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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
building is in many ways inferior to our own excellent Spooner Library. Mr. Van Brunt, of the firm which planned our library, was also the architect of the most satisfactory part of Harvard's library, the addition containing the book stack. However, we are informed by Miss Watson, who spent considerable time working in Harvard's library building a few years ago, that even this addition is far less satisfactory than our own book-stack. As was to be expected, Mr. Van Brunt's experience enabled him to create for Kansas University a library approximately perfect. Nor should we forget to give to Professor Blake the credit due for the excellent system of electric lighting which he planned for Spooner Library.
In the matter of rules, too, we are fortunate. Although our rules are hardly as liberal in some respects as those of Harvard, the better facilities offered in the library here make it unnecessary that they should be so. But our rules are fully as liberal as it has been found practicable to make them, and the library is open ten hours a day instead of only a few hours, as is the custom in many schools. We may well be proud of our library.
Yes, the Courier-Review, as is stated in its issue of Dec. 21st., "has been bending every energy for the last month to obtain one University paper." Indeed we think that that paper may lay aside its very becoming modesty and say that "one University paper" is the goal toward which it has striven ever since the first issue of the STUDENTS JOURNAL. The trouble is that the "one University paper" is the Courier-Review, or a paper in which the faction running that paper would have undue influence.
The statement that the STUDENTS JOURNAL has rejected every proposition except one providing for the Courier-Review stockholders to take stock in the STUDENTS JOURNAL Company, is so evidently untrue that no one will be deceived by it. The position taken by the STUDENTS JOURNAL is clearly stated in the issues of Dec. 14th and 21st, in the first of which will be found a full report of the meeting at which each paper presented a plan, both of which were approved by the faculty, contrary to the statements made in the Courier-Review.
The plan proposed in the last Courier-Review as the basis for their new company is stated in such general language that it may mean much or little. "The paper shall not be run in the interests of any faction, "the Courier Review says; but it is very careful not to commit itself by stating definitely how this is to be guaranteed. The whole article is sufficiently vague to cover any trickery. One statement is made,how ever, that is sufficiently clear in meaning. It is that the Courier-Review has decided to suspend publication." The business men of Lawrence understand this perfectly. The Courier Review is no more. There is now but one University paper.
Regents' Report.
Since our last issue the ninth biennial report of the Board of Regents, and officers of the University, covering the years '92-'93 and '93-'94, has been published. After mentioning the flattering successes and prospects of the institution, the Board recommends that the income of the University be increased, preferably by an annual tax levy to keep pace with the increasing number of students; and also that appropriations be made for the erection of a new chemistry building and a museum building The Board also urges that the proposed geological and irrigation survey be placed under the direction of the University.
The Chancellor's report gives in detail the changes in the faculty and in the courses of instruction as well as important information concerning other matters connected with the University. This report shows in detail the pressing need for a larger income and special appropriations for the University. Fewer changes have taken place in the list of instructors during the past two years than during any other equal time since the establishment of the University. A tax of three tenths of a mill each year would furnish the necessary income of $100,000. Nebraska's university tax is three eights of a mill The financial statement of treasurer Moody completes the report.
The Constitution of Kansas in a neat pocket volume. I will present every student with a copy of the above with every 25 cents trade until the supply is exhausted.
J. S. BOUGHTON 1027 Mass. St.