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declare ourselves. We are going to keep on
the safe side of that line so illy defined and
little observed in college journalism that di
vides good-natured raillery from impertinent
personality. A little boy was once reproved
by his mother for some impertinent saying.
" That's always the way, mamma," he tear
fully replied, "I mean to be lunny, but I'm
only rude." This is very apt to be the way
with personal articles in college papers.
They are meant only to add interest to the
paper. In doing this they are almost cer
tain to hurt the people they are aimed at and
to lower the standard of the paper and the
school which supports it. If The Nehras
kan lacks spice please do not attribute it to
a lack of humorous talent on the editorial
board but to a desire on our part to respect
the feelings of every student even at the ex
pense of our readers' amusement.
have so little of that stability which the ob
servance of old customs gives. Nevertheless,
if any of our old habits can be improved on
we see no reason why we should let our rev
erence for what is already established prevent
progress. Yelling is undoubtedly a con
firmed habit of all university students. Our
yell is a very good yell in its way, but it is
the way of ten or fifteen years ago. It is too
long and the sound is not one that carries
well. At the Iowa game in Omaha last
Thanksgiving the two hundred University
students the c didn't make as much noise
with U-U-U-NI as twenty Omaha Athletic
club men with their short, quick Rah-Rah-Rah.
The writer, for one, is tired of being
guyed by students of other colleges on ac
count of our over-abundant and too varied
yell. Let some of our numerous geniuses
evolve a new one which will be simple and
characteristic.
It has been deemed expedient to make the
Neimaskan a semi-monthly paper, and this
number inauguraies the new order of things.
There has been such wonderful advancement
in all departments in the University that it is
really bewildering when you come to think
of it. Yet it has all come about in the natural
sequence of events. Place an institution of
learning like the University in the midst of
an intelligent and Jippreciative community
and watch it grow. In truth there is nothing
at all strange about it. Founded as it is on
broad and liberal and truly American demo
cratic principles and comprising as it does
all that goes to make up a well equipped
modern university it is bound to advance.
Indeed anything that stands still in these
modern times will soon become lost in the
shuffle. The cry is ever " onward." A col
lege paper can do no less than keep pace
with its alma mater, hence the change.
Whenever any University custom is at
tacked a certain number of students are sure
to set up a cry of "Iconoclast." Indeed there
is a good reason for this, as we in the west
Judge M. B. Reese has superceded Mr.
Smith as dean of the Law School. Room
has been made for this department in Uni
versity Hall, and it will no longer be obliged
to make its headquarters in the Burr block.
This, it seems to us, is a wise change. It
will not only bring the work more directly
under the control and management of jXc
chancellor, but will bring the students of the
Law School more nearly in touch with the
rest of the University. Heretofore, all of
their work has been done at the Burr block,
and apparently the only times that they were
made aware that they were students of this
great institution was when thoy were obliged
to come up to the steward's oflice to pay their
tuition. While this is, perhaps,. a very forci
ble reminder, yet it is not one which would
tend to make them very enthusiastic about
the University. This year the members of
the Law School will be brought directly in
contact with the students of the academic
college. It seems to us that this will be a
satisfactory arrangement all round, and that
the benefits will be mutual.
