Vol. XXLI.
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PALLADIAN LITERARY SOCIETY.
E. M. Pollard, Pres. Miss May Lewis, Secy.
UNIVERSITY UNION LITERARY SOCIETY.
H. A. Senter, Pres. ' Miss Willa Catiier, Secy.
DELIAN LITERARY SOCIETY.
Paul Pizey, Pres. Miss Lincola Groat, Secy.
UNIVERSITY Y. M. C A.
John L. Marshall, Jr , Pres. H. A. Senter, Secy.
UNIVERSITY Y. V. C A.
Miss Bessie Merrill, Pes, Miss Emma Boose, Secy.
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION,
J. H. Johnston, Pres. C. E. Tepft, Secy.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Paul Pizey, Pres. Chas. F. Stroman, Secy.
scientific cluh.
F. C. Kenyon, Pres. Miss Rosa Bcuton, Secy.
university deiiating cluij.
C E. Stroman, Pres, Miss Vesta Grey, Secy.
republican ci.uh.
R. E. Jonnson, Pres, R.'H. Johnson, Secy.
democratic clud.
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The Hesperian.
UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 15, 1892.
No. ir
EDITORIAL.
.Managing Editor
-Secy.
Bo suro to register. All students that
wish to vote at the coming election must
rogistor. You may do so on any Tuesday
before election. Show some interest in pol
itics. Don't bo a clam.
On Saturday evening, October 8, the Uni
versity Debating Club assembled in Ohapel.
Futuro financiers aired their opinions and,
after a lively discussion of nearly two hours,
decided negatively on the resolution, "That
national banks should bo abolished." Poli
tical parties will take notice and govern them
selves accordingly.
The University Debating Club was organ
ized in the spring of '92. Its purpose is to
supplement the work of tho various society
debating clubs. Experience has shown that,
in tl.io various debating clubs, membership is
not large enough nor interest strong enough
to insure invariably a good debate, Many
students, too, belong to no literary society;
hence, do not fool themselves at liberty to
participate in tho debate of the society clubs.
To obiato these difficulties and to offer to
every student that cares to avail himself of
it, tho opportunity to become a practical
debater, the University Club was organized.
Certainly noono will question-its desirability.
On Friday ovoning, October 7, a meeting
was hold in Room 17, and a new literary
society organized with fourtoon charter
members. A constitution was adopted and
other business transacted. It was decided,
until further arrrangemonts could be made,
to hold wookly meetings in Room 7. Mem
bership, which is, for the present, limited
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