The Weekly University Courier
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY
CHAS. H. JOHNSON,
President
E. C. ESTERLY,
Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
RICHARD HORTON, EDITOR IN-CHIEF.
ASSOCIATES:
PAUL WILKinson,
J. M. SHELLBARGER,
ALBERT FELLERTON,
STANLEY SMITH,
LILLIE FREMAN.
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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 THEETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Pst, 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 THEETA Pi, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALLEHA THEETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
C. S. CORSIOS, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Mansger, 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 Eaterly.
THE Breese at Baldwin has blown itself out of existence.
ONE of the professors at Washburn has a very youthful and attractive appearance. He is continually finding himself surrounded by temptations, no less than nine girls, having already attempted to flirt with him, thinking he was one of the new students.
The first number of the Review this year is a very creditable one. In its editorial department it shows that vigor and energy so characteristic of Mr. V. L. Kellogg. It has a good selection of literary matter, and its locals and personals lack that staleness that has been so noticeable about the Review in the past. The business managers, Messrs. Wilmoth and Caywood, display their ability in that direction, by page after page of "ads," and "paid locals."
The people of Kansas are at last beginning to realize that the "University at Lawrence" is a state institution, and one of which any State might be proud. It is a fact that the University has not, in the past, been advertised as it should have been. But the high moral character and the intellectual worth of the young men and young women who have gone out from that institution and who are taking positions of responsibility and trust in all departments of business is giving to the University a reputation which will last forever.
The great orator from Baker is now stumping the State in the guise of a young "farmer."
Prep. Snow's baby is getting more notices than Prof. Snow, which is saying a great deal.—State Journal.
The question: of a state base ball league is being agitated in some of the colleges.
Those who expect to take part in the oratorical contest should begin preparation at once.
The students of the Lawrence University this year come chiefly from the corn belt. Everything in Kansas, from hogs up to statesmen, depends upon corn.—Manhattan Industrialist.
A number of the old University students are taking quite an active part in this campaign. The Secretary of the State Central Committee, Beon S. Hutchings, is a graduate of our institution.
There is now a "Kansas shelf" in the library at the University at Lawrence. This keeps T. Brower Peacock and Hattie Horner from getting mixed up with John Greenleaf Whittier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Kansas City Star.
It would be an excellent thing for the University if the students from the various parts of the state would write short letters from time about the work that is being accomplished and the manner in which it is being done. Most editors would only be too willing to publish a letter written in an attractive and interesting style.
Every effort possible should be made this year to secure several good lecturers to address the students. A lecture on some practical subject releaves the monotony of class work, starts the student into some needed channel of thought, and when he returns it is with a new energy and livelier interest.
PROFESSOR CANFIELD, of the Kansas University, is one of the few men who have made a success of mixing political economy and lawn tennis. Kansas City Star. The bright paragrapher on the Star does not seem to understand that we have two Canfields, one who delights in lawn tennis and the other in political economy.
One passing along Tennessee and other streets cannot help noticing quite a number of placards with the usual inscription of "Rooms and Board." Yet there is a complaint of a lack of suitable boarding houses. Evidently the rooms or board are not what they should be, or the price is too high. Why cannot something be done to accommodate the students who are supposed to be the principal support of the town.
Miss Sherman who graduated from Ottawa University last year, and at once took the position of State Secretary of the G.W.C.A., has been doing some excellent work; she attended the meeting of the National Executive Committee in the east during the summer, and reports that a paper will soon he published in Chicago, in the interest of the association.
Old Album.
If your lover's name is Harry,
'Twont be long until you marry.
If he's the man on whom you're gone,
You'll run no risk to trust in John.
If Richard is your sweetheart's name,
He'll likely bring you wealth and fame
Should you wed a man named Charley
Expect a temper sharp and snarly.
If patient husband you expect,
Joseph's the name you must select.
There is no other name can rank
For lovingly, loyalty like Frank.
If to domesticity you incline.
To some sweet William take a shine.
If you seek the fond and true,
Albert is the name for you.
Don't expect a steady head.
If your fancy runs to Ned.
If unruffled life you'd know.
Pick out faithful, honest Joe.
The importance of being a good conversationist does not seem to be fully realized among college students. Conversation is an art and a much neglected one. Its advantages are under-valued. It gives a range of thought and a fluency in speech, besides the benefits of social intercourse. A writer in one of our exchanges in commenting on this subject says :
"With most people the lack of ideas is greater than the lack of words with which to express them. So then, it is better, probably, to employ the mind with ideas than in searching for uncommon words in which to cloth them. The way to gain new ideas is to listen to another's. Another way is to try to tell your own. What another says may be entirely different from that which you thought. What you say may call up more ideas in their train than you ever suspected you had on a subject. The stimulus which you receive is something; for, when you find out how little you do know and how much you ought to know, the impulse is to find out all you can. In this way we may become more learned and advance more quickly to a higher intellectual plane.
As the Courier is the student's newspaper of course its columns are for this use of every member of the Universtiy. If you have grievances, complain of them in the Courier. If you have any good suggestion to make, make it in the Courier. If you have any items of interest to any one, give them to the Courier. It is your paper and you should make use of it to air your idiosyncrasies that might otherwise grow commonplace. Air yourself in our columns, we say. Don't be backward.
The extent to which athletic sports have been carried in some of the large colleges, says one writer, where a fierce spirit of rivalry is stimulated by the money at stake and by the notoriety given by the metropolitan press, has served to lower the standard of college achievement and to break up that stundacious of habit by which alone a thorough education is acquired. I believe in the training of the body, as well as the mind. And I believe in sport—that is, in the innocent frolic of exuberant spirits and in the friendly antagonism of natural powers. It tends to make a sound mind in a sound body, without which learning is of doubtful utility. But the intensity of this age breeds excess. Excess disturbs the balance and prevents that evenness of development which is necessary to the well rounded man.
THE COURIER continues to be a part of every K. S. U. student's life, whether he or she is in school at present or out. Each mail brings letters renewing subscriptions and making inquiries. This is the tone of many:
"Inclosed find M. O. for one dollar, for which send me the Courier for this year. I find it necessary to my health and happiness that I regularly receive the Courier."
This please us as may be supposed, especially the "find enclosed" clause. Thus does the popularity of K. S. U.'s newspaper increase as each class comes and goes, for when it is once taken it is never given up.
"With fair ability, the essentials of success are Equipment and Opportunity. The world expects more of a man than ever before, and the advancement of women into many fields of endeavor formerly occupied by men requires the latter to find new opportunities.
In an address before an Eastern college, Col. Albert Clark touched upon some interesting points. He said:
The boy is expected to know his mind before he discovers his beard and to choose his calling before he enters college. I am convinced that this is a great mistake. There are certain broad foundations which should be laid for every one before any superstructure is built. Language is the footing course of all. It may be one's vernacular only, but better if it takes in Latin and Greek and better still if it expands with French and German. But language of some kind is the best possible equipment of the mind.
It is a truism that there is no royal road to learning or wealth. The "pony" may carry a young man through a large and ill governed college, but when he must race with the best trained steeds through the courses of life he will wish that he had developed his own muscle. I disapprove an elective curriculum. I believe with Dr. McCosh, late of Princeton, that age and knowledge of the world, are necessary to determine what is the best preparation for the world, and with the late Dr. Mark Hopkins, so long the president of Williams, that if students can teach their professors as to a matter about which they know nothing, why have
Will Carleton at Home
professors to teach them in anything? Too many young men think that the potency of a diploma, the reputation of having taken a collegiate course, are the chief benefits of their four years' study, and parri passu they conclude that the greater the institution the more impressive will be the diploma.
Will Carleton, to thousands who know him only through his writings, is "the poet of the fireside;" to his family and friends he is the lover of the home hearth. His early life was passed on his father's farm in Michigan, and here, doubtless, was developed that interest in the pathos and tragedy of rural domestic life which is so strikingly apparent in his verse.
Some time ago, Mr. Carleton selected Brooklyn as his place of residence, and there, in one of the most desirable portions of the city, he has built for himself a home. It is a comfortable, almost luxurious furnished house, representing a portion of the profits that have accumulated from the poet's published works. With him lives his aged mother, and his devotion is divided between her and his wife. He is not a methodical worker, and does not allow himself to be governed by any system. At times a person will be entirely outlined in his mind before he sits down to write it out; at other times he goes to his desk without the least idea of what the effort will result in. With Mr. Carleton the construction of a poem involves labor and care, and he never allows himself to be hurried. He invariably chooses the morning for literary work. His desk is in the upper portion of the house, and here he does his reading as well as his writing.
Mr. Carleton's evenings are generally spent at home. He enters but little into society, preferring the companionship of his family and a few intimate friends to the most brilliant assemblage.
Beautiful Broadcloths and Henriettas, with the most Elegant Trimmings to match. Young lady students are specially invited to call and see them at WEAVER'S.
Of the poems which have made Will Carleton's name famous, "Betsy and I Are Out" was the first to appear in 1871. He received no remuneration from the newspaper in which the poem was first printed, but its publication led to a request for a poem from a New York publisher. In response to this request "Over the Hills to the Poorhouse" was written during the same year, and later appeared "Gone with a Handsomer Man." Although the author confesses to a fondness for the poems enumerated, his preference is for "The First Settler's Story." "If I have a favorite," he says, "I think that is my choice."
Mr. Carleton is 42 years of age, though to a stranger he appears much younger. He has an especially youthful countenance, and his laugh is gleeful and infectious. Notwithstanding the gray tinge that is appearing in his hair, he has the figure of an athlete, and his step is light and quick.—Book Buyer tor September.
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