The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY For Kansas University Students.
O. B TAYLOR, DENT, MOGEBDOM,
President. Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOHN A. PRESCOTT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
ASSOCIATES:
ASSOCIATE
CHAS. JOHNSON        V. L KELLOG,
M. E. GAMBLE          AGNES LOVE,
JACK PAPMAN,         FRED, MARPAN,
FRED, LIDDERE         MAX HAIR,
HARRY BUCKINGHAM     MAY CHURCHILL.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
WILL A. JACKSON, [S. T. GILMORE
From the Press of P. T. FOLEY.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrenco, Kansas as second-class matter.
THE last number of the Review is an especially interesting one. The literary department contains some good matter. The efforts of the present editor-in-chief and staff have resulted in a great improvement of the magazine over what it was last year. It is now a credit to the University and deserves the hearty support of all the students.
THE quiet of Washburn has been broken by the sudden appearance of an anonymous journal, appropriately named the Night Hawk. This bird of prey, coming under the cover of night, attacks indiscriminately and without reserve. Its attack upon the Argo and the Reporter is vituperative and seems to spring from a malicious heart. However, the reputation of these two journals has been passed upon by the students and the croakings of an ill-omened bird can do them no harm. The editor devotes his whole columns to criticisms upon Washburn students and affairs pertaining to Washburn life. We are not without our faults and are free to confess it; but is it possible that our most worthy contemporary is with out the pale of criticism? Let those who live in glass houses throw no stones.—Argo.
THE Messachorean raises a long, loud, mournful wail because the Courier a few weeks ago touched it in a tender spot. Its effort at bombast is really quite amusing. After expanding on its own merits and the amount of [stale] matter it publishes, and telling the Courier how proud it ought to be to have its name mentioned in a "Paper like the Messachorean," it even has the conceit to mention its own name in the same sentence with the Hesperian. Why, dear Messachorean, the Hesperian is a college journal with some literary merit! How dare you compare your dreary, empty pages, edited by a fourth-class faculty, with a live student journal like the Hes-
This reminds us of the infamous posters circulated in June, '86, by a certain student at that time well known in K. S. U.
perian? Your effrontery is shocking! The COURIER makes no attempt at literary journalism. It only claims to be a college newspaper, and to furnish a medium for the expression of student views. In this it to a great extent succeeds. The Messachorean attempts to be both a newspaper and a literary magazine, but it succeeds in neither. Its news is always a month old, and it hasn't published a literary article worthy of a Prep. this year, even if it has been edited by the faculty. The Messachorean, after misrepresenting its own name, ends up its tirade with the same poor, little pun that it has used so often. We hope its faculty will be able to conjure up a new one before its next issue, for this one is becoming some what ancient.
A thorough education is every where considered as an essential qualification for the successful prosecution of a profession. This truth has impressed itself so forcibly upon the mind of the average citizen that a thorough education is thought to be intended only for those who expect to engage in a profession. Indeed, some have gone farther, and asserted that the common industries demand a good supply of common sense rather than the accumulation of uncommon knowledge, which is supposed to result from a college course. Those who make this assertion forget that it is not this impractical knowledge, but rather the discipline and culture acquired in seeking it that makes a college course beneficial. In reply to this it is said there is no demand in the lower industries for this discipline and culture. To a limited extent this is true. At best, this discipline and refinement which college alumni are supposed to possess finds a greater reward in the professions than in the lower pursuits. Perhaps, for this reason college men have ever turned to professional life for their avocations. Fortunately, there is a tendency to-day to raise all the higher pursuits—such as journalism, teaching, engineering, etc., to the dignity of professions. This will open other avenues for professionally trained talent and increase the number of occupations requiring a college training. Instead of being limited to a choice between the ministry, medicine or law, our graduates find at least half a dozen professions offering remunerative employment. This increase of the professions will of course, result in decreasing the number of those who otherwise would crowd the old established professions. In this state the alumni of the University are rapidly advancing to the leadership of every profession. Especially in teaching, in journalism and in law, they are becoming prominent, and the day is not far distant when the alumni of K.S. U. will form the front rank in the professional life of Kansas.
Henry George was judge on a joint debate at Columbia recently.
A great many students seem to think that they can take a paper all year and then avoid paying their subscriptions. They think they have done a brilliant thing—something becoming a financier. They do not seem to regard it as a debt that they owe, a fair and honest debt, but rather as an account that has been charged up against them, and which they are under no obligations to pay. To such we would like to present some facts. It has cost over $700 to run the Courier this year, besides the amount of labor and time that is spent by the staff of editors in getting it up which would be easily worth $300 more. That is, this paper comes to you every week at a cost in time and money of over $1,000 a year. You have received it and read it. We doubt not that it has furnished you more satisfaction and pleasure than any other one thing at its price. And still you are trying to defraud the company out of your subscription. You may not like the word *defraud*, but isn't it about what it amounts to? Of course the want of your dollar will not ruin the paper. But the paper has a right to it and you have not. Honest men pay their debts of a dollar just as scrupulously as those of many dollars. Of course there are many who are delinquent in this matter from carelessness. But there is a large class who never intend to pay. To the former we only wish to say that we hope they will think of it before leaving. But to the latter we repeat, the above most emphatically.
PROBABEY no educator of late years has acquired the prominence that is accorded Hon. Andrew D. White, Ex-President of Cornell University. On all subjects relating to the higher education of American youth his statements carry with them the weight of successful experience.
In the June Forum under the title, "The Next American University" he advocates the foundation of a National University at Washington. "The idea," he says, "is the result of no sudden impulse or whim; it is the outgrowth of years of observation and thought among men as well as among books, in public business as well as in university work, in other countries as well as our own.
Our country has all ready not far short of four hundred colleges and universities more or less worthy of those names, besides a vast number of high schools and academies quite as worthy to be called colleges and universities as many which bear those titles. But the system embracing all these has by no means reached its final form. Probably in its more complete development the stronger institutions, to the number of twenty or thirty, will, within a generation or two become universities in the true sense of the word, restricting themselves to university work; beginning, perhaps, at the studies now usually undertaken in the Junior year of our colleges, and carrying them on through the Senior year, with two or three years of professional study afterward. The best of the others will
probably accept their mission as colleges in the true sense of the word, beginning the course two years earlier than at present, and continuing it to what is now the Junior year. Thus they will do a work intermediate between the general school system of the country and the universities, a work which can be properly called collegiate, a work, the need of which is now sorely felt, and which is most useful and honorable. Such an organization will give us as good a system as the world has ever seen probably the best system.
ONE OF THE ACTORS.
As the commencement season approaches, and the students are called upon to devote time to the preparation of appropriate exercises, we often wonder of what use such exercises are to the University, and if they have any use at all. It has long been the custom with educational institutions to close the year's work with fitting exercises, and to dismiss the seniors with a general jubilee. But why is all this apparently uses less expenditure of time and energy? To use Bagehot's expression, all University work may be said to be divided into the efficient and the dignified or theatrical. The efficient part includes all class-room work and embraces by far the greater portion of our work. It is pre-eminently for this that the state levies taxes for our support. But it is only those who frequent our class room from day to day, and really perform the duties of the student or instructor who know any thing about it. Although it is the maintenance of efficient work which is the object of every student and friend of the University, yet the dignified or theatrical part, which includes commencement exercises and all in that line is not less essential. This department is not maintained but for its imaginative attractions upon the public. Indeed it is through this medium alone that our work is brought into notice. How many people of Kansas, let us say friends of the Uuiversity, would be interested in the routine of the class room? But what crowds gather in the chapel during the commencement season. Thus it may be truly said, that the theatrical element is maintained for the benefit of those who have not the ability to appreciate thoroughly the efficient. But the student also is influenced by the dignified element Who does not study harder during his collegiate years, inspired by the hope of having an opportunity to take a part in commencement theatricals. Yet all such elements tend to diminish simple efficiency. All purely ornamental work is a source of fiction and error. But on account of its important bearing on the public, and because it is expected of us, our commencement exercises should be kept up, and every student should participate in them heartily
KANSAS IN 1854 AND 1888.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, of Cambridge, Mass., who is to deliver the oration before the literary societies of the University of Kansas,
on Monday evening of commencement week (June 4), was a prominent figure in early Kansas history. In the autumn of 1854 he conducted a company of free state men from New England to the territory, and at once became intimately associated with the men who had determined that Kansas should be free from the blight of slavery. In 1862 he entered the army a captain in the Fifty-first Massachusetts regiment. Soon after he was made colonel of the First South Carolina volunteers. In August, 1863, he was wounded at Willtown Bluff, and in October, 1864 he resigned his commission on account of disability
Colonel Higginson earnestly advocates the higher education of women, and specially champions their right to share the educational advantages offered by Harvard University. It is singularly appropriate that such a man deliver the address before the literary societies in the State University of Kansas This institution has from the beginning in 1866, received the sexes upon terms of absolute equality. Co-education in Kansas has long since ceased to be an experiment. We doubt not that Colonel Higginson will return to Cambridge confirmed in the opinion so long and so tenaciously held that our boys and girls are better educated and that they develop into better men and women and better citizens as a result of co-education.
The Kansas which Colonel Higginson knew thirty years ago has ceased long since to exist. In its stead he will see thriving cities where then stretched the unbroken prairie Railroads now span the state in every direction. The increasing population has spread westward to the borders of Colorado. A few remain who knew the philanthropist and wrought with him for freedom in those stormy days that marked the birth of Kansas. These and multitudes besides, citizens of Kansas, without regard to party lines, will give our distinguished visitor a most hearty welcome. —Capital.
We hereby express our thanks to Buckingham and Kellogg for their management of the Courier this week during our absence.
Williams has raised over $700 for the support of her ball team.
Princeton has two clubs called respectively "Missionary" and "Heathen."
The Yale Freshmen have one hundred and twenty entries for their class games.
Four members of the Johns Hopkins nine hold scholarships from the University.
Madison University conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. on Roscoe Conkling in '77.
$20,000 has lately been presented to Brown University by Alexander Duncam of Scotland.
Associatee Justice Stanley Matthews has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration at commencement exercises of the Yale Law School in June.
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