The Weekly University Courier
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
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 PSI, 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 PSI, 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.
ORATURICAL ASSOCIATION; L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary. Executive Committee: E. M. Munford, Chas. Voorhis, Fred. Liddke.
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-anger; Secretary, J. C. Fox.
The winning oration in the Inter- State contest at Grinnell, Iowa, will be found in this issue.
The election of Mr. George Burton McClelland Culver, of K. S. U., as president of the Inter-State Association, however it may be regarded at home, can not but be considered abroad as an honor for Kansas, and for K. S. U.
May 10,1889.
Notice is hereby given calling in all shares of COURIER stock now outstanding, for which new shares will be issued. All shares not turned in inside of thirty days will be declared void according to the constitution.
J. M. SHELLABARGER, Pres., J. C. Fox, Sec'y.
We notice in a San Francisco paper that our W. W. Davis is making himself felt on the "Single tax" question, speaking to quite a large audience on that subject recently. Davis is now attending a law school in San Francisco and has the best wishes of the Courier. We expect to see him back in K. S. U. next year.
This is the title of a chair just established in the University, at the earnest solicitation of Professor Canfield (who has long been preparing for this work), and in response to a marked demand on the part of the students. The Board of Regents have appreciated this demand for some time, but are for the first time able to find the means necessary to support a new chair.
American History and Civics.
The thought is to deepen and broaden the work which leads directly to intelligent and independent citizenship. The new chair takes in all that has heretofore been given of Colonial and Constitutional History, and adds other courses in matters pertaining to public life.
We understand that though independent, the two chairs will work together—the work to be as far as possible continuous, or logically connected.
The old chair becomes,at Professor Canfield's suggestion, that of History and Sociology. It is not known at this writing who will be called to this work, nor precisely what the work will be—but if Professor Canfield's thought is followed it will include Constitutional History,Political Economy,the Rise of Democratic ideas,English and European History,etc.
Board of Regents
The business relative to the selection of a new chancellor and a successor to Prof. Marsh was postponed to the next meeting which will be held June 4.
The number of students interested in this work has grown larger with every passing year, and the general range and effectiveness of the old department being just about doubled. The courses promise to come sharply to the lead among the optionals of the last two University years.
Pi Beta Phi.
The regents at their last meeting elected Mr. Rober; K. Moody to fill the new office of secretary and treasurer created by an act of the last legislature, at a salary of $1,200. Mr. Max Winkler, of Harvard University was appointed assistant in German and French. Mr. Winkler comes highly recommended and will fill a long felt need. Prof. Canfield's chair was divided at his request, he retaining the chair of History and Civics and his associate to take the chair of History and Sociology.
One of the pleasantest and most successful receptions of the year was that given by the ladies of Pi Beta Phi, at the K. of P. hall last Friday evening. The guests either "tripped
the light fantastic" to the strains of the full Mandolin Club, or enjoyed the elegant refreshments served during the evening, or in gay companies whiled away the time most pleasantly over a game of cards, or in tasting the delicious ices. All hearts were merry and it was with a feeling of reluctance that the guests departed at a late hour with best wishes for the future of Pi Beta Phi. One of the novel and pleasing features of the evening was the presentation of an elegant basket of flowers to each of the five gentlemen fraternities represented and a boutoniene of violets to each non fraternity gentleman.
The following were present: Prof. and Mrs. Snow, Mrs Carruth, Misses Huntonoon and Edson, of Topeka, Parker and Shipley of Atchison, Dow of Olathe, Lou Barker, Penfield, Anna Barker, Love, White, Helen Webber, Newlin, McCague, Florer, Mary Manley, Sutliffe, Edith Manley, Snow, Gertrude Crotty, Berry, Millia Crotty, Beard, Buckingham, Griffith, Innes, Tisdale, Scott, Harrison, Miles, Hutchings, Lyons, Roberts, B'anche Webber; Messrs. Y. M. White, Ritchie, Small, Valentine and Akers of Topeka, H. Armstrong, Grubb, Esterly, Voorhis, Snow, Earhart, Hadley, Wilkinson, Robinson, Ellison, Edson, Bowersock, Shellabarger, Hogeboom, Swope, McFarland, Chas. Spencer, Davis, Brewster, Kanser, Knowlton, W. Armstrong, Will Spencer, Morris, Wright, Fox, Bert Spencer, Franklin, McPherson, Watson, Crane, Johnson, Gilmore, Potter, Peabody, Buckingham, Otis, Grover, Flannelly, Butterworth, Lewis, Kennedy, Johnson.
Judging from the faculty appointments as announced this week, we think the fraternities named above have taken a back seat, and our thanks are due our faculty for showing them so gracefully to the back seats." How are the mighty fallen!"
speech in the Senior class when you found out that you could not elect your man in the Junior class. Look at the text again and then consider the means used to defeat a neutral candidate, and a lady at that, and then go and kick yovrselves. Shame!
As the Betas and Phil Delts stand a very good show for having a greater part of the places on the commencement programs and have had a great many honors during the year, we think it would be well for them to take a back seat and give other persons a chance,-University Times, May 3.
And dearly beloved brethren we would commend to your careful consideration the text which you announced in your last issue that "It is really disgusting to meet with stinking, sneaking, underhand work in every University election." When we reflect upon the result of certain elections this year we can but conclude that you have attempted a revised version of Caesars Commentaries. And this conclusion especially impresses itself upon us when we note that you abolished the hat
Prof. Blackmar Elected.
Tuesday the board of regents after the consideration of all the applicants elected Prof. Frank W. Blackmar, who is now taking an advanced course at John Hopkins, to fill the associate chair in the history department. Prof. Blackmar is a graduate of the University of the Pacific, a republican, a prohibitionist, a Phi Psi. The following letter to the regents bears Prof. Blackmar good recommendations, and the Courier bids him welcome.
H. B. ADAMS.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Baltimore, Md.
"The best man I can suggest for your purpose is Mr. F. W. Blackmar, our senior fellow in History and Politics. He was for some years professor in a California college before coming here and has just received an offer of $1500 to go to Mills College in that state. He used to receive $2000, but deliberately threw up a good place in mathematics for the sake of studying history. He is a man of fine character and ability with lots of hard sense and good tact, withal a good speaker and writer. I have employed him upon the most important of all the government monographs, the Relation of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education, a work covering the financial history of education in thirty-eight states. His report has just been accepted in Washington and will do Blackmar great honor. In fact he can get almost anything he wants after that post-t is published. You will be lucky if you catch him early and you will have to give him all the law allows. I shall recommend Blackmar to the vacancy arising at Bryn Mawr, where Woodrow Wilson used to be; if I am asked to nominate. Blackmar is married, has had experience as a co-educator, and has served as an assistant here, aa well as a popular lecturer to workingmen. I have just answered three applications for professors, but have given you the best man Very truly.
AGAIN K. S. U. is at the front.
We have just received No. 1, Vol 1,
of the Guthrie Getup, edited by our
own Will Little, editor and proprietor of the Hutchinson Republican.
The Getup published on April 29th
is the first paper published in Oklahoma, and is a good illustration of the "getup" of the average K. S. U. man. It is unnecessary to add that the Getup has the best wishes of the COURIER.
The Philosophy of Inequality.
ED. H. HUGHEs, Wesleyan University, Dela-
ware, Ohio.
ALTHOUGH Kansas did not take first place in the Inter-collegiate contest, yet she has reason to be proud of her representative, who won the esteem of all those whom he met and inspired them with a regard for Kansas originality. While we would have been better pleased had Brewster won first place, yet we know that he ably represented Kansas, and we are satisfied.
Social conditions are the prolific source of rebellion against imparity. Widows' homes, orphans' asylums, and almshouses, stand contrasted with unbroken households, cheerful nurseries and brown-stone fronts. Men look indignantly upon this picture of social life. Suffering Lazarus excites their deepest sympathy. Purple-clad Dives bears the odium of existing conditions. Pity overpowers reason and dictates the cry—"inequality is a product of custom, not of necessity. Custom must be brought into harmony with justice." Influenced by this thought our enthusiast gives free rein to daring fancy and becomes an apostle of the gospel of equality.
Society is regulated by two laws. One is inherent; the other, adopted. One is immutable; the other, variable. One is self-executive; the other must be executed by chosen means. Inherent law establishes the fact; adopted law supplies the conditions. The one says—"Man must think;" the other—"Man must proclaim thoughts that prove loyalty to government. The mutual relation of these last often leads to a false classification. Inherent law has been declared legalized custom and captious minds have clamored for its anulment. Futile are all endeavors to make better what Omniscience has made best. Reformers propose a visionary scheme of government as a substitute for the plan inaugurated of God. Prominent among their attempts is the one whose object is the repeal of the law of inequality.
Is general inequality avoidable? Nature, in the language of analogy, answers—"No," and makes earnest protest against universal equality. "To him who holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language." Variety is her law. The relations among her products are expressed by the sign of equality. Shrubs, trees, hills, mountains, rivers, oceans, islands, continents—all speak of inequality in the earth's structure. Anemone and oak grow in the same soil and derive vitality from the same elements. But nature is none the less beautiful because of her lack of uniformity. Her variety, rather, is her charm. She is none the less useful because here she rises into lofty mountains and there extends herself into rolling prairies. Thus society's analogue declares inequality to be an inherent law of human relations.
Imagination builds lofty castles; experience levels them to the ground. Test the theory of universal equality by the results of its operation. Its advocates speak eloquently of this Utopia, and, considering their system only in its inauguration, fancy that their dream may become a reality. Not candid, not truly philosophical, they study introduction apart from conclusion. A factitious sentiment results, leading to the advocacy of an impartial division of all material wealth. Like all other false doctrines this one in [Continued on third page.]
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