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The University Courier.
The subject of a new yell was broached in the local columns of our last issue, and we again wish to call attention to the fact, if the words are distinctly enunciated, it is impossible for even the most vigorous throat to sustain the shock of more than a dozen or two most vigorous yells. We do not advocate the abandonment of Rock Chalk Jay Hawk K.U., but we do think that some addition which would relieve the almost continuous succession of final k's would add very materially to our endurance.
The report of the Missouri-Nebraska game shows us that we will have to do some work to win the pennant this year. The entire University is interested in the Thanksgiving game, for it appears that the winner will receive the pennant; hence it behooves the entire University to do its uttermost for our team. Many students who could go to Kansas City and yell for K. U. will be tempted by the thoughts of Thanksgiving dinner at home to let the team take care of itself; but they should remember that there will be but two weeks till the Christmas holiday, and spend Thanksgiving at Kansas City, where they can do the most good.
THE Faculty concert of last Thursday evening fully demonstrated that the School of Music is able to give the most ambitious music student as good instruction as can be obtained in the best of the eastern conservatories. The crowded house showed that the people of Lawrence appreciate the efforts of a hard-working faculty to build up a superior school in the West; but unfortunately the members of our legislature know little or nothing of these efforts; and hence are unwilling to make sufficient provision to enable the faculty to do its work. The Dean of the School receives an assistants salary, while the other members of the faculty are forced to get what they can from fees. Other professional schools are so supported that large fees are not necessary to their existence. What is the cause of this discrimination against the musical profession? It cannot be that music is considered any less a profession than law or engineering, or that the state needs musicians
less than lawyers. It is not contended that the state should furnish free elementary instruction, but it should provide more liberally for advanced study in all branches of music, and it should pay the faculty in proportion to the service rendered. The people of Lawrence are, and should be more interested in the development of the School of Music than those of any other city in the state; and they should, through their most prominent citizens, see that something is done for the school by the next legislature. Of course the faculty and regents have done and will continue to do all they can for the school, but the faculties of the other schools are naturally too much interested in their respective schools, and the regents are too much attracted by the seeming greater importance of the other schools to give the School of Music the attention it deserves. The people of Lawrence have shown their great interest in the University as a whole, let them now show that they appreciate the School of Music.
A Tale of Woe. Puer ex Jersey, Ines ad school, Videt in meadow, Infestus mule. Ille opproaches, O magnus sorrow, Purer it skyward, Tumes ad-morrow. MORAL. Inividet a thing Non ei well known, Est bene for him Relinqui id alone.
—North Western.
The Lawrence Society of University Extension, at its meeting last Thursday night, elected the following officers: B. W. Woodward, president; Hugh Blair, vice-president; L. H. Perkins, secretary; W. E. Hazen, treasurer; Mrs. Street, Mrs. Griffin, and Miss Oliver, executive committee. After the election of officers, Professor Blackmar delivered an exceedingly interesting and instructive lecture before the Society on "Division of Profits."