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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1894)
(I THE HESPERIAN isn't a crime for which one can hate the sin and love the sinner. Your soul is so miser ably little that there is hardly enough of you to hate even. Several cases of suspension are reported already and there will probably be others. The faculty have decided that they will have honest work or no work, and will not offer any elective in the adroit art of Mercury. The student who cribs an essay now does it at his peril, and besides the dis grace of suspension he will havo the pleas ing knowledge that the world knows him as he is a liar and a sneak and a coward and no gentleman. It is becoming generally known by the citizens of Lincoln and of the State that the University is going to celebrate its twenty fifth birthday anniversary the 15th of next month. The celebration is being widely ad vertised, and apparently outside interest in the great affair is secure. But there is one body of people who seem likely to forget that a big Charter Day is coming, and that is the student body, if our esteemed con temporary will permit us to use the expres sion. Outside of the Latin and Greek de partments, which are hard at work prepar ing to amuse the rest us, there are very few students who take the trouble to feel any en thusiasm over the anniversary. Many seem to look forward to it merely as a two days' vacation. The students' program will give outlet for a good deal of enthusiasm, but not for half of what the student body ought to have stowed away in its heart and lungs when the 15th of February comes around. The celebration ought to bo the biggest thing we shall ever experience in our college life. The official program is arranged, very rightly, so as to leave the student body to anuse itself part of the time, and we do uot believe any one will find fault if the students proceed to do it in a thorough and energetic way. If the societies, clubs and class or ganizations would set about it to have a rous ing big time there is nothing that could or would stop them. Every student and every club will lend a hand if asked. There are many new comers hero who have had no op portunity to learn what a jolly old place the Urn. is anyhow, and the Quarter Centennial celebration offers an excellent chance to en lighten them. Why not do it then? Why not get up a little extra enthusiasm, and show we a.re fond of the Uni. before we get to calling it our alma mater. ANNUAL PRIZE OFFER. The editors of the Junior Annual have de cided to offer a prize of ten dollars for tho best story and ten for the best class poem written by any student of the University. The story must be from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred words in length and it is desired that it be a story of college life, though this is not absolutely necessary. The. nature and length of the poem is left to the guidance of tho classic nine. Tho produc tions will be judged by Professors Bates, Bolden, Sherman and Fosslcr. All produc tions must be in on March first. It is earnestly hoped that the enthusiasm in this contest will be hot and heavy and that the result will be such as the institution may be proud of. Do you want a daily paper with the Hes perian ? Well yon can, this way, by an ar rangement with the local management. Stud ents of the Uni. can get the Hesperian and the World-Herald by the month at sixty-five cents in advance. The World-Herald gives you all the Lincoln, state and national nowsj delivered at your door early in the morning. The Hesperian does all this in a school way and is issued twico a month. Leave your subscription with the business managers of the Hesperian, or at the World-Herald of fice, 1045. "Do you love her still?" asked the judge of a man who wanted a divorce. "Certainly I do, " said he. "I love her better still than any other way, but the trouble is she never will bo still." Sel.
