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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
college or that college? Why say I "want to go to this place or that place next year?" If we will, we can be satisfied. We can get lots of good right here at home. Let us stand up for K. U. year in and year out. Let us come back to Commencement. Let us get up class feeling. Let us make our school the pride of the State and the West! We can if we but put our shoulders to the wheel.
IF the people who have so much to say would only keep out of the daily papers with their trash K U. would be much better off. Every man who has some dirty stuff to tell on some one else puts it into a paper and the matter is published all over the state. We would like to have a great many new buildings and larger appropriation for running expenses. Are we taking the right method to accomplish this end when we wash our dirty linen before the people of Kansas. These people become disgusted with us and when we ask them for anything they refuse. We have no more trouble than any other college. We get along decidedly well. But when ever a little fight gets started both sides publish a lot of "rot" about the other and we are painted blacker than we really are.
The publishing of the article in last Saturday nights Journal by W. S. Pope has created such stir in the University that we think that we can discuss the matter without prejudice so that it will be of some interest to our readers. It seems as though the "barb" organization, realizing in Mr. Pope a man whom one had better have for a friend than an enemy, made advances to him and was cordially received. Mr. Pope no doubt seeing fame and honor flying near his lightning rod by the use of this organization. Honor came early to this politic youth. He was elected to a chair in the Athletic board by a good majority. He shows his taste for game when he deserted his friends and looming up under the banner of the "slow of foot" helped them to elect their men to the positions of honor on the board in September. He was appointed chairman of the financial committee by the "slow of foot" for thus aiding them to down the "ring." Things went on in this manner until it got to be time for the election of foot ball captain. Mr. Pope remembering
how well he thought he could play, thought that he might run for Captain and probably with good results. But there were none so poor to do him reverence. He got it not! In time the mid-winter election drew 'nigh' and Mr. Pope thought that perhaps the board could not do business without him as chairman and consequently decided to sacrifice himself. When he heard that another man who really deserved it wanted it and found out that he could not get it he decided that the "omen" had been otherwise and that he "was called" to be manager of base ball team. The base ball men who liked Pope immensely, because he was such a good catcher, would not let him make his work harder by running the ball team and advised him not to run. This advise Mr. Pope heeded. He went back to the "ring" and told them that he had decided that they should elect him president instead of base ball manager. The election came at last and the members of the board were all at the meeting. H. I. Maxwell was elected president and poor Pope 'went after' the ring with the well known results. If we have told more than that which happened we will correct in our next issue. We got our information from merely observing things as they happened. We have no use for 'rings' etc. but we don't like people who take an oath and just because they can't get the earth go back on it, any better.
The recent action of the town Council in passing an ordinance prohibiting the sale of cigarettes within the corporate limits has given the long naired, sunken eyed, "soiled linened," country editors a chance to display their wit in connection with that pernicious habit attributed to the sissy-boy element of the University. Perhaps in the old Ed Little, Bill White, Frank Crowell days, these newspaper witticisms would have been consistent but nowadays the college man regales himself with his pipe and tobacco. The ordinance was ment to kill the habit which it is sad to admit is too prevalent in our public schools.
Work has been stopped on the new Physics building. The appropriation has been exhausted and the new approprirtion put in the hands of the board of regen's. It was formerly under the direction of the board of public works.