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Vol. VIII. No. 9.
GUEST Of UNIVERSItV
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TAFT
8PEAK8 AT TEMPLE.
ARRIVES ON SCHEDULED TIME
MANY CLA88E8. DI8MI88ED FOR
H8 ADDRE88.
Judge Appears Tired an His Voice Is
Hoarse and 8hows the Effects of
the Constant 8train of a
8trenuous Campaign.
William H. Taft, republican candi
date for president of the United States
was the guest of the university. His
first speech in Lincoln was delivered
before a university audience in the
Temple. Many classes wore dismissed
in order that the studontB and profes
sors might have an opportunity of
hearing the distinguished speaker.
Mr. Taft arrived lri Lincoln at 5:15
o'clock in the aftornoon in accordance
with his schedule as previously an
nounced. A largo crowd greeted him
at the dopot and followed his carriago
up to the university.
Escorted to the University
Mr. Taft was escorted from the
dopot up to the unlvorslty by a long
lino of automobiles and carriages. The
parade gathered in front of the Capital
Hotel and then went to the depot
where it was formed in lino. A band
Berved to create enthusiasm while a
squad of university cadots, numbering
about fifty, and armed with mega
phones gave university yells and
cheers for Taft
The road taken by Judge Taft was
up It street to Twelfth and then north
to the Temple. Along this routo many
people had gathered to see the can
didate and the street was surrounded
with carriages. Ono feature of the
trip was tho disagreeable forwardness
of many people anxious to grasp tho
hand of tho candidate. They swarmed
about him and over tho carlage and
were Insistent upon some attention.
Taft Looks Tired.
Mr. Taft looked very tired but In
spite of this he wore the same smile
which has become famous during tho
campaign. His voice was In very poor
shape although by an effort he over
came much of its hoarseness. Ho
showed plainly tho strain which ho
has been under for the last few days.
A large crowd of studonts gathered
about the weBt entrance to the Tern
pie as tho capacity of the thoator was
limited and many could not gain on
trance. Admission was by tickets pre
viously lBSued at tho Y. M. C. A.
rooms, but these disappeared before
many were ablo to obtain them. As
soon as tho speaker arrived the doors
were thrown open to tho public.
Temple Well Decorated.
Tho unlvorslty republican club has
made a large feature of tho presence
of Judgo Taft Tho Tjjmpjfl raa doc
drated with stroamora and tho box
office was almoBt hidden by a display
of palms. Tho cadets who took part
in the celebration wore fitted, out with
megaphones and ponants bearing the
names of Sheldon and Taft
The demonstration in Mr. Taf t'rf hon
or was largely non-partisan and was
the university's welcome to a promi
nent American. It was a high honor,
that Mr. Taft was willing that his Urut
speech in Lincoln should be to the
university students.
' Mr. Taft came to Lincoln over the
Northwestern railroad, but the train
was switched onto the Burlington and
taken to Havolock, where Mr. Taft
spoke to tho workmen.
Miss Jessie Kriedler, A. O. P., ex
1009, is teaching in the Fullorton city
schools this year.
Baked boans, baked oh the premises
and served hot with delicious brown
bread, lQo, at The, Boston Lunch.
UNIVERSITY OF
INCONVENIENT TO HEAR TAFT.
Young Bryan Forced to Qo In 8earch
of a Ticket.
The son of a democratic presidential
candidate experiencing difficulty in
getting a ticket to attend a meeting
addressed by his father's opponent was
tho unique spectacle which occurred
on tho Unlvorslty of Nebraska campus
yesterday afternoon.
William J. Bryan, Jr., Bon of William
J. Bryan, presidential candidate, much
desired to hoar William H. Taft, also
a presidential candldato, talk to tho
university students. He went to the
man who had the tickets in charge
and besought tho favor of an admis
sion. But all the available tickets
were already out and young Bryan
was up against a stiff proposition.
Luckily for tho democratic leader's
heir, he had a frlond at court after
some difficulty suceeded In precurlng
a single admission.
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NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1908.
WORKING AMONG GIRLS
CAMPAIGN ON TO 8ELL 8TUDENT
TICKET8 TO THEM.
OPINION OF CO-ED ON PUN
Tells Manager Eager How 8he Is Go
ing to Attend the Games This
Year Without Depending
On Male Escort.
Managor Earl O. Eager announced
yeBtorday that a special campaign had
been started to sell student athletic
tickets to tho co-eds of tho university.
The salo of those tickets has been
large among the boys. The girls, tho
manager says, have been slow, how
ever, in securing tho season books.
Ho says that tho boys will buy tho
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books without much urging, but that
it is nocessary to convlnco oach co-ed
Individually that tho Innovation Is a
good thing for all tho studonts.
In order to mako tho now plan a suc
cess, It is said, that it will bo neces
sary for a majority of tho girls of tho
unlvorslty to buy tho student books.
Quito a largo numbor of tho co-eds
havo alroady got In lino and purchased
tickots so that they will bo ablo to at
tend all tho atblotlo contosts of tho
yoar without doponding on somo man
to take them to any of tho ovonts.
Some Have Tickets.
"Tho girls," Manager Eagor ox
plained yesterday afternoon, "do not
need to be' afraid to buy thoso tickots.
Thoro are going to bo a wholo lot of
tho co-eds at all our football and other
contests. Severnl girls havo bought
tickets of mo and many of them wore
glrlB who until this year had always
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Price 5 Cents.
WANT TO STAND WELL
THI8 DESIRE OF COLLEGE MAN
WORTH MUCH 8AY8 TAFT.
COLLEGE ESTIMATE RIGHT ONE
Opinion of classmates shows
what the man will be.
Republican Presidential Aspirant Lays
Aside All Political Questions
and Talks of College Life
and Its Influences.
With Governor Sheldon, Sonators
Burkott, and Brown, Congressmen Pol
lard, National Commlttoman Rose
wator and othor promlnont mombors
of his party on tho platform, William
H. Taft, republican presidential nom
lnoo, yestorday addrossed an audlenco
of nearly a thousand unlvorslty stu
donts and faculty.
Tho Temple auditorium was packed
to tho limit and hundreds woro loft
j outside.. Admission was by ticket and
tho ushorB woro practically swampod,
as largo numbors got In without tho
pastoboards. Tho conter section of
tho orchostra was reserved for the
mombors of tho Sholdon and tho Pol
lard marching clubs which escorted Mr.
Taft from tho station to tho auditor
ium.
Following preliminary cheers by the
marching clubs and tho unlvorslty yell,
M. E. Cornelius, president of the Unl
vorslty Republican club, introduced
Senator E. J. Burkott Mr. Burkott
spoke very briefly, showorlng compli
'ments everywhere In his characteris
tic manner. Ho referred to tho Uni
versity of Nebraska as tho greatest
university of America and asserted
his assured belief that nowhere would
Mr. Taft moot an audionco of such
strong and sturdy young manhood.
Own College Days. '
Mr. Taft rose at tho formal presenta
tion of his namo by Sonator Burtrett
and greoted tho enthusiastic applause,
with a courteous and smiling bow
After thanking tho audience for their
cordial ocoption he spoko In part as
follows, his remarks being punctuated'
by applause:
"I do not feel a stranger in address"
ing a college audionco. It brings ihe
back to my own life at coll ego and to
tho campaign of Hayes and Tllden. I
remember how thoroughly divided we
were at that time and I presume that
that you horo aro divided over tho
present situation In Juat the same man
ner. I hope that your division has
caused debate to bo among you, for
anything that loads you to exercise
your power in debate Is productive of
good.
"I wish I could toll you of tho de
lights of the llfo through which you are
now passing. Never do I come in con
tact with college life, but I am sorry '
that tho best four years of my life are
gono. Yet I should not say that Those
four years are never gone. Memory
of them remains always. The friend
ships, the fruit of contact with the
men of school and class, if you are
ft man at all, never disappear. One
never, with nerhans tho excnntfnn nt
' his wife, makes friendships more last-
"o uuio tun oi guua eneci on alter
lifo than those contracted In college.
Nothing Sordid There.
."That Is the time when the chara
ter is forming. Life is free from the
sordid considerations which may after
wards enter and which may influence
one into a .chase after the almighty
dollar. College life is free from suck
Influence as that
"You learn a great deal at the uni
versity. I hope that you will carry
away a great deal. Yet the abeolate
Intellectual benefits are not so great
as Is the development of the miad
along lines fixed by college Ufluenoee. .
The greatest debt of manhood to the
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