THE WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY COURIER
THE LARGEST COLLEGE JOURNAL CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
Published Every Friday Morning by the
COURIER COMPANY,
For Kansas University Students.
DENTON DUNN, R. J. CURDY,
President. Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF:
CYRUS CRANE, Editor In-Chief,
F. G. KENNEDY, BOSS PERSON,
ALICE PENFIELD, F. A. WHEELER,
F. C. KEYS, W. A. WHITE,
A. C. GUNKLE, HILFIGES,
[NEZT J GGANT]
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
DENTON HOGER OM. | EARLE L. SWOPE.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
University Directory.
PHI GAMMA DELTA—Meets Saturday nights,
No. 175 Mass, St., 3d floor.
PHI KAPPA Psi—Meets Saturday nights, at
rooms of the members.
PHI DELTA THETA—Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor opera house, west side.
SIGMA CHI—Meets Saturday nights, 3d floor Opera House block, east side.
BETA THETA Pti—Meets Saturday nights, at H. S. Tremper's law office.
SIGMA Nu—Meets Saturday nights, I. O. O. F. block.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA—Meets Saturday afternoon, No. 175 Mass St., 3d floor.
L C —Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
ORPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons in its hall, University building, north wing, 3d floor. Pres., J M. Halligan; sec'y, Risa McMurry.
SCIENCE CLUB—Meets Friday afternoons, in Snow Hall, President. W. H. Brown; sec'y, V. L. Kellogg.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY—Meets Thursdays at 3 p.m in Prof. Sawley's lecture room. J. H. De Ford, president; Miss Howard; sec'y.
KENT CLUB, of Law Students—Meets Friday nights in Court House. Pres., J. W. Roberts; sec'y, A. Overton.
PHILIOLOGY—Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building, Pres., Prof. Williams; sec'y, Prof. Carruth.
GERMAN SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoon from 2 to 3 in Oread hall. Pres., Henrl Nickel; sec'y, Anna McKinnon.
ATHENEMUS LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons in its hall in the University building, south wing, third floor. President. C. L. Smith; sec'y, C. O. Nutting.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION—Pres., E. G. Blair; sec'y, A. L. Wilmoth; Board of Directors, Frank Crowell, Denton Dunn, V. G. Kellogg.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y, M. C. A.; Pres., F. J. Gardner; sec'y, L. T. Smith; meets every Friday night in rooms of city association.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y, W. C. A., meets Sunday afternoons at homes of members.
DICKSON DEBITING CLUB—Meets Friday nights, at Court House, Smith Curry, pres.; H. White, sec'y
LINE KILN DEBITING CLUB—W. R. Cone, pres.; H. Hunt, sec'y
COUCHER Company—Pres., Denton Dunn; sec'y, R. J. Curdy.
REVIEW Company—Pres., S. W. Sha'tuck.
BASE Ball Association—Sec'y, S. T. Glimore.
The faculty have adopted and will enforce, during Commencement week, the no-flowers rule. Flowers and presents of any kind must not be presented publicly in the chapel. The first enforcement of the rule came last Tuesday evening. The rule is a good one and meets universal approbation.
Next week will be the last one left for work. Examinations will occupy a good share of the attention of most students, and they will in all probability be more severe than usual. But those who are to participate in Commencement exercises ought to make good use of the week and practice constantly. Much practice, systematic and persistent practice on orations, debates and declamations will do more than anything else towards making Commencement a success. There will be no great attraction, like Bayard this year, yet the exercises promise to be good all the way through. There will be a great many visitors in attendance, judging from all present indications. The alumni will be here in greater strength than ever before. Those who take part in the various exercises are the ones who will give the visitors an impression of the University and show them the kind of work we are doing. It is the duty then of all the various speakers to make the most of the opportunity offered and give their best efforts to the part which they will play. To do this hard work is necessary. Let the next week be full of such work and then there will be time enough for rest and enjoyment in the succeeding week.
Next year we must have a base ball nine that will win some games. We are not finding any fault with the present club. It is a good one and we have yet to see the nine (outside of professional clubs) that can do better fielding. The only trouble is that we have no first class pitcher. Without a good pitcher, a nine, under the present rules, is of little force, no matter how good its other players are. We ought to make an effort to secure one for our club for next year's games. Prof. Carruth makes a good suggestion to the effect that one of our players who will attend next year be chosen captain before the close of the present year, so that when he returns in the fall he can go to work immediately and organize the nine. This suggestion should be acted upon at once. Let some good player be chosen, one who understands the game and has in addition plenty of executive ability and great capacity as a "rustler." This is the man that is needed. Not necessairy the best player in school, but the best player who is at the same time the best organizer. After this an attempt should be made to secure a pitcher. Urge some one to attend the University, use every honest means to get one into the University. If we are to have a nine we want it to win some games and not be beaten by any and every club that it plays with. Let the base ballists give this their immediate attention.
The fraternity league will in a short time have finished its games and awarded the pennant. Has it been a good thing? We think that it has. It has furnished not only to the fifty-four men in the various clubs but to every student, an opportunity for out door recreation and exercise. For all the clubs have been willing and anxious to have all outsiders
who wished, practice with them. This alone is a great benefit. Then the various fraternities have, we believe, been brought into better relations with each other, for friendly feeling and not hostility has characterized the games. The courtesies which have been extended clearly index this feeling. New material will be needed for a University nine next year. The league has been a sort of training school and must furnish much of the material for the nine next year. It is noticeable that the interest which has been manifested has not been detrimental to studies. Base ball has not been made a business but a means of recreation. For these reasons we think that the league has been a good thing. Some have been slightly injured but no one has received any very serious or permanent injuries. We hope that the interest and enthusiasm which has been awakened this year in athletics will not be allowed to dwindle and disappear, but will lead to increased activity and will force the "powers that be" to provide proper equipments for physical training.
Western Nebraska-Its Hotels and its People.
Why do men go west to new, rough and barren countries is a question that is often asked by those who stay "back east" in the confines of civilization, and perhaps as often asked by the men in question, the pioneers of the wilderness. My observation is that most men who come here to Nebraska are in search of the almighty dollar, those who come for "health" considerations are few and far between. All are alike. It makes no difference whether he be from Boston with all his Boston "culchaw," whether he sing in painful melody "Fair Harvard" or in just as nerve-jarring tones "Here's to dear old Yale," or whether he be from a farm in Pennsylvania, or from some still more western home, the Nebraska man is after money.
Some strange and not altogether pleasant experiences have fallen to the lot of our party. Our last night in a railroad town was a cold one, snowy and blustry. We went to the hotel, (which by the way is on a list of "principle hotels" posted in the Eldridge house), got some cold and not altogether clean supper, after we had washed our faces in the horse trough, and finally were shown to our room. Six of us in one room with scarcely enough clothing to keep one warm. We stood it, however, and after breakfast we asked for our bills—"Zwei dollar for each" says mine host. We did not see it in that light and at length we got a more reasonable rate, paid up and left town at once. That was not our last dose of Nebraska hotel fare by a good deal. Of our wanderings for a few days nothing need be said, but when we had got fairly settled, had made arrangements for regular board and had staid at the hotel a week we had a little experience which was amusing, and for the landlord, unprofitable. We had been working hard all day, tramping through cornfields and weeds and had succeeded in getting up good appetites. At supper I was rather disgusted with our
small rations and asked for eggs. Did I get them? Well, hardly! I got the information that "eggs cost money and ye have mate, ate it, will ye?" We ate our "mate," paid our bill forthwith and went to the rival hotel. As the landlord had but three other boarders, he was much put out and very profuse in his apologies. We enjoyed his discomfiture. He got even with one of the boys by charging an exorbitant rate for keeping his pony. The hotel men seem to run on the principle that dirt is cheap and very nutritious; and being nutritious, should bring them in lots of money.
The hotel men are not the only ones who turn an honest penny whenever they can. The grocer, the butcher, the doctor and the banker don't scorn a nickle. The doctor is a quaint and queer character, who had a "large city practice but came here for health." One of our boys hurt his hand and made application to the experienced bone-sawer who treated him with pure lard and charged him a dollar therefor in addition to consultation fee.
Society life here is not all that the most fastidious could wish; a few days ago a ball was advertised at a neighboring town. The country lads and lassies went, but I am happy to say the boys had :espect enough for the girls not to remain Some score of graders had heard of thedance and gone up to run it. They had no dance, so amused themselves by fighting. Our hotel has been a little hospital ever since. Some rough characters are met with every day.profanity and vulgarity are heard on every side, fights are of daily occurrence, drunkenness is hardly counted a vice, and Sabbath is only observed as a day of trade, games and drunkenness, there being no church for miles and only two in the county; yet with all this roughness and this grasping money-loving spirit of the people, I can only say that to strangers who mind their own business, they are polite and accommodating. No man fears being robbed, men habitually carry large sums of money, travel miles over lonely roads, but the first man has yet to be stopped and relieved of his wealth. If they want to rob a fellow mortal they do it by enormous charges for everything he needs, and by giving a very poor quality of that article.
One instance I feel like giving to show how these fellows regard the railroad. It is said on all hands, "Oh the railroad is rich and we better get what we can." One granger, whom I will call Jones, came to our office a few days ago and complained that the road was, by changing the course of a small stream, depriving his hog pen of running water. He argued his case so well that the engineer decided to put in pipe, and during the conversation he remarked that that pipe came to six hundred dollars. Mr. Jones went off happy in the promise of his pipe, when he got home, he evidently thought it over, for day before yesterday he came into the office again and remarked: "Wal mister, I guess you fellers kin just give me that six hundred dollars and I'll let my hogs do with a well." This was a square
proposition, and it infinitely delighted the youngsters in the office, as we foresaw some fun. Our worthy chief made full investigation, found that Jones only leased the land, which was not worth sixty dollars, found also that Jones had but ten hogs, so he changed his mind, decided not only not to pay Jones but not to put in a pipe. Then we had some real fun listening to eloquent arguments and voluminous profanity on the part of Mr. Farmer, all to no avail, however, as neither pleading nor swearing could get anything out of "Mister Surveyor."
Sunday was the liveliest day for business I have seen for a long time, stores, saloon and a wandering photographer all did a land office business, in the afternoon a match game of ball and a horse race (which latter was attended by the Catholic priest), served to pass the time till evening, when the young men and maidens repaired to the unfinished convent building and had a dance. Such is life in the great sandy, windy State just north of the garden of the universe—drouthy Kansas. Wishing K. S. U. a pleasant Commencement and the Courier a long life I will henceforth remain silent.
R. E. HENRY.
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Through some oversight we omitted in our Commencement program last week the list of the speakers who will take part in the anniversary of the Pharmacy Department. We ask forgiveness and assure the Pharmacists that no slight was intended. Their program is as follows: President of the Day, Prof. E. H. S. Bailey; Music; Invocation, Dr. James Marvin; Address of 'Welcome, Will Dick; Music; Review of Pharmacy Theses, Frank Prentiss; History, Sam Lindsay; Music; On Future Study, Prof. L. G. Sayre; Address Dr. R. J. Brown, Leavenworth, Kansas; Music. The entertainment promises to be a good one.
Prof. J. H. Canfield has posted on his bulletin the schedule of the options and required studies in his department. We are pleased to notice that the options are of increased number, and that very instructive branch, Constitutional History, has been given four terms or two years. New studies have been introduced. Sophomores and Juniors should consult the bulletin at once, for they are required to select, before the close of the term, their branches for the ensuing year. Make your selections and report them immediately to Prof. Canfield.
Since the rule has been passed abolishing the public presentation of presents. Dr. Wilcox offers the use of his room to those wishing to give presents to the graduates or other participants in the Commencement exercises. Only 10 per cent will be deducted for storage and delivery.
It is rumored that twenty-three young gentlemen from Baker have secured their girls and are coming up to see Jo Jo and take in the circus Tuesday. The rumor is founded on the fact that 200 extra pounds of peanuts and thirty extra toy baloons have been ordered for the occasion.
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