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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 HORTON, EDITOR IN CHIEF.
ASSOCIATES:
PAUL WILKINSON, SIDNEY PHILLIPS,
J. M. SHELLBARGER, E. E. SQUIRRES,
ALBERT FULLERTON, GERTREDE CHOTTY,
STANLEY SMITH, JEMMA BANTELL,
LILLIE FRÉMAN.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
J. A. MUHUSHRUH | CHAS. LYONS.
P. T. FOLEY, Printer, Lawrence, Kas.
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 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 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. SOROSIA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. W. Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorhils.
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 lion roreth, the whangdoodle mourneth, but the COURIER goeth on forever.
A meeting was held Tuesday at the end of the fourth hour, by a certain faction of students, at which stock was subscribed and a board of editors elected for the purpose of publishing another weekly university paper. This champion of the interests of a select number of much abused students is soon to be launched forth upon an unoffending public. It is entirely without a mission and can offer no reasonable excuse for its existence.
The Courier has always been and is to-day the representative student's paper. Its endeavor has been to be acceptable to all students as a true mirror of University events, as an interesting and readable newspaper. To attain this end it has labored faithfully and diligently. It has earned as a reward the approval of its readers and the support of the business men.
The entire field of college journalism is now occupied. There is no room for another paper.
The chief support of a college paper, must, of necessity, come from the merchants. They now liberally patronize the Courier and the Review. To ask more of them is unreasonable, ungrateful, and unjust. They will not and ought not to support every new paper which is started simply to gratify the vanity of college soreheads.
We believe in having a college paper that shall be more Democratic. Frank Reed.
The Tariff Reformers of the University have organized an enthusiastic club.
THE Young Ladies Lawn Tennis club met Tuesday and admitted eleven new members.
MR. J. KEYS, is editing the Hutchinson Weekly Democrat, and is making it a lively paper.
Fraternities are prohibited by Princeton, Oberlin, Monmouth, and Georgetown Universities.
The Republican lads have organized a club, and it promises to be an enthusiastic organization.
THE Y. M. C. A. furnished boarding places for about one-hundred and twenty-five students this year.
It is not until a young man has left the college halls and has to rustle for his daily bread that he begins to realize the importance of a thorough education.
You bet, the new frat. paper will get no money out of me, I'm too old for that.—Ed. Martindale to one of the old non-frat. boys.
You can't make me believe but what it is a barb paper when four frats own thirty out of fifty shares.— A Prominent non-Frat man.
We would give the "barb boys" an equal amount of stock in this new paper if they only had as good material for newspaper work as we frats. Frank Reed.
LAST Friday, Prof. Dunlap entertained his Sophomore English Class with a Shelly Reading. These Friday afternoon deviations are very popular with his students.
WE (that is the frats, in this combination) held a meeting Saturday night and decided what "barbs" we wanted on this "anti-frat. paper," so-called.—W. A. White.
Minnie W. Cranwell will delight a large number of University students with readings from Shakespeare, Howells, Meredith, Burdette, and others next Tuesday night at the Baptist Church.
CORNELL. University has an unusually large freshman class this year-over 400. Last week the Sophomore-Freshman cane rush took place, resulting in a victory for the Freshman. In the free fight that lasted over two hours, no one was seriously hurt.
Resolved, "That grass-hoppers are more destructive than potato bugs.
The young ladies of Washburn have organized a debating club. At their first regular meeting they discussed the following question :
What Our Library Needs.
THAT better Library facilities are needed in our University is a fact that is becoming more and more evident. Books of all kinds, especially those of reference, are in greater demand this year than ever before. Prof. Canfield is very anxious to procure the volumes of a famous publication now scarce. In a letter to Bion S. Hutchins, secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, he says:
"For several years I have tried secure the means to place within the library a full set of Nile's Weekly Register. This you will doubtless remember was published in Baltimore between 1811 and 1836. It is an invaluable collection of facts and opinions on all the activities of our national life and especially on political affairs. Just at present it is especially valuable as containing the largest collection of matter bearing upon the origin and growth of the tariff system from the standpoint of protection. Not only does it include all material scattered through the various public documents not now accessible, but with the greatest possible industry as well as with no small editorial ability an immense number of papers, documents, memorials, testimony delivered before special committees and similar matters not now found anywhere outside of this set are gathered together and given in unabridged form. The set comprises fifty volumes and will cost nearly $200, probably quite that with freight charges from New York or Washington here.
Further on, the professor states that his share of the sum allowed for library purposes is only about $120 a year. And yet this department is one of the most important in the University.
The editor of the Newton Republican, says :
"Cannot the State Central Committee out of the fund in its hands, 'for the sake of the cause,' secure one of these sets and donate it to the University library. If not, do you not know of some leading Republicans in the State interested in the tariff discussion and in the University who will contribute between them enough to enable us to make this valuable addition to this library."
THE habit of chewing gum is becoming so general among the young ladies, that the opinion of a very eminent authority on that subject will be read with considerable interest.
THE inventor of chewing gum certainly did not realize what misery he was bringing upon the people by introducing this smick-smack chewing-gum woman or girl. She is in the parlor, ball room, theatre, store, street car, in fact everywhere. Go where you will there you find her, mouth full of gum and she always wants to talk. If there is anything that makes one feel like seeking sweet relief in death, it is the hope that good Saint Peter will close the door against the chewing gum female.
The following extract from a letter written by Secretary Bayard to a committee having charge of the arrangements for the 250th anniversary celebration of the settlement of Delaware, held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, may prove of general interest.
"The place of my birth and my present home, Wilmington Del. was, I conceive, one of the first, if not the first of the footmarks of Swedish enterprise in the new world.
"Ft. Christian, on the banks of the river Christian, is now Wilmington, and was once Willington—named after Joseph Willing, of Bristol, in England, who emigrated to Pennsylvania (one of my ancestors on the maternal side), who married a Swedish lady and became possessed of the land whereon the settlement was made and the town built.
"The most enduring visible monument of the Swedish era is the Old Swedes' Lutheran Church—now an Episcopal Church—which was dedicated to the Worship of God in 1698, and in which on Sunday last I attended divine service. This simple but impressive structure is within a few hundred yards of a rock on the side of the river Christiana whereon the tradition is—the Swedes first landed. Around this venerable building are the graves of the Swedish colonists, the terminology of whose names quaintly carved upon the tombstones attest their national origin, and there,
"Each in his narrow cell forever laid
The rude forebathers of the hamlet sleep." "As your letter tells me that you have a photograph of the church, it may be interesting for you to know that the ivy which covers the southern side was grown from a slip brought from Stoke-Pogis in England, the scene of Gray's immortal "Elegy in a country church-yard." My mother procured this slip of ivy, and had it planted more than half a century ago; her grave is but a few yards distant."
Program of the Political Science Club To-morrow.
U. S. Senate, - - { E. Martindale
F. C. Schnauder
Finance and Industry, - J. D. Mushrush
Foreign Events and Diplomacy,
C. E. Street
ATHENIAN PROGRAM THIS AFTERNOON.
Reading, - - - Barnes
Ovation, - - - Mushrush
Reading - - Hadley
Essay—“Current Events.” - Nixon
Discussion by Members
Discussion by Members.
RECESS.
Debate, *Resolved*, "That the University should devote more time to the Classics than to the Sciences.
Aff. { Hall, Neg. { Wesley, Chapman. Meade.
Mr. Wm. M. Warder, of Kansas City, was the guest of Challiss this Week. Mr. Warder is a warm friend of the Courier, and contributed his lonely dollar to its support.
W. R. Cone, who took an active part in suppressing the Mrs. Rice attack on fraternities last year, and who is an enthusiastic member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity is running for School Superintendent in Coffey County.
An Acquisition to Snow Hall Specimens.
Snow hall has received from the Kansas State Silk Station, a Peabody case containing 58 specimens of silk in different shape. All the different kind of Coccoons are represented; various ornaments, silk cords, and flowers made from the under lining of the coccoon; specimens of silk carded and uncarded, silk worms, etc. The whole has a very ornamental appearance, and is especially interesting, as the products of the Kansas Silk Station, at Peabody. The case is the gift of the Hickey Bro., Thoburn, J. N. Scott and Brewer, of Peabody. Brewer was a University student some years ago.
The University Times is the name of a new paper which has during this last week been organized by a body of students. We are told it comes to fill a long felt want, but what the want can be we are at a loss to conjecture, unless it be the want so often expressed on the part of the Lawrence business men for another medium for advertising for the University trade. However that may be, it is no concern of ours.
Bull-dozing is one of these difficulties. Avoid it.
What we wish more particularly to do is to give a few words of advice to the new-born as it starts out to battle with a cold and unsympathetic world. In the first place, allow us to suggest what will probably not be new to you, dear Times, that the life of a college paper must depend on no slight extent upon its advertisers. And now, as to the manner of obtaining advertisers. Don't attempt to do it by means commonly designated as bulldozing. It won't work. Merchants of Lawrence are Americans, after all, whatever you may think to the contrary, and we feel warranted in assuring you that no imaginary "list of three hundred students who have signed a paper agreeing not to patronize any merchant who refuses to advertise in the new paper," will get for you a single advertiser. It won't work. Try some other plan.
We are prompted to make this suggestion because we take a lively interest in you, dear Times. We are older than you; we have seen the day when we were obliged to struggle and so we can sympathize with you, though the world treat you ever so coldly. Besides, when not editing the Courier, we are a fraternity man ourselves, and naturally take an interest in the efforts of sister fraternities. So, dear Times, when we learned that three fraternities and one "Barb" had joined hands to found you, our heart went out to you, and in imagination we were leading you by the hand through the difficulties that must inevitably beset your early path.
J. A. Mushnush of the Kansas State University, President of the Kansas Oratorical Association was visiting friends at the college Monday.-Topeka Commonwealth.