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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1894)
THE. HESPERIAN, The epithet "blackleg" so1 freely used by the ugang" may convoy a world of moan ing but is not so vital as the ublack heart" which these villifiors and character traducors boastfully possess. After their tirade it is a fitting' finale for those political scavengers to say: "the least said about those fights the bettor." It would bo more consonant with eternal decency for the ugang" to laud their loyalty to tho University of Nebraska if they had not traded tho interests of their own college at all times for personal gain. Little do those iconoclasts care for the in stitution under whoso roof their nefarious schemes are mapped out, if they can lay the interests of tho student body on tho altar and obtain some selfish personal advance ment or recognition, 0. L. Tallmadge. ' THE OLD, OLD STORY. THE FIRST. INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE.. The Nebraskan in answering arguments which it cannot contradict and will not ad mit, resorts to the musty aud thread-bare subterfuge of saying that its little editors are abused because some of them belong to fraternities and the rest of them would like to. The statement is as mythical and un just as most gems which grace tho columns of that imaginative sheet. Our attitude toward tho fraternities this year has been respectfull, friendly and absolutely without malice. We take- some pride in saying that this is the first year since the groat frat fight that the Hespekian has not contained one anti-frat article. Before last number tho word "frat" has only been used twice in the paper, once by Miss Mary Jones in her article on the fraternity fight, and once to to announce to a waiting world that tho Kappas had had a party. We have gone beyond the infantine stage of trying to run the earth, and we have certainly not tried to run the fraternities. The days when the frats and barbs used to "toil and sweat in pigmy wars" is long gone by, and when the Nobraskan atempts to drag us back into it, it sinks to absolute barbarism. Some weeks ago, the Union Boys' Do bating club, having gained an appetite for for combat in their various encounters with tho Maxwell club of fho law school, took it into their heads to challenge Cotner Uni versity to a debate. Cotner accepted the challenge. Consequently on Monday night, April 9, three carloads of University students were landed at Cotner a littlo bit after tho gloaming, to witness the fun. They wont with horns aud voicos and Uni versity colors galore, and removed more sleepy seeds from Cotner's eyes in a minute than had been brushed off during the previous year. The subject chosen was: "Resolved that the influence ominating from protes tant sectarian schools is more beneficial to tho individual and to tho nation, than that ominating from State Universities or colleges." Cotner picked out as her six best men, Messrs. Sumpter, Pile, Henry, Harris, Oeshgar and Finch. Tho Union Boys' were represented by Messrs. Ned 0. Abbott, Quaintanco, Baker, R. H. Johnson, Hatfield, and Soarson. Tho U. B. D. club showed a groat deal of pluck in tackling tho Cotnorites, to which the Bethany Heights people responded with energy. The first two speakers on either side were limited to fifteen minutes each, while the remainder had eacii seven and a half minutes at thoir disposal. Cotner, of course on tho affirmative, opened with Sumpter on the floor. Space will not permit individual mention, Cotner's best speakers were Oeshgar and Pile. It is supposed that somo of tho gentlemen were preachers by the way they appealed to the everlasting ages. They confined most of thoir remarks to praise of the Christian in fluence that ominatos from sectarian schools. They accused the University students of; being- a godless sot, one pitied those who were so unfortunato as' to have their lot cast among State University men. They road ,L
