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WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN,
President.
F. T. OAKLEY,
Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
C. S. METCALF, '85.
B. K. BURKE, '85.
VICTOR LINLEY, '85.
NETTIE BROWN, '85.
F. W. BARNES, '87.
ELLA HOPES, '87.
W. L. KEENI, '84.
LAURA LYONS, '84.
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The Seniors are supposed to be breathing more easily.
Field Day doesn't seem to materialize any better than Mott.
Mr. A. Docking, Emporia, Kansas: You have our blessing.
The Inter-state Oratorical Contest will be held at Columbus, Ohio, next Thursday.
Society politics have subsided and only the gentle surge is heard which presages the storm of next year.
The student who takes a little run home now, will find he has made a mistake when the reckoning comes.
Spring fever rageth, the Sophomore mourneth and the Senior goeth forth seeking whom he may devour.
The lecture by Noble Prentis Tuesday night was a great success. The chapel was filled with an appreciative audience.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
The Senior class is supposed to have five weeks to work on "the thesis," but a larger part will put in the time making up back studies,
The alumni of the University are numerous, and with their organization can do much to advance the interests of their alma mater.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
The true college paper is not the literary model or the faculty's mirror, but the one which gives free expression to opinions and ideas of the students.
A war between Russia and England may bring cold weather to those countries, but will clothe the countenance of the editor with smiles, and his paper with advertisements.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
A military department with compulsory instruction would be of great benefit to our young men. There is one at Manhattan, and it is regarded there as doing splendid work.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
The electric bells are great improvements over the gong. The one that rings five minutes before the hour is doing good work in stopping the habit of some professors of running their recitations past the hour.
The lecture course this year has been under the management of Prof.
Carruth, and has been more of a success than ever before. At first every one prophesied failure, but the result has been quite satisfactory to the faculty and students.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
Some students seem to complain of the lack of an "Annual." On the contrary, we see no advantage arising from such a publication, to college or students. They are usually weary collections of stale jokes and frat advertisements.
There is now no medical college in the State of Kansas. Topeka physicians are talking up one for that city. If it is established there, the University will wait a long time before there will be need for another, and a department which could add much prestige at little cost, will be impossible.
When the index to the library, which is now being gotten up, is completed, it will enable any one knowing a subject, its name or its author, to readily find all books in the same line, and all chapters upon the subject in other books. This will be an immense aid to the systematic reader and the special student.
During this year the Friday morning roll call has been little more than a joke, and is so regarded. No serious effect is heard of if one is not present at those interesting entertainments of undergraduate eloquence and professorial advice. We hardly see the advantage resulting from a continuance of the Friday morning program, and at any rate do not understand why a roll call is needed outside of the class room.
--the number being 78, while Illinois follows with a gain of 77. It is curious to notice that New York, the scene of so much political activity during the last campaign, should have only about one-third as many new papers as the state of Pennsylvania. As an index to the comparative growth and prosperity of different sections of the country, especially the Territories, the number of new papers forms an interesting study, and may well occupy the attention of the curious.
The very late Spring has been hard on our athletically inclined youths. As usual, there is splendid material among the students, and a little energy and practice will give us a good base ball club. But beyond this there seems to be no effort toward doing anything in the athletic line. The boomlet of last year, which died a booming, is a constant reminder that K. S. U. has as yet failed to distinguish itself in any athletic way except jumping debts. For further particulars see Lawrence merchants.
Spring Vacation.
In nearly every college calendar is found a Spring vacation of at least a week. The advantages resulting therefrom are numerous and evident. It is a long pull from December to June. The student is wearied by the time the warm weather arrives and adds discomfort. The malady of Spring fever is prevalent. Nearly every one takes a short trip home or a visit to friends. From the middle of the second session to commencement there is a continual dropping out of classes for a little run home, and a consequent lack of interest in studies. It would be much better to give every one this needed vacation at the same time. Then all would return with fresh energy and quickened vigor. The rest would not be a detriment to classes, but a positive gain from the better work done after a weeks recreation.
Resignation.
Just one year since the Correction did not consolidate.
The Greek department, under the able administration of Prof. Stephens, has been an honor and glory of our University.
According to the announcements in the morning paper, Miss Stephens has been requested by the board of regents to resign the Greek chair. The announcement will prove a great disappointment not only to the classical students, but to all who enjoy Miss Stephen's acquaintance. Miss Stephens has filled the Greek chair so satisfactorily to all the students of her department, that the question of the cause of the requested resignation will at once be raised. What valid reason is there that she should leave the Greek chair? Is it because of an alleged incompetency? There is not a single member of any of her classes, nor never has been, who doubts the competency of Miss Stephens to teach Greek.
But this can not be the reason. There is some covert reason for the action of the board. It would not be surprising that it was the result of some personal enmity or spite.
The action of the board will not only be wondered at, but it will cause sore disappointment to many of the classical students. The explanation of the board's action will have to be clear and explicit, in order to satisfy them. If such an explanation is not forthcoming the new board of regents will start out with an inauspicious and unpunctual beginning.
The Debate.
A great orator, on being asked the requisitions of oratory, replied: There are three real necessaries, viz.: 1, delivery; 2, delivery; 3, delivery. The truth is self evident that a man who can tell what he knows has a vast advantage over the one who cannot. The world judges a man by what he does. He must be able to impress it with the fact that he knows something worth learning before he can gain an audience or a follower. A man who has a collegiate education is supposed to be superior in information and knowledge to those who have not had this advantage. But if he cannot express his thoughts; if he cannot form his ideas into tangible shape, a very important element of his education has been neglected.
In our curriculum there is no means to attain this skill. But we have literary societies which offer special advantages. In these societies all the exercises are useful and excellent, but the preeminent one is the debate. A ready debater has an immense advantage over a slower though perhaps more learned opponent. The debate should be gotten up with the greatest care, not in memorizing sentences, but in collecting facts upon which the speaker may build his arguments. It should never be postponed on account of non-preparation, for there is scarcely any better exercise than extemporaneous speaking. It should never be postponed for an election, because by that means a superior object is lost sight of in the mere seeking means to attain it.
In conversation with Mr. Leis this week we find we did not give Chancellor Lippincott appropriate credit for what he had to do with the establishing of the chair of pharmacy in the K. S. U. during the recent session of the legislature. We find our clause at that time as to the chancellor's work, and many things we probably know not of, were very appropriately added.
EXCHANGE.
English colleges have no students' papers.
An appropriation of $80,000 has been made to establish a University in Arizona.
A woman is taking the military course at Cornell. The army will no doubt soon be the sphere of woman's action.
The Ohio Wesleyan is building a president's mansion. Most colleges furnish the president a residence, and the K. S. U. should see to this after we get the gymnasium and observatory.
The faculty at Ohio Wesleyan have kindly consented to relieve such of the Seniors as do not have to speak, from preparing that laborious relic of the past which no one ever reads—the graduating thesis.
We notice in several of our exchanges that enterprising members of the faculty are endeavoring to find the average and range of the student's expenses. This is a very commendable work, and while very few if any of the students keep a memorandum of their expenses, yet nearly all can tell their gross receipts for the year, and we think they would very willingly help in the procuring of accurate statistics. Who will undertake this economic problem at the K. S. U.?
Newspapers of To-day.
Of some of the things learned in a college course that are not down in the catalogue, the Campus gives the following: "That many a student comes with habits of economy largely developed, but leaves with an astonishing propensity for disbursing the paternal revenue. Some come full of ambition for mastering things, and put in from six to eight hours of hard study every day, but before two years have passed they learn the art of taking the world easy, and get along with from three to five hours study. They come with practical ideas of life, fresh from the work of the world; they go back into it with theoretical notions of things which are totally destroyed within a year. Some come directly from the farm and are as bashful and awkward as possible, but when they get to be Juniors, look like New York dudes on a holiday. Some come from homes surrounded with elegance and refinement, but learn to respect the ability and esteem the friendship of the student who works his way."
People generally, and even those who may be termed steady readers and close observers, have but a faint conception of the magnitude and influence the press of this country has attained. From a careful examination of the advance pages of the 1885 edition of the American Newspaper Directory, issued May 1st, by Geo P. Rowell & Co., of New York, it appears that there are 14,147 newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and Canada; of these the United States has 12,973, an average of one paper for every 3,867 persons. In 1884 the total number of newspapers was less by 823 than at present, and while the gain this year is not so marked as in previous years, it is still considerable. Kansas shows the greatest increase.
The Senior's brow was sad with care, and long dark lines lay furrowed there; His looks uncombined in tumult lay, and dire confusion ruled the day. I asked him why such sounoural sighs, Why those sunken restless eyes; In every tears with grief oppressed, "My thesis," he said, and sank to rest.
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