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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1893)
jjjjiVj-; THE HESPERIAN vjhv lf: " ' r- ' and to charge the faculty with every crime from murder and high treason down to steal ing lead pencils. If we can't write about the faculty and departments, what can we write about? It takes copy to fill a paper; are we to resort to publishing essays on Alexander and Robespierre? Every one knows, or ought to know, that the faculty does not mean the profs, or that any one de partment does not mean any one prof. Prof. Barber is not the Latin department any more than he is Julius Caesar; Prof. Allen is not the department of physics any more rhan ho is the law of gravitation. Of course we would not allow any other paper to ob ject to anything about the departments, but since it is all in the family we feel that we can do it as often us we please. Then, the profs can have no reason to object to a scor ing now and then ; don't we give them taffy enough? Don't wo annually exhaust all our adjectives on these same profs? What col lege editor has not again and again racked his braiu for synonyms for ' "talented," "ef ficient," "celebrated," etc? THE UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB. The notice of examination for Glee 01 ub membership posted on the bulletin board during the last week has caused some little excitement and conjecture. There is no reason why the University of Nebraska can not organize and maintain a creditable glee club. Several moves have been made in the past by which it has been attempted to organize a University Glee Olub, but owing to the lack of method the movements so far have amounted to nothing. The present movement seems to be in the right direction. By competitive examinations it will be pos sible to secure the best talent in the univer sity. And in view of the fact that the ex aminations will be conducted in such a man ner as to prevent any member of the cx aming committee from knowing to whom ho is giving the grades, it seems quite probable that the Glee Olub will be entirely free from objectionable faction control. There is a remarkable absence of univer sity spirit among the students of this institu tion. This is duo to the fact that there is absolutely no college history connected with the University. A great deal of complaint has been made of the fact that graduates of the institution take comparatively no inter est in university matters. As a matter of fact there are no university matters in which graduates can take an interest. Until the present year there has been no organized at tempt of any kind to enter systematically into the permanent organization of univer sity teams of any nature. We have no base ball history, no foot ball history, and no Glee Olub history which may be reviewed by alumni with any degree of pride. Every male studeut in the university who attempts to to sing or who thinks ho can sing, should be present at the examination for Glee Club membership and should make an effort to gain admission to the club. Un til we have a successful and permanent or ganization in the naturo of a Glee Olub, we will never have any college music for which the older eastern colleges are noted. The prospect this year is rather promising and the effort to organize a club has so far met with approbation and with little discourage ment, but it will be necessary for all stu dents of the university, regardless of fac tion, fraternity or society, to co-operate in the present attempt to perfect a successful organization. There will be other examinations in the future and notice of them will bo posted upon the bulletin board. If the students have the welfare of the university at heart they will exercise their utmost endeavor to secure the attendance of every available student upon the Glee Olub examination. H. A. Rbe8e of '01. Writo- to your eastern friends who do not think the University of Nebraska amounts to much and tell them that the registration for the year has already reached 1,100. , m : i