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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1894)
THE HESPERIAN 19 mid it is intended to contain that kind of litorary debris that its name indicates. It will offer to its readers matter not serious and grave enough to bo embodied in an edi torial, too much local to find a place in the miscellany, and not enough to claim space among tho locals proper, but still, it is hoped, readable enough to bo worthy a place in tho col logo paper. So don't expect to find any discussion of tho policy of the regents upon this page, and if you wish to read anything about Carlylo or tho fearful condition of tho chapel coiling you had hotter not stop at this station or a bittor and overwhelming disappointment will como to you." Charter Day 1885, brought another change in tho Hesperian. Five editors are named, with 0. S. Allen as chief. Tho others are merely editors. Later tho four subordinates are called j 'associates." The last number of that collogo year was not issued until July r. Tho reasons for tho delay, as well as the changes inaugurated with that number, are best expressed in the first editorial: "Instead of TnE Hesperian Student this paper is now The Hesperian. Our friends will please bear this fact in mind. Tho pres ent issue, the last of the school year, has been in typo for some time awaiting tho arri val of tho long-delayed "cover." Wo now send tho paper to press in its new clothes, hoping that its improved appearance will more than compensate for tho supension of five weeks made necessary by changes in tho office." A little change in the business part of the paper, beginning February, 188G, indicates that business had become too groat for the manager to attend to alone, or that the pay ment of subscriptions was unusually slow. There appears also a "subscription agent." In tho fall of the , iiext year the agent dis appears. Tho paper of February 1, 1888, again indicates tho departments of work assigned to each oditor. Some new names occur. There are literary, miscellany, com ment, local and exchange. The business manager now has an "Assistant." In tho fall of 1888 tho assistant had grown into a full-flodgod businoss manager, and there wore two of thorn. Just before tho close of tho year Miscollan) became "Sketches," but did not so remain. Tho Charter Day number, 1889, changos Sketches to "Cor responding." Miss R. E. Manloy was tho only one who hold tho position of cor responding oditor, for upon tho appearance of a successor in tho fall of 1889, Miscellany made its appearance again. About tho same time one of tho two business managers dis appears. At tho beginning of Vol. XX., October 1, 1890, tho businoss manager has his name among tho names of tho editors, and "Sayro and Miller" have undertaken tho work of publishers and printers. The mid:wintor meeting of tho association made some changes in February, 1891. In ad dition to a managing oditor, ono of tho as sociates was assigned to editorial work, and the two now departments of athletics, and alumni and former students "wore represented by an editor each. At tho same time there woro two editors for literary work. Up to tho present time tho staff has remained tho same. Managing oditor, and eight associ ates, for alumni, athletics, exchange, liter ary and local, with double force for tho two last. QUALITY OF THE ENGLISH. During the struggle of twenty-two yearo no greater change has come to tho Hesper ian Student than improvement in English. This paper could not bo expected to outdo tho University itself, either in the depart ments represented, or indeed, to any groat extent, in tho quality of tho writing. Tho files of the paper are a history of the Uni versity. When a nov college has been ad ded to tho institution, or when tho life of tho students has developed something new, this subject of attention found proper recog nition in the columns of tho paper. To pur sue the volumes, number aftei;:lmber, is to live over again with strange reality the life of tho students. TnE Hesperian Student began as tho school began, and in the first i 1!
