WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURRIER COMPANY
Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN, President. | F.T. OAKLEY, Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
C, S. METCALF, '85.
B, K. BRUCE, '85.
VICTOR LINLEY, '85.
NIELT BROWN, '85.
F. W. BARNES, '87.
EILA RYDER, '87.
L. W. KERBI, '88.
LAURA LYONS, '86.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
W. Y. MORGAN. | J. SULLIVAN.
Lock Box 251.
MOTTO. —Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter.
Cutler's Petroleum Engine Print.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the Senior hat.
We are now on the last quarter of the school year.
Neither election excitement nor lack of excitement seems to be beneficial to the literary societies.
The Inter-state oratorical contest takes place in a few weeks. By that time we will be worked up to enthusiasm—we hope.
In this season of colds there is a great necessity for a covered walk connecting the main building with the chemical laboratory.
While the new classification will reduce the number of collegiates, we can be assured that next year's catalogue will show an increase.
With one hundred and thirty-two collegiate students and nine fraternities, the University of Kansas ought to be happy. And still there's more to follow.
The University having recently received the "chair of pharmacy," "chair of pedagogy," etc., the question arises, "Is it a chairitable institution?"
The college papers of the United States are doing good work in drawing the students of different colleges together, showing the various methods of instruction, wiping out old prejudices, getting the young men better acquainted and uniting them in the bonds of a common aim and interest.
The New Building.
The board of regents will soon meet again to consider the plans to be introduced for the new building. From present indications the building will be one hundred feet long, to be in time added to, with wings of fifty feet each, the whole to face northward. The plan for exterior will approach closely to that of the present main building. The location will probably be directly west of the present building. The present engine house will be moved over the south brow of the hill. Chancellor Lip
cott has given considerable study to the future locations of buildings for the K. S. U., as per scenic advantages, which is very interesting to study. The new building is to be the main building from the north, while the present building is to be from the east; the new library building to be north of each of these, in handy proximity thereto; an observatory to the west and north of the new building; a green-house hoped for in a few years, from which the eastern campus and driveway north of the new building will be supplied an "elysium of beauty."
Class of '85.
We publish the following statistics corrected from catalogues, as an item of interest, and to show how utterly useless it is to attempt to force "regularity" upon students from so new a country, where proper preparatory schools are almost entirely lacking, and above all where so much uncertainty exists of returning to college the following year. These statistics are accurate, and worthy of a careful study by all interested in the relations of our college to the students and to the State. We give the number of students each year and the loss and gain, and from what course, as compared with the previous year. In two instances students have returned to school after an absence of more than a year, thus joining the class of '87:
Freshman year, 60; Sophomore
year, 45; loss to '84, 3; loss to '86,
3; loss from school, 20; gain new
students, 11; Junior year, 22; loss to
'84, 1; loss to '86, 4; loss from
school, 31; gain from '84, 2; gain
new students, 1; Senior year, 18;
loss to '86, 2; loss from school, 3;
rejoined class, 1; total membership
of class during 4 years, 74; constant
members, 13.
New Classification.
With all the disadvantages of the recent classification, cutting the collegiate enrollment of two hundred and upwards down to one hundred and thirty, its appearance in the college world, its effect in our own college life, is going to be good. It is a well known fact that in college life that classes come up to the Senior year, year after year with back studies extending throughout their entire course, requiring as much extra work as they have done in any year of their school life. This looseness of work is one of the greatest curses of college life.
The result of this cast-iron classification promises in a great measure to remedy this evil in the K. S. U. Back work must be looked after from the first, and kept up or classification shows it.
The practice of skipping examinations, etc., until some other time—general carelessness—must be overcome, so say the "powers." The present classification as regards classroom work done by many, undo ubtedly predisposes injustice in the eyes of anxious Pas and Mas at home, but we will guarantee next year's catalogue will indicate some wonderful work done by the Junior now a Senior prep. We really hope within ourselves, to see it productive of great good.
There was an editorial in the Lawrence Journal Sunday. The editor has not yet recovered.
Class Spirit.
We often hear students talking of eastern colleges, and wishing, like them, the University of Kansas had more "class spirit." But we can scarcely join ourselves to the chorus which longs for these boyish pranks and foolish plays that are tolerated and encouraged in some colleges. It may be great fun for the spectators, and a big card for the college, for some poor Freshman to be soused into ice water and sent to count the cracks in the ceiling with the assistance of a blanket, or to be led off on a "snipie hunt" from which he returns the next day wrapped in melancholy and his mutilated clothing. This may be pleasure of the very highest order, but then we can hardly help thinking of how the poor fellow enjoyed himself, and then the glow and glitter of that noble "class spirit" fades away.
The University of Kansas has been singularly free from this. The lack of it has been explained on several grounds, but we are inclined to think it the "fair play" feeling which a Kansan possesses, and the innate dislike of bullying and bulldozing. The refined and cultured eastern colleges may be educated to the point of appreciating "class spirit" and its manifestations, but in the west we can scarcely yet see the beauty of the system.
A Chair of Spanish.
In the selection of languages our students are generally guided by considerations of utility. The question asked is, "Will it pay?" As German is spoken more than French, and as a knowledge of it is more valuable accordingly, we find more students taking a course in German. The question may well be asked, "If you are looking at the money value of the study, why do you not put a course of Spanish in your curriculum?"
The board of regents have received several petitions requesting them to establish such a chair. It is understood that the board is in favor of the plan, yet they hold back. Why? Certainly not because the study would be of no practical use. Arizona and the Mexicos offer a broad field for our engineers, scientists and teachers. Every year we send young men to fill positions in the great southwest, who could do much better had they a speaking knowledge of the Spanish language.
The study of the Spanish language offers nearly all the literary advantages that French or German do. It would be as much of a drill as these studies, and could be pursued with as much profit, aside from the consideration of dollars and cents.
It would undoubtedly be a more popular study with our students who are not so blind as to be ignorant of its advantages. We ask that a new chair be made and a new professor appointed. Let us have a full course and not merely one year, and the work of that year put on our modern literature professors. It is asking too much of them, as they now do more work than they should.
We hope that the regents will give this matter immediate attention, as we need the study introduced into our course.
William M. Evarts was once an editor of a college paper.
The dairy-main penesively milked the goat.
And ponting, she passed to matter,
“I wish, you brente, you would turn to milk,”
And the animal turned to butt her.
EXCHANGE.
The latest Chataqua report states that the class of '87 has 18,000 members, of which 10,000 are expected to complete the course.
A lady, playfully condemning the wearing of whiskers and moustaches, declared: "It is one of the fashions I invariably set my face against."
Chairman: "Mr. W., sit down; Mr. S, has the floor." Mr. W.: "Certainly, sir, I wouldn't rob Mr. S. of the only understanding he."
The Eclectic Journal of Educational gives a great deal of matter for a small sum. It is well edited in all departments, and we only wish it appeared oftener.
Any student of Amherst who has spent two hours in preparing a lesson and at the end of that time fails to get it, can be excused from recitation by reporting the fact.
The Ottawa Republican says :
"There are 182 more white males than females in our city, and 44 more colored girls than boys. What will each of the excess do?"
The Illini has begun a crusade against bangs. This is even a harder task than bucking Carter Harrison on a hostile police force, but we have full confidence in the Illini.
"Never kick a man when he's down," is an old adage. Noble men follow this. To this we would like to add: Never kick a man when he is up. Prudent men follow this.—Boston Post.
A senior wound up his examination triumphantly as follows :
We this week received a copy of Lum Smith's Public Herald, Philadelphia, Pa., the terror of all frauds. A good journal for editors of the country press to guide them against quack advertisers.
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(18.) Ditto.
(19.) Same as (17).
(20.) Finis.—Transcript.
"P-a-n-e," spelled the boy. "Pronounce it, Harry," said the teacher. "Can't do it, Mr. Roe." "Well, Harry, what is in the window at home?" "Dad's old breeches," answered the kid quickly.
The news comes that an insurrection has broken out in the State College of Kentucky. A student was expelled without an investigation it is claimed, and now sixty-three fellow students propose to go with the one dismissed.
One of our most faithful and critical, but as we cannot but protest not most liberal readers, is the energetic editor of the Hesperian Student, of Nebraska State University. The Student is one of the best semi-monthlies we receive.
The Catholic, published by John O'Flanagan, at Leavenworth, Kan., is on our table. It is a neat, six column, four page paper, and as it is the only Catholic paper published in the State, it certainly deserves the support of the faithful.
The royal commissioners of England, appointed to examine all the technical schools of the world and to report thereon to parliament, announces that they consider the tech-
inical schools of the University o California the best in America.
Lehigh University has a gymnasium with a thoroughly equipped bowling alley, billiard tables, facilities for rowing, materials for fencing, sparring, etc., with thorough instruction. As an offset for all this wickedness students are compelled to attend prayers and divine service daily.
A Mormon editor of Salt Lake City had the following in a recent issue of his paper: "The unknown woman who was killed at this place about three months ago by the cars, proves to be one of the wives of the editor of this paper." A new count appears to have revealed the fact. Carl Pretzel's Weekly.
Something seems to be wrong at Illinois college. The University Press says: "Nothing can be accomplished without the united efforts on the part of both faculty and students. We can have no united effort without there is a change of feeling; unless there is a more enthusiastic interest manifested by all.
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