WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURRIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN.
President. | F. T. OAKLEY,
Sec'y.
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MOTTO. — Fraternity' Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter.
Cutler's Petroleum Engine Print.
The discipline of the University was never as rigidly enforced as now.
The new method of classification is a crusher to the aspiring underclassman.
We hope every one had a pleasant vacation, as Arbor Day certainly should be a treemendous time.
The new board of regents enter upon their duties in a way which inspires the utmost confidence in the results of their administration.
The professors failed to respond to our hint that their presence would be beneficial to the literary societies, but it is a fact just the same.
WANTED, by the glorious State of Kansas, who yearly sends one hundred and thirty of her sons to other States for instruction, a medical department in her State University.
The system of marking students by term standing and examinations combined is a fraud. A student who attends classes and makes a good per cent. should be passed without examinations.
Hon. J. W. Green was last Tuesday re-elected dean of the law department. The Courier congratulates both him and the department. With the greater support now given the department, we will expect to see it prosper.
To all aspiring young politicians we would say, be careful not to make personal enmities which will follow you through life; but let all your contests be honorable, friendly and without bitterness.
The co-operative plan has been tried in quite a number of our colleges, and has proven at least a financial success. When are the energetic young men of K. S. U. going to push such a scheme into successful operation here?
For the benefit of some of our students who are in the habit of playing ball in the city park, we take this opportunity of informing them that the city authorities have forbidden it and will prosecute any that infringe on these regulations.
Who's a Nihilist?
It has been charged from time to time that the State University is full of socialists, communists and nihilists; that the professors teach it, the students draw it in with their infant breath, and that we are steeped, honeycombed, undermined, alive, rotten, saturated and other things, with doctrines which threaten the safety of the State.
As this language is applied to every one who doubts that we are well into the Millennium, and since the same trumpet-toned geese have warned us that Gov. Martin's epoch-making treatment of the recent strike indicates that he is tainted, tinctured, etc., with the same dangerous principles, we don't feel very bad about it.
But certain pious and very religious institutions in the State have held up their hands in holy horror at the depth of our wickedness, stuck their tongues in their cheeks and gathered in the few timid lambs whose parents dared not trust them near such a dangerous straw man.
Now comes the Chicago Alarm, organ of the International Workingmen's Society, a paper whose next number is to contain the easiest recipes for making dynamite, and announces through its editor that a branch of the International was organized a month ago in Topeka, including in its membership ten earnest students, and this is confirmed by a letter in the same issue of the paper, signed by Harry A. Blakesley, referring to the interest taken by the students in their new club.
Now here is something tangible. A branch of the famous-infamous International society in the bosom of Washburn. Let the newspapers that are languishing for the blood of a real fresh nihilist get out their kazoos and pea-shooters and go down to the capital.
Verily, scarcely Highland can be saved, and Baker must take to the woods when such things can go on without filling the air with spears and eggs and boots and other things.
Progress.
The faculty are discussing the feasibility of changing the weekly holiday from Saturday to Monday.
Quite a number of reasons have been advanced for this change, but the one which we presume has its full effect in this direction is that studying on Sunday is not just the thing most conducive to first class morals, and that many who are too conscientious to seek earthly knowledge on this day should not have temptation thrown in their way, thus enabling them with many others to be able to avoid that familiar phrase which greets us Monday mornings: "Prof., I'm not prepared this morning."
We Want a Medical College.
If the change is made it will give proper time to prepare for all recitations. We can see, or imagine we see, where the benefits would arise by the adoption of this plan.
If the faculty adopts it, there will be, no doubt, more or less inconvenience growing out of negligence to think that the new has superceded the old. The boys can have their game of base or foot ball on Monday as well as on Saturday, but how are we going to provide for the unlucky Seventh Day Adventist who happens to cast his lot among us.
Of course this measure must naturally meet much opposition, and probably not succeed at all.
This is the substance of a petition signed by about thirty of our best students, and sent last Wednesday to the board of regents. For some reason the regents passed it over until their next meeting, which will be held in May. Whether they did not consider it of sufficient importance to act upon it at once or whether they desired more time to consider it, we do not know. However, it is probably the latter, as it is a question of no little importance, and should be well weighed before they act upon it.
That we want and should have a medical school is evident. The project is favored by all, professors, students and citizens alike, for it would be of great advantage not only to the University, but to the city of Lawrence and to the State.
Statistics set forth in the petition show that in the school year 1882-83 one hundred and thirty-eight students left the State of Kansas for the purpôse of attending medical colleges elsewhere.
Surely, if we establish a medical school, enough of these to justify the step would come to Lawrence; for of these one hundred and thirty-eight, ninety went to our two nearest States, viz: Missouri and Illinois. It seems almost conclusive that they endeavored to attend those schools nearest to Kansas.
The new course of pharmacy which will begin next year will bring many students here, who if there was a good medical school, would prefer the latter and conclude to take a full course in medicine although they did not intend to practice it; for a knowledge of medicine is indispensible to the pharmacist, the better to acquaint him with his own profession.
Clinical material would be sufficient, although we ought to have a hospital. Lawrence needs a place in which the poor may receive treatment; for as the matter stands now a person who is a stranger to the city has no place that he can go in case of sudden sickness. Every town having over 6,000 inhabitants should have a hospital, and Lawrence is twice that size, and yet has not a place for a sick wanderer to lay his head. The city for very little cost could either buy or rent a house in an isolated part of town, and fit up quite a respectable hospital. It owes this much to its citizens, to say no nothing of the University; for without that institution the city would be in a very bad condition. The students of the University leave over $100,000 in Lawrence every year, and certainly the city owes to them if not to itself, a hospital.
By all means let us have a medical school, and if the regents establish one they will surely not regret the step they have taken in adding one more name to the list of institutions working to fit young men for one of the noblest professions.
Is it not time that the societies should prepare accurate histories of themselves? This should be done before the men who know of their early struggles, defeats and triumphs, are beyond reach. The greater part of the history of the students of the University is contained in the history of the literary societies, and this should not be lost. Let us have society historians and histories.
Oread and Orophilian!
Harvard, Yale and Cornell have daily papers. Princeton will soon join them.
EXCHANGE.
Among the alumni of Yale are the two great lexicographers, Webster and Worcester.
Hebrew is the most popular language at Dickinson; Spanish at Columbia; German at Yale.
Another son of the Adams family is coming to the front. He is president of the Freshman claas at Harvard.
Bowdoin seems to have her own way in shaping Maine legislation. The governor, attorney general and seventeen legislators are her alumni.
"Thon," the proposed new pronoun (impersonal, singular number), is being taught by some of the teachers in the public schools at Lewiston, Me.
Any Amherst student who has spent two hours in preparing a lesson but has failed to learn it in that time, can by reporting the fact be excused from reciting.
The students of Princeton can hold no class meetings without first obtaining the president's consent and making known to him the business to be transacted.
Brown University has recently added a billiard table to her gymnasium. We hope the regents of the K. S. U. will remember this when they establish our gymnasium.
The Illini comes to us this week a model paper. It is a semi-monthly, with sixteen well printed pages full of the kind of matter which is read with interest by the students.
Seven per cent. of the students at Harvard belong to the college brass band. If the same per cent. could be maintained at the K. S. U. we could have the largest band in the State.
The average annual expenses of a student at Harvard are $800; Amherst, $500; Columbia, $800; Princeton, $500; Yale, $800; Williams, $500; University of Michigan, $400; K. S. U., $350.
One of our best exchanges, the Bethany Collegian, says: If it were not for the arbitrary rules in force for attendance at chapel, we believe some of the students would be absent as much as some of the professors.
A cooperative society has been or ganized by the students of the Michigan University. Its object is to save to the students the profits of middlemen; its membership is 231; its cash transactions have amounted to over $2,000.
The New York Sun says the students of Harvard have in contemplation as a new overture in dramatic art the production at an early date of "Julius Caesar," with costumes and accessories modeled on those in use in Caesar's time. Most of the roles have been assigned to Seniors, Prof. White will supervise the representation. The text used will be that of the old folio.
The Dickinsonian devotes several columns to proving that their students are overworked. As high as twenty hours recitation per week are required, which seems to signify either short lessons or imperfect recitations. Very few students can carry four recitations per day with credit,
and those who do, must do it at the expense of time which should be devoted to recreation.
The latest departure in college journalism is the Collegian, published in New York City in the interest of all colleges. Its staff consists of editors chosen from the alumni of fifteen of the leading American colleges. It is highly spoken of by the president of Yale, Williams, Brown, Amherst, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Dickinson, DePauw and others, and although its beginning is rather modest it ought to be a success, for it certainly has a place in college journalism.
The plan of using Monday instead of Saturday as the holiday of the week has been adopted by many eastern colleges, and they are very enthusiastic over its good results. Monday's lessons are proverbially the worst of the week. This would undoubtedly be done away with, as has been shown by the experience of other colleges. Let us try this plan and if once given a fair trial we will have no desire to go back to the old style. —Gleaner. A wave seems to have struck the college world.
Very much has been said recently, and justly too, about non-attendance at chapel. This disregard for one of the most important college duties seems to be periodical, though the disease has appeared in a malignant form a little earlier than usual this year. Every college duty should be performed conscientiously. The approbation of self and others, which is the accompaniment of duty performed, is an element of happiness that all should possess. But while we recognize the justice of required attendance on the part of the students, we can not excuse the non-observance of the same rules on the part of the faculty. The fact that the proportion of absences of that body at morning prayers exceeds that of the students, can be proved by the records of attendance kept by several of the students. This is no excuse for them. We only mean to say that an example is sometimes of very great importance. Practice and preaching should have no antinomy.—Wabash.
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