WEEKLY University Courier.
The largest College Journal circulation in the United States.
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LAWRENCE, KAS., Aug. 1
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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.
Come back ready for business
Never did a year open more auspiciously for the University.
Keep it in mind that we are going to have a military instructor.
The midsummer COURER advises everybody to keep cool. There's more to follow.
If we lay claim to the title University, we certainly ought to have a medical department.
The Atchison Champion quoted the Courrier editorial on the support of the University by a regular tax, and added approving remarks.
The State oratorical contest should be held not later than January next if Kansas wants her orator to make a respectable showing at home.
Four of our students are conducting Normal Institutes, and thirteen are instructors. Kansas University shapes the common school system of Kansas.
The boys are trying to organize a military company here this year. Let everybody help. This is better than a gymnasium for round shoulders and ruddy cheeks.
--new day, it found us beginning a new day's journey, bearing with us pleasant memories of those we had so lately met, and who, forgetting former hostilities, acted so well the part of friends. K.B.
In no other University in the United States does greater harmony exist between regents, professors and students. We are all working together for the honor and glory of the University of Kansas.
Midsummer Number.
This issue contains some views of Lawrence places, which will be of interest to new students and to those who are choosing a college. We are sorry that many of the best buildings are omitted, but this is a sample.
Lawrence has a population of over 12,000. It is an educational center, Kansas University, Haskell Institute Indian School, State Inbecile Asylum and Lawrence Business College being located here. The city High School and the common schools do good work. The University library, the city library and the Young Men's Christian Association reading room are the popular resorts of the intelligent, cultured citizens.
Lawrence is also a manufacturing town. Half a million dollars are invested in factories, with a return of three million dollars. Six hundred hands are employed. The immense water power is conveyed by wire cable to all parts of the city. The U. P., the A. T. & S. F., the S. K., the Leavenworth U. P. and the Carbondale U. P. are the railroads centering here. The street car lines run from all the depots through the city to Kansas University and Bismarck Grove. The view from Mt. Oread is said to be the finest in the west. The city is so beautiful, the people are so hospitable, that Lawrence is a second home to the students.
He Had to Go.
The Junior Prep. of history and college humor is no the more. What will the funny man do for a hero of his side-splitting romances? What will the cheap frat do for new men? What will the collegiate boys do for girls! Where will the next circus get its audience? Who will the politician run into Oread to vote? Who will hold stock for other people who want to be elected editor? Who will do the hard studying? In short, who will take the place of the much-abused long-suffering and very useful J. P.? His absence will indeed make a vacancy in college life. The Senior Prep cannot take his place, for that gentleman has been at the mill till he is hardened and worldly. The J. P. was the fresh oasis in the dry desert of college students.
"To see him was to love him,
To love his winsome ways."
We shall miss him, we will call for him, but his voice will be gone from the corridors, and naught will be heard but the gentle prattle of the Junior with the Sophomore girl on the stairs, and the surprising announcement that, "Young gentlemen, you will please retire to the library." The stone coop at the east door will no longer be decorated by the honorable names of future statesmen. Private meetings of Oread will no more be interrupted by the innocent approach of J. P. The old life of the University will fade away into memories, and the Junior Prep. will only be known to history and the college fabricator who loves the good old days. Fare thee well. Rest in peace.
The Junior Preps have gone. Supt. Parrish has even chiseled their names from the porch walls. The students should duck the first boy who defaces the building now.
The Alumni.
In the last five years the faculty has increased in number from thirteen to twenty-three.
The alumni of the University should remember the students who follow them. In a college paper nothing is read more eagerly than an article from the pen of an alumni. Their views and experience are regarded with great respect. In view of this, it is hardly right that they do not sometimes help their college paper with their ideas of college government, society work, student duties and other topics of like import. The columns of the Courier are and always have been open to communications from our graduates, but with a few honorable exceptions, we have received no aid from them in publishing a paper which requires an immense amount of work. The Courier is almost the only channel by which all the students can be reached on college topics. Literary articles go to the Review and aid in building up a good magazine. But we want the advice, sympathy and experience of those who have been before us. Literary polish and careful preparation are not what we wish, but real sentiments and thoughts. Come, gentlemen and ladies, alumni of our university, come help us, and we know you will not regret it.
A Day's Journey.
Bidding adieu to University halls for a few short weeks, your tourist, together with a classmate, turned westward toward the land of the buffalo and red men.
Mile after mile flew by as the "Cannon Ball" pursued its unwearing course. A clump of trees here, a bridge there, a village, a coal mine, a broad plain, a few rough hills, through which, and over which we rushed as though they were worthy of but a single glance, and as if desirous of reaching some distant and more pleasant camping ground. At 3.30 P. M. we made a halt in the flourishing city of Emporia.
After "taking in" the town we attended the High school commencement and farewell exercises of the State Normal. At the latter we were agreeably surprised. Coming from our grand old University, it was only natural to think that the sun shone no where as bright as on Mt. Oread, but it really shines on the Normal, at least by a broken reflection. From all appearances they are doing some good work there, and are fast keeping pace with the higher schools. Their literary halls are nicely furnished—as well or better than our K. S. U. halls—but judging from the number of seats, not so well attended.
We were fortunate enough to receive an invitation to what they call a "combination meeting," and of course accepted it, for who ever knew a K. S. U. student to whom the mere name "combination" was not enough to move them to the bottom of their pocket books and gather them in from all parts of the land. But as we were visitors, we refrain from giving them away, and will merely "remark" that if the Normalites desire to know any real new or any old and well tried devices concerning "combinations," they have only to visit Oread and Orophilian literary societies before a contest or the annual Review election.
This "combination," however, came to an end, as do all well regulated "combinations," and when the hour of midnight came and with it the
Song Books.
Miss Ethel Beecher Allen, of Kan sas city, writes:
EDITOR COURIER:—In the last issue of your newsy paper I find a list of college song books. Let me add to it two that are in my own possession, the former of which I have been told by graduates of Yale, Harvard, Williams and Ann Arbor, is the most judicious of all known collections: Students songs, edited by W. H. Hills, Harvard, '82, Moses King, Cambridge, Mass. Paper 50 cents. Revised yearly. The American Song Book, published by Orville Brewer & Co., Chicago. I trust that when the next college song book comes out, K. S. U. may secure a few pages for herself.
We hope Miss Allen will assist the Courier in securing the lines for the few pages.
The Fraternity Girl.
The subject of fraternities has been worn threadbare, patched and worn again; but as long as the Greek letter society forms so important a feature in college life, this theme will not be cast aside.
Only a short time and students will again meet in collage halls. The indispensable consumer of time and money—the "college girl"—will be present, fresh for another year's University work.
What will be the all-absorbing topic among the young ladies? Will it be their studies or literary work for the coming year, or perchance, the college publication? Undoubtedly it will not.
There will be at least three, possibly four groups of "fair ones" at safe distance, very intently discoursing—fraternity members.
If we give attention we will ascertain the standard by which the young ladies of some of our western colleges are measured before they are pronounced eligible to membership in a sisterhood.
First, her personal appearance will be carefully observed, and if the artist has not supplied the charms nature denied, there is at once a doubtful shake of the head toward the one under consideration. The exact size and weight, together with the means of supply to her portmannaie, are thoughtfully pondered. Her accomplishments receive a certain amount of attention—that amount not limited when the one very important one, dancing, is receiving notice. Somewhat depending upon this attainment, the most important consideration of all will probably seal her fate. Is she likely to become popular with the young gentlemen of the different fraternities? If she passes this point she is likely to be "rushed" before she has been a member of the University a week.
How long will this standard of measurement hold good? Have we not yet remaining in our college a sufficient number of young ladies who have a correct idea of the intention and end for which the ladies' fraternity was founded, to raise the standard of membership?
Until young ladies from the first households of our land, those whose characters are allready formed, who have marked out for themselves a course destined to lead them to pure, noble womanhood, are selected as members, the ladies' secret society will continue to be a mere farce, possessing an unintelligible name and a handsome piece of jewelry.
As soon as the term opens the literary societies had better begin to make arrangements for the December contest, in order that last year's deadlock may not be repeated.
The Courier does not wait for the school year to open, but resumes its weekly issue now. We thank the merchants of Lawrence for the patronage which allows this.
The law department of the State University is now one of the best. Kansas students who intend to practice law in Kansas, should study in Kansas.—Chase County Leader.
University of Kansas
Department of Science, Literature,
and the Arts.
Department of Law.
Department of Pharmacy.
Department of Elementary Instruction.
Department of Music.
The Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts
and the Arts
Offers eight distinct courses: Classical,
Modern Literature, Scientific, Latin Scientific,
Civil Engineering, Natural History,
Chemistry and Physics, Didactics, leading to the degrees of B.A., B.S., B.D.
A Preparatory Medical Course offers a year's thorough work to those studying medicine.
With an extended course of study, and a large corps of instructors and lecturers,
The Law Department,
The Department of Pharmacy.
With L. E. Layre, Ph.G., late Professor of Pharmacy in the Women's Medical College, and Instructor in Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, as Dean, will give complete and thorough instruction in this line of work. The course will be two years in length.
The Law Department. Now offers the very best of advantages to students of the law.
The Department of Music,
Having been thoroughly reorganized, is prepared to give instruction in Piano, Violin, and Orchestral Instrument Music, as in Vocal Culture and Chorus Singing.
The Deprtment of Music.
A Department of Elementary Instruction.
Is maintained especially for those who lack the preparation in the Languages necessary for admission into the Freshman Class. This Department will also give instruction in other preparatory branches.
The Fall Term Opens Wednesday, September 9th.
Necessary expenses vary from $180 to $300 per annum. For pamphlets issued by Departments of Law and Pharmacy, or for Catalogue of University, and any desired information, address
J. A. LIPPINCOTT, D. D., Chancelor,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.