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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1893)
I! Socal, THE NEBRASKAN 9 ing one's head with Krupp guns, steamships, nine, the amount of mental exertion couldn't Turkish carpets, and model life-saving sta- have been very great. No wonder they no tions, to go to the clock tower in the matur come attached to their ama mater. It must faclurer's building. A good band would be take half a lifetime to take a degree. The playing one of Strauss' dreamy waltzes, picture that he draws of student amusements The tired sight-seer, if lonely, would lind is an entertaining one. Mr. Davis, though, an empty chair. There one could sit and see describes everything so pleasantly that one is more pretty faces in ten minutes than he inclined to make a little allowance (or his would in a week of ordinary life. Surely all style. Such a life as he portrays may be the beautiful women in the country must very well for the pampered minions of a rich have been in Chicago this summer. The aristocracy, but for us the willing western U. American girl in a blue dress and white straw of N. is greatly to be preferred. . hat (ninety-nine out of every hundred wore mem,) is way ahead of anything the Art gal lery would show. To keep up appearances there must be a note of some kind in this column on a purely literary subject. For this reason (and to satisfy that almost insatiate eater-up of copy, the printer,) I would like to remind any novel reader who may read this, that he is missing a treat if he omits James Barric from his list, He is easily the best of the recent English novelists. There is a certain fresh ness and naivete in his style that fascinates. The Scotch dialect is a little difficult, but it is dialect properly used. The stern morals of the "Auld Licht" Presbyterians and tho bar renness of life in a manufacturing town are well portrayed. Mr. Barrie has also tried y, W. Hasbrouck. of Boise City, Idaho, his hand as a playwright, but seems not to ms entered the law college. have been so successful in this line. Indeed . T . . , , 1 ,1 . , E. M. Pollard, 03, was in the cit' last few novelists are. It is to be hoped that he ...,'. A ,.t. J 11 i-iii rnnj nj, n,. week mixing, up in politics, will return to his old love. Good novels are b' l r infinitely preferable to mediocre dramas. t1c class rolls in the department of chem- Richard Harding Davis in the last liar- istry show 35 s to date. fcr's publishes a charming description of A large representation of the Class of '93 "Undergraduate Life at Oxford." Mr. Da- L g h.ive entered the University this vis says the only reason he has to conclude faut that everybody works at Oxford is that there 1 ah u DfrionfQ ho Toe Mallelieu, of Kearney, formerly a stu- are a great many dons. All the students he J .' .. . , w - , .. u-nnL-iw dent of the University, is taking the law met got up about eight, went to a bieaklast " J & party till eleven, then read about a half an course. hour, then a lunch party, then tennis or boat- prof Nicholson hus been appointed " re- ing till evening. The time tor study was Qn sugnr for the A Q A c for . supposed to be after a 7 o'clock dinner. But , as they seemed to s.tudy outside of college and they had to be in college by half-past Notwithstanding the hard times the en- Fred Clements left to. attend the fair last week. James Canfield spent the summer in the Black Hills. The new Departmental regulation will soon be out. J. C. Porterfield has returned from Chica go and east. The campus looks much improved after a careful summer's care.