THE HESPERIAN
II,
only regular college students wore in at
tondanco. Tho institution is now so Inrgo
that preparatory students enn no longor bo
accommodated, except at tho expense of tho
college departments. Theso should not bo
sacrificed under any consideration. "Wo
have too, an opinion that whon thero are
1,100 college Btudents at tho University,
thero will be a little more college spirit and
a good deal less of this lagging, halting,
don't give a for anything spirit which
porvadoB everybody at present.
Foot-ball has become a national game.
On Thauksgiving day tho east was not tho
only part of tho country that robed itself in
bunting and came near blowing its life away
through a multitude of horns. The Pacific
ocean will not long remain so peaceful, if
foot-ball enthusiasts are lot loose on itB
shores in such numbers as they wore last
Thanksgiving. Tho annual game between
Stanford University and tho University of
California was attended by 18,000 peoplo,
who sat through a drizzling rain to watch
their favorites flounder around in tho mud.
Here is an example for Nobraskans to fol
low, Nebraskaus who wore deterred from
attonding tho Omaha game because tho
thermometer was below freezing point. Stan
ford has not us, many students as tho Uni
versity of Nebraska, yet they all traveled tho
forty miles to San Francisco to witness tho
Thanksgiving game. About fifty of our
Btudents wont to Omaha. Quito a contrast.
Whether we are made of sterner stuff or
odder stuff or of no stuff at all, is a question
that would require a psychologist of twenty
four years standing to dooide. Even then
ho might get tho brand wrong.
In the year of its twenty-fifth birthday,
tho University will turn out one of tho queer
est productions by way of a Bonior class,
that has ever graduated. Individually, tho
class has not a drone or dullard in it; but
taken collectively it may bo considered as
lazy a class as thero is on record. About
tho only enterprising act that has been per
formed this year was undortakon by tho
girls who ordorod "caps and gowns." Even
then it took two months to do that. If tho
class wishes, it can rustle. Look at tho
way it banquotod '08. But it noods an
electric Bhock to mnko it rustic Whon &
meeting of tho senior class is ordorod, there
is always important business to attend to.
But none of tho members seem to caro
enough about it to como. Even when there
is an olection thero is not a single scramble
for an office. There Iuib not boon for four
years. There was onco a scramble for a
cane, but that was a ono-handod affair that
rendered only ono man happy and eighty
miserable. 'Tis true, and pity 'tis, 'tis
true, but it iB a fact, nevertheless, tho senior
of '1U is a vara avis. His only consolation
is, that his successors to bo will bo as rareaa
ho is because some of them are getting out
an annual.
One of tho most successful musical organ
izatious in tho University is tho Mandolin
and Guitar club, which was organized toward
tho first of tho school year. Tho club has a
regular instructor, Professor Eaton, who is
also director of tho Tuxedo Mandolin club of
Lincoln. Tho University club intends to
make a tour of tho state somotimo during
tho latter part of the year. Then it will bo
a moans of pecuniary benefit as well aB source
of pleasure to belong to tho club. Thoso
who attended the entertainment by tho Ann
Arbor Glco and Banjo clubB, last year, will
appreciate the possibilities of effort in musi
cal lines. Clubs of this nature are vory
useful adjuncts to university life. If there
are any mandolin players in tho University
who have not as yet joined tho club, they
can find out full particulars by enquiring of
J. B. Beochor.' Tho best results of work in
this line will, of course, not bo evident till
later in tho year, but then, all efforts will bo
amply repaid. Organizations of this nature
are vory helpful in generating university
spirit. No player should neglect tho oppor
tunity of doing good both to himself and to
the University.
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