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WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY COURIER
The largest College Journal orientation in the United States.
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J. BULLIVAN, *President.* | ROSS WEMPLE, *Scipy*
--the beginning of this year we really had hoped a little journalistic spirit for a change in its career this year, but we fear our hopes were groundless. The issues that far outside of the editorial department have seen flimsy to "sea-sickness." An organ so supported by the Board of Regents as *The Review* now is, its management not required to give it more attention financially than it does should be a publication of which K. S. U. might be proud. Compared with the other journalistic spiral shown in K. S. U., entirely dependent upon itself for support we will leave the merits of our E. C. to a candid public.
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MOTTO...=Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office of Lawrence, Kan.
as, as second class matter.
LAWRENCE JOURNAL COMPANY,
K, S, U, should have a permanent endowment.
FRATERNITY rule is receiving some severe stabs nowadays.
SNOW HALL will be one of the most beautiful buildings for its size in the State.
THE COURIER extends thanks to the city of Lawrence in behalf of the students of K. S. U, for its work on Robinson avenue.
With pleasure THE COURIER this issue gives space in its Views columns to assaults upon itself on the fraternity question. Only through want of space have we been compelled this week to omit some.
ANN ARBOR students are making themselves notorious just now by a useless quarrel with the city police. Some have been arrested, and the end is not yet. We are glad our students never disgrace K, S.U. in this manner.
PROF. SPRING's "History of Kansas" has attracted much attention throughout the country, and has been largely commended. We notice many praises of the book as regards history, but the author's style has been somewhat criticized occasionally.
THE COURRIER, in its broad-guaged view of fraternity-political matters in K. S. U., aggressive as it is thereon, cannot endorse all the sentiments in its Views columns, tendered by enthusiastic reformers of the day, but it—"straws tell which way the wind blows."
EVERY student, who wishes to learn to speak well, should attend chapel regularly. By hearing others speak, he can learn much sooner himself, and especially if he be a lower classman, he can gain much by watching the performance of more advanced students.
CALIFORNIA is to have a new University. Senator Stanford has devoted a ranch valued at five million dollars, situated thirty miles from San Francisco, to its endowment, and he will add about fifteen millions in money besides. This is a splendid donation to draw on, and the college should begin a useful career the day its doors are opened. The Senator has indeed made a commendable use of his wealth; yet it seems to us that it would have been wiser to have bestowed the money on some institution already established, instead of increasing the number of the already too numerous colleges of the United States.
The old fossilization, The Review, appeared last Friday for November. We are pleased to see it has at last, after a year's consideration, come to its senses as to the Kansas Review-Courier "consolidation" of '85-'86, No.VII, instead of II. Its simpering career of last year, floating on its title page "Successor to Kansas Review and University Courier," filled all with disgust. Upon its throwing off this sickening claim
We are blessed with an excellent department in science, but think there is imperative need of extension in one branch of this department. Geology is woefully neglected, while other branches are fully taught, and great interest is aroused. Geology is, in our opinion, one of the most instructive, as well as interesting studies in the whole curriculum; yet it is given less attention than almost any other. Nor is it possible that it should claim more attention when the instruction given is so meagre. It seems strange that so important a subject should be placed in the Senior year as an optional, giving only ten weeks time, and taught by a professor whose time is fully occupied with other subjects. Professor Snow has neither time nor opportunity for making geology more prominent and more popular with the students. We have a fair cabinet and many valuable and interesting specimens; what we need now is a regular professor, who will devote his time to this one study. Then, again, it should be made a required study, and opportunity should be given for special work. We have turned out a number of specialistists in other departments, but not one, we believe, in this.
THE telegram announcing the arrest of P. R. Bennett at Ann Arbor has been much talked of for the past week. From letters written by Geo. Watson and J. G. Smith, who are attending school there, the Courier is enabled to give a correct account of the difficulty.
It seems that there has been for some time past an antipathy between the Ann Arbor police and and the students of the University, and upon several occasions students have been arrested upon the most trivial charges. The students are accustomed to assemble at the post-office every evening to get their mail, and upon the Monday evening upon which the trouble took place the crowd numbered some five or six hundred. The crowding and pushing resulting from a crowd of this size gave the authorities (in their own eyes) an opportunity to arrest some one. As is usually the case, they selected a small, inoffensive fellow from Denver and marched him to the "cooler," besides using their clubs freely on some of the others. This, as a matter of course, was resented by the students, who followed the officers to justice's court and resolved themselves into a deliberative body to take some action to release their fellow student. The arrest, however, was accompanied by a goodly number of stale eggs, clubs, rocks and brick bats, applied on the heads of the "cops" by the students. P. R. Bennett was called to preside over the mass meeting, but upon taking the chair he counselled them to preserve the peace, and not render themselves liable on the charge of inciting a riot. They adjourned to the campus, where Bennett was elected chairman of the meeting. They adopted resolutions of censure against the police, and appointed a committee to take charge of the case against the arrested students. Bail was immediately procured and the boys released.
A day or two after Bennett was arrested on the charge of attempting to incite a riot. The students are unanimous in upholding Bennett,
and have raised $500 for the purpose of clearing the boys and prosecuting the police. The best legal talent in that section has been retained, and no effort will be spared in the vindication of the students. The law department, composed of about three hundred members, met and adopted the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, Mr. Perlee Bennett, personally well known to many of us, has since his connection with the University uniformly conducted himself as a gentleman and a law-abiding citizens; and
WHEREAS, We recognize that it is largely due to his presence of mind and cool-headed foresight that the gathering in front of the justice's court on Monday evening, November 9th, was stripped of its riotous character and violence prevented; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Bennett is now most unjustly charged with the grave offense of inciting a riot,
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to Mr. Bennett and a copy be sent to Lawrence, Kansas, if not contrary to Mr. Bennett's wishes.
Resolved, That we, the law department of the U. of M₃, in mass meeting assembled, express our sympathy with Mr. Beinett, and pledge him every aid and assistance in our power in clearing himself from the charges which have lost their character as a prosecution and become a persecution.
(Signed:) COMMITTEE.
ONE-SIXTH OF A MILL.
In a recent issue the editor of the Troy Chief makes a very decided objection to the method of supporting the University by a fractional mill levy on the taxable property of the State, incorporated in the constitution.
There was a time when Sol. Miller was regarded as an enemy of the University, but that time is past, as is shown nowhere more clearly than in this article. We wish therefore to consider his objections, and to persuade him and others, who look at the matter as he does, that the essential feature of this proposition is good. Mr. Miller objects to having the University or any other State institution taken out of the hands of the people. Undoubtedly he is right. Moreover, the University itself would lose by a change which would deprive it of the opportunity of going before the Legislature and the people every session and justifying itself and demonstrating its continued worthiness of popular support and general patronage. Nowhere has the hold of the University upon the State been more clearly shown or more surely strengthened than in the attacks made upon it by its enemies before the Legislature.
But it is possible to avoid this danger and yet secure the benefits expected in the change in method.
But the minute of the management, the details of the expenditure are left with the men who are especially delegated to oversee that work, and who are appointed with an eye to their special fitness therefor. The majority of the members of a Legislature are not well enough acquainted with college work in general, and with this college in particular, to be good judges on such points as these:
In Michigan, to which we have came to look, and justly, for an example in school building, there is levied a tax of one-eighth of one mill on the dollar on all taxable property for the support of the University. This is not incorporated in the constitution, but is passed each session by the Legislature. Thus the control over the institution is not taken out of the hands of the people. Any irregularities are just as subject to investigation as with us, and extravagance can be as easily checked.
Whether the department of mathematics is overworked and should have an assistant?
Whether a first-class college of law can be carried on with three instructors?
Whether the library should have one or ten thousand dollars' worth of new books?
Whether the interests of our
graduates demand instruction in Spanish?
Whether the department of physics needs a new syren, or the department of Natural History a new manikin, or the department of history a set of the Bankers' Magazine?
Yet often what the faculty and regents consider necessary in such lines has been reduced or stricken out on the motion of some opposing local interest, or some man who thought he knew better. In short, we suggest that in the matter of details, what the regents have approved need not be submitted as a matter of course to the revision of the Legislature.
The danger Mr. Miller sees in the gorging of the institution with funds is not real. No one proposes a levy of half a mill. That would make an income of $120,000, but one-sixth of a mill would make $40,000, which is about what the University will need next year. As the state grows this will grow, and it is to be expected that the University will grow and keep pace with the State. On the other hand, when the State meets with reverses this income will be reduced in proportion, and this is right.
What is there wrong about this plan, Brother Miller?
EXCHANGE SPIRIT
--strongly in favor of encouraging manly sports, and also a proper amount of class and college spirit, but we do not like to see this at the expense of the main object of our coming together here, namely: the getting of an education.
It is our object to publish from time to time in this department bright and newsy paragraphs from our exchanges, and thus give a few of the ideas which are troubling the minds of our fellows in other College.
The old fashioned exchange department has gone out of date—has served its time and been laid on the shelf. The Exchange Department is a fine thing for the Ex. Editor, but very little interest to any one else; and yet it seems hardly proper that no notice whatever be given to the numberless College publications which come to our table, nor are we willing to let all their brightness and sense slip from us without receiving any invigoration from them. So we think that you will find this department worth perusing, and from its perusal you will perhaps gain some idea of the ability displayed on other papers, as well as learn something of what is interesting other collegians.
We clip the following appropriate remarks from an excellent article on College Journalism in the Adelphian:
The collegiate paper is the best training school for the professional journalist which any institution affords. The necessity the student has of writing under a pressure of work serves as excellent discipline for a good journalist. Imperiality, coolness of judgment, quickness of thought and action are all cultivated on the Editorial Board. The merit of their editorial work has won for not a few students on their graduation a position on the staff of a New York or Boston paper.
Every American student should take pride in supporting his collegiate paper, because it is essentially an American production. The German universities have no publication of the kind, and though Oxford and Cambridge have an "Under-graduate's Journal," it is edited and published by those unconnected with the universities.
The following remarks from the Illini on "Class Spirit" come quite apropos here just now, since we have had so many howls on the subject, and manifestations of the effects of such spirit lately:
Several of our exchanges are clamoring for stronger society and class spirit among their students. They would apa after the customs of so many of the eastern colleges, where such matters, we might almost say, receive undue attention. It is a mistaken idea with many that such spirit is indispensable to a college or university of any pretensions whatsoever. The western college student, as a rule, attends school, not because he is sent, but because he wants to go. He comes from the middle class and knows the true value of time and money, consequently he is not likely to pay very much attention to matters not directly connected with his work. We are
The following contains perhaps a grain of truth, but we do not believe in any faculty supervision whatever in college journals. College papers should be published by students and for the students, as indices of student, not faculty, thought and opinion:
In the search for the model college journal, there are questions which must be looked at. In the most of instances the rules of the college demand that nothing shall be published without the approbation of the faculty. This, in most cases, perhaps all is a more farce, for there are few professors who could or would devote so much of their time as would be needed to peruse the manuscript before its publication. Yet there is no doubt but that the provision is a wise one. College men are apt to be rash, and intentionally, perhaps, might write what would injure the college or wound the feelings of some student against whom the reof of the editor is kindled. The rule restraints, and there yet must be some liberty of the college press also its value as an index of the students opinions and desires is lost. — Transcript.
Autumn Musings
While there are many advantages in the present arrangement of recitation hours, there are some inconveniences about them, too. One of these is the long intermission between breakfast and dinner, which is about seven hours. Most of the students, I think, get breakfast at 7 o'clock in the morning and, if they live at some distance from the University, they cannot get their dinner until 2 or half-past. This seems to me to be too long a time to go without eating, and, indeed, I have consulted the best medical authorities on the subject and have found out that they agree with me. I think the faculty ought to allow us a access of fifteen minutes at 12 o'clock for lunch, and I will wager that the general health of the students will be improved, if this is done.
Some enterprising student should set up a lunch counter at the U., for it would be well patronized, I am sure. We are sorely in need of something of this sort, and it would not only be a great accommodation to the students, but a paying enterprise to the man that starts it.
Students always say they are weary when any one talks to them about the privileges they enjoy. Well, it is but natural that it makes them tired, but nevertheless they do enjoy privileges, and they cannot shrink the responsibility of taking advantage of them. Students are always calling for voluntary recitations and more freedom; yet it seems to me that whenever anything is voluntary they are sure to neglect it. This is the way with the literary societies. Now, no student will deny that literary society work is beneficial, yet a very small proportion of the students are active society workers. The literary societies are without doubt on the wane, and, I think, that if the students continue to be so thick-headed or thoughtless as they are now, it will soon be high time for the faculty to make attendance on the societies or provide tensions on Saturday for those who want to pursue its society work. Doubless some of the students will think I am too forward in proposing such a scheme, but if the reagents provide halls for students to use as society rooms, it seems to me that the faculty should see that the rooms are used by more students than at present. They themselves will soon see the necessity for reform in this respect, but if they don't, the faculty should step in and do something.
It seems to me that one of the recent contributions to the “Views” contained a very discourteous reference to the lecturers who are so kind as to come to the University and talk to the students. It would be discoureous if it were true, and being untrue, it is insulting. On an average, the lectures given at the University are as good as those which would be given by a set of professional lecturers. The fact that a man is a professional is often a proof only of his conceit and his check, not superiority. It is also clearly beneficial for the students of the University to meet and hear the prominent men from our own State, and to learn how such and of what they are thinking. I hope no new student will be deceived by that article into thinking that the lectures are not worth hearing. They are well worth the time and the effort required.
EDITOR VIEWS:—The processions made for history and its instruction in the classical curriculum of the University curriculum seem to me to be generally neglected and not on an equal footing with those of the other departments. To prove this assertion let me call your attention to the following facts, some of which have come under my immediate notice. In the study of Roman history in the Senior preparatory year of my course, one day per week for the greater part of the term was devoted to this work—the instruction however not being given by the regular professor of history. One half of the study was in this way completed in the term's work. I have been told by upper class men that the same is equally true of Greek and Roman history in the Freshman year—two or three week being devoted at the end of the year to this instruction. We are denied the opportunity of having the advantages of the general history in the Freshman year open to the students of the other departments; and only ask an equal representation with them in the study of history. While our classics give us "fluency of language, and our mathematics conscutiveness of reasoning and precision of thought," yet there is a space beyond a general education, to be filled only by a comprehensive study an knowledge of history.
A CLASSIC.
NOTES
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Go to either of Shauci's galleries for first-class photos, and especially for large work. Special rates for students.
All students who wish to speak in chapel, buy their cuffs and collars at Bromelsick's.
Fur and seal-skin caps at Abe Levy's.
Razors, straps, brushes and fine shaving soap at J. W. BEARD's.
Fluke's for sheet music.
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Buy the celebrated Stetson and Dunlap hats at Bromialick's.
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We have those handy cards called regret cards, in every style, and as for visiting cards and invitations, well call and see them. We cannot do the subject full justice in so limited a space. At any rate, we will assure you that you have never had a more complete line placed before you in Lawrence of artistic and correct stationery.
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