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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. KEYS, Assistant-
ONALICE PENKLE, E. A. WHEELER,
F. G. KEYS, W. A. WHITE,
A. C. CUNKLE, HOPES.
INEZ TAGGART
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
DENTON HOGENOOM | EARL E. SWOPE.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas,
as second-class matter.
University Directory.
PHI GAMMA DELTA—Meets Saturday nights, No.715 Mass., 3rd floor.
PHI KAPPA Ps1-Meets Saturday nights, at rooms of the members.
PHI DELTA THEIA—Meets Saturday nights, A. O.
U. W.Hall.
SIGMA CHI--Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor Opera House block.
SIOMA Nu- Meets Saturday nights, I. O. O. F.
block.
KAPPA ALPHA TRETA-Meets Saturday after noon, 10.7 Mass, St. 3d, door
I. C.—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA - Meets Saturday after noons at homes of members.
SCIENCE CLUB-Meets Friday afternoons, in
Snow Hall, President, W. H. Brown;
Inspector, M. S. Brown.
GROWTHFAMILY LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Fridays afternoons in its hall, University building, north wing, 3d floor, Pres. J, M. Halilgan,见yey, Rosa McMurray.
PHILOLOGY—Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building, Pres., Prof. Williams; sec'y, Prof. Carruth.
PHARMACETICAL SOCIETY-Meets Thursdays at 3 p.m in Prof. Sayre'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; see'y, A. Overton.
GERMAN SOCIETY—Mecta Friday afternoon
from 9 to 3, in Orland hall. Pres., Henri
Henrich, president.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons in its hall in the University building, south wing, third door. President, C. L. Smith; see'y, C. O. Nutting.
ORATHECATICAL ASSOCIATION—Pres., E. G. Blair;
secretary (Wilmoth) Board of Director;
practical research team
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. M. C. A—Pres. F, J. G.
GENERAL COLLEGE PRESIDENT. Every night in rooms of a society,
every night in rooms of a church.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. W, C.A., meets Sunday afternoons at homes of members.
DICKSON DEBATING CLUB—Meets Friday nights, at Court House, Smith Curry, pres. H. White, seey
LIME KILN DERATING CLUB — W. R.
Cone, pres.; H. Hunt, sec'y.
COUCHER Company—Pres., Denton Dunn; sec'y.
R. J. Curdy.
REVIEW Company - Pres., S. W, Shauck.
BASE Ball Association - Seey, S. T, Gilmore.
The Appointments
The faculty made the appointments for Commencement Day yesterday. These positions are usually regarded as the honors of the Senior class. Seven were appointed, Miss Agnes Wright, W. S. Jenks, Miss M. A. Rice, G. W. Harrington, Miss Lillian Bell, Miss Cora Kimball and Cyrus Crane.
W. S. Jenks is from Abilene, Kas
He has always been a prominent student and is a man of recognized ability. Mr. Jenks leads his class in scholarship. He is an orator of good power, having been several times victor in various oratorical contests. He graduates from the Modern Literature department.
Miss Agnes Wright, of Junction City, will graduate from the Scientific Department. Miss Wright is well known as a good student and a fine writer and speaker. She has appeared on the University rostrum several times as a contestant and representative of Oread society, and has always acquitted herself with great credit. Miss Lillian Bell, of Lawrence, will graduate from the Modern Literature Department. Miss Bell was formerly a member of '85. She has a good standing in scholarship and is known as a prominent woman's suffragrist
Miss M. A. Rice is also from Lawrence. Miss Rice will probably stand second in the class. In her Freshman year, she won the $25 prize in scholarship. She will graduate from the Modern Literature department.
Miss Cora Kimball is from Lawrence, and of the Modern Literature course. Miss Kimball has appeared several times before University audiences, and is a very pleasing speaker.
She was one of the Senior representatives on Washington's birthday.
G. W.Harrington is from Hiawatha, Kansas, and will graduate from the Scientific department. Mr. Harrington is a faithful student, and has a good record. Under his management the Sigma Nu Delta, of which he is editor-in-chief, has taken good rank among fraternity publications.
Cyrus Crane is from Lawrence and will graduate from the Classical de-department.
--est twenty-five years hence. The city disappointed us in that instance. We come down, down from Oread avenue to a little sidewalk. Please grant this request. Remember that the students leave $300,000 in hard cash in the city every year and you accordingly owe them something.
To the City Council.
The students, or at least a large portion of them, wish to make a request of the above body. Our requests are few and far between, and as this is a small one, we think that it ought to be granted. We want, need and must have a sidewalk on Adams street between Tennessee and Massachusetts streets. Considering the large number of students who are daily obliged to pass along that street or go three or four blocks out of their way, it is somewhat surprising this matter has not been attended to long ago. In muddy weather the street is almost impassable. Such a walk would not only be a great convenience to many students but would give to many of the citizens a much shorter way to the University than they now have. There was in days past, a hope, a slight one perhaps, but still it was fondly cherished, that at some time we might have a magnificent avenue leading up to the University from the heart of the city, an avenue of large proportions, well graded, of easy access, planted on both sides with elegant shade trees, and it was to be called Oread avenue. That hope has gone glimmering, it is laid away with other Freshman and Sophomore traditions, pigeonholed with old orations, essays and other things which may be of interest twenty-five years hence. The city disappointed us in that instance. We come down, down from Oread avenue to a little sidewalk. Please grant this request. Remember that the students leave $300,000 in hard cash in the city every year and you accordingly owe them something.
If there is any one thing of which K. S. U. can well be proud, it is the general conduct and department of her students. It has always been the policy of our faculty to allow the students the utmost liberty and not to hamper them with petty restrictions and trifling rules. The wisdom of this policy has been fully proven, after years of trial, by most satisfactory results. There never was a time in the history of this institution when moral and gentlemanly conduct was as prevalent among the students as it is now. Nor do we mean to say that there is less that is enjoyable and pleasurable in student relations and society. It is quite remarkable that in so large a body of students there is so little of meanness and badness, so few petty, dishonorable tricks, and so much that is manly and generous. We believe that on this point we could welcome comparison with any institution of learning in the United States. We believe too, that it would be found, on comparison, that the plan which our faculty has adopted is far more beneficial in its operation than the rigorous oversight and surveillance exercised by so many denominational schools, for the very severity of their discipline often defeats its own purpose. "It is not necessary to proclaim again the falsity of these old statements, about the University being either "a hot-bed of infidelity," or "a school of moss-back Methodists," for intelligent people have long since ceased to pay any attention to such absurdities. Our students themselves are the best refutation of statements of that kind. So we think that it must be a source of gratification to the friends and patrons of the University to know that they are sending their sons and daughters to an institution where the general relations of student life are conducive to morality, where the influences which surround them are of the best and purest character.
A View
EDITOR COURIER:—I am not naturally a grumbler, nor do I often vent my displeasure in a public way. But it seems to me that even the most quiet have a right to complain when they fell that they are wronged, not willfully, perhaps, but carelessly. My case is simply this:
The Orophilian is, as everyone well knows, an old and well established literary society, which does thorough and careful work and has maintained itself and held a proud position for years. Other literary societies have been preyed upon by the politician until life became a burden and they could bear up no longer. But the Orophilian society, by the patient efforts of its members has withstood all shocks internal as well as external and is as strong to-day as ever. A short time ago the society elected a program for its annual Commencement entertainment, expecting, as a matter of course, that it would be given a night some time during Commencement week. Imagine, if you can, our consternation and surprise, when it was learned that the faculty in making arrangements for that week had passed us over completely, shut us out entirely and ignored our program elect. To add to our disappointment, they, at the same meeting, gave the Pharmacists a whole day and that one of the most important and prominent of the whole week. Frankly we can see no justice in such an arrangement. The Pharmacy department was not created for the purpose of making public speakers, in fact the Pharmacist is not required to do any work in rhetoricals whatever. Now what possible interest can it be to the public to see these Pharmacists get up and show samples of their hand-rolled pills or bottles of choice triple extracts or nauseating compounds of life-saving drugs. All these things are well enough in their way, but would be rather out of place on a Commencement program.
On the other hand, the work done by the literary society is calculated to fit for just such entertainments, and is, undoubtedly, deserving of recognition at the hands of the faculty. An election to a position on the June program is naturally a kind of reward and expression of approval for faithful work in the society. But when the faculty discriminates so unfairly against the society and takes away from it these opportunities of rewarding its devoted members, it cannot be expected that it will long survive. Now I wish to ask the faculty if they candidly think that they can afford thus to have our literary societies drop away one by one. Can you afford to have it said throughout the State that K. S. U. has no literary societies? OROPHILIAN.
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Commencement.
The eventful time of our school year is rapidly approaching and it behooves us to be getting ready. From the subjoined program it will be seen that several changes have been made, and changes which are a departure from the old established order. A day has been given to the Pharmacy department, much to the delight of its members. The Laws will have Friday night instead of Saturday morning. The June contest between Oreads and Orophilians has been dropped. No selections for Class day have been made as yet, owing to the delay of the faculty in making Commencement appointments. The Alumni are making active preparations for a large gathering and a big reunion and celebration are expected. Their banquet will be held immediately after the alumni oration on June 7th.
The program for the week, as arranged, is as follows:
May 31, Tuesday-Commencement concert, Department of Music. June 2, Thursday 8 p.m.-Prize contest in oratory.
June 3, Friday 8 p. m.—Anniversary, Department of Law.
June 4, Saturday S p. m.—Prize contest in declamations.
June 5, Sunday 8 p. m.- Bacca laureate sermon.
June 6, Monday 10 a. m.—Anniversary Department of Ptarmacy.
Monday 8 p. m.—Oration before the Literary societies.
June 7, Tuesday 10 a. m.—Class day exercises.
3 p.m., meeting of alumni association.
8 p. m. Alumni Oration.
June 8, Wednesday 10 a. m.— Commencement.
College World.
Speaking of literary reviews, the Perdee stands at the head of any college journal in this respect. It has a column of as neat, well written, short book and magazine notices as we have seen in many a day. It is a pleasure to read such a paper.
76—Rudolph Hatfield, of Wichita, Kansas, who will deliver the oration at the Alumni Society meeting in June, was one of the most prominent members of the Kansas legislature. Lincoln (Ill.) Register.
Mr. Hatfield was one of the judges at the recent State Oratorical contest.
In speaking of the recent controversy our local man has been having with a certain Washburn correspondent of the Topeka papers, the Washburn Argo says: "These articles were written by the college correspondent and the college cannot be responsible for them." This is right. We are glad you don't for whoever he was his egotism was only equaled by his stupidity and Washburn will do well to disown him and emphatically sit down on the youngster
Why would it not be a good idea to annex after each editors' name at the head of the editorial column in our college journals the society or fraternity, if any, to which he belongs, this would enable the foreign reader to see at a glance the standing of the institution from which the paper comes and the relative standing of each fraternity or society in that institution besides making the paper more interesting to the outsider. Who will first try this?
The April Ist Kappa Alpha Theta Journal published by the Kappa chapter of that fraternity in this city appeared last Friday. It is brim full of excellent editorial matter and several very creditable communications grace its pages in addition to the usual allowance of chapter letters. These letters are, in the general run of fraternity magazines, dry and insipid to an outsider, but in the Journal they are bright and above all newsy. Ladies seem to have the knack of telling exactly the right thing in the right way which their more experienced brothers seem to lack.
The Hesperian has upon divers cruel sundry occasions seen fit to make slighting remarks about this popular educator. Recently we took off our coat and called it another in very plain words. Since then the Hesperian has been doing better. Its exchange column in the issue of March 13, is the best of any paper that comes to our table, and its literary department is filled with notices of the latest and best. We admire the Hesperian and any time it can give us any pointers in a gentlemanly way, we will gladly receive them.
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Young Lady Students, We are just in receipt of a Choice Line of Swiss Flouncings