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;!! The Hesperian. UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA. Vol. XXII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 16, 1894. No. 22 THE HESPERIAN Issued semi-monthly by the Hesperian Association of the Univer sity of Nebraska. cOARD OF EDITORS. W. CATHER Managing Editor ASSOCIATES. G.F.FISHER Editorial F. BULLOCK Literary AMY C. BRUNER Literary A. C. PANCOST Athletic W. E. KIRK '. Alumni NED: C. ABBOTT Exchange W. H. FORSYTH Local A. B. LYONS Local W. R. HARDY, Business Manager. terms ok subscription. One copy, per college year (in advance) $1 00 One copy, one semester 60 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 your subscriptions. .Subscriptions on our books will be continued until ordered stopped. Address all communications to The Hesperian, Uni versity of Nebrasxa, Lincoln, Neb. EDITORIAL. Many of our exchanges seem to consider it a duty to notify their student readers when the holidays come and then after they are over to inform them of the fact by a few thoughts that breathe and words that burn. If there is any being in this world who needs less to be told when Christmas comes than the student, we have not, as yet, made his acquaintance. College papers are too much addicted to putting this sentimental slush in their columns. It does not even serve as an excuse for filling, much less is it able to serve as legitimate copy. ' Theue is not a poet among all of our eleven hundred students. It seems to be the craze, of late, in eastern colleges, to pub lish little volumes of verse that have been thought out or have been allowed to gush out of the brilliant minds of their poetasters. But out in this extremely practical western 1 vorld, it is a rare occurrence to see any one express their thoughts in poetry. There is a false idea prevalent that it is not manly to be poetic. As a rule, the very mention of poetry calls up the image of an effeminate long haired, sentimeutal individual, who parades around with his hand upon his heart, and with his wits gone wool gather ing. No doubt there are some such, but theirs' is not a pleasant existence. If one such were to appear in the University of Nebraska he would meet with a warm re ception. Poetry in its proper form is to be desired by students. The individual who can put a thought in rhythm with or without rhyme, and put feeling in his thought so ex pressed, is to be envied. The editors of the Annual offer a prize for the best short poem that is written by any member of the student body. It will doubtless be long before a ' volume of verso written by our students can be published. But there surely must be some one in our midst who will risk becom ing the author of the first poem. The Greek and Latin departments are go ing to spread themselves on the fatal fif teenth. The Greek department will present a scene from Antigono, with Miss Grace
