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The University Courier.
THE EDITORIAL staff of the UNIVERSITY COURIER wish to take this early opportunity of refuting the article relative to Sheriff Hindman, published in the last issue of the COURIER. It has been definitely determined that Sheriff Hindman has always in the past been very friendly toward the University and her interests, and has, by contributions, repeatedly assisted University Athletics. Such being the case, the sheriff has every right in the wide world to assist any athletic, or any other interest of any or all Colleges or Universities in the state. The publication of the article was uncalled for; neither is it the policy of the COURIER to meddle with municipal, county, State, or national politics, and this article unfortunately crept into the columns of the COURIER without the knowledge of the editorial staff. The reparation in a case of this kind is but slight, nevertheless the COURIER is willing to do all it can to remedy the injury done by making an open statement of the facts.
ONE of the most valuable of our exchanges is a little magazine entitled University Extension, a monthly "devoted to the interests of popular education." The rapid development of that form of education exemplified in the University Extension and the Chautauqua is one of the best indices of our advancing civilization, and this journal contains a brief but clear synopsis of the work done by the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, and of the work of the same kind being done in England. In many respects the University Extension movement is of great benefit to our Universities: is creates a taste for higher education, and thus leads many people to attend who would never have done so otherwise; but, on the other hand, it injures the university by taking from it the time and energy of its professors. Much help is given to a large number of people who cannot afford to attend the University; but it can at best give them only a smattering of the subjects offered. It is true that "A little learning is a dangerous thing;" but it is certainly better than none at all.
THE HABITS you form here will in all probability remain throughout your life; hence occasional self examination, carried on in a critical business like way may be of great service to you. If you find that you are living without system you had better plan to remedy the defect at once. If you study only when you feel like it you are armed with an excellent excuse for leaving your work undone; but unfortunately no one but yourself will accept such an excuse. If you work hard and take exercise only when you have time, broken health will remind you that you lack system.
The management of the Baker foot-ball team acts like the little boy who tries to prove to the satisfaction of his mother that he hasn't been stealing jam while his face is smeared with that dainty. The management of the K. U. team offered to accept any two men from Kansas City as referee and umpire for the game which should have been played at Baldwin on November 7, but the Baker managent refused to play unless some man who was known to be prejudiced in their favor could be secured for one of these places. The Hill brothers, of Missouri, were proposed because it was believed that the K. U. management did not know that Taylor had been their coach; and, hence, that they were prejudiced in Baker's favor. In fact the Baker management plainly showed that it did not want to play the game. The Baker people want to quit while ahead; yet, instead of admitting the fact, they seek to conceal it by bravado and questionable statements. Messrs. Markham, Taylor and several other model representatives of Baker came to Lawrence Tuesday evening avowedly to make arrangements with the K. U. management for a game in the near future, but really to give some color to their statements by attempting to "bluff" some one. They did not look for and did not want to find the K. U. management; they came to stand about the streets and make a show of themselves, and they fulfilled their disgraceful mission admirably. An honorable enemy deserves honorable treatment, but a bully deserves only contempt.