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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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OCT 20TH
BY THE
COURIER COMPANY. For Kansas University Students.
A. L. ADAMS.
President.
A. L. WILMOTH,
Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
HARRY SMITH, Editor-in-Chief
W. S. JENKY, '87
B. P. BLAIR, '88
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A. L. WILMOTH.
Secretary.
We congratulate the Washburn students on their success in making the contest a pleasant occasion. Mr. Ingalls, president of the association, is worthy of special regards for his efforts in this direction. The first time the Washburn boys come to Lawrence we propose to confer on them the freedom of the city.
Another contest has come and gone, and as victor the University indulges a pardonable pride. One year ago we felt that a great mistake was made and that the University received little justice in the decision rendered. We are now ready to forget the mistakes of a year ago, confident that we have "redeemed a fallen reputation, and shed luster on a dimmed escutcheon."
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Our circulation is rapidly increasing since the consolidation took place. Our circulation is now one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine (1199), divided as follows: University students, 475; foreign subscribers, 199; exchanges, 125; city subscribers, 300; state papers, 100; total, 1,199.
We hope by next week to get our circulation up to 1,200, when we will again host our motto—"The largest college journal circulation in the United States." Hillsdale Herald please take notice.
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We notice from a number of the exchanges that a some of the intercollegiate contests have been held within the last few weeks. Even some of the local contests are only just being held. It seems to us that this is rather late. It does not give the successful contestant sufficient time to prepare a new production or rewrite his old one for the inter-state, and certainly does not give him an equal chance with those who have had six or seven months in which to prepare for the final conflict. —Collegian.
Right you are for once Mr. Collegian. A month does not begin to be long enough time for a student to prepare an oration for a state or interstate contest. The experience of Illinois in the inter-state contest plainly proves the advantage to be gained by giving the contestants a long time to drill and prepare. Illinois always ranks with the upper three in the contest, and it is undoubtedly due to the fact that she gives her
orators ample time to prepare. We hope to see the time when Kansas will follow her example. The college contest should be held in the spring, and the state contest early the next fall. Wake up, you college journals of Kansas! and boom this idea.
The Western Zephyr, published anonymously by the students of the Missouri State University, is the most villainous sheet that has yet reached our table. It is made up of poor wit and low-lived abuse of the President and faculty. However, if the charges made against the faculty are at all true we do not blame the boys for speaking their opinions freely, but when they indulge in such extravagant and underhanded abuse as is found in the columns of the Zephyr, they secure no sympathy and show themselves unworthy of confidence in the matter of self government.
But there are always two sides to every question. It is quite evident that the faculty would not be assailed unless they were in some measure vulnerable. No president of an institution could be wholly in the right and be so freely and so generally condemned by the students. The principal trouble seems to be in the overbearing disposition of the president and two or three members of the faculty. It will be remembered that several years ago a very creditable monthly paper was published by the students of the Missouri University. On the appearance of the playful remark that Dr. Laws went east when P. T. Barnum came west, in order to maintain the equilibrium of the earth, the paper was promptly suppressed by the indignant president. Since then the University has been without a paper, and the students are only heard from when they break forth with such a screed as the Western Zephyr.
The policy of the president seems too narrow for the students and the students seem to be too intractable for the president. We would suggest, if they cannot settle their difficulties in any other manner, that either the president or the students resign. However, we incline to the opinion that all parties might take an excursion to the neighboring University on the west and be greatly benefited by their observations. They would see students enjoying the fullest degree of liberty, working in harmony with president and faculty. When an institution of learning is governed as it should be, all its interests become as dear to the students as to those who are in authority over it.
There are a great many advantages derived from inter-collegiate contests besides those directly pertaining to oratory. The cultivation of a college spirit is one of these advantages. Who is there among the students who attended the contest one week ago who does not feel a deeper interest in the University? Another benefit is the union of various factions into more fraternal relations. Nothing is so productive of friendship among students as the turning of all desires in one direction. Old hostilities are forgotten, and the most bitter rivals join hands in harmony. But among all these advantages none are greater than the knowledge received of other institutions. There is a great tendency to narrowness in the student world. One is apt to vainly imagine that learning and culture is possessed by his own college. In meeting in friendly contest with the students of other institutions, such erroneous notions are dispelled. The students of each college see that theirs is but one of a great number of factors in our educational system; that none of these is superior to the others in every respect; that each has its
own peculiar place to fill, and that between them all should exist the greatest harmony.
Incidents and Accidents at the State Oratentorial Contest.
--hath crept into K. S. U., and the place-hunter has been relegated to the shelf.
Last Friday was a gala day for the students who went to Topeka. They all seemed bound to have a good time, and were confident of victory, or at least they thought our man would give the other contestants a hard rub. Shortly before train time a merry crowd might have been seen at the Santa Fe depot, about a hundred and twenty-five students and many of their friends from the city. Of course everybody had on his or her best array, and here and there was a lower classman sporting a plug hat and cane and having a somewhat idiotic though entirely harmless appearance. I was glad that none of the upper classmen interfered with these misguided individuals, as their head gear only betrayed their youth and freshness, which very things they were endeavouring to conceal. They formed a burlesque on full-grown men which was quite amusing.
Army have complained that there was no college spirit among our students, none of that esprit de corps which is the charm of student life, but I noticed every man was proud to wear the K. S. U. colors last Friday and shout his loudest for his Alma Mater. Yes, the spirit is there, but the trouble is we don't have occasions enough to bring it out. Whenever opportunity offers however, our students have never failed to drop all factional and personal feelings and join in the sentiment that they were students of K. S. U. I could wish that we had more inter-collegiate contests, both intellectual and athletic, to awaken the dormant patriotism and college spirit among the students, at the same time aiding them in both mental and physical development.
Baker had a good many students at Topeka, and there were a few from Emporia and Ottawa, while the Washburnites were, of course, very numerous. In this assemblage of Kansas students the K. S. U. boys and girls too, showed up well, and stood in most favorable comparison with the representatives of the other schools of the state.
Our students on the whole, I think, left a good reputation in Topeka, as they all conducted themselves in a proper manner while there, and inleed, I heard many compliments to them from strangers. If there was any misbehavior from the Lawrence crowd, I am positive it was not among the students, but from some of the boys from the city. The Lawrence delegation was very straight however, for there was much noise but no rowdyism among them.
Though this is the second victory at a state contest for K. S. U., yet it is the first clean cut victory we have had. True, Leach won at Baldwin the first year at the second contest, but Mays beat him the first time, and probably could have done it with an original as well as a patched up oration, if he had had it. Rut this time we have got the first place without a doubt, and the beauty of it, that it is universally conceded to us by all parties. The award of the first prize to Crane gave about as general satisfaction as any I every knew. This is quite remarkable, as the usual way is for the friends of every contestant to assert that he did the best, and claim first honors. About the second position however, there was some difference of opinion, many think Miss Hoaglin deserved it; but I believe the judges were right in giving it to Randall, for his thought was much better, though his delivery was not so exquisite.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
Last Friday was the happiest day the University ever experienced, and the happiness was so abundant that it spilled over and filled up Saturday's measure till about six o'clock. Rumo has it that the skeleton walked out of Prof. Snow's cabinet and danced a jig, while Prof. Dyche caught his bears hugging on the sly. For the first time in the history of our institution, the boys and girls forgot they didn't belong to the same fraternity. When the crowd of one hundred piles into the train for Topeka they were happy; when they got back they were delirious. There is no use talking, Crane was responsible for the whole business. If any student cracked his throat or burst his lungs Crane can be legally held for damages. Those who have known Crane from his first day in K. S. U. can most relish his superb victory. He started here at the bottom of the ladder in the riff-raff of Junior predepot but prominent from the beginning. He had no wealth to back him, no influence to prop him, no social prestige to give him a boost. If he has friends and influence now, he has earned them, just as he has earned the abilities he displayed Friday night What is perhaps better, he has always kept a cool head and shown no tendency to egotism. If he can stand his present popularity with due soberness; can take with self composed equanimity the adulation showered upon him by admiring friends; can regard his victory in its true light, at a temporary honor which should in cite to greater efforts, he will be sure to succeed in the practical contest o life.
How the most carefully edited journals will fall into errors in their anxiety to get late crisp items, is illustrated by the recent issue of that newsy little magazine, the University Review. Therein I find the following personal: "H. E. Jones, member of the legislature from Garnett, his return home from the capital took in K. S. U." Now in the first place, H. E. Jones, the member from Garnett, did not take in K. S. U. Second, H. E. Jones, member of the legislature, is not from Garnett. Third, H. E. Jones is not a member of the legislature. Fourth, there is no such person as H. E. Jones. With the exceptions of these slight inaccuracies, the item is true in every particular, and I can swear to it. A few weeks ago the personal editor of the Courier, after cudgeling his brain for every item he could recall, found he lacked a little of filling the space allotted him. So in sheer desperation he manufactured out of whole cloth the personal about "H. E. Jones." That the Review man happened to be in the same strait, and fell on the name and incident two weeks later, shows how great minds run in the same channel. Ahem!
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College politicians tell me that this is the quietest and most uninteresting year the University has ever witnessed. I take this as an especially good sign, for the less the college politician finds to do, the better off is the college. The regular two weeks hot spring campaign in Oread was reduced to an easy-going election, in which the orator, for the first time in the society's history, went in by a unanimous vote. The slate which used to form such a prominent feature in the Orophilian hall has been smashed to ginflinters by a rule selecting orators by contest. Even the faculty, whom, it used to be whispered, were wont to have warm words over favorite candidates for honors, have decreed that commencement orators will be selected on their respective merits. Truly, civil service
Apropos of my doggerel in last week's Courier, one young lady assures me that the girls feel as bad as their company when bad weather necessitates a hack. She says they fully appreciate the kind attentions of the University boys in taking them to balls and operas, and know that the extra money spent on hacks is an expense the ordinary collegian can ill afford. It will be some consolation to the fellow who lies awake night after night speculating on the weather, to know that his girl shares his anxiety, weeps with every cloud and beams with the every glow of the sun. Such sympathy is a wonderful relief to the hack stricken youth.
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One of those blood-curdling yet bloodless accidents which no one can foresee, and which will come to the most righteous of men, occurred last Monday night—or to be more accurate, early Tuesday morning. At a certain house in Lawrence two young gentlemen occupy a room adjoining that of a couple of young ladies. Each of the rooms has a window overlooking a slanting roof. On the night in question the boys, awakened by the peals of the fire bell, hastily bounced from bed and noiselessly climbed out on the roof to take observations. Hardly had they gotten out when they were appalled by the fall of the window, which fastened by a spring latch. Here was "a pretty howdy-do"—not so pretty either, for the boys had come out in their scanty night attire, which can better be imagined than described. At any rate, it was by no means elaborate, and not built with a view to any such contingency as this. The alternative offered of chilling to death or something else slightly worse than death. The boys chose the latter, and attempted to awaken the family, but holy Moses and the angels! the girls were the first aroused. They took one peep—a squeal, laughter, and hastily pulled down their curtain again. From behind this screen conditions were agreed to for the release of the boys from their very embarrassing and compromising position. The girls retired down stairs while their room offered a safe retreat to the boys. Yet all was not over by a long sight. On reaching the hall the boys found their room locked within. Nothing was left but for the girls to awaken the family and explain the astounding condition of affairs in which all found themselves. The door was forced, and the boys, half dead, half alive, once again sought the friendly refuge of their nocturnal sheets. They both swear that the next time the fire bell rings they will take time to don pants and other civilized accountments, even if it be their own house which is burning over their heads, and they are cremated in the attempt.
SMITH.
The University girls who came up in a body from Lawrence yesterday to attend the oratorical contest, evidently had a very enjoyable time during the day and evening. They demonstrated an ability to look after themselves with excellent success and managed their various visus about the capitol city and to and from the opera house and depot with a decorum, zeal and smoothness that must have made a gentleman chaperon wonder whither his occupation was tending. — Topeka Journal.
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