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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.
Four months ago we published the above with the claim of the largest circulation of any college paper in the United States. We called for certified circulations. In this time the highest certified list we received from nearly one hundred exchanges was 900. Until further notice we will now in large type attest THE LARGEST COLLEGE JOURNAL CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
COURIER election at end of fourth hour to-day.
The students want a medical school here. North College is the proper building.
The boy who spits on the floor or marks the walls should be sent home to his mother.
We should be pleased to see a little more enterprise in variety of exercises in the literary societies than common, during the coming year.
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Two new collegiate courses have been formed—music and art—each requiring six years, and each granting a literary degree. This is what has been needed for some time.
"Baker University" at Baldwin City, fifteen miles southeast of Lawrence on the old Santa Fe trail, a secular school, has changed its weekly day of recreation from Saturday to Monday. The youthful boys thereof will insist upon playing marbles on Sunday and neglect having lessons on Monday. Thus its change.
With grateful feeling we acknowledge the receipt of an article from Chas. F. Scott, of Iola, on the Oread Avenue matter. The city council of Lawrence are to be congratulated in that Mr. Scott did not take his Faber in hand for their benefit before they took action. We are very much inclined to give them the benefit of it yet, but as they have done their best on the Avenue, we desist.
Geo. B. Watson deserves the thanks of every student of K. S. U. For eighteen months past bills against the Athletic Association have been carried by merchants of this city, with no one to assume the responsibility of payment. Although Mr. Watson was in no way connected with the contracting of them, he last week, merely as a member of the Association, devoted time and trouble to seeing them all paid.
For months past the Courier has been urging action regarding the securing of a military instructor for the University. It is understood that the district of which Kansas is a part has its full allotment, but Senator Plumb promises personal attention and influence to the matter if desirable. The desirability is in the minds of some a question, yet we sincerely hope the board of regents will give the matter proper consideration at its next meeting.
We hope in perhaps the last issue of this month to begin the publication of such words for K. S. U. college songs as may be tendered us in this noble cause. All who have manuscript already prepared, send in at once. All not completed, please give attention and mail to us by October 1st at latest. What is wanted is merely words in any poetical meter, embodying some appropriate, inspiring theme peculiar to K. S. U. Our music professor promises to set them to appropriate music. We desire to have a few pages in the college song book world for K. S. U. in the next few years.
A landscape gardener could make the campus on Mt. Oread one of the prettiest parks in Kansas. The originally barren hill has by dint of much hard work, been covered with trees and grass. A very few drives and walks have been made. But all of this work has been done by men who were not landscape gardeners. They have laid a good foundation for artistic work. But no flowers nor shrubs ornament the grounds in spring and summer, when parents visit the University to select a school for their children. The Industrial college at Manhattan has beautiful flower gardens and greenhouses, and the Normal college at Emporia makes its campus a paradise by using these natural ornaments. The time has come when the entire time of one man should be devoted to this work. A landscape gardener has worked on the campus a few weeks the last summer, and the grounds show his professional skill. What is now needed is a small appropriation for a greenhouse and the pay of a gardener to attend it. The sale of flowers could be made to almost pay for the structure.
The botany and natural history students could find there materials for work and growing plants for experiment. The University could there get its flowers to decorate the chapel on public occasions. Prof. Snow could add rare specimens and eventually make this botanical garden the most interesting part of the museum, besides there conducting experiments needed in the botany classes. There plants and shrubs could be propagated for the grounds, and the University saved much expense. There is so much in a college course to draw a student away from nature
and physical work, that even pleasant grounds can barely save him from being a crank. Give us a greenhouse and a landscape gardener.
For College Boys.
"Endeavor to keep alive in your soul that little spark of celestial fire called conscience," was one of Benjamin Franklin's great maxims. It suits college boys.
Keep that spark alive in spite of extinguishers in the infamous spots of this municipality; keep it alive in spite of extinguishers in false faiths and crude philosophies and merely semi-Christian convictions as to religious things; keep it alive in spite of all that can be found in class pride and undergraduate giddiness to trample out the fire of devoutness in a young man's soul.
It is said that three bad men give a tone to a regiment. Six bad men will give a tone to almost any college class. With such great classes as our Universities of first rank now have, it is very common to find that number of bad men in a class. Under the subtle operation of precedents in college life, they may give a lasting taint to many a society organized in their University. A college full of undergraduates is a world in itself, but its members are not selected to match each other in moral matters. A young man who goes into college eringing and ducking, and acts like a poltroon in his first few weeks in presence of these roughshod moral misleaders, is very likely to be trampled on through his whole four years. A young man who allows himself to be ridden over by the moral roughs of a college for four years is likely to be ridden over by the moral roughs of professional life, and most especially by those of politics and commerce. He is not likely to have courage to stand erect against the huge vices of his time. It is, therefore, of the utmost consequence that a young man entering college should be taught, in the first place, manliness.
If a young man, after such a training as now usually precedes a college course, cannot stand up in college against the ordinary moral temptations of the place, against the sneers of a few dissipated classmates, against the persecutions that may be organized against him in his earlier years because of his moral attitude, then I say that such a young man is probably not worth saving for the great purpose of a courageous public life.
Young men are arranged alphabetically on the seats of the University class-rooms, and perhaps a man of high moral principle sits side by side with a moral leaper. Here is a person who is not a fruit of the tree of life so much as a husk and a pod, with the sap of youth already drawn out of him by his vices. He is a cinder already, and you may sit beside him for four years. Still, of course, you must be courteous. A hero must be a gentleman, but a gentleman may also be a gentleman, and the full height of culture is obtained only by emphasizing both parts of this word. You must do what decency requires, but you need not invite that man to your room, you need not form any social affiliations with him. You may treat him with courteous good humor here and there, possibly you may have an opportunity to say a serious word to him more than once before your
quadrennial shall end. Marvelous opportunity this is for you to rescue a brand from the burning! Unpopular language this is in Universities, you say! I have seen too many college brands burned to thin ashes, not to be willing to use this language with entire frankness face to face with the haughtiest university on earth. I am some years out of the University, and I tell young men who are now in college that ten years after they are out of it, if they will call the roll of the dissipated men that they knew in their quadrennial, they will usually find seven out of ten of them approaching early graves. I do not know one man who had the reputation of a dissipated person in my college course that now has a position of any honor in a profession. I do not know one who has the promise of such position, who in his college life, was among the wild persons in the class. JOSEPH COOK.
Autumn Musings.
Well, well! If there has been a more exciting opening week of college than this, I have missed it. Just think of it, if your thinker is yet in working shape. Everything came at once. There were the——but I must speak of them in order.
The fair was fair (original). Inasmuch as I had a pass, I ought to say it was transcendently splendid, but it wasn't. But still it was better than last year, was well worth the price of admission, (to me) and it is said, lost the management $2,000. The fair was a boon to the students, for didn't they all come to college on fair excursion tickets? Yes, the fair was a success.
One thing about the fair was a genuine surprise—the art exhibition. The pictures, comprising the original of the Century collection, were the finest ever seen in the west.
It isn't often I go to the theater, but the other day I saw a play with an otherthodon name advertised, and being editor of a religious paper, I went. Can't say much about the merits of the "Devil's Auction" as I was intent on observing the large number of students present. There were Morgan, Crane, Gilmore, McAlpine, Blair, Templin—but I really ought not to tell. I did not get to the gallery to enumerate the professors.
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The "spiking" or "rushing" season among the fraternities is the finest ever known. Every order is in the field but one—it can wait 'til the rest are through and then get just what it wants. The enthusiasm is commendable, but I fear in some cases men or frats will be bitten—perhaps both.
Greek zeal even may overreach itself. I am told one society ringer in his canvass for men points candidates to the fact that his society has representatives in the faculty who will give them high grades and their opponents low ones. Now I know there are no fairer members in the faculty than these two frat professors, and such talk is the silliest twaddle. It is an awful mean parasite that lives on its own kind and it is at least a strange sort of fraternity man that thus dishonors his brothers in the attempt to capture gre recruit. I
hope for all concerned that the report is untrue.
I prophesied that there would be a surplus of "rooms for rent" after the rush was over, and so there is. There are a number of first-class quarters around town that can be procured cheap.
I understand one or two fellows have been rutted at my plainness of speech. Well, I don't care a whiff. I long since learned that the best paper is that which says what it thinks and says that too, in unmistakable language. Besides those who fly off at every touch are not missed much when they're gone.
Our unctuous professors returned from their arduous summer labors at the seaports and mountain resorts joyfully at the prospect of their winter's recreation in the class room. The students stand ready to give any assistance in their power.
Church Directory.
METHODIST. — Corner Massachusetts and Berkley. Rev. James Marvin, D. D., acting pastor. Service at 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School after morning service. Young people's meeting, 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
CONGREGATIONAL. — Vermont, west side, between Warren and Berkley, Rev. R, Cordley, D, D., pastor. Service at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School after morning service. Young peoples' meeting, 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
BAPTIST.-Corner Kentucky and Henry. Rev. A. N. Stote, pastor. Service at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School after morning service. Young peoples' meeting 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN. -Corner Vermont and Warren. Rev. S. M. Osmond, pastor. Service at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School after morning service. Young peoples' meeting 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
EPSCOPAL — Corner Vermont and Berkley.
Rev. Bettie, rector. Service at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school—— Week night service.
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
CHRISTIAN...Corner Kentucky and Quincy. Rev. William Ireland, pastor. Service at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 10 a. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
LUTHERAN. -New Hampshire, east side, between Berkley and Quincy.
Rev. I. J. Delo, pastor. Service at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. $_{\mathrm{a}}$
GERMAN METHODIST.—Corner New York and Berkley. Rev. Henry Bruns, pastor. Service at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 p. m.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN. — Corner Kentucky and Borkley. Service at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School after morning service. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—900 Massachusetts street, up stairs. W, N. Burr, general secretary. Reading room and parlors open to all young men every day from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p. m. Young men's meeting, Sunday, 4 p. m. Worker's training class, Friday, 7:30 p. m.
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