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WEEKLY University Courier.
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E. L. ACKLEY,
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F. T. OAKLEY,
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EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL STAFF:
R. L. McALPINE, 88
W. R. CONE, 88
L. A. STEHRUNG, 87
FRED. H. HOWBROOK, 87
JULIA POWELL, 89
E. A. WHEELER, 88
ELLA HOPES, 87
C. H. NOWILL, 88
HARLEY Smith, 86
LAURA LYONS, 86
MOTTO.—Non Nobis Solum.
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LAWRENCE, KAS., OCT. 9, 1885.
To Whom it May Concern:
For the past eight months the regular issue of the WEEKLY COURIER has been 1,000 copies.
H. A. CUTLER, Printer.
Abolish examinations.
Wanted—a military instructor.
All deficiencies in German and French must be made up by Dec. 10.
Somebody seems to have forgotten all about that much needed greenhouse.
The pharmacy department still increases, and yet we have no medical school.
The city cows make the campus look like a barn yard. The cows must go.
--the evil is very excess in any duty to speak do so it is our
The lectures in art are a success. The plan should be extended to other departments.
Fraternities are selfish. They forget that greed is ruinous, whether in a company or individual.
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The COURRIER hopes the faculty will not require examinations where the class standing is ninety per cent.
The Commonwealth criticises Prof. Spring's English. Somebody hold us while we smile. — Topeka Capital.
--the evil is very excess in any duty to speak do so it is our
The regents can certainly do no better thing than to grant the students' petition for a military instructor.
The fall rains are cleaning out the dirty Lawrence alleys. It is a pity that this city does not have a good system of sewerage and water works.
The old students should be more sociable with the new ones. Let us practice politeness in the corridors, and learn to be gentlemen and ladies everywhere.
Let us have some political speeches in chapel. A little excitement would do no harm, and this could be controlled. The chapel attendance would largely increase.
The students have shown so much enterprise in organizing a good military company, that the Regents can be certain that a military instructor could do good work.
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The rumor that Milt. W. Reynolds is to deliver a lecture on Journalism here is without foundation, as he has not even been invited. We hope, however, that he will be.
The fraternities have too much of a tendency to be aristocratic. The very best student has no more natural rights than the poorest. The fraternities falsely claim the best, and hence they think this world is their oyster.
The Courier company held a meeting yesterday and elected R. L. Me Alpine, L. A. Stebbins, Fred H. Bowersock and C. H. Nowlin, additional editors. The recent enlargement requires this extra help. The ability of the above gentlemen is just what the Courier needs, and we welcome them to our staff.
The constitution of the Oratorical Association will be found on the third page. As the Counsel has suggested, the executive committee will soon call a meeting to elect officers and appoint committees. The contest should be held not later than the first week in January, if our orator is to have time to prepare for State and inter-State contest.
The faculty lecture course committee have arranged for an excellent series of lectures to begin Nov. 7. Prof. Kellerman, of Manhattan; Eugene Ware, the Kansas poet; C. E. Bessey, the botanist; Francis E. Knipher, of St. Louis; Profs. McDonald, Wilcox and Sayre are on the list. The Science Club nominates two of the lecturers, Hon. J. B. McCullagh has been invited to lecture on Journalism, but as yet has not accepted.
The University Courier, under the management of Ackley and Oakley made its appearance this morning with a smile on its face and a pleasant how-do-you-do to its many readers. It has grown a little since its last issue, and is otherwise much improved. Cutler, the ornamental and fancy printer, does the mechanical work and it is nicely done, too. It is greatly improved over former issues. We wish the Courier the full measure of that prosperity which it deserves. — Herald-Tribune.
One objection which the faculty might make is that it would draw a crowd of street Arabs as it did when they met at night once before. But could not the hoodlums be kept away by the night watchman, as they are kept from attending the lectures? The night watch could also take care of the building and watch for fires. The faculty do not take enough interest in the societies to pass an opinion on questions of this kind anyhow. Last year one professor attended a few meetings of one society, and only then when he was requested to. The start this year promises the same thing repeated. Now the professors could attend in the evening, and thus all would be orderly. The only conclusion we can come to is that it would be for the best to have the societies meet in the evening. The members would take more interest in them, and better programs would be rendered. Let us have night sessions,
The question of the literary societies holding their meetings at night is being talked of considerably. Our opinion on the subject is that it would be a good thing for both Oread and Orophilian. It seemingly would draw a better audience, something badly needed, and it certainly is no farther up to the University in the evening than it is in the day time. Lawrence people who are busy during the day would take pleasure in visiting the societies and hearing the programs rendered. An evening's stroll up Mt. Oread is certainly more beneficial than on the dusty streets of the city, and once up the hill they undoubtedly would not hesitate to attend the societies. It would tend to make the students more social, and would make the literary societies a means of getting the new students acquainted.
Students' Views.
In every class there is always some crank who persists in asking questions after the bell has rung, thus preventing the class from reaching other rooms in time. These egotists should be reminded that this is not the proper time to ask questions, and if they still persist in doing so they ought to be suspended. Crank, we don't want any more of this foolishness! There are fifty-five other minutes during class hour in which to show your cuteness.
I would like to mention a little incident which goes to show that all is not peace and love in a fraternity. I was standing on the depot platform last Saturday waiting for the Topeka train. A frat man came up and asked his "brother" to lend him his pin as he wished to have one while in Topeka, and had forgotten his own. Was the pin handed over to him in a brotherly manner, as one would expect? Not at all. The owner put on a sickly grin and informed his "beloved brother" that he wished to wear it himself.
It seems to me that the honorable Regents of our University are absolutely wronging both the students and their parents and friends in not providing a suitable gymnasium for the use of the students. Every one is aware of the fact that the student has a desire for some kind of exercise after studying hard and living closely confined in his room. And as there ss no gymnasium here to enable him to give vent to his pent up strength, accordingly he disgraces himself by attending the billiard halls, skating rinks and other places of amusement where he would not think of going were it not for exercise of some kind. Now the students spend at these places every year more than ten times the money it would take to equip a gymnasium. Now I do not mean to say that our regents are doing this knowingly. I am sure they do not realize the great need we have of a gymnasium.
FIERCE STUDENT.
ATHLETE.
Yet this man is one of the loudest mouthed blatants I ever heard, especially when he speaks of the "brotherly love" which members of a fraternity bear to each other.
OBSERVER.
In your excellent Courier of last week I noticed a communication from a person signed "S," who wrote in favor of free speech in chapel. Now I do not believe that I can add anything to what Mr. "S" has said, but I merely want to let the readers of the STUDENTS' PAPER know that there are two persons at least in the University who are in favor of that grand principle which has been the characteristic of the American people ever since they existed as a separate nation. It seems to me that it is the height of folly to talk about free speech when we cannot speak what we wish in the University chapel. Anything that is good enough for fifty millions of people to read is certainly good enough for three hundreds of students to listen to. The world has read with rapture every part of Webster's great reply to Hayne, and also his great speeches on the constitution and the Union, yet if parts of either of these speeches were selected as declamations by a student, they would be shut out immediately, because they might bias a student's opinions, you know. And as for selecting any ports of Paine or of Ingersoll's great speeches, you might as well talk of getting a gymnasium here. Let us have free speeche. What say some of the other students?
DECLAIMER.
I would like to know how much longer we shall be compelled to wait for the lectures to begin. It is now the middle of October and how many of that "evening course of lectures"—which appears in our catalogue, and which so successfully deludes the innocent "prep"—have been delivered? Let us not be deceived any longer. If we are not to have any regular lectures for six or seven months yet, I would suggest that Graham and Templin give us a course of lectures on "Observatory Decorating," which will be highly instructive to the majority of our students. Let's have a lecture of some kind.
ANXIOUS STUDENT.
Every year there is a vast amount of useless money expended on our campus, only to be undone in a few days by stock running over it. Now I would like to know what good comes from this? Almost any day you may come up to the University and see fifteen to twenty head of cattle on the campus, tramping out the grass, breaking down the trees and otherwise maring our campus. I believe that it is an outrage to have such destruction day after day, month after month and year after year, with no attempt to put a stop to it. Year before last several hundred dollars were thus expended in improving the campus, and what have we to show for it? It seems to me as though we had an ordinance in Lawrence to prohibit cattle from running at large. Why is it not enforced? If these cattle were put in the pound once or twice we might get rid of them. We have patent gates, also, in this day of inventions—self-closing and opening gates—which could be obtained at a trifling cost, and which would save the State hundreds of dollars every year. Or if we are determined not to follow either of these suggestions, for heaven's sake lets put the two or three hundred dollars which is provided every year for the improvement of our "cow pasture," into a gymnasium. I would suggest that if the first of these suggestions is followed, that a few reliable men be procured and the cattle herded for the accommodation of our townsmen, on the parts of the campus where they will not break down our trees.
I have heard some students speak about the "hoeks" against social amusements. Now who will deny that dancing, when carried to an excess, is injurious? It wearies the student physically; it consumes much valuable time, not only while the exercise continues, but for one or two days following. When our students attend dances two or three times a week, and consequently fall below the average in school work, it is high time that some decisive steps were taken. It is a well known fact that several of our young lady students went home with their health broken down, and without any substantial results of their year's school work. This condition was attributed by their parents to dancing.
This state of affairs cannot last without injuring the school. My friend "Smith" in the last Courier lamented the fact that our girls are gradually going off to other schools. Now I know for a fact that many parents of girls have kept their daughters out of the University for this very reason. They say their daughters should get an education in college and not the benefits of society. That comes in its due time. Our faculty is composed of fair minded men who are not given to "houling" about small matters. You may be sure that when anything is said by them about social affairs, it is only after deliberation, and further,
glaring. If we go to direction, it is their of it, and when they place to submit. WILL C. U. LATER.
Last Friday the chancellor, in dignified and impressive language, informed the students from the rostrum that the iron chad rule in regard to classification would reign supreme for another year. Now is it the proper thing for the faculty to pass such "blue" laws for our government? Is it not to our interest to have as large a number in our collegiate department as possible? One thing is evident, this rule will cause a large percent of our students to be catalogued as preps, who legitimately belong to the collegiate classes. Besides, the University is not ready for this rule yet. Wait until we have adequate facilities for preparation as regular students, and then we will welcome it. We are not irregular for the fun of the thing. How many students enter each year who are strictly regular? Give us the facilities that will enable us to enter as regular students, and then we can follow that rule.
R. T. WILLIAM.
It is with feelings of disgust that we attempt to describe the manner in which some of the students of this University greet their fellows. The Courier hopes for a reform, though we fear our voice compared with the world will be like "a needle in a straw stack." The defect is most noticeable between old students and new ones, but it is bad enough among the older ones. It is a fault that invites more criticism than almost anything else in the University, and we noticed it when we first entered school.
It is a rule in etiquette that one should wait until he is addressed by his seniors before he speaks, and accordingly the new student tries to act according to established custom. After going two or three weeks without being noticed, he thinks he will stretch the rule a little and speak first himself. So the next person he meets and who he is sure is a student, he greets with a pleasant "good morning." The compliment is probably returned with that cold, sickening expression, "howdy do," pronounced with emphasis on the fore part of the word, and the latter part scarcely heard. He turns around to look at the fellow for a moment, and concludes that he was mistaken and that the person he thought was a student was some aristocratic citizen of Lawrence.
Going up the street a little further he speaks to the next one who he is sore is a student, and is answered with the same thing only a little abreviated—"howd do." The next one gives him a "howdy do," accompanied with a kind of a sneer and the breatened heavily as if to say, "Well how did you come to know me?" He begins to think that this "howdy do" is a common expression, and he tries it on the next one, who either does not speak to him at all and nearly cuts him in two with a glaring star or gives him a feeble "hat-do."
And thus it is. Although there are some students in this University that can "treat a man white," there are others who have this sneering way of greeting their fellows, and the public opinion of them is not the very best. Every new student that comes here soon finds out that this is a cold world after all, and that he will have to have a great deal of cheek to get through it. Let us be more affable.
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