Nobby 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.
CHAS. LYONS,
President. O.B.TAYLOR,
Secretary.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
FRANK G. CROWELL, EDITOR-IN-CHEF,
ASSOCIATES:
JOHN PRESSOOT,
F. C. KEYS,
L.A. STEBRIEN,
H.F. M. BEAR,
W. R. ARMSTRONG,
NAN. LOVE,
LELIE DREIDMAN,
LILLIE DREIDMAN
H.F. M. BEAR
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
EARLE L. SWOPE. | WILL A. JACKSON.
From the Press of P. T. FOLEY.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas as second-class matter.
Mr. C. E. Street has generously taken charge of this week's issue, and to him belongs all the credit. Persons having comments to make should see the gentleman in person.
Lecture Bu: au.
One of the things most needed by the University is a good lecture bureau that will secure lectures of national reputation. True there is a lecture course under the direction of the faculty and regents. This course is good as far as it goes but it does not go far enough.
The lecture course we now have would supply all the needs of the University with the addition of about three such persons as Burdette, Wendling, Lowell, Kate Field, Tourgee, Ridpath, or Helen Gouger. But as we do not have this addition and there is no prospect that we will have soon, it seems as if it was about time for the students to take hold and organize a lecture bureau of their own. Perhaps some conservative ones will say impossible. Let such persons look at the lecture bureau of Baker University. There a lecture bureau is maintained by the students belonging to the literary societies, one of their objects being to make money to support their societies. If the students of Baker can support a lecture bureau and hire such lecturers as above mentioned, with such a small village as Baldwin to draw part of their audience from, surely the students of Kansas State University can support a first class lecture bureau with a city the size of Lawrence to draw part of their audience from, if they would only try.
The best way,in our opinion,to put such a scheme into operation would be to organize a joint stock company and give a board of directors power to secure lecturers and regulate the price of admission.
If such a scheme would be put in to operation the audience would not only be composed of the greater part of four hundred and fifty students, but also of the greater part of the intelligent people of Lawrence. Properly managed there is no reason why five or six of the best lecturers
of the United States could not be secured and the bureau made a paying institution as well as a potent factor in cultivating the literary tastes of the students as well as the people of Lawrence.
Let some one set the ball rolling by calling a meeting cf the students to at least get their opinion on the subject.
Oratorical Association.
The annual election of officers for the Oratorical association has occured. It is the duty of the executive committee now to decide upon the date of the local contest as soon as possible. The persons wishing to enter the contest will then know just how much longer they will have to prepare. The local oratorical contest is the most exciting event of the college year, for the students. Great interest should be taken in the coming contest by the students at large as well as by those intending to enter. Talk it up among your friends and let every one know that K. S. U. has many good orators within her walls, even if not a Prof. of excution. The contest will no doubt be very close and the winner should set himself (probably herself) to work with a determination that K. S. U. shall retain her prestige as a school of orators among the colleges of the state.
Students.
It has been the pride of the authorities and the students of the University of Kansas that they have been represented for the past six years with two papers, one a weekly and the other a literary monthly magazine. These papers have been published and controlled by the students. They have relied on business men of Lawrence for their support and to the business men we must rely on in the future as in the past.
Those business men who advertise in and support the students' periodicals should receive the patronage of the students. Those business men who are willing to generously help the students in every way tending to their good, their standing in the college world and in society should receive the patronage, the support and the good will of the students.
No paper can be properly conducted and not receive the support of the students, faculty of the University and business men of Lawrence. The Courier being a student's paper must of necessity be the best advertising medium; and in advertising the business men should receive a fair exchange.
The Courier also has a circulation among the citizens of Lawrence of five-hundred, more than any other paper published in the Athens of Kansas. It is distributed throughout the surrounding country and throughout the state. It will be seen by the above assertion in which we defy contradiction that the Courier reaching more households than any other paper is the best advertising medium for the business men. They do and will receive the support of the students and of all friends of the University. We would however advise and admonish the students to glance over our advertising columns and help those who help them. Our advertisers are the most reliable business men in Lawrence, men who are "willing to live and let live," and they will always treat the students fairly in all their dealings, and they will always have their good will and support.
A Literary Treat.
A week ago Thursday those who heard Geo. C. Miln in his role of Orthello were doubtless well pleased with the artistic manner in which he placed before the audience the loving but at the same time hot headed and passionate disposition of the Moor. Those who witnessed him Sunday evening in his true character and heard him speak those thoughts and express those feelings which lie nearest his heart, were not only pleased but were doubtless set to thinking of things about which they seldom trouble themselves, but which are at the same time of vital interest to society at large.
In his lecture he depicted the church and stage as twin sisters living through infancy and girlhood under one roof and growing to womanhood with but one aim in view—that of educating and elevating humanity. He then showed how a gradual coldness grew up between them, till each expected from the other what but ill will and evil doing. He cited the audience to the days of Charles Stuart when the church was morally at a very low ebb and the stage was by no means perfect, at this time parliament, under the control of the church, passed a law declaring the play a nuisance and the actor a rogue and ordering all play houses pulled down. This is but one example showing the hatred of the one for the other, he said. The stage is but a mirror, he said, which reflects society as it is. The church, says he, a lofts the opposite method, that of telling society, in solemn tones, that it is totally deprived. He then described the relations of the stage and the church at the present time. He said he noted signs of reunion and that he hoped to see, before many years, the preacher and the actor working shoulder to shoulder, with a friendly rivalry, for the elevation of mankind.
"FLIES."
Misses R——
Cooks flies
For students:
Students rise,
And surprise
Misses R——,
In 'er prudence,
Declaring,
Swearing,
Every one,
They were done,
By their eyes,
Eating flies.
"By the bub!"
A good "Club,"
They would start,
And right here
They'd depart
From our dear
Misses R___
And 'er flies.
Thus it came
That the name
Misses R——
Meant "flies",
And students
Of prupence,
Shun d Lady R——
And 'er flies
She had a boy,
Her pride and joy.
He went to school,
He was no fool.
He wished to be
A member of
A good old Greek
Fraternity.
But by my eyes
He smell'd of "flies,"
And be it weak
Or be it wise,
The rude "frat" men
Didn't "take him in."
As a result
The non-adult
In plety
Lonesome and alone
Has kept his own
Society.
All out of tune,
In the "T—e,"
To ventilate
The hidden hate
That has wrankled in her bosom,
The wrathful dame
Of "flyish fame"
Has jarred the doors of wis om.
Has jarred the doors of wis om.
—From the "Lays of Lawrence," by Isaac
College World.
Russia has closed her universities to women.
Several eastern colleges are endeavoring to have Monday observed as a holiday, instead of Saturday.
The students of the University of Pennsylvnsia have adopted as a college dress the Oxford cap and gown.
A Yale diploma, one hundred and twenty-two years old, was picked up recently at an auction sale in New York.—Ex.
The Dartmouth Gazette was the first college paper ever published in America. Daniel Webster was one of the editors.
Dartmouth students make more money playing ball during the summer than by teaching school, and they find it more pleasant.
The Roman Catholic church at present maintains, in different parts of the vest, 55 Indian schools, with a total attendance of over 3,000.
The mounting for the Lick telescope has been completed at Cleveland, Ohio. It is to be shipped to the observatory in a short time.
President Angell, of the University of Michigan, has been appointed one of the commissioners to settle the fishery dispute with Canada.
The fact that Mrs. Cleveland is a graduate of Wells college has given that institution a boom, and it is now overflowing with students. Ex.
At Harvard, the hazing of Freshmen is confined principally to those young men who do not choose to supply punch for uninvited visitors.
A gold medal has been offered by an alumnus of Exeter academy to that man on the eleven who plays his position best during the entire season.
A joint committee of alumni and undergraduates is to be formed at Columbia to have general supervision of the athletic interests of the college.
A scholarship of $4,000 has been given to Dartmouth on condition that no student who uses tobacco shall receive any assistance from such scholarship.
Mrs. Hayseed (whose son is at college)—George writes that he is taking fencin' lessons. Mr. Hayseed—I am glad o' that. I'll set him a diggin' post holes when he gets home.
$8,000,000 will be necessary to build and place on a firm basis the Catholic University at Washington, D. C. $700,000 has already been secured. The theological school will be opened first.
The sophomores of Dartmouth laterly gave a freshman a free shave accompanied by some good advice. The next day found the freshman packing for home, remarking that he had all the college life he wanted.
The directors of the Williams college Athletic association are endeavoring to raise money for constructing a quarter-mile track. The alumni offer to raise one-half the sum, provided the students furnish the other half.
The faculty of Amherst have invited J. M. Ward, of the New Yorks, to deliver a a lecture on "Base Ball." Would not Mrs. Ward (nee Helen Danvray, the actress.) be more warmly received by the students than her liege lord?
Several new buildings are in process of construction at the University of Michigan. They include an anatomical laboratory, a boiler house, an addition to the engineering laboratory, a forge and foundry building and a dental college.
There seems to be an increased attendance in all the educational institutions of the country. Lafayette has 100 Freshmen, Yale 204, Amherst 100, Wellesley 180, and Harvard has upwards of 2,000 students in all departments.
The celebrated Von Ranke collection of books, which it was thought at one time might come to Evanston, has found a resting place at Syracuse University. Ground has been broken for a $40,000 library building, which will have a capacity of 130,000 volumes.
A recent Princetonian publishes a list of 51 Princeton graduates who have served their country in the U.S. senate. Among them, we find the names of two Bayards, two Frelinghuysens, Aaron Burr, Colquitt of Georgia, and Don Cameron of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Pike, the Hartford opera manager, is trying to make arrangements for a Glee club prize contest. He proposes to make the Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and Amherst clubs competitors. Prizes of $100 and $200 will be offered the winning club. —Ex.
A Jockey met his old college tutor at a horse-fair, and exclaimed: "What brings you here among these high-bred cattle? Do you think you can distinguish a horse from an ass." "My boy," replied the tutor, "I soon perceived you among these horses."
The Denison Collegian is to be congratulated on its good fortune. The authorities have given a room in the college building for the exclusive use of the editorial corps. All editorial meetings are held there, and the exchanges are kept on file. There is a crying need for something of this sort at Northwestern.
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