1924
2117
New spring styles Cutaway and Sack Suits at Steinberg's Clothing House
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. E. TAYLOR ' DENT. ROGERBOM.
President, d.
Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOHN A. PRESCOTT, EDITOR-IN-CHIRE,
ASSOCIATES
CHAS, JOHNSON,
F. C. KEYS,
FRED. LIDDERK,
FRED. LIDDERK,
HARRY BUCKINGHAM,
V. L. KELLOGG,
NAN. LOVE,
TAN. LOVE,
MAY HAIN,
MAY QUIRCHILLE,
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
WILL. A. JACKSON, | SOLON T. GILMORE
From the Press of P. T. FOLEY.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second class matter.
GO DOWN to Baldwin this evening and help Stebbins uphold the glory of K. S.U. The more adherents and friends he can see in the audience, the more confidence will be given him. Go down for your own benefit; forget books and studies and have a jolly, good time. Become acquainted with the men from the other educational institutions and especially see what you can of Baker, the school at which we have laughed so long, yet which yearly sends to the State Oratorical Contest the 'most formidable opponent whom our man has to meet.
The Washburn, Argo, a monthly, published by a school near Topeka, in its last issue relieved its overwrought, hypochondriacal spleen against the Courier of K.S. U. by indulging its mud throwing propensity to the usual extent. The Courier hopes that under the present management it may never so far forget itself or the character of the institution it represents as to be compelled to stoop to such filth for comment. An educational institution, even such an one as Washburn, should have more decency and pride than to soil its hands with such scurrillity.
It is the aim of the COURIER to keep the "University Directory" in such shape that information contained therein may be thoroughly reliable. But elections and changes in times of meeting, etc., occur so frequently in some of the numerous literary and scientific societies, that our local editor must sometimes fail to hear of them. Hence, announcements in this column, becoming old and incorrect, often remain unamended.
If, when changes in officers or times of meeting are made, some member of the society in which they occur will kindly hand the announcement to any member of the staff, corrections will be promptly made, and the "Directory" will be able to better accomplish the purpose for which it is designed.
THERE have been a number of Alumni gatherings lately, notably those of the Alumni association of the University of the city of New York; the Princeton Club; the Dartmouth Alumni; and the Williams College Alumni Association. The usual number of "notables" were present at each, and the most notable of the "notables" made addresses. These meetings are conducive to great good, not only to the alumni, but to the "almae matres" and it is very much to be desired that the alumni of K. S. U. should take more interest in their association, and make their annual meeting one of greater note.
The object of education is the discipline of the mind as well as the acquisition of knowledge. To obtain this discipline, some recommend the study of language, others recommend the study of science and mathematics, each kind of study being adapted to the development of particular faculties, and more or less practical. But one study having more disciplining qualities than any other, and far more practical in its results, is pretty generally overlooked. It is the study of composition. To express thoughts clearly necessitates a studious discrimination in the meaning of words, and in the relative importance and logical sequence of facts which bear on the subject under discussion. This is severe exercise and requires great concentration of mind, but affords a most effective drill for the judgment. Our courses have made ample provision for composition on subjects requiring much reading and sitting down of leading ideas. But mere reading and composition is not enough if not supplemented by original thinking. Too many students try to retain a knowledge of every branch of study only until after examination, when they allow it to become disorganized so as to be practically worthless as knowledge. A student may make a first grade record in all the classes, mathematics or sciences, and be about as ignorant at the end as at the beginning of his course. No doubt, he may experience some sort of mind expansion. Yet he may have no more connected ideas, or be more able to think correctly than before. The disorganization of any acquired knowledge also tends to the disorganization of all knowledge, and thus forms a habit very detrimental to the intellect. If on the other hand, a student supplements his studies by exerting his thinking powers, his mind instead of becoming a leaky reservoir of facts, will become a laboratory of original ideas, and his learning will afford excellent material. His memory will be strengthened because he cannot afford to lose this material. Thinking begets the necessity of knowing. As he continues the practice of original writing, he learns to think consistently and connectedly. If he have no overweeping self-appreciation and exercise severe self criticism in the choice of words as well as in the discrimination of facts, he will become exact, and obtain an excellent command of
language, a result highly practical. He will be conscious of power, and his mind, reudered, aggressive, will naturally assimilate truth. Original composition is something each student should see to for himself. One page of originally elaborated thoughts is worth more to the writer than a score of pages gleaned from other sources. Of course, it takes time. But a half hour each day spent in original thinking and writing is more beneficial than the time spent in getting any lesson. It is an excellent mental gymnastic. Try it.
On the incoming of a new board on the Courier, it is by precedent the correct thing to cry out for the "much needed" improvements necessary to the welfare of the University. We need a library building, a Chancellors mansion, a gymnasium. As assuredly we do need all these, but in our school life utterly unbearable without them? Is this University a failure in its mission; do we, the students, without them, fail to receive those essentials of knowledge for which we come here, for the slight gain of which, we consent to endure four years of martyrdom, that the University of Kansas may receive glory in being able to point out our to be illustrious names in her rolls? Do we absolutely need some grand building in which to roam about in search of our unit of a library? When the University library assumes such proportions that it demands a building, then it will have it. When the reputation of the University will be so extended that its Chancellor must be singled out from common new and made to live one hundred and fifty feet nearer the sky than he does in his present residence, then Mount Oread will be graced by a Chancellor's mansion. Where our students evince sufficient capacity in special athletic sports to justify the legislature in appropriating money for a gymnasium building, it will undoubtedly do it. As for the matter of exercise sufficient for good health, no student need lack that for want of a gymnasium. A pair of dumb bells or Indian clubs, ground to walk or run on, a ball to throw and bat, are within the reach of any one. No man can go out from the University broken down in health and blame it upon the lack of a gymnasium. When the University has shown an inclination and readiness to take a step in advance, means have not been lacking to enable it to take that step. Luxuries will not be thrust upon us but when a need really is a need, when certain improvements are imperatively demanded for the success of the school, the state will not fail to provide means for such improvements.
As the mantle, if there is one, falls upon our shoulders, as we assume the burden, and begin the labors which our predecessors have pronounced so arduous, we are not without fear
With this issue the Courier passes into the hands of a new board of editors. What shall be its fate remains to be seen.
that our abilities may fall short of the task which is before us. If such should be the case; if in the eye of students and public we should gravely err, as doubtless we often shall, we can only bow to your kind indulgence. We fully realize that it is no slight undertaking to edit a college journal so that it shall satisfy the wants and meet the approval of all. In a school where numerous factions or classes exist, this is especially difficult. A journal which could please all of them would indeed be remarkable; and is greatly to be desired. That we shall be able to produce such a model paper, we do not flatter ourselves with the slightest hope; but we promise that it shall be the ideal toward which we constantly struggle with unabated zeal.
With every distinct body of students represented, ladies and gentlemen, fraternity and non-fraternity alike, we shall endeavor to be unjust to no one, and to look to the interests of all with an unprejudiced eye. We shall earnestly strive to make the Courier the student's paper in the full sense of the term. To that end our columns shall always be open to the free expression of views, and contributions by any and all are cordially invited, nay, earnestly solicited. It shall not be our policy to seek controversy with regents, faculty, faction or contemporary college journals. But if perchance we should have an opinion, to express, a criticism or a suggestion to make, or a question to ask, we shall speak frankly and shall expect like treatment in return.
To the citizens, and business men of Lawrence the new management makes its bow. We shall try to maintain for the COURIER the good reputation which our predecessors have made for it; and we hope that you will extend us the same patronage and encouragement which you have given them.
We again ask the aid and support of the students, for without their cooperation no college journal can be a success.
Why Not?
To the Editor of The Courier:
Why Not?
Kansas people are proud of their state; it history, its heroes, its grasshoppers, its cyclones, its drouths and its glorious advancement. This pride of the Kansas people has crystallized and is found in a statute which sets aside Jan. 29th as a day of Kansas Thanksgiving and reminiscence. The statute further provides that the day shall be especially observed in the Kansas public schools. Yet this day was passed without the slightest notice by the state University. Perhaps the faculty with their eyes fixed on the "Olympian heights" can come down and recognize a plebian holiday. Perhaps because no mouldering low-priced ruins hold back Kansas boom the Regents, like crazy John Ruskin, don't care to notice the state which supports them. But it cannot be denied that in Kansas there is a strong feeling, daily growing, to put Kansas men, Kansas growth, Kansas history before every
thing. This University must acknowledge or lose the support of the Kansas press and through that the support of the Kansas papers. The reason now that the press of the state look askance at Oread is because they think—justly or unjustly—that the University is filled with what they call a "set of eastern dudes" who care for Kansas only as they can bleed her people.
In Kansas Washington's birthday is celebrated about as heartily by the people in general as is St. Patrick's day. In fact, Washington's birthday is a little mouldy all over the country. Enough has been said about Washington already so that only a genius can say more. The impotent efforts of mediocre people to say something new about the parent of his country becomes either disgusting rehash or cringing veneration of a half-god, half-human creation of popular fancy. On the other hand the history of Kansas is unwritten. Wilder, Spring and the Herd book man have each contributed somewhat, but a complete history, a reliable history, of Kansas has not been written.
In this the University is placed in a position to do a great work for the state. Situated in the very center of the stage when the first scene of the Kansas drama was enacted, by a very little exertion and a respectable amount of attention the University could awaken an interest in Kansas' early days that would lead perhaps to a far better history of the state than now exists. At any rate to devote one day in the year to a subject in which all Kansans are interested could do much good and would do no harm. "HERB MOST."
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Once upon a time, when the body had been racked and wasted with painful disorders, a discussion arose among its various members as to the origin and remedy of their sufferings. They agreed that the disorders had been brought on by physical abuses; the abuses were the effects of misgovernment, the mind was the governing power; therefore, some proposed as a remedy that the brain should be beaten out, and the mind thus annihilated. But some dissenting members showed that mental annihilation, so far from being a remedy, would inevitably be their own destruction as well, surely no desirable end. What would be more foolish than to destroy the central nerve force, by which they were united, through which they performed their functions, and in which they had a vital part? It is true, they had been injured by the ignorant and careless violation of natural laws, but the mind had also suffered the consequences, and, having been made wiser by painful experience, would hereafter avoid those evil abuses, and the sufferings would be relieved.
There are people who think that the social evils of which they complain are the effects of misgovernment, or social maladjustment, and therefore to be remedied only by abolishing government. Let them remember that social life without government is impossible. Evils there are, many and serious, but the governing intelligence of the people, profitting by painful experience, will enquire after the causes and remove them. Anarchy is social death.
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