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which all fraternities have united; consequently it will be eagerly awaited by the students.
We believe there is one, and only one way, in which the Barb. element of the University can be fairly represented in any enterprise. That is when they share everything equally with the fraternity element. The Courier has acted on this principle throughout. We saw that it would be hypocrisy to pretend to treat the Barbs. fairly and then give them only two or three out of fourteen editors. Seven of our staff, forty shares of our stock, one-half of everything pertaining to the Courier, is in the hands of the non-fraternity element, and must be there as long as the paper exists. On this has rested our success. The Barbs. have recognized the paper as their organ, and helped it accordingly. The cry "The fraternities are running the paper," never has and never will be applied to the Courier.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING.
In our second number of this year we spoke at some length of the evils rising out of the examination system in the University. We suggested as a remedy that all students obtaining a class grade of over 90 per cent should be excused from the final torture. Some professors adopted the plan, others did not. The results of this session afford an excellent comparison of the merits of the two systems.
In the departments adopting the new plan, the students have placed unusual work on their daily lessons, as on this depended their standing. That the students might not recite a lesson one day only to forget it the next, the professors gave occasional reviews, thus fixing a connected view of the subject in the minds of the scholars. The last day of the session was not one of more anxiety than the first. The students took a holiday of recreation and rest between sessions, while their brethren in the other departments were "cramming" and taking their examinations.
In those departments where one-half of the student's merit is evidenced by a two hours trial on the last day, there has been less attention placed upon daily work. The labor of twenty weeks has largely been
crowded into as many hours at the end. After cramming their memories to the utmost, the students have ascended Mount Oread with feverish anxiety, to undergo the ordeal. The hub-bub in the corridors just before the time of examination sounded exactly like that in the society halls previous to the election of June honor-men. The faces in the class room expressed care and worry. After the examinations were over the candidates could not wait for the results, but continually beset the professors for the grades. These are facts to which every observer will testify.
That there must be some way of testing the student's ability no one can doubt. The students being interested parties, their desires cannot of course be taken as a criterion. Judging, however, from the results of the two systems during the past session, we ask anyone can there be any doubt as to which is the best plan?
"TRUTH' (? ) SQUEALS.
Our article entitled "A Shame" received comments, anything but complimentary to Lawrence, from the Atchison Champion and other state papers. In this issue "Truth" dilates upon the other side of the question. We hope these articles will have the desired effect of causing Lawrence citizens to provide accommodations for students. Wont "Truth" furnish us the names of a few who are willing to take boarders—lady boarders especially? The insinuations of "Truth" about students—"back board-bills" and "do not pay for all they get"—we indignantly deny. Nowhere will there be found a more honest class than our students. The slurs cast against our University girls we also repel. We would like to publish the names of ladies and gentlemen whom we have heard complaining in regard to lack of accommodations, and then ask where there will be found a more respectable, mannerly and popular number of persons. Yes, and were we at liberty, we would append the names of some high in University authority who have referred to the shameful neglect of students' needs. As we said before. those who do receive borders deserve many thanks." In the meanwhile we wish to reiterate with emphasis all we said on the former occasion.