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WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN, | F. T. OAKLEY,
President. | Sec'y
EDITORIAL STAFF.
C, S. METCALFAGE ^{86}
B, K. BRUCE, ^{85}
VECTOR LINKLEY ^{85}
NETTIE BROWN ^{85}
F. W, BARNES, '87.
ELLA ROPE, '87.
W. L KEHN, '81.
LAURA LYONS, '86.
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Lock Box 251.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter:
Cutler's Petroleum Engine Print.
MOTTO. —Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Students matrimonially inclined are taking shares in the Lawrence Building Association.
By the new arrangement of the electric bells, the first bell is rung five minutes before the hour; and a second at the time for dismissal.
Just eleven weeks of the college course are devoted to the study of Political Economy, and whole sessions of work are required upon branches which are neither useful nor ornamental.
The Inter-state oratorical contest will be held at Columbus, Ohio, May 7th. By that time we hope to screw our enthusiasm to the sticking place, and take off our hat for the representative from Kansas. But！！！
Next Tuesday evening one of the most popular speakers and one of the best friends of the University will lecture in the chapel. Noble Prentiss certainly will always receive an enthusiastic welcome from a University audience.
Died, at its home, in the midst of loving friends, the K. S. U. Athletic Association. The patient was young, but had already endearled itself to many—especially Lawrence merchants—who regard its untimely departure from this world with sorrow and regret.
The "Views" department this week is given over to a discussion of the effect of secret societies on college politics. The ground is well covered, and with the exception of a few mistakes as to facts, the arguments on both sides are well stated.
The gong which for years has announced to the student that tempus fugit is now numbered among the things that were but are not. The alleged silver tone which has broken up so many a tete-a-tete, and has brought relief to so many an anxious student, will resound no more in the classic halls on Mt. Oread. Electricity takes the place of muscle and elbow grease.
Are we going to have a Field Day? This question has been ringing in our ears for the last two weeks.
Everyone is enthusiastic over the matter, and ready to do all he can if some one will only start the ball rolling.
The University in the Future.
Two years ago Dr. Lippincott, in his inaugural address, presented a picture of the University as he hoped to see it. Already a great advance has been made toward the consummation of the ideas he then expressed. The chemical laboratory, one of the largest and best in the United States, has been completed and occupied. Next year the natural history building will be erected, and will be a great addition to he campus. We already need an observatory and a library building. From the increasing influence of the University and the wisdom of the men who govern our State, we may expect to see these necessities given us. All our departments are developing rapidly and symmetrically. The University of Kansas is no longer an infant institution. Each year sees her name more honored, her advancement dearer to the people. Kansans are abandoning the idea of going to eastern colleges for an education, and find in their own State an institution able to give them instruction and culture.
The future before us is bright. The prospect it offers can be realized. For this object the students must do their part. To them the authorities will point for a proof of success and evidence of a good use of their trust. We must always bear this in mind, in our actions, not only in the quiet retreats of academic life, but in all the experiences of subsequent years. The University is known by its students. Let us, as students, strive for its best interests; do our duty while here, and talk, work and fight for it when away, ever making the advancement and promotion of the University of Kansas a glory and great aim.
We now have a lawn tennis club well to be proud of. They could give an exhibition, a base ball game could easily be gotten up, the various other contests we had two years ago could be repeated, and we think a very pleasant day would be spent during commencement week.
If some one will call a meeting of the students the whole thing could be settled with very little trouble.
Will some one do it?
Here we are without an annual, without a Field, Day probably, and without anything that will make our commencement enjoyable.
Why can't the fraternities take the matter in hand? Of course such a thing cannot be gotten up without some expense, but if a large number take hold of it the cost would be comparatively light individually.
Why can't we get up a University ball?
The fraternities of the University of Wisconsin recently gave an interfraternity ball and it was a grand success.
The Junior class recently attempted the affair and the result was the expense bill on a small number.
The University lecture course has been a greater success this Spring than ever before.
Shall we be behind our sister institution?
A Necessity.
The Seniors have just finished Political Economy; or rather, the universal expression of the class is that they have just begun it. Throwing out the few days necessarily devoted to review, just eleven weeks are granted this most important of studies. Fifty-five hours lecture room work for a branch of investigation which touches the daily lives of each citizen more closely than any other! And no other or further provision for Sociology with all its manifold questions, in which the American world is now taking the deepest interest! This is certainly not as it should be.
The Lawrence Journal apparently is venturing upon the unique experiment of running a daily paper without any editorial or telegraphic departments.—Topeka Journal.
The present class has only sketcheon briefly these topics: Sources and Kinds of Resources; Value and Exchange; Production; Labor; Wages; Capital; Land and its Tenure; Mediums of Exchange; Credit; Taxation. There has been no delay; indeed, the class has often felt that even in these it was pushed too rapidly. The only topics that have been dwelt on in any detail are, Money (chiefly because of our present mixed currency and the pressing danger of the cheap silver flood), and Taxation (in local matters only). Yet that must be very unsatisfactory work which ignores (of necessity) such topics as Co-operation, Organization of Labor, Banks and Banking, Commercial Crises, the American Tariff System, the Relations of Capital and Labor, the Future of Workingmen, the Right of Property in Land, Corporations and State Control, Statistics, the Distribution of Population, Pauperism and Crime. The University is not doing its work well when all these are unnoticed—when there is no opportunity whatever for their discussion.
There should be a re-division of the chair; History should be a special department, and Political Science and Sociology should be pushed well to the front.
Some people throughout the State have the idea that the students of the University are the weakest, puniest and laziest set of fellows that can be found anywhere. We wonder how and where they got such and impression. Why, the very fact of our having no gymnasium is enough to give them that idea.
For some time past there has been the talk of partly filling up the hollow in the north end of the campus and making a base ball ground of it. Surely no better use could be made of the place. There it stands, a natural amphitheater, capable of accommodating thousands, and the cost of fixing it up would not exceed three hundred dollars at the most.
Patronize those who patronize you.
It would be good practice for the engineering boys to find out just how much it would cost, and afterward show the figures to the regents.
The spot will never be used for anything else, and we ought either have that or a gymnasium or both. And by a gymnasium we do not mean a room in the cellar filled with sawdust, etc., where students can go and smoke and see how much apparatus they can break in an hour, but a well lighted and well ventilated room with the necessary fixtures, which is kept clean and has one one to watch it. Undoubtedly some step must be taken in this line to get the impression off of some people's minds that we are a set of "book worms," who learn to do nothing but read Latin and work at logarythms.
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IN 1868
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I ALSO CARRY A FULL STOCK OF
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Telephone Connections.
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gives the best satisfaction for all kinds of Boquet
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