THE HESPERIAN
Tho noat cartoon in tho Annual sotting
off the campus sidewalks loads this depart
ment to express tho hope that in the fall tho
then Seniors will not have reached tho stage
of development indicated at tho bottom
of tho cut. It is known that tho legislature
was parsimonious, and that boards cost
money, and other things of a similar nature
are likewise expensive, but that should not
prevent tho laying of a walk that one can
stay on in the dark. A year's usage has
sadly shaken our walks' foundations. They
go up hill and down hill, all on tho lerch,
and for no apparent reason. Occasionally,
the single boards have become so warped
that one travels along in a trough which, in
wet weather, acts as though paved with ba
nana peels. In winter, it were better if
there were no walks at all. Look a little
less carefully after the immortal fame of this
institution, and provide a decent sidewalk
for tho campus. Spread the eagle a little
less and give tho students something solid
to walk on.
It takes newspaper men to prove to the
entire satisfaction of everybody that neces
sity is the mother invention. At the Uni
versity of Minnesota, there is a scheme on
foot to start a daily paper and to compel the
students to support it. It is proposed to
change the Drill, a weekly paper, into a
daily. To make the paper successful, it is
to be the official organ of tho faculty. To
make the paper pay, it is planned to increase
the incidental fee of the academic depart
ment from five to six dollars, the extra dol
lar to pay for tho student's subscripticn to
the daily paper.
This is undoubtedly a visionary scheme.
It must be said to the Drill's credit, how
ever, that it dislikes to be made a faculty
organ, as any paper should. The plan has
not .been acted upon by the regents of Minne
sota University, who will not be likely to '
favor it. The scheme is hero cited as an
examplo of the newest way to run a news
paper. Of course, it comes from the West.
Tho oxaminations are past, so it will do
no good this yoar to talk of abolishing thorn,
but wo enter a plea for tho generations to
come, that they may not be obliged to under
go tho ordeals of examination through which
wo have passed. There is a system of in
struction in which a professor knows the
capacity of his students. Under this sys
tem, when tho end of tho term comes, tho
professor is as sure before the examination
as after, who will and who will not pass.
What is the use then of making both the
professor and the student much unnecessary
work in giving and preparing for a final ex
amination. Daily recitations count most.
They show tho interest the student has in
his work. If these alone count for the final
standing, you may rest assured that they
will bo better learned than is usual where
the final test is the principal means of judg
ing a student's ability. This new system
should not alternate with tho old system at
tho instructors option, for then it losses
much of its efficacy. Introduce it in all de
partments. The students will learn just as
much, and that, more thoroughly.
Because of ill health, Dr. Lloyd has deci
ded to resign her position as associate pro
fessor of Chemistry in tho University. We
ought to be used by this time to losing
our chosen ones, but we don't seem
to be. Dr. Lloyd has been with us now
seven years, and it seems impossible that
things can go just right without her. Dr.
Lloyd's work must be more satisfactory to
her than anything we can' say of it. She
has seen develope, largely by her efforts and
under her eye, one of the largest chemical
laboratories in the West. She has seen her
lecture rooms crowded by enthuastic students
of all courses and departments. She leaves
in Lincoln many warm, social friends,
but it is by the students that her absence
will be most keenly felt. She has always
had a strong personal influence over her stu
dents, and possessed the power to awaken
that within which passeth show. She is one
of those instructors who stand not only for