10
EDITORIAL.
lege, city or elsewhere. Miss Agnes Emery and Mr. D. B. Brady will hand out the dainties in the way of literary matter. Prof. L. L. Dyche will continue to tell about the new bugs and other natural history affairs, while A. S. Riffle will keep the Courier machinery well oiled in the engineering columns. Joe Curry, the inventor, will try to invent some way to criticise his exchanges, and yet keep them good-humored. Normal matters are under Mr. Metcalf's charge, with orders not to spare the rod. Miss Nettie Brown will tell you about everybody who ever saw or heard of the University, she being the personal editor. That there might be nothing so little that he couldn't find it, or so big that she couldn't hold it, W. Y. Morgan and Miss Nettie Hubbard were given local matters by the company. Now those who have been waiting to send cash for subscriptions may just remit to C. D. Dean and W. H. Johnson, business managers.
"We are seven"—no, twice seven. With your aid we will furnish a semi-monthly magazine that will both please you and be a credit to the University.
Two names will ever stand prominent and inseparable in the history of the University of Kansas, those of John Fraser and James Marvin. In little were these men personlly alike, but they worked in the same cause and effected like results. Chancellor Fraser was a man of indomitable energy, taking the lead in everything and communicating his enthusiasm to every one around him. It was he who foresaw the growth of the State University, and provided for that growth. Calling together the citizens of Lawrence for the purpose of raising a sum of money which every other one thought folly to ask, by extraordinary force of logic and eloquence he persuaded the people to advance one hundred
thousand dollars to the state toward erecting a new building. He originated and carried the plan of the present structure into execution. Without this building our University must have remained a dwarf. Chancellor Marvin succeeded him; a man of determined but quiet purpose; analyzing carefully every work that presented itself, and after consideration, selecting the best method for carrying it out in all its details. He reduced both faculty and students to harmonious bodies. Under his direction the magnificent building provided for and begun by his predecessor was completed, and the attendance of students more than trebled. He left everything he had had under his management in perfect working order. Honor to John Fraser and James Marvin.
A number of the state papers having made the charge that the professors of the University were teaching communistic doctrins, Charley Gleed, one of our graduates, has taken up the cudgel and proposes to show that the statements are entirely wrong and unwarranted. Charley has gone through the entire mill at the University, and not only knows the ground on which he stands, but is prepared to do some sharp fighting if attacked.
The attendance at the University, so far, is somewhat less than that of last year. At Baldwin, by all reports, it is considerably greater. But we console ourselves by remembering that they have our gay and festive and unregretted J. Preps. We suggest that the Biblical society of Baker debate the question, "Whether the influx of Preps. from K. S. U. tends to lower the standard of morality in this institution."
The President of the Courier Company requests us to state that P. R. Bennett was fully authorized by himself and the business managers to get out the first Courier.