" ."V u it"8 :.' t7-tj5i ;' " " , v.',"?-"" ri, pa -i a .. - . v H. yv W... The " Hesperia n. UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA. Vol. XXII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER i, 1893. No. 20 THE HESPERIAN Issued semi-monthly by the Hkspkrian Association of the Univer sity of Nebraska. BOARD OF EDITORS. W. CATHER Managing Editor ASSOCIATES. G. F. FISHER Editorial F. BULLOCK Literary AMY C. BRUNER Litbkary A. C PANCOsT Athletic W. E KIRK Alumni NED: C. ABBOTT Exchage W. F. FORSYTH ...Local A. B. LYONS Local " B. O MATHEWS Bus,NESS MANAGER- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, per college year (in advance) : .$1 00 One copy, one semester Co Advertising Rates on Application. alumni and ex-students. Special endeavor will be made to make The Hesper ian interesting to former students. Please send us ) our subscriptions. -Subscriptions on our books will be' continued until ordered stepped. Address all communications to The Hesperian, Uni versity of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. EDITORIAL. The time is at blind when the wail of Rachael and Jeremiah lamenting the condi tion of things is about to bo heard in con tests in oratory. Lot the voices of youthful reformers rise and tempt the heedless people to reform. "Wo think we can undergo the ordeal, now that we have been sufficiently calloused by former events of similar nature. It is our firm belief that an oratorical contest is from first to la6t a trial and tribulation to all who participate. It is something, more over, that is wearing out. Eastern colleges now have joint debates where something more than the spectacular is exhibited. There may still be a demand for oratory and orators in the old sense of the word, but it seems that where one orator will find means to exist on his artificial elequenco, twenty debaters will fetch down the persimmons with the product of a healthy brain. The Maxwell Club of the law school has again challenged the Union Boys Debating Club to a joint debate. The last; debate was so successful and the sides were so evenly matched, that it will require another, or per haps many more contests to decide which club has the best debaters. Lawyers, whoso business it is to bo eloquent, will never con sent to being classed second in any forensic combat they may enter. Students whoso business it is to be learned and brainy will never believe that they cannot be eloquent if there is only occasion for eloquence. But these debates bring out something besides oratory. The men who have minds full, of facts have a great advantage ovo' their op ponents whoso storehouses of knowledge are small. The great lesson taught in these de bates is the need of broadness in education. It never should bo necessary to call into question the honesty of our students. Ev eryone who attends the University is sup posed to' be upon a moral plan high enough to recognize that the best policy is not dis honesty. It is vdishonest to steal: There has been altogether too much pilfering going on in our halls of late. Tho lower corridor in University Hall is lined with hats and Vl h .. ' .UAliV . iJAj'i. Av 'rJKY? -t "-?,' t mtoJk,"?J''$!fiVJi . "SiS: - wSffnffll JdSriM WMttuwitiiTtira EST7.3SB!