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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. C. KEYS, Member of the
ASON, LABEL PENICEF,
E. A. W. II, E. EK,
F. C. KEYS,
W. A. WHIFE,
F. C. CUNKLE,
HOPES.
INEZ T GGART
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
DENTON HOGER JOM. | 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. St., 3d floor.
PHI KAPPA PSI—Meets Saturday nights, at rooms of the members.
PHI DELTA THETA—Meets Saturday nights, A. O. U. W.Hall.
SIGMA CHI—Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor Opera House block.
BETA THETA Pi—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 afternoons, No. 715 Mass. St., 3d floor.
L.C.—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons in its hall, University building, north wing, 3d floor. Pres., J. M. Halgan; secy', R. ssa McMurry.
SCIENCE CLUB—Meets Friday afternoons, in chemistry lecture room. Pres. R. L. McAlpine; sec'y', V. L. Kellogg.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY—Meets Thursdays at 3 p.m in Prof. Sayre's lecture room. J. H. De Ford, president; Secy Howard, secy'.
KENT CLUB, of Law Students—Meets Friday nights in Court House. Pres., J. W. Roberts; sec'y', A. Ovento.
PHILOGOLE—Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building, Pres., Prof. Williams; sec'y', Pr. f. Carruth.
GERMAN SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoon in Great hall, Pres. Heurt Nickel; sec'y', Anita McKinenn.
MOOT SENATE—Meets in Oread hall every Saturday afternoon. President, John Mush-rush; clerk, L. A. Baldwin.
OBATORICAL 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 DEBATING CLUB—Meets Friday nights, at Court House, Smith Curry, Secy', H. White; sec'y'
LIME KILN DEBATING CLUB—W. R. Cone, pres.; H Hunt, sec'y'
COURIER KILN DEBATING, Denton Dunn; sec'y', R. J. Curdy.
REVIEW Company—Pres., S.W. sha tuck.
BASE Ball Association—Secy', S. T. Gilmore.
The new catalogue will be out shortly after April 1st. It will be of decided interest and will merit careful attention. We are informed that many important changes have been made, that the number of studies has been increased, and that a large number of electives have been added. It will undoubtedly show our progress and improvement in every branch and department.
The College Fraternity and the College Paper.
The pre-eminent characteristic of the relations of college fraternities, is rivalry—rivalry, intense, fierce and oftentimes foolish. This rivalry is the cause of much that makes fraternities objectionable, for to it can be traced many wringlings, many fights for positions and honors, so-called, which throw the college into turmoil, bringing the participants into ridicule and disgrace and cause the waste of much valuable time. It is the cause also of much that makes fraternities desirable and their workings beneficial. For it stimulates endeavor, and induces to excellence in every field of student life. It arouses a.n. honest ambition, promotes scholarship and makes immorality disgraceful. To increase and strengthen this healthy side of rivalry and to destroy its evil effects ought to be the aim and ambition of every true and loyal fraternity man.
And at this point comes the question, what is the duty of the fraternity man who edits the college paper? In the first place it is his duty to make the paper as good as possible. The better the paper, the greater the honor both for himself and for his fraternity. This is, of course, his first duty as an editor.
But now how far ought he to be influenced by fraternity considerations? "Not at all," some one may say. But we do not agree with him entirely. We think that a fraternity ought to derive some benefit from its having an editor, otherwise there would be no stimulus to attain such positions, and fraternities would have no in succession to prepare and train their men for them. The fraternity has a right to expect that her representative will give her fair and honorable mention in the paper which he edits. But she has no right to expect that this shall be done to the exclusion of others.
No one has a right to expect to profit by untruths or even truths glossed over with false inferences. But it too often happens that editors try to serve their fraternity by bringing it into constant notice, by lauding its every deed, and casting ignominy on the effects of others. And it is such a course that heightens the rivalry of the undesirable kind. Such a course moreover, is not only foolish, but it defeats completely its own purpose. For the readers of a paper will soon learn the tricks of such an editor and will grow distrustful of him, so that in the end even truthful statements will meet with unbelief. Every fraternity, as well as every person, has a right to expect that its achievements shall be duly chronicled, and truthfully stated. These achievements are often the result of much honest toil and patient endeavor and to treat them slurringly, or as of no consequence, is cruel and malicious. If the editor's fraternity stands at the head in accomplishments and honest victories, its leadership will only be the more creditable if the strength, vigor and ability of its rivals are shown in their true light. It is far better to be the strongest among giants, than to be a giant among pigmies. An editor, unfortunately and unavoidably, has
considerable power in his hands, to misuse this to the detriment of others, to willfully wound the feelings or to misrepresent the actions, shows an envious, unkind spirit and a disregard of the rights of other persons. Thus for an editor in the report of a public exercise to laud unduly the performance of his fraternity brother or of his friend, and to mention sparingly and grudgingly the equally creditable effort of another often causes ill-feeling and makes a wound which is not soon healed. Nor does the injury stop here, it reaches to parents and friends and causes them to think that the one in whom their interest centers is not doing himself credit nor gaining an honorable position among his fellows. It is only by treating every fraternity and every person fairly, honorably and justly that the fraternity editor can make rivalry healthy and beneficial, rob it of its bitterness and make his own work a credit to himself and his fraternity.
The Athaeneum.
The Moot Senate, whose members were formerly Orophilians, believing that all members should be given an equal chance to appear on program, that the University of Kansas should support two literary societies and that unless there are two societies there will in the course of time be none, and further, that Orophilian society has at present so many members that all do not get the benefit of enough literary practice, determined to organize a new literary society. Oread hall was accordingly secured and a committee appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws. This committee reported last Friday; a constitution and by-laws embracing the best features of both the Oread and the Orophilian constitutions was adopted and an election of officers held. Mr. C. L. Smith was elected president; J. A. Mushrush, vice president; C. D. Nutting, secretary; Thos. Hunt, treasurer; E. M. Munford, critic; L. A. Baldwin, musical director; Mr. Norris, reporter; C. E. Riggs, sergeant, and Williams, Branine, and Sharum, executive committee. An interesting program will be rendered this afternoon and all are cordially invited to attend. Those wishing literary practice would do well to join the society as it has been organized for the purpose of improvement and for good hard work. The society has adopted the name which appears at the head of this article.
An Important Change
An Important Change. The faculty have abolished chapel rhetoricals and have substituted in their stead a system of class rhetoricals.
This change goes into effect next year. In the future chapel exercises will consist only of religious services. These will be in charge of the professors, each acting six weeks consecutively. The door will be opened but once. No addresses will be delivered by visitors at these exercises. When, however, we have a visitor whom it would be profitable for the students to hear, they will be called together and the time will be taken from recitations. The Freshman and Sophomores will give declamations
before their respective classes. The Juniors and Seniors will probably give orations, but this is not as yet fully decided upon. Further, the curriculum will be arranged so as to permit members of the Junior and Senior classes to elect a course in elocation. It is the intention of the faculty to make this course very thorough and to include in it both voice culture and phonetics. It may happen that it will not be possible to open this course next year, but the year following will find it in full operation.
These changes are important and will, we believe, be beneficial. They are another indication of progressive spirit which pervades our faculty.
The March number of the Shield, the official publication of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, was issued from the Journal job rooms last Thursday. This is the last number under the charge of Kansas Alpha, as by order of the General convention the place of publication has been changed to Troy, Ohio. The Shield has been in the hands of the Kansas chapter for two years, and during that time has improved greatly, until it is now one of the best society organs. It has always been of a high literary standard, and has happily combined prudence and energy, conservatism and progress, in its management and course. E. C. Little has been editor-in-chief; W. C. Spangler, business manager; Solon T. Gilmore and Cyrus Crane, associate editors. These gentlemen deserve the thanks and congratulations of every Phi Psi for the able manner in which they have performed their duties. The March number is a fitting one with which to close the management of Kansas Alpha. — Lawrence Journal, March 10.
Elsewhere in the paper appears an account of the new literary society which has been reared on the ruins of old Oread. While we cannot but lament that the name ofOread will be known only in the history of the past we believe that it is better that it disappear entirely than prolong its existence when it became useless.
The Atheneum is organized and run as a regular literary society and will hold its sessions Fridays at 3 p.m. in the hall which was formerly Oread's. It is now the privilege of all students to join it and to enjoy its benefits. Undoubtedly the only way to secure good results from the work of such societies is to keep up an interest in the societies themselves. This, it is very difficult to do when one society has the entire field to itself. The members of the new society realize this and they propose to make their meetings as interesting as possible, and their programs superior to those of any other society. The society is full of earnest, enthusiastic young men and they are determined to make their ventures a success Oread is dead—long live her successor—the Atheneum.
Our musical department is doing splendid work and the benefits such work accrue not only to the University but to the people of Lawrence as well. It is no small undertaking to furnish, free of cost, so
many concerts of such excellence as ours have been. And it must be gratifying to the department to know that its efforts are appreciated. Profs. McDonald and Aldrich have labored assiduously to make the department a success, to raise the musical standard throughout the city, to interest the people in choice, classical music. That they are succeeding is too evident to need the statement. No entertainments at the University are so popular or bring out such large audiences as these concerts.
EDITOR COURIER:—It has always seemed to me that the COURIER, with its great liberality and non-partisanship, should include among its editors, a representative of the Pharmacy department and perhaps one from the Laws, they could give to the collegiate world in general, a knowledge of our progress. These are two very important departments in the University, and it is but just to the departments and also for the welfare of the "great weekly" that they should be represented.
The Pharmacy department is now in its second year and I'll venture to say there has never been a department in the history of the University that has in so short a time reached comparatively as high position and grade as it now occupies, even in spite of the jokes and kicks from students of the other departments. Yet it has always pleased me to see what class of collegiate have been loudest in their "funny" (?) remarks concerning the students of this department. These defamers are all noted for one thing—a minimum amount of brain and maximum amount of mouth.
The fact is that whenever the Pharmacy class has come in contact with collegiate students in the same class the Pharmacy students have in every case led the class. Now this is saying a great deal considering the opportunity that the most have had, while some of the collegiates they came in contact with have reached the Junior year, and it is presumable that a student who has become seasoned three or four years in college should be able to surpass one just out of a drug store or from the farm.
Lately I heard the remark: "There are some of the Pharmacy students, who are pretty good students." And I will venture to say that before another year has passed they will be recognized as the equals of those of other departments. To Prof. Sayre the department will be indebted for the high position it is soon to reach. It is only a question of time, for nothing can be accomplished in a day worthy of mention. The department has asked to be recognized on Commencement, the same as the Laws, and it is but just that it should, as there it can show to the people what the department is doing, and also a representative of the boys she sends out to take part in one of the most important, as well as influential, occupations in the State. PH.G.
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