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these organizations as can be obtained from a like
amount of work prescribed in the list of "required
courses." To every new student we say again
join something, come out of your shell, go where
your fellow-students meet to exchange thoughts,
ideas and nonsense. It will do you good.
We hope that the students of this University,
as well as those of all the schools, with which
Lincoln is so well supplied, will not neglect to
bear in mind that the Kansas-Nebraska Joint
Debate, to be held about the x8th of next May,
will mark an epoch in the history of western
educational institutions, and that they will begin
now to so prepare themselves that if the debate
be held in Lincoln they can all attend and help
make the occasion one that will not soon be for
gotten, and that if it be held in Kansas, a goodly
number can follow our debaters there and yell
for Nebraska and its schools in general, and the
University in particular.
It will be an almost invariable rule of The
Hesperian never to mix itself in politics other
than University politics, but we wish to depart
from this rule long enough to say that F. D.
Eager and F. M. Shepherd, both University
alumni, are candidates for office this fall in Lan
caster county, the former for state representative
and the latter for county attorney. It is to be
hoped that there will be found few students of
this University who are old enough to be voters
who will not on election day cast an Australian bal
lot which bears an x opposite each of these names-
The Junior class is to be commended in its
decision not to publish an Annual this yar; to
reach that decision undoubtedly required an ele
ment of merit and ability as genuine and as true
as any that could have been shown in the work
on an Ar.nual. The self-denial and common
sense of the class of '96 deserves three times
three, and one thousand students, with hands
tightly claspsd about meagre and attenuated
pocket-books have already given them with a will.
The unparalled display of pure and unadulter
ated asininity on the part of a more or less es
teemed contemporary in gravely reproving the
English department for requiring students to pur
chase text-books instead of subscribing for the
esteemed, would make the "donkey-man" of a
current farce comedy turn green with envy and
throw up his contract in disgust were that indi
vidual to witness it.
LITERARY.
FROM NEW YORK TO 80DTII HAMPTON.
An ocean voyage is not so dreadful an ex
perience as most people think it to be.
There are many erroneous opinions concern
ing the tortures that ono suffers while making
a sea trip, that should not be credited by
those who have never had that experience.
The Nebraska Co-operative Traveling
company, alias the Anarchists, started on
the sixth of June last to undergo all the suf
ferings which Father Neptune could make
them endure. They started with light hearts,
a sixteen inch grip, and a mackintosh apiece,
to spend three months traveling in the old
countries. The mackintoshes were used only
on the ocean, while the grips were very useful
to fill with dynamite and infernal machines.
The light hearts enabled all to see the bright
side of things in both calm and stormy
weather.
The steamship, "City of Paris,'1 sailed at
7 a. m. on the day mentioned from New
York. She was one of the largest and fast
est liners, being 580 feet long, and 63 feet
wide, with four decks above the water line.
Our party went on board the night before
sailing. There was such a rush and hurry
on the pier that it was strange that some of
tho dock men did not grab a passenger occa
sionally and put a hook though his coat col
lar and have him hoisted on board before
discovering that he was not a box of bacon
or a Saratoga trunk. We escaped with our
lives, however, and when once on board,
had ample opportunity to watch othors do the
same.
Some were searching for their trunks
among great piles of baggage, which lay
strewn about on all sides. Others were
dodging about in the almost vain endeavor
to keep out of the way of trucks and express
wagons. Then, there were still others who
had found their baggage, and had succeeded
in having it labeled, who stood watching it
tenderly as it was hoisted on board, ten
trunks at a time. These people looked as
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