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Social Department.
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News of marriages aments in Lawrence con unabated violence. The is appalling to the ineligible been raging with unasm this season. Financial religion or health, receive eration. Anxious man to discuss the advisability their susceptible daughters to a school social atmosphere is not a infected.
In various ways we cured evidence of target pid's darts which received when unmailed and unproach reaching the vital spot in penetration all mankind Now in communication Majesty we will expect he be informed of his success archery and will from tir give our readers the best work in our city.
The "most exquisite y of the city," of the Southe offices, has evidently all heart to be carried as plquant young belle of pa days, now of Fort Scott.
His Chum, watches with xieety every mail, for a letti East where She is pursuing music studies.
The pleasant young conor of the U. P. road and lady of the "Stone Mansor Tennessee street seem to understand."
The young gentleman Princeton's classic balloons vacation home this summer received lasting impressior young lady near Indiana a Holiday week a prominent railroad man now of Topkapi sister and home yet of on take unto himself as life ev'r tocherish, a young lad ing her short residence in as instructress in the famil minister, was noted for a in personal appearance and meet
To the public yet endless mist, is the “coming prominent young railroad” and one of Lawrence's most fair ones—the daughter of a Nearer perhaps, but no the coming knot, which wone,” a prominent young Grant township and a popu alumnae of S. K. U.—class Dame Rumor, connects tunes of a prominent youth the present Senior class of with a young railroad in Washington Territory. A informant whispers, a yourn ist of Wichita, whose letter formation from the Post, “weighs a pound,” is the man.
A mystic spirit pervades tum.com, combining the names ofinent belle, whose beauty overlooks the ice Kaw and,"who visited our city recentlypering on the spirit, sayyoung man from the Northduring Christmas days forswer, which probably willAgain, that the many "Wotof our city will be smileditkept in happy suspense forA prominent young drugthe charming young danghtof our respected physifistspoken the words which crouTwo soils with but a singleTwo hearts that bent as one."The young proprietor ofMassachusetts street businessand the favorite of the ladyMcIntire's,will soon stand baltar and answer to the sacmony.
Corner" drungist. The young gentleman's mother will also soon looce a daughter, whose heart is also a "Mail boy."
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, December 18. No. 15.
For the benefit of those wishing to purchase holiday goods, the Trade Palace will be open evenings until Christmas.
Vol. IV
MOTTO : Fraternity Rule Must be Broken.
BLOCK.
OROPHILIAN WINS
The Greatest Victory of the Series won by Orophilian Leads, by 12, L.P. Ritr.
They are just lovely? What?
These new styles of napkin rings at Howe's jewelry store, and its the best place to buy them, for his prices are away down.
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The editorial staff had nothing to do with this issue. Everybody says it is much better than usual.
This is the season of peace on earth Christmas presents, and home girls Surely we can be happy.
We are glad to say that during this vacation most of the Professors are staying home with their wives.
--beauty of conception and finish of language. Of course anything like libelary of religious opinion leads to utter condemnation, while fidelity to dogma wins the laurels. So intemperate is the discrimination that the wide difference of a clerical judge in favor of his candidate will greatly overbalance the small excess given by the two other judges to an opponent. One of our students, who perhaps has carried off the greatest number of honors, accomplished it solely through his pandersmits to religious topics and the success with which preachers, purposely or accidentally we care not which, were secured as judges. We need not go many millenniums back in our society contests to witness the same thing.
--beauty of conception and finish of language. Of course anything like libelary of religious opinion leads to utter condemnation, while fidelity to dogma wins the laurels. So intemperate is the discrimination that the wide difference of a clerical judge in favor of his candidate will greatly overbalance the small excess given by the two other judges to an opponent. One of our students, who perhaps has carried off the greatest number of honors, accomplished it solely through his pandersmits to religious topics and the success with which preachers, purposely or accidentally we care not which, were secured as judges. We need not go many millenniums back in our society contests to witness the same thing.
Here's a pointer on Christmas presents:
Make your folks a present of a year's subscription to the COURER.
"Come back ready for work." Leading editorial in every vacation number of the Courier since the year 1.
"There's my old wash-woman ; I've got her on the list, that never will be missed, that never will be missed." Extract from the diary of a well known senior.
All of our editors and managers are at home eating their Christmas turkey, or attending to their interests otherwise, consequently this issue is gotten up by new hands—professors and other people. We await congratulations.
A Protest Against Preachers
It has been quite a number of years since the students declared, by common consent, that professors were unit for judges of University contests. Attempts have been made by class-room toadies, at various times, to foist professors upon the contestants, but in every instance the effort has been resented and repelled. It was not a question of honesty. In a nut shell, the prejudices formed by a professor from his continual contact with his scholars, units him as an unbiased judge on a college contest. The next innovation should be in debarring preachers. Compared with the prejudice of preachers, the bias of professors as judges of contests is as a street puddle to the ocean. Right here we want to say we are not reflecting on the ministerial calling. It has come to that pitch when one is decreed as an opponent of religion if he suggests that his pastor does not wash his feet as often as the laws of health and a due regard for his neighbor's nostrils require. So we rise to explain.
The vocation of a preacher undoes him as a fair arbitrarist of literary excellence, or originality of thought. He will score a composition on the "Ineffability of the Divine" twenty per cent. higher than a practical treatise on the "Manufacture of Lucier Matches," and "Caivin," or "Luther," though clothed in literary sackcloth, will take the prize from "Jefferson" or "DeLesseps," though attired by the author in the highest
The bane of clerical judgers may be seen at Baker University where, through mountains of metaphors, oceans of apostrophes, and worlds of religious sentiment, we have yet to meet a contest production with a grain of practical sense.
At best, decisions in contests are apt to depend on whims and prejudices of those who render them. Believing judges a perennis part of student contests, we would gladly shovel off the candy caboodle of them. As long as they are retained, however, it would be the wise thing for the practical students of our most practical University to adopt the practical rule of encouraging practical contests by forever debarking, as judges, those impractical prebendaries, the preachers.
Saints and Sinners
What a boorish force this matter of criticism on college performances has got to be. It was my misfortune to be unable to attend the Orcad-Orophilian contest. Being deeply interested in several of the contestants, I searched the college and daily newspapers for a reviewof the entertainment. All I gleaned from the articles was that this one and that one and the other one all did splendidly, magnificently, superbly, from which, reading between lines, I half infer that the thing was a failure. I afterwards learned one of the reviews was in mype before the contest came off. They might as well all have been. Such hog wash!
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If there is nobody in Lawrence capable of writing an honest criticism, or if the Bohemians are afraid to write and publish their honest views, why then, save time, ink, paper, and the reader's patience, by saying nothing about it at all?
How many societies there are in the University ever year that die "a burning." How many more pine along on the bottle, as it were, for six or eight months, and then their nurses finding their labors unappreciated, let the mistogenu infants slip into an unnoticed grave. The fool-killer ought ever to hang around Oread's halls to strangle new societies. Then the old ones might receive adequate support.
Something over a year ago Prof. Carruth was lamenting the fact that our opera house management brought no lecturers here, nor actors of the first rank. He thought such talent would crowd the house and pay handsome returns. I know better. There is no encouragement for stars to come here. Coulock was perhaps the finest actor who ever set foot on the Lawrence boards, yet neither Prof. Carruth nor any other professor went
Just for curiosity I would like to know whether there is a member in the Senior class who entered Junior Prep seven years ago, and has slowly and steadily worked his way to the top?
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to hear him, though his prices were just half his usual charges. I am sorry to say that had it been comic opera, with a liberal display of physical charms, a paucity of dress and considerable exhibition of chic, our faculty would have contributed to the success of the evening—at least I have never seen them absent from Fay Templeton, Emma Abbott, and entertainments of that school. It is considerable of a question, just now, which is on the decline, the stage or the people. Certain it is, that the drama is just what its patrons make it. SMITH,
A Senior was heard to remark recently that co-education was not a success. He said in proof of this theory the girls are all spoiled, his girl in particular. Poor fellow! we sympatize with him; we know how lovingly he looks in at Grossoup's windows as they pass by; we know how sweetly innocent she looks as she remarks that "Abbott will be here a week from to-night;" we can hear his sigh of despair as she tells him that the evening is so wet that walking is impossible. Our heart goes out to him in his misery, when as they walk down street she says confidently: "Arthur, I haven't been sleigh riding this year." We incline to the opinion of our friend, that a girl is an exquisite luxury. A prep girl is an awfully sweet, innocent little girl that is thankful if her verdant admirer calls to take her to church or lecture; but when you get to a Senior girl, my, its awful! Her demands are limitless. She needs all the money that can be raised; she needs fifteen hours a day of valuable time; she does not care for free shows, and if a luckiness youth should ask her to go to a contest, his fate is sealed forever. We had a girl once. She is married now, and we know better than to tackle another; but we will give coming generations the benefit of our wisdom, and will say: Never get a solid girl. No one can afford it unless he gets part of Vanderbilt's fortune.
The lion roareth, the whangdooile mourneth, but the Courier goeth on forever.
--left my girl's ring in Lawrence. 16
can't put tiet in.
--left my girl's ring in Lawrence. 16
can't put tiet in.
The Presbyterian College of Emporia will be represented in the State oratorial contest by Ewing Herbert, editor of the Collegiian. Shake!
The Baldwin local oratorical contest will be held the third week in February.
This issue of the Cookbook goes to all the students, their cousins and their aunts. Get your father and mother to see how benefitted they will be if they subscribe for the great religious weekly, and keep posted on your doings and misdoings.
Our heavy editorial man, who solves all the problems of finance, morals, and how to live at a ten-dollar-a-week rate on eight dollars, is now investigating the subject of Turkey. We hope again soon to see his bright smile, but the beaming eye of the gobbler will never more shine on the other inhabitants of his neighbor's back yard.
--left my girl's ring in Lawrence. 16
can't put tiet in.
Perlee R. Bennett has passed through many trials and tribulations at Ann Arbor, but like the ghost of Banquo he will not down. The prosecuting attorney finding his efforts for conviction were fruitless, entered a nole pross. The students with true grt—such as is not found in K, S-U—have brought suit against the prosecuting attorney for false imprisonment, and against the policeman who arrested him for assault and battery. The sympathy is largely with the students and it is thought that they will be victorious.
STUDENTS VIEWS.
College Politics.
Some people are always hunting around for something to find fault with, and to use their invincible logic in tearing it to pieces. Such a person is "Observer," who in the last issue of the Correra thought he would demolish the piece headed "College Politics," in the issue of week before last.
"Observer" is either one of the would-be political bosses of this institution, or else some one that wanted to say something and did not know just what to say or how to say it. I am inclined to believe he is the former, for if he was not I think he would have kept still on this subject. When the truth is told about such fellows they howl exaggeration, fantasies, etc.
"Observer" says that "E" is so narrow minded that he cannot accurately measure the evils that come across his path in this "vale of tears." Whether the evils that come across my path are accurately measured, I will not say; but will simply inform "Observer" that the rule I use to measure them is justice. It seems "sad to state the above named deficiency" renders my weak points obsure to myself. I wish to remind "Observer" that I am not immortal, neither am I a logician, and that I am liable to be weak. But at the same time I am not so weak as "Observer" would lead others to believe.
"O, fatal mistake!" says "Observer." "Why couldn't he see that he had really suggested no reunalty at all until he had told us how college politics were to be purified?" "Observer" must not have read my piece very carefully, or he would have seen that I said "inaugurate a new system of college politics," and surely he knew that I did not mean on the same basis or on any other basis but right and justice. "None are so blind as those who can see and will not."
"Observer" says "a fair, imperial investigation of this matter will satisfy any one that our college politics are not all they ought to be." That is just what I said, only in a little more emphatic language than "Observer" used, and if that milder form of expression suits him, that is all I ask.
I am a Fresh, and was at all the meetings of that class, and nothing but friendly feelings have characterized my conduct from beginning to end. I signed the petition asking that a certain Soph be not fired, not because I thought his actions were right, by any means, but because there were other boys as deep in the mud as he was in the mire, and he was the only one to be punished.
The next time "Observer" starts out to take observations, if he would examine things a little more closely before making his observations known to the public, he would do better.
Harry Heard From.
DEAR MACLAREN, KAS., DEC. 20.
Dear McLaren: I don't want you to give me away in the vacation COURER. If my Lawrence girl were to know how I am flying high with my Atchison girl, it would make her feel bad, and I would have to take her to another free show to case her mind. I know I have been mean and written views with other people's names signed to them, but please do not hold it against me. It is natural cussedness, and I can't help it. As I cannot be in Lawrence to put my name in the Courier as a bright and shining example of a student ought to be (as I usually put that in), but am compelled to lay around the Atchison billiard halls. I hope you will take pity on my ornery condition. My watch is in soak and I
HARRY A. SMITH.
The above letter was found in the hip pocket of McLaren's Sunday pants. We violate no confidence in giving it to our readers.
I would like a little space in the vacation issue of your valuable peri to give my opinion in regard to the uncalled for demands of some of the professors. Sometimes when I have gone to class without my lessons they have stopped me after class and suggested that if convenient to me they wished I would spend at least ten minutes a day on each of my studies. I have not time to do this, and it is nobody's business but my own. If I can not amuse myself in K. S. U. by dancing, playing biliards, throwing dice and drinking "peach," I will go to Baldwin, where students are treated as men and not as children. H. F. GLAMAN.
Happy New Year! What does it mean for the students and for the professors? It means that we ere long the students will change their studiest; that they will begin a new set of amusements. For the professor it means a repetition of the same weary routine of work which he has gone over year after year. It means that the New Year's bells have rung out the old set of students, and rung in the new; yet all are alike in one respect; they are students with all a student's failings. Many of us underestimate the trials of our teachers. We forget that they have to put up with all the impudence which the smart student sees fit to give; that they must be patient with the dull; that they must encourage the backsliders. No matter what cares oppress them or what sorrows cast them down, they ever are at the point of duty. Poorly paid, overworked, patient men, who are trying to help us to grow up into good and honest men and women, these are the men who should fill a warm place in our hearts. So let us resolve, in this season of good resolutions, to try and lighten the burden of our teachers by doing better work and by being more thoughtful for them in the year which is just beginning.
F. A.M.
Prof. Wilcox has in contemplation a scheme which commends itself to every student in the Greek department. The plan is to remove all books in the Greek department from the library, and together with a part of his own library, to fit up a study to be used exclusively by the students of Greek. Prof. Wilcox deserves the hearty thanks of every Greek for thus going out of his way for our convenience. If this plan is put into execution, we ought to avail ourselves to the utmost extent of the advantage offered, and not by coil neglect dampen the professor's warm hearted devotion to his work.
The attendance on chapel services this year has been very small. Ever at second door it has been far below the average of previous years. Some thing should be done to increase it if necessary, require daily attendance.
We know that some of the Seniors are kicking on the matter of back grades. They claim that it is unfair to require '86 to get up back work by February, while previous classes had till June to prepare. When the matter is duly considered, the benefits will be seen when we consider the time saved to the Senior and the better position he is in to do full justice to his college work. By all means let us have back work done up before the Senior year.
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