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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
The Students Salute report of the Interstate Convention has some very remarkable notes. It says that "The Inter-state Convention has some very remarkable notes. It says that "The Inter-state committee had horns and hoofs;" that "The convention was composed of students having the ministry in view, and other species of devils;" that the Kansas man was smitten on the young lady orator from Indiana, and that strange to relate other people were inclined in that way to; that the orator from Iowa, Miss Brown, savered of a recitatationist, etc.
The local editor of the Journal, who does not know a base-ball from a banana, came out in a local last week before the Emporia games, to the effect that the games would be too one-sided to be interesting. It is probably due to such statements as these that the students have gotten into the habit of staying away from ball games. The base-ball manager has hard work enough to make the team pay for itself without some of our University sorcheads, who "don't" get complimentaries, trying to keep people away.
The Student's Salute is pretty sore judging from the following: "For some years past there has been a disposition on the part of some of the Kansas colleges to throw the Normal out of the state association. They have not, however been able to accomplish their malicious end in any state convention. Feeling chagrined at their disappointed efforts, their representatives brought the matter before the interstate convention, and there, by the use of the worst kind of politics—fraternity politics—succeeded in throwing our school out of the inter-state association. When it is known that the Normal was one of the originators of the association, one of its representatives having been the first president of that body, that she holds first or second rank in the twelve years of her membership, that she has the ablest, largest and most enthusiastic of any of the local associations all thinking individuals, all who love justice, must admit that the Normal has been maliciously treated, and that, too, by men who are studying for the ministry and who are expected to carry the gospel of light to be-
nighted heathendom. This is certainly one way "to do unto others as you would they should do unto you." Representative Plummer fought a long and hard fight for the Normal, but so well had the opposition done its contemptible work and so overwhelming was the sentiment against the school that it was entirely beyond the power of any one man to prevent the action that was taken. There yet remains to be given a single sufficient reason why this injustice should have been perpetrated unless the disgruntled soreheads who are so instrumental in bringing it about can find a reason in having a dangerous rival out of the way. Whether or not they find a reason in this, they are certainly able to find a great deal of consolation in it."
Any one reading the Salute article would be led to believe that the InterState Covention deliberately with malice aforethought, passed a motion throwing the State Normal School of Kansas from the Interstate Association, when in reality nothing of the kind was done. Ever since the Interstate Association was founded there has been an article in its constitution declaring that only colleges shall be admitted to the association Kansas is the only state that has lowered its level by admitting a normal school and we ran the risk every year of having our whole association put out of the interstate for this illegal act. At the last convention the association simply interp eted its constitution to exclude normal schools and no specific mention was made of the Kansas Normal. The sentiment of the Kansas schools was undoubtedly against the Normal and she would have been thrown out by the state association long ago had it not been for political trades in different conventions.
It is said that the "powers that be" in the University are after the scalp of the "Lawyer." The foundation, for this is that the election of Wilbur Gardner, of the law school, as editor-in-chief of the "Weekly" by a certain faction, will lead to an action of the faculty asking the "Lawyer" to discontinue. We trust that this will prove to be merely a rumor and that the "Lawye ," the best law journal in the west will be allowed to continne.