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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
students of K. S U. spend in the neighborhood of $200,000,00 every year in Lawrence and practically support a number of the merchants. Then again merchants did not ask that there should be a combination: Instead of that a University student who was looking for a lucrative position as business manager on the combination paper, circulated or caused to be circulated a petition stating that the merchants who signed would only advertise in one University paper! The merchants can refuse to advertise in one paper then just as well as they can now in two.
WE would like to know what the province of a college weekly is. As we understand it, a Weekly is to chronical college events. It is not to produce articles of questionable literary merit written by some student who is sitting by his 'study window'. If a literary paper is aimed at let us organize a magazine such as is published by the students of the University of Virginia. It is probably the best college magazine received in exchange here. This would give all of the men of recognized literary merit a chance and will let the weeklies alone. This of course will not do, and we have not thought of its being considered. Still it is the only thing that ought to be done. It is the only fair way that will work-that can be thought of
WHEN will the malcontents and sore heads in the University stop trying to interfere in the management of student affairs? The anonymous notice posted in conspicuous places in the halls of the University, entitled "The Combination of the Ringsters" deserves the condemnation that it will doubtless receive from every fair minded student. After referring to a meeting held by the University "ring-heelers," and saying that the "gang merits Waterloo" at the mass meeting held in reference to the University papers, it admonishes students of good character not to let ringsters run the organizations in the University It further says: "In the coming meeting for the purpose of adopting the constitution which the committee of seven is preparing, let respectable students demonstrate whether University organizations shall be run by the pot house politicians, or by the students who are for the University and its best interests."
The writer of this anonymous notice
plainly wishes to be recognized as among the students of good character referred to above. The publishing of anonymous matter is one of the lowest schemes to which a disreputable politician will stoop for the furtherence of his selfish desires. Honest students will pay no attention to this unwarranted notice.
It is certainly evident that there are two elements in this University that cannot be reconciled. There are two factions that have to fight each other to gain their rights The faculty promise that this will be remedied by faculty supervision. This is certainly all right in theory, but let us see how it will work in practice: The majority gains control of the paper, and this state of affairs continues for two terms. The minority now steps in and claims the rights that are given them by the faculty. The faculty goes to work and demands that certain positions on the staff shall be vacated and declare that the company must elect men to fill these positions from the minority. This would bring an out break that would dissolve the company and we should have more papers than we have now!
ATHLETICS.
Ex-Capt Emmon's Ideas on Foot Ball Reform.
A Plea for Tennis-General College Sporting News-Notes.
EMMONS ON FOOT BALL REFORM.
"If the game of foot ball is to continue," writes ex-Captain Bob Emmons in the Harvard graduates' magazine, "the colleges must begin its reformation immediately. The needed reforms must be conducted along these lines: Reduction of the excessive training, reduction of the notoriety, publicity and expenditure and elimination of the objectionable features of the game itself."
"The umpires and referee should be empowered to disqualify without appeal, while the referee is to decide exclusively all questions relating to the ball."
After entering into a discussion of the "fair catch" Mr. Emmons continues:
"The results of experience and the proofs