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MOTTO. —Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter.
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The failure in the Lecture Association lay in the fact that there was no one to take the lead in the matter.
On third page we have the pleasure of presenting our readers a quite carefully prepared directory of the business houses of Lawrence. It is not wholly complete, but the greater part of the common wants of life can be supplied from the list as it appears.
--that of any one at Topeka during the session. Your work will make that of the University many times easier and surer than otherwise.
At different times in the history of our state all-knowing, would-be statesmen, have declaimed against a professor of the University taking part in a political canvass, or even advocating ideas which he in common with a great many held to be correct. As if the acceptance of a chair in the faculty robbed a man of his rights as a citizen and intelligent voter. On the contrary, a professor has the same right to assert his ideas and explain his position in matters in which he with other citizens is interested, as any other citizen of the state.
Before the election we refrained from advising the students in regard to voting, but we see no good reason why a student should be prohibited from voting on national issues, and we believe provision should be made for them in this state as well as in others.
On local issues there is no good reason for allowing them to vote, as they are not especially interested, and trouble may arise from their being allowed to vote for state senator here and at Baldwin. Some provision should be made by our state law to enable students to vote on national and state politics, but not on local.
We would reiterate our former appeal to the alumni and all who have at any time enjoyed the advantages of K. S. U. The senators and representatives who will make up the next legislature should be seen in the interest of the University Take time and go to, the member from your district, and lay before him the needs of your alma mater. Talk to him for liberal appropriations for the ensuing years, which will enable the University of Kansas to make further strides in the direction of progress. Talk to him of our already celebrated department of natural history, and the necessity for another building to accommodate it in its rapid growth. Your influence will be greater than
How frequent is the complaint, our University library "is so small." This is very true, but it is as choice as it is small. We have good reference books in history and sn science, and in literature there is a good collection. In looking through the alcoves we found several books, the leaves of which were uncut. A volume of De Quincy as yet unread, and as we clipped the pages of this master of descriptive English, we wondered if the above complainers realized what treasures were as yet unfolded, even in our comparatively small library.
By the way, what a pleasure it is to cut the leaves of a book. To you it is like exploring an undiscovered country; and if the ideas are separate the expectancy and surmise as to what is to follow, furnishes a pleasurable excitement. If you wish to test this there is ample opportunity, as there are many books still in the University library, the leaves of which have never been turned.
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Our motto, "Fraternity Rule Must be Broken," was chosen because we believed there was a call for such in the K. S. U. When such a state of affairs exists as did last year, where in an attendance of nearly 600 students the general college politics was controlled by less than 100 of such. When the college journal which we were asked to support was presented to us the first of this year, with a staff containing but one representative of this large body of non-fraternity students, we with a unanimous voice said something must be done. It was this state of affairs which gave and is giving the Courier the unprecedented support ever given a paper in the University, which we are now receiving. It is this support which has placed the Courier within the list of six at least, of the best weekly college papers in the United States. We say this without ostentation: our issue of last week surpassed any one of these, our competitors, in general merit of news matter and artistic make up.
"The advancement of the Cotrier is unprecedented." This is true, but is only the natural sequence of affairs as they existed. A more enterprising body of students than those of the K. S. U., are not in a college in the country. There have been run with the support of but one-third to one-fifth of them, one and two very creditable magazines, for years. When the Cotrier then organized so that it received four times this support, why should it not take this front rank! This answers itself. We say the fraternities of the K. S. U., with the policy they have sustained for years past, have been a blight to student's enterprise. Throttled now in their "rule," the old "rut" lost, the K. S. U. will in future be known more of in our eastern colleges.
Billiards may be a fascinating subject, but we would remind the "Boys" that "to much of a good thing is too much." Try some other topic for a time, and give billiards a little rest.
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The editor of the Views column would request any student or alumnus interested in the University to freely use this column to express his ideas as to the necessities, advantages, conduct, etc., of the University.
VIEWS
EDITOR VIEWS:—A man who expects to take any active part in political life ought to have a good knowledge of parliamentary law. I suppose three-fourths of our students have aspirations in that line. In the University course there is no provision for such training, and the average student completes his work with at most but a very scant idea of parliamentary law. The literary societies are supposed to partially fill this want. But the facts are that there is not only very little such drill, but whenever there is any, there are but a few who take part. The great majority of the members sit back "tired" at the noisy demonstrations, and the few who do take an interest will override Roberts, the constitution and common decency, if they have a majority. So in common with a number of other students, with whom I have spoken on the subject, I think that a class in parliamentary law, under a competent instructor, would be a popular and useful addition to the curriculum. No outside study would be required, and the class need meet but twice a week, so other studies need not be slighted. OREAD.
EDITOR VIEWS:—I dislike to ask so frequently for the use of your columns, but as you seem willing to hear from all of the "Boys," I beg leave to answer a couple of articles in your last issue in regard to billiards.
The first writer indulges in another tirade of abuse against those who play billiards, and applies his adjectives as vigorously as indiscriminately. Again let me repeat my remark, that billiard playing carried to excess is injurious. So is studying, athletic exercise and society, all of which the gentleman would no doubt defend when carried on in a temperate manner. The objections which he urges do not apply at all to my argument.
The second champion writes all around the subject, much to his own satisfaction, and finally concludes with a sweeping statement about the degrading character of billiards. He also is looking at the extreme case, to which I object.
I do not write this as an argument,
but merely to show how the fearless
champions have been setting up straw
men and knocking them down, each
time exclaiming, "See what a big boy
am 1." SAME OLD BOY.
AN OLD "BARB."
EDITOR COURTER:—Am pleased to see the generous support you are receiving from the non-fraternity element of the University. Of course you deserve this, but against the "frats" it has always been hard work to continue heretofore. But you are "downing" them now. Is not another point against them that they have attempted to build up an aristocracy, making those who could not get into them feel as though they were not in the first rank socially of the University? This was nonsensical, of course, but has it not been so?
EXCHANGE.
The Swarthmore Phenix, from Penn., is on our table. It is a monthly, and is well filled with interesting literary articles.
The Michigan Argument is the best weekly received by us. This week's edition is taken up largely with reports of class elections. We see that they have a lecture association, and that a good lecture course has been decided upon. The course contains the following well known lecturers: Wendling, Beecher, Schurz, Proctor, Gath, etc.
The Badger keeps up its usual good standing. The Ephraim letters are getting a little old now, and should not be continued much longer.
As a rule college professors do but little talking in their classes. Recitations that may be rendered pleasant and attractive are usually dull and uninteresting. A good lecture or a square talk once or twice, a week would be of much interest to the students, and would offer a very pleasant variation from the regular grind.
One hundred and ninety college papers are published in the United States.
Of the 320 colleges and Universities in the U. S., but 24 have more than 200 students, and only 17 have more than 20 teachers.
We have received the University Press from Madison, Wisconsin. It is a neat sixteen page weekly. The University of Wisconsin is to be congratulated on having two such good papers as the Press and the Badger.
The Bethany Collegian is a fourteen page monthly from Bethany college. It is a little dry in the literary columns, but we like its general make up.
The Occident comes to us this week, bright and newsy as we say.
We take the following sentences from the Fortnightly Index, Madison, Wisconsin, and they apply as well in Kansas as in Wisconsin: "Have professors in state Universities the same political rights as other people? Are they at liberty to vote and argue according to their convictions, just as the coachman and farmer is free to do? However obvious the affirmative might appear on national grounds, there seems to be people who object to the appearance of such professors in the political arena. The state has never undertaken to prescribe opinions for a literary educated man, nor to suppress the expression of them. A professor holds his opinion, and would like to see them prevail simply because he is interested in the well being of the state and of humanity, and not because he expects to share any in the spoils of a political victory. We are weary of the spectacle of two-cent editors swinging the lash over the heads of citizens who understand their duties as well, and perform them as conscientiously as any of the public servants."
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