The Weekly University Courier.
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Autumn Musings.
Perhaps the students think ye Muser wishes to view only the dark side of affairs, and find fault. Not so however, now I have something to praise, and it is this—the almost entire absence of snobishness in K S. U. The poor student who works his way is held in higher esteem by all than the one who wastes his fifty dollars every month. No one puts it down against a man here if his clothes are shiny or ill-fitted. This is right, and I hope it will always be thus. I fear however that the snobs, now so few, will increase in number when we have more wealthy students, who come here not to work, but only to have a good time. It will be a long time however. I think, before K. S. U. will be troubled in this manner as many Eastern colleges are.
The hypocrisy of some fraternity men is scarcely endurable. They are eternally blowing that their societies never enter, as bodies, into combinations, though, say they, some members may go into such things as individuals. This would be well enough if they did not accuse the other societies of combining as bodies, while they point to themselves as examples of immaculate purity, and say they do not countenance such "depravity." Now when their society casts a solid vote, no one can say whether they do it as individuals or as a body. So howlings about such things are nothing but the merest phrasalism cant, and any one can pull off the sheep's clothing from hypocritical demagogues who shout on this sublet, and see the wolves beneath.
I am glad to see some variation occasionally in the programs of the literary societies. Every time this is done there is a much larger and more enthusiastic attendance than when the usual program is given. It seems to me that the great trouble in the literary societies has been too much sameness and monotony in the meetings. Let, us have more special programs, and perhaps we can develop more spirit and enthusiasm among the members. In other colleges, even where there are katerinies, the literary society spirit is far more developed than here. If even a few members would stir things up we could have as good literary organizations here as in any college in the Union.
Sometime since the faculty passed every salutary regulation by which over classmen were prohibited from taking studies beyond them in the higher classes. It seems to me that his rule has not been enforced with sufficient rigidity, for I hear some complaint that the students of the tutor and senior years are hammered by "specialists" unprepared or the work of the higher classes. Though not so numerous as formally, there are still too many in the university who ought to be preps, but try to be upper classmen. The faculty should be more strict with such students.
Shorthand Department
A large number of the students and some of the professors drive up to the University every day. On account of the location of the buildings, it is necessary for many to ride, not only for those living in the country, but also, on account of the hill, for those who reside in the city, yet besides a few hitching posts there is no provision at all for horses which must be left at the University during recitation hours. It seems to me that a few sheds might be constructed at a small cost somewhere on the grounds, and then the poor animals would be sheltered from the bleak winds which sweep over Mt. Oread. I think that the necessity for shelter is very urgent, and it should be seen to immediately by the proper authorities, since it is no more than just to those who are compelled to drive to school to have a place to put their horses. Indeed it is positive cruelty to animals to show the poor creatures to shiver for four nours every day in the wintry storms. Besides the humanity of the idea, the attendance at the University would doubtless be increased if this provision were made. Tony.
Lawrence Business College.
Having been in charge of the Shorthand Department of the Lawrence Business College during the three past years, and having endeavored by faithful, careful, and thorough instruction of my students to merit the continued confidence of those desiring instruction in Shorthand, I desire to state that it has been judged best to discontinue the "Department" and conduct it hereafter as a separate and distinct School of Shorthand under my individual charge. The method of instruction will be similar to that used in the past, except that advantage will be taken of our increased facilities and ever enlarging experience, to make the Lawrense School of Shorthand the leading School of the West.
Competent assistants have been employed to aid pupils in preparing exercises, etc., and the pupils will find that they can obtain better facilities and instruction for their money than at any similar institution. We intend to make it worth your while to come and learn Short-hand with us, and we will give you full equivalent for your money.
Facilities for learning type writing will be provided at small additional cost.
W. M. HAYES, Principal
EASY SYSTEMS, ETC.
We have already given information in regard to the utility of Shorthand, its application to practical business, and it will be found that its employment in the professions and general business is only limited by the supply of competent writers; new avenues for the employment of Shorthand writers are opened up everywhere, and the great question to-day for the would-be stenographer is not—shall I be able to find employment, but am I competent to fill the positions that are ready to be filled?
The fact that there is so universal a demand for this art, has led thousands to take up the study, and after months and perhaps years of ill-directed, desultory, dawdling efforts at its mastery, they have given up in disgust, when if they had given a few months of earnest, practical study under the care of a competent teacher, at an expense small as compared with the acquiring of any other profession, they would have been successful. Probably not one in five hundred of those who have tried to master the art by the aid of textbooks alone, have ever become proficient. Admit that not all who study medicine, or law, or Shorthand have the talent to become proficient, the fact remains that few are so unwise as to attempt to master medicine or law without the aid and attendant expense of the best schools and teachers they can procure, while about everybody seems to imagine that by purchasing some "six easy lesson system" of Shorthand, they
With flying pen
Report the buraling words of men Of thoughts and might, in crowded hall or anywhere else—at little or no cost or labor. Were this the case, everybody would be Shorthand writers, and salaries would be no object.
In any case, you cannot know how you will succeed until you make a trial. The phonographic profession is a profitable and honorable one. It would not be so if one could learn to report verbatim is six weeks or two months, and yet we have heard of teachers who claimed that their "system” would enable one to report verbatim in still less time by the taking of “a few easy lessons,” or as some body has said, “The student communicates the study of some ‘new and improved system,’ believing that it two weeks he will have mastered the principles, and within two months be able to brush the flies from his nose as he leisurely reports a two hundred words per minute speaker.” The student who attempts to master any of these “easy” systems invariably finds it not adequate to the needs of actual work. As we have elsewhere stated, we use Graham’s Standard Phonography, a system that was devised and arranged by one of the most expert reporters of the day—Mr. Andrew J. Graham—and has stood the test of some thirty years of practical use without change. Other systems using the same alphabet have, since this system was given to the public, modified their word sign lists, etc., so as to approximate closely the word forms of this system, and retortorial experience and mathematic demonstration both show that the best results are to be obtained only by a rigid adherence to the characteristic features of Stand ard Phonography. The favorite ad vice of teachers of allied systems is “Learn our system because it is easier, and then when you nee greater speed you can switch off to Graham’s system and incorporate its principles into your writing.”
We do not hesitate to say that no person possessing the "nerve" to learn the art will be discouraged by having a proper idea of the difficulties he has to overcome, and the expense of money, time and labor to be incurred, and in our judgment the pupil who selects a system of Short-hand to learn simply because it is alleged to be easy, has already shown himself deficient in the qualities that go to make a reporter, and his failure is assured from the start.
Whatever system one learns, he must sooner or later train his mind to conceive and his hand to write the outline of each word in the language, in common use, to the best advantage, and that cannot be accomplished in "six easy lessons," no in twelve.
If simplicity of alphabetic characters, economy of the hooks, circles, etc., that have to be used in all systems to represent syllables, etc., the most perfect method of abbreviation of words when great speed is needed, and the best and most rapid system of phrasing ever devised, do not constitute the "easiness" that the Shorthand weakling desires and requires, they at least constitute what is required to make a system a success as a reporting medium, and the earnest student will feel most confidence in the teacher or system that does not hold out false promises in regard to amount of labor, etc., necessary to master one of the most valuable and money making professions.
To the student who goes at the study in a business-like way, with a determination to succeed, the science of Shorthand is easy as compared with most other arts and sciences. Of course, as the Shorthand writer has to use so large a number of words, a good literary education is a great help; but hundreds have begun the study of Shorthand, and by so doing found that it was a most efficient aid in acquiring a knowledge of grammar and orthography.
Let no student then be discouraged by staements that the art is too difficult to learn—it is not; or on the other hand, let none be deluded by the idea that any one can become a reporter without work.
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
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Lawrence Business Directory.
ATCHI-4ON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE.
West Bound...11 25 a.m. and 6:38 p.m.
"...11 56 a.m. and 11:43 p.m.
East Bound...4 15 a.m. and 8:07 a.m.
KANSAS DIVISIGN OF UNION PACIFIC.
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To Wamoeg ... 6:12 p. m
East Bound ... 4:25 a. m, and 8:10 a. m
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LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS
A. B. KAHNWELKE.
No. 925 Massachusetts Street
GEORGE INNES & CO.
No. 106 Massachusetts Street
410 101 Massachusetts Avenue
L. O. MCINTIRE
610 Massachusetts Ave.
DRUGGISTS.
B. W. WOODWARD & CO.
Missouri and of Massachusetts and Henry Sts,
GEO LEIS,
NEG. LET. Cor. Mass, and Henry Streets.
CLOTHIERS.
No. 71 Massachusetts Streets.
RING CLOTHER-STEINBERG
RING CLOTHER-STEINBERG
Street, Street,
WM. WIEDEMANN,
No, Massachusetts Street.
RESTAURANT.
E. C. MULL,
Harris' Old Stand
COAL DEALERS.
FRANK A. DOANE.
Corner Henry and Massachusetts Sts.
C. L. EDWARDS
No. 111 Massachusetts Street
TAILORS.
GE 9 BOLETT, NOVEMBER
No. 81 Massachusetts Street,
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
ALEX. PROF SCH.
Corner Warren hnd Mass, Sts.
J. J, KUNKLE, No. 91 Massachusetts Street
BOOK STORES.
S T FIELD,
No. 99 Massachusetts Street,
Mississippi Sperm.
J. S. HAND & CO., Inc.
Ouagambo, Pierre Gall, Mll.
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIES.
GEO. B. SHANE; 829 Massachusetts Street
Opposite_Pierson's Mill
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIE
J. B. SHANE,
No. 125 Massachusetts街
STUDENTS
Boots and Shoes
MENGER.
ALWAYS PATRONIZE
Only first class stock kept on hand with prices the lowest in the market.
STUDENTS CLUBS
GIVEN SPECIAL RATES
J. M. Zook's Grocery.
JOHNSON & HEYLINBERG'S
Barber Shop,
MILLARD & COOPER'S
The most Fashionable and Best Students Barber Shop in the city, Students trade solicited. Best brands of Foreign and Domestic Cigars in the market always on hand
Billiard Parlor
THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS PLACE IN THE CITY.
Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars.
60 Mass. St. - LAWRENCE, KS.
135 Mass, St., Lawrence, Kan.
DR.F.H.WILSON, DENTIST.
First-Class Work at Moderate Charges.
MILLINERY.
MRS. ORME'S
STUDENTS, GO TO
FOR YOUR MILLINERY.
Newest styles always on hand. One of the most complete lines in the city always in stock.
MOAK BROS.,
BILLIARD PARLOR
A fashionable resort. Best grades of Cigars in the city.
STUDENTS!
Toilet Articles.
Combs, Brushes, Hair Oils, Perfumes, Refined Soaps, etc, to go
LEIS' DRUG STORE.
STUDENTS AND CITIZENS OF LAWRENCE
When in Kansas City, should not fall to call upon
DR. J. E. GEROLD,
DENTIST,
No. 618 Main St. KANSAS CITY, MO.
W. E. YEAGER,
FLORIST!
New Hampshire Street, just below the New Hampshire Street, just below the satisfaction for all kinds of job request.
"J. B. WATKINS
Land Mortgage Company.
LAWRENCE, KAN.
The Largest in the United States." New York Times.
C. L. EDWARDS,
DEALER IN
Hard and Soft Coals.
Office: 845 Massachusetts St.
C BRUCE & SONS,
633 Massachusetts Street
633 Massachusetts Street.
Leavenworth, Scranton, Cherokee,
Rich Suburb, *Cabacite*,
Cool and Coke.
Delivered Free to any Part of the City.
STUDENTS
For First-Class Groceries
Dollar Per 1
Friday Morning
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