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fees. Besides, the actions of the people who are circulating the petition show that the professed reasons for demanding that the fees be refunded are not the real, important ones. Students who refuse to sign the petition are called fawning cowards who are prompted to refuse by mean, selfish interests. It would be well if these benefactors of suffering humanity would scrutinize their own motives a little more closely, and not be so ready to condemn those of the students who refuse to comply with their wishes.
The printer made a queer blunder in the last issue of the Students Journal. The signature of the communication regarding the proposed addition to our yell was made to read "The Student Body," but it should have read "The Student's Body," for it is evident that brains were not used in the composition of the article.
ARE there neither poets or would-be poets in K. U.? Very few of our exchanges do not contain considerable verse; some of it good, much more indifferent, and still more that is bad, but it is very, very rarely that even a bad couplet is offered one of our papers. Students who can write verse should make use of the many incidents in our college life which are well worthy of their best efforts; and their pride and patriotism should lead them to overcome their modesty and offer their productions to the public.
Do not make a hermit of yourself, but take an active interest in the world about you. Of course, your studies should be first in your consideration, but don't look too contemptuously at your neighbor who is more fond of society than his books. It may be that you will meet him some day in your professional work when you will find that the address he has gained in his society will give him a very great advantage over you, even though you know more of your work than he. The extent of your knowledge is of slight importance in most professions if you are unable to convince other people that you possess it.
Do not permit your first impression of your fellow student to control your future relations with him. If he seems proud and haughty, study him a little and see if it be not possible that he is congenial enough to meet any advances you may make. If he appears to lack spirit, do not make yourself too disagaeeable to him. You may find that he is not so nearly asleep as he appears. We are very generally in the habit of thinking people worse than they are, and treating them as though they were unworthy of close acquaintance, but if we treat them well we will find that they are not so vastly different from ourselves as we think.
AGAIN we wish to call attention to the fact that the columns of the COURIER are open to all communications of general interest which are not entirely inconsistent with the COURIER's policy. Many of the students seem to think that the sole office of a college paper is to "roast" everybody and everything that does not meet the entire approval of each and every student; and because the COURIER will not do this it is often severely censured. The faculty, the trustees' and the rules which obtain in the University, shall be criticised whenever they are thought to be open to criticism; but the COURIER will not directly or indirectly countenance criticism for the gratification of personal dislikes.
It is astonishing what a large number of people it often takes to publish a college newspaper. Many of our exchanges, which contain no more more matter than is to be found in the Courier, possess a staff of from fifteen to twenty members. All of them groan under the burden of very ponderous titles and very little work, but it appears that the number must be maintained in order to keep peace in the family. By dividing the work into reasonably small portions, no more than from six to ten persons will be found necessary to get out a good college paper; and whenever more than this number is placed on the staff, a part of them have nothing to do but try to appear busy. It is no wonder that the world laughs at the college newspaper.
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