WEEKLY University Courier.
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Every Friday Morning-
J. SULLYIVAN, President. | F. T. OAKLEY, Sec'y.
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LAWRENCE, KAN., JAN. 1, '85.
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LAWRENCE, KAN.
To whom it may concern:
This is to certify that I have for the past three months been printing from 800 to 1,000 copies of THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER per issue for the Courier company, with steady increase.
H. A. CUTLER, Publisher.
Especially to ex-Governor George T. Anthony does the K. S. U. owe thanks for her welfare in the legislature this winter.
President Cleveland's first official act was to affix his signature to the bill placing Gen. U, S. Grant on the retired list of the army.
The Courier attached its tow-line to the natural history building and has pulled it onto firm ground. Oread caught hold of its firm strands last Friday and was saved. Let everybody take hold and join the crowd.
Unless something is done toward settling up the affairs of the Athletic Association we will be compelled in behalf of the business men of this city, to publish the names of the officers responsible for debts. Let action be taken at once. These bills must be settled.
The Courier suggests that the officers of the Athletic Association constitute accommitee to solicit subscriptions for the defraying of said A. A. debts. The Courier will head the list with the amount of the first five subscriptions for THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER paid this week.
We understand the old business managers of the Courier company who so "covered themselves over with glory" last Spring now say they will redeem upon presentation all bills against them. We are glad to see this. We are over the period of entertaining malice against them. All having money due them on stock, etc., present at once.
The fact that at quite a number of the more eastern colleges there has been adopted and successfully maintained what is known as the cooperative plan, leads up to the belief that such a plan could be adopted here with the same result. These results are of a nature which will interest a majority of our students, i.e., the reduction of the price of board to a
considerable extent. If an interest is manifested, the View columns are open; the Courier will publish "plans" in full.
The Courier was sent to the members of the legislature for thirteen issues. We labored our utmost for the promotion of the interests of the University, to render our lawmakers better informed as to our work, and to secure the necessary appropriations to advance K. S. U. on the road of higher education. Success has crowned the efforts of the friends of the University. A new era is inaugurated, which will see the University of Kansas taking its place in the very front ranks of institutions of learning.
To Foreign Subscribers:
We would request you to see that your subscription is paid, as we do not like to "dun" for fifty cents. Mail us twenty-five two cent stamps at once. We will give a "personal" to everyone who responds in the next two weeks.
To Hon. Geo. Leis the K. S. U. is indebted for the establishment of a chair of pharmacy. He not only secured its establishment, but provided the means for its maintenance; this by the State Druggists Association. It is understood they will pay $1,500 to $1,800 per year.
Our Appropriations.
It is with pardonable pride the Courier exults over the welfare of the K. S. U. in the recent legislature in line of its appropriations. The board of regents asked $50,000 above that asked for current expenses, which were also raised above those ever before asked. Two years ago it was by the utmost effort $4,000 was raised for building purposes. The asking of $50,000 this year, with the feeling that prevailed as shown by the above, really seemed a "joke." The regents as they freely expressed themselves, never entertained a hope of receiving one half that amount when they asked it. They lacked the necessary funds for advertising purposes by which they could get the necessary information before the members of the legislature, which with the erroneous feeling existing against our school over the State, would make such appropriations even entertainable. They felt and knew that dissemination of information was their great want, but in this they were beyond a nominal measure entirely helpless. Their funds for such purposes was very limited.
In this the Courier came to the rescue, and how well we did our work our readers have seen. Thirteen issues of our paper devoting from five to eight columns to this purpose we sent out five hundred copies (per issue) to members of both houses of the legislature and the press of the State.
The appropriations received but a nominal opposition. Our institution stood on its merits before them. They were well informed. The friends of the institution had good ground upon which to work. The object was accomplished. WE ARE THANKFUL AND HAPPY.
Communism in the University
Thus above 6,000 copies of the paper was used in this direction. This was of course done at a very heavy expense.
The amount of positive misinformation relative to the University and its work is astounding, and would be discouraging but for the fact that it all comes in a way that shows the growing power and influence of the institution. Men never counterfeit that which is worthless, nor do they refer for endorsement to that which is weak and inefficient. So when men quote "the University" as their authority, or assert that "the University" sympathizes with their movement, it is proof positive that the "Lawrence High School" has disappeared.
We are led to make this remark because of the sensational character of one or two somewhat recent newspaper receipts. A rattle-brained fellow, purporting to be the agent, or "commander," or something of the "Anarchists Circle" or the "Nation Dynamyters" or some similar philanthropic (?) scheme or "union," rushes through Lawrence, finds no support (of course), tries Topeka, gets eight or ten young men together—fully half simply to "see what's going on"—and at once writes to the "home organ" that he has met with marvelous success and finds "a large following among the students of the State University." And immediately two or three rural papers published in towns which have "Universities" of their own "endowed by the munificence of our generous and highly esteemed fellow-citizen, Hon. Blowhard Gasbag," edited by men who have never seen a University student, and who do not know the front door of the University from their own back gate, exclaim that "the University is honey combed with "Nihilism" and more and worse. And then the paragraph begins its weary round again.
Students of the University, all who know anything of the faculty and their work, are heartily sick of this sort of thing. It is even more silly and senseless, if such a thing can be, than the "Godless school business." There is not a student in these halls who is not constantly taught and trained that the world owes no man a living; that he must either work or go to the wall; that he must work hard and honestly and intelligently or go down; that the creative genius which brings such magnificent material results is a grand power and to be rightly used - that the accumulation of capital—in savings used productively—is desirable for all classes and for none more than the laborer; that competition—fair, full and free —is the best possible force in a community; that a man who whimpers and snarls because some one has more of this world's goods than he has, is a coward and a sluggard; and that the sovereignty of law, the preservation of order and the subordination by influence and reason whenever possible, but by force—swift, terrible and effective—whenever necessary, are cardinal conditions of all successful government, of all advancing civilization.
That's the kind of "communists" we are, gentlemen of the Kansas press; and that's the doctrine taught in our halls.
Our Welfare.
Will our "esteemed contemporaries" be as ready to copy this as they are to repeat the meddlesome tattle of peripatetic ignoramuses?
The friends of the University have every reason to congratulate themselves upon the generous treatment received at the hands of the legislature this winter. Though the amount asked for in the general appropriation bill was much larger than in former years, it was given—almost without an opposing vote. That there has been a change of feeling in the State in regard to the University there can be no doubt, and it is largely due to this increased feeling of confidence that it received such generous treatment. To the Douglas county delegates who worked so earnestly for us we record a full share of praise, and assure them of our hearty appreciation of their efforts; and in the same measure to the citizens of Lawrence who aided in bringing the matter fairly before the legislature.
Yet, above all is the fact that in the past few years the University has become more widely known; its influence has been extended, and its work become more familiar to the people of the State.
For the earnest and patient efforts of Chancellor Lippincott, who has devoted his time and energy towards bringing the University fairly before the people of the State, we owe more than we know, for the success finally attained. In the past few years the faculty have visited various parts of the State, and thus brought the University nearer to the people, while the students by their acts, their words, at home, abroad, have worked earnestly for their olma mater. All these forces together creating such a University sentiment in the State that the legislature freely acknowledged that what was asked was due to the institution, and should be given as a matter of duty, and not as a gratuity. It is unnecessary to say that the students as well as all others appreciate the work done, and will always remember those who have been instrumental in furthering the interests of our olma mater.
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To name all of those to whom we are indebted, would require too much space and be beyond our purpose, but among those who gave our interests special attention, we are pleased to record in the House of Representatives outside of our own city representative, Capt. J. N. Roberts, to whose uniting efforts we owe a great deal, ex-Governor Geo. T. Anthony, Messrs. Finch, Faulkner, Burton, Overmeyer, Collins and Slavens. In the Senate, Hon. Geo. Barker, Wm. Buchan and R. W. Blue.
Among non-members too much cannot be said of the work and zeal of our chancellor and Prof. Snow; Hon. Samuel A. Riggs, Col. John K. Rankin, Chas. Gleed, Paul Brooks, Hon. John Speer and Sheriff S. H. Carmean.
As to the press of the State as a whole, we owe our our most sincere gratitude. Never was institution more generously dealt with. None but the most complimentary editorial matter thereon came before our notice. To the dailies at Topeka, the Capital, Commonwealth und Journal, who from their localities could be of most service to us, are we especially indebted. To Messrs. Hudson, Baker and Wood, we extend our thanks. Last, but by no means least, to the
members of our worthy board of regents do we owe everlasting remembrance and glory.
Oread Election
Last Friday Oread hall was packed with an excited crowd. For weeks the storm had been brewing, and all things pointed to a lively contest. The literary program was an excellent one, but in the intense political excitement it did not receive the attention it deserved. Recess was the season for wirepulling and manipulating, and by the time the president called the society to order the feeling was at fever heat. Both sides felt confident, or seemed to feel so. The debate was passed over, and the president announced that under a special order came the election of a June program, and called for nominations for orator. Victor Linley and W. T. Little were placed before the society, and roll call began, and progressed amidst the greatest excitement. Five names were challenged, and the disputes over them brought a great deal of bad feeling From the first name Linley took the lead and maintained it to the end, the result being Linley, fifty-five; Little, forty-one.
The rest of the program was then selected, as follows: President of the Bayard evening, Cyrus Crane; debater, A. C. Markley; declaimer, Agnes Wright; essayist, Sadie Emery. This election was one of the hottest in K. S. U. history. There were more votes polled than ever before in any election in any class or society.
State Contest.
The programme at Emporia this evening will be as follows:
S. T. Gilmore,...State University Individual Manhood.
E. G. Buckland,...Washburn The Present Outlook.
Miss M. E. Cloud,...Ottawa The Jew of Fact, the Jew of Fiction.
Alfred Docking,...Emporia The Congo Conference.
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