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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1892)
'" 12 THE TT E S V E R T A X. I' m Professor Taylor was elected sccrctnry of the State Horti cultural Society. Miss Ono livthoff was not able to attend school last week on account of sickness. A good many of the students are dissatisfied with the present restrictions upon the library. A French historical seminar was organized, January 23, under the direction of Professor Fling. Through the kindness of the V. W. C. A. girls Mis. Can field vs the lecipicnt of a handsome bouquet. We greatly regret to hear oi the severe illness of Mis. Canficld. Latest reports state she is some better. llelvic and Kcnyon will measure a few hundred students as a basis of comparison between red and whitc'races. Professor Nicholson is now receiving many calls from (lif erent parts of the stuj to hi iver addresses concerning bco Sugar. We aic sorry to hear that Mr. Mnrlay is added o the "grippy" list. Wo hope he will soon be able to resume his studies. Professor Nicholson, together with W. II. Pairdfrom the Woiccstcr polytechnic school, is investigating quite exten sively the effects of frost upon sugar beets. Messrs llelvic and Kcnyon measured over seven hundred Indians at Lawrence and Genoa. Copies of the results will be made fortho department of psychology. The number of books in the botanical dcpai linen' has increased so rapidly that it has been necessary to put in new shelves which will hold about 500 books. Conveniences for blacking shoes have been put in the basement of the armory. All who wish to have their shoes shincd according to the latest improved methods will here after apply to Quartermaster-sergeant Gund. The department of psychology has already received con siderable apparatus this year, and will soon receive more. The beginning of !02-'93 will find this department well enough equipped to furnish instructive experimental work during the whole year. A five horse power engine and a boiler have just been put into the chemical laboratory building. It is expected that this engine will run a dynamo which will operate the fan in in the attic, furnish twenty-three lights throughout the "labor atory, and furnish the electricity for use in the diffeientl laboratories. Not long ago some careless student left the water turned on inlhe physio laboratory. Tnis was discovered just in time to prevent an accident which would have cost the uni versity a good many dollars. The water had made its way thiough the geological laboratory and in a few minutes would have soaked through into Professor Uessey's hcrbcriuin. Professor Fling inconnection with the night schoul has undertaken a work that should have the hcartv 01 operation of all those who can assist. His object is to give an oppor tunity for intellectual ami nioial advancement to young boys oi 0111 city who aie busily engaged elsewhere dining the day. Many boys hae already been taken fiom the bad influence of the street and surrounded by the healthy atmosphere of the school room. Many l these boys aie found to be inlelli gent and iVady to lcain instead of sticet niabs as they arc commonly supposed to be. Misses Stockton and Chapcll hae charge of the class and hope to make useful and worthy young men out of many of these rngged uichins. There is in the spirit of this enterprise the power of many Sunday gcrmons, I! The junior annual is progressing finely. The work has all been planned and assigned. The lcgcnts, faculty, and junior, and scnioi classes will have photographs. Each litci ary society -.ml fraternity will have an appropriate motto "of the hnrsi woik of the cngi iei. The history of each class with the rccoid of ooi membei wil) also be given. All the athletic sociclcs, debating clubs, and eating clubs will be given a place. A very important leatuie will be a full list of the alumni with their past nnd present records. It will be a complete resume and evpose of the history, organUatious, and progress of the university; equal to any college annual published. Incidentally we remind you of the fnct that your subscriptions will be gladly accepted cither ly T, E. Wing or J. J, Sttyer nt Thr Husi'KKian office. The offer of the Studio jc Grande to make n group pic ture of the enllic attendance here this, year nr.il present the same to the university, ns well as use copies tit thu stntc fair and at the Columbian exposition is worthy of conshlcmtiun. No charge is to bo made for this, though the expense to the studio cannot fall short of three hundred dollars. OTcoursc, the pioprietors hope that with satisfactory negatives cabinet-sic of all the sudents. theii trade will' he sufficiently increased to warrant them in this expenditure; hut as to this they take tlieii chances. Thov simply olfcr to take fiee a good cabinet negative of each student, that shall be well finished and entirely satisf.wti. iv to the sittci: thev to have the use ol it ;n the group, and the student to have pictures from it if he wishes at the usual student rate. Hut the studio wishes to have every student as a sitler,or the group will be incomplete. Dr. Kingslcy is at Fricberg, Get many, studying in Weiss matin's l.ihit.ttory. In comparing the American laboratories wiih the lalionuoiy Vt the famous zoologist, the doctor is quite emphatic in his statement that many of tho former me equal to, if not heitei than, the latter. '-The laboratories oi the University of Nchiaskn arc" he writes "in some respects ahead of those in FriebM-g." The doctor tells an amusing story about the professor of botany in Zurich. The profes sor's name is Dodcl. He married a Miss Port, thenceforth he called himself Dodcl-lVm. Hut there weio domestic diffi culties which caused a separation. The students now called him 1 )odel Export. The quarrel wasxmadc up and then he was Dodcl-lmport. Finally came the divorce which lull him plain Dodcl once moie. As noon as the doctor finishes up his work in Freiberg, ho will visit the principal nboratories in Germany and England end will return to America sometime in the spring. Rev. Wdlltam Kirkcis of Itnltituorc has accepted the invi tation pent him to deliver the Ilaccalaureate address next June. Although Mi. Kirkers was born in England, he has spent twenty years in this country and is now regarded as one of the most eminent preachers in the pulpit of the entire country. He is a number of the Univcisitv of London, was graduated a bachelot of law in 1S50, taking honors in juris -ptudeiu-e and uceivmg the degiee ol niastei of aits in 1871. Although Mi. Knkcis has gained a gieat lrpuintiou as a mtnUtci. pleaching is not tl.i- only line of work in which he has Uruiine eminent. He has just resigned the uciorship of St. Michael and All Angels church in ltnltimoro, to give his ciitiH- time to a literary work entitled "Orthodoxy, Scrip ture, and Reason," ami a volumn of essays and scimons. He has long been a contrihutoi to the leading periodicals of this country and England. He was the editor of tho Amer ican Literary Chunhinaii, during the entire period of its existence. The univcisitv has every icason to congratulate itself upon its good fortune in securing such a man as Mr, KMrkcrs for the .Haccalaureate, 'SmWB