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12 THE HESPERIAN fr ' i l I ; i r j J; i ! , ;? 1 1 . Tour truths ran)' bo undo to a shocking de gree, your opinions may be radical and un warranted, your seriousness may savor of sentimentality, but after all, the people who take them from you will give you nothing in return but ilippancy and blues and heart aches. Be gloriously yourself. You owe it to the sandhills and sunflowers to go back to them honest men, with the living warmth of great beliefs and great ambitions within you. This is rather didactic advice for one student to offer another, but it is not said by a pharisee to a publican, but by one who has gone down from Jerusalem to Jericho and has not found the road a pleasant or profit able one, nor any good Samaritan therein. "Having known misery wo have learned to pity the miserable." X- sf There is a good deal of very ungraceful kicking among the devotes of the languages and exact sciences on the credit that is given for work done in the aesthetic studies. There seems to be a general impression that unless a study will enable one to make per cipitates or explosions, or can be construed and parsed, or added and substractod, it is of no use. The moral part of men is quite forgotten by these aspiring gentlemen of in tellect. Those things which put life in mo tion, which give the soul momentum and broaden it by great experiences are alto gether disregarded, because their results can neither be called a salt or an ethical dative. If only the Lord had made ultimate beauty depend of a knowledge of irregular verbs, and had made the binomial theorum the only approach to sublimity, He and His woers would be much more respected in the col leges. Perhaps the reason He didn't is that He knew there would be a few poor wretches of us who would not bo able to extract beau ty along with cube root, or to precipitate sublimity with amonium sutphide, so he loft some of the good things of tho world lying around loose where wo could get at them without much trouble. LOCAL. Mr. Kincaid has loft school for tho rcst of tho year. Prof. Nicholson has returned from tho south much improved in health. The Y. W. C. A., are planning .for now work in individual Bible study. A number of old students and alumni at tended the Teachers' Association. The smiling countenance of Talmadgc is once more to be seen in tho halls. "Dick" Richards visited tho University during tho Stato Teachers' Association. Married, December 25, 1893, Prof. J. T. House to Miss Flora Smith of this city. Prof. Sherman's Sunday afternoon lec tures are a source of great interest to all. Mr. A. "W. Martin spent part of the va cation visiting friends in Hastings, Iowa. The faculty theatre party was noticeable at Stuart Robson's presentation of UA Com edy of Errors. "Internal taxation," according to Obor lio's Evolution, becomes "eternal" and fin ally "infernal." John R. Mott, one of the greatest Y. M. C. A. men in the country, will visit the University this week. Prof. Bates is making a great effort to in culcate poetic spirit into tho members of tho class in English V, but it don't seora to in culcate as yet. The reception given by tho Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. in the Armory on the 3d passed off in a most pleasant manner. A short musical program was rendered. We are pleased to note that "The Relig ion of Thomas Jefferson" by W. Y. Hoag land is almost ready to go to press. Tho author promises something now before long. Tho Union Society has adjourned for three weeks, as their hall is being frescoed. It is a great undertaking to raise funds for
