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EDITORIAL.
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
A SEMI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE STUDENTS
THE STUDENTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
EDITORS
PERLEE R. BENNETT, '86...Fortnight.
AGNES EMERY, '84...Literary.
D. B. BRADY, '86...Editorial.
GLEN L. MILLER, '84...Scientific.
PROF. L. L. DYCHE, '84
A. S. RIFFLE, '84...
MARY GILMORE, '84...Views.
CHAS. METCALFE, '84...Normal.
J. E. CURRY, '86...Swaps.
NETTIE BROWN, '86...Personal.
W. Y. MORGAN, '85...The Corridors.
NETTIE HUBBARD, '85.
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C. D. DEAN,'84. W. H. JOHNSON,'85.
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WE RECANT.
Baker was right and we were wrong. Last year we pitched into the Baker students for writing stuff no one could understand. We thought our students were doing a wise thing in taking live subjects and advanced views. We were wrong; we admit it. All our trouble here has arisen from having expressed ourselves on present issues. Free speech on our own part has placed us successively before the public of Kansas as prohibition fanatics, whisky bummers, dudes, nihilists, one-horse preachers, and rampant infidels. If our students had just followed Baker and delivered a mass of jargon no one could understand; if they had written on "The Sublimity of the Beautiful," "The Symphonies of the Spirits," or "The Unknown and the Unknowable, and what we know about It," instead of taking such topics as "Railroad Legislation," "The Indian
Question," or "Recent Strikes,' we would have been all right. A student ought not think or talk about things going on around him unless he wants to be called a "fanatic" or a 'communist.' Better talk about ancient Greece and the lost arts. We hope our Seniors will take this advice and prepare their commencement orations accordingly. In the meantime we humbly beg Baker's pardon for past criticism.
DOES IT PAY?
As the present time is about as far distant from examination week as it is possible to get, one may perhaps discuss the grading system of the University without the suspicion attaching that he has received but 70 per cent. in algebra, failed in Latin, or is fearful lest he may not pass in chemistry.
It is said a bear that has been chained a long while to a post will continue going around in his old circle after being loosened. We hope that the examination rut has not been worn so deep by its long use but that we may depart from the ring if we find a better path.
Our present University system makes term work and examination each count half on the final grade. Somehow the impression has become prevalent that it is the examination which is the all-important factor, probably because the one hour's work at the end is to balance the half-year's work in the class-room. Toward the end of the term comes the "review"—the preliminary cram. Then a day or so before examination the chancellor tells the students not to cram; that it is the cool, determined pupil who wins; and then they go home and cram all the more. They study by day, they stndy by night; they bolt their meals hastily and hurry up stairs to their books. On the day of the final ordeal they appear buoyant, but nervous, and take up a pencil