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The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY
CHAS, H. JOHNSON  E. C. ESTERLY
President. Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
RICHARD HOTTON, EDITOR-IN-CHEF.
ASSOCIATES
PAUL WILKSON, J. M. SHELLABANGER, E. E. SQUIRES, ALBERT FULLERTON, GENTHUE CROTTY, EMMA BARTEL, STANLEY SMITH,
BU"NESS MANAGERS:
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P. T. FOLEY, Printer, Lawrence, Kasa
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.
PHI KAPKA 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.
KAPKA KAPKA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPLA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
L.C. SOROSIS, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
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.
COURIER COMPANY; President, Chas. Johnson; Secretary, Ed Esterly.
The old, old story:- The mountain labored, and lo! a ridiculous mouse appeared.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has decided that college students of a legal age may vote in college towns.
The following dialogue took place in a class room last Friday afternoon : Professor.—"What have you been reading? Student.—"The weakly Times with the exception of the patent page." Professor.—"You have missed the best part of that paper."
THE Times claims to have received many compliments on its very able editorial on "The Texas Mustang, or The Most Servicible Horse to Ride on the Prairie." Verily the "Barb" is a born newspaper man. Let the good work go on.
WEAK, wan and tired looking the Times made its appearance in a selfish world already overcrowded, with a labored apology for its untimely birth. Forseeing that its frail and delicate constitution cannot weather the storms, nor survive the trials and tribulations of earthly existence, with a philosophic view of life, it has already begun preparations for its departure, that it may die gracefully and peacefully. Doubtless some loving friend may be found to write its obituary and the earth shall know it no more.
Don't you see that if we fill up with plates and free advertising our fraternity sinking fund will last longer. Frank Reed.
NEW STUDENT.—“When you meet the Times proprietors, why do you always say, 'How's everything?'” Old student. — “Because they think that they own the world.”
THE Law department of the University is, and always has been, sadly neglected. There seems to be an impression that it does not need the fostering care of legislative appropriation; but that if left alone it will take care of itself. A state law school unable to purchase the judicial reports of its own state is, indeed, a spectacle for men and gods. Most of the law books to which the students have access belong, not to the school, but to the Dean, and it is only through his generosity and kindness, that library facilities are offered the students. Then again, among all the periodicals taken by the University, there is not one legal journal. All of the rest of the departments are provided for, but the poor laws are left to rustle for knowledge as best they may.
Who Will Pay the Fiddler?
It is an unfortunate thing in University affairs that some students never outgrow their swaddling clothes. While they are sufficiently developed in intellectual capacity to enter college, they never get above the childishness that marked their nursery days. That they are beyond their mother's knees where their peevishism can't receive that wholesome check of slipper or shingle, makes this pettishness the more offensive.
The latest exhibition of baby sentiment is the starting of a new University paper. A few mothers' pets have, with pouting lips and clinched fingers, been trying to get a hold on a college paper. Their feeling is that a paper is a plaything to provide boys with a position. They have no conception—their ideas have not reached that period of incubation—of the actual purpose of a college paper.
This infantile display of temper is constantly observable in student enterprises. It broke up the college militia because all the babies wanted to be officers. It has spawned fraternity after fraternity, because the children cried for a jew-jaw badge, and not getting it, organized new secret societies of their own. It has raised the wail of "favoritism" when the "kids" failed to get the prizes they sought in contests. In every defeat it raises a bawl.
The Review represents the literary side, the Courier the local side of the school. Each is a credit to the department it fills. The Courier has become a distinct feature of the University—as well known, as warmly admired, as ably conducted in its
Everybody except those babies, knows the University now has all the papers it can creditably support.
But this is a great, big, free country! Babies can cry and make faces and butt their heads against the fence and nobody can prevent them. They can start papers if they want, and as many as they want—just as long as their papas furnish them enough nickels to pay for these juvenile luxuries. Parents too, are sometimes a wee bit daft, and share their children's vanity in seeing the big word "Editor" opposite the dear little ones' names. Let the blessed little things have their fun, they like it, you know.
work, as the institution itself which tops Mt. Oread.
Yet while anyone can start a paper, it's quite a different thing when other people are asked to support it. It is too well known to attempt any concealment, that the Lawrence men pay for the running of college papers. The money received from subscriptions is a bagatelle—it don't cover the cost of the grease on the press that prints the paper. The advertisements are what pay the typos, buy the blank paper and furnish the postage.
Now what are the business men going to do about this baby business? They have been supporting college papers for two reasons—because they like to encourage student enterprise, and because their advertisements brought them student trade. The merchants have given life to two good papers—the Review and Courier; and in these two they have got all the value to be obtained from college advertising.
Are the merchants willing to countenance another paper? Do they want to divide their patronage among a dozen or so publications—and so divided they must all be sickly papers? Do the men on Massachusetts street want to go down to their breeches pockets for advertising that will not bring them an additional cent's trade? Do they propose to be put to a lot of useless expense in order that a few pouting, spewling infants may keep their names at the head of an editorial column? Are present papers to be strengthened and made to keep pace with the institution they represent, or are new papers to be spawned and tradesmen asked to nourish them?
The Doughnuts at the Bakery Disgrace Themselves.
The Northwestern is a well edited paper.
LAST week a new publication appeared among the Uni university students. Its name, the University Times.
Once more the students at Baldwin have come to the front. Once more they have distinguished themselves. After a political meeting had dispersed Monday night and the crowd was returning quietly and peaceably to the station, a gang of Baker students hurled at them stones and other missiles, severely injuring several and knocking several senseless to the ground.
Let the body of the students hunt out the hoodlums and ruffians who committed the assault, and thus clear themselves of the infamy. Until the guilty ones are punished by law, the college itself stands disgraced.
The Times comes on the stage bowing and scraping and apologizing for its appearance, or intrusion, as it seems to expect it to be regarded. We have no objections to its being received here, but we do object to its criticisms of the Courier. One of the grounds on which the Times says it can maintain its right to exist is that there has been heretofore no representative students' weekly paper in the Uuiversity. And that is what we object to.
What is a student's paper? One that thoroughly represents them. One that is run fairly and impartially, and for the best interests of the students and the University. One that is edited and managed by good representative students; students of ability; students who believe in the University; students who in the management of the paper know no class, nor fraternity, nor clam. And these are the kind of men who, the COURIER claims, have always had it in charge.
Allow us to glance briefly at the different young men who have been at the head of the Courier in the past. Its first Editor-in-chief since it has passed under the so-called "present management" was H. A. Smith, since a cadet at West Point. Those who know anything of the rigor of the examinations for admittance there, and the competition for appointments, will require no further recommendation of his ability. W. S. Jenks succeeded Mr. Smith. Mr. Jenks led the Class of '87 after a most successful college career. Harry Valentine was the next man who was placed in charge of the Courier. Although Valentine did not complete his college course, he made for himself a record here as one of the brightest and clearest students of his day. Cyrus Crane next received the honor of an election to the head of the paper. Mr Crane represented the State of Kansas in the Inter-State Contest in his Junior year, besides winning more honors, probably than any other man of his class. Frank Crowell was Crane's successor. Mr. Crowell was elected Valedictorian of his class, a position his enemies, if he has any, cannot deny he merited. John Prescott was Editor-in-chief of the Courier last term. Mr. Prescott led the Class of 1888 with uncommonly high grades. Under him the Courier fully equalled any of its past attainments.
claimed by the Times?
We could enlarge a great deal on the records and attainments of the students who have been engaged in editing the COURIER; but enough has already been shown to prove that any assertions that the COURIER has not been managed by representative students is false. Those who have been engaged on the COURIER have been among the best and brightest students that have ever attended the University.
But has the Courier been man- aged for the best interests of the students as a whole, or for the purpose of one or two fraternities, as is
The best answer to this question is to be found in the columns of the back numbers of the Courier. It certainly cannot be claimed that all University news has not been fully and impartially given. No one fraternity has been spoken of in higher terms than another, for the Courier has never attempted to pass upon the claims of the different fraternities to distinction. But it is claimed that two fraternities have the entire control of the Courier and that none other is allowad any voice in its management. It is true that two of the fraternities have taken greater interests in the Courier than any other and that at times they have owned a majority of the stock issued, but it is certainly no less true that the stock books have always been open to all, and that no two fraternities at present own a majority of the stock of the Company. If others want to help run and manage the Courier they are at perfect liberty to purchase shares to any extent they may see fit. That they have not done more in the past is due to but one thing. For a long time the other fraternities regarded the Courier as an impossible venture. Expecting it to end in failure, they allowed others to do the work, others to spend the money—and it was no slight sum—and now when the paper is secure, when its debts are all paid, for the Courier owes no man a dollar, these others, who so long predicted failure, raise a great cry about the Courier being the organ of two fraternities and organize the Times.
We pledge you one thing, students: The Courier shall always be as it has always been, run for the best interests of the students of the University of Kansas.
It seems rather strange to some that there is never a University controversy of any kind, no matter how petty or unimportant, but the Lawrence daily papers are dragged into the arena as the special champions of some fraternity's interest. To such it may not be out of place to drop a few pointers. The managers of these papers lose no sleep in watching the progress of college fights. But it often happens, as is now the case, that enthusiastic fraternity men doing work on city papers cannot refrain from stepping out of their regular path of duty to espouse the failing cause of their dear brothers in school. The present situation is this: A Beta and Phi Delt are endeavoring to make fraternity organs out of city newspapers, in order, if possible, to build up another University newspaper. Their influence is just what it would be if these same individuals would stand on the street corners and proclaim their wrongs. Only this and nothing more. Still we would ask them to keep the Lawrence newspapers out of the fray. The students can take care of themselves. Let them alone.
Sam Erwin Ryan to-night and to-morrow night.
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