The Weekly University Courier
The Largest College Journal Circulation in in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY
O. B. TAYLOR,
President. | DENT. HOGEBOOM,
Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOHN A. PRESCOTT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,
ASSOCIATES:
CHAS. JOHNSON,
M. E. GAMBLE,
FRED. LIDDERKAM,
HARRY BUCKINGHAM,
V. L. KELLOGG,
AGNES LOVE,
CLEVELAND,
MAY HAIR,
MAY CHURCHILL.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
WILL A. JACKSON, | S. T. GILMORE.
P. T. FOLEY, Printer, Lawrence, Kas.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence. Kansas as second-class matter.
ANOTHER year has come and gone, and again the Courier bids the students greeting. Your vacation is in the past; that it was both pleasant and profitable we hope, we doubt not. But it is past. What matters it? To the present and future our thoughts and longings turn. For the present, it is with a glad hand clasp and with a warm heart that we bid you welcome to our Alma Mater. How well you are looking! How the sight of your familiar face thrills us with pleasure! For the future—but why repeat what you know so well—the Courier wishes you a pleasant and a prosperous year; a year of growth, of advancement, of victory.
New Students
The number of new students will, it is expected, be much larger this year than usual. We have been a new student ourselves and know just how it seems to wander through the corridors without a familiar face to help drive off the feeling of loneliness. Every one busy with his own affairs, except, indeed, here and there a group of old students gathered together, who, by their close familiarity and friendship, thrust upon us more than ever how utterly desolate and alone we were. To all such we say, it is the glacial period of your school life. You have it to pass through. He who cannot live it out is truly to be pitied. There is just such another period awaiting you when you enter upon your course in that other university, which is indeed a university — where all men may learn all things — the world. Both here and there you will have to live it out. No one knows you, no one cares for you. Why should they? You have as yet done nothing to merit their attention or their thoughts. When you have doubt not that you will obtain them.
We had intended to say a few words urging the old students to extend a warmer, or perhaps better, a longer welcome to you. But upon second thought have decided not to. If they did it would be from no especial interest, but only from a kind of charity, and that the man who most merits, least wants. After all it is better that they should not. Be patient. Earn the right to be known and thought of. Beseech no one for recognition. Demand it! Command it! The place given you may lose. The place won you can hold forever.
All students should return to their work this year even more enthusiastically than ever before. For who among us ever passed so delightful a summer. It has been an ideal summer; the very paragon of its season. Just enough warm weather to open the pores well and then the most charming of temperatures all through the month in which we are accustomed to swelter and droop, with only sufficient energy left to use a fan and hold down a hammock. But 1888 was the exception, the year to which we can all look back as a year with a summer-resort summer.
The Weekly University Courier.
VOL. VII, NO. I.
With this number the Courier enters upon its seventh volume. Six years in its past. Six years in which it has been more truly a representative student's paper than any other ever published in the University. There may have been times in its career when it was in the hands of a few, but even then it cannot be said that it was not managed for the best interests of the students as a body. To-day we trust that this is a question that never rises. It has been the aim and intention of the paper to be an exponent of the best thoughts and interests of the students, the faculty, and the University.
Time was, when the Courier was young, that its account books did not gladden the eyes of its Business Managers. But that time is past, we hope, forever. To-day the Courier is financially sound. It owes no man a dollar. Its success is due to the energy and enterprise of its business managers in the past, and the encouragement and assistance of the students.
For the future its outlook is bright indeed. Recognizing that success depends upon merit, confident of deserving well, it is confident of succeeding.
MARRIED
W. S. Franklin and Miss Hattie Titus, at Washington Depot, Connecticut, on the 14th of August last. The contracting parties are both well known in Lawrence and University society. Mrs. Franklin visited in Lawrence in the winter and spring of 1885-6. She immediately won for herself a host of friends, all of whom will be greatly pleased to know that she is to be hereafter a resident of our city. W. S. Franklin graduated with the class of 1887. Even before graduation he was given a tutorship under Prof. Nichols of the Department of Physics, a science for which he has a special aptitude. Last winter he was made Prof. Blake's assistant, and he has during the summer been working with Prof. Nichols in the Laboratory at Coruell. But not alone as a student was Franklin admired. For his general good qualities, his warm heartedness, his geniality made friends with all he came in contact, and all will join with the Courier in wishing the happy pair a long and prosperous journey here below.
The sad news reached Lawrence yesterday that George C. Smith, editor of the St. Joseph Herald, died on Sunday noon at his home in St. Joseph.
GEO. CHANNING SMITH
George Smith came to Lawrence in 1877, and entered the Freshman class of the State University. He was an excellent student, proficient in his work and popular allike with students and professors. He took an active part in college life, and was always at the head of all student enterprises. He was made a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and was ever an ardent fraternity man. He remained in college but two years, and soon after leaving began his journalistic career, in which he was destined to take so prominent a place—young so he was. It is probably not too much to say that no brighter and if more promising young man ever left our institution. Green be the turf above him.
Death of E. A. Munsell
Yesterday the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. E. A. Munsell reached this city from Fort Scott, where he was engaged in the newspaper business. The deceased was at one time a student of the State University and had many friends in Lawrence who will be pained to hear of his demise.
Mr Munsell was a brother-in-law of Mrs. Pro. Frank Marvin, of this city, who was summoned to his bed side last Saturday.
PERSONALS
FACULTY
Dr. Lippincott has spent his vacation in arduous toil for the University. He has been speaking over the State in its interests, sometimes making as many as three speeches in one day and at as many different places. An increased attendance this fall may be expected from his labors.
Prof. Snow has spent the summer in Lawrence fitting up his building Prof. Miller visited his daughter in Mexico and took a trip through the mountains of Colorado.
Prof. James H. Canfield left Lawrence for California before the close of the school term and was out there during the larger part of the summer in his capacity of Secretary of the National Teacher's Association, a position to which he was re-elected for the third time. His address before the same was the speech of the Convention.
Prof. Green spent the summer in Lawrence looking out for the interests of the Law Department.
Dr. Williams has been engaged in teaching normal institutes, having taught one at Ft. Scott and another at Hiawatha.
Prof. Carruth has remained in Lawrence all summer reading German and Anglo-Saxon!
Prof. Marvin remained in Lawrence.
Prof. Bailey visited in Colorado and then took a trip east to Cleveland to attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Prof. McDonald has been engaged in working up his department by giving lectures over the State.
Dr. Summerfield has been in Lawrence all summer attending to the law business of the J.B.Watkins Farm Mortgage Company.
Prof. Gleed has been in Topeka most of the time, but is now visiting in the east.
Prof. Wilcox has been rejuvenating among old scenes in Baltimore. Dr. Sayre has spent his time in Kansas and the Indian Territory. He is now at Detroit watching the base ball games in the city of the champions, and attending evening sessions of the National Pharmaceutical Society.
Prof. Marsh has passed his vacation in the Historic City.
Prof. A. G. Canfield has put in his summer months at a Lawrence boarding house, and writing sonnets to imaginary eyes and tresses.
Prof. Aldrich, having severed his connection with the University, first visited in Boston, and now is engaged in his calling at Adams, N.Y.
Preceptress Morrow is still in Buones Ayres, Argentine Republic. Miss March visited friends in Cincinnati.
Prof. Sterling remained at home renewing his acquaintance with his family and friends after his sojourn at Johns Hopkins.
Prof. Dyche spent the summer in Lawrence.
Miss Rudolph visited her old home at Mentor, Ohio.
Olin Templin is prosecuting his studies at Heidelberg, Germany.
Cap. Franklin, we suppose we shall have to call him Professor now, worked with Prof. Nichols at Cornell in the finest laboratory in the country until almost fall, when he left for Connecticut where he was happily married to the then Miss Hattie Titus.
Prof. Dumpl resuscitated at Chillicothe, Ohio.
Miss Simpson returned from Europe the latter part of July and has remained at home since. She made for herself an enviable reputation while in Paris as a most promising young artist.
Miss Parker remained in Lawrence. Miss Carrie Watson, our Librarian, visited in Pueblo. She returns to her duties looking greatly refreshed.
Miss Parker remained in Lawrence
E. F. Caldwell will not be back until next year.
Albert Fullerton returned to Lawrence in time to take in the Fair before resuming work at the old grind. Charles Johnson is with us again. He came down Tuesday.
CLASS OF 88
Fred. Kellogg is in the city ready to begin study once more.
Miss Alice Penfield may return to school this Fall a little later in the season. Her many friends will be glad to have her come.
W. S. Allen will teach school at Newton this year. He is principal of the city schools.
Fred. Bowersock assumes the duties of manager of his father's opera house.
W. H. Brown is now engaged in work at the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
Frank Crowell will attend the Columbia Law School the coming winter.
Miss Josephine Gilmore will teach school at DeSoto, Kansas.
Miss Hunnicut is in Lawrence.
W. E. Higgins visited at home, Rich Hill, Mo., this summer. He will teach in the Lawrence schools this winter.
O. C. LeSeur is at present engaged in surveying the city to establish the street grades.
John Prescott, our Editor-in-Chief is in New Hampshire. He has been taking a trip down the St. Lawrence and through the New England States. He reports a great time.
Will Spencer occasionally favors his Lawrence friends with a call, but the greater part of the time he is engaged in the Santa Fe's engineering corps, he having charge of one division.
Miss Clara Wilson spent the first part of the summer in St. Louis, where she was lately married. The happy pair left for a wedding tour on the "Continent."
'89.
William T. Caywood, after a pleasant visit at his home in Vining, Kansas, has returned to work. He arrived Tuesday.
W. W. Davis is engaged on a government survey in New Mexico. He will not be back until November.
George Dick has assumed control of the Lawrence telephone system. He will not return to school.
Mr. Joe Jacobs spent his vacation investigation the Hutchinson salt mines. He returns to finish the course.
V. L. Kellogg has been at work on the Lawrence Journal during the summer. He will be a B. S. June 6th,1889.
A. D. Kennedy spent the summer on the farm. He returns to graduate.
Miss Mary Manly has been assisting Mrs. Simpson in charge of the city library.
A. W. Postlewaite spent the summer at home in Chanute. He will not return for a few weeks.
F. E. Reed has been out at Newton with the exception of a few weeks he has spent visiting at Lawrence and Kansas City.
L. T. Smith is back again. He returned Tuesday. His vacation sped away down at Concordia.
E. F. Stimpson spent the summer in Lawrence. He will take the degree of B.S. next June.
O. B. Taylor has been in Leavenworth all vacation. He visited Lawrence once or twice. He will be back and in at the finish of '89 next June.