UNIVERSITY COURIER
Entered at Lawrence Post Office as Second Class Matter.
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Vol. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 23, 1883.
University Courier.
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EDITORIAL.
The Regents came and have gone again. Thus far we have received no reliable information of any rash act of theirs, unless it be the increasing of the salaries of the clerk and janitors. Probably they were "convined in their own minds" that there were good and sufficient reasons for such increase, and no doubt the boys have long been "convinced in their own minds" that more pay would be acceptable. At any rate they seem to have had no compunctions of conscience about accepting the advance in wages. There has been a world of gossip about the possibility or probability of changes in the Faculty. In fact every member from the chancellor down to the "sub-faculty" is liable to be called upon to resign at any time. This is the talk. But whatever those wise men, chosen by, His Excellency, Governor Glick and the august senate of the great State of Kansas, do, they surely won't "turn off" the "sub-faculty." No, gentlemen, whatever, you do, though you relegate the Faculty to their proper spheres—following the plow, wielding the blacksmith's hammer, pounding rocks on the street, or driving the rag-wagon—though you do all this to these men "without brains," spare the "sub-faculty." Have mercy on them we entreat you, for here you have the concentrated essence of brain and cheek combined, which is so rare an article that you can't afford to lose it. But enough of this. If this institution is to be placed in the hands of demagogues, political tricksters, shysters and petifogers, then things have reached a sad state indeed. It is about time that governments fill positions with men, not with Democrats, Republicans, Greenbackers or Re-adjusters. Who
cares what church or what political party a postmaster belongs to so he understands the postal system of the United States and knows how to handle mail? Nobody but fools. And who cares what party a president or professor supports, just so he knows how to teach and is a gentleman. What matters it if a professor of Political Economy is male or female, white or black, Calvinist or Arminian, theist or atheist, Hebrew or "Heathen Chinee," if he is prepared to impart to his disciples the truths of that science, and to allow free discussion of disputed points? So of every professorship.
Let a man understand his business and if he has reason for being a Unitarian or a Trinitarian or anything else, well and good. "A man's a man for a that." There are professors for whom some of us have no great love, and yet we do not consider that a very strong argument against their being qualified to fill the chair which they may occupy. Our misunderstanding may be as much our own fault as that of the professors. If they have acted a mean part, perhaps they had good reasons for doing so. So then if the Regents contemplate making any changes in the Faculty, our advice and that of a large majority of the students, in general terms, would be given in the words of one of our lower-class men on this subject, "Let well enough alone."
THE Annual promises to be a great success in the hands of Mr. Caldwell. He is now very busy securing and arranging material for insertion. The photos of 183 will constitute the frontispiece. This class contains twenty members-six ladies and fourteen gentlemen. If no change is made in the present arrangement of the pictures, those of the ladies will form a group in the center-those of the gentlemen being placed upon the margin. We bespeak for Mr. Caldwell the patronage of all classes of students. Greeks and barbarians will alike lend their support. This plan of having one man at the head of the magazine, he being personally responsible for its success or failure, will no doubt insure a better publication and give better satisfaction than any other plan that could be pursued. That the success of the Annual is assured is questioned by no one.
"Will the Faculty favor the organization of a Lecture Association among the students of our institution?"
The above question was put to one of our professors by a member of the Courier staff a day or two since, and the following was the reply, not perhaps in the exact language but in substance the same. "I think the Faculty would favor such an organization, provided it was not created for any single individual's benefit. I further think, that such an organization could be made an instrument for the general good of our college. Col-