WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
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J. SULLIVAN President. | F. T. OAKLEY, Sec'y
C, S. METCALFE, '85,
B. K. BRUCE, '85,
VICTOR LINLEY, '85,
NEXTIR BROWN, '85
F. W, BANNES, '85,
ELAIR POPE, '87,
W. L KEHN, '88,
LAURA LAUNS, '89
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It is now in order to howl about the injustice and wrong of contests.
To Col. McClure: Your successor from Emporia is in favor of peace.
We have met the enemy, and we seem to be theirs by a large majority.
To Mr. Alfred Docking, of Emporia, the Courier makes its little bow. Shake, Brother Docking.
Oread's new program has our congratulations; but the best that we can tender the old one is sympathy.
The attendance of the faculty in chapel has exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the Courier.
Indications at present writing are that Oread's moon will have large spots of blood all over it this afternoon.
One of our merchants asked ye editor when the Athletic Association (?) is going to settle that little bill. Gentlemen, (?) this is a shame and a disgrace to the K. S. U.
MARVIN HALL.—We do not wish to presume, but if there is any one thing that would please faculty, students and citizen alike, and at the same time place a lasting monument to the honor of one who has done so much for our University, it would be the christening of our new natural history building Marvin Hall.
The wisdom of placing the K. S. U. in its present site has often been questioned; but when we contrast the death rate here with that of other colleges we see at once the fallacy. Nearly every one of our exchanges contains one or more obituaries. On the other hand, the K. S. U. has not lost a student this year by death. We certainly ought to be thankful for the blessing we enjoy in good health.
What Advantage?
We append a few extracts from answers to the following request to graduates of the University. They speak volumes to young men and women who are hesitating over the question, "Will it pay?" and make good editorial reading without comment. This is testimony that counts in behalf of culture.
Question: "Please state briefly the advantages, if any, which your experience proves that you derived from your University life and work."
EXTRACTS FROM ANSWERS.
Broader views, greater ambition.
The foundation of all my success.
EXTRACTS FROM ANSWERS.
A general broadening of all my views.
*Even my physical health was benefited.
Independent thought, and self-reliance.
Financially, the best investment 1 ever made.
The benefits are beyond all calculation.
The most practical thing I ever possessed.
The world seems larger, but not so strange.
A splendid foundation for any pursuit in life.
Was the foundation of all my business success.
Power to think, power to work,
which is success.
My success in business is due to University work.
The ability to pursue a definite object till attained.
It is a mine of unlimited wealth to me this day.
Disciplined to think logically, and to act systematically.
Respect for learning, contempt for frivolity, love of virtue.
It made me less bigoted and a better citizen; it made a man of me.
Financially, a lucrative position; otherwise, too numerous to mention.
It increased a hundred-fold my re sources, and capacities, and abilities.
It tended to develop what there was good in me, and to dwarf the evil.
A deeper and more varied interest in life, which gives it a ten-fold value.
I would gladly give ten years of social life for four spent at the University.
Gave me my business ideas, and my confidence in myself as a business man.
Discovered how little I knew, and how to add to my scanty store of facts.
Owe my position in the railway to my experience as one of the University Courier editors.
Enough of logical methods not to be blinded by the sand men throw into each other's eyes.
A better standing in the community than I could have gained in any other way.
I am better company for myself, and a better citizen, with far more practical interest in my State.
Would not exchange the advantages gained for one hundred times their cost to either the State or myself.
As a citizen, I have been changed from a narrow seeker of local interests, to a lover of my whole country.
A thorough preparation for my profession. (From a division engineer
*Strange language; but when we come to think the matter over, we remember that we used to have a gymnasium.
It has given me a place and an influence among a class of men whom I could not otherwise reach at all.
The gratifying feeling that I know at least a little more than is absolutely necessary for making my living.
A clearer view of the responsibilities of citizenship. (This reply, in substance, was repeated again and again.)
on the Northern Pacific railroad.)
Strong friendship with the most intelligent young men of the State; those who are certain to largely influence its destiny.
Of inestimable value in the daily affairs of business or social life. (This answer was repeated in substance by nearly all.)
Gave me a realizing sense of my uow unimportance in the world,except as I knuckled down to hard work and made myself felt.
The instruction given was as thorough as in any college in the United States. (From one of the faculty of Chicago Medical College.
Enabled me to command a good position and good pay, both of which I believe would have been better had I completed the course.
Implanted higher moral and humanitarian principles. It is a boon to young men and young women, higher than any other State can offer.
My love for the State grew with every lesson I received through her care. I saved five years of my life by her training, and am a more loyal and a better citizen.
I count the work done while attending the University as of equal importance with that at Columbia College. I would advise any young man intending to make Kansas his home to attend the State University in preference to any institution outside the State.
Our University needs a good gymnasium. As has been stated time and time again, the location of the K. S. U. building is such that physically the students are the gainers; but this is not sufficient—the mere climbing of a hill—to develop this part of our education.
We appreciate the generosity of our legislature. They gave us chemistry and natural history buildings, for which we are thankful. In the near future we expect to show our gratitude for the erection of an observatory and a library building; but what we need now and every day is a measure of obtaining that necessary element in a good education—physical culture. We do not ask for a gymnasium modeled after Yale or some of the extremests in this direction, but would like to see the old gymnasium refitted, which could be done with slight expense, and placed at the disposal of our students. At present the average student has no well regulated plan of exercise. A gymnasium, if not the best, would partially remedy this. By all means let us have a gymnasium.
The business managers of last year's COURRIER heard something drop, and emulated Davy Crockett's celebrated coon which "came down."
We received the Governor's proclamation for "arbor day" too late for this issue, but will publish it next week.
EXCHANGE.
We have long believed that the last few months of the Senior year would be a time of ease and pleasure; but not until recently have we seen the striking example which the dormitory affords. Two of the members of the Senior class, after dinner spend just fifteen minutes in study, and the rest of the afternoon in playing marbles and having a good time generally. Here is great encouragement to the timid Freshman and the despondent Sophomore who thinks of leaving college.—Rambler.
The Park College Monthly devotes considerable space to extracts from chapel rhetoricals. This would be a good plan at the K. S. U. In this way the student can obtain the cream of the chapel speeches without being compelled to listen to so much trash. It would be hard on the editor, however, to be obliged to attend chapel every morning to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Princeton is to have a daily paper.
The Senior class at Illinois College is called "the Apostles." There are twelve of them.
Twenty-one men were recently suspended in a Welsh College because the professor could not find out who placed a tin tack on his tricycle seat. 'Tis examples of this kind that make us appreciate the freedom of this country.
Students are not allowed to remain in the Ohio Wesleyan library for a longer time than is necessary to consult a periodical or draw a book. A good regulation for K. S. U.
Happy is the man who expects nothing, for verily he shall not be disappointed.—*Ev.* This rule does not work in the K. S. U.
The Hermes this month contains some well written articles. A change in printers would be the best improvement it could make.
The Phi-Rhonian, a neat little journal from the Bath, Maine, high school, is on our table. We think the time will soon come when some of our Kansas high schools will publish papers.
The Sabetha Herald has become one of the wide awake papers of this State, under the able management of B.C. Preston.
The students of Queen's College, Canada, are obliged to wear gowns. At the K. S. U. only fraternities wear them, and then only on state occasions.
A financial crisis is threatening Vassar College.
The 500th university of the University of Heidelberg occurs next year.
Sigma Nu claims to have a chapter of 27 men in Alabama University, notwithstanding the "anti-frat" laws.
England has one University student for every 5,000 population; Germany, one for every 2,000; New England, one for every 1,000; Scotland, one for every 600.
The average required for a diploma at Harvard has been raised from 40 to 50 per cent.
Dickinson college has become coeducational.
Union college has prospects of having President Arthur for president.
The William Jewell Student offers "a standing medal to every ministerial student who goes into the book business."
From the Occident we learn that the University of California will lose its president at the end of this academic year. We clip a few remarks which might well have been said of our own institution: "The circumstances under which this new institution exists, in a state whose age is measured by the life of one human generation, are such that any man, even if he were capable of conducting with honor the highest educational institution in the land, must expect to meet with opposition from the restless, unsettled people; from the student accustomed to follow no tried and well marked path, and possibly even from the faculty whose organization is not perfect—this is a great discouragement. It is evident from a consideration of these things that the affairs of the University are in a critical situation. Confusion for a time and complete uncertainty for a longer time is what is threatened. How can we expect a desirable man to accept the presidency, knowing the discouragements under which he must labor; knowing that the tenure of that office is insecure; knowing that there is every prospect that unless he is found to be the ideal man, he will be exposed to insult from all sides?
When it is recollected how diligently the present executive has worked for the improvement of the affairs of the institution, and of the condition of the students; if in view of the fact that no man of eminence has been publicly proposed for the position; no man whose breadth, culture and reputation would insure him the hearty co-operation of the faculty and students and would guard him from the discouraging effect of prejudice, the regents by some hocus-pocus be inveigled into electing to the presidency some one of no wider reputation than the present incumbent, and probably without his surict integrity and high purposes"—what then?
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