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T II E II E S P 13 H IAN S T U I) E N T. THE HESPERIAN STUDENT Published soml-monthly by tho btudantt or the Nebraska Male Unhorslty. Wednesday, Feuuuauy 15, 1882 HlITOKS IN CHIEF. May II. FAinriEi.1). U. Z. Sxell. Local Kditok .Clem Chase. Associate Editoh Will O.Jones. UUSIXEbS Ma.naoeu, H. 1 Maiismall. TE11MS OF SUnSOItll'TIOX. 1 copy por college jear - SLOO. 1 " one half jear 50 Slugla copy 03- HATES OF A1IVEIITISINU. 1 column ona inanition $3.00. 2 squares " " ....... .75. 1 " " 40. All articles for publlcat! n should lio addressed Editor Hnsrr.itiAN Stui)ent. btato University. , Lincoiii, Nebraska. All subscriptions and bust ncss coinmunlcutlons. with tho address, should bo gent toll. F. MAltSH ALL. Subscriptlonscol lectnd imarinbly in advance Advertisements collected monthly. Editorial, The Chancellor has organised a class in Parliamentary Law. Many of our sen ators to be, no doubt, bavu availed tliem selves of Ibe opportunity to become skilled in all the little trlcUs and game.-, one patty can, by knowing Ihe toohi ical poinis, play upon the others. It is well, however, for every student to know the" principles by which all organized bodies are governed. He not only needs it in alter life, but it servos him well while in college, especially, if he is a member of one of the societies. With the opening of the present scm-' ester the courage and enterprise of the sophomore and ficshic awakens fi omits dormant state and is made manifest by the formation of a foot-ball club. The students in the higher classes, especially, rue not givon to 'port enough. They do not lake sufficient cxeicise. Their stud ies may demand thoir time, but in years to como they will find that a reasonable amount of tegular exercise is just as es. benlial, and was, as study itself. That the intellect may do its work well, the body needs to bo in perfect health. The Student has good icason to ooni. plain of tho support, or rather the lack of support, that it tecoivos from the stu dents No article Is ever handed in for publication unless a personal icqucst is made by ono of tho editors. Is it not enough for them to furnish copy for their own departments? The pae of abstiact matter ought to be furnished by students It should be uiigiual and not lepiint, and it should be written, not by the eil ilois, but by some of the other students. That this article will do any good the Student does not know. But it will ic mind all that they have n duly to per fonn; that tho paper needs other sup poit than financial. The Democrat will soon pass from the control ofMr.Vlfquain, who has ever been open and stiong in his opposition to the manner in which the University is con dueled. We have become so accustomed lo his threats and demands that it will seem lonesome when they arc heard no more. The criterion by which he judges young men and women is hardly in keeping with modern civilization. But with all his c.icrgclie and extravagant assertions, often wholly uncalled for and eironcous, it may bo that some good has ben done the students. If such be the case, his woilc and evident intoiest in the Uni versity lias not been in vain. That he may ciury with him in whatever calling he sees fit in the future lo follow, tho do sire to make the University the centre of the educational inteiesLs of the state, is the wish of tho Student. Active, ener getic work for, not against, the University is what it needs. Thkhr is some talk of the students of tho Uiibversiiy, Doane College, and those of other leading schools of the state form, ing an oratorical association. Fiist in or dcr would bu a stato contest between the chosen repicsentativcs of those colleges entering tho association. The vicor in this contest would liavo the i ight to appear in the inter-stale contest. Let that which is now lalk become a lcaHty. Theie is no leason why the students of Nebraska should not enter upon this work and stand a fair chance of w inning tho laurels in the inter-stale contest. Stranger things have happened. The Student can not agree with a speaker on the regular debate of one of the societies last Friday night that it is all right for anyone to talk against his convictions, if right, on a moral question becauso he happens to be put upon that sides. No one, and most of all a young poison, can talk upon the wrong side of a moral question, still truer it Is that he can not study and thh.k and leason on the wrong side of a moial question without debasing his whole moral nature. To argue or attempt to argue a moral quos tiou ngainst firm convictions and con scientious principles is always a danger ous thing lo do. No one can nfford to imperil his beliefs however firmly grounded they may appear to him to be, and there is no surer way of lowering one's whole moral natuio and blunling one's bouse of right and justice titan in thus trying to uphold a wiong, and reason and excuse away a disgrace and an untruth. Many a man has regretted when it was too late that he ever was so foolhardy as to subject a sensitive, impressible natuio to so needless and reckless a test. The Student entirely misunderstood the iccommeudations of the Libraiiau to ihe Benefits. As all know, long befoir this, the library is now open in the I'me nouns and students may draw out two books instead of one. These are gnat impiovemeuts and are due to the taie and zeal of Prof. Howard, who was him. self once a student here, and has not for gotten the wants and needs of students, and who, out of our old uiiaccomodating library system, has wrought the belief icient changes which give to us greater freedom in our libinry than is enjoyed by the students of many older and larger colleges east and west, to judge by tho tenor of some of our exchanges. The following are Prof. Howard's recommen dations to the Regents: "Tour attention is respectfully called to the necessity of making provision, as soon as practicable, for the better protec tion of the books in the library. Undo. existing rules all professors, instructors and officers of tho University have frie access lo tho library at at all times; but many books are constantly drawn without record and without knowledge of the libra rian. Some books have, I fear, boon iuc covorably lost in this way. Many litre and cost'y books, which it ftwuld bo difilcultor impossible lo replace, are constantly being added to the libraiy; and I am of tho opinion that, as soon as the library can bo kept open both fnic noons and afternoons, no person save the librarian and necessary attendants should have access to Ihe books. I am not prcpaicd, however, to rec coinniend any restriction on tho use of tho library, until it shall be opened for drawing and consulting books for, at least six hours each day. But in tho mean time, I would respectfully request that the librarian bo iclioved from per sonal responsibility for loss of books, and that such responsibility bo placed where it may scorn properly to belong Many of the graded schools of the state are superintended oy membcis of the aluinni. They have tho shaping of thocouiscol study in those schools and necessarily must have some standaul that regulates the work Ihoy tiy to accom plish. What this standard is wo do not pretend to bay, but ll ought to bo Ihe sec. ond preparatory, or the freshman year of tho University. That the University is, and ought to bo tho leading school of tho state, is surely an admitted fact. If this bo true, what more fitting standard can the high schools of the stalo select, than some class of the University, and then try and prepare their gradual ca for this class. It is a lamented fact that the teachers throughout tho stato do not sharpen tho desires of their pupils for