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WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN,
President.
F. T OAKLEY,
Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
B. C. PRESTON, 'S7. Editorial.'
F. W, BANNES, 87.
ELA ROPE, '87.
W. L, KERK, '81.
C. PRIESTHON, '83.
F, D. FOLAN, 87,
VICTOR LINLEY, 88,
NETTIE BROWN, 86,
CARRIE FISHER, 87
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The Courier is run in the interest of the Kansas State University. It is published by THE STUDENTS. It has received, and is receiving no favors nor courtesies from regents nor faculty. It is supported by pure business enterprise. Its advertising columns and subscription list is paying its way, and its managers good profit. As representative of the students of the K. S. U., we are proud of it.
Notwithstanding'the lack of courtesy extended us by the "Powers," with magnanimity we this week, having the interests of the K. S. U. "nearest the core of our hearts," place the names of the members of the legislature on our subscription list free. They meet next month, and have the welfare of our school in their hands.
Arrangements are under way for the enlargement of our publication from January 1st on. We will then stand without peer as a weekly college publication in the United States. So much for the enterprise of the students of the K. S. U.
The State legislature meets next month. The appropriations for our school, for its maintenance for the next two years, are in their hands. We have nothing to fear of fair appropriations being made without discussion. But with the growth of our State to-day, we wish they would be a little more liberal than they have been for the past few years. Statistics from colleges of other states much less able from financial resources, make them show us far behind in the line of appropriations. We believe lack of information on these matters is really all that has kept them so. Were they shown in their full bearing we would have nothing to fear.
a fairer, more enterprising and less prejudiced body of men as a whole than the legislature of a western state, could not be brought together.
"The heart is all right ; inform the head, and all is well."
Information—a full and clear understanding of the wants, and what are now becoming needs of our University, is all that is wanted to secure from our legislature, we believe, free and liberal appropriations.
From the Lawrence Herald-Tribune: THE UNIVERSITY COURIER came out this morning full of interesting news in the local columns, while the
editorial page contained a well written editorial on the duty which students owe the University in speaking a good word to their representatives and senators, in behalf of the University. Much good can doubtless be accomplished in this way. It is to be hoped that the representatives from this county will study the University and its needs, and be prepared to defend it during the coming session of the legislature. The ignorance displayed by some of the members in some previous sessions was a disgrace to themselves and their constituents.
The COURIER asks the lenience of its readers for this one transgression of its characteristic modesty. We cannot forbear for once letting you see what others say and think of us.
From the Lawrence Gasette of the 6th, from the pen of the Hon. excongressman Sidney Clark, we clip:
THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER, published by the UNIVERSITY COURIER company every Friday morning, comes regularly to our table, and is brim full of interesting matter. The business managers of the paper are John Sullivan, president of the company, and W. Y. Morgan. The editorial staff consists of B. C. Preston, T. F. Doran, Victor Linley, Nettie Brown, Carrie Fisher, F. W. Barnes, Ella Ropes and W. L. Kerr. The paper is intellectually bright in all its departments, and the young gentlemen and ladies who so ably conduct its affairs have the right to feel proud of its great success. The COURIER, in the vigor of its editorials, and in the variety of its personal matter, is not a whit behind the University papers of Harvard and Yale
We wish to call the attention of our many readers to the appropriation bill as presented by the Regents, as it appears in "Regent's Report."
A study of this bill, in comparison with some statistics given below, which show the comparative expenses and requirements of six leading Universities, including Kansas State University, will show that the Regents of the University are not asking too much of the state, nor even enough, in comparison to the amounts appropriated to other institutions of like standing, by the states to which they belong.
These statistics are princepally from last year:
lor receives less than any of those compared, save one; our professors less, and assistant professors less; while the are required to teach a greater number of hours per week and a greater number of students in each of their classes.
This table shows that our chancel-
This last militates directly against that special work which it is the policy of all other institutions to promote in their facilities, thereby adding to the reputation of the institutions, and to their ability to do first class work. Harvard recognizes a broader policy than any other University in this respect; and gives each member of the faculty one year in seven entirely free from University work (with salary continued), for special investigation and original effort. The result of this is manifest in the high standing of the University.
The table also shows that our library—the laboratory of all departments—containing the smallest number of volumes, receives least money to increase the number. It shows that though Kansas State University is third in the scale of years, it expends less money than any of these six Universities, because it receives less.
No report.
Considering these facts, the Board of Regents ask for greater appropriations for the coming year than for previous years; but their demands, as may be seen by the table, is not in proportion to the demands of similar institutions.
Now Kansas had a greater increase in population than any other state, and as wealth in a western state increases in proportion to the increase in population, Kansas has had a greater increase in wealth than any other state, and is therefore better able to cope with other states in higher institutions of learning.
The $50,000 extra for a hall of natural history, is an appropriation which is necessary for the preservation and growth of one of the most valuable departments of our institution—a department which has already outgrown the meagre space allotted to it in its earlier days, trespassing seriously on the space required, and which any other department demands a hall with suitable accommodations for the display and usefulness of its valuable collections, now packed away in inaccessible places.
We now wait the wise action of our state legislature; but judging from the past, have no fears that the representatives of the people of Kansas, who are so proud of their institution of learning, which attracts the most intelligent class of citizens to within her borders, will allow the Kansas State University to long remain at the bottom of the list in comparison with other State institutions.
A prominent young business man of the city, to be married soon, has a novel way of bidding for wedding presents. He writes his wealthy friends, sending them a small gift on one plea and another. Being a poor scribe, however, he engages others to do his writing. He then grumbles about the charges for such labor. Appreciating the high artistic talent of the members of the Courier staff, the services of one was asked in this line last week. A bill was sent, but no returns have been received as yet. We cannot allow our staff to be imposed upon in this way. If no returns next week, we will be heard from more definitely.
EXCHANGE.
We are glad to receive the Cornell Era, a weekly from Cornell College. The subscription price is $2.50 per year, which is higher than any other college paper we have seen.
The Dennison Collegian is a monthly from Granville, Ohio. Its literary department is not what is to be expected from a monthly magazine. Its local columns are well filled with bright and newsy items.
The fight still goes on between the Illini and the local Democratic paper at Champaign, Ill. We will bet on the Illini, as the editor seems quite handy with the quill when he gets on his war paint.
The Bethany Collegian comes to us this month much improved, both externally and internally.
Tiny little letter
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Answer questions hard.
So the little ponies
Glanced at on the sly,
Make the naughty Freshmen
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A writer in the Vanderbilt Observer says that the number of colleges in the south is enormous; but out of this immense number very few have advantages sufficient to justify the name they hold, yet "all of them stand up with the dignity, gravity and majesty of learned bodies, and confer degrees and bestow diplomas equal in outward respects to those of Yale. The smallest institution in the south confers the degree of M. A., yet a student with that appulation from one of the most prominent colleges recently proved himself a most miserable failure in the lower classes of Vanderbilt University."—College Rambler.
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