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It seems that college politics are still booming.
This world is all a fleeting show, and the fourth Monday isn't the first by a large majority.
The board of regents evidently have the inside track and intend to keep it.
The way some of the State papers discuss the action of the board of regents in reference to the chair of Greek is wonderful to see.
To the politicians who get left in the Review: There will be no shares for sale to you after the fourth hour on the last Monday in May.
There is a sad need of daily papers in the library. Among the many wants of the University, this is certainly one of the most important. Of the few dailies which are advertised to be kept on hand, the latest additions are all the way from two days to a week old. If papers cannot be had free of charge, surely the University is not so poor that it cannot subscribe for some. The Topeka papers could be had by the first hour, and the Kansas City ones by the fourth, if there was only more enterprise. It is all right to study Greek and Roman history, but we think modern events should not be left out of consideration.
The spot marked WEEKLY COURIER on the great ball of time has almost completed one revolution, and in its cycloidial path has witnessed an unquestionably successful career for our noble paper. The Courier has taken an independent stand among college journals, and is regarded as one of the leading weekly publications of the college world. Every day we are receiving flattering letters from all parts of the country, concerning our success as a college weekly, and congratulating the University of Kansas on possessing such a bright little paper as the Courier. During the year our reading matter has been as much of variety as possible, and we believe we have, to a certain degree, interested all our readers. The Views column, which has probably been most noticed, has witnessed hot debates on different subjects, and dictations of the numerous wants of the University. The other departments have had competent men a
their heads, and have been ably handled. Our little influence in helping to secure the fifty thousand dollar appropriation has been acknowledged, and all in all we think we can congratulate ourselves on our year's work. And in conclusion we would like to ask those interested in the affairs, if the "alleged" consolidation of the two papers last spring was just the right thing after all? We don't want to pick up any old quarrels, but simply make room to re-echo the statement, "Long live the Courier."
A Military Department.
If there is any preeminent defect in our college curriculum, it is the want of a means for physical development. The careful, conscious student will toil early and late over his desk, wasting his physical energy and power without replacing t. He rightly takes the mastery of his studies as the great object of his work, but loses sight of the fact that strength of body is necessary to the proper development of mind; that the broken down book worm is almost useless for any practical work. All kinds of athletic exercises and games are good to correct this fault. But the trouble is that those who really need the game of foot ball or exercise with the oar do not take advantage of the opportunity, but leave such sports to athletic, sturdy, robust men, who do not need them. Whatever this exercise for physical development may be, it should, therefore, be compulsory, and not optional. The department which could most fully satisfy the wants, and at the same time be agreeable to the student would be a military department. A number of the prominent colleges of the country have such additions to their regular course. An instructor is assigned from the regular army, whose salary is paid by the United States. Drill a certain number of times a week is compulsory. The results are, general advance in state of health, better work in studies, fine physical forms and easy bearing. The testimony of all the institutions who have such departments is to the great advantage resulting therefrom. We do not need to go farther for an example of its success than to the State Agricultural College at Manhattan.
The advantages of a mihtary department are manifest; the necessity is evident. Then the question arises, how can we obtain the necessary detail of an officer of the army, with the arms and accountrements customary? These can be obtained at no expense to the State.
First, the board of regents should take the matter in hand, and as the legal representatives of the University, make application to the secretary of war, in the manner laid down in the statute. Then by a little influence being brought to bear through our public men, the necessary detail may be secured.
The board of regents meet next month. If they will take the matter in hand and push it through, they will earn the thanks of the students, and do the University a great service, at a trifling expense.
Then the students must unite with the new instructor, and by every means in their power aid in making the department a success.
Greek Chair.
The manner in which a portion of the State press is commenting upon the late action of the board of regents regarding the Greek chair of K. S. U. is entirely unwarranted. That their stand in refusing to make public any reason whatever for their action is exceedingly arbitrary in this "free, democratic, liberty loving country," no one will deny. That the Greek chair is very popular with the students, our columns to-day testify. But a more representative and conscientious body of men than our board could not be asked. We have no reason for doubting them. They claim their action in this was unanimous, only the chancellor as an ex-officio member persisting against immediate action.
Judge Otis and Prof Fitzpatrick here as a committee on the natural history building Monday, while refusing to give reasons, gave the positive answer that their action was not in any degree impelled by "personal prejudice, religious belief, or sex discrimination." They said the resolution as passed now made a vacancy in the department after June 10.
This clears the chancellor, and leaves the whole matter on the shoulders of the board. They say they have good reason for action, and will shoulder it. With this let the matter rest.
Noble Prentis described his visit to Lawrence in the Atchison Champion ( He has the following to say of the University ;
While not hopeful on the subject of book education for Indians, the writer does not despair of its success in connection with the white folks, and so talked much with Prof. Carruth, who acted as "conductor" in the excursion among the Lawrence suburbs and streets about the University. The great stone text towered between us and the sky. As in all things Kansan, the signs of progress were visible. The "I was" beside the "I am," suggesting the "I am to be." Down on the farther end and lower slope of the high ridge was the old University building, square and ugly, and in the nearer distance the new building, and near it the newer chemical laboratory, and soon there will be the newest natural history building. Everything seems to be going on well within the walls, but there is, after all, a "burning question" before the regents. Shall this institution be an immensely select University, giving only strict University teaching to a necessarily limited number in a new State like ours? Or shall it be a school for Kansas youth, gathering four or five hundred yearly, and doing the best possible for them from the high school line up and through the course prescribed by the great colleges of the country? The University is thus placed between the Seyla of being a small but select college, and the Charybdis of being stigmatised as a "Lawrence high school." Our impression is that a decent into either whirlpool is not advisable. The chopping off the lower limbs has gone far enough, and the University can now, we think, be suffered to grow as it is.
Cost of a College Course.
An alumnus of K. S. U. has the following letter in the Kansas City Times:
To the Kansas City Times:
TOPEKA, KAN., April 30. -The editorial in Monday's Times on "College Expenses," is sadly misleading. The statement is made that "to go through the regulation four years costs for every boy's parents $3,200 at any of the six leading schools in the north, and $2,300 at any of the others." Fortunately for the student's pocket the statement will not comport with the facts. It may be true of eastern institutions, but not of those of the west.
The Times' figures led me to delive into an old pile of college plunderbooks, programs, badges, photos, what not. From the bottom I resurrected an expense book. Having earned the means for my college education, I had from the first a curiosity to know what would be the expense. However, I must not be put down as a "college saint"—one of those who studied while his fellows were at play, or who sat by a dim light in an 8x10 room, mending a coat of three winters in order to save the price of a much needed new one. Not so! I was "one of the boys," partaking of their fun, liberality—and I might add devilry. I belonged to one of the many abused Greek fraternities, was enrolled in a literary society, joined freely in athletics, besides belonging to a half a dozen other orders, whose chief features were dues and assessments. I attended the hops, theaters and class parties, and indulged moderately in driving and boating. In short, my expenses equaled if they did not exceed, those of the average collegian. Every penny disbursed during my four years of school went down on the book. Everything was entered—board, books, clothing, railroad fares, class expenses, society dues, graduating fee and many items that don't read so nice by half at this day—"Hack fare for two," "Present for——," "Theatre tickets self and girl," "Dance and supper," "Candy and oranges," "Boat," "Treat to club," "Library fines" and "Glass smashed Hallow'e'en." To make the case still plainer, I will say the institution was the State University of Kansas—place it in what category you choose. Well, on looking up the totals of my cash bood I fine them as follows:
Freshman year... $220.30
Sophomore year... 268.95
Junior year... 272.99
Senior year... 287.45
Total...$1,049.69
A grand total of $1,049.69 for a college education! If ever again I get as much pleasure and profit for the same investment, I shall consider myself a king of speculators. This amount is less than one-third you allot to the "average student at any one of the six leading colleges of the north, and much less than one-half what you say a youth must spend at the others.
From a somewhat intimate knowledge of student expenses at the University of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan and Wisconsin, I know the cost to be little if any more than in Kansas. Of course a student spendthrift can throw away as much money as he wishes. The figures stated
show the amount that will carry a boy through college and let him enjoy himself thoroughly.
That a college education pays handsomely from a social or financial standpoint, has been demonstrated too often to again discuss the question. The point I wish to make is that no young American need be deterred by the expense from obtaining a higher education. READER.
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, it might have been."—Numerous politicians last Monday.
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