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.
L. A. GILBERT. President. EMMA HYNES. Secretary
EDITORIAL STAFF.
HARRY E. VALENTINE, Editor In Chief,
CYRUS CRANE,
ALICE PENFIELD,
F. C. KEYS,
C. E. STREET,
AGNES WRIGHT,
JENNIE ANDERSON,
E. H. WIHELER,
F. J. GARDNER,
ELLA ROPES,
AGNES WRIGHT,
BURDENESS MANAGERS.
L. A. SHARKARD, | DENTONO DUNN.
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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.
From the first issue of the WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER to the present time, it has taken a position in the highest ranks of college journalism. Every Friday morning of the past two college years it has appeared, with columns filled with bright, spicy, newsy items concerning the happenings of the University and the students. It has been welcomed and enjoyed by every person who is connected or has ever been connected with the University. It has been pre-eminently a students' paper, edited, controlled and supported by the students.
It has done more throughout the United States, the state and the legislature, to further the interests of the University and to build up its reputation, than has any other paper, magazine or periodical ever published.
To the former editors and managers of the COURIER; to those who have toiled early and late, in school and out, that the COURIER might live, does the honor of having made it what it is, belong. To them are due the thanks of the regents, the faculty, the students and of every one who has the interests of our grand institution to heart.
With this issue of the COURIER, the new board of editors assumes control. The company has decreed that for one long year we will be able to realize a long wished for experience to run a newspaper. May it be a happy year for us all.
In assuming control of a paper, as of anything else, it is not best to make too many promises; they might not be kept. The only wish and promise that we can make is that our most earnest endeavor will be to make the Courier for the coming year what it has been in the years past. If we are able to do this we will be satisfied. If we do not, all we ask is that we be not judged
harshly; that the fault be laid rather to our inexperience than to our negligence. Time will tell. "Be patient till the last."
Ring up the curtain.
Pharmaceutical Department.
No department of the University has ever in so short a space of time enjoyed the merited success which has attended the above named department. Established but one year ago, considered a doubtful venture as to its ultimate success, it has. under the guidance of Prof. Sayre, come to occupy a position among the pharmaceutical schools of our country, which may well be envied by schools of longer standing. Combined, as is this school, with the various departments of a large University, it necessarily gives to its students a broader and more comprehensive education than can be obtained at any special school of pharmacy.
The outlook for the coming year could not possibly be more bright. From the numerous applications received, and the large number of students already enrolled, it is estimated that the Junior class alone will contain over thirty members.
During the vacation Prof. Sayre has travelled quite extensively in the eastern states, reviewing old work, inspecting new methods and appliances, visiting old, well established schools, was for some time at Harvard University inspecting the latest laboratory methods and works in physiological botany, etc.
While on this trip he purchased many new and costly appliances for the use of the students in the new laboratory.
During the summer work has progressed very rapidly on the laboratory in the basement of the chemistry building. Within a few days it will be ready for occupancy. The large, airy, well lighted room, such as this will be, will greatly facilitate the workings of the department. Next June this department will take its place among the other departments on the commencement program.
To those contemplating a preparation for the profession of druggist, no better opportunity is offered than at the Kansas University. To those who wish to combine the knowledge of this profession with that of a higher education, the opportunity is perfect.
The instruction given one is at once impressed as coming from one who has made pharmacy his life work, not as a teacher only, but as a practical pharmacist, who knows by experience that which is learned only by long experience—the minute details which a new teacher is sure to overlook. A graduate of the University college of pharmacy must therefore feel he gains, besides a diploma from one of the best institutions in the country, an experience which could not otherwise be obtained in so short a time. A talk with one of the coming alumni shows that the faculty have developed already a pride in the new department. Its members will consider it not only an honor to show the diploma, but to wear the badge of this infant school.
The Topeka Capital speaks of the COURIER as "The best college paper in the Union." Right you are, Capital.
There seems to have been a great mistake made in the location of Snow Hall. There are very few places in the city of Lawrence where it can be seen to any advantage. From no place, except in the extreme western part, can any part below the second story of the building be seen. From the eastern and southern parts of the county it can not be seen at all, on account of the main and chemistry buildings. It may be that no better part of the hill could be found when it was located, but certainly the present position is very poor. Let us be more careful when the greenhouse is built.
There has been times in the history of the University, when the enrollment of new students exceeded that of the present year, but there has never yet been a time when the enrollment of new collegiate students has equalled that of this fall. The new Freshman class alone, will in all probability exceed one hundred members. The board of examiners state that the average of the examinations are much higher than ever before. The enrollment in the law and pharmacy departments will also be greater than ever before. Taking into consideration the hard times and the late drought, this is a splendid showing, and one not anticipated.
--to the library or the periodicals on file in the reading room. The arrangement will be so as to include all in one wing, and probably on the second floor.
Heretofore the Exchange department of the Courier has been very much neglected. It has been almost impossible to secure an editor who would take the necessary time in reviewing the many magazines and periodicals which are received by the Courier. An exchange column properly attended to, is of the most interesting of the columns of a college paper. It gives the readers a broader idea of the work of other colleges, destroys many wrong and deep set prejudices, and gives him a better knowledge of the many institutions of our country. The editors of the Courier hope in the future, to conduct a column of this kind in which the work will be as full and complete as in any other department of the paper.
Quite an extensive change is to be made in the location and arrangement of the library as soon as a suitable place can be obtained in the building. The change has long been contemplated, but owing to the crowded condition of the main building, it has been impossible to carry it out. The erection of Snow hall and the subsequent moving of the natural history department, makes the change an easy matter. The inconvenience of the present room, both in regard to size and location, demands that something be done. There are many books belonging to the University which it is impossible to find place for in the present crowded condition of the shelves. The library has occupied its present position for many years, and has not only the library itself outgrown its quarters, but the increased number of students makes it necessary to provide more ample quarters for reading and study rooms. And this idea will be worked upon—to make the library proper, the reading room and the study room separate from one another. They will of course be placed adjacent to each other, so as to be convenient to refer
Our old friend C. F. Scott, in his excellent paper, the Iola Register, always puts in a good word for his Alma Mater. We quote the following on the new custom of the opening of the session:
The fall term of the State University was formally opened last Friday, with an address to the students by the Hon. T. Dwight Thacher. The manner of signalizing the beginning of a new term is something new under the sun, and strikes the Register as a good thing. In the first place, the matter is mentioned by all the papers in the state, and the University is consequently advertised, which is good. And in the second place, the new students get told a good many things—so long at least as men like Dwight Thacher address them—that they are much the better and wiser for hearing. Every man who has taken a college course can give plenty of “pointers” to young men and young women just beginning such a course, that will be of immense advantage in getting them started right, which is half the battle, if the old adage is to be believed. So we hope the custom thus happily inaugurated will be made perpetual.
The next state oratorical contest will be held the second Friday in February, one month earlier than last year. In order to give the representative of K. S. U. a fair show, the contest here should be held, if not before the Christmas vacation, at least immediately thereafter. The importance of giving our orator a good long time to prepare to meet his rivals at the state contest is manifest. In Illinois the state contest is held this month, the colleges having selected their orators last spring. This is the custom in that state, and consequently the orator from Illinois is always found in the front rank, and more prizes have been taken by representatives of the Sucker state than by those of any other. At the last meeting of the state oratorial association in Topeka, the general sentiment among the delegates was in favor of each year making the time of the contest a little earlier than that of the preceding, and finally getting the Kansas contest fixed for the fall of the year. This matter is respectfully submitted to the oratorical association.
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BASSETT—BROWNE. —Again two old University students are joined in the everlasting bonds. Miss Mac Bassett was married to Mr. E. L. Browne, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, at 1 P. M. last Tuesday. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Beatty, according to the impressive ritual of the Episcopal church. The bridal party took the 4:30 train for Chicago, where they will spend several weeks, after which they will return to their future home in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The Courier extends to them its best wishes. Owing to want of space the long list of presents received by the newly wedded pair is not mentioned.
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Reminiscences of By-Gone Days
EDITOR COURIER :—Your invitation to me to write something for the COURIER, on any subject I please, and as long as I please, is a piece of rashness I can only understand when I remember that it is your first experience in journalistic management. He who sows must reap what he sows, and he who rips must sew what he rips. If my latest venture bring down upon your Hyperion curls glowing fire-brands of wrath, be it the penalty of your own recklessness.
I have thought over and over for some subject which might not set your readers to jingling their chestnut bells. "The Fraternity Question," "Co-education," "College Prizes," "Society Dissipation," "Class Examinations" and many other kindred topics have I revolved over in my cranium, in an endeavor to discover some new feature. But each and all of these have been boiled and fried and roasted and scrambled in the Courier stove, until there is not a fresh atom left. So in desperate despair, I have resolved to dish up a few reminiscences. Not that my career in college was in any way a peculiar one, or that a greater variety of adventures attended it than befalls the average chap who has climbed Oread's slope for four years.
I belong to the last generation of students. Not one of those who entered the University with me yet inters in Dame Oread's halls. For long days and weeks before leaving my parental home for the University, I had pondered on the awful importance of the undertaking. I had studied the catalogue with the profoundest zeal. I was deeply impressed with the strict disciplines to which I would have shortly to submit, as conveyed by the catalogue. The high standard of scholarship requisite for admission, as revealed by the catalogue, was likewise a source of deep anxiety; but I hoped to be able to make the Junior Prep. class. My greatest trepidation, however, was caused by the thought of having to come into the presence of those great and erudite dignitaries who composed the faculty. It read in the catalogue that "a student's best friends are his books; and every student should bring what books he has as works of reference." Holy Moses! How mightily I was impressed with the need of following that injunction. I gathered me together the readers, and the spellers, and the geographies, and the grammars, and the arithmetics, and the copy-books, and the slates, and all that had marked my school days from infancy up. These were all packed in a huge box that made baggagemen groan. Those books were never resurrected, for I soon learned that they would be of no earthly assistance; and I presume they are to-day rotting in some forgotten corner of a Lawrence boarding house.
My journey to the city of the classics was uneventful, other than that I formed the acquaintance on board the cars of one of those creatures whom no student will ever forget—a boarding mistress. After being assured that the fare she served was up to the standard of catalogue stipulations—"plain and wholesome, but not luxurious""I engaged board. I am willing to hold up my hands and swear that I never ate plainer or less
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