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LAWRENCE, KAS., Aug. 1
To Whom it May Concern:
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H. A. CUTLER, Publisher.
Wanted, a lecture course.
Citizens, please renew the torn-up sidewalks.
Reward our athletic Watson for his good deeds.
Every student can help the chapel orators by taking front seats in
Every student can help the chapel orators by taking front seats in chapel.
The south side of Warren, between Massachusetts and Vermont streets, is eternally blocked with wagons and buggies. The city should see that it is cleared at once, and kept clear.
The oratorical contest should be set for as early a date as possible, in order to give our speaker a longer time to prepare for the State contest. Our representative should have as fair a chance as those of other colleges.
--tion. He was also instructor in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, of which he is an alumnus.
Some of the fraternities are losing sight of the fact that brains are worth more than gold. They are forgetting that the unpolished farmer's boy is oftener a better member than the worn out city dude. The non-fraternity element is gaining many of the strongest men from both city and town.
One of the most noticeable faults of the University is the lack of sociability between old students and new ones. It is a duty of the old students to see that the new ones are made at home and acquainted as soon as possible. After entering, it takes one a year to get fully acquainted with all the students. This we think is owing to the fact that those who were here the year before have no inclination to make the acquaintance of those who have just come in. It is not as it should be; and from this on let us greet the new student with a hearty shake of the hand instead of staring at him or dreamily remaining in deep thought and meditation as he passes by.
In some newspapers the cry that Kansas University is a infidel school has lately been replaced by an alarm that the State's great school is becoming a denominational convent. Both statements are equally false. Every student here enjoys the most perfect immunity from the religious persecution of either liberal or fanatic. He here most fully enjoys the right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. No student's religion is questioned in any way in the college. The professors are in no way respectors of sects.
No sectarian religion is ever mentioned in the University, but outside the walls nearly every student places himself, of his own free will, under the best of religious instruction and fellowship. Kansas parents may rest assured that their boy or girl is here under the best of influences that train to noble manhood and womanhood.
Two years ago an athletic club was formed by the students of the University, with Mr. Geo Watson as president. The organization ran considerably in debt, and for eighteen months past merchants in Lawrence have been complaining of unpaid bills. When school opened this fall, Mr. Watson, coming up from his home on a visit, spent time and trouble looking up these accounts, and paid them in full out of his own pocket. If there ever was a duty for the members of that athletic association to perform, it is before them now. A meeting should be called at once and money subscribed equal in amount to the sum paid by Mr. Watson, and enough more to pay him for the time and trouble he spent in looking up the matter.
The writer is a member of that organization himself, and if the officers — I believe there are some of them in school at present—will call a meeting he is willing to pay his share.
Through the efforts of the COURSE a meeting was called last year, but its proceedings came to naught, and once more we make a feeble attempt to advocate justice to all. Then come, let each one be willing to contribute his mite to remove the blackest saint that ever darkened the records of the doings of the students of K. S. U.
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The new professors have been selected with the greatest care from a large number of applicants. They have already won the lasting friendship of their classes. The students now know them personally, but their history may be of interest:
ADELAIDE RUDOLPH, A. B.
ADDELADE RUDOLPH, A. B
Miss Adelaide Rudolph is a graduate of Hiram College, Ohio. She has devoted herself with great success to teaching in or near the city of Cleveland, Ohio. She is very highly recommended by those who know her, both as to scholarship, ability and success.
Dr. Lucas E. Sayre, the professor of pharmacy, is a graduate of the class of 1866, of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Since graduation he has devoted himself with enthusiasm and success to pharmacy, as a professor. At the time of his appointment to the chair of pharmacy in the University, he was lecturer on Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, and had charge of the pharmaceutical laboratory of that institution. He was also instructor in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, of which he is an alumnus.
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In addition to this he is a practical Iruggist, being for some time associated in business with Jos. P. Remington, one of the authors of the U. S. Dispensatory—the druggists' Bible. His contributions to various pharmaceutical journals have been numerous and well received. For several years he was editor of the Philadelphia Druggists' Journal. His practical work as a druggist is well known. For instance, laminated pepsin is manufactured by a process discovered by Dr. Sayre. With the help of the late Prof. Bridges, he originated a valuable disinfectant known as "Bor-alum Sulphate." He is the author of the orgame Materia Medica and a Materia Medica chart. He comes to the University with the highest possible testimonials as to character, as to theoretical and practical knowledge in his chosen profession and as to skill and success in teaching.
A. M. WILCOX, PH. D.
Dr. A. M. Wilcox graduated at Yale. He then took a post graduate course of three years, leading to the degree of Ph.D. He has taught six years, three in one of the New England colleges, with marked success. He has spent a year in Athens in the special study of Archaeology and the modern Greek which he speaks fluently. He has traveled extensively in Europe, acquainting himself with the educational system of Germany.
Since his return from Europe he has been a Fellow by courtesy of Johns Hopkins University, his special work being in the line of Greek and Archaeology. During this time he contributed largely to the American Journal of Archaeology.
P. J. ALDRICH.
Our new professor of vocal music is a native of Massachusetts. Being of a musical family, he has been accustomed to classical music since childhood. He studied vocal music in Boston, under W. H. Daniell and John Hodson, a pupil of Lamperti, the piano with Maas and Emery, the organ with Duham and Whitney. He has added to this a year in Germany. Under his skilful management the vocal musical department promises great things.
MAMIE SIMPSON.
Every old student and every citizen of Lawrence is rejoiced that our new professor of art is one of our own Kansas girls—Miss Mamie Simpson. She is an enthusiast in painting and drawing, and has been the life of Lawrence art for several years. She has changed the bare old drawing room into the coziest of studios. Paintings, drawings, statuary and brice-a-brace show what a woman can do, even in this land of pork and corn.
Miss Simpson is a pupil of Geo. H. Smillie, N. Y. She is a master in drawing, landscape, flower, and fruit painting, in both oil and water color, and is an adept in China decoration. In the latter she had the honor of being instructed by Julia Dillon, of New York City. Thus thoroughly prepared she cannot fail.
--physical training, can never attain the perfection desired. Now if we have a military company, nearly every one would take pride in becoming straight strong and vigorous men, and eventually it would open the way for gymnasium on the plan of our eastern colleges. Something should be done at once, for precious time going. Let us hear from some one else. X.
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Student's Views.
No paper has ever been so well supported by the students as the Courier. Business men find it a good advertising medium and are willing to patronize us. It is the only paper in the University in which a student is permitted to give his unbiased views, and is therefore THE STUDENTS' PAPER All are solicited to write for it, and if your article does not appear in the next issue, don't be impatient, for it will be printed some time. All Views must be handed in on Mondays.
A year or so ago we had a base ball club—a club that compared favorably with any in the State—but under musmanagement it has become defunct. Cannot we resurrect the carcass and have another club? We have the best material for a club of any crowd of boys that could be got together in the State, and I say let's organize a club. Here are Neal, Cummings, Davis, Yohe and others who were members of the club in better days. We had a gymnasium then, but alas! where is it now? But let us hope for these blessings in the shape of a gymnasium, medical school greenhouse, etc. In the near (?) future we may hope for these, but let us all go to work and organize a base ball and foot ball club, and take a little more interest in athletic sports. Let us meet next Saturday on the ball grounds and organize these two clubs, and we shall never regret it. E.P.G.
The old adage: "Where there's a will there's always a way," could never be better applied than at present. The boy who to-day wants to go through college, can do so if he has the energy and determination. Many of the best graduates are those who have been compelled to make their way, step by step, meeting with many obstacles, but never daunted, till at last they finish their studies and leave the college, not only with an education, but with a knowledge of how to use that education to their advantage. So boys, if you want to take a college course, do not be discouraged because you do not have at your immediate command the necessary funds, but settle in your minds what you will do, and then go to work with energy and perseverance. Keep your eyes open and be ready to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself (and there will be many) and almost before you are aware of it you have accomplished your college work and gained a knowledge of the world and its affairs, that will be invaluable to you through life.
OBSERVER.
One very pressing need of the University and students is a gymnasium. The old room under Prof. Miller's room, where the festive prep was wont to stir up the sawdust in his vacant hours, has been turned to some use as a store room for the fossil collections. We must develop our physical man, not by violent exercise in a sawdust heap, but by regular exercise in a good gymnasium. A student cannot spend four or six years in a college course without plenty of good exercise. Two-thirds of those who graduate expect to become public sneakers, and unless they have a good
Too much cannot be said in favor of college songs. Various steps have been taken to secure appropriate words. There can be no question that we need some good rousing songs more than anything else be longing to the paraphenalia of student life. There is something in the old familiar chords connected with associations and recalling memories most dear to our hearts, which appeals most strongly to our nature. The recollection of a grand old college song is without doubt the happiest memory of college life, and would do more to bind to us the hearts of our graduates than even the most affectionate and lasting friendship they may form with us. Let us have some college songs now. The stirring melody of a rousing song will go ringing down the busy years of life, and like a magician's wand will instantaneously conjure the buried past from its silent grave.
ORPHEUS.
I would like to know the meaning of the following, which appears on page 79 of our catalogue: "A course of evening lectures is provided for each year, to be delivered in University hall, by such persons as a committee of the faculty may invite. These lectures are popular discussions of varied scientific and literary topics, of general interest, and are especially designed for the benefit of students." I took this to mean that we were to have some lectures this year, but as some time has passed since the opening of the session and nothing has been said about them, they probably convey some other meaning to the intelligent reader. What does it mean any way? I came here partly to attend these lectures, and I would like to see something done towards the establishment of a course of lectures.
NEW STUDENT.
The thing which is most urgently needed and demanded by every student who gives the subject the consideration of an idle moment, is a cooperative association to regulate the price of books and school supplies. As it is, the students are forced to pay whatever is asked, the prices being kept down only by the competition of two or three houses. The same amount of money which is yearly spent by two hundred and forty students would, under a system of cooperation, supply four hundred with the same amount. As it is, each individual student buys his own books, and consequently pays two prices for them. The students' money is just as good as merchants', and they are entitled to the benefits of wholesale buying. Let the matter be adjusted, and let us have a Students' Cooperative Book Association. F. A. M.
K. S. U. needs a little more practical advertising than it gets. The people should see some of the professors, should hear them lecture at the Normals. They should convince all the rigidly righteous that the University is not an "Infidel School." If you had heard this charge as much as I have this summer, you would think so. The expenses of these professors should be paid by the State, and should not be subtracted from their salary. Of course the newspapers can do a great deal; but it takes all to make the University what it should be. MeG.
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