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-CHIEF.
ASSOCIATES:
MARK OTIS,
HELEN WEBER,
EDHU MANLEY,
J. O WORDEN,
H. F. ROBERTS,
HELEN SIMPON,
GUSSIE PRICE,
IRENE WEBB.
BUTNESS MANAGERS:
J. M. CHALLIS, | S. C. BREWSTER
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 on second floor of Opera House block.
PHIKAPPAPsi, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGMANU, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGMACHI, 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.
I.C. SOROSIS, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION: Chas. Johnson, President; W.A. Snow, Secretary, Executive Committee: J.M. Sheilabarger, C.J. Fox, H.M.F. Bear.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A.M. Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHIOLOGICAL 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 barge; Secretary, J.C. Fox.
The alumni of Cornell University residing in Kansas and adjacent States, will hold a reunion at the Copeland house at Topeka, February 28th,1889.
Bob Burdette says that God wasted mud when he made the man who is so little as to have the postmaster return a newspaper marked "refused" when he owes two or three
The Times says it is the custom in Philadelphia to send young ladies to dancing shhool up to seventeen or eighteen years of age, and then turn them loose into society to learn how to talk.
THE Beta Theta Pis of Kansas will give a banquet in Topeka before the Legislature adjourns. Several Betas are legislators and quite a number are residents of Topeka so that a successful banquet is assured.
The pinching and skin flint policy of the present legislature toward our institutions of learning does not speak well for the boasted liberality of the State for educational purposes. Newsho County Journal.
How it Was Done.
Yes, the old Oratorical Association here at K. S. U. was thrown out of the State Association and the new one just formed was recognized in its stead. Our contemporary rejoices over this fact as over a victory But what a victory! May God pity the spirit which prompted the plans for its accomplishment!
The old Association consists on twenty-five share holders. A dispute arose in repard to the possession of certain shares. After much wrangling it was agreed to submit the whole affair to a faculty committee for arbitration, each side binding itself to abide by the decision of said committee. This committee decided that fourteen shares belonged to the Phi Gamma Psis and eleven shares to the Phi Beta Chis. Galled by defeat, and forgetful of their honor as men, the Phi Beta Chis, instead of standing to their agreement before the Faculty Committee, immediately began to look around for a chance to break said agreement. They did not have long to wait; if indeed the step to be taken in case of defeat had not already been planned. For as soon as the decision became known, one Culver began agitating the formation of a new association. He approached the minority and found them not unwilling to enter into the scheme. He accordingly called a meeting of the representatives of both factions and demanded that the old Association issue twenty-five new shares to the "barbs." This request the members of both factions, Reed, Kellogg, Brown, Brewster, Fox and Mushrush, refused to grant. Not a single one of the old Association spoke in favor of the request. The representatives of the minority, Reed Kellogg and Brown were as positive in their denial as were the representatives of the majority. The new association was formed and almost the first move showed the Phi Beta Chi hand. Smith was elected president. Reed accepted the new association's endorsement as orator, and Voorhees was elected on the executive committee.
Meanwhile complaints came in to Mushrush as president of the State Association concerning the publication of Reed's oration in the Kansas City Times, in violation of the spirit of the constitution. Reed asked Mushrush for his support should an attempt be made to throw out his oration. This, Mushrush agreed to give and in return asked Reed as a member of the old Association to support it should anything threaten its existence. Reed refused to promise his support but said that while he could not promise to work for the
old Association he would not work for the new one. Did Reed forget his promise or did he willfully break his word when he got to Emporia?
Oh yes, they are all honorable men, and perhaps Reed and Kellogg and Bear forgot their promise made before the Faculty Committee, when they agreed to stand by its decision. Or perhaps they were laboring under the delusion that they could carry out their agreement and at the same time destroy the old association.
At any rate Bear and Culver both voted to throw the old Association out. Both owed their places as delegates to the old Association, and both were in duty bound to represent and defend its interests. Culver gained his position as delegate by contesting under the auspices of the old Association and than traitorously voted its destruction. Bear was not elected by either the local association or the executive committee. His credentials were simply "made up." Yet in the direct violation of the State Constitution which says that the credentials of all delegates "shall be signed by the President and Secretary of the Local Association," Mr. Bear was seated and Mr. Horton who was legally elected and whose credentials were signed in accordance with the Constitution, was thrown out. And this was done through the efforts and vote of Mr. Culver. But the most disgraceful act was yet to come. Mr. Bear—a man for whom we have always had great regard and who doubtless was compelled to the course he took by his associates—notwithstanding the fact that he is a member of the old Association, and that acting as delegate from that association he was in duty bound to guard, defend, and preserve its interests, its rights and its existence, or else resign his delegateship to one who would, this Mr. Bear with that other apostle of fidelity to the Association which gave him his rights as a delegate, deliberately voted the association out of existence. It is unnecessary to add that the whole proceeding was illegal, and that those who sold the association, which they claimed to represent, for the accomplishment of other schemes merit the oblequy and disgrace of a Benedict Arnold.
We have prevailed upon Mr. J. M. Shellabarger to accept an assistant editorship on the Courier. Mr. Shellabarger will have charge of the local and personal column, a department which he so creditably edited last term. He desires that all locals and personals be handed in by Wednesday noon. Associate editors please take notice.
The University bill as passed makes the following appropriations: Salary of Chancellor, $3,000; salary of professor of Natural History, $2,500; dean of law department, $2,500; salaries of fifteen professors, $28,000; salary of dean of music department, $600; salary of eleven assistants, $10.000; for salary of librarian and assistant, $800; salary of clerk and bookkeeper, $1,200; salaries of superintendent, engineer, and janitors, $3,535; for fuel, lights and firemen, $2,350; for engineer and mechanic, electrical engineering, $900; for night watchman, $540; for care of grounds, $400; for labor in laboratories, $600; for chemicals, $700; for additions to cabinets in natural history, $1,000; for maps and charts, $500; for advertising and postage, $600; for care of meteorological apparatus, $750; for care of museums and collections of specimens, $500; for geological museum and preparation of specimens, $500; for labor in taxidermy, $600; for water supply, $600; for janitor's supplies and materials, $700; for office expenses, freight, etc., $500; for steam heating repairs, $300; for blackboard, $100; for additions to the library, $5,000; for apparatus in the department of chemistry, $500; for apparatus in the department of pharmacy, $150; for apparatus in the department of physics and electrical engineering, $3,000; for microscopes and accessories in the department of natural history, $550; for cabinet cases in the department of natural history, $1,250; for water tank in Snow Hall, $175; for fire hose, reels, etc., $1,000; for repairing foundation of the main building, $8,000; for tools and supplies in taxidermy, $300; for drain pipe, north side of boiler house, $60; for carpet for rostrum, University hall, $90; for matting, $230; for coal house, $500.
The total allowed the institution for the coming year is $84,870, which is $41,000 less than was asked for in the bill.
Among the items cut out of the bill as originally introduced were the following: Two instructors in art, $1,000; for carpenter, $720; for steam coils in Snow Hall, $1,700 steam pump and fixtures, $650; for coating steam pipes, $800; piano $600; models for department of art, $200.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Ames H. Plumb, of Emporia, son of Senator Plumb, is in the city en route to Norfolk, Va., to accept a position in the employ of the Atlantic & Danville Railroad Company,
Mr. Plumb is an old K. S. U. student.
TO-DAY is Washington's birthday. We might give a sketch of his life and deeds if we wanted to. We could print the maxims he compiled and advise the students to follow them. We might derive a lesson in patriotism from his character. We could write a eulogy on him that would do to speak. We might do all this and more, and in doing this we would go a long ways towards filling up the pages of the Courier. But we will abstain. Our business is to publish a paper that is readable, and if we printed these things they wouldn't be read. However it is not from lack of patriotic feeling that we do thus, in fact we have always had the highest admiration for the Father of his country. We admire him especially for his propensity to tell the truth, which he developed while quite young. He is chiefly celebrated indeed for being the first one to say "I cannot tell a lie." If he had lived at the present time and had gone down to Emporia he wouldn't have said this. He would have said "I did it with my little 'unofficial' mouth." But let us leave this subject. No, we are sure Geo. Washington will always be remembered; remembered from the counties and towns, and colored children that bear his name; remembered as long as grammars put his name in sentences to parse; remembered as long as people tell lies, and finally, if nothing else were left to keep his memory green in the minds of a grateful American public there would always be found some literary society to make his merits as a general a perennial subject for debate.
Reed says "that promise" was made in regard to his "official capacity." Great Heavens, Reed! how do you separate yourself from your official capacity? Your brilliant logic reminds one of Hudibras who "could distinguish and divide a hair twixt south and south-west side."
The Review is out for February, and would be a very creditable number were it not marred by the fact that for a journal devoted to the literary interests of K. S. U. it dips too freely into personal and political quarrels.
Why is it, dear Times; that you so proudly boast of being a truly Democratic paper when your shares of stock are limited to fifty? There is consistency and there is consistency.
THE student of the State Normal will continue to wade in the mud. The Legislature knocked out the appropriation for a walk.
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