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THE WEEKLY University Courier.
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For Kansas University Students.
A. L. ADAMS,
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A. L. WILMOTH,
Sec'y.
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HARRY SMITH, Editor-In-Chief
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There will be a meeting of the Courier Company at the end of the fourth hour, on Wednesday, March 10, 1886; for the purpose of adopting a constitution and transacting other important business. No stock will be allowed to vote unless paid up.
A. L. ADAMS, President.
A. L. WILMOTH, Secretary.
The Board of Regents, in a special meeting last Tuesday, appropriated seven hundred dollars for the fitting up of the Pharmacy laboratory, and fifty dollars for a magic lantern attachment. They also made Greek and Roman history one of the requirements for admission into the Freshman class.
The Solmon Valley Democrat, edited by M. J. Keys & Co., reaches our table in a new and enlarged form. Mr. Keys is well known to the students of the University as an honest, energetic worker. His success is in accordance with the expectations and wishes of his many friends.
At a conference of labor leaders held in Pittsburg February 25th, it was decided to send a representative committee of working men to Washington to advocate the interests of the tariff before Congress. The leaders of the laboring class may occasionally make mistakes in certain directions, but in regard to the tariff, their heads are long and level.
We are informed by no less than four of our exchanges that Secretary Bayary is to deliver the annual address before the literary societies of Kansas University in June. We had not heard of this before, but are very much pleased with the information. The Secretary delivered a very excellent lecture before our literary societies last year. It appears that our soporific exchanges have just heard of the announcement that appeared over a year ago.
The announcement that with the end of the college year Prof. Spring will sever his connection with the University, will be heard with regret by all. We can only rejoice that our professor is taking a forward step, personally considered. His wife's health has not permitted her to reside in Kansas for two years, and physicians say she must not return. At Williams he will have greater opportunity for reading and literary work, and a larger salary. Taking these things together, the decision was inevitable, and Professor Spring will occupy the chair of English literature in his alma mater, Williams college.
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO TO TOPERA ON THE 12TH. — The University must win this year. There is nothing that will encourage our speaker more than to see a large delegation of University students in the audience. Mr. Crane is a representative student in every sense of the term. He is a fine scholar, a brilliant orator, and a right good fellow. No one could have been selected who would represent the students better. As our representative we are bound to support him. Let every student make arrangements to go and take another student. We will have a jubilee, by the side of which the demonstrations of two years ago will sink into insignificance.
--people no longer fearing the master's lash, will turn from national politics to local issues. Each will vote in accordance with the interests of his state or county. The whites, no longer fearing lest their former servants should become their political masters, will lay aside their shotguns and their tissue ballots and solicit the colored vote in support of local interests. In Alabama where there are extensive coal beds and fields of iron, the negro will vote for protection; in Louisiana he will cast his ballot for free trade. Both of the great political parties will strive equally hard to secure the colored vote. There can be no other result than the establishment of harmony between the two classes and the melioration of the colored race.
The free lance with which the Courier stands ready to carve into any action of regents or faculty which may not be in harmony with the general consensus of the students, seems to be an instrument unknown to eastern colleges. It is sometimes judged from this freedom of criticism, that the relations between the students of the University and the professors are not of a harmonious nature. We wish to say that no conclusion could be more removed from the truth. The intimacy and friendship between the students and the individual members of the faculty, is fully as marked here as in any college in the land. To the Western mind there is a difference between a criticism of an idea and a personal assault. Our faculty sometimes, like all other faculties, makes mistakes. We criticise the error, but at the same time preserve the best of harmony with the professors themselves. "With all their faults we love them still."
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The admirable lecture of Judge Tourgee has again brought before us the problem of the South and the Colored race. The lecturer brought out the fact that the colored race in the South is increasing more rapidly than the white, and seemed to think that this would increase the hatred between the two races. He thought that as the strength of the negroes increased, the opposition and hatred would increase proportionately, until at length with another war we should pay the penalty for our shortsightedness. The only hope of escaping this calamity, in the opinion of the speaker, is in education. Assuming the conclusion of the lecturer to be true, that the hostility between the two races will increase with the growth of the colored race, the outlook is far from a cheerful one. But for ourselves we prefer to take a more hopeful view of the situation. We are hopeful because there is little or no reason why we should be hatred between the two races. The old issues which have kept up a constant hostility between the two classes are fast becoming a thing of the past. For twenty years the negroes have believed that with a change of administration their rights and privileges would be greatly impaired. In order to secure the solid negro vote, republican leaders have not been slow to encourage and enforce this belief. Great numbers of the colored race have firmly believed that with the election of a democratic president they would be reduced to slavery. But a change of administration has come, and although we fought against it and were slow to receive it, yet we must confess that out of this Nazareth has come some good. The negroes have learned that no matter what party is in power, their liberties are secure. They have learned that a solid negro vote is not necessary to maintain their personal freedom.
What will be the result? It seems to us that there can be but one answer to this question—the "solid South" will be broken. The colored
"He that fights this day with me shall be my brother;
Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall better his condition."
The unsatisfactory appointments for commencement last year seem to have induced the faculty to try a new method. By a recent action on this subject, all the Seniors are required to hand in competitive orations by the 15th of April, and from the orations thus presented the representatives for commencement will be chosen. If we were to say that the Seniors are displeased with this action we would express their feelings very mildly. To the student who has worked hard and faithfully for four long years, who has always stood highest in his department, who has been known as a strong thinker and a ready writer, the throwing out all his chances for deserved honor, a the hands of the faculty, into the balance which may be easily turned by a few grains of political bias or religious prejudice, is a hazard which he ought not to be called upon to venture. By this means of appointment the student who has been thoroughly poor in all his works for the last four years, stands an equal chance with the student who has lee his class. But this is only one side of the injustice. For the next six weeks the whole Senior class will be working and worrying, some striving for honors already fairly won, and some for honors which they do not deserve. In either case, other more important work will be neglected, and in the end the result cannot be more satisfactory than that which the record of grades would show by a moment's inspection, to be most just and fitting.
Alden's Library Magazine, which is generally acknowledged to be the most enterprising and most valuable of the eclectic monthlies, and quite beyond all rivalry in its low price ($1.50 a year, or 15 cents a copy), presents the following attractive contents in its March number: Mr. Gladstone as a Theologian, by S. Lang; A Pedantic Nuisance, by Frederie Harrison; The "Tyrants" of Britain, Gaul, and Spain, by Edward a Freeman; Impressions of a Modern Arcadian, by Mrs. E. M. Nicholl; Myths and Mythologists, by Andrew Long; My Contested Election, by A Defeated Candidate; British Columbia, by William A. Baillie-Grohman; Home Rule in Ireland, by Justin McCarthy; Actors and their Calling, by K. S. S.; The Care of Pictures and Prints, by P. G. Hamerton; Tea Culture and Tea Drinking in Japan, by E. A. Junker von Langegg; On the pleasure of Reading, by Sir John Lubbock; Ireland and the Victoria Colony, by A. V. Dicey. Single copies of the magazine are sold at 15 cents, though the type is large and the amount of matter given is nearly equal to that of 35 cent month lies.
JOHN B. ALDEN, Publisher.
New York.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
Not less than half a dozen have asked me anent my remarks about the Normal's salt lands, whether I intended including Emporia with the Baldwin Bakery in my budget of ridicule. God forgive me for mentioning the two schools in the same paragraph. I thought my acquaintances gave me credit for better horse judgment. I am able as yet to discriminate between Edwin Forrest and Alvin Joslin, George Washington and Jesse James, the Emporia Normal and the Baldwin Bakery. The Normal, from all I can learn, has a most excellent faculty of instructors, is producing an able corps of public teachers and is every way maintaining the same high relation to the teacher's profession that the University is to general scholarship. To compare its finished and cultured products with the wishy-washy, half-cooked, unseasoned doughnuts that are being dump out of the Bakery frying pan, is a travesty upon language, upon reason, upon common sense.
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The Tougee lecture was a novelty—a scrambled lecture, as it were. I went early and saw all the fun—and all the fun did not come from the lecture, by a long ways. By some freak of ill luck only two ushers reported for duty that night. All at once the crowd commenced surging in—an extraordinary crowd, an intellectual crowd, a crowd that would be paralyzed with horror at the usual routine of theatrical plays, a crowd that one don't see in a theatre once in a decade. But Judge Tougeee was an eminently proper man, and so they went. Probably more ushers would have been of no use, for the crowd didn't follow or obey those that were on hand. The audience scattered around at sweet pleasure, and at last got seated. Strange to say, the ushers did not go mad.
After considerable gesticulation by the manager from between the wings, in full view of the audience, Judge Tourgee was coaxed onto the stage. After Judge Nevison had given his pedigree and pointed out his good points pointedly, Judge Tourgee commenced his lecture, "The Story Teller's Story"—no he didn't, either! That was what his audience had been promised, and what they paid to hear, but Judge Tourgee flew the track and commenced discoursing the present, past, future and eternity of the negro. The lecture, however, was a rich, rare and unusual treat. Those who missed it missed much, and had the usual theatrical goers been present, they would have cracked the rafters with laughter. I don't intend to review the piece or attempt to describe the style, for a move is on foot to get the Judge back, when each person can be his own critic. If he comes, every one who likes to forget himself in laucher should go; and the opera house should provide an usher for each and every person purchasing a seat.
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The Doughnut's explanation to the Bakery faculty:
"It's queer the way the water acts
One gets up there to drink.
I only took four swims, at that;
I got them by a wink.
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For years I have been curious to know what ladies put in the portmanteaus they carry in their hands. I am not curious any more, and I beg my gentlemen friends to take my word and never investigate. Last Saturday I was walking with one of our prettiest University belles, when some country boor brushed against her, knocking her hand-bag to the walk. It flew open, when out rolled —O, heaven! a box of pearl-powder, perfumed "complexion liquid," and
andbut this is a religious paper
Over one-third of the members in the Handel-Haydn concert last Tuesday were former University students. The entertainment was splendid—the best given by local talent for many a year. But as the daily papers have said all this and super-added the usual big lot of flattering twaddle, I am left the usual duty of screening out the faulty points. The nervousness of the members, the awkwardness of the orchestra in seating themselves and retiring, and the occasional discords, showed that the concert had been too hastily pitchforked on the stage. I was amused when Gilmore stepped behind the wings and returned wiping his mouth; but as most of the audience did not observe him, perhaps, I will not dwell on the fact. Moreover, playing the flute is dry work, and the best of men will occasionally drink water. To my high estimation of Mrs. Marks and Mrs. Grant as vocalists was added a large admiration for their common sense in refusing to respond to the encore nuisance. The Handel-Haydn should prohibit recalls.
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If our foot ball team isn't beaten by the Washburn outfit on the 12th, it wont be our fault. While the Washburn boys are putting in their best licks, our team is practicing scarcely any at all.
"I'll never drink wine, beer or ale."
The said good boy for a Baker.
"Give me a bowl of whisky punch,
As hot as you can make her."
As my readers know, I have little sympathy to waste on the oratorical association. As long as our University is connected with the humbug, however, I want it to be the big fish in the pond. The students should turn out en masse and accompany our representative to Topeka. Crane is in a position to do our institution proud. He is by far the finest speaker the University has ever presented in a state contest, enjoys a greater popularity and stands a fair show of carrying off the honors. At any rate, he will do us credit. It is due therefore, both to his abilities and the reputation of the University, that we give him a warm ovation. Since a number of special coaches have been engaged for the occasion, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a lot of white muslin and a paint pot and decorate the cars with true student art. Let us make the natives open their eyes.
What queer contradictions one sometimes hears. A while back I was talking with a high official of the Y. M. C. A. about our H. F. Clark ("Big Clark"), for some time secretary of the R. R. branch of the Association at Kansas City, but now superintendent of the Beloit schools. The Kansas City position, which paid a pretty fat salary and some mighty rich perquisites, was obtained for Clark through the influence of Prof. Canfield and other friends. It seemed strange that Clark should voluntarily give it up and go to the vexatious school room at much less wages. Well, this Y. M. C. A. official told me that Clark had made a failure of the secretaryship, that he was practically ousted, and luckily got into the Beloit schools by the skin of his teeth. His successor in Kansas City, I was told, had brought the Association to a high pitch again. So the story went. Last Monday I happened to be talking with Prof. Hallek, formerly superintendent of the Wichita schools. He told me that Clark had made a wonderful success of the K. C. Association, and that the people were wild to retain him, even asking Halleck to use his good offices to get Clark to stay. Clark, however, hankered after old idols—school teaching—and threw up his position with the Y. M. C. A. at that place to accept the Beloit place. The new secretary, it was added, was a perfect fizzle. "The srange things we hear, and the srange things we do."
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