THE HESPERIAN.
EXCHANGE.
It Is with pleasure Umi we again have the privilege of
extending to nil our exchanges a hearty greeting. Just emerg
ing from our summer vacation anil entering upon the work of
the year, it is like greeting one's classmates and companions
to pick up the exchanges as they come In. Next to the desire
to know what our friends have been doing during the summer
is the desire to know what those that constitute our sister
institutions have lieen busying themselves at. While at times,
during the preceding year, we may have grewn weary with
the task of perusing so many papers, that feeling is not exper
ienced now. At present all the papers that have reached us
have a refreshing appearance. On looking inside we find
that the institutions they represent have not been idle during
the past vacation. Each institution seems to he characterizing
itself by making improvements and entertaining great expec
tations for the educational success of the coming year. The
outlook Is cetainly promising for a splendid advance in educa
tional ideas and facilities. The college paper is a medium
through which the improvements and methods of teaching
that are in operation in an institution are made known to nP
other like institutions. As a method of advertising nn institu
tion of learning a college paper is a success. Those control
ing these institutions recognize this fact and arc interesting
themselves in the success of the papers edited therein. As a
result we hope and look for an improvement in college jour
nalism in general. In regard to making improvements aiound
the buildings and changes in general the University of
Nebraska has not been at all backward during the summer
months. Tin: HksI'KMAn has already enumerated the
changes that have taken place.
In a late issue of The sEgis the editor in speaking of the
burning of their gymnasium says: "The poor old Ujm. that
had been used as court room wherein the trembling freshman
was soon to be a mass of debris." The meaning is certainly
not very clear. Was it the freshman or the gymnasium that
was to be n mass of debris?
We notice with pleasure The Chehalis lice still among our,
exclinngcs. While this is not a college paper but n weekly
newspaper edited at Chehalis, Wash., still we gladly welcome
it as the product of the energy and enterprise of one of our
university boys, Dan W. Hush. As an editor and general
rustler Dan is a success. His paper is a credit to his ability
and pluck. May success always attend your efforts Dan.
Quite a number of exchanges have already reached us
showing that although it is yet early in the work of the tcr m
ye editors are on hand ready to advance the journalistic work
of the year. Among our visitors we notice a number of new
faces which wc gladly welcome. Vol. I, No. I, of the S. U.
J. Quill is at hand. The State University of Iowa has quite
inn assortment of papers and we hope the advent of this new
one will not take nwny anything from the quality of those
.already in existence there.
We copy the following from 77 Ypsilantian edited and
published at Ypsilnnti, Mich.:
Professor W. P. liowcn left Saturday for his new field of
labor at Lincoln, Nebraska. Friday morning, after Mr.
I3oven had said good-bye to the students, Mr. JohnF. Rieman,
on behalf of the N. A. A. presented the retiring professorwith
a handsome ring in acknowledgment of his unwearied and
effective efforts to establish and carry on the organization.
Then Professor Hollows stepped forward, and in behalf of the
school at large presented Professor 13owcn with an elegant silver-mounted
field-glass. Profesror Bellows spoke of the
admirable work clone by Mr. Bowen while a student here, of
Ids own joy when the student became a teacher in the school,
of his affection ami admiration for "his boy", who had won.
the esteem and friendship of faculty and students nlike, and
bidding Profcssoi llowcn godspeed to n broader field of useful
ness In another commonwealth. Professor Harbour also in
conducting devotional exercises referred touchlngly to the loss
which Professor Howcn's removal to the west Will be to the
normal. Few teachers of such positive character have been
s.o univcrsaly and heartily liked and respected ns has Professor
llowcn, and the best wishes othc normal accompany him to
his new home.
The Palo Alto, edited by the students of Lcland Stanford
Jr. University, appears on our tabic being Vol. I, No. I.
Thoughts of this university occupy t place at present in the
minds of all the older students of the University of Nebraska
as being the institution to which our late Professor Howard
went. The Palo Alto, the journalistic representative of. that
institution, will be cordially welcomed here and .wc will be
glad to add the paper to our exchange list. This first issue of
the 1'ulo Alto is taken t with the opening exercises of the
university, the names of the members of tne faculty, the trus
tees, general news in regard to the favorable auspices under
which the university is now starting out, and a history if the
institution. The outlook is certainly most favorable for the
success of the university. An almost Inexhaustible supply of
money has enabled the institution to secure the most compe
tent instructors. Although the university has just thrown its
doou open to students, It cnteis upon its uucci well advertised,
well known, and well managed. It begins its work of higher
education with all the facilities and under the same conditions
that nn old and well established educational institution carries
on its work, With 85,400 acres of land splendidly situated. in
regard to climate, picturesqueness, and general accessibility,
together with other endowments amounting in all to over $20,
000,000, 1 .eland Stanford Jr. university lias certainly entered
upon a career the end of which cannot be foretold.
In advancing and elevating the cause of higher education,
this university will undoubtedly be a prime mover. The mag
nanimous work that Lcland Stanford undertook and has so
nearly completed will surely bring to him an enviable reputa
tion as undertaking a work, the nobleness of which cannot be
estimated. The Palo Alto says: "The man who departs
from these noble corridors at the end of a successful course
will carry with him an obligation he can never pay." The
inauguration, by the Palo Alto, ot a "fund for the erection,
at Some future date, of n memorial to the founders of the uni
versity" is a good plan. It shows the appreciation of the
students for the great work Lcland Stanford has done for
them. He has erected for them a monument which, perhaps
as long as time shall last, will attest his desire to benefit them.
It is no more than right that those receiving this benefit
should make manifest their appreciation of it.
ALUMNI AND FORMER STUDENTS.
The aim of the editor of this department is to conduct it
in the way that will make it of the most interest to the alumni .
and former students. In order to do this t is necessary to
have your hearty co-operation. It is our purpose to have one
letter each issue from some one who was here jn the days past.
A letter that will fill a column is about the right length. As
for the subject matter of a letter, the field is almost unlimited.
Write about yourself and your surroundings, what you would
be pleased to know about one of your old classmates. The
students now in school also may be of great help to the
editor by taking the trouble to give hjp any information about
the old students. You may give the note to the editor or
leave them in the school postoffice addressed to him. Any of c
the above information will be received with thanks by one
who is in need of copy and busy besides.