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WEEKLY University Courier.
The largest College Journal circulation in the United States.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
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To Whom it May Concern:
For the past eight months the regular issue of the WEEKLY COURIER has been 1,000 copies.
The fraternities, like corporations, seem to have no souls. Brace up and act like men.
--the non-fraternity editors have placed the original motto of the Courier at the head of this paper. "Not for ourselves alone." All parties must be represented. The spirit of the Courier remains the same.
Thorough work pays. The shirking student is soon as unstable as a house without a foundation.
--the non-fraternity editors have placed the original motto of the Courier at the head of this paper. "Not for ourselves alone." All parties must be represented. The spirit of the Courier remains the same.
The Topeka Capital copied our article concerning the new professors. Kansas citizens take a deep interest in their State University.
--the non-fraternity editors have placed the original motto of the Courier at the head of this paper. "Not for ourselves alone." All parties must be represented. The spirit of the Courier remains the same.
Students will do well to remember that they are not only training the intellect, but that they are now also forming or deforming character.
Read L. A. Stebbins' article from the beginning of Students' Views to his signature. It is a just and thorough statement of the fraternity question.
--the non-fraternity editors have placed the original motto of the Courier at the head of this paper. "Not for ourselves alone." All parties must be represented. The spirit of the Courier remains the same.
The regents can make no better investment than to put $1000 into a greenhouse. The sale of flowers and plants alone would far exceed the interest.
The south slope of Mt. Oread is the finest location in Kansas for a greenhouse. It would there be convenient to the engine house and to the Natural History building.
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The fraternities are very nearly bands of robbers controlled by a few unscrupulous leaders. They need not be thus. A reform is needed, for "There's something rotten in Denmark."
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The COURIER presents its promised enlargement this week. This is made possible by the hearty support of the students and the generous patronage of Lawrence business men. As these increase, the COURIER will yet more increase.
The good old Courier motto again floats at the top of our columns. "Non Nobis Solum"—not for ourselves alone, but for every student does the Courier Co. publish this paper, thus making this THE STUDENTS' PAPER. All factions not otherwise represented on college journals have here a place. The Courier stockholders do not elect the "best" (politician) nor the "ablest" (schemer) but choose representative men from all the factions.
--the non-fraternity editors have placed the original motto of the Courier at the head of this paper. "Not for ourselves alone." All parties must be represented. The spirit of the Courier remains the same.
At the earnest request of the non-
fraternity element of this University,
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J. W. Gieed, our third professor in the Law department, is one of our own men. He graduated in 1880, filled our chair in Greek one year, traveled a year in Europe, studied for two years in the Columbia Law School, and then settled down to practice in Topeka..
In other columns the COURTER presents to its readers a number of Kansas University songs. Many others have been handed in, and will be published soon. Students and alumni are earnestly solisited to write songs and send them in for publication. Thus you can help make a good collection of K. S. U. songs, and from all good the students can choose the best.
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We can urge the clims of the Courier upon the students in no stronger words than those of our first and ever loyal editor, Charley Dart: "The non-fraternity element was never fairly represented until the inception of the Courier, but it has been ever since, and doubtless will be until that paper shall go down before its enemies, or the treachery of its so-called friends," Which, please fate, shall never be. Long live the Courier!
--outgrowth of this is a ceaseless endeavor on the part of each to find something to condemn in the one and an equally strong determination to see nothing but perfection in the chosen few which are associated with him. This kind of thing tends to self conceit, and this is undesirable wherever found, and in whatever form. I have heard students of scholarly attainments who as a usual thing can judge of men and things with no inconsiderable amount of fairness and accuracy, time after time in this University of Kansas, stand and abuse fellow students in a shameful manner, and when forced to make some specific charges against them, it was found that they could make none, and that really the reason for the dislike was that they belonged to some opposing faction.
One of the first remarks a visitor to the University makes is: "What a lot of stoop shouldered, hollow chested young men attend this school. Have they no gymnasium or any place where they can exercise their muscles and build up their physical bodies?" We are compelled to answer "No." The only gymnasium we have is that which nature has kindly left us in the shape of a hill, and which we gladly climb every morning for the benefit there is in it. Although there are some well built, robust and lively boys and girls attending the University, it is nevertheless too true that the physical constitutions of a great many are frightful to behold. Does the great State of Kansas want to carry her sons through a course of study and let each on the day of his graduation deliver a speech with one foot on the rostrum and the other in the grave? To this we must loudly answer "No!!"
Will the regents of this institution not do something to remedy this terrible defect? Can they not see the need of a gymnasium each and every time they visit the University? It is needless to say that they do not know the advantage of a strong physical constitution in active life. They know that although great books and great speeches have been written by weak and hump shouldered men, health and strength are never failing helps to the orator, statesman, author and every other profession one can undertake.
If some one were hired to keep things in order and exercise made compulsory, a gymnasium could be well kept and great benefit derived from the affair. So let us hope that at the next meeting of the regents they will take some action on this grave matter.
Some students who have great fore-sight, exercise with dumb bells and Indian clubs, and play ball every day, but this breaks in on their study hours and is as much of a drawback as a gain. What we want is a well lighted, well ventilated and well stocked gymnasium, with some one to tend to it, give timid ones instructions and urge them on, and not a dingy, dusty, foul-aired room in the cellar filled with a few Indian clubs and dumb bells and heaps of sawdust, as we once had.
Students' Views.
There is probably no college adjunct about which there is, as to its merits or demerits, a greater diversity of opinion among our students than the Greek fraternity. The new student is bewildered by hearing on every side such terms as Frat, Greek, Frat Spiker, Barb, Kat, Phi Kapps, Phi Gamm, Sigma Nu, and the like; and upon making inquiry of Mr A. is told in a very condescending and patronizing way that Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta, etc., are the names of certain secret organizations among the students, to which all students of ability and prominence in the University belong; that it is a great honor to belong to a good fraternity; that this is the only war by which the benefits of the most refined society intercourse can be obtained.
All this makes a profound impression upon the new student's mind until happening to get into conversation with Mr. B, upon the same subject, he is told that the Greek fraternity is the one great cause of our University. That a person with a spark of manhood about him will rise up and swear as Hammibal of old: "Eternal hatred to our common enemy!" "Eternal devotion to the interests of the barb!" Nor is the confusion wrought in his mind made to vanish when he finds that the sentence enunciated by Mr. A. are echoed by a score of our best students, but no more loudly than are those of Mr. B, reiterated by his followers.
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The causes of these widely divergent opinions are not hard to find. The fraternity man must defend his own fraternity or acknowledge himself identified with a bad organization; and then to speak ill of it means to be dropped by his fellow fraternity men as a man drops a hot poker. While on the other hand, the anti-fraternity man not being of the organization himself, expects little or nothing from them, and sees or thinks he sees in bringing them into disrepute his only hope for getting a slice of the college honors bestowed by his fellow students. Hence the new student who would judge fairly of the good or evil wrought by the Greek fraternities in our University, must first carefully observe for himself their effect upon the University as a whole and the students individually. He must first ser训ize them through the eyes of unprejudiced generous broad mindedness.
I can conceive of but one truly laudable aim of a Greek fraternity, but one source from which a person joining one might reasonably expect to be made nobler and better, and that is the formation of a few ties of friendship which might last long after he has gone out into the busy world; mutual impressions of friendly devotion which neither the chilling events of adversity nor the slow destroyer, time, could efface. This—though I in no wise speak from experience—looks to me to be at least possible, but granting this to be so, the man contemplating entering some fraternity must bear in mind that these few will be few indeed, for he cannot reasonably expect to establish such intimate ties of friendship with even all of his own chosen "set," and those friendships that are made stronger may be at the expense of the loss of twice that number belonging to another "set."
One objection which the new student should consider well before identifying himself with a fraternity, is its propagation of narrow-mindedness when judging one's companions. To be Greek means to be at sword's points with some half dozen or so opposing fraternities. The natural
Another evil which must be laid at the door of the fraternity is the tendency which they foster to elevate incompetent men to positions of honor. This comes in the natural course of things. Students know that in unity there is strength. They are ambitious. When you talk of keeping this unity in fraternity out of politics you are talking of a combination of circumstances incompatible with nature.
Mr. X is a fraternity man. As for his reputation as a student, he has none. His attempts at oratory have been failures; his style as a writer is awkward; but yet he is the shrewdest politician and combination maker in the institution. These organizations of students open up a field of labor adapted to his peculiar genius. He renders his fraternity invaluable service by the management of some election. What is the result? Why's his fraternity sums up as one man and says Mr. X must have something. No one doubts that Mr. X is not eligible for anything, so he gets something; or perhaps Mr. X is not a good politician, but is one of the best of social fellows, and as a Greek in good standing, is eligible to anything he can get.
In the proportion that fraternity combinations are perfected, the necessity for and strife toward eminent ability cease. Not only this, but to perfect these combinations takes time, and time spent in this way means time taken from study, and means a decrease in our average of scholarship. Do you doubt that time that ought to be devoted to study is spent in this way? If so, you shut your eyes to what is occurring about you every day. You may say this is not the fault of the fraternity, but of the individuals who are so foolish as to spend their time in this way. In reply to this I would quote the old adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Remove this field of labor and they will cease to work in it.
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Some one says combinations for political purposes might be worked up just the same if we had no fraternities. This is true only to a very limited extent. Where ten or fifteen persons act as one man, the incentive to this kind of work is ten or fifteen times as strong as it would be if each student acted independent of his fellows. I am well aware that many of our best students are members of fraternities, and while I have no doubt that they are productive of some little good, yet after a careful survey of the whole field as far as it is possible for a non-fraternity man to see, I am forced to the conclusion that if Kansas University had never seen one of these organizations it would be fully as well off and possibly better off than it now is.
L. A. STEBBINS.
A few nights ago a few of our most enterprising students paid their respects to the poor old observatory. While I am in favor of the students conducting themselves in a manner becoming to gentlemen, I do not think that too much can be said in praise of these persons, who ever they may be, for showing their disgust for a building which rivals in the beauty of architecture and the genius of its design, a barn intended to accommodate one horse. It is indeed a pity that they did not roll the old thing over the hill and rid old Mt. Oread of its presence. The first building a person spies on ascending Adams street is the little structure which we are pleased to call an observatory. Truly, if a person from one of our sister states could see this structure he would think that this is a strange representative of a State whose citizens call it the most progressive State in the union. It seems to me that it is time for us to stop our boasting until an observatory replaces the old shanty. The boys told the whole story when they painted on its west gable "Ad astra per aspera"—To the stars through difficulties. How long will the State compel us to practice its motto? ATHRONOMER.
Chapel rhetoricals begin in a few weeks. If the selections are governed by the rule of former years, a handful of patriotic students will assemble every morning to listen to the mechanical delivery of orations or declamations uninteresting alike to the speaker and the audience. If a student choose a political speech or a discourse on current topics referring indirectly even to politics, he is told to look again, for such selections are not allowed in chapel. The only reason assigned for this is that upon questions of general interest different people may hold different opinions and consequently a discourse on such a subject may call forth a reply, and this again lead to a sort of debate. Such logic passes comprehension. The faculty desire a large attendance in chapel, and yet they practically prevent the possibility of such an attendance by refusing to allow attractive and entertaining exercises. I seems to me that a student should be allowed to speak whatever he wishes and if a little interest or excitement is aroused, so much the better. Surely there could be no harm in a free discussion of public questions. S.
I see that you are making a noble fight for a greenhouse, medical school and an observatory. May you again be as successful as you were in obtaining the natural history building. There is another matter which I be lieve ought to be drummed on nor and forever more—or until it is granted. As the Courier is "Sore labore bath, balm of hurt minds, chief nourisher in life's feast, etc.," where could the students find a better champion for their rights? Did not you get to natural history building, Prof. Nirols' new telescope, the chemistry building, a large per cent. of our library and the appropriation for the salaries of our chancellor and faculty ever since you have blessed the world with your presence? But I crave another boon. We all want to be excused from examination if we attain an average class standing of ninety per cent. Now it may seem below the dignity of the Courier in championing this - our right-but I am confident that a half a column in each issue could be spent to no better advantage than to insist on this. Any one with a moderate amount of reason and intelligence can see that it would suit every one better than the barbarous old way of taking examinations.
KICKING BIRD.
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