WEEKLY University Courier.
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What has become of the Kansas State University Athletic Association, and who is going to pay its debts? Several of our merchants are making this inquiry.
There is a faculty rule that a tardiness shall be marked the same as an absence or failure. The absurdity of the rule has led to an almost entire disregard of it. No matter how well a man recites, he is to be marked zero. The rule was a mistake, and should be repealed.
The Courier, though not in any sense a political organ, takes the opportunity of paying its respects to the incoming administration. Vive le President! should be the shout of every student of K. S. U., regardless of party distinction, but at the same time he should not let his enthusiasm reach that pitch which would make him forget to pay his subscription for the Weekly University Courier.
The COURIER comes to the Athletic Association once more and asks why its debts are not paid.
There are officers of that organization attending the K. S. U. who should look after this matter.
These debts were contracted in good faith, and should be paid.
This matter is a disgrace to the University, and the Courier, as the students' paper, can not defend such dilatory actions. Gentlemen! provide a means for these obligations.
--become professional teachers; in fact, more than in any other profession. Is it not true then, that they should be provided with this higher Normal training which they will be deprived of with the removal of the Normal department. Many of our best colleges have long felt the need, and where there has been no Normal school or department attached to the college, there has been established in quite a number a chair of pedagogy. The Courier would gladly see the Normal department remain, but if this cannot be, then give us a means of getting that higher Normal training which is so essential to the teacher's profession.
Our present legislature has left the Normal department without its usual appropriation. The board of regents have the money and power of course, to come to its relief. A few facts respecting the results of higher Normal training in the K. S. U., might not, perhaps, be out of place at present, under the existing circumstances. It is true that a large per cent. of the collegiate graduates from K. S. U.
At a discussion before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, there arose a debate between President Elliot, of Harvard, and President McCosh, of Princeton. The following extracts from President Elliot's remarks show clearly his ideas as to the advisability of recognizing the manhood and honor of the student, instead of binding him down with iron rules:
"I hope to convince you that a University of liberal arts and sciences must give its students three things: Freedom in choice of studies, opportunity to win academic distinction in single subjects or special lines of study, and a discipline which distinctly imposes on each individual the responsibility of forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct.
The pretended paternal or sham monastic regime of the common American college seems to me to bring out the childishness rather than the manhood of the average student. The progressive argument is: Adapt college policy to the best students, and not to the worst."
The reason generally given for this departure from the old rule is that there are certain men who must be bound by iron rules and compelled to study, if any work is to be done by them, and to reach these, rules must be made to apply to all the students of the University. In reply to these arguments President Elliot says:
"It is often asked what becomes of the elective system on careless or lazy boys? I answer what became of such boys under the old system? Within my own observation they got no profit to speak of. It really does not make much difference what their unawakened minds dwaddle with anhow."
"A University must permit its students, in the main, to govern themselves. It should be placed in or near a city of considerable population so that its officers and students can always enjoy the refined pleasures and restraints of a highly cultivated society. It must have a body of students, and these two conditions make it practically impossible to deal with them on any bases of village school discipline. A student's protection must be within him. It is a distinct advantage of the genuine University method that it does not pretend to maintain any parental or monastic government. Its moral purpose should be to train young men to self-control and self-reliance through liberty. Such a University is the safest place in the world for young men who have anything in them. They live in a bracing atmosphere; good companionships invite them; books engage them; helpful friends surround them; pure ideals are held up before them; ambitions spur them, and honors await them."
In conclusion he said·
Wanted, a Settlement.
Last Spring a few ambitious young men who saw that they could not be supreme dictators to the policy of the University Courier, formed the brilliant scheme of a "consolidation" with the Kansas Review. After trying all legal means to carry out this desired project, but still failing to convince the Courier company that its interests lay in the advancement of these brilliant schemes, they sought by arbitrary, unfair action to force their design upon that organization. By a vote of less than a majority of the stock, all property and effects of the Courier company were turned over to the new company, and rights of the stockholders who refused to sell principle or be bulldozed into acquiescence, were violated in a shameless manner, with the insolent answer to all protests: "Well, what are you going to do about it?"
But this time the actors in that roaring farce of alleged consolidation probably see what was done about it. The Courier survived the assaults of enemies and the stabs of traitors, and to-day is acknowledged as the students' paper and as the representative of the University.
And now we are obliged to call attention to a subject which we have before avoided because we have thought that possibly it might be settled without any open discussion. After waiting some nine months for the business managers of last year's Courier to come forward with their often promised settlement, we feel called upon to demand in the name of those to whom they owe such, and for the honor and good reputation of the Courier, a full, fair and open settlement.
At the beginning of this school year every effort, honorable and dishonorable, was made to cripple and weaken the Courier. A notice was published over the signature of last year's business managers asserting that the Courier was no more; that they would meet all obligations, collect all debts due the company and settle up the affairs at an early date. The glaring falsity of the first part of this declaration was only equalled by that contained in the last. We have waited nearly a year for the fulfillment of this promise, and still seen to be no nearer to it.
The business managers said they would redeem all shares at two dollars each. Presumably they have collected all the money owing to the company which can be. By the statement of one of them they have had money enough to redeem the stock for some time, and yet they do not do so. They promised to settle all debts, yet scarcely a week passes but our present managers are confronted by bills contracted last year. Most of these have been paid by the present company because of the moral effect which such long standing indebtedness would have upon our credit. But in the name of justice we ask if this is right.
We have waited long before making this public demand in the hope that all was right. It would not be just to the old company or to the new to wait longer. We call upon the business managers of the University Courier company for last year to explain themselves, and clear away the suspicion that something is rotten in this State of Denmark.
EXCHANGE.
Columbia men "cut" when the Prof. is five minutes late.
Harvard's income is $1,500,000.
The Crescent contains an '86 man' description of his "Trip to Hades," Sambo: "What do dey pass dat hat for?"
Cuftee: "To get the sense ob de meetin'." — Sun.
A young lady who was blamed for allowing her glove to be found in a young gentleman's pocket, excused herself by saying she had no hand in it—Ex.
The Hamilton College Monthly, like others of the sex, doesn't look as well in everyday clothes as it did in holiday attire. But still we are "mashed."
Michigan University is in luck. C, H. Buhl, of Detroit, has added 5,000 volumes to its law library, and the legislature is about to vote an appropriation for a new gymnasium.
The offer of $300,000 for the establishment of a university in or near New Yor City, for the higher education of the Catholic ministry, made some time ago by a young lady of that city, has been accepted.
The Transcript from W. U. is filled with state oratorical contest news. A. G. Greenlee, of Wooster University, will represent Ohio in the interstate contest. His subject is: "Ancient and Modern Liberty."
Sixty Harvard Freshmen have abandoned their Latin, eighty their Greek, and one hundred their mathematics. None of them, however, have dropped their base ball or boating, and college culture is therefore safe. — *Ex.*
The regents of the University of Wisconsin have decided to replace the Science Hall, which was lately almost entirely destroyed by fire, by a new building worth $150,000, and to build several other new buildings, at a total expense of about $295,000.
The Cornell Era complains because Cornell is taking a backward step toward the parental system of college government. Harvard college is rapidly adopting the elective system of choosing studies, and abandoning the old cast iron rules.
A man in a sleeping-car went through a terrible accident, in which the car rolled down an embankment, without waking. It was noted, however, that as the car struck the bottom, he murmured, "Don't, Jane; I'll get up and start the fire."—Ex.
"Experience may be a good teacher," remarked a clergyman, as the contribution box was returned to him empty; "but the members of this particular flock who have experienced religion have accomplished it at a very trifling cost. The choir will sing the sevety-ninth him, omitting the first, three and fourth verses, in order to save unnecessary wear on the organ.
—New York Sun,
A number of exchanges criticize the Illini for its expression of political views. We beg to differ with those wise men. A college paper should be a student's paper. What the students think, believe and say should appear in its columns. The effective editorials of the Illini are a relief, after turning over pages of alleged editorial wash, which make many college journals tedious.
The Delaware Transcript is again taken up with the discussion of the fraternity question,—this time in an able article headed "One Phase of College life." For a year or two this college has been in a bitter state of feudalism from a malignant animosity between competing fraternities, and frats and anti-frats. Many hard blows were exchanged on both sides, and doubtless many life long enmies made. The writer alluded to handles his subject with a clear mind and brings forward argument against fraternity dominance which is very forcible. The burden of his argument is the great estrangement of good men, and the injustice done by wirepulling in elections by competing fraternities, giving offices to those incapacitated to fill them, and who are but the tools in the hands of their respective organizations, in their objective ends, and suppressing the prominence of, in many instances, more worthy talent, but which is not identified with them. From this, and other writers on this side of the question, we are led to suspect that, from some cause or other, be it frat or anti-frat, the brotherly love which might be expected to prevail in the Ohio Wesleyan is below par. This is not so everywhere, and hence all fraternities could scarcely be condemned on account of Delaware's grievances. But it is manifest that in this case the fraternity is the agitating evil, and there is little hope of ever a reconciliation of feeling until such unwarranted partisanship is supplanted by justice and charity. Worth and merrit always have and always will carry the palm, let associations be what they may.—Bethany College.
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Her brother's.
Who, when I call upon my dove,
Site by the register above
And listens to our tales of love!
Her brother.
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