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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1893)
TUB NEBRASKAN 5' Tho Christmas number of the Annex, of Monmouth, III., is exceptionally well gotten up, containing a review of the faculty and classes. The Princeton Glee and Banjo Club gaye a concert in Omaha last week. The opera house was draped in orange and black and the boys were royally entertained. cello solo ; the chorus sang "The Kobald's Song," D. N. Lehmer taking the solo parts ; the closing number was a combined por trayal bv the chorus and orchestra of "The Magic of Spring." There was a fair attend ance, but it should have been larger. The Nero of Am go Boito, according to last accounts, is completed and will be soon produced in Italy. Baker is still blowing its horn because it Frau Wagner has declined to permit (lef0;lt0(i lho team of substitutes sent down "Parsifal" to be performed in Chicago clur- by Kansas University. It is nearly as lin ing the World's Fair. This opera concluded Sp0rtsmanlikc as Domic, the year's festival performances at Bayreuth. The Princeton-Yale debate takes place on March 15th. There will be three speakers from each college, each one of these to speak twice, the speeches to be ten and six minutes The performance is said to have been highly artistic. tfyer Colleges. in length. Missouri's foot-ball team will have to have new life and energy put in to it. The stu $69,000 has been donated to Wabash in dents do not seem interested in it. An ap- the past two weeks. Prof. E. N. Ilorsford, the noted chemist, died at Cambridge, Sunday, of Blight's dis ease. The glee club of Michigan State Univer sity is booked for a concert in Lincoln, in the latter part of April. peal for financial assistance to the chancellor and faculty will be made. J no. D. Rockefeller made the Chicago University a Christmas present of one mil lion dollars. This makes three million six hundred thousand d llars he has given and the total endowment of the University, $6, 500,000, including land and buildings. The Normal Courier of Peru distributed a large number of sample copies among the the teachers last week. The Western Normal has nearly eight hun dred students enrolled. The Lincoln Nor mal about three hundred. During the past week, a series of educa tional conferences the university extension movement, were held nine in all, each at a different point. They all had the same gen eral purpose, nam el', the establishment of better "relations between public and col legiate education." The grammar school lus The Rocky Mountain Collegian came out one for a high school. The four years' course in holiday attire with an illustrated review of of the high school ought to be a thorough fit- the Colorado State Agricultural College. ting for any college. Yet one may graduate from a high school, and with honor, and still The Niagara Index was the only college be unable to enter a college. The confer- paper to have a "Columbian" edition, that ences in question aim to bring the leading we have received. It was well gotten up. educators of the public schools together.