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THE HESPERIAN 14 We learned recently, that trouble is likely to ensue if Flippin plays in the coming game with Missouri university. We have always thought that this was a progressive age, but instances like the above, make us doubt whether the nine teenth century is really an age of enlightenment. That a club from Missouri should object to playing our team because one member is colored is a significant fact. It denotes that there still exists in our southern institutions remnants of that delusion which has so long befogged their minds. That this delusion should be made prominent by an educational institution, is a still more significant fact. It shows that in the very heart of the educated classes a sentiment is being fostered that is in direct contradiction to the ex pressed law of the land. We are informed that no negroes are admitted to the Missouri university. This is nothing more than race prejudice, influenced by secret sectional desire for revenge. The negroes who attend the universities are of the better class. They, by showing their desire for education, display a com mendable spirit, and are putting themselves in a position to become what they are debarred from becoming by those who bear them malice. Why do we find the anti-negro sentiment so openly expressed by the Missouri foot ball team ? Is it because they hate the negro, or fear him? or do they hate him because they fear him ? Those who play in their team now are only the sons of those who hated the negro unto death. They believe what their fathers believed. If they do what their fathers did, they will have to be whipped as their fathers were whipped. The university of Nebraska has always re spected the rights of the negro. He has never felt, within our walls, the sharp pangs, resulting from diss distinction. Indeed we know a good thing when we see it, and so have a colored man upon our foot ball team. Why he is there, op posing teams have found out and will continue to find out. Our man has proven himself an all around athlete. Me has won distinction upon the field in the past and is deserving of more in the future. And yet, regardless of all this, we should try and play without him as it is feared trouble might ensue. Let the misty minded Missourians come on with their trouble. They will find trouble in making us accede to their unreasonable demands. Wc shall play with our team made up according to our fashion, or not at all. When they joined the association they pledged themselves to play a representative team from each college. Our team is truly representative, both of our principles and of our members. II the Missouri team refuse to come off from their bigoted perch, let them remain in the delightful companionship of the putty heads who are of their opinion. The same supreme power that made some men white, made others black. It is human power that has brought the black man to our shores and placed him in contact with our civilization. It is inhuman power that would now debar him from reaping the advantages of this civilization, which the creator intends shall be free to all eaith dwellers. THE REGISTRA WS COL UMK Not infrequently students who have been away eight or ten years, ask for a copy of the record which they made while here, and on one occa sion after an absence of fifteen years ; but the climax was reached a few days since when a lady who had first entered upon her work twenty-one years ago, made such a request. The difference in the requirements of the university then and now, is interesting, to say the least, but perhaps not greater than might be expected when the length of time is taken into consideration. The faculty has never been able to arrange a course of study that did not need changing to make it a little better, from year to year; and the fact that students who have graduated from the institu tion, from time to time, have taken their places among men, with honor to themselves and credit to their " Alma Mater," would seem to indicate that it has kept well up with the times thus far; and who shall say that twenty-one years more will not find the curriculum as much improved over the present as the one now in force is over that of 7.871? LOCALS. " I'm going to marry a princess over there." U. G. Cornell. Franklin said, " If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him." "Will you love me when I'm old?" said she. " I do," he said fervently. (He went.) Johnson, at meeting to change college colors "Can any of the ladies show us some crimson? " Pollard thinks the senior class should have suits to graduate in. The majority of the class agree with him. The class in international law have chosen topics of an international character to be worked up by January 1st. Herr Yont has resigned his title. He am' Prentice now sing in discordant tones, "They're after me, they're after me." The Freshies had a banquet. We don't care, we don't care. We stole a half-a-dozen. Uut alas! they got our hair.