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down". Everybody went away satisfied and
Jhe psychology students haven't talked about
anything else since.
The state oratorical contest will be hold in
the Lansing, Friday evening, March 10.
The competing colleges, orators, and sub
jects are as follows ; given in the order of ap
pearance on the platform : Cotner Univers
ityMiss Gadd, on "The Work of Women" ;
Wcsleyan University Mr. Turner, on "Prog
ress and Thought" ; University of Nebraska
Mr. Wing, on "Patriotism and Brother
hood" ; Doane College Mr. Dean, on "A
Case in Equity". The program will possess
the admirable feature of being brief. The
agony won't last long, but it promises to be
pretty sharp.
The report upon Farmers' Institutes re
cently submitted to the Chancellor shows a
large amount of work accomplished. Twenty
eight institutes have been held since the
school year opened, the work being so ar
ranged as to take the professors as little as
possible from their regular work and at the
same time give the greatest possible benefit
to the farmers. The towns visited are scat
tered over the entire state. Of the fifty-eight
lectures given altogether, over forty were by
Professors Ingersoll, Taylor and Bruner ; the
balance bein divided among the Chancellor,
Prof. Bessey, Prof. Caldwell and Instructor
Woods.
A very interesting incident occurred at the
home of a couple of young ladies, last Friday
night ; the substance of which certainly
should be recorded, for it illustrates in how
novel a manner young men settle their dis
putes. Three young men, of great repute in
the society circles of this college, evidently
found themselves in a dilemma on Friday
night. They had asked the company of three
young ladies lor that evening, but it seems
that they had asked them in a body, and
that no arrangements had been made as to
to the escorts of each. Nothing, however,
was said about it until the ladies had left the
room to don their wraps. Then a discussion
arose among the young men as to whom they
should take. They wrangled and argued
and debated, but as time was flying, and as
the girls would soon appear, they fished out
some nickles and flipped for them. It cer
tainly would have been interesting for any
privileged spectator to watch the young men,
as they bent over the money and eyed it in
breathless expectancy. However, they
seemed to have settled it to their evident
satisfaction, for when the young ladies did
appear, they saw nothing amiss, except a few
significant smiles and a suspicious glance or
two toward the unconscious girls, as if to dis
cover whether or not they were aware of the
proceedings.
The Botanical Seminar held its first con
vocation for 1S93 in the Botanical lecture
room, February 23. The following papers
were read :
Early Expeditions in Nebraska Fred
Clements, Sem. Nov.
The Classification of Fungi Roscoe
Pound, Sem. Bot.
Botrychini boreale A. F. Woods, Sem.
Bot.
The Metaspermae of the Minnesota Valley
Prof. Bessey.
The Clcmistry of Insectivorous Plants
J. C. Smith. Sem. Bot.
The copy for the first annual bulletin of the
Botanical Survey of Nebraska is in the hands
of the printer and will probably be ready for
distribution about March 15.
Our aggregation of "Sand Burrs" was
crowded out of this issue by more desirable
matter. Sandburrs, though, are like wine
and Sophomores they improve with age.
So, if you crave sandburrs as arc sandburrs,
wait for the April Nkiuiaskan.
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