The Courier=Review.
VOL.I.
LAWRENCE, KANS., NOVEMBER 23, 1894.
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No. 7.
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JAS. H. PATTEN, Editor-in-Chief.
JACK MORGAN, Local Editor.
DAISY ORTON,
EDITH CLARK,
Literary Editors.
J. O. SHIRAS, Athletic Editor.
C. W. L. ARMOUR, Exchange Editor.
ADELIA HUMPHREY, Society Editor.
CLYDE W. MILLER, Managing Editor.
JAMES OWEN, Business Manager.
LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, Circulator.
BE COURTEOUS to your instructors. They deserve the utmost respect. Do not let your thoughtlessness carry you even to the verge of discourtesy. Every professor in K. U. uses due courtesy, and no true gentleman would be so discourteous as to deviate from this rule.
WE HAVE a large spacious library and a FEW books. The University student and professor are not hampered for the want of room, nor are they suffering from the effects of an overcrowded school room. Far from it; for according to the temperature of some of the class rooms two weeks ago we have more space now than we are able to fill with molecular motion. But the student and professor are hampered in their field of research by the few volumes in our library. What does the student
and man of ability care for the air-castles which we have and may erect on Mount Oread! They are of little value unless embelished with the treasures of knowledge and learning. K. U. at present is sorely in need of two special appropriations; an appropriation sufficient to buy fifty thousand volumes for the vacant shelves in our book stack, and an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars to erect and equip an observatory. The University of Kansas has a seventy thousand dollar library, and how MANY VOLUMES IN IT? She considers herself one of the leading institutions of learning in the West and HAS WHAT FOR AN OBSERVATORY?
EXPERIENCE is a dear teacher. Year after year we have met our smaller sister colleges and academies upon the gridiron. By so doing what has there been for us to gain? It is an honor, to be sure, for a side-street academy to meet us upon the foot-ball field, and, financially, it has filled their empty treasury. The contests have invariably resulted in eleven prize flights in which our men were made unable to carry the crimson to victory in the quadrangular league. Let us profit by our past mistakes.
LAWRENCE OFFERS an extraordinary good site for an observatory. In the plans of the Board from legislature to legislature the astronomy department has been sadly neglected. All universities and colleges throughout the world have cared for this department and recognized its importance. It is with disappointment we learn the Board, in laying their plans for the next legislature, have ignored the wants and needs of this science. Since the establishment of K. U. this department has not received a single special appropriation of which we are able to find trace.