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--should be. In this way the attention of many young men who are thinking of going away, out of the State, for special study in some one of these lines, would be attracted and upon investigation might come here instead. It is a plan that can be carried out with very little trouble and is worthy a trial.
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THOSE who have promised THE COURIER verses for college songs and have not mailed them yet should attend to it at once. We want to use them.
FRANK P. MAOLENNON, 75, for years past the efficient business manager of The News, at Emporia, has disposed of his interest therein, but will yet remain in the field of journalism.
THE Law department opens next week. As the Dean will give his exclusive attention to its wants this year, it promises to be the most prosperous since its establishment.
STUDENTS, write letters about the University to your home county papers and tell all about the advantages of attending K. S. U. above all other institutions in the United States.
THE COURIER in a former issue suggested the propriety of holding the law recitation at some more seasonable hour than 8 a. m. Since then we have heard several speak in regard to the matter and they were all of the opinion that it would be a decided improvement. As it seems to us there is not one valid objection to holding the recitation, either at 10 a. m. or at some time in the afternoon. To many the later would be preferable.
--should be. In this way the attention of many young men who are thinking of going away, out of the State, for special study in some one of these lines, would be attracted and upon investigation might come here instead. It is a plan that can be carried out with very little trouble and is worthy a trial.
The city has at last began to stir itself about Robinson avenue and side walks on Tennessee street. It is a crying shame that it has not been done before. The student every year leave over $75,000 cash in the place besides the money paid out by the State in running the institution. That a little improvement which would facilitate the approach to the University, as the grading of Robinson avenue would, should be hagged about as much as it has, is a shame. The fact that the city finances have been involved for the past year is some excuse but the money for that improvement could have been obtained in some way and it ought to have been done. It speaks well for the final completion of the work that Mayor Poehler is an enthusiastic advocate of the grading and fixing up of the avenue as soon as possible.
We occasionally receive an exchange in the State Press speaking of religious sectarianism, etc., in K. S. U. To this worn out charge we can only repeat there is no compulsory attendance of divine services connected with the curriculum of K. S. U. Yet there are daily chapel services non-denominational and in the city of Lawrence there are twenty-three churches holding at least weekly services.
--should be. In this way the attention of many young men who are thinking of going away, out of the State, for special study in some one of these lines, would be attracted and upon investigation might come here instead. It is a plan that can be carried out with very little trouble and is worthy a trial.
As will be seen from our columns the Illinois people have already held their oratorical contest and their representatives are selected for the inter-State contest. By this means they obtain several weeks in which to prepare, that other States will not have. This matter should receive immediate attention from the Kansas association and from our local association. There is no reason why we cannot here hold our contest at any time, whether the time for the State contest has been set or not. Let the officers of our local association move in the matter at once.
The question as to how much money should be given a student for incidentals, is now what many papers are considering and it is one of considerable importance in more than the mere monitary sense. Too much money is worse than too little. But there should be a happy medium. There are many little expenses that a student should have money to meet just as much as to pay his board, for instance subscription to a college paper or to purchase stock, society dues, subscription to base ball or boat clubs, &c. It does not take much but it affords most of the pleasure that a student has, and if he desires to have any standing among his fellow students it is indispensible. But too much pocket money often has a tendency to make the fortunate or unfortunate possessor devote too much time to spending it greatly to the detriment of his studies.
--should be. In this way the attention of many young men who are thinking of going away, out of the State, for special study in some one of these lines, would be attracted and upon investigation might come here instead. It is a plan that can be carried out with very little trouble and is worthy a trial.
The following very pretty little poem from the pen of a former student of the University of Kansas, accidentally came into our possession. We print it with pleasure, and would like to get further contributions of the same kind.
AT SUNSET
Like the murmur of rippling waters,
As they part upon the sands;
Like the laughter of fairest daughters
E' er caressed by human hands.
Like the laughter not loud and merry,
Like the murmur—not bolstered and rude,
With a sadness they strive to bury,
With a sigh they would hide if they could.
Like these are the thoughts that come o'er me
At the close of a weary day,
When darkness closes around me,
When fades the sun's last ray.
That allure provides weary sick
Nor cool and hard I ween.
But are tinged with a shade of gladness
And of pleasures my life has seen.
But the pleasures of life are forgotten,
And I pass them wearily by.
While the bane of love was but rotten
And she propped her weary sigh
Yet take for human existence
'Tis at best but a weary dream.
But a fight with some unseen resistance,
But a struggle to be what we seem.
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Now the sun has gone down with its glowing:
Gone down behind yonder hills,
Yet where other clear waters are flowing,
It's beauty the landscape sails.
So in life, when adversities lower,
When outcasts meet an unclear,
Shifting beyond mountains that town
Which we mess—and our rest is near.
ONE of the most sickening spectacles of our college life is the lack of manhood shown by an occasional student in allowing themselves willingly to be made the servile tool for the dirty work of some fraternity. One of the "barb" editors of THE COURIER last year was so worked by a fraternity for its "frat puffs" throughout the year. This year we see him carrying the brunt of dishonorable schemes they have entered into. The members of a fraternity themselves cannot but despise such a tool as this man is. Although every student in the university knows who this particular man is, his is only a prominent example of a too large class in our midst.
--should be. In this way the attention of many young men who are thinking of going away, out of the State, for special study in some one of these lines, would be attracted and upon investigation might come here instead. It is a plan that can be carried out with very little trouble and is worthy a trial.
Ir is quite common for the fraternities of K. S. U. to give entertainments to which their lady friends are invited and as a rule there are no more pleasant and agreeable affairs. It is by no means common, however for the gentlemen of a rival fraternity to create any disturbance during such a gathering but this was just what occurred about a week ago. While of course, the boys can stand a great deal of yelling and hammering on the stairs, the merest courtesy to their lady friends requires that the boys of the rival frats should either keep out of the building at the time or conduct themselves like gentlemen, which until this case they have always been held to be.
If the generous policy toward the University pursued by the legislature at the last two sessions is continued for the next few years there is no reason why the U. of K. cannot obtain a reputation equal to the University of Michigan. It is the special departments that give an institution its reputation. Ann Arbor's law school has done more to make that institution known as it is, all through the west, than the literary department. Of course this must be up to the standard, but in itself would never give prominence, unless certain branches as is the case in many of the larger eastern schools are conducted by professors, whose reputation virtually makes them specialists. We look for much from our special schools in Law, Chemistry, Natural History and Pharmacy and that they are not more generally advertised is a mistake. Much of this work could be done by students if they would give it a little attention. Prof. Canfield, at one time, introduced a very benign practice into one of his English classes. He required each student to write an essay at stated periods, in the form of a communication from Lawrence to a newspaper in which the University came in for a fair mention. These were handed in, corrected and then sent to the local paper whence the student came. Most papers would be glad to get such letters for publication and the benefit the University would derive would be great. Why cannot some such plan be carried out this year. The advantages offered for the study of law, chemistry, assaying, and other special branches are not as generally known as they
Autumn Musings.
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In former years the students have listened to daily sermons in chapel about the waste of time consumed by social parties. Without doubt some students have given too much time to these things, but the great majority have found rather a pleasant recreation from hard work in this manner. As the faculty themselves have been cultivating their social qualities by various picnics and parties this year, I hope that we will hear no more howlings on this subject. Let the students become accomplished in social as well as intellectual attainments, and they will go forth into the world as better men and women.
The members of a certain fraternity in K. S. U. are envious of a rival society, which has sometimes been aided by its lady friends in getting new members. It is well known that the ladies have broken over no bound of decorum in doing this, and any insinuation to the contrary is low, contemptible slander, to which no gentleman would stoop. These silly, jealous little children should be satisfied with the slanders they have been circulating about the boys, and at least exhibit enough manhood to keep from venting their spleen on the ladies.
There is no class of students more tiresome than those who are forever fawning upon some fraternity for admittance to its membership. In one election they will work and vote for one fraternity, and failing to obtain their object, they endeavor to work some other society. Such persons are very seldom taken in by any society, but are despised by all, and become the laughing stock of the school. I know of one student who works two fraternities alternately, and though not a bad man, he has los the respect of both. He is like a girl who has been in the matrimonial market for some time, having no particular fault, but eyed with suspicion by all. It may be all right to wish to join a good fraternity, but he is certainly unmany and without self-respect who tries to get into a circle where he is not wanted.
While not in favor of voluntary recitations altogether, it seems to me that some relaxation of discipline should be allowed to the Junior and Senior years. These higher classes are under the same regulations as the preps. I think that since their studies are optional, that their recitations should be partly voluntary at least, if not altogether.
The report comes to us that a social entertainment given by one of the fraternities was recently interrupted by the members of a rival. This is the more surprising from the fact that the members of this rival fraternity have always been considered gentlemen in every sense of the word and are the last ones from whom any such thing would be expected. They could not have considered for a moment or they would not have engaged in such a proceeding.
Why is it that good board cannot be obtained here as cheap as at Ann Arbor or other universities? Every student knows how difficult it is to obtain good board and lodging for less than $4.50 or $5.00 per week. This should be changed and students should be furnished good board at from $3.50 to $4.00. We are informed that this is the case in most other situations in the West, the University of Michigan having been referred to in particular. The large number of clubs this year, as far as the boys are concerned, helps the matter out but it is not pleasant for young ladies to board and lodge at different places and in winter would be disagreeable in the extreme. Who will be the good samaritan to start some students boarding houses? Not Smith.
EXCHANGES.
The Lehigh Burr, of Bethlehem, Pa., is one of the best monthlies in point of literary matter and general make-up, we receive.
The College Transcript, of Delaware, Ohio, comes to semi-monthly, and shows a goodly amount of enterprise. The last issue emphasizes new students joining literary societies immediately.
The Hillsale Herald (weekly) comes regularly. It would be greatly improved by cutting out some of the unsightly plate advertisements and using a little better grade of paper.
The Industrialist, of Manhattan,
is drier than ever this week.
The Holcad is booming "class spirit."
The University, of Chicago, has a good article on "The unconscious egism of literary people."
The Illini, of Champaign, Ill., comes to us this week agitating the matter of students writing letters to their home papers in the interest of their school. TheIllini is always bright.
The last issue of the Dennison Collegian agitates students caring for their health.
We have not received the *Bald* win Index yet. What is the matter?"
What the Courier Would Like to Know.
If McLaren is still trembling?
What the Atchison Weekly Journal thinks of the post-office regulations?
If the faculty isn't opening the year with considerable hilarity?
If Wemple doesn't hand out the Courier in style?
Why Sullivan smiles so serenely.
If he hasn't good cause to be happy?
When the Oread dancing class will open up?
If the faculty intend to give a wall flower reception?
A chair of journalism has been recently established at Harvard, and is to be filled by J. B. McCullagh, editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; the duties of the professor require his attendance at Cambridge two weeks every fall and spring, and for delivering two lectures he will receive $4,000.
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