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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 TON IS THE UNITED STATES, CIRCULA-
The COURIER furnishes its subscribers forty-six issues per year for one dollar; the Review ten issues for one dollar.
The city council of Lawrence at its meeting Monday night made an appropriation for the grading of one block of the south end of Oread Avenue. For this the Courier extends thanks. The block's length will be graded by cold weather by provision.
The reading of college papers is a means of developing the taste for taking an interest in and reading the current news of the day—a very desirable matter in the education of our youth of to-day—and is to be commended. The Courier will expect the faculty to be very generous with us in the privilege of distributing to our readers in the building the coming year.
Prof. P. D. Aldrich, the new professor of vocal culture in the department of music, comes to Lawrence with the highest recommendation and endorsements from eastern musicians. At the New England conservatory, where he remained two years, he studied voice with W. H. Daniell, organ with Geo. E. Whiting, piano and composition with Dr. Louis Maas and S. A. Emery, besides spending seven months in Germany. He possesses a fine high baritone voice, which he handles with taste and skill. He brings to his work thorough preparation as a student, and ability and experience as a teacher.
Pointers for the Economical.
The bone and marrow of a University student class lies in those who have to hoe their own row. It is certainly a misfortune for a student or for a young person in any walk of life to have no appreciation of the value of money, and the difficulty of obtaining it. It is a positive curse for any student to be supplied with more money than he needs for his regular expenses. We glory in our poor students. We wish we had more of them. While many students with plenty of money do excellent work, it is rare that one of them appreciates all of it, as do those who have to earn their own means. For their benefit we print the following suggestions:
1. Some student could earn considerable by undertaking the agency for the publication of John B. Allen, of literary revolution fame. He publishes most of the standard works of all literatures at prices far below those of other houses, and at the same time offers a reasonable commission to an agent. At present he has none in Lawrence. A student could do this work without any capital, and even without a store room beyond his lodgings. Some of Alden's publications are used as text books in the University. Try it. Address, John B. Alden, 393 Pearl St., N. Y.
2. When we consider the amount of small stationery consumed by the students, and the number of times that individuals come to the lecture rooms without pencil and note book, we believe that it would pay for a student to carry on a small stationery shop somewhere on Adams street or near the University gates, supply sorts, ink, erasers, and so forth. The student could be in his place till the very beginning of the first hour, and resume it immediately at the end of last.
3. The same student, or another one, could make a good thing by undertaking the specialty of text books. Every year many are advertised for sale, and also requests posted to secure others. Not more than one-fourth of the students keep their old text books. Certainly some one could earn something by devoting himself to effecting interchanges and sales.
4. There used to be students who were not too proud to saw wood to pay their way at the University. Two of the best among our graduates walked over two hundred miles to Lawrence, and then sawed wood during the year nearly sufficient to pay their expenses. We are sure if any students are willing to do this they can find plenty of work by advertising in the Courier or the city papers. If the State is getting so rich that there are no longer any poor boys who are in danger of losing an education for lack of means, we are glad of it, but we fear this is not the case. If the poor boys think that there is "no show" for them at the University, they are mistaken. Let them come without fear of failing to find work.
5. The same may be said of general "chores." Grooming horses, milking, making fires, etc., will certainly furnish work for a few who are willing to do it, and no one who is not deserves an education. We could give a long list of rising men in this and other States who "did
chores" to pay their schooling at K. S. U.
6. Girls, too, can find employment at housekeeping on half time, in caring for the children or in sewing. We know of at least two of our best and most highly esteemed students who thus paid their way last year. To the honor of the University and of our young men, be it said that they were treated without distinction on account of their employment; and may there be more of them.
7. Two boys can get work in caring for the street lamps during the winter. The work is very wearing and noise should undertake it who have not good constitutions. The places may be already engaged.
8. The same is true of delivering the daily papers. Many of the town boys give up their places as the schools open, or as the cold weather approaches, and students can do the work as well as not. More than one good graduate has done this before now.
9. The time-honored practice of "batching" seems to have fallen into disuse, but there are many points in its favor. The boarding clubs make it less necessary, but not all students can get into these clubs, and cheap as they make living, there are many who cannot afford the amount required. Two students can occupy one room. The furniture they can bring from home or buy at a second hand store, selling it again when they leave. In this way a student can go to school a year for $125,00 as follows:
Room, $18; use of furniture,$ 4;
washing and clothing, $15; books
and contingent fee,$ 25; all else,
$23. This is living on a small margin,
but any one who wants an education earnestly enough can do it,
and will.
10. The boarding club is a beneficent institution organized by groups of students a few years since. The essential features are these: A dining room, kitchen and two bed rooms are secured in some neighborhood which can furnish lodgings for the members. A competent cook is engaged to prepare and serve the food, receiving a certain amount weekly per capita from the club. The members of the club in turn serve as purchasers of the provisions bought—at wholesale—for which the club pays pro rata. Board by this plan costs from $1.75 to$ 2.50 per week, making the total necessary expenses for the school year from $140 to$ 175. There will be several formed the coming session.
For general information as to the practical workings of the clubs, see W. S. Franklin.
I went into the Y. M. C. A. reading room the other noon to glance at the daily paper. Some fellow had it. I waited patiently fifteen minutes, but he still clung to that paper like grim death. I went over to the restaurant, ate my dinner, stopped in a store to buy some things and then went back to the reading, when Gods and little fishes! there sat that same man with the paper still in his hands, scanning the advertisements.
Autumn Musings.
Some people imagine a public reading room is built, equipped and operated for their sole benefit. They never think anybody outside of themselves cares to look at the news. I hold that a person who has the time and inclination to study the spelling and syntax of every line in the daily paper, ought to subscribe for himself or else wait till the library papers are a day or so old.
Our University is supposed to be a modern institution with modern ideas. I say it is supposed to be. Several movements of late, however, don't indicate that progressive ideas are killing any one. Professors and assistant professors for Latin and Greek have been the whole and only talk for the last three months. It might be well, just for the sake of variety, to give other departments a little notice.
There is the elocutionary department, for instance. The head of that department does more work for less money than any one in the school Profs. Gleed and Taylor thanked their lucky stars when they got out of it. Prof. Brownell is worked right to death, and yet they are not satisfied to let him teach elocation alone! He must also assist in the English department. As a result, elocation, the most practical, valuable study in the whole college, gets but smattering notice, while Latin and Greek have two professors apiece.
Our University is ridden to death by societies. If just about half the organizations of the institution were killed off, the balance would get a decent support, and societies might receive due attention. One secret society and one literary society will consume every minute of leisure time a student has to spare. Yet some of the boys belong to as many as a dozen concerns that go by one name or another. They probably think it looks big. What is worse, the thing hasn't stopped yet. Somebody is yelping for a military organization!
Last spring I heard a great many boys talking about working during vacation—providing they could get anything to do. They didn't work—they didn't find anything to do. It is difficult for even an old hand to get a position. The people who want to employ inexperienced men, only to have them leave in three months, are few and far between. Hence so many personalis in the Courier about this and that student "loafing."
This talk about the big number of high schools of Kansas that are preparing for the University is buncombe. I don't believe there is a single high school in the State, outside of Leavenworth and Atchison, that will carry its pupils bright and snug up to our Freshman year. At least I am so told by one in good position to know. One thing I do know. Last year I visited a high school that pretended to fit its pupils for the University, and it wasn't, honestly, a fair intermediate department. It will be many a year before we can justly drop off our sub-Freshman course.
SMITH.
An Imperative Need.
The other night as we sat on the end of our humble couch rejuvenating a still humbler garment, which Webster calls "pantaloons," but usage has abreviated into "pants"—as we sat there vacillating between dispair and frenzy, and ramming the needle into our thumb further and further at each stitch, the thought struck us—what a fine thing it would be to have an industrial department in our University. Here we sat after a hard day's study supplemented by the arduous intellectual effort of editing a great religious college weeklytrying to do that which necessity compelled, but which our soul revolted against, even as it revolts against boarding house hash and low class grades. In vain did we seek to arrange a shingle nail so that it might cleave to the galluses on trying occasions. The only patch we had, widely dissimilar from the cloth it matched, would not quite cover the chasm which sulphuric acid carelessly left on the bottom of a chair had created. The paste which was intended for the wrappers of our dear subscriber's papers, but which had descended on the legs of our pants like mamma from Heaven, refused to succumb to amonia, soap suds or dandelion tonic. O why, why were we born! Despair often brings its own answers—so did it now. "An industrial department." O brilliant, crowning thought!
Cease your chatter about a medical department. Silence your tongue in its shouts for the hylliant. Down Spanish, Peace, Law! These are but trilies. We need a physician but seldom, and then better be without him. Infrequent are the occasions when the military is demanded, and then it usually murders the innocent. Spanish to be of service must take us into a cline of small pox and the yellow scourge. Law an art on justice, a punisher of the guilds and a foe of the knave. We want not these departments, but an industrial department. Who knoweth the hour when a button may disappear in the infinite realms of space and dissolve partnership between those garments that should be as one? Who can tell the minute when the foot of an angered sire may ascend and form a disastrous conjunction with the best tailor's art? Yea, who but the All Kowing One can say the moment when the fair girl's switch will depart from its anchorage on high, descending with its shoe string cable to the floor, bringing confusion to her cheeks and revealing an biatus in her hair? Do we not need an industrial department? Is argument necessary.
How is it at Manhattan, that paragon of industrial art? A young swain starts for a drive with his only companion. He places a portable forge and a saddler's outfit in the rig, and the girl takes along a needle, thread, buttons and cloth. As they saunter down the road he points out his fine hogs and prophesies the yield of his pumpkins and turniple. He alights and brings to love's fount a hugh delicious watermelon, a sample of his own raising. As he speeds away his horse casts a shoe. He gets out, fires his forge and replaces the shoe. As he bends over to drive homeward the last nail, his collar and other unmentionable buttons give away, and is he disconcerted? No. There stands his fair one, armed with needle and thread, prepared for such contingencies.
Kansas is a great state. She raises annually one hundred and eighty million bushels of corn, thirty million bushels of wheat, one and a half million of sheep, nineteen thousand one hundred and thirteen boys, and is safe to say about an equal number of girls. With all these varied and valuable resources, Kansas ought to -but what is the use of wasteing logic? We must have an industrial department.
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