WEEKLY University Courier.
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MOTTO. —Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter.
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The Normals had to go.
Wanted, a medical department.
The law department will now boom
The Courier tow line got in its work on the chair of pedagogy.
As usual there is but little athletic spirit in the University of Kansas.
The literary societies are still anxiously awaiting the coming of the faculty.
The regents are laboring for the best interests of the University, and are cordially seconded by faculty and student.
There is a general cry in all the eastern colleges for the abolition of required courses, compulsory attendance at chapel, and more liberty to the students.
The law department will now boom. The class beginning next year already promises well. Two or three of the ablest alumni of the K. S. U. will be therein contained.
The establishment of a chair of didactics in the University was a good move. A better man to fill such a position than Doctor Williams, could not be found in the west.
+ - + with immortality. I am no Platonist; I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician Manichean Spinozist Gentile Phyrrhonian Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and the hatred of each other."
Unless some move is taken in the next week by the officers of the Athletic Association for the redemption of debts contracted last Spring with business men in Lawrence, the Courier for the benefit of such creditors, will publish their names. For some of these debts the creditors paid cash to eastern clothing houses for uniforms, etc., ordered. The bills should and must be paid.
The board of regents have left the exact location of the natural history building in the hands of Prof. Snow—a deserved compliment. Plans are being worked up by skilled architects, to be presented and decided upon at the next meeting of the board. Bids will then be received on contract. Prof. Snow hopes to occupy the building by September, 1887.
All efforts to revive the Athletic Association for even time enough for it to designate administrators for the estate seems to have been fruitless.
Life seems to have departed from it as from the columns of the Lawrence Journal. The mere mention of the name only brings a frown to the face of the confiding business man, and a smile upon that of the student.
Last week, owing to the absence of so many students at home, the issue of the COUCHER was postponed till Monday. Two issues in one week makes it wearing on the mind of the editorial, the imagination of the local and the cheek of the "Views." Hence, our readers will please bear with any deficiencies which may be shown this week by the ingenuous theological students who manipulate the borrowed lead pencils.
Oratory seems to have become the craze in American colleges. Every college paper is filled with accounts of contests and exhibitions, and the main part of the student's desires outside of regular study is to be an orator or debater. This is a much better turn for collegiate enthusiasm to take than athletics or mere society, but still there should be moderation in this as in everything else, and too much of a good thing is too much.
One great trouble with our literary societies is that they are too large. During the past year Oread and Orophilian have had more than a hundred names on their rolls. But a small per cent. of these are really good members and willing to work. Those that have joined to do their duty and improve themselves, are held back and hindered by the great number who only attend to vote, and whose names clog the programs, and non-appearance disheartens the honest members
A discussion is being carried on in college journals as to whether literary and secret societies can exist together. Of course the conclusions arrived at are widely different, but from experience in the University of Kansas, we can say that nothing is so fatal to a literary society as to become the field of battle for rival political organizations, and too often these are the fraternities. It is an undoubted fact that three elections out of every four are won by frat combinations and the fourth only lost by trouble among the allies in regard to the spoils.
The Law Department.
There will no longer be any necessity of a Kansan going outside of the boundaries of his own State to obtain a No.1 education for the bar. The professors in charge are all men of well known ability and reputation, and under their efficient management we expect to see the law department come at once to the front. The attendance next year will undoubtedly be larger and better. By judicious advertising the college can be brought to the notice of the legal fraternity. The alumni now out at work will help us. Our own literary graduates will begin to attend our law school instead of repairing to some eastern one, where they are lost in the number of students, and surrounded by people entirely different from those among whom they must make their home. The lawyers of our State should help us to build up a law department which will be an honor to the State and a gain for the people.
The Result.
The new method of classification has been introduced, and if the catalogue appears in the shape it is likely to, there will be weeping and grashing of teeth in all the corners and corridors. The collegiate student will be as rare a species as can be found. The few who are still counted in will feel lonely and weep for those who were, but are not. The many who are removed from their ancient glory by the hard decree of fate and the faculty, will congregate in the halls and kick, and kick. The semi-religious cross-roads academies will elevate their noses and point the finger of scorn at the "children's school," and exult with great pride over their "large collegiate departments." The friends of the University who have been standing by us so well, will be shocked to think of how many fabrications they have made as to the number of collegiate students, whereby we were compelled to ask for more room. Then the University will retire into some sequestered spot and there proceed to carry out the mission of kicking itself, which has been imposed upon it.
Saturday or Monday.
Which day is wanted for our weekly holiday, Saturday or Monday? There are reasons for the proposed change; there are strong arguments against it. The faculty are nearly equally divided; the students are almost unanimously opposed to it.
There are two grounds upon which the so-called reform is asked. 1. It will do away with the studying on Sunday. 2. There will be better lessons prepared for the first day of the school week.
As to the Sunday studying, we can see how there will not be so much of that. But as to the second reason, the result would undoubtedly be worse. For if the student does not seek his present Saturday amusements on Sunday, he will do so on Monday. When will he get his lessons? Not Sunday, for that is the reason the change is wanted. Not Monday, for that will be the day of recreation for the week. Not Monday night, for then he will be tired; he will have his society to attend, or his party to be present at. And Tuesday morning if he does not pass the recitation hours in his room he will occupy the time with yawning and flunking, and wishing he had one day to rest before school began.
The musical department of the University has taken on a boom this year which is beyond all precedent. Under the efficient management of Prof. McDonald the department has become an honor to the University, and the reputation for thorough musical training is extending all over this and adjoining states. Beginning the year with one instructor, now four can scarcely keep up with the demands made upon them. The musical concerts which were at first looked on as experiments have been the greatest success. Instruction, thorough and practical, is now given in all branches of vocal and instrumental music. Prof. McDonald has labored hard to bring the department up to its standard, and can well be proud of his work.
--with immortality. I am no Platonist; I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician Manichean Spinozist Gentile Phyrrhonian Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and the hatred of each other."
Some men will never learn anything. A tramp tried to rob an editor the other day.
Isn't it strange that electricity being understood, men should make light of it?
EXCHANGE.
Persian is now taught at Cornell.
There is nothing religious about the hen, but may she not be appropriately called a lay sister?
It is stated that seventy per cent of the students at Princeton are church members. We wonder if that is one of the conditions of admission.
The authorities of the University of Wisconsin permit the Greek letter societies to hold inter-fraternity receptions in the college building.
An exchange, speaking of the Yale elective system, says: "The system has merits, but it can't make bookworms out of dunces or rowdies."
The Holcad explains the charge of a graduation fee by saying: "It keeps the faculty in spending money. They don't like to change the old way of doing things.
Cornell, Michigan and Virginia Universities and Harvard College have made chapel attendance voluntary. How long before the K. S. U. will join in on the onward march?
Twenty-one Freshmen were lately suspended in a Welch college, because a professor could not find out who placed a tin tack in his tricycle seat, business end up.
An Indiana man who was recently hanged, nodded to a minister who desired to give consolation just before the drop fell, and said, "I'll see you later." The minister is very sorry he said anything now.
A lawyer whose reputation in the community was not very good, met an old gentleman one day and said to him: "Do you know, Mr. H., that I am a direct descendent from Miles Standish?" "Is it possible," was the reply. "What a descent!"
The Seniors were taking their first practical lesson in astronomy. One imaginative youth was taking in the "queen of night" for all he was worth. Another smart specimen covered the end of the telescope with his hat. "Why, the moon is inhabited," slowly came from the observer. The hat is for sale cheap.
The Indicator, from Stevens Institute, appears for the first time on our table. It has a unique cover, which tends to make one seek farther. We did, and found a sheet of excellent typographical work, and the necessary departments for a good college journal. In addition to giving all the college news, it diverts the student's mind from college duties by means of ludicrous cartoons. We gladly place the Indicator on our exchange list.
The Hillsdale Herald is now reaping the fruits of having spoken too freely concerning the evils in their college. The "powers that be" have withdrawn from the paper their support, which, as is usual with college papers, is considerable. The Herald, however, still arrives on time and will probably continue to do so until its mission is fulfilled.
Among the letters of Byron recently sold in England, was one in which he said: "I will have nothing to do
Vassar College seems to be growing seriously alarmed at the steady decrease in pupils during the past few years, the number being only a little more than half what it was in 1875. The whole blame is attributed to the newspaper paragraphers, who they say have poked fun at Vassar students until the very name of Vassar has become a synonym for feminine foolishness. Five years more, it is thought, will complete the desolation, and Vassar's doors will be closed.
The eastern colleges which have changed from classical to scientific studies have an increase of students, and have received the greatest gain in the number of pupils. The Institute of Technology and Cornell University are particular illustrations of this tendency. The former reporting one hundred more students than last year, and the entering class of the latter being larger than that at Yale, and according to reports, equal to that of Harvard.-Ex.
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