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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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L. A. GILBERT,
President.
EMMA HYNES,
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University Directory.
PHI GAMMA DELTA - Meets Saturday nights, No. 715 Mass. St., 3rd floor.
PIII KAPPA Psr—Meets Saturday nights, 3rd floor Opera House Block.
3rd floor Opera House Block.
PHI DELTA THETA — Meets Saturday nights, A. O. U. W. Hall.
SIGMA CHI—Meets Saturday nights, 2nd floor Opera House Block.
BETA THETA PI—Meets Saturday nights, 4th floor Opera House Block.
SIGMA NU—Meets Saturday nights, K. of P. Hall.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA—Meets Saturday afternoons, No. 717 Mass. St., 3rd floor.
I. C.—Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday afternoons, at homes of members.
OREAD LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons, in their hall, University building, south wing, 3rd floor.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoons, in their hall, University building, north wing, 3rd floor. Pres., W. T. Caywood; sec'y., Nettie Godell.
SCIENCE CLUB—Meets Friday afternoons, in chemistry lecture room. Pres., R. L. McAlpine; sec'y., V. L. Kellogg.
KENT CLUB, of Law Students — Meets Friday nights, in Court House. Pres., Sam'l. Moore; sec'y., W. A. Jackson.
PHILOLOGY—Meets second Friday of the month, in Greek lecture room, University building. Pres., Prof. Robinson; sec'y., Prot. Wilcox.
WEBSTER DEBATING SOCIETY—Meets Saturday afternoons, in Orophilian Hall Pres., Brandon.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION—Pres., E. G. Blair; sec'y., A. L. Wilmoth; board of directors, Frank Crowell, Denton Dunn V. L. Kellogg.
COURIER COMPANY—Pres., L. A. Gilbert sec'y., Miss Emma Hynes.
REVIEW COMPANY — Pres., S. W. Shat tuck.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION — Sec'y., E. F. Neal.
Notice.
We would announce to our subscribers that the Courier management has appointed Mr. E. L. Swope to take charge of the circulation. Subscriptions paid to others will not be recognized. Please remember this when you pay.
Supt. Crocker has overhauled all the steam, gas and water pipes of the building, and we will have no leaking pipes this year.
Our Relations to the University.
The following, concerning the relations which the University papers bear to the University, was handed to us by a friend of the University. It is a clear and concise statement, and can be fully relied upon, coming as it does from a man known to all the state as a most competent lawyer:
1. A State University is a public institution belonging to the state; and all residents of the state, of proper age and educational acquirements, have a right to attend it as students; and this right cannot be forfeited or destroyed except for the strongest reasons and in the most extreme cases.
2. A paper edited and published by the students of such an institution is private property, and as such, is not under the control or censorship of the faculty or even of the board of regents.
3. The faculty, however, under the regents, have to some extent, the right to control the conduct of the students; and in exercising this right, may indirectly and to a limited extent, have control over the paper.
4. They have no right, however, under any circumstances, to say that any particlar thing shall go into the paper, for the paper does not belong to them, and is no part of the school,
5. Neither have they any right to prohibit anything from going into the paper, except as they have a right to control the conduct of the students who edit and publish it.
6. And they have no right to control the conduct of the students except where such conduct has a relation to the school as a school.
7. They may prohibit the students from doing anything that will naturally tend to demoralize the school, or to bring it or its teachers into disrespect, ridicule or contempt, except that students may generally tell in papers or elsewhere, facts which have actually come under their own observation; that is, facts as contradistinguished from opinions, inferences, conclusions or comments, and such facts as are cognizable by the senses.
8. They have no right, however, by virtue of this power over the conduct of students, or otherwise, to prohibit anything from being published, unless its natural tendency is to affect the school as such or its teachers as such, injuriously.
9. The people of the state are the real founders and proprietors of the State University, their object being to educate all the youth of the state who can avail themselves of its benefits; and the people in accomplishing this object, act through various instrumentalities—the legislature, the governor, the board of regents, the teachers and the courts—and they will not allow their school to be injured or their designs to be frustrated, if through the foregoing instrumentalities they can prevent it.
negged advertisements from the merchants any more than has the aforesaid Lawrence paper.
In answer to the attack made on the COURIER by one of the city papers in which the COURIER is spoken of as a burden to the merchants of Lawrence, we will say that the COURIER represents the students of the University who annually bring $200,000 into the city of Lawrence. This is why we demand recognition by the merchants of this city.
--the Kansas City Journal of Sunday:
Members of the Science Club and other students of the University, and residents of this city (Kansas City), visited the mound region of Clay county to open one or more of the vaults or cairns which contain the remains of an extinct race. The section to be explored was adjacent to the groups opened under the direction of Judge E. P. West, formerly of Kansas City, and Professor F. H. Snow, about two years ago. Through the kindness of Mr. Kelley, whose handsome residence in Clay county surmounts a high elevation overlooking Kansas City in the distance, the opportunity of opening a mound within his orchard was secured. After a picnic lunch provided by the ladies of the party, work was commenced with a zeal. Backed by ample reails, the mound was soon opened sufficiently to discover the characteristics found in all previously opened—the four walls of masoney at right angles, about eight feet square, clay burnt to the color of brick, charcoal and bits of lime, showing the presence of fire within the cairns, tombs or abodes. Later on "pay dirt" was struck and fragments of bone procured. Soon followed the disclosure of skulls in a crumbling condition, fragments of thigh bones, bones of the arm, the enameled cap of two molars, in good condition and of unmistakable identity. The most interesting article of the entire "find," as pronounced by Professor Snow, was a single minute shell bead with a hole through it, showing it to have been one of an original string, as of to-day. The indications from the fragments gathered pointed to the fact of two bodies having been buried there, and those of humans of small stature, and while the exhumations added nothing material for the benefit of science, it confirmed the certainty of such remains being within these mounds and the uniformity with which the manner of interment was conducted by those people of other days. The usual square apartment with an entrance at one side, the burnt clay, ashes, charcoal, leaves one in doubt as to whether they were originally abodes for living, or vaults for dead, and this question will doubtless never find a true answer. For lack of time thorough examination of the mound was not completed, and it was determined on the part of Professor Nichols and
No merchant or citizen of Lawrence was ever asked to subscribe for the Courier, nor have we ever asked or
Furthermore, as the Courier, having a larger circulation than any other paper in the city, is recognized as the best advertising medium which can be obtained in Lawrence. There is hardly a paper in the state in which advertisements bring in better returns to the advertisers than does the Courier; that is, in comparison to the cost of the advertisements.
The Courier is self-supporting, and does not consume the money of the student.
The aforesaid Lawrence daily had better own up that its advocacy of the abolishment of the University papers is wholly actuated by mercenary motives, since the merchants of Lawrence patronize the Courier to a loss perhaps to the city paper.
The following is the account of the Science Club excursion, copied from the Kansas City Journal of Sunday:
--the Kansas City Journal of Sunday:
Members of the Science Club and other students of the University, and residents of this city (Kansas City), visited the mound region of Clay county to open one or more of the vaults or cairns which contain the remains of an extinct race. The section to be explored was adjacent to the groups opened under the direction of Judge E. P. West, formerly of Kansas City, and Professor F. H. Snow, about two years ago. Through the kindness of Mr. Kelley, whose handsome residence in Clay county surmounts a high elevation overlooking Kansas City in the distance, the opportunity of opening a mound within his orchard was secured. After a picnic lunch provided by the ladies of the party, work was commenced with a zeal. Backed by ample reails, the mound was soon opened sufficiently to discover the characteristics found in all previously opened—the four walls of masoney at right angles, about eight feet square, clay burnt to the color of brick, charcoal and bits of lime, showing the presence of fire within the cairns, tombs or abodes. Later on "pay dirt" was struck and fragments of bone procured. Soon followed the disclosure of skulls in a crumbling condition, fragments of thigh bones, bones of the arm, the enameled cap of two molars, in good condition and of unmistakable identity. The most interesting article of the entire "find," as pronounced by Professor Snow, was a single minute shell bead with a hole through it, showing it to have been one of an original string, as of to-day. The indications from the fragments gathered pointed to the fact of two bodies having been buried there, and those of humans of small stature, and while the exhumations added nothing material for the benefit of science, it confirmed the certainty of such remains being within these mounds and the uniformity with which the manner of interment was conducted by those people of other days. The usual square apartment with an entrance at one side, the burnt clay, ashes, charcoal, leaves one in doubt as to whether they were originally abodes for living, or vaults for dead, and this question will doubtless never find a true answer. For lack of time thorough examination of the mound was not completed, and it was determined on the part of Professor Nichols and
members of the Science Club to continue the work next Saturday, jointly with the students and professors of Park College. Altogether the excursion was regarded as satisfactory, and the results highly interesting.
A Dead College.
During my rambles last summer I was permitted to visit a dead college. It was a visit I had often longed to make, and when the opportunity came I embraced it at once. I doubt not that most of my readers have heard of Washington and Jefferson college, but perhaps many do not know of the history of the institution—that it was formed by the union of Jefferson and Washington colleges. These institutions were both founded prior to the year 1800, and were located at a distance of eighteen miles from each other. Both were Presbyterian colleges; both were strong and sent out hundreds of alumni, many of whom have held prominent places in our country's roll of honor. About seventeen years ago the trustees concluded to unite the two colleges, and the stronger and more prominent of the two—Jefferson—was closed and Washington & Jefferson college was started at Washington.
It was on a pleasant morning last July that I left Pittsburg, darkened as usual by her mantle of smoke, and turned westward to visit the old college town of Canonsburg. The "Panhandle" road runs through a very picturesque region. The scene is constantly varying. Hills and valleys, tunnels and embankments are passed; now we are in the cool depths of a wood, anon in the smoke, hurry and oustle of a manufacturing town; then a turn in the road and we go up the valley of the Chartiers, through one of the farming countries in western Pennsylvania. In this part of the state the natural gas abounds, and oil is now found in abundance, so all the farmers have gone to digging for 'tile.' The hills are covered with derreas, the valleys with tanks. The discovery of oil will change very materially the outlook of Washington county, and will in a few years take away all those features which have characterized its people. After a ride of about two hours a sudden turn on the road brought to my view a square white tower, surmounting a plain brick building, with a steep gable of the old Dutch style. This was my first view of JEFFERSON COLLEGE.
Canonsburg is a quaint, quiet old town, which has changed out little in a hundred years. It does not grow as other towns do; it is not subject to the same influences. While the college lived, Canonsburg lived for the college; now that Jefferson is dead, the town lives on from force of habit and to hate Washington. The railroad has come in the last few years, but has made no change in the village. Nestled down among her hills, she seems only to live to keep watch over her dead. A large majority of the buildings were built either in the first half of the present century, or in the last century, so consequently I was much impressed by the venerable appearance of everything about the town—even the girls. Old Jefferson stands two-thirds up a steep, rocky hill, his campus an unkept, treeless, stony square, his plain brick walls, her old battered wooden bell
tower, her broken windows, all speak of the lack of care she has suffered, and present a marked contrast to the other colleges I visited.
On entering the building and visiting the rooms, one realizes for the first time what a bitter blow it was to the people of Canonsburg, and how zealously they kept everything as it was before the consolidation. In the rooms the old desks stand as of yore, all carved and whittled by the knives of generations of students, many of whom have passed from this life. The plastering lays where it fell, and a covering of dirt is over everything. Part of the building is used as an academy, and is in good repair, while the chapel does duty as a church.
The college library is a wreck. Piles of dusty books, mutilated by the axes of the indignant citizens, who declared that the "muskrat settlement" should not have the property of Jefferson; broken shelves and torn pamphlets—that is Jefferson library, a moment of waste and of folly, engendered by hatred and disappointment.
I visited the halls and libraries of Franklin and Philo societies. These halls are elegantly furnished, and the libraries which accumulated for three quarters of a century, are now each equal in size to our University library. These halls have not been changed in the least since the day Jefferson college closed its doors forever.
There is no need to speak of the old president's mansion, with its large, low, comfortable rooms; of the chapel or gymnasium; they are of to-day as well as of a century ago. But what was Jefferson, is now dead and falling to decay. It seems a shame that the old school should be stricken down by her false friends. Washington & Jefferson college has never equaled in strength either of the two old colleges—largely on account of the growth of other and better schools, parity because the union was opposed by the friends of the colleges themselves. Jefferson college has sent forth her sons for a century; they have labored hard and suffered; many have risen to prominence, many given up their lives for their principles in the late conflict; but whether living lives of obscurity or toil, or enjoying wealth and honor and power, it can well be said that Jefferson college has been honored in her sons. Even though her brick walls will crumble, her name will go down to posterity as one of the great colleges of America. Yes, and her sons honor her, too, and love her as of old. Hear the voice of one who left her walls over thirty years ago:
"Old burg, that nestles 'mong the Chartier hills,
You are not rich in beauty or in wealth.
Yet you are fair, and near and dear to us;
For on your breast you bear the thing we loved；
A shell—'us soulless now; its soul has fled,
But lives undying in the love of sons
Who bear her impress on their heart of hearts,
Old Alma Mater."
R. E. HENRY.
The Topeka State Journal had a very sensible and well written article about our late trouble. It will be received in the same spirit in which it was written. It is almost a pleasure to receive advice when it is given so kindly.
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