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WEEKLY University Courier.
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY COURIER COMPANY Every Friday Morning.
J. SULLIVAN.
President. | T. F. OAKLEY.
Sec'y.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
B. C. PRESTON, '87, Editorial.
T. F. DORAN, '87,
VICTOR LINLEY, '85,
NETTE BROWN, '86,
CARRIE FISHER, '87.
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MOTTO.—Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken.
Entered at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kansas, as second class matter.
Salutatory.
With this issue the new staff takes charge of the Courier. We hope our efforts to present a readable, newsy weekly will not only be successful, but appreciated.
College journalism at best is usually disappointing, and the encouragement of endorsement is all that is expected.
With a staff of eight editors, two devoted to Local, three to Personal, one to Views and one to Exchanges, we hope to glean all that is fresh and interesting.
The department of Views is open, as it ever has been, to THE STUDENTS, for favorable or unfavorable criticism of topics of general interest. This department can be made readable, and be the reflex of student's views, if you will cooperate with the editor of this department.
For our cotemporary we have none but the kindliest feelings, believing, however, that our sphere is essentially different. That of the Review, to "place college literature upon a higher plane." of the Courier, "to gather the local news and be the reflex of students views." That this present "era of good feeling" may continue, is hoped, and it will not be broken by the editor of this department.
In the St. Joe Herald and Kansas City Journal the statement is made that "an independent spirit is cropping out in state politics." These statements are accompanied by many expressions of disgust and ridicule from the Kansas City Times.
An "independent spirit" in Missouri would certainly be a curiosity. Such a thing was never seen within its boundaries. The people there don't know what the first symptoms of the sensation resembles. An "independent spirit" in Missouri would be fully as great a rarity as one of her "prominent" Democrats.
Independence, prominence and Missouri are not interchangeable terms by a good deal. Quinine, whisky and ignorance do much better in the climate of Missouri.
There is seriously, about as much probability in the election of Nicholas Ford over the ex-rebel Marmaduke, as that the ghost of Missouri's favorite son, the late Mr. J. James, will stump the state for the Democratic candidate. The late Mr. J. James' brother, the Hon. Frank, is doing good service in the campaign.
We would cite these members of the F. F. M.'s as fair representatives of Missouri independence and culture.
The student who has been "traveling in the interest" of some publishing company is straggling in. He usualy ywears a flashy, checkered suit and a bland smile, but he is by no means affluent. That weird, wild look in his deep blue eyes is caused by his hard struggle with pinching poverty. When these poor student book agents look piteously into the face of the farmer's wife and recite how they are "working their way through college," how can she resist the temptation to promise to take the book.
This may be charged as editorial ridieule, but it does seem that University students could find better employment in vacation than peddling books. The constant begging, abject servility and wretchedness that agents are obliged to assume in order to get their customers to purchase books—at four prices—and containing the most unreliable information ever published, is, to say the least, scarcely elevating. What induces people to buy these books? Is it for their worth? Rather is it the far-away look in the agent's eyes, the wretchedness of his attire, the nervous restlessness of his actions, superinduced by the uncertainty as to where the next meal is to come from, that almost compells you as a generous being to buy a book of the poor man, and pay from $5.00 to $10.00 for $1.50 worth of poor typography and worse grammar.
We in this issue have the pleasure of presenting to the public the entire management of THE WEEKLY COURIER, consisting of a president, secretary, four editors and one business manager, non-fraternity men, with the motto "Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken." We salute especially the non-fraternity element of the University, asking at least your good will,
if not as we believe we deserve, your most earnest support.
Exchanges.
Again the Occident comes from the golden slope, and is well filled with interesting reading. It seems to be the student's paper at Berkeley.
Our sister weekly, The Badger, from Wisconsin, comes to us in a slightly new form. The editorial and miscellany columns are excellent, but the local displays a lack of originality.
The Harvard Adrocate is the best type of an eastern college journal. These eastern papers are filled with glowing descriptions of base ball, foot ball matches and boat races. The western journals contain literary society proceedings and grave arguments on lecture associations and the marking system, Id interest.
The Colby Echo is the best edited paper we have met with. Its departments are well and ably managed, and show hard work.
There are sixteen fraternities represented in the University of Virginia—the largest number at any one college in the country.
A Texas steer was loose in the street at the West End, in Boston, the other day, and it is unnecessary to say more of the way things were going on. A sick man in the house heard the disturbance, and, looking up wearily at his nurse, said, "I do wish that Harvard student would go home."—Wooster Collegian.
Professor—"What is fraud?" Student—"Taking willful advantage of a person's ignorance." Professor —"Give an example." Student—Why-er-er-one of your examinations "—Ex.
Professor of Political Science→ "Mr. D., suppose you discovered that a quantity of dynamite had been put beneath your dining-room, and that you were to be blown up at your usual dinner hour, what action would you take to frustrate the conspirators!" Mr. E.——"I should dine-a-mite earlier."—Ex.
The Vanderbilt Observer is the last exchange received before going to press. The editor-in-chief is evidently a good, substantial man. In his salutatory he states plainly and emphatically that the paper is in the hands of no clique or faction, and that nothing will cause its managers to deviate one hair's bredth from their line of convictions concerning right and wrong. The editorials are well and sensibly written. The exchange man is evidently alive to his duty. He has given a fair and impartial review of the papers noticed. We have faith in his judgment and ability. On the whole, we are very well pleased with the Observer, and tender it a hearty welcome.—Illini.
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