WEEKLY University Courier.
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Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN, President. | F. T. OAKLEY, Sec'y
EDITORIAL STAFF.
C, S. METCALFE, '85,
B, K. BRUNK, '85,
VICTOR LUNKEN, '85,
NETTIE BROWN, '85
F, W. BAINES, '85.
ELA ROPE, '87.
W. L KEBI, '86.
LAURA LYONS, '86.
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Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansae,
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Circulation 1,000.
LAWRENCE, KAS., Aug. 1
To When it Went Concern.
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.
The Senior prep will be lonesome next year.
University students came to the front in institute work this summer.
Chapel attendance should be made more compulsory than it was last year.
Students who were going to make up back studies are "beginning to get ready."
As the prep department vanisheth the grade of the Lawrence high school is raised.
WANTED, by the State University of the great state of Kansas, a Medical Department.
The members of the literary societies who are on the first program should put their best foot foremost.
The students should form a good organization to aid in the erection of a Grant monument at Leavenworth.
The time approaches when the University student becomes a live quetion to the Lawrence merchant and washwoman.
The board of regents at their next meeting must not neglect to take proper steps for the securing of a military instructor.
Let every student complete arrangements with his local paper to furnish Lawrence and K. S. U. news for the coming year.
In order not to be out of the fashion of our other metropolitan rivals we would like to suggest a monument to Grant for the University campus.
The lecture course committee have invited Hon. J. B. McCullagh, managing editor of the Globe Democrat. to deliver his lecture on "Modern Journalism" here during the year. The Courier hopes he will accept.
$100,000!
Yes, that is a big sum. It was what Lawrence gave the State for a University. It was what Lawrence asked back from the State. It was what Lawrence got back from the State. It is a sum Lawrence people are apt to remember.
There is another and greater reason why the men in Lawrence, and particularly Lawrence business men, should remember that amount. On a low average, 400 students come here annually. On a low average, these 400 students spend $250 each in Lawrence every year. If one student spends $250 a year, 400 students will spend 400 times $250, or $100,000. At least that's the way Ray's arithmetic used to put it. Business men, is it a matter of importance to you who gets this trade?
"That's a bid for an ad," says the merchant who reads this. Well, suppose it is a bid! The sooner he takes the bid the better off he will be. The men who are popular with the students are those who advertise in the student's paper. We will wager a hundred dollars to one on this proposition. Take Billie Bromelsick and Abe Levy for instance. Those two men have used the Courier liberally, and what is more, know how to get up an ad in attractive shape. As a result they have the boy's trade, while others along the street keeping the same line of goods get little or none of it. We don't like to be personal, but mention these names as examples. Take another instance, where we can be just as personal and not mention names. There is a clothing merchant in Lawrence who has never yet spent a nickle on a college ad. There is another merchant who has always advertised freely. What is the result? The one don't get five dollars from the students in that many years, and the other has a big college patronage. What is better, the fact is so palpable that every student who reads these lines knows just whom we mean
Merchants of Lawrence, we ask you to give us nothing. If you get the student's trade you must advertise with them. If you don't want their patronage we don't want your ads. Hereafter we shall oppose every college scheme that includes begging from the merchants, whether it be for athletics or commencement prizes or anything else. Students have no claim that warrants this begging. If Mr. Crew, Mr. Field, Mr. Grovenor or anybody else wishes to offer prizes, well and goud. But they must be voluntary (as they have been), not begged. We feel thankful and grateful to the Lawrence business men for their generous support of the Courier. They have helped up build up what is truthfully, not boastfully, the best college paper in the world. At the same time, we believe we have given every advertiser value received. Again we say, $100,009 spent by students goes to the patrons of the student's newspaper. We stand ready to prove it.
The University needs two new departments and can get them without much trouble. We intend to call for a military instructor and medical college until we have them.
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Our students are not given to brag. They work steadily and quietly at their homes, preferring the silent praise of the best results. The reputation which the University has gained throughout the State for common sense workers, the ease with which our students get schools and other situations, show that honest, hard work will win without the boasting.
Advertise the University.
Many of the other schools, especially the normal colleges (?), brag continually, and like little dogs, bark much at us. Many a boy and girl can only judge of the schools by this talk, and hence go to the smaller places. This would do, for all schools are good, but the overpraise of the small school belittles the University so much in their eyes that they will not come to this "small" institution, and the eastern colleges are too costly. All these bright young people should come up to us, and more would if our students would talk more of our facilities, our high rank, our special courses, our thorough work, our famous specialists, our great and growing reputation for work, without brag. We owe it to the youth of the State to tell them of their University. We need not boast, but we should never lose an opportunity to tell the plain truth. The little schools and the denominational colleges, moved by greed for gain, tell all manner of lies about us, and we must meet them with the truth. Use the county paper every week; talk in the Normal Institute, the teachers' meetings, the county fairs and everywhere. Send for catalogues and scatter them in these places. Show the Review and Courrier. Above all, we must tell how cheaply Kansas boys and girls can live here, and what good positions all our students get. Tell fewer of the collegeokes and more of the real work. This is the people's University, and all our Kansas youth should know about it. They do not now. The demand for University students in all situations is even now so great that this institution need not fear; but it is a wrong to Kansas youth to let so many lies and rumors go unchecked. We are proud of the State's great school. Why should we not praise it? Our modesty must not be lost, but a great deal of drag will not destroy that marvelous passport into society and business from Kansas University.
A Patriotic Duty.
In common with all the nation and all the world, we mourn the loss of America's great soldier, statesman and citizen. His life is one to which we as young men just beginning to make our way in the world can look for counsel and example. General Grant is a model for every patriotic American. His devotion to his country, his labor for her cause, his victory for her right, and above all, his pure, unselfish, unceasing patriotism, are the monuments he has left with his countrymen.
At Fort Leavenworth the people of the west are to raise a monument to his memory to testify to their appreciation of his life and work. As western students of a great western University, it is our duty and privilege to aid with all our might in this praiseworthy object. An inter-State association has been formed to take
charge of the scheme. Well known men are at the head. As soon as the Fall session opens a sub-organization should be at once formed to direct the contributions of the students of the University of Kansas. Knowing our boys—and girls—as we do, we have no doubt that they will at once take the matter in hand. Think it over at your homes. Come back next month prepared to take active part in the work. Come back full of enthusiasm, and Kansas University will be honored by its sons and daughters as they honor the grand old hero.
We clip the following from Sol Miller's Troy Chief.
"We call attention to the advertisement of the State University, in this issue. We have just received the catalogue of the Law Department of the University, which has been in successful operation for a number of years, the graduates representing all parts of the country. We have also received a pamphlet on the Pharmacy Department, which was provided for by the Legislature last winter, and which will commence at the next term. Both pamphlets contain information of value to students."
The Topeka Capital says :
"The annual catalogue of the Law Department of our State University is just out. It is a handsome document of twenty-four pages, and a very excellent showing indeed. It will be remembered that the legislature of 1885, recognizing the needs of our great and growing commonwealth, made a largely increased appropriation for the law school. The board of regents have accordingly enlarged its faculty and provided other means of increasing its usefulness. Hon. J. W. Green, the dean of the law school, will hereafter give his whole time to the work, and his success in the past, in the face of many difficulties, makes certain an abundant success in the future. Seventy-three students have been enrolled in the department since its organization, and the first class graduated in 1880. The faculty now consists of five members, and the school is evidently fairly on its feet."
We call attention to the pleasing announcement on the fourth page, of the Western National Fair, at Bismarck grove this year. The Secretary, Hon. R. W. Cunningham, is a warm friend of the University, and will be sure to have attractions interesting and instructing to our students. The fair promises to be the largest and best ever held in the State. The secretary says the date was fixed for the benefit of the students on their return. It should and will as a result, have a good patronage from them.
Latin Assistant.
Miss Rudolph, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected by the board of regents as Prof. Robinson's assistant in Latin.
Miss Rudolph, in scholarship and successful experience in teaching, comes highly recommended. She should receive a warm welcome.
Girls and Parlors.
If given mere attention every boy and girl returning to school this year could have his local paper sent to the K. S. U. reading room. Call your editor's attention to the matter.
"It's just awful! We wont stand it! If we girls can't use the parlor, we wont come here to school."
The import of this threat on the part of a representative K. S. U. belle is of alarming importance. It demands investigation and action. We wish to say nothing against Lawrence boarding mistresses, inasmuch as we owe them for two or three years board. But between the boarding mistress and the girls, we will take the side of the girls—that is, we will get as near to their side as the proprieties of the occasion will allow.
What are the girls to do? They have their gentlemen friends. If the boarding mistresses refuse the parlor, where are the said gentlemen friends to go? It would be an unwarranted breach of decorum for the girls to receive company in their private rooms. The kitchen smacks too much of servant girl style, even if it were not already preoccupied by the hired girl. The lawn is out of question for winter, and in summer the neighbors can see and hear too much there. It seems, then, an absolute necessity that the girls should have the parlor.
It is evident that the conditions elsewhere are different from what they are here. Why should our University girls be denied the use of the parlor? "Perhaps it's because you burn too much gas," I ventured to suggest to the K. S. U. belle. "No, that's not it," she replied; "we don't burn much gas; in fact, we would rather not have the gas at all. It hurts the eyes, you know." To make the matter worse, a number of boarding mistresses have put barb wire on their gates, thus injuring the feelings of the girls and their callers.
To learn the custom and usage in this matter, we addressed perfumed (musk) notes of inquiry to ladies of different Kansas colleges. We have arrived at that mature age when we could do this with propriety. The Bethany girl writes us that they allow her the privilege of the parlor, but the trouble is they wont allow her company the same privilege. Says the Washburn representative, "There are no parlors up here. We attend to all such things in the chapel." The Baker girl's writing was hard to decipher, but here is her answer verbatim: "Yes, we gets the parlers and has the fellers, but our teachers must be in the room with us, and we has to sit on different sides of the room, which haint no nice way of doing it." We agree with her. A schoolmarm of the Emporia Normal writes: "The parlors are under our complete control. The great difficulty is the boys won't call, as they say we are too young. I'm sure I'm 38, and most of the other girls are older; and I think that is old enough, don't you? Come down and see me, and we'll have the parlors all to ourselves." We would like much to accept the invitation, but our editorial work is very pressing, and we don't think we can get away for about sixteen years.
There are no two ways about the parlor question. Lawrence must have the University. The University must have the girls. The girls must have their company. The company must have parlors. Ergo, ___.
The new law catalogue is a daisy. You should see one.