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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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COURIER COMPANY For Kansas University Students.
--cannot hope to retain our best professors unless greater inducements are presented than those which are now offered. To be sure we have some excellent professors, surrounded by such ties and combinations of forces as will always hold them to the University. But there are others whom the University could not afford to lose, who may leave at any time. It is too much to expect that a professor will long be content to perform the work of two instructors, working from ten to twelve hours per day, with little or no time to devote to his own personal advancement—receiving a salary only large enough to keep him from actual want. Our best professors are being sought by other institutions which offer better inducements, both as regards salary and opportunities for personal advancement. It is a matter of surprise to know that the University has been able to retain them even to the present.
A. L. ADAMS, President. | A. L. WILMOTH, Sec'y
EDITORIAL STAFF
HARRY SMITH, Editor-in-Chief
W. S. JENKS, '87,
LAURA LYONS, '87,
G. W. HARRINGTON, '87,
NANNIE ANDERSON, '87,
MARY SAIN, '87,
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
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Notice.
There will be a meeting of the COURIER Company at the end of the fourth hour Friday. The existing vacancies will be filled, and a constitution adopted. A few more shares are still unsold. Those desiring them should call on the business managers at once.
A. L. ADAMS,
President.
A. L. WILMOTH.
Secretary.
In the columns of the Hampden Sidney Magazine we notice the following very interesting editorial:
"We cannot in these columns acknowledge the receipt of every book or paper received; yet we cannot for bear mentioning the receipt of Vick's Floral Guide for 1886."
The Courier appreciates the peculiar embarrassment of the Magazine referred to. We recently received a handsomely bound copy of Dr. Hostetter's Medical Almanac, but want of space prevented us from making the extended notice which it should have received.
A writer in the February number of the Alabama University Monthly, writing on the subject of woman suffrage, advances the somewhat novel argument that an effect of women's rights would be "that ambitious men would marry for the purpose alone of gaining a vote."
It would seem from this that the opportunities for marrying in Alabama are very numerous and are attended with little expense. To the University student who "feeds" his "solid omnivorous" for four long years and then finds himself no nearer the object of his fond expectation than at first, the above will not be unpleasant reading. "There's a land that is fairer than this,"
--cannot hope to retain our best professors unless greater inducements are presented than those which are now offered. To be sure we have some excellent professors, surrounded by such ties and combinations of forces as will always hold them to the University. But there are others whom the University could not afford to lose, who may leave at any time. It is too much to expect that a professor will long be content to perform the work of two instructors, working from ten to twelve hours per day, with little or no time to devote to his own personal advancement—receiving a salary only large enough to keep him from actual want. Our best professors are being sought by other institutions which offer better inducements, both as regards salary and opportunities for personal advancement. It is a matter of surprise to know that the University has been able to retain them even to the present.
We admire a rooster for two things. One is his crowing and the other is his spurs to back it. For similar reasons we like a student who has an opinion of his own, and who is ready to express and defend it on all occasions. Nothing is more disgusting than to see a student who, as he approaches the end of his senior year, attempts by fawning and obsequiousness to win the good favor of certain members of the faculty, and thereby enhance his chances for a commencement appointment. Poor deluded youth, you cannot influence the faculty in that way. Express your opinions fully; you will gain respect. Preserve your manhood, and enjoy a healthy satisfaction.
--cannot hope to retain our best professors unless greater inducements are presented than those which are now offered. To be sure we have some excellent professors, surrounded by such ties and combinations of forces as will always hold them to the University. But there are others whom the University could not afford to lose, who may leave at any time. It is too much to expect that a professor will long be content to perform the work of two instructors, working from ten to twelve hours per day, with little or no time to devote to his own personal advancement—receiving a salary only large enough to keep him from actual want. Our best professors are being sought by other institutions which offer better inducements, both as regards salary and opportunities for personal advancement. It is a matter of surprise to know that the University has been able to retain them even to the present.
The resignation by Prof. Spring of the chair of English Literature, again calls our attention to the fact that we
--in that over cautious policy which prohibits politics in chapel orations and frowns down religious discussion in college papers. We have in our University honey-comb Christians and infidels, theists and atheists, Democrats and Republicans, and—God forgive him—one follower of St. John, the traitor. All these cannot be in the right, but it is unwise to stile any of their opinions. Truth is revealed and not hidden by free discussion. The ideas of any one class of believers does not represent the University. In fact, the only ones who might attempt to make capital of students' published opinions would be the ones who will slander us anyway—the denominational schools. Let there be no muzzles in the State University.
The strike of the employees on the Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads is the largest known in the history of this country. About 5,000 men of the Knights of Labor have struck, and 5,000 men not strikers have been temporarily suspended by the railway company until they shall be able to again resume business. The business along the lines of railway is almost wholly suspended. Inland towns are suffering for want of coal, and many places will soon be without necessary provisions. The railway officials seem determined and the strikers say they are prepared for a long fight. What the end will be is still a matter of conjecture. The cause of the strike seems to be the refusal on the part of the receivers of the Texas Pacific railway to enter into an agreement with the Knights of Labor in regard to wages, dismissal, number of hours of work, etc. As the receivers of the railway are only agents of the United States court, they had no authority to enter into any compact with the Knights of Labor which could possibly hinder them in any manner in the economical administration of the affairs of the bankrupt corporation. Receiver Brown assured the laborers that the company had no intention of reducing the wages of the employees. And indeed, the wages have not been reduced since the compromise of last spring. The Knights of Labor have not demanded higher wages or shorter time. Their principal cause of complaint is the removal of one of their leaders, by the name of Hall, from the shops at Marshall. According to the statement of the Knights Hall had been absent by permission from the shops for three days attending a convention of the Knights of Labor, and on returning to the shops we found a letter on his desk announcing his dismissal. The Knights considered this a blow at their order, and struck. Receiver Brown states that Hall was absent without permission; that he was a poor employee, hence his dismissal. In either case it seems that the company would be justified in removing him. A man trying to run a large organization would certainly have so many things to look after beside his regular work that he, in all probability, would be a poor hand. The strike of the Knights of Labor seems to be almost, if not entirely, unjustifiable. It is to be hoped that the laborers will see their mistake, and return to their work. It is also to be hoped that the leaders of the strike will be permanently discharged from the employ of the company. If laborers want to strike, destroy property, retard business and cause untold suffering throughout the country, they should first have at least some shadow of an excuse to justify their action.
The February number of the Baldwin Index, in a somewhat lengthy article, makes a strong protest against the insinuations which appeared in some issue of the Kerr wing of the defunct Courier, concerning the ladies of that institution.
We wish it clearly understood that the consolidated Courier is not responsible for anything which may have appeared in the columns of the Courier under the old management. However, we regret very much that anything has appeared in any paper which would cast unfavorable reflections upon the characters of the young ladies at Baker.
This point made by the Index is well taken. The next point by which the Index tries to build up the reputation of the Baldwin students by tearing down the reputation of a party of University students who recently visited Baldwin, is not well taken. The Index says: "After supper the gentlemen (?) and ladies (?) asked to have the dining room cleared for the dance. Being politely refused they repaired to the parlor where they not only 'sang some college songs' but danced, yelled, screamed, jumped, blew out the lights, and raised pandemonium generally." We are authorized by the parties concerned to say that the statement that they yelled, screamed, jumped, blew out the lights, etc., is an unmitigated falsehood. It is true that the party sang college songs, and would have danced had not the smallness of the parlor prevented. It may be possible that some of the company inadvertently smiled; but that any company of K. S. U. students were so foolish as to waste their time in yelling, screaming and jumping, when much more enjoyable entertainment was at hand, is more than we can believe. It is contrary to the spirit of our institution.
SAINTS AND SINNERS
If the scheme announced by the faculty for selecting commencementators is honestly carried out, as I think it will be, it is a most happy device. Commencement day is the gala day of University life, and it ought to exhibit our best oratorial talent. Heretofore the plan has been to put the first scholars of the class forward. The "first scholars" generally mean the closest bookworms, and the book-worm as an orator isn't always a transcendent success. But this year each Senior is to submit an article, and though he be the poorest stick in '86's bundle of sticks, he is to be the orator if he has the best oration and is the best speaker. So as a result, we will have a commencement day that will inhuse the crowded chapel with the most brilliant eloquence the out-going class can afford. No pretense will be made that the representatives are the best scholars, but they will be exhibited as our first speakers. It will be a commencement day of which we may be proud. Such will be the result if the plan is as represented. If, however, it is but a ruse to limit the scope of student thought, to emasculate all bold or novel spirit, to permit only such commonplace matter as will give no offense, to curtail the range of subjects to such as "John Milton, (?)" or the "Introduction of Letters into Greece," then commencement day will be a dead failure. The students will not take kindly to such a fake. The whole hope of our University lies in the independent investigation and expression of its students, whether coincident with those of "the powers that be" or not. In short, the faculty will give us either the best or the poorest commencement day we have ever had in K. S. U. Nous verrons.
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Right here I may say i don't agree
A girl—she will gad about town all the day,
Climb to Oreandra's crest and come back;
But to bail or to opera she never can go.
Except in a five dollar back.
Light novels she'll read from sun's rise to its set,
Dance'he dance the glare of the gas 'till lightday!
But she never can study--her doctor has said,
Such work is hurtful to sight.
To ice cream and oysters she's always at home.
To the ball, or play she doth go;
But free lectures is something she can't quite endure
For "such things look 'grayish', you know."
Your presents she takes, your attention are nice,
So long as the gold backs your life;
But when this slips away as it must in the end.
She's off as some other man's wife.
Curry says they have just as good and strong a fraternity as there is in the University, but they don't blow about it, because they have no newspaper organ. ...Ed Blair wants to know the law regarding accidents to buggies (or their springs) when out driving...Billiards at the "Academy" and bean-bags at the Y.M.C.A. Take your choice...Two Smiths on the Oread program. I object... Let us pray the regents may get an equally competent man for the English Literature chair, and not saddle a favorite cad on the University... Howard Smith says it is but two years since he left the University, and yet he hardly knows a soul up here now. ... Prof. Carruth is in his "father-land," or rather grandfatherland. Prof. Carruth is German from the soles of his shoes to the top of his hat, and made a great big mistake when he wasn't born in Germany... The Bakery faculty have decided not to permit the doughnuts to come to Lawrence any more. The boys will have to get their drinks in Ottawa... Three dances last Friday night. The young bloods have their coats in pawn again.
With the departure of Prof. Spring the University loses its finest scholar. Prof. Spring has not the magnetism of Prof. Canfield, the technical knowledge of Prof. Snow, the accuracy of Prof. Miller, or the executive ability of Prof. Williams. In a comprehensive knowledge of history, literature and art, however, he is preeminent in the faculty. As a polished and fluent writer he has no superior in the state. Prof. Spring has always been known as the "easiest man in the faculty." Never has a harsh word been heard in his class room. Students intent on learning have drunk with delight the rich and smooth-flowing expressions of his lectures. Those intent on skimming their way through the University have likewise found his classes a paradise, for he has not the heart to reprove, much less to mark a failure on examination. His forte lies in the line of higher educational work, where students are to be taught and not goverened. It is using the phrase in much more than its conventional sense to say "he will be sadly missed." Kansas should have offered every inducement to retain him. Two weeks ago I said that unless better salaries were paid our professors, other institutions would seek and obtain them. The prophecy is already fulfilled.
Business men of Lawrence are called upon to trust students very seldom. Fewer losses are experienced from those students who are credited than from any other class of men. It is a shame the merchant should lose anything at all, yet they do, and that mostly from fellows abundantly able to pay. I was looking over the ledger of a book store the other day and found nearly every college delinquent was the son of wealthy parents, who squandered money lavishly while here. I could name a half a dozen chaps who are now earning splendid salaries, yet never think of remitting for old unpaid wash bills. Wash bills and society dues are the two kinds of indebtedness which, accord-to college code, are outlawed by graduation. Then again couldn't I bring a tempest down upon my head by mentioning the debts of a certain society belle who reigned supreme as the prims donna of a secret society here; a society, too, which boasts of being the fashionable leader of our college world? But as I have not yet set up as a collection agency, I will keep mum.
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Of the boys who have earned their way through the University—and they are many—not one challenges the admiration that does Prof. W. H. Carruth. From the days of bare-foot boyhood 'till the present hour, he has drudged earnestly, patiently, incessantly to thoroughly educate himself. He is now making his second tour of Germany in pursuit of higher knowledge. It is only a question of time, if the time is not now here, when we can point to him as the most finished scholar the University has produced. He has, as I happen to know, been offered commercial positions at a salary far in advance of what he is now paid, but has steadily refused to quit literary pursuits. In this day when only ignorant butchers, bakers and stock gamblers enjoy ease, happiness and a bank account, it seems a mistake to have brains. Prof. Carruth is one of the few who prefer an empty pocket to an empty skull.
The Bakery Index devotes three columns to a four line paragraph of mine; a splendid text but a devilish poor preacher. The Index lashes itself into a sweat over my squib about the fair doughnut of the Bakery who palmed herself off as a half-faer passenger—a fact and not a fancy as some readers may have imagined. I have nothing against the ladies of the Bakery – in fact, I think them far superior to the boys; at least I have never heard of any of them coming to Lawrence and getting on a drunk, or of stealing horses and getting in the penitentiary, as some of the male portion of the school have done. If some of our sinners went down to Baldwin and misbehaved themselves, as the Index asserts, give 'em fits! That is the way I would handle the doughnuts if they came up here and acted badly. Right here, for the benefit of the Index and others concerned, let me say a word in regard to my relation to the Courier. These columns have been given me by the editor-in-chief, with this carte blanche: "Say what you please and it will be printed." He has this merit, that he believes the matter will be more worthy if I say what I think even if he does not agree with me. I am proud to disagree with him on many subjects, and I presume he has the same vanity. I pretend to speak for no one but myself, but what I do say I mean shall be understood. Furthermore my opinions have not been changed in the least by Courier "consolidation," and I only wish to emphasize everything I have said about the Bakery or its doughnuts.
SMITH
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