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University Reporter.
{Second-Class Matter.']
Published by the PHI KAPPA AND DEMOS-
THENIAN SOCIETIES.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
W. E. Steed, D Editor-in-Chief.
P. H. Estes, D Miscellany
P. S. Black, P. K Local
R. F. Maddox, D Local
G. A. Whitehead, Jr., P. K Society
W. W. Sheppard, P. K Alumni
A. M. Hartsfield. D Exchange
BUSINESS MANAGER, C. R. Tate, P. K.
The UmvERriTT Reporter is issued every
Saturday afternoon during the college year
by the literary societies of the University of
Terms, One Dollar per year, strictly in
advance.
Communications solicited from students and
alumni. Address all communications to
THE REPORTER,
Athens, Ga
SALUTATORY.
We take great pleasure in return
ing our sincere tbanks to our wor
thy predecessor and to our fellow
Demosthenians and Phi Kappas, in
this our first issue, for the honor
they have conferred and the irnpor
tant trust reposed in us as Editor-
in-Chief and Manager of the Repor
ter ; and realizing and appreciating
the great and significant responsi
bility resting upon us in these re
spective capacities, it is with some
distrust that we enter upon the dis
charge of our duties. But hoping
to receive the earnest and hearty co
operation of our associate edito:
“and friends, we hope "to be~ab
fully to discharge our duties, and to
this end we will strive energetically
and perseveriugly to maintain the
dignity and high standard which
the Reporter has hitherto attained,
and “through this golden medium’’
to uphold and defend the interests
and maintain the honor and just
reputation of the University. And
in doing this we do not propose to
squander our time and space in
railing, back-biting and pointing the
finger of scorn at those of our con
temporaries who are striving upward
and onward to keep abreast of the
spirit of the age, and to win for
themselves honorable fame ; neither
shall we tremble because we have
adversaries, or perchance meet with
adverse circumstances, nor shall we
allow public opinion to shape our
course or purposes, and accept it as
the standard of right.
We shall not wither and writhe in
anguish under the severe, and so-
called withering sarcasm and criti
cisms of our would-be friendly con
temporaries aud advisers. To the
extremely modest|and over conscious
aspirant, such things would feel like
cold tags of ice slipped “down his
shirt collar,” or the red hot fire
brands of remorse, the electric shock
of which might shatter a beautiful
and well conceived plan into so many
pieces that he
the courage to
would never nnistc
gather up the frag
ments. But we shall endeavor to
pursue “the one true way” in peace
and good will, and, to use a familiar
phrase, “try to strike the glorious
medium.”
This is truly the age of “the press,”
and appreciating the fact that the
press is the great engine of modern
progress, not superceded or im
paired, hut gathering power from all
the arts, is daily clothing itself in
greater strength and its influence is
being forcibly and effectively felt
all over the world, we know of no
other medium the channels of which
sbfnihl be kept purer or more de
voted to the investigations of truth
and the good of society; and may
this literary journal continue her
contributions in this direction, and
still help pave the way to that in
tellectual climax for which our Uni-
sity is striving.
Allow us now to again thank our
friends and readers for their kind
ness, and ask for a continuance of
the same with your good will aud
co-operation; and with this, we can
safel}' say that the Reporter will be
a success in every respect.
Respectfully,
Walter E. Steed,
Editor-in-Chief.
Tate,
Business Manager. ,
like
success;
ifolhing succeeds
an.^to have this means to have pluck
■fad euergf, backed by good com-
uion sense.
The Commissioners of the State
School of Technology met in At
lanta the 1st iust. to elect a Faculty
and President for this school—elec
tion deferred to a later day.
We presume that there is nothing
more consoling and comforting to
an editor than for his associates to
have interesting and choice matter
to fill up their respective depart
ments. Then let each one get up
all the interesting items and get
them in as early as possible, in order
that the paper may be well filled
with good reading, and always be
mailed on time, and we dare say
that there will be fewer bald headed
editors and more generous and even
tempered men in that class of men,
Chas. 'T Logan has issued his
prospectus of a publication issued
fortnightly. It is to be be a literary
journal, and among its first contri
butors will be Dr. Armstrong, Mrs.
Dr. Felton, Wallace P. Reed, Joel
Chandler Harris, and other distin
guished writers. Success to it.
There is evidently a great revival
of literature, ar.d tile literary jour
nals are doing a great deal of this
work. May this good work continue,
and each journal try more earnestly
to keep alive this interest.
Henry W. Grady very appropri
ately remarked in his bright and
witty little speech, deliveied at the
Commercial on the 22nd ult., that
“the studen’s of the University
looked a little puny, more so than
lie expected;” and when some stal
wart Junior, feeling that his robust
ness had (doubtless from hard
study,) been impaired, and that his
muscles had grown placid from want
of proper physical exercise, cried
out “gymnasium,” he (Grady) said
“that he would see that the boys had
gymnasiums to practice on instead
of practicing on the trustees.” Mr.
Grady’s point here was well taken;
and no one cr n~visit the colleges and
universities that are without mili
tary departments and gymnasiums,
without seeing puny students and a
sad want of that vigor and physical
strength so absolutely necessary for
the health, and more vigorous and
continued tenacity in their intellect
ual pursuits. Nothing can be more
conducive to the health, vigorous
and masterly literary pursuit of the
student than proper and healthful
physical exercise; and to supply this
deficiency, every step should be
taken to procure gymnasiums for
the benefit of our students at this
University.
We do not want to send one third
of these students into society to
occupy important and laborious po
sitions in life, brokeu down physi
cally and mentally conaest^L Jto
dwindle away into a parcel of lisping
dudes and grasshoppers. We want
the University of Georgia repre
sented by men, physically and in
tellectually, and we are glad to see
that students now are not wholly
indifferent and insensible to physi
cal (or pugilistic) accomplish.-
plishmenl; and now, in order to
stimulate and encourage these pro
pensities, let us start Qtt by arrang
ing an extensive and well diversi
fled programme for our Field Day,
and let that be appointed as soon as
possible, and let each student do his
best to make it a grand aud manly
success.
storing a large
information on
men who persist in
amount of valuable
their cuffs, “must go.”
J’he North Carolina Magazine
contains quite a unique article on
hazing this week. This phase of
college life has, from time immemo
rial been frowned upon by college
professors and outsiders. The writer
claims that it is of prime necessity
in instilling into the verdant Fresh
man a wholesome respect for college
laws aud college life.
The Richmond Messenger con
tains quite a lenghty article this
week on over-education, in which
the writer discusses this question
very exhaustively. Over education
is one of the absorbing topics of the
day in educational circles. The
friends of real education will have
accomplished a great deal when they
convince the instructors of to-day
that it is not what we may cram into
one mind which strengthens it, but
only that which we retain and di
gest.
From a telegram recently received
from Athens, we are pleased to learn
that our clever friend, Mr. Walter E.
Steed, of this county has been elect
ed editor in chief of the University
Reporter, an interesting journal
published by the young men of the
Athens Univeisity. For several
years he has been a regular contri
butor to the columns of the Herald,
and we must say that no correspon
dent has added more interest
to the Herald than Mr. Steed. One
important feature in the life and
character of this gentleman is that
he has gWt confidence in himse'f;
what he undertakes to do he does
it with a cheerful and willing hand—
a gifted writer, and suffers no
defeat to himself when it is possi
ble to avoid it.. We, together wjtii
many friends wish him g reat success.
—Butler Herald.
EXCHANGES.
HE tv AS AN ARTIST.
One of the fair sex is president
of the Junior class at the University
of Wisconsin.—Ex.
Many Eastern colleges are advo
eating the study of the Bible as part
of the college course.—Ex.
The question of substituting Mon
day for Saturday, is being °exten
sively agitated in Northern colleges.
Several have already made the'ex-
periment, which, it is said, results
very satisfactorily.
“Cheating on examinations” seems
to be perplexing several of the
Northern colleges. The opinion of
most of the students of these col
leges seems to be, that the gentle-
She—“Are you an artist ?”
He—“ Well, I paint a little, occas
sionally.”
She—“What do 3011 paint, gen
erally ? ’
He—“ The town—red.”
The S. A. E. Tennis Club has
been reorganized, electing for their
officers,!'. M. Cunningham, Pres.;
W. L. Moore, Vice Pres.; Robt. F.
Maddox, Jr., Sec’y.; Jno. A. Barnes,
Treas.
To be disturbed from midnight slumbers,
To be uncouthly molested in our dreams,
To hear nothing but “chestnuts” iu indefi-
ni'e numbers,
To hear bad musiejn discordant strains,
Is enough to make a fellow’s vision hazy,
And in his class to appear disgustingly
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