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MOTTO. — Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter.
Among the locals this week will be found several cat(o)logical squibs.
We hope all patrons of the Courier will enjoy their turkey. We, at least, will not have a crow diet.
The Courier always endeavors to keep ahead of the times, so here we are two days before our regular publication day.
--gentlemen, in the near future how nice it will be. We fear, however that the great ladies' school on the banks of the Hudson will ever remain such. Too bad!
The holidays which break into a term are generally disastrous in results upon study. It generally takes a week to recover from the effects.
By the way, does it look as though the business men were "frowning down" this "organ of a clique and faction."
There are still a few shares of COURER stock for sale. First come, first served. Secure your reserved seats in the COURER Company before it is "everlastingly too late."
The editorial in the COUCHER in regard to contests and prizes, has been favorably commented upon by several college journals. All agree in the many bad results which spring therefrom.
Reporters elected in the different societies will confer a favor upon us by handing in their reports as soon as possible after each meeting. We wish reports from every society and organization connected with the University.
The custom of passing students without examinations when a certain per cent. of term standing was obtained, has been introduced into several eastern colleges with advantage. Those of our professors who adopted it last year testify to the better results. Why was it abolished?
We hope that the girls of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, will not entrust themselves "to the mercy of such unworthy hands" as they ascribe to the now indignant medics.
Co-education is gaining ground both east and west. With such co-educational institutions as Cornell and Ann Arbor, there is little room for complaint from the fair sex. If Vassar and Smith will only admit
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As free as our University is from restraint, there is still one point in its management we wish were different.
Though great latitude is given, and the student is practically free, yet we have virtually a system of compulsory attendance at recitation and lecture.
With optional attendance at recitation, it is always with the understanding that at the end of the term there shall be exhaustive examinations in every subject of study for the term.
It would improve the school because it would necessitate the employment of such men as professors as were able not only to follow and correct a recitation with the text book before them, but to interest the student and give him enlarged views of the subject. It is well known that in our own institution learners are driven to some classes by University rules, like prisoners to their tasks, and for what? That they may graduate. Now if the attendance were optional, there would be a weeding out of some professors (?) or their recitation rooms would be vacant, and so the reputation of the institution mined.
The grade of students in the higher classes would be improved, because only the fittest would go through. Those who were attending to obtain a liberal education would apply themselves more assiduously than ever, and those who were attending because they were sent, would be dropped out, and probably circumstances would carry them to their own place. If the student knows that when the test comes it is to be searching and complete, he will make preparation (by some means) accordingly, and not trust to getting such questions as acceptable answers may be given to without much searching and definite knowledge.
In conclusion we would quote the words of an exchange: "Optional attendance at recitations would strengthen the characters of the young by exercising their judgments and making their own welfare dependent on their own decision."
It is, moreover, a fact that coercion in matters of education, after the boy has become a man, and the girl a woman, is worse than useless, and we have the Universities of France and Germany as examples of this system of optional attendance at lecture and recitation.
*Practical plans for an Athletic Association agitated, to culminate in a successful organization.
*The equal of this issue as a college paper.
What the Courier Would Be
Pleased to See.
*An "Amusement Association" formed, to take in hand a course of entertainments for the coming winter.
"The "chief" of the fraternity which claims to be the "most powerful in the K. S. U."
A roller skate polo club organized within the University, to compete with such teams as the state may offer the coming winter.
*The law department a little stronger than it is.
VIEWS.
EDITOR VIEWS.—I saw a communication in your last week's paper which hardly requires an answer. The writer seems to think that a doctor can become efficient in his profession without a knowledge of anatomy, and so raises a cry against dissection of animals. He should know that a text book does not begin to take the place of practical experience. That a good idea of the anatomy of a body cannot be obtained from a mere description, but the conscientious student will perfect himself in that branch with practical work in dessection. What would the kind soul think if a medical school turned out upon an unprotected public a crowd of "doctors" whose only knowledge of the human frame was obtained from a book? Methinks even he would prefer a medical attendant who knew for certain where was every bone, muscle and organ, and could judge of what was best for an injury or disease. Doc.
EDITOR VIEWS: In every literary contest between societies or single persons, there has always been great dissatisfaction with the judges' decision. Last June the literary societies tried with great success the plan of a joint exhibition. Now why not do away with the judges' decision in the other contest as well? Nothing comes of it except dissatisfaction and hard feeling. This subject has been spoken of before, but I would like to see it urged forward with success.
PAX.
EDITOR VIEWS:- Your last issue contains a call for a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, because the writer thereof has been informed that it is the practice in our University to starve and poison harmless animals in order to demonstrate old and well known facts, such as can be found in any text books.
The writer thereof was misinformed. I have taken pains to find the truth of this matter by interviewing Profs. Snow, Dyche and Bailey, and the medical and natural history students. I find these to be the facts:
1. No vivisection is, or has been, practiced.
3. Some cats and dogs are killed by chloroform, which is considered a painless death.
2. No animals are, or have been, starved.
4. No animal is tortured and none are killed without chloroform, except—
5. In toxicology, in the last half of the spring term, some poisons are given to a few cats that the medical students may note the effects, and thereby be able to save human life. These cats are killed as quickly as possible. For a justification of this experiment, see Prof. Bailey, or any doctor.
7. The Professors, and the medical and natural history students of our University, are not "unworthy hands."
6. No human subjects are dissected.
8. "The bravest are the tenderest," and the above gentlemen protest as strongly as "E.M." against needlessly inflicting pain, or wickedly cruel death, upon any animal.
J. D. McL.
EXCHANGE.
The Baldwin Index comes to us this year in a new form. It is much improved both inside and out. The spirit of will-it-please-the-faculty seems to pervade the whole paper. A college paper should try to throw off this feeling, and act in a perfectly independent manner.
The Normal News, from the Michigan Normal School, is on our table. It is an excellent paper in its line.
The October number of the Indiana Student is at hand. We think one small tragedy hardly enough literary matter for a monthly paper. According to the Student the "Barbs have made an ugly invasion at Kansas University, and captured the Courier." Not so, Mr. Student, the Barbs have only secured their rights and true position in college life.
We see by the Monmouth Collegian that a new paper, the Student's Journal, has been started at Bloomington, Ill. We will gladly welcome the Journal to our table.
Given, eight fraternities, three societies, two factions, one row. Required, the sum total of good and evil in terms of the greatest rationality. Indiana Student.
The University of Cairo is said to be 900 years older than Oxford. Ten thousand students are being educated there for missionaries of the Moslem faith.
Union College has conferred the degree of LL D. upon Pres, Arthur.
"Eighteen," says Pres. Porter, "is the proper age to enter college."
Ex-President Woolsey has offered his resignation as member of the Yale corporation, on account of his advanced age and increasing deafness. The venerable ex-president will be eighty-three years old on the last day of this month, and has been connected with the college almost continuously for sixty-seven years.
The melancholy month has come,
The sadest of the nine,
When we must keep the fires up.
Professor: Mr. Q., are all bodies compressible?"
Mr. Q. (sadly but decidedly): No sir, not everybody."
"We can never find the exact value of 'Pi.'" said the professor in mathematics, and the club man said it must be mighty small. He never found any value at all in the pie which he ate.
"What do you think of my mustache?" asked a young man of his girl.
"Oh, it reminds me of a western frontier city," was the answer.
"In what respect, pray?"
"Because the survey is large enough, but the settlers are straggling.
Prof. in Philosophy class : 'Miss W., why is the funny bone so named?'
Miss W. : "Why, doctor, because it is located so near the humerus."
University of Berlin has 5,888 students. One is sixty-nine years of age.
Why is a bicyclist like certain South American States? Because he is continually on the brink of a revolution.
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