THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
Vol. XII.
LAWRENCE, KANS., NOVEMBER 16, 1893.
No. 11.
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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.
Business Manager. Circulator.
A CENSUS of the University shows that fifty-five per cent of the students are members of some church. Eleven creeds are represented by one hundred and forty-four students, the Congregationalists leading, closely followed by the Methodists and Presbyterians. The Catholics, Lutherans and Quakers are each represented by one person.
"The man just and immovable of resolution," says Horace, "no terrors can appal. Neither the evil ardor of the people nor the face of a frowning tyrant, nor the great hand of fulminating Jove, can shake him from his determined purpose. Though the skies should crumble and the earth be dissolved, the ruins would strike him unterrified." Horace would have been a great man if he had written English. Had he lived until the present time he
would have modified the foregoing statement, and perhaps have finished thus: "His firm mind will bear him safe through every peril, until in an hour sacred to the gods of evil, he shall attempt to traverse a sidewalk builted by the hands of commissioners seeking to avoid their duty. Then shall the horrid terrors of his journey overcome his hitherto undaunted spirit, and his limbs through fear refusing to support their burden, he will sink. Never can mortal subdue the awful dangers of an ascent to the seat of learning, and never can he reach the abode of the Gods on high save by leaving Adams Street and skipping around the back way."
It is evident that the lack of activity in the classes and in the University life generally is being counteracted by the increased social activity. The number of parties is so great that we are inclined to believe that social activity is fast approaching, if it has not already reached the high degree at which it becomes injurious to the best interests of the students. It is hard to control our desires for pleasure of this kind, but like every other desire it is injurious when not restricted.
It has become fashionable in University society to go to parties at a very late hour and hence to remain till a very late hour. The student should show more common sense than to be controlled by a fad which obtains only in Lawrence, and which is both silly and injurious. A great many of both the ladies and the gentlemen would gladly adopt the more sensible and convenient fashion of early hours, which obtains in the large cities, but no one seems to have the courage to make the change.