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Owing to the fastly increasing demands being made upon the columns of the Courier, the business managers have found it necessary to enlarge our publication as per this issue. This we do with pleasure. We think we to-day present our readers with one of the best college weekly publications in the United States. We feel that the Courier is now a periodical of which the K. S. U. can well be proud. We have endeavored to make it so, and believe we have succeeded. Regarding the enlargement, we can only say that we are in this but the instrument of our patrons. We can promise nothing. If there is a demand for it, we in our desire to issue the best publication means will justify, will enlarge again. If present support does not continue, we frankly say we will cut down. The person sent however, the Courier will appear twenty columns in size.
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A circular to the alumni, dated October 20, and signed by the secretary of the association, W. C. Spangler, is principally notable for a malicious misstatement of fact as to the University papers. While we appreciate the value of our cotemporary from a literary standpoint, the enthusiastic support given the Courier by alumni and students is evidenced by our success. We are sorry to see the alumni association and its secretary used as a means to wilfully deceive. It will certainly result in no good. We cannot believe that the secretary prepared the paper, but rather think it the malicious venom of envious persons, who only use his official position as a screen to hide their own glaring hasness.
The musical department is taking a more prominent position in our University.
Under the leadership of Prof. McDonald, it promises to become as large as it is efficient. Rooms have been secured in the city for the convenience of the students, and the old course thoroughly revised, and requirements added.
To graduate in this department from K. S. U. will mean good earnest work for at least three years in the full course. Prof. McDonald is a man of talent and energy, and we are glad to note his present success, and prophesy that it will be continued in future. With an able man at the head of the department, and a corps of three assistants, there is no reason
why the musical department can not be as good as any of the special conservatovies.
Two years ago the Y. M. C. A. was established. During the comparatively, short time of its existence work has been done which is honorable and creditable to the extreme. The association now has a well furnished suite of four rooms, chapel, reading room, parlor and committee room. The general secretary, Mr. Burr, is an able and conscientious worker, deserving great credit for his labor and success. He has now been with the association one year. His services have been secured for another. In another column will be found his report, and from it the exact work of the association can be ascertained.
To a young man entering college it is of the highest importance that his first associations should be the best. To such the Y. M. C. A. offers advantages unexcelled. Its members are workers, and strive to carry out the plan of the association to carry the Christian work among young men. We recommend new students to attend the meetings, inquire into the objects and work, and if satisfied of the advantages, unite with the association.
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Through the "Views" column of three weeks ago attention was directed to the matter of having a military company at the University, to be in charge of a U. S. officer. Favorable criticism was passed, but the matter has temporarily, at least, been dropped. If the students really want to organize this, the only way is to agitate the matter with the faculty and regents.' At many of our state institutions such a system is in vogue. At Cornell there is a cadet corps and an artillery company. Major Burbank, who has charge of the military department, gives lectures on military science and the history of war. Target practice squads are organized, and many become proficient in the use of the rifle, who would otherwise remain unacustomed to fire arms. At Cornell all the rifles and ammunition for target practice or drill are furnished by the government, and all the expense of the cadets is for white gloves and ties for dress parade.
Do we want such an organization here? If so, let us work the matter up, and at once.
The need of a separate building for the natural history department is becoming apparent to not only students and towns people, but to those whom we designate as outsiders. The Topeka Capital calls attention to our needs in this line in a forcible editorial, and if the agitation is kept up we may expect to see a useful and ornamental building ready for occupancy by next September. But not only in the line of science do we need buildings, but for a library and a gymnasium. If the friends of K, S, U, really appreciate our needs in this direction, sufficient influence would be brought to bear with our legislators to accomplish those schemes for the upbuilding of our University.
The need of a building for a gymnasium cannot be questioned, and a building for library and reading room purpose is apparent. This building should be fire proof, though not necessarily very expensive. If the alumni and friends of the University will present and explain our needs to their prospective senators or representatives, we may expect as a result a liberal, munificent appropriation for the State Unievrsity.
We believe there would be a measure of wisdom in discontinuing the faculty reception. The conditions which favored its establishment have nearly all disappeared. When the plan originated the average classes were larger than now, and there was much less possibility of personal contact between instructor and instructed. Then very few students held over from year to year, and hence nearly all were strangers at the opening of the first session. There were but few societies and fraternities, and therefore very little opportunity for forming acquaintances. About all the students themselves were far less accustomed to general society and needed both a stimulus and guide.
Now a large number of old students are on the ground each year; the various social organizations give ample opportunity for entering at once into pleasant relations in many directions; students are much better posted in social requirements, and the larger number in attendance make the reception, necessarily, "a jam" in which almost no one can take even comfort, let alone enjoyment.
If the purpose for which these receptions were established has been accomplished, why should they not be dropped? It would certainly be no reflection on the faculty if this old-time custom were discontinued.
The plan of a Lecture Association must not be dropped. If ten or fifteen of those who are interested in the matter will unite, pledge their mutual support to each other, they will be endorsed by the body of students, and be enabled to establish such an association on a firm basis.
What the Courier Would Like to Know.
*If this issue is not a daisy.
*If backed by 300 of the 400 students in the University, it is not going to boom.
*If the two committees from the literary societies and the faculty committee on the Lecture Association should not be caged together until they agree upon some form of an organization.
*If the Gradatim is not to be re-organized.
*If its motto is not gaining ground as rapidly as could be asked.
*If the corporation is to be so deeply carmined to-night as is rumored.
$ ^{*} $ Ditto board of regents.
- Which now claims to be the most "powerful" fraternity in the K. S. U.
  *If the K. S. U. has not about as popular a faculty as any college in the country.
EXCHANGE.
A typographical blunder last week in ade us say just contrary to our intention, that Kappa Kappa Gamma had voted "to establish no more chapters in schools with higher grades than seminaries." On the contrary, the fraternity will establish no more chapters in schools having no higher grades than seminaries. We apologize for the mistake.
We appreciate the kind words which have uniformly come to us from our sister exchanges, and hope they will not have occasion to withdraw them.
Sol Miller has been writing poetry, and one of his completes reads as follows:
Lo! the poor Democrat
Whose beldid brain
Finds victory in Ohio,
Vermont and Maine.
How does Pat get over the state of single blessedness? He proposes to Bridge-it.
The Star Crescent, a monthly from King's College, Bristol, is on our table. Its locals are not well written, and are printed very poorly. Its literary department is well filled with good articles, while its editorial column is only fair. But considering the fact that the college has only forty-five students, the paper is very good.
A few weeks ago papers were circulated to ascertain the political views of the faculty and students in all the leading colleges in America. Answer has been received from fifty colleges, and we print a summary of it below. The number answering the questions in the affirmative are as follows:
Are you a Republican... 1784
Are you a Democrat... 881
If entitled to vote would you
vote for Mr. Blaine...
If entitled to vote would you
vote for Mr. Blaine ... 2160
If entitled to vote would you
vote for Mr. Cleveland.. 952
Has Blaine been proven dish-
honest ... 497
Has Cleveland been proven im-
moral ... 1285
Do you favor woman's suf-
frage. ... 414
Are you in favor of prohibition 1672
How many of the faculty of
your college will vote for
Blaine... 243
How many of the faculty of
your college will vote for
Cleveland ... 43
If entitled to vote, how many
students will vote for St.
John... 1
It will be seen from the above that Blaine's vote would be a little over two-thirds of the students and five-sixths of the faculty.
The Simpsonian, from Simpson College, is a neat and well printed monthly. Its departments are all well edited, the local and personal being especially good. The following sentences are taken from one of its editorials, and will apply in more cases than one: "That there is great advantage in good elecutionary drill, is an undeniable fact. But we believe that there has grown out of this instruction a certain school of oratory which has become the ridicule of the hearers, and the ruin of its disciples. Some students have either misapplied their instruction, or else the result of the instruction itself has been detrimental rather than advantageous. For certainly we have seen representatives of pretended merit in this line, who when speaking, act more like clock-work than men. We know no better appellation for this than machine oratory."
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The Hillsdale Herald, a weekly from Hillsdale College, is printed not only every week in the college year, but also every week during summer vacation. This is certainly an upward step in college journalism.
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