UNIVERSITY COURIER
Entered at Lawrence Post Office as Second Class Matter.
VOL. I.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 20, 1883.
No.10.
University Courier.
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EDITORIAL...C. C. DART.
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LITERARY...E. A. BROWN, ANNA MURPHY.
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EDITORIAL.
The new move of the Faculty as regards having literary exercises on Washington's birthday is a good one. It is much better that the students should spend the time in listening to orations, essays and declamations, than to idle it away as is often done holidays.
All exercises of this kind are calculated to create a literary taste in the minds of the students, and will tend to make them better speakers and writers. Such work in the long run tells, and is perhaps of more practical value than some of the regular studies pursued by the students. The Seniors will be represented by Miss Murphy and Mr.Russell; the Juniors by Miss Emery and Mr.Watson; the Sophomores by Mr.Bruce; the Freshmen by Mr. Chamberlain. We suppose these personages racked their brains and throats during the two weeks of Christmas holidays and will be prepared to tell us all about the "little hatchet" in good style on the twenty-second of next month.
RUBBING generally polishes solid substances, but it seems that the rule does not always work in the case of animate substances. Any amount of rubbing does not affect the super-abundance of conceit and boorishness that prevails in the University. A college, as a general thing, lowers a man considerably in his own estimation before he has endured the sarcasms and irony of the students long. But then "Mother's pets" and "Country school-masters" remain for many years apparently unimproved. They thrust their disagreeable presence
before us. They disgust us with their want of politeness and taste. They know more than anyone else, and know better how to tell it. They volunteer opinions on all questions. With impertinent questions they consume the valuable time of other students. Even when set down upon by the professor they bob up just as serenely at another time. They have an air of self-satisfaction that baffles even the professor. In the class-room, as well as outside of it, everyone is entitled to a share in the discussion of a question, and everyone is supposed to be somewhat informed upon it. But these lyceum-instructed fellows imagine that their knowledge and information is vastly superior to other mortals. They carry their heads so high that they cannot look at this world. Their motto is : "Magnus Ego et Parvus Tu."
It is a shame that the sidewalk leading to the University has not been kept in a better condition for the past few weeks. We know not whose business it is to look after the walk; but winters preceding this one some one made it his business, and so covered the ice with sand and ashes that one's life was not endangered while going to and from school. It is quite a task to climb Mt. Oread even when walks are in good a condition but it is next to impossible when one is compelled to unceremoniously sit down every few steps. It is to be hoped that some person will feel it his duty to put the walk in good condition hereafter.
We would advocate that the Annual Contest between the Oreads and Orophilians take place in June, during Commencement week, instead of December as has been the custom thus far. As it is now, the Contest occurs at a time when students should be deeply interested in their studies. Nearly four weeks of the best time in the session are broken into by their labor upon contest productions. Again, the entertainments of the Societies during Commencement have nearly always been a bore. If the Annual Contest could be changed till the time suggested it would give the people a much better entertainment in June than they have been in the habit of listening to, and all the excitement and extra work consequent upon said Contest would occur but once in a year. This is a matter worthy the consideration of the Societies.
LITERARY.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING.
How easy it is to die! What satisfaction to feel that without any effort, hardly,the wheels of life can be clogged! One plunge in the limped stream; one shot from the pistol; and all the care, and unhappiness, and drudge of life is o'er. How many think, whilst worrying out existence, that by taking a large dose of morphine