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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.
M. O. BILLINGS, A. L. WILMOTH,
President. Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
W. S. JENKS, Editor-in-Chief.
H. E. VALENTINE, P88, J. D. DAVIS, '87
LAURA LYONS, '86, LIZZIE PETTEE, '89
G. W. HARRINGTON, '87, LILLIE FREeman, '89
NANNIE ANDERSON, '89, MARY SABIN, '87
C. L. SMITH, '87.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
DENTON DUNN, '87. | E. G. BLAIR, '87.
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We notice that a colony of fourteen ladies have gone from Wichita to Leoti, all having claims in Wichita Co. When we remember that our ever gallant friend Will Little is at Leotti, the reason for this emigration is quite apparent.
The statutes of the state of California provides that no liquor shall be sold within one mile of the State University. The law is a good one. It insures tranquil slumbers for the faculty, and a healthful amount of exercise for the boys
Efforts are being made to organize an inter-state athletic association. Washburn has already expressed her willingness to enter such an organization, and we expect equally favorable answers from the other colleges. The move is a good one and should receive the hearty support of all students. If there is anything in which the colleges of Kansas are deficient it is in advantages and inducements for physical culture. Every movement calculated to improve these conditions should be heartily encouraged.
When you hear a report calculated to injure someone's reputation, be slow to believe it and slower still to spread the report. The person who is wholly above reproach is the slowest to believe evil of others. If somebody is guilty of a great moral or social crime, do not consider it your duty to make the matter more public in order to right the evil. Rest assured that enough and too much will be known for the good of either the unfortunate party or the general public. The persons who can hear a scandalous report and say nothing of it are few, yet they are the kind of people most beneficial to the community.
Missouri has always considered herself superior to Kansas, and points with peculiar pride to such heroes as Jesse James and Cole Younger. But Kansas is coming rapidly to the front. On Monday morning some strikers on the Missouri Pacific, near Wyandotte, succeeded in wrecking a freight train and killing two men. Had the passenger train been running on time it would have suffered the fate of the freight train, and two hundred instead of two persons
might have been killed. Such efforts as this should receive proper credit. It shows that Missouri and Kansas are becoming more united. Over the chasm of sectional strife they can reach the hand of fellowship and exclaim: "We, truly, are of one blood!"
Lawrence, like all great cities, has a remarkable police force. They are very formidable in times of peace, but in times demanding action are never to be found. Not long since a gentleman, walking with a lady along Massachusetts street, was compelled to push to one side a dry goods box which had been thrown in his way by some one in front of him. The policeman, perhaps two hastily aroused from lethane meditations to fully comprehend the situation, hastily grasped the unoffending gentleman and caused him no small amount of annoyance. This blunder is perhaps equal to the one which they made two years ago, when, after sitting on the corner and watching two hundred students celebrate the victory of our orator at the state contest, they attempted to arrest the three students who had remained to watch the fire.
On next Thursday evening the inter-state oratorical contest will be held in the University chapel. This is only one of the many honors conferred upon the educational institutions of Kansas. Kansas has been noted for her material resources and her salubrious climate. In this as Kansans we have had reason to rejoice. But in nothing do we take more pleasure than in the fact that we have abundant educational facilities, and that these facilities are so employed as to receive recognition and honor at the hands of sister states.
As students of the University, which is especially distinguished, we may, perhaps, be permitted to indulge a pardonable pride. Yet we do not wish to make this a University affair. The University is only one representative of Kansas colleges and can not appropriate all honor to herself; neither can she be expected to represent all the colleges of Kansas in the inter-state contest. We expect large delegations from all the colleges of our State association to be present and assist in giving the delegates from the colleges of our sister states a right royal welcome.
So long as strikers are permitted to destroy property with impunity, or only light punishment, there will be plenty of men ready and eager to display their communistic cussness. To be sure we have laws providing for the punishment of such crimes, but they need to be enforced. No law, it is said, is stronger than the sentiment behind it. It becomes then the duty of every citizen to use his influence to build up a strong sentiment in this direction. The destroyers of millions of dollars of property, the authors of untold misery and want, murderers of their fellow men, should receive no light punishment. Judge Brewer in a recent paper said: "The law should be not only in theory, but also in administration, a terror to evil doers. I believe in the virtue and value of punishment; it is wholesome for the individual and beneficial to society. The tinninabulation of your mother's slipper on that part of the body in which the spinal column has, in the language of the railroad men, its terminal facilities, may not have been music for the present, but a sweet song for the future."
VIEWS.
It may seem a trivial matter to speak of the distaste on the part of our students for attending chapel, but nevertheless I can not refrain. Why is it that so few of our students make it a point to attend chapel every morning? Not long ago I had the privilege of displaying my oratorical powers in chapel, and while waiting my turn I could not but notice the meagre representation of students. Scattered here and there over the chapel were perhaps one-fifth of the students—a full estimate of the number who make a practice of attending morning services. Many of our students disregard chapel altogether, preferring to loiter in the halls in idle conversation, rather than to add the charm of their presence at chapel. There are many reasons why every student should try and form the habit of regular chapel attendance. It is a mark of respect to our fellow students who deliver rhetoricals from the chapel rostrum; for there is nothing like the stamp of approval which presence will give. It is not at all encouraging for a speaker to discourse to a house full of empty seats. A large number of students gathered in the morning add volume to the music, and makes one feel it a pleasure to be present. By all means let us attend chapel. I will be a benefit to ourselves and will show a respect for others.
College Journalism.
In looking over old files of college papers and magazine articles, I have collected considerable information on the subject of college journalism, that may be of interest to the general reader.
The first college paper was started at Dartmouth College in the year 1800. Daniel Webster, in 1803, contributed a series of articles for the Gazette, for such was its name. The Gazette was of short life, on account of financial embarrassment.
The oldest college journal now in existence is the Yale Literary Magazine, which was founded in 1836. Yale had several papers before that time, but they were all short lived and full of trouble. Several of Yale's best men held positions on the "Lit." and an election as editor is regarded as one of the highest honors of Yale life. Among its editors who afterward became known throughout the country may be mentioned Senator Evarts, Donald G. Mitchell, President Gilman, ex-Senator Ferry, President Andrew D. White and others. Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell also began their literary career on a college paper—the Harvard Lyceum.
Harvard has a greater variety of journals than any college in America. The Lampoon is said to be the only college "Puck" in the world. It was started in 1876, and in a very short time became quite popular and well known. It is now one of the recognized "funny papers" of the country. The advances in college journalism have been wonderful. Fifty years ago only four or five college papers were in existence; now we have over two hundred and fifty, edited and controlled by the students. There is hardly a first class high school now that does not boast of its "paper," and many a cross-road school house has agitated the subject of starting one. As late as 1868 no college could boast of a weekly paper, while
now there are not only weeklies but semi-weeklies and dailies. Another important advance is in the amount of control exercised over the paper by the faculty or governing body. To-day a college paper cannot and ought not to be placed in the first class if the faculty exercise or can exercise any control over it. Another important advance is in the amount of news now printed in the college papers. Formerly they were filled with long, dry, uninteresting articles which no one but the writer read; now they contain all the latest college news, and the opinions of the students on every question up before them. A well conducted college paper is a sure index of the feelings of the students. An eastern professor says the college paper is the "outstanding member of the college faculty."
One thing in college papers I notice with regret, and that is the tendency to abolish the exchange column. To me it is one of the most interesting columns in the paper. It makes us acquainted with general college news; shows us what other colleges are doing and how they are doing it; it promotes friendship among the colleges and among men of learning, and it is of service to higher education, in showing how the different colleges are governed.
An alumni column, as some of our papers have, I believe to be a most excellent thing. It keeps students acquainted with the graduates, and graduates with other graduates. A personal column of any kind is of great advantage to a college paper.
Incidents and Accidents.
MARX.
The man who can slip down in an inch of mud on a stone crossing and enjoy it as much as the by-standers is either a fool or a philosopher—probably the former. So we are not surprised to see our friends, who are so unfortunate as to receive some attention in Incidents and Accidents, gather themselves up hardly knowing who to blame most, themselver or the persons looking on.
One of the Baldwin students was in town the other day. His conduct was such as should demand investigation on the part of the authorities at Baker. Why, he even ate at the same table with a Courier editor! If this reaches the faculty he will be expelled at once.
Before the next issue of the Courier the city will be crowded with visitors from other colleges, come to attend the Inter-State Contest. Let us give them a hearty welcome. Let us kill the fatted calf—I know where there is a good one.
Of course we expect Crane will win. In fact he must. The whole program is made out and we cannot be disappointed. Just as soon as the decision is rendered we will telephone to Abe Levy and Max Strauss who will set their stores on fire. So by the time we reach Massachusetts St., the bon-fire will be well started. I guess one block will be enough to burn this time. Of course we will have to give Crane an honorary position. It has been suggested that we tie him to the flag staff on Lies' Drug Store, from which position he
can view the building burning be neath with little danger of taking cold.
The friendship of college students is fearful to experience. My attention is called to this even now, as I write. One of my friends just stepped in and reminded me of his undiminished affection, with a slap on the back which would have done honor to Jim Mace or Sullivan. This is only one illustration of the general collegiate spirit. A rather cool friendship only calls for a grip that will make the bones crack. If the parties are better acquainted, a good slap on the shoulder is more appropriate. If their course of true love runs with remarkable smoothness, anything less than a good slag in the back would be called cool and unfaternal. We expect that before long, as this manner of salutation becomes developed, it will be nothing uncommon to see gentlemen friends striking each other over the heads with canes as a slight token of mutual regard and friendship.
The collection of images and busts in the Greek room is worthy of careful study. As one views these almost perfect images of the gods and heroes he is quite overcome with the feeling that he is in the presence of something not of this earth. No one but a thoroughly classical student can appreciate these masterpieces of Grecian art. The works in question represent a group of gods, heroes and other noted individuals, who, after attending a banquet, have just returned home through a pouring rain. There is Phoebus Apollo; how lifelike! Notice that blister on his face. He evidently had been suffering with the tooth-ache. And here is Socrates; how grand in his simplicity!
Through the mists of doubt—and charcoal, kindly supplied by some Freshman—which obstructs his vision, he seems to see the dawn of a higher civilization. Upon his left stands Homer. Note the ink on the end of his nose. Who but a Grecian artist would have faithfully presented every detail? And here too, we see a fighting Gaul. What valor! With one arm broken off at the elbow, he still battles with unflinching courage. But why should I say more. To enjoy art, you must see it with your own eyes.
It is often said that much learning makes men absent minded, and it often proves true. An amusing illustration of this fact occurred recently, when a certain one of our professors who is acquiring a great reputation for his extensive scholarship and deep erudition boarded a street car. He was about to pay his fare when a lady handed him a quarter for him to get changed and pay her fare. Absorbed in deep meditation as is his wont, he mechanically took the change from the driver, dropped twenty cents in the box and put the other five in his pocket. The lady was considerably astonished, but understanding the situation, said nothing and from that day to this the worthy professor probably never knew how he cheated his fellow passenger out of twenty cents. Perhaps upon reading this he may remember and make restitution.
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