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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1894)
H m&kr .. . WSSm LITERARY. Truly the American is a many sided individual, and by nothing is this fact totter illustrated than by what he has written. If there is anything he has least not at tempted to write about, we have yet to hear of it. And the beauty of it is that he usually knows whereof bespeaks. Sci ence, religion, politics, history, philosophy, the arts, toward all these he has directed his atten tion, and shall it be said that ho has neglected fiction? A glance through the catalogue o( any general library would convince the most unenlightened that the American has bestowed a great deal of effort on fiction. They say we have no American novel. Perhaps not, but can you wonder at it when you think of the man itold phases of life in this coun try. We have some national traits, to be sure, but who would attempt to portray in one or two or tnree cnaracters an mat is distinctive in Americans? However, there are probably lew aspects of the life of any part of our country that have not been depicted in a more or less skillful manner. Where civilization is, there we find the novelist, and if he can go a little ahead of civilization and unearth something of which civilization has never heard, so mujh the better for the novelist. His pic tures will then have the chance of originality, and people enjoy something new. If there was no room for art in novel writing, if it was a mere matter of a few more or less truthful descriptions of scenes and persons, we fear the field would be a great deal more overrun than it is at pres ent. When, in the process of time, the good becomes separ ated from, the bad, and what is really worthy of a position in the front rank of American litera ture is placed there to the exclu sion of what is not, we shall have America well depicted. Mean while our literature grows apace, and ma' the sifting process be thoroughly accomplished. EXCHANGES. to prove that "whosoever halh, to him shall be given, and he shall ha to more abundance. We are in receipt of a When first I cum to college I'd a wild desire for knowledge, And I Mowed In history I'd enrve my name. I'd jist beat them city Mlers, with their tmiff.ro mill ll,il1iri11iro monthly from New Hampshire i Aml VA roost upon the plunyck of fnme College, at Dover, with a name Though l studied six hours nightly, the fearfully and wonderfully made! professors hinted slightly ., ., . , r, Hint it struck them that my Intellect the tinaiciscc. 1 he even tenor wng gmalli perhaps we should say bas And I dunked w.thsuch persistence tlmt I needed the assistance Of n rmuy, U I ever passed ntnll. of its way is interrupted by a flash of genius from the pen of some youth inspired by the Muse, who feelingly says: "Dnrknlms nightibus No lightorum Clituibus gatepost llreechibus torum." The following ballad, clipped fiom the Harvard Lampoon, is the best thing of its kind that has yet come to the notice of this highly frescoed exchange col umn : Oh, Wing Tee Wee Was a sweet Chinee, And she lived in the town of Tac. Her eyes were blue, And her curling cue Hung dnngling down her back, And she fell in love with gay Win Sil When he wrote his love on a laundry bill. And oh, Tim Told, Vas a pirate bold, And he sailed in n Chinese junk; And he loved, ah me! Sweet Wing Tee Wee, But his valiant heart had sunk. So he drowned his blues Ju fickle fizz, And vowed the maid would yet be his. So bold Tim Told Showed all his gold To the maid in the town of Tac, And sweet Wing Wee Eloped to sea, And nevermore came back; For in fair China the maids are fair, And the maids are false, as everywhere. When they said my brain was muddy, 1 Mowed It was hard study That iulled my average below the line. An' I thought it would be wise if I took sonic exercise, So, I think, sez I, in football I will shine. We'd no more 'n got in line, when a feller kicked my spine, And a couple other fellers grabbed my knees. An' they were so Mraid they'd lose 'em that they pranced upon my bosom, And they tried to pull my hair out by degrees. Wal, I took a girl nt last, to a supper by the class, But some second preps they up und cut my hair, Till, b' gum, my hat won't fit me, and then they come and twit me Till I get so all-fired mad I'd like' to swear. Now a college is all right for a feller who aint bright, But people such as me it's apt to spoil. Vou can talk about your larnln', but it don't come up to farmin', So I reckon I'll go back and till the soil. Fine Baked Goods High Grade Confections Ice Cream and Ices NEW YORK VSL Telephone 763. 130 SOUTH TWELFTH ST. Peoples' Barber Shop, J. M. MORTON, Proprietor. SHAVING 10 GENTS. Cor. lOtli and O SlrwtfC Untlor ll.it M.TIckift Olllcu, Lincoln, Nol. BEST OF UNION UARBERS. The classical Sophomores of Beloit College gave their annual Greek tragedy last Friday night. The play was Antigone, and the translation was made by the Students themselves. The Chi cago papers praised the per formance highly. But iustwait The Northwestern Interccl-j until our own Greek students Athletic Association, l ,rive Antigone in the original composed of the Northwestern Greek, false beards and sandals, and the State Universities of j Wisconsin, Michigan and Min- Wlrg Do you buy ready made clothing when you can have a suit to order for the same money? SEE Wanamaker k Brown's Samples AT L A. BUMSTEAD'S Lindell Hotel Block. 1238 M Street. MMTCbW and see list of Student Customers. TELEPHONE 270. legiate nesota, has passed in it its checks and is no more. .Lack of financial success is given as the cause. Thomas Stanford of Mel bourne, Australia, gives it out as his intention to double the leg acy of $300,000, left him by his brother. Senator Stanford, and donate this amount to Stanford University for the endowment of a library. He has already pre sented the Art Department of that rich and fortunate College with his entire art collection, valued at $60,000. Which goes Florida Excursions. Via the Missouri Pacific route on January 16, 1894 Souther land Florida, where flowers bloom in January, more prolific than here in June. Climate can't be excelled in the wide, wide world. For full particulars call on Phil Daniels, C. T. & P. A., 1 201 O street, Lincoln, Neb. Look for the Charter Day issue of The Nkuraskan. CHAS. B GREGORY (U. ok N. Ml.) SELLS COAL CLARKSOIM LAUNDRY COMPANY .330-3-4 S. 1 Ith St K H. GLEKSON. Teas, Coffees and Spices. 1 234 O STREET. TEL. 64. Coffee Itonsted Twlco h Week. ( At 1100 0 Street. ) PHONE 343. Harvest KxcuhIoiih. Via tho Missouri Pacific. 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