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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,
President. | R. J. CURDY,
Secretary.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
CYRUS CRANE, EDITOR In-Char-
F. G. CROWEL, | BEAM P.
FIELD, | KENNESWEE, |
F. C. KEYS, | W.A. WHITE,
| C. A. CUNKLE, | HOPES.
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
DENTON HOGER JOM. | ELAKE L SWOPE.
Entered at the post-office at Lawrence, Kansas as second class matter.
University Directory
PHI GAMMA DELTA-Meets Saturday nights.
No. 71 Mass, St. 3d floor.
PHI KAPPA Fst-Meets Saturday nights. 3d
roomers house block.
PHI DELTA THETA-Meets Saturday nights. A.
O. U. W.Hall.
SIGMA CHI- Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor Opera House block.
BETA THETA Pl- Meets Saturday nights, 4th floor Opera House block.
SOMA NU-Meets Saturday nights, I. O, O. F.
black.
L. C.—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA TRETA-Meets Saturday after noon!, No.75 Mass, St. 3d floor.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoon at homes of members.
OREAD LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoon in its hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor. Pres., Denton Dunn; sec'y Ella Ropes.
SCIENCE CLUB-Meets Friday afternoons, in chemistry lecture room. Pres. R. L. MeAlpine; sec.v', V, L. Kellogg.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY-Meets Friday afternoons in its hall, University building, north wing, 3d floor. Pres., A. L. Wilmith; secyc., Lau a Arnett.
KENT CLUB, of Law Students—Meets Friday nights in Court House. Pres., J. W. Roberts, see'y, A. Overton.
PHILOSOLOGY —Meets second Friday of the month in lecture room, University building.
MOO7 SENATE -Meets in Orophillan hall every Saturday afternoon. President, John Mushrush; clerk, L. A. Baldwin.
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.-F., F. J. Gardner; sec'y, L. T. Smith; meets every night in night in rooms of city association.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. W, C.A., meats Sanda,
afternoons at homes of members.
afternoons at homes or members
COURTREE Company—Pres, L. A. Gibe, t; sec'y
Miss Emma Hynes.
REVIEW Company—Pres, S. W. Shattuck.
BASE Ball Association—Sec'y, E. F. Neal.
THE LYCEUM FAVORITE! Geo.R. Wendling
ONE OF
AMERICA'S GREATEST ORATORS!
Will deliver a lecture entitled VOLTAIRE, at Plymouth Church, Friday eve, Feb. 11th. This lecture the students should give their particular attention to, as it is one of the best ones in the course.
Courier Changes.
With this issue several changes occur in the editorial staff. H. E. Valentine, who has filled the position of editor-in-chief for the past term, retires and Cyrus Crane takes his place. A C. Cunkle takes C. E. Street's place and Frank Crowell fills the position vacated by Mr. Crane. Mr. Valentine while editor-in-chief, worked assiduously and performed his duties with much ability and the Courier under his management continued to hold its usual high position among college periodicals. Mr. Street was also a good worker and showed considerable ability as a "rustler" for items Crowell and Cunkle are both members of the Junior class and will undoubtedly be valuable additions to the staff. Denton Dunn, who has served a long time in the Courier's interest becomes president of the company; and R. J. Curdy secretary Denton Hogeboom and Earle Swope were unanimously elected business managers. These gentlemen have already had some experience and are well able to look after the paper's financial interests. White who is a good journalist, takes F. H Gardner's place and will help in spicing up the local columns.
Thus equipped, the Courier starts the new term hoping that she may continue, as she has always been in the past, the student's favorite and the alumni's delight.
Ar the Courier meeting Monday an important change in the constitution was made. It gives the board of directors power to remove any editor who fails for two consecutive weeks, to furnish copy, and it further provides that the reasons for such removal shall be plainly stated through the columns of the paper. This is a much needed change and will, we think, be productive of much good. Heretofore the work has devolved almost entirely on the editor-in-chief and one or two assistants, while the majority of the staff has been purely ornamental, and further than that has been of very little value. But under this new provision the staff will become a working body or else will be dispensed with entirely. It is believed however, that plenty of good workers can be found, and hereafter the figure heads and ornaments will not stand in the way of those who are willing to work and wish the training
The following is taken from Andrew D. White's paper in the February number of the Forum, subject: "How I was Educated." Comment is unnecessary.
"But the college as a whole was at its lowest ebb. There were but about forty students, and the great majority of these, sons of wealthy churchmen, felt no inclination for work, and much inclination to dissipation. Of discipline there was none. The authorities of the college could not afford to expel or even offend a student. Its endowment was so small that it must have all the instruction fees possible, and must keep in the good graces of the wealthy fathers of its scape-grace students. The students soon found this out, and the result was a little pandemonium. Only about half a dozen of our number
studied at all; the rest, by translations, promptings and evasions of various sorts, escaped without labor. I have had to do since, as student or professor, with some half-dozen Universities, at home and abroad, in all of these together. I have not seen so much carousing and wild dissipation as I then saw in this little church co'lege, of which the especial boast was that, being small, it was "able to exercise a direct Christian influence upon its students."
With this issue the COURIER enters upon a new administration. For the ensuing term the COURIER shall be, as far as is in our power, a representative, local students' paper. This has been its aim in the past and on this account it has gained its popularity; so in the work that has been given it to do we shall strive to excel. It shall be our effort to do and say the right thing at the right time and in the right place. We are bound by no pledges and under no obligations to any one. We shall therefore, be at perfect liberty to criticise whatsoever and whomsoever we please. Without seeking faults or short-comings, we shall nevertheless, as occasion demands, express our disapproval with what seems to us at variance with the best interests of the University. We have never been among the number of those who believe in faculty supervision, nor or the other hand we do not wish to place ourselves in opposition to that body. We shall always be glad to receive suggestions and will carefully judge their merits. We hope that the COURIER will continue to please you, but if it does not remember that it is seldom that any two men can exactly agree.
Last Friday was a day set apart by the state, and celebrated by most institutions of learning in this state as "Kansas Day," yet probably one-fourth of the students of the University were not aware that there was such a day. It is a sad fact that Kansas history, Kansas literature—and she has a literature of which any state of her age, should be proud—and Kansas politics, are subjects almost ignored in this institution. This seems hardly fair when we stop to think that this institution is not only supported by Kansas, but sends men and women into the state as citizens, who are ignorant of her affairs.
CONTEST NOTES.
L. H. Leach, winner of the first contest and representative for Kansas in the Inter-State contest in 84, was present; also Howard Campbell, the successful orator at Baldwin this year.
The orchestra say that Higgins and Hamilton were the only men who ought to have been marked high by the judges, for they were the only ones who had politeness enough to address a part of their speech to them. Dan Crew's new song is entitled "The Lost Chord."
friends and is universally liked. It is our duty to give him our enthusiastic and undivided support, for he will represent us with ability. Let the matter be taken in hand at once and a crowd worked up to go to Ottawa. Enthusiasm in proper quantities is a good thing and goes a long way towards inspiring confidence in a speaker. Hurrah for Hamilton! We believe that he is good for a clean sweep at Ottawa.
H. B. Hamilton won, and won fairly and satisfactorily. Mr. Hamilton, although he has been with us but a short time has made many
The noticeable lack of members of the faculty at the contest was painful. We believe that is just as much their duty to attend student entertainments as it is for students to attend lectures and concerts given by the faculty. We do not wish to institute a boycott against these entertainments but we do not like to be boycotted ourselves. We trust that the small price of admission did not keep any from attending. If such was the case, we hope that next year the destitute ones will speak to the members of the executive committee, who will provide them with "coups." Some of the faculty however, never fail us. Among them are Profs. Robinson, Carruth and Dr. Lippincott and we assure them that they have our gratitude and thanks.
When Dick reached back to his hip pocket a man whispered: "now look out for the eagle," evidently thinking that he carried a small pocket bird of that description around with him. That man didn't know where students carry their pocket handkerchiefs. And then when Higgins came out and frowning like some Hindoo god, opened his mouth and said with terrific force, "Mind," the people in front involuntarily curled up and sank down behind the backs of the seats in front of them. Higgins didn't mean anything wrong. The boys in the back part of the room all thought that Hamilton was pulling a pistol when his long forefinger indexed a gesture. Mulvane who sat in the back row of seats in the gallery was positive that Dunn was going to fly, collar and all, and he was prepared to receive him with open arms.
Art the State contest next Friday night Washburn will he represented by Arthur Brewster, whose subject is "Patriotism." Brewster is said to be the most magnetic orator that Washburn ever sent to a State contest. Baldwin will send Howard Campbell. Mr. Campbell marks a new epoch in Baker oratory. Heretofore everything das been on the theological plan and embrook preachers have been her representatives. Good representatives they made, but they had to stepaside this year. The State Normal sends Holmes, who has tried before in the local contests and failed, but met with success this time. Emporia College will be represented by Mr. Hibbard. The Ottawa contestant, Miss Alice Boomer, who represented Ottawa so creditably last year, will be the only lady in the contest this time. For the State University Hamilton's clear and strong voice will ring out above them all. We have no fear of defea, but are confide it that victory will again perch upon our banners. Rock-chock Jay-Hawk K. U.
It is said by those who were nearest him that the Baldwin orator who took in our local contest wriggled so in his chair when Hamilton was talking, that all the varnish was rubbed off the seat. "He was no doubt very uncomfortable. He probably felt as if he were listening to his funeral oration.
College World.
To Our Exchanges.
We owe an apology to our many exchanges for not mailing to them for the past month. When the exchange editor left last December to spend his Christmas holidays, knowing that he would not return for a few weeks, he left the exchange list with our devil, in order that our exchanges might receive the Courier regularly. Owing to circumstances over which we have no control, the exchange list together with our entire office was destroyed by fire in January and although our devil is a man of extraordinary ability, he was not familiar enough with our exchange lists to make out a duplicate, and consequently our exchanges failed to receive the Courier. The exchange editor is now on deck, and he will see that the Courier is mailed regularly every Friday afternoon. Although the list will be made out from memory we hope none will be forgotten.
THE following we clip from the Daily Globe-Democrat of January 29th inst. As it may be of interest so many of our readers we publish in full:
Co-education of an aggravated type has broken out at Evanston. The students of the Northwestern University have been having a perfect carnival the past few days, and the excitement among them is intense. The time-honored feuds between the Freshmen and the Sophomore classes have lately been waged with such fierceness that it has involved even the ladies of the respective classes, who have maintained co-educational rights by indulging in the class scrimmages with as much zest as their brother class-mates. The present trouble began last week when the Sophomores captured five Freshmen as the latter class was about to take a sleigh ride, kept them prisoners in a vacant house, and brought them out at night to the class banquet after it was all over. To celebrate their victory, the Sophomores got out a poster in play-bill style, detailing the circumstances. The enraged Freshmen tore them down, and several scrimmages resulted.
When these bills were introduced into the women's college, the Sophomore girls flaunted them in the face of the Freshmen girls and a hair-pulling resulted which the Dean was a long time in quelling. One little red-haired lady, who ordinarily wears glasses and is an expert at Greek roots, developed a style of pugilism that showed an unexpected familiarity with the manly art. Being driven into a corner by the superior numbers of her assailants, she put up her hands in true statesman-like fashion, and repelled all comers with a genuine scientific one—two—three. As a consequence, a languishing blonde, and ethereal brunette and a spirituelle beauty with hazel eyes are wearing their several optical features in deep mourning.
A BELLIGERENT GIRL.
Still another Freshman, entering more fully into the spirit of the affair brandished a case knife and swore to
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