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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
SINCE the faculty has prohibited the students from planting a May pole an active and vigorous Cuban rebellion may be expected.
FROM the strength of our base-ball team there is no doubt about our ability to vanquish the nine of any state college. This will be a good way to retrieve our lost honors in oratory.
We often fail to give out faculty the honor that justice demands. In the late meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science at Emporia, our professors were not only the principal speakers but governed the politics and course of the association.
The enthusiasm manifested by the different classes in base-ball matters is what the school most needs. It cultivates class spirit, fosters university interest and makes our men participants in the sport, instead of continual eye witnesses and admirers of others.
FRATERNITY girl, your time "is come." With your exquisite parties yet to come what youth will fail to do you honor? Upon you will rest either his social enjoyment or desolation. He may have caused you pain in the past. Many have been the hours, possibly, that have awaited an invitation to his parties. And too, perhaps he has never in all his life asked you to dance. You wonder why it happens that it was not until yesterday that he ever called on you. You may think, and not unwisely, that he is trying to get a "stand in." But oh no! he is only calling because spring suits him better than winter. Yet Frat girl you have him. After all his seemingly rude actions to you, he did not do them consciously and is truly repentant? Overlook his faults, have compassion on him. Do not cast his name aside with a blackball attachment, but invite him willingly so the poor fellow will not have to run the gauntlet of the jeers and scorns of the more favorite ones.
AFTER all we are not to have our field meet at Kansas City. Missouri has run up the white flag because she has not what she considers a winning team. This is certainly unfortunate Everything seemed to be running along smootly and the prospect for a
successful beginning of an inter-collegiate track meet was highly flattering. We think that Missouri should have gone on with an inferior team rather than have forced the Fairmount people to give up the project. If we could once get the colleges together on the track we would have no difficulty in keeping up the interest, and making the venture a paying one. Kansas University is bound to make an inter-collegiate field meet an established affair, if it is possible. We have failed this year, let us try it again next.
We often think with regret of the repeated newspaper misrepresentations of college affairs upon the reading public. A recent scandal at one of the large universities was gorgeously disclored and served up as spice at the breakfast tables the day following the incident. College life, college students and college customs are continually suffering at the hands of reporters who have no conception of the methods and conditions of our higher educational centers, and yet, the papers are not wholly at fault, for it is often true that the student correspondents furnish them with accounts which they are unable to verify There was was an exceptionally outrageous case of this kind at Wesleyan University two or three years ago. The University of Chicago has been the first to deal with this evil by forming a press association to supervise the news that goes to the daily papers -The University Magazine.
A MEAN AND PETTY VIEW.
The people of Kansas are becoming a little weary of the offensive officiousness of the superintendent and employees of the several state institutions. This is especially true of those connected with the State University and State Normal school. These institutions are in fact the recipients of public charity and the faculty and the cities in which they are located are the chief beneficiaries. We would not underestimate their value to the state or their efficiency, but we do claim that a small degree of modesty should characterize those who live off the state's bounty.-Arkansas City Traveler.
The idea that the Chancellor and professors of the University of Kansas, are as the Traveler contemptibly styles them,"recipients of public charity" who "live off the state's bounty" is new. We do not remember seeing it put forth up to this time. It
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