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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1893)
NfW.. ,. , THE HESPERIAN i v& become wise at a much later date than those who learn from the fortunes and misfortunes of others. There is oue quality which is more often perverted and which if not per verted is conducive to more good, to the new student especially, than almost any other quality of which humanity is the possessor. That is self-esteem. Generally, a student of a retiring disposition consumes two years at college in crawling out of his shell, and then, when he is out, he is uncertain whether he ought not to crawl right back again. If he has capabilities in any special line of work he discovers it after he has gone through years of school life that would have been of inestimable value in developing his especial bent. Enter the University, with a well developed ego but strive strenu ously not to let the dwarf become a giant. Remember that you are the peer socially of all your companions, and perhaps the superior mentally of many who scorn your rural as pect. Do not be afraid, therefore, of "mak ing breaks." Make them and be done with them. Get through with them early, for they will come, and far better early than late. The annual question of a cane rush will soon begin to agitate minds, Fresh, and Sophomorian. We hope that the good j udg ment of the incoming Freshman class will excel that of preceding classes, and that this worn out custom will be done away with. It belongs to the primitive days when college students played town ball and one old cat. In all colleges of national repute the custom has long ago died out. Even a cane break is nonsense; some things happened in the cane rush last 3'ear which were very much to be regretted; let us avoid the possibility of such unbecoming actions this fall. The three foot ball games which will be played in Lincoln will give students a chance to witness enough scuffling. "It has been proven again and again that nothing breaks up the fall term so much as the general under current of excitement that the prospect or actuality of a cane rush produces. It would be much more profitable to drop this juven ile business and concentrate all the enthus iasm on a higher kind of athletics. How ever, if the little folks want to amuse them selves and play Waterloo, and dirty each other's faces and tear each other's clothes, the older classmen will watch them with a smile of indulgence, remembering that once they, too, were young. The opening of the year is the time to work up college enthusiasm. Everyone re turns fresh and ready to enter the lists to combat for honors of some sort. The fall of the year is usually given over to athletics. hat this year be no exception. Hew mater ial is needed in the foot ball team. Surely there will be no dearth of applicants for place on the first eleven. The Athletic As sociation assumes a heavy responsibility when it agrees to pay $500 for a coach for the team." Last year there was difficulty in raising 150. But with the increased number of students, and with the additional advantage of having an early start, the asso ciation need have no fears of being unable to raise the requisite amount. The money will come all the easier if the team be an excell ent one. Ho loyal student will refuse to join the Athletic Association. The small investment of fifty cents will prove a profi table one. The University has never opened when the prospects pointed more certainly to a successful year. The faculty has been in creased, and the new professors, we may prh'.e ourselves on the fact, are everyone thorough scholars of wide reputation and acknowledged ability. Although we regret exceedingly ihe departure of some of the faculty of last year, we cannot but congrat ulate ourselves with the fact that their places have been filled by such excellent men. The appointment of Prof. Taylor to the va cant chair of political and economic science is especially fortunate. This profcssGrship has been vacant for two jTears, although the work has been carried on by Professors B" Esa
