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WEEKLY University Courier.
The largest College Journal circulation in the United States.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURTER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
E. L. ACKLEY,
President.
F. T OAKLEY,
Sec'y
EDITORIAL STAFF.
C. L. SMITH, '87,
W. R. CONE, '88,
W. T. REED, '89,
JULIA POWEL, '89.
B. A. WHELEY, '88,
E. ELAOER, '87,
HARRY Smith, '86,
LAURALEXONS, '89.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
J. D. McLAREN, | W. L. KERR.
Lock Box 434.
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Circulation 1,000.
LAWRENCE, KAS., Aug. 1
To Whom it May Concern:
For the six months past the regular issue of the WEEKLY COURIER has been 1,000 copies.
H. A. CUTLER, Publisher.
--to the first recitations. The professors must learn his importance. Just after each meal he may be seen in the splendor of a smile and a wooden toothpick in front of the best hotel. If a new student, some innocent frat takes him in. And the "take in" is mutual. Soon after the opening of school he may select his studies. But his time is too occupied with girls, pool, cigarettes and other wretchedly "wicked" things, to allow him leisure to very often favor his classmates with the show of his recitation. He would like to wear knee breeches, but he doesn't. If he would make the attempt you could see the reason why—and that would be all you could see. So he contents himself with banging his hair and wearing a cigarette.
WANTED.—A greenhouse.
The new professors are giving excellent satisfaction.
Some one is unearthing that relic of past ages—the faculty reception.
Some of our best graduates refused to join secret societies, and came out ahead.
Don't join a fraternity until you are thoroughly acquainted with each of its members.
A great many of the civil engineers would study Spanish if a chair of that language were established.
Please send all Courier mail to Box 434. If you forget to put this in the address your mail may not reach us.
It would be a great convenience to the students if a letter box was placed on the lamp post near the north campus gate.
The unparalleled success of the pharmacy department proves conclusively that a large medical school should be established here. Kansas doctors should be educated in Kansas.
--to the first recitations. The professors must learn his importance. Just after each meal he may be seen in the splendor of a smile and a wooden toothpick in front of the best hotel. If a new student, some innocent frat takes him in. And the "take in" is mutual. Soon after the opening of school he may select his studies. But his time is too occupied with girls, pool, cigarettes and other wretchedly "wicked" things, to allow him leisure to very often favor his classmates with the show of his recitation. He would like to wear knee breeches, but he doesn't. If he would make the attempt you could see the reason why—and that would be all you could see. So he contents himself with banging his hair and wearing a cigarette.
The COURER scores another victory. It not only persuaded the city to grade Oread Avenue, but it is at last successful in its demand for better sidewalks. The city is repairing all the approaches to the University.
The wisdom of dropping the Junior Preparatory year, is shown by the fact that the collegiate classes are larger than ever before, and more students have entered the higher classes than in any previous year.
--to the first recitations. The professors must learn his importance. Just after each meal he may be seen in the splendor of a smile and a wooden toothpick in front of the best hotel. If a new student, some innocent frat takes him in. And the "take in" is mutual. Soon after the opening of school he may select his studies. But his time is too occupied with girls, pool, cigarettes and other wretchedly "wicked" things, to allow him leisure to very often favor his classmates with the show of his recitation. He would like to wear knee breeches, but he doesn't. If he would make the attempt you could see the reason why—and that would be all you could see. So he contents himself with banging his hair and wearing a cigarette.
Some special students are being much annoyed by loafers in the laboratories. These idlers talk as loud as if they were in a museum. The COURSE offers a liberal reward to any student who will invent a plan to rid the laboratories of the noisy loafers.
The retiring editors realize that a year ago THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER was an experiment. Now it is an assured fact. Then the "new departure" was attacked by powerful enemies on all sides. Now the respect and moral support of the whole University sustains the students' paper. Like all mortals, the editors have made mistakes. But we have always labored for the best interests of the University of Kansas and its students. The enthusiastic support given us has been testimonial enough that our efforts have not been in vain.
But now our work is done. We have all the glory we want. With pleasure we retire, and give the control of the Courier to those who are entirely able to raise its standard and reputation. We commend our subscribers to their mercy, and our Courier to their care. We have worked hard, and will always feel the most profound devotion to the Courier. Its prosperity will ever be our pride, its honor our joy, its advancement and promotion our glory and great aim.
The new editors bow to the great crowd of COURER readers with timidity and respect. To some of us journalism is an untried sea, but we launch our barks, hoping to bring to you rich cargoes of thought and news. Those of us who are old sailors will risk many new ventures, and share with you the golden returns. The paper will continue to be the same old COURER—newsy and spicy, fearless and enterprising. All right-doing shall be praised, and all wrong-doing keenly censured. High and low shall alike be reported to the college world. As in the past, so now, the COURER battles for fair play to all students and representation for all factions.
Prof. Nichols received the first of the week a very fine experimental organ with complete set of pipes and bellows, a set of Helmholtz resonaters, and double siren. These instruments have just been received from Paris, France, at a cost of $400, and were manufactured by Koenig especially for the U. of K. A telescope ordered last sping from Clarke's is daily expected, and a number of new apparatuses are on the way from Europe. Our University may well be proud of her natural philosophy department, and is to be congratulated on the possession of a professor who is so devoted to his work.
It isn't hard to make a dude. Almost any one with a little time to waste can do it. And the college dude is no exception. We have them just as regularly as we have our profs, and new secret societies. The species is neither new to science nor have we the only specimens in existence. In our University, with its go-ahead, work-hard students, his presence would seem unnecessary. Not so. A great topic for conversation would be gone, the local editor would have to retire in despair to the subject of fine mustaches, and new evidence would be necessary to support the theory of evolution.
The first of the year is the great season for the production of the college dude. The end finds his glory among the things that were of earth but are of hope. He never goes
He doesn't care anything for the boys. The girls—the "deah creatures"—he knows must be gone on his appearance, but they don't go to any great extent. He isn't man enough for a beau, and wont quite suit the purpose of a walking stick. The faculty doesn't appreciate him, and the receptions the chancellor tenders him at intervals are not all that they might be. He continues his course until either he is requested to resign, or some brain-producing element has introduced a new material underneath his hat, and he sees the errors of his ways long enough to recognize that he is attending college for some other object than to be a subject for the funny men to grow humorous over.
Considering the dark hour in which the students took hold of this paper, they have "brought order out of chaos," and have made the Courier the most popular college publication in the United States. It is known wherever it goes—north, south, east and west. No one doubts that it had a great deal of influence in securing the $50,000 appropriation from the legislature last winter. The subscribers last year all seemed satisfied. Besides the forty issues promised at the beginning of last year, there were given to each subscriber midsummer issues every two weeks, something which few if any other college journals have as yet done. During the hot days of last summer when one was hard at work and wishing he was back to school, the Courier would creep silently to his home like an old friend, and was always welcome, for it almost shortened the time one had to wait till school opened. The outlook at present is better than it was last year, and we prophesy for ourselves success. The business men have promised to stand by us, and we see nothing to hinder us from having a good year.
THE STUDENTS' PAPER.
A chair of the Spanish language is needed.
We desire an early meeting of the Oratorical association.
--students are going to pile algebr
and psychologies around their pla-
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graph would indicate so. Then her
another sentence which I think ma-
be an excerpt from the regulations
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ink and a blank book in which to ta
notes are essential." They forg
to mention the pen-wiper and saill
sponge.
Prof. McDonald has been at work organizing a select society for the study of musical topics. This club will meet every Wednesday afternoon, when the lives and work of the noted musical composers will be studied. The members are: Lillian Dudley, Mabel Gore, Alice Ropes, Frances Eddy and Hattie Haskell.
Autumn Musings.
If my proof reader don't pay closer attention to my copy, I'm going to maul him to death with a cabbage stalk. Some time ago I had occasion to talk of a military department, and bless my soul! the typo made it "hillary department," and in it went. Last week I wrote, "This is the fiercest spiking season ever known among fraternities," and yet the print said it was the "finest season." I can make allowance for the intelligent compositor, but I'm not going to be bull-dozed by the proof reader. In the words of Judge Usher, "I'm hot!"
Now that Morgan is no longer on the Courier staff, I want to say a good word in his favor—something he would never let me do when he was here to prevent it. It is safe to say there was never a brighter, more popular boy in K. S. U. No single student ever did more for the University. No one had more friends or fewer enemies in our college. The Courier, conceded to be the best college weekly published, was recognized as his handiwork and his brain-work. Yet during his entire connection with this paper his name never appeared in its columns if he knew it, and time after time has he cut out paragraphs written in his favor. Moreover, I know he will be mad at me for thus praising him; but I take advantage of his absence to say what every student will most heartily emphasize.
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Because Morgan is off the staff,
does not signify that he will cease to
say his bright things through the COURRIER columns. That would be
impossible. The truth is, the COURRIER continues in the hands of those
who started it, and have made it all it is. Long live the COURRIER!
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Why is it that if a brunette a few shades darker than a mulatto gets married, the papers persist in the statement. "one of the fairest daughters of this city was led to the altar," etc. I like to read articles where some meaning attaches to the words.
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Here two weeks of school have passed, and there are some students whose study has amounted to the big sum of nothing They have not yet learned that the principal object in coming here was to gain knowledge—not to run elections and bamboozle green Freshmen.
Just how far it is decorous for young ladies to make advances in their efforts to recruit members for their favorite gents' fraternities is a debatable question. It is at least a question worth considering by some who have not considered it.
It seems to me that our University catalogue is burdened with a lot of rotten matter that might be advantageously left out. For instance, there's the statement that "every student should seek plain, nutritious food, well prepared, served at regular intervals, and never taken in haste or in the presence of books." Good heavens! who don't know that? Does the faculty suppose that students are in search of sole-leather beefsteak, and have to be cautioned about getting victuals they can digest? Does the worthy board of regents imagine that
Another nuisance in the catalog is the list of text books given. I member when about to enter the University, I wanted to buy my te books beforehand in order to review I went to consult the catalogue list but could not for the life of me ma head or tail of it. The text book are mixed up promiscuously with reference books, or as is often the case not given at all. I protest again filling the catalogue up in this trivial way. Let it be so arranged that students can make some use of it.
I am told that the dudes of the University and the dudes' friends are very irate because sensible student laugh at them. The dudes say that they have a right to dress as the please, and will continue to exercise that privilege. That's true enough. They have a right, I suppose, to dress like John Chinaman or a Modo hian, just so long as they keep with the legal bounds of decency. I may add that while idiots should be an object of charity rather than merriment people will insist on laughing. The have the right, you know.
Looking over the new comers at the University, I must say there is an unusually large number of bright faces. This may be due in some measure to lopping off the preparatory department, but I also charge it to the growing reputation of our University. A class of fellows who have been attending eastern institutions are now coming here. On the other hand, our rags and ends are going to Baker—mean to other colleges.
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Courier Election.
Pursuant to notice, the stockholders of THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER Company met in Prof. J. I. Canfield's room on Friday, Sept. 11. The president of the company called the meeting to order. A report from one of the business managers was read by the secretary. The roll was called. The president declared certain stockholders illegal, his decision was appealed from and he was not sustained. The president then led the meeting, but did not adjourn it. He called on his friends to follow him out of the meeting; not a person diso. All remained, and unanimously elected Harry Smith temporary president. The following officers were then elected by unanimous vote: B. L. Ackley, president; Frank T. Oakley, secretary; W. L. Kerr and J. D. McLaren, business managers; W. R. Cone, Ella Ropes, E. A. Wheeler, Harry Smith, Chas. L. Smith, W. T. Reed, Julia Powell and Lauren Lyon were elected editors. The constitution was then amended, as will be seen in another column. The meeting then adjourned without date.
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