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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE STUDENTS.
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Address all communications to F. H. SMILEY, or CHAS. L. SMITH, Business Managers.
Lock Box 197, Lawrence, Kan.
GREETING.
The WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER greets its old friends, and hopes to make the acquaintance of all the new students. The paper is issued forty times during the college year, is devoted solely to local news, is run in the interest of the whole body of students and is furnished for the great sum of fifty cents per year. "Locals," "Personals," society gossip and "Views," will be gladly received from all. Literary disquisitions are not desired, and will not be accepted.
To the Business Men.
We owe many thanks to the Lawrence business men for their generous patronage, in the face of most disreputable opposition and misrepresentation regarding the Courier, and we trust we have given all "value received." As a prominent merchant said, "so much attention has been called to the Courier by this boycotting business, that it is the best advertising medium we have." We desire to treat all fairly, and be treated fairly.
Give Us a Change.
To entreat certain society members to stop squabbling, is like asking babies not to cry—the advice is good but not likely to be taken. We beg these belligerents, however, if the contests must be kept up, to conduct them in a gentlemanly manner. If political ends must be reached, do it by parliamentary tactics and shrewdness, and not by personal abuse. Finally, have enough respect for members who desire good work to allow them to have their literary programs first. Then do your fighting after they have gone.
The Immaculate Independents.
Nothing is doing more to bring collegiate education into disrepute with the American people than the attempt of certain professors in eastern colleges to arrogate to themselves the dictatorship of national politics; and failing in this, to attempt the assassination of the party they pretend to embrace.
If the tendency of all our colleges was to make students despise the common laborers of the land, frown on originality, berate American political economy, carp at our administrative methods, ape English customs and toady to the politicians of rival nations, then the question might well be raised, "Is not our collegiate education a farce?"
Happily, however, colleges are but the mirrors of the localities in which they are located. Within the shadow of Bunker Hill they have all the haughty arrogance of superfine and hypocritical Boston. In Kansas and the west they have all the liberality, enthusiasm and good fellowship of our people—the "western rowdies" and "cowboys."
When the common sense of this country ceases to rule, and the educational goods of Harvard and Yale begin their dictatorship, we may expect the sun to revolve around the earth, and the earth to pay like homage to its sister, the moon. Meanwhile, don't be alarmed.
Gone.
To our inquiries for absent students we often receive the answer, "O, he's got into business, but will return next year." But he will not return. The enchantment of money-making is too great. Whatever may be their thoughts now, a year hence those students will find their love for money greater than their love for college. More money, they think, can be made by continuing at work. Twenty years hence they will learn their mistake, but it will then be too late.
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Vacation has at least one good effect—it makes the boys forget their petty society animosities, and remember only that they are students bound together by the ties of college fellowship. The vacation grip is always a warm one. A few weeks of school, however, will revive the old time ill-feeling. "Why should such things be?"
For new students, unacquainted with the origin and aims of the UNIVERSITY COURIER, we restate our principles :
1. One-half the shares fraternity, one-half non fraternity.
2. One-half the editorial staff fraternity, one-half non fraternity men.
3. Representation to all desiring it.
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Two anonymous articles have been consigned to the waste basket of the "Views" editor. One was a screed against a popular student, and the other a history of the recent attempt to sell out the Courier. Writers' names will not be published, but must be furnished the "Views" editor.
The UNIVERSITY COURIER comes out Friday morning. Fifty cents a year.
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In the mid-summer edition of the Courier was an article under this head, advocating a renewed interest in this branch.
Athletics.
We wish to call the attention of new students and old, to the fact that we have an Athletic Association, and that it is deserving your hearty support. By good earnest work we can have a boat club added to our base ball and foot ball teams before winter.
In reference to field day, here is a suggestion that we think worthy of consideration: As we had no field day sports last spring, why not have our field day this fall. It is the custom in many institutions to have both a fall and spring field day. On election day all patriotic students could enter some of the sports, as the supporter of their favorite candidate, and if the association will take vigorous action, we can soon expect a day of sports that will be a credit to our University. To the officers elected last year we would say, work for the general success of the Association, and we are confident that it will succeed.
Y. M. C. A. Notes.
The Association rooms are being rearranged and refitted for the work of the coming fall and winter. The large hall will be thrown open through the week as a reading and reception room, and the secretary's desk will also be placed in this room. The old reading room will be used as a chapel for the smaller meetings of the Association. The hall-way will be closed and used for a store room, and the front hall-way will be neatly carpeted. The parlor will remain as it has been, and the former office will be used for a committee and conversation room, and as the headquarters of the Douglas County Bible Society.
The Association holds a gospel meeting for everybody in the large hall, every Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock; a young men's meeting, for young men only, in the small chapel, on Friday evening, at 8 o'clock; and a daily meeting in the chapel, every day, from 4 to 4:30.
The Iron Clad Gallery proposes to grant such reduction on prices to students as will compell their attention. Call and see samples and prices.
New classes in all the departments at the Business College will be organized Monday, September 15th. Call at the office for particulars, or address Boor & McLravy.
H. L. Alkire is studying medicine in Dr. Holland's office in Atchison.
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