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 WILSON, K.
J. M. SHELLARANGER,
ALBERT FULLERTON,
STANLEY SMITH,
EMMA BARTELL,
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
J. A. MUSHIHUS, | CHAS, LYONS,
P. T. FOLEY, Printer, Lawrence, Kas.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
GREETING
The newly elected staff of editors begins its labors under most auspicious circumstances. The COURIER in the past by faithful and diligent effort has established itself as one of the necessary institutions of the University. The students love it. The merchants patronize it.
The Courier for the coming year will keep on in the good work. It will be no literary magazine—it will be the organ of no clique or clan; but will be pre-eminently a college newspaper. Our endeavor shall be to present news and events in an interesting and attractive manner. A readable and entertaining, a newsy paper is what the readers demand. It is what we intend they shall have. Messrs. Paul Wilkinson, Sidney Phillips, E. E. Squires, and Miss Gertrude Crotty will be the Local Editors.
Misses Lillie Freeman, Emma Bartell, and Mr. Stanley Smith will have charge of the persons.
Mr. Albert Fullerton will edit the exchange column. Mr. Shellebarger will be assistant in the Editorial department.
Paul Wilkinson will have general supervision of the local and personal departments, and will collect all copy at the University for the paper. Anybody having news items, will please report to him as early each week as possible.
We take pleasure in introducing to the business men of Lawrence, Mr. Charles Lyons; and Mr. John A. Mushrush, the business managers of the Courier, and ask for them courteous treatment and liberal patronage.
THE aim of the Courier this year is to be a newspaper.
Some unavoidable delay was experienced in the publication of this number. Hereafter the paper will be distributed at the end of the fourth hour on Friday.
State Journal: Lawrence reports the first snow of the season, Monday night. Professor Snow, of the University, will not include it in his weather report, because it was so light only weighed nine pounds.
THERE is one branch of work that seems to be neglected, and that is oratory. It is a fact, although we do not like to acknowledge it, that other
colleges in the state give more attention to this than the University. With the decline of our literary societies, and the abolishment of chapel rhetoricals, the student has no opportunity to develop his powers in this direction. It is just as necessary, if not more so, for a young man to be able to tell, in good forcible English, sentences which he knows, as it is for him to be able to write his thoughts on paper.
Now is the time to agitate a dormitory for the ladies. Washburn has three cottages which are neatly furnished and have very pleasant rooms. If this plan were tried here it would prove a success, and the number of young ladies in attendance would greatly increase.
The work in the pharmacy department is becoming more and more important each year. Already a demand has sprung up in the State for graduates from this department.
IF some of the students this year attend less to dancing and study harder there will not be as many failures in examinations as last year.
Each member of the senior class, last spring secured good lucrative positions. Prof. Sayre is doing some excellent work.
It is not known when Miss Morrow, the preceptress, expects to return and take her position in the University. It has been over a year since she was elected to this place. As an instructor, her presence may be needed, but it has become evident to a great many that a preceptress would have but little to do. If a young ladies boarding house is ever erected, a matron would then be needed, but until that time it would seem that her services are not in demand.
As there have been several inquiries as to the authority of the recommendation of the COURIER in the advertisement of Field & Hargis's in our last issue. We think it but due to other friends seeking the patronage of our readers to state that the quotation taken first appeared in our column as a paid advertisement just as it was quoted in our last publication. We do not make this statement for the purpose of denying the claims of Field & Hargis, but we think we owe it to our readers to let them know that their COURIER has never distinguished between their two most popular book stores here, both are good.
Which ever one you may patronize; J. S. Crew & Co., or Field & Hargis, you will be treated with the utmost courtesy and fairness in either place you will find books and student supplies sold at the most reasonable rates. But this is the only official statement the Courier has ever made.
THE various fraternities are busily engaged in seeking new members. Formerly it was considered an honor to the student who received the invitation, now, however, it is the stu.
Whereas, it is on all hands admitted the practice, of "rushing" is unworthy of womanly dignity, is highly injurious to the University, to the secret societies and to new students, we the members of K. K.G., I. C. and K. A. T., through our committees in joint session do resolve:
dent who confers the honor by consenting to join.
I. That the following pledge be incorporated in the by-laws of our societies and made one of the fundamental governing principles:
PLEDGE.
(a) We the members of Omega chapter of K. K. G., Kappa chapter of K. A. T., and Alpha chapter of Kansas I. C., hereby individually and collectively pledge ourselves not to initiate, pledge or invite any girl, directly or indirectly, or through any medium whatever, to join our fraternity until said girl shall have attended the University three months, and during that time shall have pursued regularly and continuously at least two full studies or their equivalents.
(b) To give all invitations to membership through written communications of prescribed form, sent by mail.
(c) If any of our members, initiated or pledged violate the above, we agree that she shall be answerable to the joint standing committee of the societies.
II. That at the beginning of each school year, notice be inserted in all the current University papers, stating these rules regarding the admission of new members.
III. That these resolutions and pledge be subject to amendment as necessity shall demand.
IV. That these resolutions and pledge shall go into effect this day, June 1st, 1888.
KATE MERRILL, EMMA BARTELL,
HARRIET HASKELL McDONALD,
MARY A MANLEY
Committee.
MARY A. MANLEY, ANNA G. CROTTY,
CORA FELLOWS STERLING,
CORA FIELDEN
ANNIE L. McKINNON ALICE H. ROPES,
MARY G. STIMPSON,
THERE are two organizations in the University that demand more than a passing notice of the work they are accomplishing, these are the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. They have been in existence for the past two years and during that time have been very active. The young ladies meet each Sunday afternoon and the young men Friday evenings. The purpose of these associations is to bring the students into a closer acquaintance with each other, to interest them in certain lines of thought that keep them from evil companions and make college life more pleasant. Several receptions are held each year, there are union meetings every six weeks and a bible class is generally organized in the fall. Some of the best students that have graduated in the last two years have been members of one of these organizations.
There seems to be an entire forgetfulness of the fact that systematic exercise makes a healthy and symmetrically developed body which is essential to hard and continuous study. It is a common saying that a student working in a gymnasium can accomplish more in two hours study than another student can in three, supposing of course, both students to be of about the same mental calibre.
A REMARK overheard in the halls the other day by a new student calls to mind an old subject of grievances, "what," says he with a look of surprise "is there no gymnasium in connection with the University." Sad to relate, this answer of necessity was no.
The University devotes its whole attention to mental discipline to the entire disregard of physical culture.
Most Universities have gymnasiums why should not ours? The subject must be agitated. Keep it before the students and let it be presented to the Legislature. The education of the mind is not the only province of a University. "The people need to be reminded that a well stored or even a cultivated mind is of little use in a puny, lying body, while on the other hand a good physical organization will make its way and find its place in the world if it only knows enough to come to its meals."
It is a matter of congratulation that the relations between the students and the citizens of Lawrence have been and continue to be entirely friendly. This is as it should be. The petty rivalry and jealousy that so often exists at college towns is entirely absent. The students are free from that sophomoric conceit and superciliousness that so irritates the inhabitants of college towns. The residents of Lawrence take a friendly interest in all college proceedings. When the students rejoice, they rejoice, the imposing police force to the contrary notwithstanding. Let nothing happen to mar this pleasant state of affairs.
The percentage of boys over girls in attendance at the University is greatly on the increase. The scarcity of new girls in the halls during the opening week this term was frequently commented on. The cause has not as yet been agreed upon though it has been suggested that as the University approaches a higher standard and gradually raises its requirements for admission, the number of girls beautifully diminishes. This coupling to-gether of two independent facts as cause and effect is no doubt unwarranted. It has even been intimated that because this University is getting more and more a strictly business and hard work appearance, many girls steer clear and look for more congenial fields. Let some kind friend refute this cruel aspersion.
BAKER University, situated near Black Jack, will not be troubled this year by the presence of P. P. Campbell.
LAST Friday, Orophilian failed to hold a meeting, consequently a great many new students were much disappointed. They had read in the catalogue about the literary societies in the University, and they came here to find one of them almost out of existence, and the other not doing very good work. This subject has been discussed in the Courier before, but it seems to again demand attention at this time. If some of the older members would do a little work in Orophilian, we are confident that they would have a strong support from the new students who are anxious to receive a training in the literary work characteristic of such societies. This question should be considered by the faculty and, something done, if possible to arouse an interest in these organizations. It must be acknowledged that the work accomplished by Orophilian or Athaneum is as important, if not more so, than that done by some of the regular classes.
If this is true, then they should receive encouragement of some kind before they entirely disappear.
The address of Hon. Geo. R. Peck, at the opening of the term was favorably commented upon by all the state papers. It was an address full of good common sense. Speaking of that class of persons who assert that a college education unfits one for success in practical affairs, he said: "There is no form of can't more wearisome than that which asserts that a collegiate education unfits one for success in practical affairs. There is room for a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes success, and as to the meaning of the word practical, but without stopping to consider such matters, it is sufficient to say that it is not true in any sense whatever. While lack of success in the ordinary meaning of the term is not the greatest calamity that can befall a man, yet young people do not like to think that they have entered a course of life which dooms them to at least a probable failure. The truth is that in nine cases out of ten, other things being equal, the college-bred man can give his uneducated rival a wide margin ef advantage in the start, and still beat him in the race. The educated fools about whom we occasionally hear, were not made fools at college. It is true, that education can not transform a pre-determined imbecile into a wise man, nor can colleges overcome what an eccentric American poet has called 'the inherencies of things.' But the man who supposes that is an advantage to him, from any point of view not to have a liberal education is laboring under a very painful mistake."
FATHER BAKER of the Commonwealth is alarmed at seeing so many graduates of the State University rising into prominence over the State, and utters a wail about the practice of bringing the University into notice, by connecting its name with those of the prominent young men. With a narrow mindedness approaching bigotry, Baker loses no occasion to vent his spite against the institution of the State and all connected with it. Fortunately there are but few like minds among the newspaper men of Kansas, and the State press recognizes the University as something else than a Lawrence college. "It is certainly of no possible interest to the great public, which does not care a copper cent whether a man is a 'State University boy' or not," says the Commonwealth, it most assuredly is a matter of interest to the great Kansas public whether their University is fitting the youth of Kansas to take responsible and hence prominent places, and this benefits the state in its progress towards higher civilization, or whether it is using the many favors of the people for a useless end. The Commonwealth is mistaken.
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