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WEEKLY University Courier.
The largest College Journal circulation in the United States.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY
Every Friday morning.
J. SULLIVAN, President. F. T. OAKLEY, Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
C. S. METCALF, '86.
B. K. BURK, '85.
VICTOR LINLEY, '86.
NETTIE BROWN, '86.
F. W. BARNES, '86.
ELLA ROPEST, '87.
W. L. KERH, '86.
LAUDA LYONS, '86.
BEGINNER'S MANAGERS,
W. Y. MORGAN. | J. SULLIVAN.
Lock Box 251.
MOTTO. —Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, ns second class matter.
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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.
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.
Programs of literary societies in next issue.
Every new year we feel prouder of our University.
A State University should have a medical department.
The voice of the fraternity spiker will soon be abroad in the corridors.
The columns of the Courier are open to every student. Send us your "Views."
It isn't necessary for a new student to get a girl at once. Next session will do.
The chancellor and professors will gladly counsel any student as to his intended studies.
The Y. M. C. A. reading room and parlors, 900 Massachusetts street, are free to all, and are open at all hours. Spend your leisure time there.
The Courier has but one favor to ask of students for the coming year. Patronize only those business men of the city who patronize your college paper.
The city library is open from 10 to 12 in the morning, from 2 to 5 in the afternoon, and from 7 to 9 in the evening. Drop in and read the books and papers.
Every student should join one of the literary societies. Orophillian, Oread and the Science Club meet Friday, Sept.18, and you can judge for yourself.
The new student will either come to the U. P. depot in North Lawrence, two miles northeast of Kansas University, or to the A., T. & S. F. depot, one mile northeast of the University. STREET CARS run from both depots to the foot of Mt. Oread, near the UNIVERSITY; to the postoffice; to the city library; to the Eldridge House—the most stylish hotel—to within one block of the LAWRENCE HOUSE, the best student's hotel with reasonable rates; to the Y. M. C. A. parlors and reading room; to most of the boarding houses, and to Bismarck grove. STREET CAR FARE is five cents from the U. P. depot to the postoffice, and five cents from there, or from the A., T. & S. F.depot to Mt. Oread. The street car driver will direct passengers. Omnibus and HACK FARE from both depots is twenty-five cents to any part of the city, but fifty cents to the University.
The student goes first to the chancellor's office and shows grades from other schools. Then he is directed to certain professors for examination. A guide conducts him to the proper rooms. Here he is examined the forenoon of Thursday and Friday. His papers are graded in the afternoons.
Thursday or Friday morning the new student goes to the chancellor's room, finds the result of his examinations, and writes on a card what studies he will take the first session. Then he gets a ticket which he takes to the clerk's office, and paying $5, is given an entrance ticket to the classes. Old students go to Prof. Robinson's room and write their intended studies on a card and get a ticket to be handed to the clerk with $5, and then receives an entrance ticket.
At 9 a.m. on Friday morning, Sept. 11, all students meet in University hall for chapel services and announcements. Thence they go to their professor's rooms and are assigned lessons for Monday. Friday afternoon and Saturday all the students will go to Bismarck fair if they wish. On Monday regular lessons begin.
The city council of Lawrence meets next Monday evening. In behalf of the young men and women the State of Kansas sends here, spending $150,000 to $200,000 yearly, the COURIER respectfully asks that immediate action on Gov. Robinson's magnanimous present of Oread Avenue, giving the only decent approach to property for which the State paid so much. The relations of the students of K. S. U. and the citizens of Lawrence have been and are very pleasant, but if the people of the State knew the parsimony shown by the city in return for this generosity to her, she would receive some very uncomplimentary
At the Young Men's Christian Association rooms, 900 Massachusetts St., and at the University a list of BOARDING HOUSES and rooms is kept for the convenience of students Students can spend a LEISURE HOUR at the Y. M. C. A. free reading room or at the free city library. A STROLL of one mile west takes one to the windmill; of four miles northwest, to the "Lake;" of seven miles southeast to Blue Mound; of two miles east, to the cemetery; of three miles northeast, to Bismarck grove.
advertising. All that is now asked is the grading of an avenue which is tendered as a present, only conditional that it be placed in order within a time that is fast expiring. This offer, if not now taken advantage of, will hardly be made again. A very small amount of money will now do all that is necessary to give the University an approach such as necessity demands. The council is now closely pushed for funds, but has an amount on hand sufficient to do this work, and we shall await with expectation their action of next Monday evening.
The system of advertising the State University is very imperfect. About three hundred dollars per year is expended to this purpose in the State press and here the matter ends. "It is a State institution, and need not be advertised." We heard this expression from even the lips of a member of the board of regents within a very few years past. It is the common expression used as objectionable to advertising.
What nonsensical logic. The University is provided as an educational institution for the youth of our State. The State expends hundreds of thousands of dollars for grounds, buildings, apparatus, etc. It supports a learned faculty yearly. It does all this, but it must do nothing to get these young men and women here. These educational advantages are extended by the State, but her youth must know it—by intuition, we presume.
K. S. U. is an institution of which we as students and the people of our fair State can well be proud, but with a full consciousness of what she is doing, her work for the State, in comparison to her duty and possibilities to-day, is sad to contemplate. Who will say for one moment that four hundred or five hundred students represent the higher scholastic training of the grandest public school system maintained by any State in our Union? No one. A more specific assertion—the High Schools of our State are not represented in our records. Something is wrong. The State University should be the goal of the applicant for higher education in our State.
New students should choose their boarding houses carefully. A great deal of the character of the work done depends on the surroundings during study hours, and good rooms and good board are great advantages.
Its advantages are not known. Three out of four of the principals of the High Schools of the State are strangers to it. To fifty out of eighty of the best counties of the State its existence is enshrouded with a mist. One of the most important duties of the State after completing buildings, etc., for such an institution, is to make her advantages known to her people. It is not yet too late for K. S. U. Instead of five hundred we should have one thousand collegiate students. The proper man at $1,500 per year, with $1,000 expenses to visit the High Schools of the State, and become acquainted personally with the principals and Senior classes thereof, would accomplish magical results. Instead of $300 with the State press, $3,000 should be expended. The result would soon show for itself. Two or three times as many young men and women of the State would, at a nominal increase of expense, be given our advantages.
Three new studies are enough work for the best students, and four should only be taken when one is a back study. Better take an extra year to get through than to slight your work and thus acquire inaccurate habits.
"Where is the money to come from?" We can only answer: "It is demanded, it can certainly be squeezed out of some fund or funds."
No new student should join any one of the secret societies until he or she has been here a year or more and has had abundant time to discover the one to which he is best suited, prvised they suit him. Students often make a mistake by jumping at the first chance to join a fraternity. Don't be in a hurry. If one secret society asks you, all of them will. The boy who is asked to join and who conscientiously refuses is held in the highest esteem. Things looks different the second year.
Every student should select one of the regular courses and follow it. The regents know what you need better than you do, and you will think so in a few years.
Every freeborn American citizen comes into this world with the right to kick. Usually this is the first thing he does, and he continues the practice to the end. It is a luxury which cannot be denied any person, clasa or party. Without regard to age, occupation, race, color or previous condition of servitude, the child of liberty and the man of freedom unite in enjoying that sacred right of kicking, which is protected by the constitution of the United States, under the various titles of free speech, right of petition and freedom of the press. But as liberty will often degenerate into license, so will this inalienable right to kick often become an insupportable nuisance. The woods are full of men who think that the way to show independence and spirit is to kick against everything new proposed and against everything old sought to be retained. Our University is no exception. The genus kicker is well represented. He is in his glory at the class meeting and society. But for him all organizations would come to smash, the University degenerate, and terrible damage be done. This is his modest estimate of his own value. His fellows never appreciate him. They do not see the genius and power beaming from the countenance of the gentleman who always has the floor. They too frequently pass over his objections as too numerous and previous. Our friend is snubbed, his advice refused, his opinions neglected, but the next time he bobs up serenely and kicks his little kick in the most refreshing and innocent way. Let any one propose some scheme, advocate some measure or endorse some action, and see the powerful way in which his arguments and ideas are disposed of. But do not be disheartened or allow yourself to be excited. It is his inalienable right. And he will be just as ready to take up your thoughts if some one else opposes them. Though neither ornamental or useful, the kicker has his place. The only way to manage him is to let him kick.
Rooms and Board
R. means furnished rooms per month. B. means day board per week. H. is house. R. and B. is room and board per week.
Staats—1139 New Jersey St., $4 b,
and r.
Highbargin—South side of Adams,
2nd house north of Tenn., 2 double
r. ; 3 r. ; b. and $4.
Adams—1238 Kentucky St., 2 r.
Hass—1336 Ohio, 3 r.
Wemple — West side Tenn., 2nd house south of Quincy, 1 r., $7.
Lockwood —3rd house north of Berkley on New Hampshire, b $3.50
Bush—West Mass., 2nd house south of Lee, 4 r.
Reynolds—1337 Ky. St., r.
Harvey—Northwest cor. Hancock and Conn . club of 25 boys.
Plumc—1320 Mass., 8 r.
Lucas—1210 Ohio, 6 b. and r., $4.
Luces—1210 Omaha, 6 b. and 11., §4.
Laman—South end Mass. east of R.
Laram., 4 b. and r., §3.50.
Whitney -1217 Comm, 2 r., no fuel or lights, $7.00 and $4.00
Bugmall—1028 Rhode Island, finely furnished r., $10.
Wattles—1st house south of University.
Monroe—Northwest corner Ohio and
Adams, 4 r., no fuel, $8, $6.
Dr. Marvin—$12.50 for h. on Mass.
Spear - 2 r., $8; day board, $2.50.
Duncan—Tenn., 6 b. and r., $4 and
$4.50.
Neumann—Northeast cor. Winthrop and Ind.
King—Southeast cor. Vermont and Lee.
Reason—2nd door south of Hancock,
2 r. $8 and $6.
Hendry — Southeast Lawrence, 4
gents, b. and r.
Swopes—1330 Tenn., 3 b. gents.
1030 Vermont, 2 r., 4 girls.
Bennett—1013 Ky. 1 r., §8.
Rice—Ky, next to Catholic church,
r. $; 5.50; b. and r., $; 5.50
Lohr----1238 Tenn.
Levy—912 Winthrop St., 1 r.
Hambleton—Rhode Island, 2nd house north of Lee, b, and r.
Jack's—Southwest cor. Tenn, and Adams, 3 r., $6 to $8; double r., $11.
Dixon -- Tenn. 3rd house north of Adams, b. and r., $3.50
Simcock—Vermont, 3r.
Woodcock—Southeast cor. Ohio and Hancock, 4 ladies, r., b. and piano,
$4.00
Parhamn—1720 Mass. St., 4 gents r. and b., $4,00 and $4,50
Beatie, 1340 Adams and Ohio, 2 r.,
$6.00
Ashman, 1300 Lee, 3 r. unfurnished,
$6.00 and $5.00.
Staamp—1214 Ky., 2 r.
Carruth—1312 Ohio, 2 r., $6.00
Walker-2nd house south of University, r., and piano.
Roberts—Vt., 2nd house north of Catholic church, club.
Hunter-East side Kentucky, 3rd house north of Catholic church, club 15.2.
Whitney—Northwest corner R. I.
and Quincy, 6 b.
0.
Harris—1016 N. Y., 2 r.
Rodman—Cor. Berkley and N. H.,
3 r., $8.00.
Students, buy your Cigars at Winchell's. The best Brands and Cheapest Rates to Students in the city.