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THE HESPERIAN
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road, it yourself, will be to subscribo for
Tiie Hesperian. It is the representative
College paper, owned and controlled by the
students themselves, and is the only medium
by which you can keep yourself and paronts
informed as to what is going on at tho Uni
versity. No studont who is loyal to tho in
stitution, who is progressive and up with tho
times, can afford to delay subscribing, and
it would bo a very much mistaken idea of
economy, which we are assured the Chan
cellor himself would be tho first to discourage
for any student to withhold his subscription
for any other reason than the oxtromest
necessity. Remember that truo thrift and
economy consists more in knowing when a
dollar is well spent and when it is well saved,
than in a pursd tho strings of which are
never loosened.
TnE state legislature moots this winter.
This is a simple declarative sentence, but it
is one fraught with deep moaning and great
import to this University. It is a sentence
each student should commit to memory
at tho earliest possible opportunity, and,
having committed it, aludj what it moans to
the University and to himself. The Hes
perian does not say anything but the truth
when it declares that the University of Ne
braska this year ought to send, at least cal
culations, four or five hundred lobbyists to
tho legislature this winter. And those
lobbyists should go to state tho facts, and
the facts only. For facts will bo all suffi
cient. TI ore is not and never can be a leg
islative body in any part of tho civilized
world, which, having once learned tho con
dition that an institution such as this is in;
an institution which moans so much, which
has such powers for good as ours has that
would not alleviate that condition when it
has tho power to do so. And so we say
that students should begin now, and in let
ters to friends and parents, in communica
tions to home papers, toll just how crowded
tho University is; how more than crowded
for room in every department.
It is not for ono moment to be believed
that any enlightened people, having once
learned tho truth as to our condition, will
allow it to bo continued. But it is an im
perative necessity that the people of the
state bo told the facts, and we, tho students
of the University, are the peoplo who must,
and will toll them.
Let us got our hand in before the legisla
ture; lot us bo in practice, so when tho leg
islature convenes wo may bo ready to tell
our home legislators our story with that pre
cision, that power of conviction which comes
from a thorough knowledge of one's subject.
And if wo can (and wo will) succeed in
arousing tho peoplo of tho state they will
help us in our petition to the legislature;
they will clamor at the doors, and when tho
peoplo clamor the doors are pretty sure to
bo opened.
There is work for each and every one of
us, "To your tents, oh Israel !"
In another column will be found a state
ment concerning tho Kansas and Nebraska'
debate, by tho president of the local associa
tion. We wish to emphasize a few of tho
president's remarks. According to tho best
prognostications from this department tho
joint debate to a certain extent is to take the
place of the oratorical contest. Whether
this is for the best, is, we suppose, a question.
Yet almost anything will be better than an
oratorical contest, if wo are to judge by tho
past.
Such a debate is an experiment in our in
stitution, but has been carried on success
fully in various other colleges. If the stu
dents give their hearty co-operation its suc
cess here is assured.
Let us have the strongest men in tho Uni
versity represent us in tho debate. You
may be busy. You may not want to make
tho sacrifice, but you owe it to tho school,
you owe it to tho state. Hero is three
cheers for the joint debate, and a tiger for
victory.
We shall probably not have another such
opportunity this year to offer generous lots
of advice to tho now student. Consequently
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