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WEEKLY University Courier.
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LAWRENCE, KAS., June 1, '84;
To Whom it May Concern:
I am printing 1,000 copies per issue of the WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER. H. A. CUTLER.
A very successful college year is nearly ended.
Just about a year since the Coun-
er did not consolidate.
The base-ball fever attacked K, S. U. late in the year, but it has been very violent for the past week.
Field day promises well to-morrow. We hope next year to see preparations therefor given a little earlier attention.
Pharmaceutical Department will be a great addition to the curriculum. Letters of inquiry and promised attendance are received daily.
The city council Monday evening took forward steps toward grading Oread avenue. The work, from present indications, will be done this summer.
The Senior class of Leavenworth last week seemed well pleased with K. S. U. We were certainly well pleased with them. We hope to be come acquainted with them next year.
The Bayard banquet next Monday evening, in which two hundred of the most prominent citizens of the State will participate, promises to be the grandest affair of the kind ever given n the State.
As all the officers of the ill-fated Athletic Association of last year will be here next week it would please the Courier very much to see the remainder of its business affairs satisfactorily settled.
The base ball club acted on the suggestion of the COURIER and took the matter of a Field Day in hand. The contests are filled with good entries, and a pleasant day will insure the success of the day.
The WEEKLY COURIER has one of the largest circulations of all our exchanges. The COURIER company publishes from 800 to 1,000 copies per issue. It consists mainly of news, and must be interesting to any one who is connected with the University. Stevens Indicator.
As per communication from Senator Plumb to Regent Fitzpatrick on a
military instructor, we respectfully ask the board of regents at their meeting next week to by all means pass all necessary resolutions to that end.
The plan of Professors Robinson, Brownell and Canfield, in running a summer school preparatory to the University, is to be commended. Professor MacDonald's music classes until July 16th will be of advantage to all who desire to give a portion of the summer to music.
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Though beginning late in the year, and with a start under difficulties very hard to mount, the University lecture course may be pronounced a success. A poor reputation is overcome, a good one established and the prospect for next year is good. The success of the course is due almost entirely to the faithful work of Proof. Carruth, who may claim the honor of having managed the first really successful University lecture course.
Now:
As we said before, the University of Kansas, to approximate a real University, should have a medical department. There is no medical college in Kansas. The catalogues of other institutions show three hundred students who attend medical colleges from Kansas. If a department is not added to our University, some one-horse medical college will be started near here, and the field will no longer be open. Now is the time for the medical department, if ever.
We should be pleased this summer to have "Views" from our readers on a code of K. S. U, college songs for next year. This is something in which our college is sadly deficient. An assemblage of students finds itself unable to sing in concert anything. With our musical department strong as it is now, the proper spirit shown therein, K. S. U. can work up a half dozen special songs very easily. Nothing in after years will so forcebly and pleasantly call up college life as bearing one of these old college songs. Let the movement therefor begin at once. Once started it will care for itself, but some work will probably be required to "set the ball rolling."
The Alumni.
The alumni of the University are now numerous and powerful. From them we expect much, and are confident our expectations will be realized. By talking and working for their alma mater on all occasions they can do great good in removing the impression many people have that an eastern college is superior to a western. Our graduates are well distributed among the varied vocations of life and by the influence of their own example and success will bring credit to the University. The Alumni Association is now well organized, and active. A very large number of alumni will be with us next week. Let them talk together and then work together for the best interests of K. S. U., and great results will follow.
The following letter from Senator Plumb to Regent Fitzpatrick, secretary of the board, refers to a matter which the Courier has always regarded as of very considerable importance. Military drill is badly needed by the students, and it is but right that the U. S. government do as well by K. S. U. as it has done by other schools. This move on the part of the powers that be shows that they appreciate the need of something of the kind, and hope to be able to secure the proper officer:
A Drill Master.
Prof. Frank A. Fitzpatrick, Leavenworth, Kis.
DEAR SHE:—I have yours of the 15th. The number of officers who might be detailed has been increased to forty. Kansas already has one, and has had for some years. This is its full proportion, even with the increase, but if the board of regents of the University feel interest enough to adopt a resolution requesting the detail of an officer, I will present it to the secretary of war, and do the best I can to secure the detail.
Very truly,
P. B. PLUMB.
The Impending Horror
One of the horrors which is ever before the Senior mind is the graduating thesis. This is a relic of barbarism which has come down from antiquity without change, and which doesn't seem in any haste to join it "twin relies," slavery and polygamy, in their journey toward the grave. There is one great advantage which it possesses over other weapons. No one is injured except the man who writes it, and the English language. For who reads a graduating thesis? In olden times they were tied with dainty blue ribbon and read before a suffering audience. But modern philanthropy has done away with this. The thesis is carefully taken and consigned to oblivion and nothingness, as completely as the merchant who doesn't advertise in the Courrier. No one ever heard of a thesis being rejected, refused or read. No Senior ever failed to receive his diploma because he wrote three thousand words and said nothing, and did that in an uninteresting manner. No, the thesis is evidently made for the mere perplexing and tormenting of the weary Senior who carefully takes an old society essay or a thesis which the professor of economics or literature refused to receive, and gives it to the faculty with a sigh of relief. There is no doubt about it; the graduating thesis must go.
Program for Compromise
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We call the attention of our State exchanges to the commencement program published in this issue. Secretary Bayard will positively be here June 8th, and his address will be one of the finest ever deliver I in Kansas.
Saturday evening, June 6th, Normal entertainment.
Sunday evening, June 7th, Baccalaureate sermon, by Bishop Garrett, of Texas.
Thursday evening, June 4th, Field-Grovenor orstral contest.
Friday evening, June 5th, Oread-Orophilian contest.
Monday morning, June 8th, Crew contest of declaimers, formerly the Faculty contest.
Monday evening, June 8th, address by Hon. Thomas F. Bayard.
Tuesday morning, June 9th, Class Day exercises.
Tuesday evening, June 9th, address before the Alumni Association, by A. C. Scott, of '77.
Wednesday morning, June 10th,
Commencement Day.
EXCHANGE.
The campus of Cornell is lighted by electricity.
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio will be re-opened in September.
The University of Washington Territory begins its career with 113 students.
Randolph-Macon is the oldest Methodist college in the United States.
It is estimated that Yale college brings into New Haven about a million dollars a year.
The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is reported to have initiated two Chinese students.
"Can't we make your lover jealous, miss?" "Oh, yes sir, I think we can, if we pot our heads together."
"That's very singular, sir," said a young laby when we kissed her. "Ah, well, we'll soon make it plural."
The Rambler is a well printed, neatly gotten up semi-monthly. It is most probably the popular magazine at Illinois college.
The building occupied by the Cooperative Society of Michigan University was destroyed by fire on the 21st of March. Loss, $1,500.
The Academica this month has an interesting review of the academic and professional careers of its faculty. It promises a grand issue next month.
The legislature of Texas has set apart a million of acres of land, in addition to that already given, for its University. It also voted $40,000 for the erection of buildings.
Students at Amherst and Kenyon, who have a grade of seventy-five per cent. during the term, are released from regular examinations. Why can not K. S. U. do the same.
"I see," said old lady Partington, laying down her paper, "that Mr. Barnum is going to give charity races inside his hippodromedary. I'd no idea his heart was so big."
The Bethany Colleqian maintains its customary high rank among our exchanges. This month it enlightens its readers upon the "Supremacy of Truth" and the "Spirit of the Brave."
Sleighing incident; stable keeper;
"I'll put you in an extra buffalo."
English stranger: "Couldn't you
let me 'av an 'orse, you know? Er-
er rather not drive a buffalo the first
time, you know."
The Normal News devotes a considerable space to communications. From one of them we should judge that there was a superabundance of jealousy in the breast of the Normalite, and that the removal of all traces of higher Normal training from the Michigan State University would be necessary to secure peace and good will. The News also contains a very creditable article on "Religious Principles."
The Badger contains an editorial on the task of editing a college paper, setting forth several reasons. First, that the editors being almost always inexperienced, have hardly learned the secrets of their work before they are succeeded by others. Then college life is often a little varied and at times monotonous, and the events which the college paper must chronicle are commonplace.
This makes the interest of the college paper largely dependent upon the manner in which its matter is presented; so skill in expression, crispness, freshness and originality in style, must be striven for, if a college paper is to be made readable and attractive. This is the reason why the editing of a college paper is no easy task."
AN ADVERTISEMENT. — Advertisement is the sine qua non of success in every undertaking that requires public support. It's as true of a college as of an insurance company. But among all discussions as to the value of athletics in colleges, the fact is generally overlooked that a good base ball or foot ball team, a good boating crew or anything of the sort is a first class advertisement. The mass of the people know of the existence of about a dozen of our colleges, no more. But let the college have its name in all the newspapers in connection with athletics or a glee club, and it will be excellently advertised. The base ball club may be defeated, the glee club sing badly, but their faults will be dealt with kindly. The college may be accused of doing nothing else. But nevertheless students, and the best of students at that, will attend it. But how can they be expected to attend a college they have never heard of?
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