THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
VOL. XII.
LAWRENCE, KANS., OCTOBER 5, 1893.
No. 5.
The Courier is published every Thursday during collegiate year by the University Courier Publishing Co,
Subscription $1.00 per year in advance, single copies 5 cents
Address all communications and contributions to the editor-in-chief; all business communications to the business manager, and subscriptions to the circulator, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second-class matter.
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.
BEGINNING WITH its next issue the COURIER will appear as a twenty page paper. The four additional pages will be devoted entirely to reading matter; thus we nope to make the paper more attractive in many ways. The COURIER's columns are open to all communications that its space and policy will permit it to print, and it is hoped that both the students and faculty will make free use of the opportunity thus offered them to express their opinion on all subjects of interest to the University.
It is remarkable what a large number of the old students send in their subscriptions for the Courier on a postal card. The fact that it takes money, and a considerable amount of it, too, to publish the Courier seems to be almost universally ignored. If the old student will make a great effort he will be able to remember that the money necessary to support the Courier was very hard to get while he was in school; and he will consider that he can confer no greater favor than to use an envelope and enclose something that the printer will accept.
THE LECTURE Bureau has very materially strengthened the course offered by adding the name of Henry Matterson, the well known orator, to those mentioned last week. None of these lectures and concert companies have ever appeared in Lawrence; yet all are well known, and some are of world-wide reputation. The number of tickets will be limited to six hundred, much less than the seating capacity of the house; hence those who are fortunate enough to secure course tickets will be sure of good seats. The tickets will be for sale to students two days before they are offered to the general public, but it is hoped that there will be enough to accommodate all who want them.
THE SAME deplorable tendency to divide into factions which showed itself among the students last year appeared again in the recent class elections. Such quarrels are a disgrace to the University, and every student who has the least spark of patriotism about him will do his utmost to prevent them. They are inconsistent with the high standard of honor which should characterize the true student. We are supposed to have in the University the most intelligent and cultivated of the young people of the state, the advance guard of our civilization, yet more petty, disgraceful quarrels cannot be found in any rank of society than these. Rivalry and class spirit are commendable when a high sense of honor and justice prevails; otherwise they descend to the most deplorable traits.