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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1892)
Til K II E8 I' K U I A N ( II i There is talk of organizing a foot hull league between the universities of Mlnnesoln, and Wisconsin, the Northwes tern un'ivoisity and Iowa college. A series of games will he arranged and college athletics will take quite a boom. The author of "Memoirs of a College Widow," in the S. U. . (? staits his article in prose. Mis ideas and senti ments finally became so lofty that prose was not good enough and lie finishes his article in poetry. It is quite a nice little story. It would have been better had it all been in poetry. The literary column of the College Student is the most complete literary column among our exchanges. The matter is usually very good. This shows that the students take an interest in their paper. They contribute enough to keep the paper well supplied. Many of our exchanges would do well if they published mote literary ai tides. The Western Afnrylmul College Monthly has in the last number a very well wiitteu aitiele entitled "A Flying Trip to Kurope." It would be well for those students who expect to take the nip to Kurope next summer to read this article. You who are not noing should icad it also. Kor that which you eannot see with your own eyes, you may see through the eyes of another. There was 'quite a fight at the state university of Iowa, over who .should manage the athletic association. The war raged fiercely. The frats and baibs weie both in the battle. Major Keid postponed the recitation and drill for ten minute;, that the battle might be concluded with all forces in the fray. A little such interest docs, a college good. It not only stiis up the interest in athletics, but gives practical lessons in wire-pulling. Seven students were dismissed from the Kuioku college yesterday. (treat excitement prevails among the students and efforts aie being made towards their reinstatement. Tluee were dismissed for drinking, three for non-performance of duty ami one for refusing to tell on his fellow-student. liloomington Iinttegrafi. It .seems that even wise men may sometimes be funis. A faculty is an absolute and a. supreme power in a school. I'liey should use their power in a way that should biing praise, not scorn. Actions like the above, aie not fit actions for pi ops, let alone for the ptofessors and the fueult). 'J he Argo Reporter of Wuslibirn college has in it the ora tions of the diffeient contestants in the Kansas state contest. The pictuie of each one accompanies the oration. The Reporter may well crow and be happy, since James L. I'oston of Washburn took first place. Me pleads for aid foi the ex-convict. His oration is quite foicihle and pathetic. It appeals more to the feelings than to icason. As a production we prefer the oration which took second place. In it Vernon C. Cook upholds the Jews very well. He seems to be full of his subject. Yet it is I'ostnu who will represent Kansas in the interstate. We invite every one to come to our sanctum and peruse the oration. Among'Wio editoiialsof the Western Afiirylmut College Monthly appeared an aitiele on public applause. It seems that there, as well as here, the students applaud everyone and everything. He goes on to say: "Applause is intended to show marks of appreciation of an audience for a good perform ance; but it fails to do this when it is ucd indiscriminately after every exhibition, whether well done or not. Applause has a useful end when properly used but may degenerate into a mere sensless habit. Boys, let there be a reformation in this respect." We hcartitly agree with the editor on this ques tion. We would like to add a word to it which seems to be needed at the University' of Nebraska. It seems that when a crowd of Uni. people get together they are unable to hold themselves. It also is very evident that the howling and the Uni. yell is the means used to lei olf their e.xtra spirits. As a result the yell is getting somewhat worn and ragged-edged. Let there be an end of it. II someone would come out with a college song he would be a benefactor. Hut us long us the song Is not forthcoming let us try to give the yell a much needed rest. Among our new and theiefoie unexperienced exchanges appeals the second number of the Georgia University Mug tisine. As a whole the magazine is very well written. It is full of bright and interesting articles. The critical comment is esneilnllv L'ood. The ai tick on novel rcndini! is very sens l1.. .....1 .nil ttmi.ln.l ll Iw .ii.ll vviirtli i i.iwlf mr mill f.ii..if lm. .lilt mm uviii ...i. !... n .... iwii ibiiiiin ..!.. vuii.imiji' ng. Theie is one fault about the magaiue, however, which should be collected. The editorials aie too long-winded. In one, the editor wishes to congratulate the students because the college has received a chair of history and political sci ence. He lias an average of sixty one winds to a sentence in this article, the longest having some one numbed and thirt-y two words, while the shoi test has fifteen woids. We know how haid it is to cut up a pet sentence, and to take away all its beauty. Hut, will the average leader consider the same sentence a good one? More likely he will bo compelled to read it two or tlrreo times before lie catches the meaning. So, let us all make our sentences short and pointed. Lot us try to write foi the veadei, and not to see what we can do. The above mentioned aitiele was lull of good thought; but we doubt if many of the readeis received the full benefit of them The itirthiitnite is again Vic fore us. It is as newsy and blight as usual. Theie are many articles woi thy of mention; but we must be confined to a few. The luirlutttite wishes to oigunie a college press association in Indiana. The associ ation will then send delegates to the international meeting tube held during the world's fair at Chieago. We hereby advocate the scheme. Why not lot Nebraska organize an interstate ptesx association. It could meet while the contest was in session. It would piovo very pleasant as well as bene ficial to all uai ties concerned. Then, when the international meeting takes place at Chicago, Nebraska would boropiosontod and we would moot our many friends, with whom we have so long been acquainted with, tluough, their columns. Shall Nebraska take a back seat in such a mutloi? No, lot us oig.iu le at once and show the college woild that Nebraska colleges are as full of energy and push as their many contemporaries. There is another aitiele in the exchange column of the same paper which we cannot pass over. It is an article Headed, "Niall llie Higher Institutions of Learning Have Rec itations on Saturday?" At first reading, we thought the writer meant to have six school days a week. We did not exactly see where the argument for such a change come in. Hut we have finally concluded that the writer meant; shall we have our holiday on Monday instead of on Saturday? There are a few benefits to lie gained from such a change. Sunday would be a day of lost. There are, however, more arguments on the other side. The suggestion was thought to bo a rem edy for the Hunks which usually occur on Monday. Would this prevent Hunks on Tuesday? Let us see. Saturday night is society, Sunday is the day of rest, Monday there is a ball game, Tuesday comes and not a lesson. How many students would stay home on Monday and dig for Greek mots when the 'varsity eleven are playing on the campus? Not one. If such there be, he should be branded and put on the black list. Again if society meets Saturday night, as it necessarily would when would the debating clubs meet? When will the many other clubs and associations meet? They could not meet Monday night, or the members would Hunk Tuesday
