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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1893)
THE NEBRASKAN 107 Next year should witness a change in the arrangement of games for the base ball team. If the boys know that games are to be played and when, they will be more punctual in practice. The missionary field is about to claim some more of our alumni. Will the capacious maw of the cannibal never be filled? Van Hoist has freed himself of one fault so often found in men of his profession. When he believes a thing, he believes it with his whole soul ; when he voices his belief, he does it with a directness and emphasis which is refreshing. We have all seen the over-cautious instructor, the man who always says, "My feeling is" that so and so is true. Of this class was the Williams college pro fessor who, when his students gave him a cane, responded : "I am deeply moved by your kindness. I am honored by this beau tiful token of your esteem. I think I am." Not so with Von Hoist. In him is a happy blending of the conservative spirit which is circumspect in the choice of premises, and the radicalism which formulates logical con clusions in language that compels conviction. His strong belief generate enthusiasm within himself and in his hearers. He has spent years and years in rummaging through the libraries of two continents, yet he retains the faculty of clothing the results of his research in terms that appeal to men of affairs. Eru dition, independence, enthusiasm seem to be his watchwords. If he were not so learned, we should call him an orator ; but as oratory and wind are commonly synonymous, we re frain. Were he not so independent in thought he would doubtless be a politician, and a successful one, too, for he has the other elements of popular leadership within him. If he were not so enthusiastically in touch with the surging life without college walls, he would be merely a professor. As to criticism of Von Hoist the sparrows twittered at the moon. Not we. The Nkijkaskan congratulates the Junior class on the success of the Junior-Senior ban quet. It was a fitting farewell to the mem bers of '93. It marks an epoch in class hist ory at the U. of N. A banquet is more ap propriate as a Commencement festivity than the hair clippings, and pepper and vinegar and salt feeds to which the Juniors and Sen iors have treated one-another in former years. Such rude acts may be all right and doubt less are the source of much amusement, but it is well occasionally to lay aside time-honored hostilities and bask in the sunshine of society. No time is more convenient than Commencement week, and no event more appropriate than a banquet, for such enjoy ment. Though class distinctions are surely disappearing at the U. of N., it is to be hoped that the year's banquet will be a precedent for all time to Junior classes at the Univer sity ; that the odd and even classes, enemies by tradition, may, as the one departs college and the other assumes the garb of Senior, exchange greetings and bid farewell amid festive surroundings. Long may the Class of '94 live a friend to the needy, (Senior) an honor to herself and the institution. With the opening of the school year next September, another foot ball season will have begun. Every man who has played on the " 'Varsity" team and will be in school next year, and every applicant for a position on next year's team, should beat the University not later than the first clay examination. Six games have been arranged with teams from Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado and Ne braska. The first game will be played about the middle of October with the Omaha Ath letic team. As the boys will at most have not more than one month's practice before this game, no time should be lost after school begins, but practice should begin at once. The prospects are now good for a successful season. With a good coach, and faithful practice, we may wrest the championship from the sturdy boys of the Jayhawk state. i 1