorhis, Fred. Dicke.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. M. Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION; President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
COURIER COMPANY; President, J. M. Shella-oarger; Secretary, J. C. Fox.
FIELD Day to morrow.
The Senior composite photograph resembles a Haskell student.
With a gasp of relief and a thrill of gratefulness too deep for words, the anxious Times makes its bow to the Washburn Reporter and says "thanks," which being interpreted, is "we cannot tell a lie, but we are glad you can."
WALTER DAVIS writes Professor Canfield that he leaves San Francisco on June 1st, for Alaska, where he has charge of the Government survey which is to locate meridian 141 degrees, the east boundary of Alaska. Davis says "Don't think it strange should you not hear from me for some time."
THE Washburn Reporter and the University Times are engaged in the game of "You tickle me and I'll tickle you." Perhaps Brother Stone is trying to hide his defeat for the Inter-State presidency by fawning on the ones who "did him up" or more probably he is flirting with one of the K. S. U. fraternities a la Culver.
Some valuable prizes were offered in the field day contests at the University of Kansas. A public spirited clothier donated "a good pair of pants" to the winner of the mile walk, and a "flannel shirt" was offered to the winner of the wheelbarrow race. But more remarkable still were the offers of two bath tickets, one good for twenty baths, the other for sixteen, to the winners of the broad and high jumps. Citizens of Lawrence show deep interest in the young men of the University when they offer such prizes. —Kansas City Journal. The Journal evidently does not appreciate the generosity of our merchants.
The Review election Monday was an outrage on the shareholders. The rights of the minority were deliberately mocked at and trampled upon. Law and justice were unheeded and simple brute force and numbers voicing itself through that subservient tool called the president, triumphed. The election of directors was carried on in direct contradiction of the express provisions of the statutes of Kansas, but this same president on an appeal, decided against the statutes, thus depriving the minority of any voice in the management of the corporation's affairs. A protest was made against the election and it would be well if this protest were enforced by legal means. Perhaps the Phi Beta Chi combination which has been howling all year against "non-representative publications" and has been crying out for "student organizations" would be compelled to follow its own teachings. As it is, its actions give the lie to its words.
The Pall Mall (London) Gazette clips the following from the Inquirer, which will be of interest as showing how we are regarded abroad.
"The Kansas Legislature is now considering the propriety of preventing by law the teaching of Free Trade in its University at Lawrence. And the New York Independent, a paper which boasts of being the foremost religious paper in the States, justifies the prohibition! It classes "Free Traders" with "Andover Theologians without Gospel," and with "Anarchists without common sense." It says that as Free Trade in the States is prohibited by law, for any of the officers of the University to teach it is as bad as if they were to teach Mormanism, anarchy, disloyalty, atheism, deism, or open rebellion, and concludes by asserting that "it is high time that parents especially, should ponder over this important matter,decide whether they will,even
indirectly, support such institutions, or permit their sons to be taught or led astray by such teachers." This is protection with a vengeance. To be a Free Trader in America bids fair to be as dangerous as at one time it was to be an Abolitionist."
WE SHALL all soon rest from our studies, and each one will naturally recommend the University to prospective students. Hundreds of boys in our State are anxiously planning to go to some institution of learning. Many of them get the impression that K. S. U. deals with branches too difficult for them to master. As a consequence numerous little colleges find means for scanty subsistence in this cultured State, and, as we maintain, to the detriment of the educational interests of Kansas.
Let us explain. A county contains perhaps 100 school districts. The wealth of the population is sufficient to justify the organization of a County High School which prepares for complete admission to the University. By establishing such a school we should insure uniformity of text books and system and a definite ultimatum. What teacher does not realize the value of such advantages?' then again, in the county normals we would not find such bitter clashings of opinions and such an utter lack of standard. Every teacher could know the standard of the institution for which he is fitting his pupil and would dare to instruct without that hesitancy which renders the pupil a passive recipient.
But instead of a county school under the control of those most vitally interested, what have we? Possibly two limping colleges, engineered by some incompetent eastern, boys who out of sheer desperation and incapacity for any other occupation, have recklessly cast the die in the educational line. These 'COLLEGES' survive one, two, or sometimes three years and yield to the inevitable fate of poverty, thus leaving room for a rival 'institution.' The disorder which they have created during their short existence has produced an incalculable amount of harm, and, at least so far as the deluded students are concerned, the injury is forever irreparable.
We admit that even such facilities are better than no education. An education may be plucked from a 'system of chaos,' but we cannot afford to surrender our interests to the chaos of such a 'system.'
tals. It is of no advantage for one to endeavor to gratify pomposity by pretending that his education has been acquired in paradise, and that it consists of wisdom too profound for ordinary comprehension. By so doing he lessens the very advantages of which he boasts. Remember this all summer, and use your influence to swell the number of students at K. S. U.
Each student who leaves this spring, has it in his power to convince some prospective student that the course of study here is not beyond the ability nor necessities of ordinary morprinted just as though it were original report, whereas it is simply stolen direct from the columns of the Tibune. The article is precisely the same as the one appearing in the Courier, with the difference that the Courier gives the Tribune credit for it, while the Times does not. Then on the opposite page of our E. Contemp, appears an extract from Regent Gleed's interview in the Topeka Capital. This, strange to say, is credited to the Tribune. Two columns more are given to exchanges, most of them interesting. For instance there is one about the "Colossal statue of William Penn, on the new city hall of Philadelphia;" another on the "Ohio compulsory educational bill," and still another on the "National debts of different countries." These, to be sure, are not credited to any exchanges, and they have about as much to do with the University as do the waves of the ocean, but we have no doubt they will be eagerly perused by the Times' exchanges. We suggest, dear Times that you print the election returns of last fall, when next you have to fill up your exchange columns. Thrilling little things like these, you know, are hard for students to get at, and cannot fail to excite intense interest. Then aside from the five columns of clippings which the Times offered to the student public last Sunday, was a column article devoted to "Scenes at the Bridge." This, for a wonder, was not a clipping, although it would have been better if it had been. It was a soul stirring article, and doubtless the Times subscribers were glad to be informed of what happened at the bridge. It will now be in order to publish something about "Scenes in Oklahoma." To be sure, Oklahoma is not K. S. U., and neither is the Kaw river bridge, but then there is more than one way to fill up a paper without using "plate matter." The Times has tried both. Which do you like best? We feel sorry, in act it grieves us exceedingly to see what little interest the Times staff takes in keeping the paper alive. It seems a pity, doesn't it, that they eave everything to the editor-in-chief, who in consequence, is obliged to write his editorials with the "scissors." while he criticises the Courier with his pen. And then to go away and have things run so badly that he has to write an apology in one issue and howl at the Courier in the next, because it laughed at the dilemma. Poor Times, poor editor!
"Yes, it's too bad, but it must be remembered that the Courier has a weakness for the scissors—the pen is mighty but the scissors is mightier in the hands of a Courier editor." Times of May 24.
Disregarding the punctuation—or the lack of it, and the elegant grammatical construction of this limpid little paragraph, which indicates an extended knowledge of the elements of English grammar on the part of its author, we proceed to the point.
"The scissors is mighty," the Times says. Very well. We were fortunate enough to receive that paper through the mail last Sunday—it is published "every Friday morning," you know—but since the greater number of our readers have probably not seen it, we hit upon the idea of furnishing them a little additional proof on the "scissors question" by taking that issue of the Times as an example. The scissors certainly find there a glorious opportunity of showing how mighty "they is."
First, take last week's Courier. Of the ten columns on its inside pages, throwing out two columns occupied with "ads," all but two and a half consisted of regular editorial matter. The "scissors" articles comprised an extract from Regent Gleed's interview in the Capital Commonwealth, on matters pertaining to the University, and the Tribune's account of the Science Club Annual. That was all. Now turn to the Times of the same date. We find no two columns of advertisements on the inside pages here, for the reason that the Times has only enough "ads" to barely cover the back page. But it makes up for its lack of advertisements in the quantity and length of its clippings, of which there are five full columns altogether. And yet, in such an issue, the Times presumes to refer to the Courier as using the scissors. Is this brass, or simplicity, which?
Just think of it! Only five columns out of ten left for the brilliant intellect of the Times' editors to scintillate in. But that is not the worst. On the Times' third page appears an account of the Science Club Annual taken verbatim from the Tribune, but no credit given. It is
Review election last Monday. Phi Beta Chi combination again showed its great desire to promote "student organizations" and "representative publications."
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