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The University Courier.
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J. L. HARRINGTON, Editor.
M. L. ALDEN, Local Editor.
MACGREGOR DOUGLAS, Literary and Exchange Editor.
L. S. CHAMBERLAIN, Athletic and Amusement Editor.
E. P. LUPFER, Managing Editor.
C. R. TROXEL, BENJ. HORTON.
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IN THIS issue of the COURIER we present our readers with a sketch of the work being done in the Uuiversity. Even the student is not too well informed on the work of those schools in which he is directly interested, while the great portion of the friends of the University who have never attended it must, of necessity, have only incomplete ideas of the advantages the University offers: hence, all of our readers should find this number of unusual interest. Many young people are going to eastern schools, and many more are attending some of the minor colleges of the state who would attend the University if they were well informed regarding it. The Glee Club and the foot-ball team attract considerable attention throughout the state, but the earnest student wants to know something of the work as well as the play, and it is to satisfy this want as best we can that this sketch is presented.
CORNELL HAS banished the examination, and hereafter her students will be graded upon their class work. Though the examination has its advantages, it is accountable for much that is injurious to the student; and we believe that
in time all the great universities will follow Cornell's example. The student who does good work receives little or no benefit from the examination; he is obliged to repeat in a time most probably too limited portions of the work he has already done in class, and if he be a little slow he will be unable to show what he knows of his subject. The lazy or careless student will do better work in his class when he knows that he will have no opportunity to make up in time for examination. The dishonest student may be able to cheat his instructor during a few hours of examination, but he cannot do it all the term. The instances are rare in which an instructor does not have a very good idea of the quality of the work the student has been doing; hence the examination is in many respects a detriment instead of a benefit.
EDWARD C. LITTLE, HONORED.
"To Hon. Edward C. Little, Ex-Diplomatic Agent and Consul General of the United States to Egypt" is the dedication to be found in "The Rulers of the Mediterranean," by Richard Harding Davis. This book has just been issued from the press of Harper Bros., and a man of Mr. Little's age may well feel proud to be thus honored by one of the most prominent literary geniuses of the present generation. Mr. Davis visited Egypt during Mr. Little's official life there, and this distinguished honor is no doubt the result of Mr. Little's straight forward and business-like administration in Egypt. Indicative of this is a splendid compliment to Mr. Little in this book because he refused to allow criminals to practice their frauds under protection of the American flag, as had been done previously.
The book is beautifully illustrated and is descriptive of life on and around the Mediterranean. The beautiful illustrations and entertaining style for which Mr. Davis is far famed makes it a book desirable for every Kansan, and especially desirable for every alumni and student of K.U. because Mr. Little is the first Kansan to receive this distinguished honor.
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opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
THE appointment of Lieut. E. V. Smith to the professorship Military Science and Tactics at Baker University, at last give cause to congratulate our Baldwin friends. The work of sin
sity, increasing the an important dev growing tendency institution of high The prejudice to labor in the pa beginning to avail