EDITORIAL.
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The University Review.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY,
BY THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY.
All Communications for THE UNIVERSITY REVIEW should be addressed to the Managers, Lawrence, Ks.
Entered at Lawrence Post Office as second class matter.
All those who have not paid their subscriptions for the REVIEW will please do so immediately. BUSINESS MANAGERS.
For the last three months the question of consolidating the Kansas Review and University Courier, has been agitated with varying intensity. Innumerable committees have met and considered articles of confederation and reported to their respective companies. The question has been discussed by them both pro and con, and in a broad and liberal manner from almost every point of view, and to a majority of the members of both companies, who were intimately connected with the management, or who knew what it requires to keep a college paper up to a creditable stand-point, that consolidation would further the best interests of all. Consequently a joint meeting was held the 22d of May and resolutions of consolidation were adopted and presented to the two companies for ratification. Both companies accepted the work of the joint meeting and dissolved. The following is the constitution of the new company:
1. The name of this corporation shall be the Kansas University Publishing Company.
2. This corporation is formed for the purpose of publishing a paper, to be known as the UNIVERSITY REVIEW.
2. The place where the business of said corporation shall be transacted, is in the city of Lawrence, County of Douglas, State of Kansas.
4. This corporation is to exist for twenty-five years.
5. The number of directors of this corporation shall be five.
6. The amount of capital stock of said corporation, is two hundred and fifty dollars, and the number of shares into which it is divided is one hundred, which shall be held only by students of the University of Kansas; provided, that the members of the same secret society shall not hold collectively, more than
ten shares of stock, and, further, that no person shall hold more than two shares of said stock.
7. The management of the UNIVERSITY REVIEW shall devolve upon an editor-in-chief, six editors and two managers.
8. The editor-in-chief and editors shall be elected on the first Monday in May, by a majority vote of all the students present, of the four collegiate classes of the University of Kansas, (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior,) who have paid into the treasury of the Kansas University Publishing Company, a full year's subscription to the paper for the current year and before the 15th day of April, of the year in which such election takes place; provided, that the editor-in-chief and two editors shall be chosen from the stockholders, and that each stockholder shall have a vote; and further, that no one shall vote by proxy in such election.
10. All the above officers shall hold their positions for one year, from the first of July following the date of their election.
9. The managers shall be elected by a majority vote of the stockholders, and from their number on the same date as the directors.
11. It shall require a two-thirds vote of the stockholders to change this instrument.
This constitution needs no champion, it speaks plainly, clearly and fairly for itself. It voices the sentiments of a large majority of the students in the University, and may be said to be the result of six or seven years of experimenting in college papers. It is the intention of the company to publish a paper of which any college might be proud, and with the ability of the two, united upon one, this can be done. The literary department will be given special attention, and it is hoped to obtain a reputation that will make it an honor to any one to have his article appear in it. The locals and personals will be represented in a conservative manner, minus the usually horrible jokes. The editors we know will do all in their power to make the new paper pre-eminently successful, and with the hearty co-operation of the students in the magazine for them and by them, the best results will be obtained. So hoping that the Review and the Courier after life's fitful fever, will sleep well, we say, long live the UNIVERSITY REVIEW!