The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899, October 18, 1894, Page 11, Image 11
THE HESPEKIAN 11 In the double summer number of Poet-Lore, Prof. L. A. Sherman has an excellent artiele on " Literature and the Scientific Spirit." Last Friday evening, Chancellor Canfield spoke before the Otoe County Teachers' Association on the subject, " What is Modem Civilization? " Mr. Corey, who has been spending the past three weeks visiting his old home in the Ozark mountains, returned to the University last week. Four new members were proposed at Union Society Friday night, and good ones too, Misses Whitsom, Henderson, Meljck, and Mr. Searson. Mr. Hardy, the business manager of The Hes perian, has resigned his place in favor of Mr. Graham. He left the early part of the week for Chicago. The University foot-ball team walked away with the honors in the last game with the High School. The score stands 8 to o in favor of the University. Considerable interest is manifested in the pro jected debate with Kansas, 'it is to be hoped that a large number will enter the scheme and make it a success. Mr. Pierson's cheerful countenance, minus some of the tan, looked out from Union Hall Friday evening, and Mr. Philbrick's whistle is heard again in our land. Prof. Fossler looks benignly over his glasses at at a whole roomful of thrid-year German students. The class numbers above forty, and is over twice as large as last year's class. The "P. G. D. C." and "The Girls' Debating Club" are said to be running in competition with one another. It is hard to tell which will be most successful in the future. After another vain attempt on the part of the Seniors to deck the boys out in mortar boards, they decided to let the girls wear caps and gowns, and the boys hats and canes. Miss Heise, of Nebraska City, a sister of Miss Ida Heise, '97, and Miss Cambell of Clay Centre, a sister of Misr, Effie Campbell, '98, were delegates to the Y. P. S. C. E. convention. There are six members in the class in advanced public speaking. Each speech is to be thirty minutes in length instead of fifteen as was the r.ase in elementary public speaking. C. W. Walker, who was elected an instructor in mathematics, is slowly recovering from a siege of typhoid fever. The Y, M. C. A. sick com mitteee are giving him the best of care. Three minutes spent in looking at the numbers on the backs of books in the library is enough to convince one that we are beginning, at least, to have a library instead of great piles of books. The P. G. D. C, or Palladian Girls' Debating Club has organized for active work. Every girl in the University may attend and take part in the debates, and all will be cordially welcomed to the meetings at 5 o'clock Friday evening. The Y. M. C. A. room in the new Conservatory adds an attractive feature to the association. The room will be used for social purposes, for all com mittee meetings, and for a place of retreat for the boys from the busy cares of university life. Saturday night, Frank Eager and F. M. Shep herd, candidates respectively for state representa tive and county attorney, will address the stud ents of the University in the Chapel, under the auspices of the Ikyan-Holcomb club. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. The tale is afloat of a young man of unlimited wisdom who took music lessons during the sum mer at two dollars each in order to enter the Glee Club, but as he failed to distinguish the tenor from the soprano in the examination, he will con tinue to distinguish himself in other lines. The address by Porter Sherman was a great treat to the student body. Mr. Sherman's paper was very interesting, his short talks in explanation of his manuscript were witty and to the point. Those not present missed much and should make amends by attending the lectures in the future. A sympathizing audience looked on with tear ful eyes while, Mr. Keene Abbott agonized in the chair of the dental fiend in Union Hall Friday evening. Mr. Abbott certainly has dramatic talents of a very high order, and the Unions are delighted in numbering him among their member ship. Mr. Robert E. Speer, a graduate of Princeton, gave a very interesting and instructive talk before the Christian Association October 14 on the claims of non-Christian lands upon the United States, Canada and England. The large audience lis tened attentively to the points that the speaker made one after another in rapid succession in 1 V (V