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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
leges of the East have such associations and the proceeds derived from such a source go towards furnishing their libraries with the best periodicals of the country. I do not see now why the Faculty should oppose, in any respect, a similar organization here."
There are several reasons that argue quite strongly in favor of carrying out the plan as proposed by the professor. The Faculty's system of free lectures has not, in many respects, even approached success. It is true that two or three times a year we have the pleasure of listening to entertaining addresses from our chapel rostrum, but oftener we are bored by second rate speakers and as a consequence the attendance at evening lectures this year has been poorer than that of any previous season. With a live energetic association, supported by the good will of the Faculty, we could secure superior ability, and with prices within the reach of all students enough money could be realized to place upon our library table the matter suggested by the professor. Besides this, the students would derive an inestimable amount of intellectual food from listening to the best thinkers of the day. And still more, an institution that could secure the best talent before the public, would take higher rank among the colleges of our land. We hope an association will be organized.
THE COURIER started out because of the lack of a representative student's paper (the "frats" were already, well enough represented) and for this reason formed a constitution which should give the "barbs," (as the "Greeks" call them) an equal opportunity, and in which the "frats" could, by no hook or crook, gain the control of the paper. The Review has lately procured a charter and modified its constitution. It is with no wish to initiate a fight that this is written, but to show the students that there is still something behind a screen of a fine editorial, a charter and most magnanimous condescensions (?). In an editorial bringing to notice the changes, it is stated that these changes will make it more of a student's paper—"if it could be more of a student's representative than it has been." Let us hope and pray that these changes may have this effect, for most undoubtedly it could be made more of a one than it was last September. It might be stated just here that without these changes it has been more devoted to the school at large than it was then.
"Another change which should have been made long ago is that which limits the ownership of shares of Review stock to those who are attending school." Now how strange it is that if so needed and "proper," this was not done "long ago." And yet a prominent Review man told us, when this same section was introduced into our constitution, that it was as "good as useless," for "it can't be done," said he. But you will please notice that the Review company is willing to try it, just to please the "dear students."
They also "transfer to those collegiate students who are subscribers to the Review the power to elect all (?) (!) the members of the Editorial Board. Oh! oh! who will make the nominations, while the stockholders are the
"most interested?" The Editor-in-chief "as is but just," and "at least two" (what a very, very wise proviso) "of the six editors" and "as a matter of neccessity" the business managers (to worry the business men) will be elected from the stockholders. This makes five out of the nine of the board, "at least" come directly from the company, while the outsiders (dear students) can at most have four, and probably less if the proviso (uneasily enough put in) is, in its indefiniteness, overlooked. Do you for one instant suppose that they (the Review Co.) expect to loose one iota by these so called kindly condescensions? Not at all, for a prominent Review man, a member of Beta Theta Pi, said to us, that he would have bought Courier stock, had he had the money and had the proviso, giving one half the positions to "out-siders" not been in our constitution, but, said he, "as it is in I would buy stock under no consideration." We expect to hear of the resignation of this gentleman if the Review constitution means exactly what it says. If he does not resign it must argue that he knows that the secret-society element will still control the paper. From what element will the members of the board come who are elected from the company? The secret society men hold the stock—there is but one conclusion. (How horribly condescending to the dear students—sounds something like the spider to the dear fly.) "If the company were an ordinary business organization this voluntary surrender of their privileges would be worse than useless" ("with all my heart," most logical.) "In order to secure the financial success of the magazine the company found it necessary to retain full control." Well hardly. We happen to know a member of Beta Theta Pi who rode thirteen miles into the country to obtain a proxy—was this on account of some financial measure? O bless you no, this was to help beat the Phi Kappa Psis in the election of the Editor-in-Chief. It would appear that the control was kept by the secret society men, in order to hold as many positions as possible upon the staff.
We also know a secret society man who after offering a person (now of the COURIER) "three or four shares or probably more" of Review stock; told him after beating around the bush for some days that his chapter had passed a vote that no member of that chapter should sell his stock to any person not in that chapter. The financiers of the institution undoubtedly belong to the secret societies and each individual chapter has a horrible idea that it alone has the creme-de-la creme of financiers, and the more men it can get on the staff, the more money is to be made.
"The interests of the students in work of the character done on college papers has increased, until at last the company feel confident that the transfer of the control of the literary department to the collegiate subscribers will not only prove to be a success, but will really advance the interests of the paper." (Oh! wonder of wonders.) And not many months ago two members, of Phi Kappa Psi said to us, in room No.11; "You will have to admit that there is no talent outside of the secret societies, worthy of mention. But how comes this ter-