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.
DENTON DUNN,
President: R. J. CURDY,
Secretary.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
OXRUS R. ANE, Editor in Charge.
F. G. CROSS-ELL,
L.J.G. BENTFIELD,
F. C. KEYS,
A. C. CUNKLE,
INEZ TAGGAF.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
DENTON HUGHSON. EARLE L. SWOPE.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
Notice to Subscribers
The price of the Courier has been raised from fifty cents to one dollar a year. This is a step that has been contemplated, by the management for a long while. At the present price the Courier costs subscribers less than one and a half cents per copy, less than any publication, civic or college, weekly or daily, in the country. It does not pay for the quality of paper upon which it is printed. With the advance in price we hope to make the Courier more interesting and attractive than ever before.
We are under obligations to W. A. White for the literary matter in this edition of the Courier.
The Courier would like to know, not necessarily for publication, but as evidence of good faith, how the young ladies of K.S. U. stand on the subject of female suffrage. We will venture the assertion, however, that the majority are against it.
THE University "ad" on the back of the Review, for which our e- teemed contemporary received $100 per year, has been discontinued for lack of funds. Probably our e.c. will change the even tenor of its way and be less neutral on subjects which well subjects which concern the students' interests.
EVERY student in the University should read Senator Ingall's article in the September Forum upon the "Sixteenth Amendment" Even if you dont believe the Senator's way, read it anyhow and learn something of the Kansan who is so peculiar, so original and so well known and admired in the effete East. Look him up. ___
The Emporia State Normal has something like a thousand students. So much for judicious advertising. The Normal expends every year $1,500. Let people know what kind of a school it is, and as a consequence a big attendance pays it back in contingent fees. The appropriation for advertising was the nominal sum of $300. Evidently the management of K. S. U. don't believe much in advertising.
Friends of the University.
The University has more friends and warmer friends, among the prominent men of the state than any other institution in the state. Her friends are growing in numbers and influence every day. In the newspaper fraternity, her friends compose nearly if not all the prominent editors—we would call them journalists but the name is odious to them—in the state. Here the most stalwart friend of the University is Noble L. Prentiss. Although the graduate of a printing office with but a common school education, Prentiss' work shows him to be a man of deep culture, of broad mind and with all that goes to make him a possessed gentleman. Next in ability although first in influence was John A. Martin, of the Atchison champion. Mr. Martin is honored by the official position of Governor of Kansas, but in his official capacity he does not forget his friendship for the State's favorite educational institution. Though never very demonstrative, D. R. Anthony of the Leavenworth Times, when he is not shooting or being shot, is a warm supportdr of the State University. J. K. Hudson always uses the Capitol to help our school but the Barker family of the Commonwealth, are inclined to be rather cool at times. The Murdock family, including Marsh Murdock of the Wichita Eagle, T. B. Murdock, of the El Dorado Re-publican, and his brother-in-law Jake Stotler, of the Emporia Globe—recently defunct—are generally neutral but can be counted as friends of K. S. U. Web Wilder, the only collegiate we have mentioned, is and always has been in favor of the University. Until about three years ago old Sol Miller was a bitter enemy to the University, but one cold winter evening, when the Senate was in session and he had been giving some pretty hard licks to the "Lawrence High School" as he called it, old Sol came down from Topeka and went through the building at the dead of night, being shown over by his nephew Glen Miller. Since then he has remained silent and last summer condescended to print a very flattering notice of Professor Jas. H. Canfield, for whom Miller has a profound respect—possibly because they are so much alike—Miller and Canfield. With the exception of M. W. Reynolds of this city, who is of course our friend, thus composes a majority of the best newspaper men of Kansas.
But why is there such unanimity in the support of the State University, these men were, with one exception, educated in the world's school and are men of hard, uncharitable sense. As a general rule they oppose a college bred man, but for the University they have a kind word and extend a welcome hand to her graduates. There is but one answer to this and that is the fact that men whom these men meet, coming from the University, are living recommendations for that institution. The old boys look to the institution they have fostered to bring forth their successors, and they do not look in vain. Among the brightest, most promising
W. Gleed and, last but by no means least, Miss Ethel Beecher Allen, have all done their alma matter honor with the editorial quill, while L.H. Leach has done her credit in the legislative hall.
K. S. U. is proud of her friends and prouder still that her sons have won them.
Another Good Word for Kansas. Fred, A. Stocks, of '85, delivered the following address before the old settlers of Blue Rapids. It has been quite extensively copied by the State press, and the Courier can do no less than give a corner to its former editor-in-chief:
Your anniversary rells forcibly to our minds the fact that Kansas has a history, a history glorious in the extreme, oftentimes colored with romantic tints, yet comprised within the short space of a decade—events heavily freighted with importance to our state and nation. Here some of the first victories for human liberty were won, pressuring the result of the final conflict. Here John Brown, the heroic leader of a fearless band, struck the first blow in that philanthropic cause, to which he at last sacrificed his life, and in which he won a martyrs' crown. Here thousands of people risked life, friends, everything, and for what? For an idea—a freedom. It was Kansas that sent more men to the late war, compared with her population, than any other state in the union. Out from the ashes of drouth, grasshoppers, cyclones and adverse criticism, she has risen. Phenxixlike, to be a state of a million and a half people, her landscape dotted with villages, towns and cities, her surface netted with railroads; a state rich in her natural resources and unsurpassed in the quality of her citizen. Surely hers is an eventful history, teening with results most satisfactory to every lover of freedom, equality and progress.
We would ask in whose honor does our commonwealth shine forth resplendent as a perpetual monument? What workman wrought her fundamental laws, the foundation stones on which have been built a most equitable state government? Who have redeemed the wild prairies from the domain of the wilderness, the fancied great American desert of forty years ago, and caused them to bud and blossom? Who have helped to fill Kan-sas with happy, prosperous homes, to build school houses on each rise of ground, to place the right of municipal franchise in the hands of women, who could have aced a more advanced and manly part than the old settlers of the state of Kansas.
"They crossed the prairies, as of old
The pilgrims crossed the sea,
To nake the west, as they the east
The homestead of the free."
But I would not speak of the men alone who came to Kansas in an early day. If they are deserving of praise for breaking the ties which held them to their eastern friends, in order to seek a new home in the far west, or to battle in the cause of freedom much more do the women who accompanied them deserve eulogy. Victor Hugo says: "He who has seen the sufferings of men has seen nothing, let him look upon the sufferings of women." Burdened with the many drudgeries attendant upon frontier life, deprived of the luxuries and comforts that make one happy, in constant fear of death from the Indian's tomahawk or the white ruffian's rifle, without anything which resembles that which women love, society—alone—miles from the nearest neighbor, separated, perchance, by half a continent from their fathers and mothers, I say to them too, honor is due. And in reason of their famed generosity, kind-heartedness and patient endurance, I would offer this sentiment, dear to every true Kansan's heart:—The pioneer women of Kansas, none were more noble, more pure, more thoroughly womanly in its broadest and best sense than they.
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The New Regime.
Last spring it was rumored that there was to be many changes in the University this year. These rumors were to a greater or less degree verified with the publication of the new catalogue. There were the "major and minor courses" to puzzle the juniors, the crowding down of studies to rack the brains of the lower classmen, and the substitution of theses for chapel work to invite either praise or profanity from all sides. Here the catalogue stopped; but the old familiar pages of the book which had greeted us with the same message year after year, were torn out and their places filled with strange unlooked for and unheard of substitutes. From this fact there were "wars and rumors of wars." Accordingly, the opening of this year the "new regime" began. The old student was first awakened to the fact when he tried to pay his fees in the good old way over the counter; but he was compelled to sign a statement, like a dry prohibitionist. Next he was confronted with the pigeon like system in the library, and from the chapel rostrum that moss covered precept was drawn forth from its slumber in the catalogue regarding uneexceptional deportment and strict attention to University duties and proclaimed as the motto of the baptised, regenerated University. Between the lines this means more system, less toleration, more faculty prerogatives and fewer student privileges, death to delinquents and the final evolution of a Kansas college into an Eastern high-class University.
To some of the old students the new order of things seems irrelevent, but in most cases the change is for the better. Many see in this tightening of the lines a falling off of the warm friendly relation between professor and pupil, but all can see a promise of better, harder work to balance the loss.
In the reconstruction we can trace the fine Italian hand of Henry Waterson's "star eyed goddess of reform," but whether the "Eastern idea" contains the elements of success or whether it is another of the many "isms" which seek a refuge in Kansas and her institutions, remains only for time to tell. Let us hope that it may succeed and work as we hope.
We have the best school in the best, boomingest state in the most glorious country on earth, and if there is anything in surroundings, our KANSAS University is bound to succeed.
Miss Morrow
A letter from Miss Morrow, dated Rosario, Argentine Republic, South America, and written early in July, announces her preparation for a speedy return to the United States. It will be borne in mind that the school vacation in the Argentine Republic falls naturally in December, January and February; consequently she received the news of her appointment to the University of Kansas about the middle of the school year. She at once made her arrangements to accept the position offered her in Lawrence and, if no delays occur, will reach New York in October.
Miss Alcinda L. Morrow is a Kansas woman, not a native of the state, but a Kansan by choice and adoption. She was well known in the state as a teacher when in 1877 the Board of Regents elected her to a position in the University. She performed the duties of her office so acceptably that, when three years later she resigned, her withdrawal was most deeply regretted by students faculty and Regents.
Many changes have taken place in the University of Kansas since Miss Morrow knew it seven years ago. To her Snow Hall and the Chemistry Building will, of course, be new. But these are only outward indications of the advance that has been made by the University in every direction. The faculty is larger, the number of collegiate students is greatly increased, the departments are multiplied. The facilities for instruction bear no comparison with the meagre display of which the friends of the institution were justly proud a decade ago. In our present faculty Professor Morrow will meet eight of her former associates; namely, Professors Snow, Robinson, Miller, Canfield, Williams, Marvin, Carruth and Green.
It is easy to gather from the letter referred to above, that Professor Morrow does not leave her work in South America without regret. Her reluctance in quitting a field where she has met with pre-eminent success needs no explanation nor any apology. When she went to Rosario she found a little school, in the Normal Department of which there were but twenty-five students, occupying an insignificant house ill adapted to school work. Now the Normal School, of which she has been principal, numbers five hundred students and contains all the departments of a thoroughly organized Normal School from the Kindergarten to the highest courses in Pedagogy. Of course the original school house has given place to ampler buildings. But this is not all. The city of Rosario has recently given a park and the national government (the Republic) has furnished the means for erecting therein a normal school building that shall be a model in architectural design and completeness of arrangement for all that country. The enlargement of the buildings, the increase in the number of students, and the popular confidence in the educational methods of the institution, are undoubtedly due in pre-eminent measure to the well directed labors of Professor Morrow. Her work, however, has not been confined to her own school alone. The school system of the Republic has felt the inspiration of her enthusiasm Teachers educated under her have carried her methods and her spirit into the public school system of the state. Promident in Professor Morrow's work has been the translating of the best American school books into the Spanish language for the use of the Argentine schools. One of the publications of A. S. Barnes & Co.,she now has in course of translation.
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