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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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For Kansas University Students.
M. O. BILLINGS, A. L. WILMOTH,
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W. S. JENKS, Editor-in-Chief
H. E. VALENTINI, F.S.
J. D. DAVIS, 89.
LAURA LYONS, 88.
LIZZIE PETTRE, 80.
G. W. HARINGTON, 87.
LILLIE FUERMAN, 87.
NANNIE ANDERSON, 87.
MARY SAINB, 87.
C. E. SMITH, 187
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DENTON DUNN, '87 | E. G. BLAIR, '87.
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The Bugle, published by W. W. Davis, Garden City, Kansas, sends its sweetest strains to our editorial sanctum. If we may judge from the number of ads., the Bugle is a financial success. Mr. Davis is one of our most popular students. His friends rejoice at his prosperity.
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--great many papers in the state, and the Agricultural College is cuffed and kicked on every side. We would suggest, however, that before too much valuable ink is wasted on the subject, they make sure that the "rank infidelity" does exist. We are inclined to believe the statements fo ministers, but we have heard similar statements in regard to our own University which we know to be positively false.
Rev. Sam Jones defines the communist as one who lugs around a flag bearing the inscription "Our Children cry for bread," and who at the same time could be tapped for about four gallons of beer. This is a rough way of putting it, but we must confess that the eccentric divine tells a considerable truth.
The weekly Argus, Clay Center, speaking of Dr. Krohn's misfortune, says: "We were at Baker University a few years since, when at the oratorical contest he outraged justice by his action as judge, and we saw his image that the angry students hung across the street, and we said then as now, that he deserved what has befallen him." Here too, professor, we knew in a moment when the decision of the judges was rendered in favor of the University and not in favor of Baker, that Dr. Krohn's downfall was only a question of time. A minister who will not vote for his own denominational school should be "tarred and feathered" and sent to the deepest shades of Tartarus.
The statement was made at the Kansas Conference at Holton, on Monday last, by one of the ministers, that the Agricultural College of Manhattan was poisoning the minds of its students with rank infidelity. It was charged that the professor of agriculture, the professor of chemistry, and the professor of horticulture, availed themselves of every opportunity to sneer at Christianity and to create disrespect in the minds of their pupils for the church, the ministry, the bible and sacred things generally. We were surprised and pained to hear this. If it is true, we think it high time these eminent scientists were bounced. For, while the Agricultural College is not in any sense a religious school, it is not intended by the tax payers of Kansas that it should be an irreligious school. -Abilene Gazette.
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If the ministers and editors will take the pains to discover the truth, they will doubtless find that they have shed their many tears in vain.
--present, the organization has been an injury rather than a benefit both to the Knights of Labor and the general public. But, profiting by the lesson of the hour, it is hoped and believed that the Knights of Labor will exercise a wiser deserition in the future, and accomplish through peaceable means the worthy objects of their organization. They see more clearly the inter-dependence of labor and capital, and that neither can hope to succeed by any means hostile to the general interests of the publie.
That it is a fact that the ranks of professional journalism are being largely recruited from the editors of college papers is beyond a shadow of doubt. That it is equally true that there is a certain feeling existing between the college-bred newspaper man and the journalist who has worked his way up from the case, must, with some regret, be admitted. But this feeling does not in any way change the aspect of the case, and to the dispassionate student of journalism the existence of such feeling can only be regarded as unfounded. The days of Horace Greeley in newspaper work have, to a great extent, passed away. Native genius must be supplemented by some more thorough mental equipment than can be obtained in the composing room or the police courts. Education never hurts a man in the long run, and in this country a college education is yearly becoming more necessary as an element of success in any business or profession.-The Journalist.
The eminent success of the graduates of the University, who have entered the journalistic field, demonstrates the truth of the above statement. In a few years there will not be a county in the state of Kansas that will not have a paper published by an ex-editor of one of our college papers. It is a significant fact that it carries with it good cheer for the educational interests of the state.
The great strike is practically ended. The wheels of commerce again begin to move. A great and serious crisis is passed which will leave permanent results and influences. From the great suffering and destruction it is hoped that some good may be derived. We believe that it has already come in the lessons which have been forced upon the Knights of Labor and the general public. The sentiment that the government must handle the labor question or else the labor question will handle the government, is obtaining general prevalence. On the other hand the good sense of the laboring classes asserts itself and rioting demagogues must stand to one side. The Knights of Labor see the mistake they have made and will be slow to take another step which will call upon themselves the censure of the public. The fact that the Knights of Labor have been defeated, or rather have defeated themselves in the present strike, does not prove that the organization is a failure or its objects are unworthy of success. On the contrary, the objects of the organization, with perhaps one or two exceptions in regard to finance, are most worthy and should receive the support of every citizen. It is probable that up to the
--to the altar," etc. Heaven save any more of Lawrence's daughters from such "popularity."
On last Thursday night, while the Usher Guards were engaged in the festive dance, a telegram was received ordering them to prepare to march to the scene of the strike at Parsons, Kansas. At first it was considered an April fool's joke, but when Capt. Howe began to talk of business the joke became a serious matter. The ladies were escorted home in haste and the boys soon reported at the armory with two days rations. The boys all came to the front like old soldiers, and several others from the city and University offered to enlist. Mr. Prescott was the only one admitted to the company, the rest being rejectde on account of inexperience in military tactics. The remainder of the night and early morning was occupied in making arrangements. Captain Howe addressed the company in a few well chosen remarks. He assured them that they should not be exposed to the insults and assaults of the mob without an opportunity to defend themselves. He cautioned them not to fire until ordered—but when ordered, to shoot low and straight. At 11 o'clock they marched to the depot and boarded the train for Ottawa. A great crowd of friends had accompanied them to the station to bid, aught they knew, a last good by, and as the train pulled out they gave repeated cheers for the boys in blue and their gallant commander. On the road to Parson nothing worthy of mention occurred until they pulled out from Ottawa, when fifteen or twenty men stepped out of a cedar grove beside the track and flagged the train. The major in command and Lieutenant Usher, followed by a guard of well armed men, soon dispersed the mob, and the train moved on without any further event, arriving in Parson at 9 P.M. The Guards were quartered in the opera house until Saturday morning, when they were removed to the railroad shops. Co.H. is acknowledge to be the best looking company in the regiment, and stand high in the estimation of the officers. The University students are specially complimented. Riggs and Morris were guards on the first engine that went out, and White and Prescott were detailed for special duty at headquarters. The boys are keeping up good spirits, and growing fat under the culinary attentions of the quartermaster. They expect to return next week.
The Clay Center Dispatch says their High School prepares their graduates for the Junior class of the University. What a libel on the University. It must mean Junior preparatory.
--to the altar," etc. Heaven save any more of Lawrence's daughters from such "popularity."
The K. S. U. base ball nine hereby challenges any collegiate nine in the state of Kansas to a match game of base ball.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
A few weeks ago I took occasion incidentally to mention my relation to the Courier. By request of the new editorial management, I shall continue to scribble for these columns under the same conditions as I did before—saying what I please as I please. The editor-in-chief does not tell me what to write or how to write it. If my opinions were the same as his, I presume he would have precious little use for my services. When the time comes that I haven't an opinion of my own or dare not express it, I shall stop writing and go to feeding hogs, which I believe requires little either of thought or courage. I make this explanation that the Sinners who may smart under the pricks of my pen may not empty their demijohns of blue vitrol on the innocent scalp of the presiding elder of this paper. In the meantime the Saints may continue to send their flowers and pomegranates around to my sanctum. No serenades will be permitted.
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I have become so sick of reading and listening to discussions on labor and capital and strikes and boycotts, that I want to go out and heave every time I hear the words. Leach used to have a copyright on those subjects, and as they were the only topics on which he ever did have a thought, nobody presumed to intrigue. But since he dropped out of school a score of fry have taken them, and have dished them up in orations, declamations and essays, as well as in college papers, in most hopeless, uncomprehensible sort of a way. I fear since our "melish," with gore in their eyes and pop-guns in their dainty, hands have gone to the front, we will be inundated with more slop from the labor and capital sewer. Brethren, let us pray.
Well, this incident of calling out our youthful warriors, has at least given the question a funny side, which will be an antidote to the dismal, ponderous dissertations we have heard. Just fancy Herb Bullene, Will Morgan, Nate McCague and Rob Rankin squatted on the four corners of a box car, pops in hand, guarding it from strikers, on a cold Sunday night. And while the raw air travels up the walls of their thin trousers, making their lank legs bluer than the cloth that encases them, what a pleasant diversion it must be to think of their rivals at home sweetening their lips on Sunday night preserves that belong to the absent boys. O, why were we born!
The Lawrence papers would be nothing if not complimentary. Not long ago a Lawrence girl who don't possess the most savvy of characters, found some dupe who would marry her. She had probably ruined as many young men—including several students—as ony piece of feminity in the state. Anyway, her life credentials wouldn't be recognized by the manager of the pearly gates above, though they would gain her entrance to the pyrotechnic display of the eternal pit. But as I stated before, she got married at last. Well, by all the sinners! out came the morning paper with the announcement that "one of Lawrence's fairest and most popular daughters was led
After a long delay, the Lord know why, the committee of the Alumni Association has commenced to collect statistics for their triennial catalogue. Aside from the short time now remaining, there are several things to prevent this being a very extensive publication. First, the institution itself is hardly old enough to wear suspenders, and little of moment can as yet be expected from the life work of its alumni. Second, the graduates will be quite backward in booming themselves, and much that would be of interest will therefore be unrelated in the coming volume. To tell the truth, some of those who have accomplished most, don't hold the sheepskin of K. S. U. Take Charley Gleed, there. Few of our boys have done more for themselves or the University than that self-same Charley. Yet read the names of the alumni roster up and down, forward and back, you will not spell out the name of Charley Gleed. So with others. However, the line must be drawn somewhere, and mayhap it is best to put it at those who have been granted diplomas. Indeed, I would go a little further, and draw the mark at those who paid for them; as several prominent members of the association have not. The coming catalogue of the "Bachelors" will contain a great deal of interest and be a nucleus for much more. It would be a good idea for the committee to insert much information of their own, outside the barren autobiographies furnished by the alumni themselves.
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One can hardly imagine anything more ludicrous—unless it would be Prof. Canfield rolling down Massachusetts street on a bycicle—than the sight presented by three of our professors horse-back riding one day last week. Such equestrianship was never before presented to our amusement loving public. And free of charge, too! Prof. McDonald, who knows considerably more about a symphony than about a saddle, led the heat. Prof. Sayre, gripping to the horn like satan to a sinner, followed half a block behind. Prof. Wilcox, who seemed totally indifferent whether he was making "a trip to Greece" or to Hades so that the stack on his quadruped, brought up the rear within riff range of the pharmacy man. At first the boys at the base ball ground thought it was a race and the game was stopped while the musical, Greek and pharmacy students went to betting on their favorite instructors. It soon became evident however, that the ungovernable horses were having a free-for-all home run, and that the uppermost idea of the three professors was to keep uppermost. Then the nature of the betting changed, with odds in favor of the horses reaching the stables riderless. But the faithful few who were loyal to professorial equestrianship won the pot. Telephones from the stables revealed the fact that Music, Drugs and Greece were still on top when the horses galloped to their stalls. Anybody finding three hats on Massachusetts street will be liberally rewarded, and no questions asked, by bringing them to faculty meeting next Thursday afternoon. SMITH.
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