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A PLACE OF PEACE.
The college year of 1883-4 seems to have been unusually prolific of fights between the faculties and students of eastern institutions. These fights have ranged from small difficulties, wherein one or two students were suspended for a month to the big jamboree at Hamilton, where the whole Senior class was bodily ousted and the under classes were utterly demoralized by the event. These numerous fracases strikingly call our attention to the fact that our University has been almost entirely free from such melees. Not since Chancellor Marvin and several associates were sent up to Atchison to attend a funeral which didn't come off for the want of a corpse, has there been aught to
ripple the peaceable relations of students and professors. This has been due to several things. First, our students, as a rule, come to school and are not sent. They are in limited circumstances and have neither the disposition nor the ability to pay two or three hundred dollars for the fun of hazing a new man, smashing street lamps or hanging the professor's horse to a tree. Second, the faculty have shown no desire to meddle with student enterprises. To the keepers of the sectarian convents—otherwise known as denominational schools—such non-interference would seem the open road to riot and ruin. Here it has proven the highway of peace and prosperity. Even in the cases of warmest feeling among students, as in the literary society squabbles and the burning of the Steinberg sign, the faculty have allowed matters to settle themselves. On the other hand, the nearest approach to trouble was when the students and faculty differed as to the expediency of having Ingersoll deliver the June oration. Another cause of the tranquil state of University affairs has been the near and personal relations of instructors to their pupils, which has prevented any misunderstanding. The presence of the fair sex also prevents any display of that ruffianism, euphoniously called "class-rushes." With almost unlimited freedom among its students, the University has probably been the most peaceable institution of its size in the United States.
Our readers will find in the Literary department in this issue an interesting article on the New Northwest, lately opened up by the completion of the Northern Pacific. The gentleman who writes over the signature of "Kern Holland" is an old Kansan and friend of the University. Other articles are expected from him in future numbers.