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The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY
CHAS, H. JOHNSON, | E. C. ESTERLY,
President. | Secretary.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
RICHARD HORTON, EDITOR IN-CHIEF
ASSOCIATES
PAUL WILKINSON,
J. M. SHELLANGER,
ALBERT FULLERTON,
STANLEY SMITH
SIDNEY PHILLIPS,
E. E. SQUIRES,
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    J. A. MUSHIH
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets .. 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 PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPAMA 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: J. A. Prescott President; W. H. Brown, Secretary, Executive Committee: J. A. Mushrush, V. L. Kellogg, C. E. Street.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. W. 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 4 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION, President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
COURRIER COMPANY; President, Chas. Johnson; Secretary, Ed Estery.
Since the organization of the political clubs a new interest has been awakened in the progress of the campaign.
At Washburn college it is considered a serious breach of discipline if a young man talks to a young lady more than five minutes at any one time. The faculty are in favor of a protective policy.
The following is certainly not a very good recommendation for the young men at Washburn. The Reporter says:
"It is certainly not to the credit of some of our students that Dr. McVicar felt the necessity of referring to the practice of spitting tobacco juice upon the floors in the halls and stairways. That it was the result of thoughtlessness on the part of those who did it we feel assured, and yet when we consider that the young ladies were obliged to wade through these miniature lakes, it seems as if such thoughtlessness is inexcusable."
The Times is the name of the last paper that asks the support of the students. We want to say a few words as to its claims for patronage, not because we object to another University paper, in itself, but because the Times has been started with the avowed purpose of killing
the Courier, and because we owe it to the students, whom we have tried to faithfully represent, and for whose interests we are always awake, to let them know the facts of the case, that they may decide intelligently which paper merits their support.
At the present time the majority of the outstanding stock of the Courier is in the hands of the members of two fraternities, the Phi Kappa Psi and the Phi Gamma Delta. Early this term two of the Betas came to some of the Phi Psis and wanted to go into a combination with them to run the Courier. This the Phi Psis refused to do. Afterwards the Betas started the scheme of founding a new paper, to be controlled by themselves, the Phi Delta Thetas and the Sigma Chis. When the subject was broached to the Phi Delts they came to the fraternities already interested in the Courier and wanted to enter into a combination with them to buy up a controlling number of the shares of stock and run the paper to the exclusion of every one else. This proposition they urged as long as they had any hopes of its being conceded and then despairing of this they entered upon the scheme proposed by the Betas and helped to establish the Times.
That is the cause of the birth of the University Times.
the fraternities who failed to make the combination started the Times.
Had those fraternities upon whom the Courier has had to depend for students who would give their time and attention to its welfare been willing to make the Courier company a close corporation, one held in the power of three fraternities, the Times would never have been heard of. But because they wanted to keep the paper as it always has been, a representative paper, one in which all could become interested by purchasing shares, these other ambitious youths have felt obliged to start a paper of their own. As we say the Courier has always been open to any one who wished to take an interest in it. The majority of the shares out may be under the control of two fraternities as is urged, but certainly a majority of its capital stock is not. Any one can have shares who will pay for them, he he frat man or be he barb. If the work on the Courier has been done chiefly by the members of two fraternities, it has been because no one else would take a hold and spend his time and money in the work. Time was when the Courier was looked upon as an impossible venture, when none others than those now interested would touch its stock. And now when they have from force of circumstances, gone ahead and done the work and established the fact that a weekly paper can be made to pay for itself, some of the fraternity men who have never lifted a finger in making the Courier a success want to come in and form a combination to shut every one out but themselves and those who had been so long active in building up the paper. This being refused, (was it not for your interests, students, rather than for the interests of the two fraternities who were approached on the subject that it should be)
As to the policy of the Times, we want to say a few words. It is under the control of, and will be run for the benefit of the Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi fraternities in the University. But its supporters will point to the fact that its editor-in-chief is a barb and to the clause in the constitution giving subscribers a right to vote. Its present editor-in-chief is merely put up as a decoy to catch the barb support. After his term has expired no barb will ever hold the position unless the management is greatly changed from its present plan and purpose. But how about the right of the subscribers to vote? Well, we suppose it will be conceded that this right amounts to nothing as far as the first election of the year is concerned, as it will be impossible for any one to have paid up ninety days before that election. As to the second election, there are just two men who know the entire number of paid up subscribers, the Business managers. All entitled to vote in this election must be paid up about the middle of October. The number who will have paid by that time will never be very large and they will be divided in their vote so that it will be a very simple matter for the Business Managers, if they happen to be in the combination, to secure enough of their friends at the very last minute to give their side a majority. They could put their friends on the paid up list whether they had paid or not, but of course they never would! But who are the Business Managers? White and Street. What fraternities do they belong to? The Phi Delta Theta and the Sigma Chi. Certainly, then, it will not be very hard for the fraternity combination to keep control of the paper if they choose. Do you think they will chose? If you don't know, ask any barb who has been in college two years and see what he thinks.
Now we trust you can see the plan and possibilities of the Times; the so-called students' paper; a paper organized by, and three-fifths of whose stock is under the control of three fraternities, two of whom have already this year attempted to form a combination for the management and control of the only really representative students' paper that has ever been edited in the University.
Students, do you intend to endorse the Times, under the absolute control as it is of a combination of fraternities, or will you remain loyal to the paper that has always been loyal to you, the paper in which you can at any time become interested by purchasing shares, the paper that before now has offered to increase its number of shares, if at any time it should become necessary in order that all might have a voice in its management, the paper whose stock holders refuse to make combinations for the few to the exclusion of the many, the WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER?
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Last Friday afternoon Miss Mabel Haskell entertained quite a number of her University friends at lunch. According to the Journal, the "usual feminine orgies," of which the uninitiated masculine mind can form no conception, but which are supposed to compose the chief delights of an afternoon lunch, were participated in to the fullest and happiest degree. Among those present were: Nellie Franklin, Maud Springer, Veannia Johnston, Edna Maxwell, Carrie Hanscomb, Ollie Pearson, Carrie Stevens, Jenie Edwards; Eva Miles, Sue Miles, Helen Simpson, Emma Bartell, Lollie Buckingham, Helen Sutliff, Tella Chapman, Ia Williams, Mrs. C. P. Grovenor, Lida Griffith, Gorgie Brown, Kate Powell, Mrs MacDonald, Edith Haskell, and May Haskell.
Prof. Marsh on Books
Prof. Marsh went down to Topeka Sunday before last and occupied the pulpit of the Unitarian church, both morning and evening. In the morning he preached from the text: Matthew 13, 31 and 32. In the evening he had an informal address on "Books." An audience rather larger than the ordinary congregation of the Unita ian church greeted him.
Gladstone, Longfellow, and others, who were, or had been, great readers of novels in their spare moments. In closing, the professor said, that if he had caused any one to entertain a more favorable impression of books his purpose had been accomplished.
Mr. Marsh remarked, on opening his address, that while the other churches were holding a union meeting at the Grand Opera House, a "union might be found in apparant diversity." The professor said "that there were two ways of gathering information, conference with the wise and from the store-house of information—books. He said he desired to repeat what every man had said who has spoken of books, and which Bacon has said, perhaps, better than anybody else. "History maketh me wise, poets witty," etc. He then quoted Carlyle's description of a perfect mind, and cited the different classes of books and their usefulness in making Carlyle's idea of a perfect mind. Poetry—his students sometimes, he said, thought that poetry consisted mainly of poetic license—were the most accurate of writers, and contributed most in making the mind a "perfect mirror." He was something of a heretic about novels, the professor admitted, and maintained their usefulness to the literary man. It acts upon his brain much as alum does at the city water works. Alum gathers together all the impurities and carry it to the bottom flues, the speaker explained, the novel, in proportion as it is good, carries the worries and bothers of the busy man's life "to the bottom" and leaves his mind fresh and vigorous for the next day; further than this the novel taught the reader to be more sympathetic, and thus gave the reader finer feelings. Again, it was true that all, but mostly the young, were selfish; that they thought mostly of themselves. Anything, the professor said, that brought one out of this line of thought, as it were, had its own usefulness. In justifying his heresy of novels he was accustomed to justify himself by the custom of great men, mentioning
We wish we could obtain a more accurate report of the address, but it was to a large extent extemporaneous, and no copy of his remarks could be procured. All through were illustrations of the sympathy and kindness one learns from books, and the force of his allusion he opened with was fully understood.
I. C. Crubb
It was a disappointment to many that the "chaw" of the I. C. Sorosis was not an old fashioned "grubb" nevertheless they enjoyed themselves as people always do at the I. C. party. Among those present were Misses Penfield, Manley, Scott, King, Webber, Sultiff, Harrison, Horton, Barker, Love, Baird, McCague, Snow, Gertrude and Millia Crotty, Lyons, Tisdale, Roberts, Dow, Griffith, Pugh and Sue and Eva Miles. Messrs. Morris, Brewer, Hogeboom, A. E. Johnson, Fox, Whitman, Otis, Devendorf, Watson, V. L. Kellogg, F. H. Kellogg, Snow, Spencer, W. A. White, DeCamp, Edson, Horton, Lewis, Johnson, Yearsley, White, Callahan, Penfield, Gilmore and Sam Archelle.
About ten o'clock a delightful lunch was served. The guests were entertained with music, dancing and cards.
Rock Chalk Jay Hawk K. S. U.
Perhaps the most interesting game of ball ever played in Lawrence occurred on Wednesday afternoon, between the Universities and Johnson & Slavin's Minstrel Troup. About 300 people witnessed the game. In the last half of the fourth inning Long struck the ball a side lick, rolling it up the bat and peeling the skin off over his eye. In the first half of the sixth innine Hickey made a grand stand catch in the center field and put out the side. In the first inning Morrissey scored a run for the Minstrels, and Natas, Crawford and Cannon went out and Watson died on third. Hogeboom and Harvey made two runs for the Universities in the latter half of the same inning. In the second the Minstrels went out in one, two, three order, and in the third Morris tallying one for K. S. U. The fourth resulted in a goose egg for the Minstrels, but Smith got in a run for the home nine. In the fifth, Morrissey ard Schelling (who, as every K. S. U. student knows, is the boss catcher for the home club, caught for the Minstrels as they had none) scored for the Minstrels. Cannon knocked a daisy, but was put out by Johnson at second. In the seventh, eighth and ninth innings the Minstrels went down for more goose eggs, and the University nine ran in one in the sixth and another in the eighth. They played in the following positions.
All
bee sity
UNIVERSITIES.
Total ... 4 Total ... 7
Struck out- by Runnell 8, by Suhrege 15.
Hit-off - with Suhrege 3, off Runnell 5.