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Base ball.
Military company.
What will come next?
K. S. U. has some life in her after all.
Kansas University needs a military instructor.
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The regents have named the new natural history building Snow HALL. A listing tribute to the professor's years of patient toil.
If the Regents will give us a military instructor there will be fewer stoop shouldered students shambling through the corridors.
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Why can we, not get up a boating crew? Here we are with the finest boating place in Kausas. Why has it not been done long ago?
We are glad to see that the nonfraternity men in Orophilian are acting as a unit. The fraternity combination have made this necessary.
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The Atchison Patriot copied the Cocheret's short biographies of the new professors. We are glad to see the people take so much interest in our faculty.
At the next constitutional convention provisions should be made for a fixed annual tax to support Kansas University. Thus the head of our educational system would be placed above the reach of partisan politics.
--times abused, and in the manner alleged, has that fact any logical and intrinsic weight against them as a whole? The writer falls into that old contemptible rut, and boots the same old boot which wise (?) old fanatics have hooted for three thousand years—judging an institution by its effects when abused and not when rightly used. Is everything which produces evil effects when prostituted, radically wrong? Let us carry the writer's masterly logic a little further. The prohibitory law has been abused; therefore it should be repealed. Religion has been abused. Abolish it! This University is being made the means for an unworthy end. Abandon it!
On the third page, the COURIER prints its second installment of Kansas University songs. Much praise is due the writers for their prompt endeavors. We trust the students will continue to allow the divine afflatus to inspire them. Some songs are needed for next month.
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--times abused, and in the manner alleged, has that fact any logical and intrinsic weight against them as a whole? The writer falls into that old contemptible rut, and boots the same old boot which wise (?) old fanatics have hooted for three thousand years—judging an institution by its effects when abused and not when rightly used. Is everything which produces evil effects when prostituted, radically wrong? Let us carry the writer's masterly logic a little further. The prohibitory law has been abused; therefore it should be repealed. Religion has been abused. Abolish it! This University is being made the means for an unworthy end. Abandon it!
The Corrier hopes that the Regents will do all they can to secure a military instructor. The United States -should not require us to pay its instructor's salary for two instructors are now detailed to Iowa, one of whom is unlawfully at a private school. If laws can be stretched for Iowa, they can be stretched for Kansas.
At a late meeting of the Regents, Prof. W. H. Carruthi was given permission to spend nine months in Europe, beginning Jan. 7, 1886.
The Professor and Mrs, Carruth, and little Constance, will spend the winter in Germany, and next summer in Switzerland, making short trips into France, Italy and Greece. We envy the Professor his journey.
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A few years ago Prof. Canfield gave a silver ball to the best base ball nine in the University, provided they would accept a challenge from any other nine in school or give up the ball. For a long time there has been no contests for the coveted prize, but lately new enthusiasm seems to have struck the boys, and from the present outlook it seems as though the first nine will bear it away this season.
Among the different societies of the University, the Science Club stands among the highest. It is an organization the meetings of which are attended regularly by five professors besides quite a number of students who are active members and take part in the programs. For a student who has no literary ambition, it is the best club to join, as it gives him drill on scientific subjects, and accustoms him to speak before an audience, something which will be valuable to him in after life. At the last meeting the question of 'inviting ladies to join was somewhat discussed and it may soon be a means of getting acquainted with the girls. They have a banquet every commencement, which is always a jolly good time. A week from to-morrow they have an excursion to Ottawa to visit the sugar factory, machine shops, Ottawa University, etc. Not only their own members are going, but they invite the whole school. Everybody should take advantage of the half fare rate and go. And all scientific students should become members as soon as possible. Meetings are held every two weeks. The next meeting will be in the chemical building, one weel from to-day, at 3 p. m. All are in vited.
We are happy to announce to the world that the University of Kansas now has a military company, and the COOKER will accordingly stop its "howls" on the subject. It only remains for the faculty and regents to take some interest in the matter and get an instructor at the earliest possible date. The following is an extract from the revised statutes of the United States, amended and approved by Congress July 5, 1884. "The President may, upon application of any established college or university within the United States, having capacity to educate at the same time not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of the army to act as president, superintendent or professor thereof; but the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed forty at any time, and they shall be apportioned throughout the United States as nearly as may be practicable, according to population." It appears that Kansas and Colorado have together only enough population to have one officer between them, and that one has been located at Manhattan, Kan. But there is still one other course to pursue. An act of Congress approved May 4, 1880, provides: "That the president may detail an officer of the army on the retired list, and such officer may receive from the institution to which he may be detailed, the difference between his retired and full pay." The details authorized by this act are in addition to the forty above spoken of and may be made to any school of the requisite grade, without regard to the population of the district it is situated in or the number of officers already on duty therein. Then it is only a question of a little expense with the regents, which shall decide whether we are going to have a military instructor or not.
The number of students who have signified their willingness to become members of the organization shows how much interest they take in the affair. At the last meeting the roll was swelled to fifty, and an average of forty have assembled to drill whenever called upon by the captain elect. The other officers have not yet been chosen, the company preferring to wait and see who takes the most interest in it, and who are best fitted to fill the positions. If an officer is appointed, the government will furnish arms and ammunition annually enough to supply a company of one hundred and fifty members, upon the regents, chancellor, faculty or others giving bond equal in amount to double the value of arms taken, and promising to return them in good order within thirty days after being notified by the Secretary of War. If the regents refuse to secure an instructor we sincerely hope that the boys will keep the present organization up until the regents are convinced that an instructor is absolutely needed. Meetings of the company are held Wednesdays at 2:30 p.m., and Saturday at 10 a. m. Let every loyal student of the K. S. U. become a member.
A Constitutional University Tax
A University which aims at permanence, reputation and respectability, should have a solid financial backing. Nothing will so dishearten a management and weaken the best efforts of the faculty as to have an irregular means of support, and not to know whence and in what quantities the next installment is to come.
The legislature of the State has sometimes treated our University very well, sometimes only fair to middling. But the great trouble lies in this: The men who make up the legislature come together for but sixty days in two years, and in that short time they are expected to thoroughly learn and legislate for the interests of a great and growing State. One of the least important of these, so many bastily suppose, is the State University, and the bill providing for it is left to the last of the session, and then it is rushed through without much examination and subject to the whim and caprice of an assembly which has to be constantly on the lookout for jobs and frauds. One or two men who do not see the advantage of an education because they have none, or want no one to enjoy the privileges which they did not have, can make, and have sometimes successfully made, a guerrilla attack, with a cry of "favoritism" and "job," which will neutralize the efforts of the friends of education.
The remedy for this is a constitutional provision that a certain percent of the taxes collected shall go to the State University. Make this amount even a moderate one, and it will be vastly more acceptable than the customary fight for a big appropriation with the idea that it will be cut down to a decent and not a uselessly small one. As the State would grow in wealth, the fund for the University would increase, and the supply of educational facilities would always keep pace with the demand.
This is not an untried experiment. The Michigan University at Ann Arbor is maintained by a regular tax. The result is that Ann Arbor, though not entitled to a high rank by location, is now at the head of Western Universities.
Friends of the University should unite in educating popular opinion to see the advantage of such a constitutional provision. When the next convention is held we should try to secure the benefits of what would amount to a permanent endowment for the State University of Kansas.
Students' Views.
In a late issue of your paper there appeared an excellent and ably written article upon the Greek fraternities. The writer affirms that the verdant enquirer is told that to belong to a fraternity "is the only way in which the most refused social intercourse can be obtained"—a statement which I unequivocally challenge as pernicious in inference and foundationless in fact. There can be no doubt but that the scope and opportunity for social intercourse is extended in the very nature of things. But this is all that the most fanatical of fraternity adherents claim.
"The fraternity men must defend his fraternity or acknowledge himself connected with a bad organization." This is an assertion characterized by more of adroitness and plausibility than strict accordance with fact. The writer seems to think that to join a fraternity is to renounce all morality and to bid farewell to every scruple of conscience, and that devotion to the interests of his society must partake of the nature of blind, unreasoning fanaticism. To the statement I reply that no iron clad oath can ever make a member of any fraternity do violence to his conceptions of his right and justice, or make him an apostate for the holy creed he learned at his mother's knee.
"I can conceive of but one hardable aim of a Greek fraternity," etc. From one in such extraordinary harmony with the very and only object for which they are established, I had expected less of the uncharitableness contained in the implication that a member of one fraternity is necessarily at loggerheads with those of every other. The great mistake under which the writer (and a great many other barbs) labors, is that he seems to think that connection with a Greek society means a total eclipse of his individuality, and consequently the compulsory adoption of all the friendships and emnities of his fraternity. This is a view of the matter as erroneous as it is pernicious.
The writer contends that connection with a fraternity tends to make one narrowminded and onside, to warp his judgement, bias his mind and bigotize him generally. If this be true in any degree, the fault lies in his own innate unworthiness and not in his fraternity. The man who supports a candidate whom he knows to be utterly unworthy of his support simply because he belongs to his fraternity, and who unscrupulously maligns his candidates' opponent for the opposite reason, is a cowardly and unprincipled sneak, and beneath contempt. And the man who can see in his own fraternity nothing to blame, and in others nothing to praise, is beneath the pity of a Digger Indian.
"Another evil is the tendency to elevate incompetent men to positions of honor." That connection with a fraternity at least increases the chances for minor preferment, is a fact as lamentable as it is impossible to be disputed. But that fraternities are made the pulleys by which to hoist utterly incompetent men to places of honor and trust, is unconditionally false. And the writer's so-called expose of fraternity management is one which it were charity to call exaggeration. That more or less of minor preferment is the reward of a species of partisan service, is undisputed. But positions of honor are assigned with a vigilant eye to reputation and a healthy regard for public opinion. And no fraternity would dare to jeopardise itself and to exasperate public sentiment by agitating the election of a man notoriously incompetent.
Granted that fraternities are sometimes abused, and in the manner alleged, has that fact any logical and intrinsic weight against them as a whole? The writer falls into that old contemptible rut, and boots the same old boot which wise (?) old fanatics have hooted for three thousand years—judging an institution by its effects when abused and not when rightly used. Is everything which produces evil effects when prostituted, radically wrong? Let us carry the writer's masterly logic a little further. The prohibitory law has been abused; therefore it should be repealed. Religion has been abused. Abolish it! This University is being made the means for an unworthy end. Abandon it!
But before we follow out this brilliant line of argument to its just and legitimate conclusion, let us pause and let our intuitive sense of right and justice tell us that to abolish an institution because it is pernicious when abused, is a coward's method of reform.
FRANK A. MARSHALL.
We have heard many clamors for a military company during the summer. We now have an organization and several enthusiastic students who have made a good start. Now we want the body of students to take hold of the scheme and help it on nothing can be made a success unless we work. Newspaper articles will not make a military company unless a large per cent. of our students take hold with a will and strive to aid the papers.
What is now wanted is a regular officer from the army to drill the company. We can get this officer by working. Other colleges have the regular military department. We should not be behind eastern college in this matter. To succeed we should get the Regents interested in the matter and get them to petition for the detail of an officer. The faculty are willing to do what they can. Tr Regents will undoubtedly recognize the necessity of some such organization well conducted. The first step is a good strong organized body of students who will assure its success
When we call on the students to join the company we do not mean that we want a large crowd who will come to drill when they feel in the humor, and who will stay away if the weather is inclement. By no means We mean a smaller number who will stick through all to the organization and who can let their girls go by themselves a few hours each week Come on and join, make the militia a success. E. A. L.
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I want to use your columns to express a desire of the students for a study room. The Chancellor has been doing his utmost to keep the corridors clear this term. This sends a large crowd to the library each hour, many of whom have no desire to study and who prevent others from attending to their work, when the alcoves are filled with idle boys who keep up a continual clatter. Now I think that if these fellows must let the in keep away from the library or else let us have a room devoted to students who wish to study.
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work. Howler.
Covered walk to the Chemical building? Yes, that is what we students want. It is all very well on sunny days when the gentle Kansas zephyr kiss the cheeks and brows of our lads and lassies as they go tripping over the cinder walk to the departure of drugs, but when the Kansas blizzard howls from the northwest and the air is filled with sleet and the cinder walk is slushy mud, it is a trivialiation. "Through much tribulation we enter into the kingdom of Heaven," and Prof. Bailey is so kind and patient and excuses all tardiness that we well nigh forget the trials.
But we should have a straight an narrow way to the Chemical building and not the broad uncovered way the leadeth to destruction and colds an death. PHARMACIST.