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VIEWS.
VIEWS.
The great day came and went again. Amid friendly and hostile criticisms, amid prophecies of future greatness and future nothingness,'83 was thrust out to meet and mingle with the mad multitude who are swift in their pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Three months have passed. Another vacation draws to a close, and we remember other autumns when first our feet trod the halls of K. S. U.; when first we stood in awe before our silver-haired chancellor and dignified professors; when first we were initiated into the mysteries of "higher education."
We see the scenes of the past repeated; professors returning from a summer's recreation; old students back again ready to resume their work; and new ones who have just made their first pilgrimage to this Mecca of civilization—all cheerful, happy and eager to commence the new year's work. Some of us almost envy them. We fain would be there as of yore, to grasp the hands of those we have learned to respect and love, and I am sure all of us would like to spend at least one more year at the University.
All college men, I suppose, look back to the years spent in school as some of the happiest of their lives, and they never cease to have a warm place in their hearts for the place of their education. "The dear old University" will always be green in their memories, and after time has wrought changes many and great, should former students revisit these scenes of former days their eyes would fill and their voices choke.
EDITOR VIEWS:
The idle reader in old magazines sometimes lights on curious matters. Recently
turning over my file of the Kansas Review, I found the following from the farewell of the then editor-in-chief :
"The organization which is responsible for the Review has been made perpetual, thus securing the permanence of the publication. The constitution of this organization is too closely confined to the members of the secret societies. The non-fraternity students, a great majority of the entire body, will eventually demand a representation proportional to their numbers. —Vol. II, page 41.
I do not wish to assume that the writer of the above was possessed of any spirit of prophecy, yet, viewed in the light of after events, it does seem rather remarkable. After waiting and hoping a long time for justice at the hands of the fraternity controlling the Review, "the non-fraternity students, a great majority of the entire body," have demanded "a representation proportional to their numbers." That representation they have obtained, and entering into combination with the more sensible portion of the secret society students—among whom I am glad to see yourself—have produced the Courier, a paper of of which every student, old or new, may justly be proud. The Review has attempted to hide many things "behind the screen of a fine editorial, a charter and most magnanimous concessions," but the Courier has seen through the screen, and has shown to what their concessions really amount. By the way, I wonder why those old volumes seem to have so much better articles than the last two? I have written to the managers to keep my name on the subscription list. I wish you the best of success with the Courier and your own department.
OLD STUDENT.