THE HESPERIAN
ono senator unci thoro will bo no legislator
who will not havo among tlio students at
least one friend who belongs to his consti
tuency. The duty of each student is plain
then: become acquainted, if you are not al
ready, with the men from whom our support
comes and mako them know and under
stand the importance of the Nobraska Stato
University. Mako it your duty to inform
where information is lacking, and N. S. U.
will keep climbing upward.
.V. .V.
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"Wo understand the Chancellor will en.
deavor to get an appropriation from the leg
islature for the purpose of erecting a build
ing between the boiler house and Nebraska
Hull, in which there will be a print shop.
Presses will bo put in and all the material
needed for such work as has boon dono and
as will bo dono in and about tho University.
This, we should judge, will be a great saving
in timo, money and labor. The University
has an immenso amount of printing to do
every year, and it is vory unhandy, to say
the least, to got all this work dono at tho
different printing houses in tho city. A
good foreman could superintend the work in
the University printing houso and no doubt
produce as good work as has boon produced
in tho past. Besides the work could bo
operated to advantage, to a certain extent,
in connection with the manual training de
partment. Tho college papers might bo
printed there thus saving considerable timo
and, porhaps, money. No doubt the plan
will bo a grand success if it can only bo
carried out.
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It may bo woll to remark that it is timo
for our orators to bestir thomsolvos. Tho
local contest will probably bo held January
28; therefore orators will havo about six
weeks more for preparation. For such pror
parationtho holiday vacation offers' an ox
collont opportunity, and wo hopo it will be
improved. Healthy rivalry demands that
every society in school havo aropresontitivo in
the local contest. When this contest is de
eded we will lay aside all personal prejudices
and heartily support tho wini'ior. Many of
us not only belie vo that tho University has
oratorical talent, but wo have an abiding
faith that it will somotimo mako itsolf up.
parent at a contest. But however much
talent wo have, wo must work. In both
local and stato contests tho man who wins
.mist work; and tho man who does work has
an excellent chance to win.
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In tho Chapel on tho evening of Decem
ber 10th, the Dramatic club made its first
appearance in an emotional tragedy writton
expressly for tho occasion and dealing with
University life. Tho drama which was
writton by Miss Louise Pound, was, in
every respect, artistic and unique. The
actors showed both training and natural
ability. Tho success of this first attempt
augurs woll for future undertakings of a
similar character. Ono especially encour
aging feature was tho hearty approbation
shown by tho loading members of tho faculty.
It is time for both students and faculty to
realizo that a good dramatic society is an al
most necessary feature of every first class
collogo. As labratory work is to tho sciences,
so actual practice in acting is to students of
tho drama; though it is no more to bo sup
posed that every ono connected with tho
club proposes to bo an actor, than that every
"prop" who studios botany proposes to bo
a botanist. But it is necessary, in order
thoroughly to appreciate dramatic mastcr
pioces, that tho student havo somo concep
tion of tho actual requisites and essentials of
tho drama and of tho difficulties under which
tho author labors. This ho can get only by
experience. In tliG drama, as in everything
oho, a little practical experience is f ar bettor
than any possible amount of theory.
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Wo wish to call tho attention of students
to two articles in tho last number of tho
North 'Western Jaurnal of Education. One
is on "Inductive Exercises in Literature," by
Prof. II. C. Peterson. This article will bo
continued through several numbers of tho
Journal, The othor article is by Prof. Bar
ber and is entitled, "Hints on the Touching
of Latin in Propartory Schools."