The Courier=Review.
Vol. I.
LAWRENCE, KANS., OCTOBER 25, 1894.
No. 3.
The Courier-Review.
The Courier-Review is published every Thursday during collegiate year by the Courier-Review Publishing Co. Subscription $150 per year in advance, single copies 10 cents. Address all communications and contributions to the editor-in-chief; all business communications to the business manager, and subscriptions to the circulator, Lawrence, Kansas. Entered at the Lawrence Postoffice as second-class matter.
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 OWENS, Business Manager. LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, Circulator.
"Surely, surely," quoth the greenback
"I must be out of sight,
To have this mass of lawyers
A making such a fight.
They say its not my beauty
That they are fighting for,
But simply down right duty,
That's causing all this war;
And that if they were petitioned
To help the Faculty out
They gladly bring their fiver's
And give them without a pout.
I know I'm very stupid
And ignorant about the right
But if the petition was given
I'd fear for the widows mite."
WE HAVE no desire to renew the old fraternity and anti-fraternity discussions, which are only harmful to the tempers of those discussing
and are of no benefit to either party, we believe in partisanship when there is any need of it; but realize that the average newspaper squabble is worse than useless.
IT HAS been said that no human soul is perfect. If that is true, then some mistakes in humanity can be forborne, as being the common fate of all.
ONCE IN a while we intend to think, and what is more, we will express our thoughts. Truth shall be our guiding star regardless of consequences. Some do not admire a strongly marked policy. It is not our intention to consider for a moment the "does it pay" theory. If presumption or crankishness shows itself, it ought to reap the deserving reproof of its actions. In all cases we shall endeavor to use courteous language which will not leave any doubt as to what is meant.
It is right to prefer to be liked to being disliked, to be loved to being hated. It is well to be agreeable, to be popular. Yet this desire may become excessive. For often popularity is purchased at an extravagant price. To pay for popularity, intemperance or integrity or time is extravagance and extravagance leads inevitably to penury. It will wreck the strength of manhood and blight the most promising youth.
THE PRESENT literary status is deplorable. Every assembly reveals the sad fact that few students can preside over a meeting with dignity, and so as to reflect credit upon themselves. Scarcely a person passes through life without being called upon sometime unexpectedly to address an audience or wield the gavel. To do this as it should be done requires no small