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THE HESPERIAN
Morgan as Antigone, Miss Maude Hammond
asIsmone, and Mr. Allan Fling as Croon.
The chorus of Theban Elders will be pre
sented by the young men of the classical de
partment. There will also be a chorus of
young women from Electra. The choruses
and actors are under the careful and ellicient
training of Dr. Lees and Miss Rachel Man
ley. Of course Dr. Lees' name assures us
that the Greek will be pure, and Miss Man
ley's abilities as a dramatic critic have been
recognized on many former occasions.
The Latin department will stage an abbre
viated form of Plantus "Captivii." The
cast of characters is as follows: He'gio, C.
J. Elmore; Tyndarus, N. C. Abbott; Philo-.
crates, J. W. Dixon; Aristophontes, A. J.
Weaver; Ergasilius, C. F. Tucker; Philopol
emus, W. W. "Woods. It is a daring under
taking to get up a Latin comedy in six
weeks, but the Latin department and its en
thusiastic professor are very equal to the
emergency. Prof. Barber informs us that
the actors have all committed their lines per-,
fectly and that the rehearsals have been in
earnest.
Mb. W. E. Annin, the Washington cor
respondent for the State Journal, writes the
following in the Sunday Journal of January
7. It speaks for itself:
"Chancellor Canfield seems to take a gen
eral interest in matters relating to the State
of Nebraska outside of the university. He
is quite a frequent correspondent of our sen
ators and representatives upon matters of
public interest, and few better letters come
to Washington llian those to which the head
of the State XJv yersity affixes his signature.
It was a very .jrcat plcasiu-e to me while in
the Century cli)j in New York some time
ago to ! Ihe name of Chancellor Caniield
spoken of in terms of the highest praise by
several distinguished educationalists there
present I listened to a convocation in
which I heard it stated that the address of the
Chancellor at the Williams College centen
nial was par excellence the featuro of that
notable gathering. While I have never had
the pleasure of meeting Chancellor Canfield,
I know from the high standing which he
maintains among the most prominent edu
cators of the east that the State University
and the state of Nebraska are alike to be
congratulated upon having in their posses
sion a gentleman and a scholar of his ability
a man of tact aud firmness and an execu
tive officer who does not live too high in the
clouds to have a practical acquaintance with
the things of earth. It is men of this
calibre that advertise our home resources in
the educational line and do more than cata
logues to dispel the prejudice against what
are sometimes contemptuously called in the
east "western high schools masquerading
under the name of colleges."
Theke is one evil which has recently be
gun to assume alarming proportions in the
University; and the .faculty has decided to
come down upon it without quarter and give
the offenders the full penalty of the law.
The practice of cribbing essays is too misera
bly petty and sneaking for an institution of
dignity to endure. Of all the kinds of
cheating and ponying that have ever infested
colleges, the stealing of essays is undoubtedly
the meanest. There are some kinds of
cheating that are really amusing; they re
quire, grit and alertness and even clever
ness, but in stealing essays there is not even
this redeeming element. The man who
does the stealing don't need to be clever;
he only needs to be able to write his name
and steal and lie. The practice can not be
called wicked; it has not snap and daring
enough to deserve even that name; it's
worse than wicked it's mean. Aside from
the ethics of the thing, it isn't the wa) to
become popular among other students. Stu
dents, as a rule, are not saintly, but they
hate a sneak. If you boastingly" toll that
you have stolen an essay, they may laugh
pleasantly enough, because they car't very
well do anything else, but when you are
gone they look at it in another light. It