The Courier=Review.
VOL.I.
LAWRENCE, KANS., NOVEMBER 16, 1894.
No. 6.
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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.
IT MIGHT be well to speak individually to a few. This few is the inexperienced. You cannot work any great surprises among us. The millstone has ground too many bushels to be broken by a green kernel. Do not expect to be president of everything all at one time. There may be another man for that place. If you have ability, nurse it. Very little talent ever went unrecognized at K.U. When you are king you may expect to be crowned.
WE HAVE noticed a tendency to skip physical exercise. Physical exercise is a very important feature of university life, and one which in too many cases is overlooked. Frequently complaints of inability to apply the mind are heard, and protests are entered against the length of the lesson. Experience, if not observation, will convince anyone very readily that the
omission of physical exercise is the direct and almost invariable cause. It stands to reason that much more mental labor can be performed, as well as much more pleasure experienced, if regular and systematic exercise is taken. It is almost necessary that you become members of the classes at the gymnasium in order to pursue this essential part of the curriculum. It is the lack of physical exercise instead of overwork that causes the ailments of the modern college student.
THERE is no one thing so much lacking in the college student of to-day as an ability to concentrate his energies. No matter how bright he may be, his genius will, unless he learns his lesson, be dimmed when brought in contact with the world. His brightness will be as the flash of a meteor—a momentary glimmer, then all is dark. It is not enough for him to simply be in possession of a brilliant mind; for splendid abilities, unless backed up by a power of will, are a snare; he must learn the true guide to success—the power of self control.
ONE OF the handmaids of Conceit is Rashness; and rashness, to the intelligent, often presupposes an absence of intellectuality. The mind is subject to sudden spurts at the instigation of a wounded pride. It is more wise to let these remorseful thoughts die without utterance. Can you elevate yourself in the eyes of the sensible by making statements which clearly show the tender and revengeful spot the dagger of truth has reached in your soul? Does the argument that "were I a publican, I would be a sinner" affect the reality of the role the Creator has designed you to play? No excuses can transplant the fact that you are not a Greek or a Roman.