THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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With the present number of the COURIER we lay down the editorial pen. This afternoon the company will elect a new editorial staff. We hope that their editorial experience will be as pleasant as ours has been. To this end we will refram from giving them any advice. The one great glory of editorial life is that of independence. The editor is not expected to be bound in any manner either by fact or reason. The man aspiring for honors as a local editor doesn't want to know too many facts; his items will be known already and will appear old and flat. In writing editorials it is much better to disregard both experience and reason. Take a new track. The editor is the teacher of the public. Why should he confine himself to thoughts which might be possible to any other man? The public calls for new goods. If the COURIER staff has failed in presenting this, it is because they have been hampered by local events and issues. Bearing this in mind, we will strive with the great mass of the students to conceal all news and give the editors full play. In leaving the COURIER the present staff of editors will not give up their interest in its welfare. Around the COURIER cluster some of our sweetest remembrances of college life. In the COURIER we saw for the first, and perhaps last time, our names in print. It has been the great Jumbo on whose back we rode before an applauding public. Within the local and personal columns of the COURIER we have set ourselves before the public in as many favorable lights as possible. Long live the COURIER —may her columns never grow shorter! "She has redeemed a fallen reputation and shed luster on a dimmed escutcheon—let the curtain fall to slow music!"
The Phi Psis start out with 19 men this year, five of whom are Seniors.
You might as well try to weld a piece of iron to a barrel stave as to join a scholarly student with a butterfly dude by means of a fraternity. The force of cohesion in society as well as in physics unites molecules of a like nature only. New students who are thinking of joining fraternities should bear this in mind. If you are a scholar you will never succeed in forming a warm personal friendship with those whose tastes are altogether different. Move slowly and surely.
We are pleased to see the general good feeling that exists among the various parties in the University. The unpleasantness attending the Review election has apparently been forgotten, and all factions are joined in harmony. Although one party can but feel that they are not fairly represented on that paper, they have wisely consented to suffer what they consider an injustice rather than continue a contest which can but be injurious to the University. It would be well if students would always remember that the good name of the University is worth more to every student than the success or failure of any party in college politics.
It is an unusual thing for the Courier to make mention of city society events, but the Barnett-Steinberg wedding was one of such unusual importance and brilliancy, that it deserves at least a mention. The ceremony was performed Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, at Frazer Hall, in the presence of an immense throng of friends. The beautiful marriage rite of the Jewish church united them, the Rabbi Kranskoff, of Kansas City, officiating. The bride is the handsome daughter of our patron, Mr. S. Steinberg, and the groom a prosperous merchant of Jerseyville, Illinois. They were the happy recipients of a check for $2,500 from Mr. Steinberg.
If one may judge from appearances, the one and only great purpose of school life is to build up fraternities. The new student, on arriving, receives little rest until he has joined some fraternity. The other day we saw five men, representatives of as many fraternities, surrounding one new student, each endeavoring to entice him from the others and "spike" him. I have no idea that any one of the parties engaged had any interest in the student more than his selfish desire to defeat his rival. The "rushing" of men in the University has never before been carried to such ridiculous extremes. There once was a day when it was an honor to be a fraternity man, but that day has gone by. As a fraternity man we say it is pleasant to be associated in a fraternity, but it is no longer a necessity in order to stand well socially in the University. We have an able-bodied reverence for the new student who refuses to be "rushed" into a fraternity. If you don't feel able to join a fraternity, don't join. Your position in the school is not dependent upon fraternities. Be independent. You will be respected for it.
We would advise students looking for boarding places to select from the Courier list, as they are all desirable places.
By Hon. T. Dwight Thacher Before the University Std.den.s, on the Occasion of the Opening of the New College Year.
A FINE ADDRESS.
The large University hall was well filled this morning to hear the address by Hon. T. Dwight Thacher, of Topeka. After a few preliminary remarks and announcements by Chancellor Lippincott, Mr. Thacher was introduced as one of the steadfast friends of the University.
Mr. Thacher regretted that he had not had time to prepare the elaborate address the occasion demanded, but he would try to suggest a few thoughts which would be useful. Many of these young men and women are at the University for the first time. It is an event in their lives. They have stood in the awful presence of the chancellor and the ordental has been safely passed (applause.) The faculty has been found nothing more extraordinary than any other body of good-looking men. They are getting acquainted with the old students. The latter are the veterans of the University legions. They are those who determine the character and standing of the University, and make or mar its reputation.
Youth is the season of infinite possibilities. Everything is on a grand scale. There seems to be nothing which is impossible. But youth is transient. You can be young but once. There is no power which can turn back the tide of time. Remember that this is a fleeting period. The advantages which you now enjoy can never be renewed to you. Time is of infinite value. A student's time, if lost, can never be regained.
It is important that the students of the University realize their relation with it. They are on a different basis than that of the students of those institutions not of the state. At a private institution it is largely a matter of business. If you do not work it is merely your loss. If you lose time it is your misfortune. But the buildings of this University were erected, the expenses are paid by money raised from the tax payers of Kansas, not merely those who have children here, but also those who never had and never will have any. So if you lose your time and opportunities here you waste the investment made by the state. For each young man and woman who goes through the four years course, the state pays $1,000. Therefore, realize that you are a part of the state. You are the children of the state, and it is incumbent on you to perform your duty. What are these duties? The state wants you to do your work as laid out in the curriculum not to put in your time on outside things. The state does not care whether you can dance play bail or row a boat, but it does ask you to do your work as required by the college curriculum. You are here for a definite work. Do it.
Then you have others who look to you for returns. The expenses in the preparatory school and college are not less than $2,500. You also invest your own time. Every day you lose is that much taken from your owo investment- Do what you came here to do. You cannot spend one day on your studies and the next on something else and accomplish any result. A visit home is pleasant, bu
it will make you weak in your classes. It is the duty of a lawyer to win his case, and if he lose, there is little comfort for him in being a ball player or a dancer.
The chief difference between an educated man and an uneducated man is not that the one knows more than the other, but that he can do more than the other. You must discipline your brain to do what you wish. If you do this you will find you are greatly stronger. Be thorough. There is too much partial knowledge. The man who knows one thing well is the successful man. No one man can secure all knowledge Make some portion of the field of knowledge yours. Be accurate in what you know It will make your labor easier and more effective.
Keep a high idea. A man is much what his idea is. There is a power which draws us to what we want to be. Don't be satisfied with half-way work. Don't try to deceive your professor in making him think you know your lessons when you do not. You cheat yourself, not him. Have honor. Let your word be as good as your bond. Imitate the lives of great, good men. This University should have great scholars. You have not many chances to be president, but you can be good scholars, be good, square honest men.
In beginning once again the work of the University, on behalf of the faculty and the friends of the institution and of yourselves, I extend to you our best wishes. A Kansan has a right to a proud spirit, and everywhere he goes he lifts up his head and proclaims that he is a Kansan. You, young men and women, are to be the future rulers of the state. Improve these opportunities you now have. Make yourselves able to say you are worthy citizens of this grand and glorious state of Kansas.
The address was one of the finest ever delivered in the city. At its conclusion the audience showed the appreciation they felt by long and continued applause.-Tribune.
--what is known as Western Fraternities.
In the tragic ending of Wirt W. Walton last week, the University has lost a true friend. Appreciating from his own experience as a public man and editor, the benefits of a good education, he ever gave his aid and vote to that which he thought to be in the interest of the University. In the legislature, in his political life and in his own paper he showed his deep belief in the higher education of our youth.
Sigma Chi.
The sixteenth be-annual convention of the Sigma Chi fraternity met in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 7th, 8th and 9th.
C. L. Smith represented Alpha Xi Chapter of K. S. U. The convention held its sessions there by the invitation of Alpha Gamma Chapter of the State University at that place.
The convention assembled with delegates from all parts of the Union, on the east as far as New Jersey, and California on the west, from Michigan on the north, and from Texas on the south.
The convention was opposed to all eastern extension, although the fraternity has about eight chapters in the east, the south and west is preeminently its field of labor, and it undoubtedly stands in the front rank of
The first day of the convention was mainly taken up in forming the various committees, and to completing a permanent organization.
They commenced the second day in discussing the reports of the committees and amending the constitution and ritual statutes, although there was no essential change made in either. Also, the recent revocation of the charter of the Hillsdale Chapter of Hillsdale College, Michigan, occasioned quite a discussion, but the action of the triumvirs was unanimously sustained.
The election of officers occurred the third day. Hon. O. S Brumback, from Toledo, was elected Grand C.; and W. L. Fisher, of Chicago, was given the magazine for another two years; Hon. P. F. Clark, of Lincoln, Neb., was elected Proctor of the sixth province, of which Kansas is a part.
On the evening of the second day of the convention Mrs. T. Ewing Miller, of Columbus, gave a grand reception to all the Sigs, which was one of the grandest affairs of the season.
Several other distinguished guests were there besides Sigma Chis, such as Governor Foraker and wife, and other state officials and families. The convention ended with a grand banquet at the Neil House, and literary exercises. The oration was delivered by Hon. O. S. Brumback. Following this was Chas. T. Murray's paper on "The Collegiate," It was a narration of his own college experience. His paper was filled with brilliant wit and forcible hits, for which he has become renowned as a newspaper correspondent. Then came a poem by M. M. Miller, and if the genius that everywhere manifests itself in the poem is any indication, he will some day become a renowned poet. Each selection of music which was rendered between every literary production, was written especially for the occasion. A quartette from Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, rendered several Sigma Chi songs, the whole company joining in on the chorus. Toasts were proposed and were enthusiastically responded to by many prominent members. The convention was pronounced a success in every point, and the meeting closed with three rousing cheers for Sigma Chi.
A Cowboy at West Point.
To most people, and especially to young men, West Point is looked upon as a sort of paradise, where a young man can get a good education without work, wear a gaudy uniform, draw his pay from the government regularly, shine in good society, and have a great time generally. How much mistaken his dreams are can be seen by the technical name given it by the cadets—"HADES ON THE HUDSON." I will venture the assertion that there is more real hard work done at West Point than any other school in the country. It is one of the places where they don't believe that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Every cadet is busy from six in the morning till ten at night. They believe in the eight hour system you see-eight hours in the morning and eight in the afternoon and extra time on Sunday.
One of the first things that struck me was the different classes of young men that come here. At K, S U, we
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