The Weekly University Courier
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Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY
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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 Pai, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGANU NG, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGA 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.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION: L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary. Executive Committee: E. M. Munford, Chas. Voorhis, Fred. Didkee.
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. 36 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.
Now for a field day.
Before our next issue the interstate contest at Grinnell will be a hing of the past. Kansas has a strong man and has her face set hard toward first place.
We are glad to notice the reform that is gradually gaining ground in K. S. U. in the matter of final examinations. The tendency to depend more and more on the class grade is becoming stronger, and before many years we hope to see it the prevailing policy.
THE COURIER is glad to note that its numerous appeals for a Field Day have at last been heeded, and that a committee has been appointed to prepare a programme and make the necessary arrangements. Let the committee push this matter vigorously and success will crown its efforts.
At the end of this term the German students who make a class grade of 90 will be excused from final examinations, those who make 80 will be given a short test. Those
below 80 will be examined severely. The class in advanced composition under Prof. Marsh will also be graded almost entirely on the daily work.' This is as it should be. Thorough work in class should be required, and to secure this frequent quizzes may be necessary, but long, tiresome examinations should be forever abolished.
We venture the assertion that a great majority of failures in the University are due to wasted time. There is a time for all things, a time for social enjoyment, a time for exercise and a time to get right down to business. And yet there are some students, or rather, some individuals who call themselves students, who never seem able to divide their work so as to accomplish anything. They spend their energies on trifling matters and then complain that they are cramped for time to get their lessons. It is not the mere recitations themselves from which we derive the only benefit in the University; it is the habit of application, the ability to put our minds on some regular line of work. The formation of steady, business-like habits and methods of work in college
In the selection of a new Chancellor we trust that our regents will avoid the Scylla of personal influence on the one hand, and the Charybdis of political influence on the other. No man should be chosen simply because he is a favorite of the politicians, nor should he be rejected simply because his political views are not in harmony with the party in power in this state. Neither personal nor religious views should have any influence in the selection of a man to fill this important place. He should be a man eminently fitted for hat position by actual worth. Nots only must he be a learned man, one thoroughly informed in college needs and college work, but he must also possess great executive ability. In other words, he must not only be a master in the college world, but he must also fully understand the business world. For our institution has grown to such proportions that it requires a man of more than ordinary executive ability to conduct its affairs properly. We trust that no old, worn-out, political hack will be thrust upon us, as some of the newspapers of this state seem intent on doing. We have in our own faculty better men, men who would honor the position, one of whom has ably shown his great executive ability and his power as an educator. Let our regents "honor those to whom honor is due" regardless of prejudice.
counts for more than we may think in preparing a young man for a successful career. What is the use, we ask, of a young man coming here if his intention is not to benefit himself by regular and conscientious work? What possible good can come from spending all the way from $200 to $500 a year in hard cash if it is going to bring no substantial return? It makes no difference whether the student is wealthy or whether he works his way through, the responsibility rests on each alike to make the best of his opportunities — it is a duty each owes to himself and to society at large. The University is not a picnic ground, but a place of business, and should be regarded as such. He is short-sighted indeed who cannot look far enough ahead to see the immense disadvantage he will labor under through life if he allows the time in which he should be preparing himself for active business to slip away unimproved.
A Suggestion.
Every year sees important additions to our reading room facilities in the form of new periodicals, quarterlies, and monthly magazines, as well as publications of special or scientific interest.
The new student coming from his home, where perhaps two or three of our standard months are subscribed for, and which he probably reads from cover to cover, becomes easily bewildered in such a maze of magazine reading as he finds at the University. He finds it impossible to follow any system in the reading of magazines where the publications are so many, and the time for reading so short.
Go into the reading room any time and watch the magazine readers; you will find that nine out of ten pick up one magazine after the other, run over the leaves, look at the illustration, and perhaps read an article or two, and that is all. No system is followed, and in most cases the best and most useful articles are neglected by the average student, or else carelessly and cursorily read.
The habit which is thus so easily engendered, of slip-shod and aimless method in magazine reading, is detrimental to the student in many ways and to a degree lessens his taste for solid reading matter. Not only this, but the habit of a careless and hurried general reading, weakens the memory and the attention.
of the day, considerable magazine reading is absolutely necessary.
What we have to suggest is, that one of our professors undertake the task of recommending to the students some sort of course or system, which can be followed in magazine reading; some method by which the limited time we have to spend on the reading of periodicals can be economically and advantageously distributed. If any professor will take it upon himself to help us out in this, so that we can get the best ideas of the best minds, as set forth in the best magazines, without dissipating our energies over the whole wide field of periodical literature we will be glad to publish his plan in THE COURIER.
In modern times, the newest ideas on all great questions, are to be found in the magazines. A man no longer waits till he is ready to write a book to set his views before the public. And for the intelligent man who wants to keep posted on topics
In Matamoras.
"It us nothing, only a Mexican." The speaker was a French Jewess who kept a little millinery shop in the town of Matamoras. She handed me a glass of eau sucre as she spoke, looking with contemptuous pity at the American whose nerve had been shaken by an accident to a mere Mexican.
My mother and I had been in the quaint old town and had stepped aside for a moment into the sunshiny market place, a brick-paved square surrounded with open booths. There was an unnatural air of alertness about the place which ought to have warned us that something unusual had taken place. The idlers in the square had drawn together a.d were gazing all in one direction. Before we could retrace our steps into the street we found ourselves in the midst of an excited crowd. The interest of the crowd seemed centered upon a point at the upper end of the square. Suddenly the throng parted as if for royalty to pass. The presence which makes a beggar royal was near at hand. Make way for King Death! Along the open space they were leading a man with the crimson life blood streaming from his breast. Close behind followed his murderer, held by two policemen. Hatred and anger had faded from his face and the humanity seemed to have left it at the same time. Only terror remained, the sharp terror of the hunted animal. In that awful look one might measure the distance between innocence and guilt. I believe I pitied the murderer rather than his victim.
What became of the two I never learned; as the Jewess said, they were only Mexicans, slayer and slain.
Prize Essay on Child Labor.
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler has given $100 to be awarded by the
American Economic Association as a prize for the best essay on the subject of "Child Labor." The money devoted to the establishment of this prize was received by Mrs. Chauler for some exquisite sonnets on this subject, which will soon appear in Harper's Monthly. These sonnets have been pronounced even superior to Mrs. Browning's "Cry of the Children."
Any person is eligible to competition. While the experience of foreign countries will not be excluded, it is expected that competitors will deal principally with American conditions. It is desired to know the growth of child labor, its present proportions, the evils connected with it, and the remedy for these evils.
The article must not exceed 25,000 words, and must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Association not later than Dec. 2, 1889. Each essay must be written in type-written, signed by a fictitious name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name assumed as well as the address of the author.
Address the Secretary, Richard T. Ely, Secretary of American Economic Association, Baltimore, Md.
Femes Covert
1.
Be it remembered by beaux interested
That a woman when covert is not now divested.
Of her property rights, by a law much detested
In the Common Law School.
She retains to herself the whole of her riches.
Personally, Realty, everything which is Her separate estate, whenever she hitches.
2.
She can act as a trader like a feme sole,
Sue and be sued along in the role
Of dis-covert woman upsetting the whole
Of the old common law.
She may contract and convey without th' assent
Of her paramour lord, tho' he vainly lament
Her legalized folly and deeply resent
Her uncontrolled "jaw."
3.
So beware how you wed a wealthy highflyer,
For the statue edacts that you get nothing by her,
Except, if you please, a wee little crier,
To keep you up nights.
Then beaus who to weelock do fondly aspire,
Restrain, let me beg you, your ardent desire,
For your wife at your hands will surely require
Her property rights.
—Virginia University Magustus
The Colby Echo is again welcomed after a long vacation of eight weeks. During that time it has lost none of its brightness.
Nebraska will be represented in the Inter-State Oratorical Contest next Tuesday enening, by A. V. House, of Doane College, whose oration is entitled "Home Rule for Ireland."
FOR YOUR FINE SPRING