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i 12 THE HESPERIAN, On the bobks of the university of Chicago in the list of universities and colleges from which students are accepted at par value, Nebraska university stands side by side with Amherest, Brown, University of California, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard. John Hopkins, Princeton and Yale. This shows the estimate placed upon the work of the University of Nebraska by one of the best organized facul ties in the west. -State Journal. Miss Friel and Miss Cutter sang a very pretty solo at the penitentiary last Sunday morning. That it was appreciated, the long continued applause of the prisoners attested. They have been invited to sing again next Sunday. Miss Triplett is their able accom paniest. There can surely be no better way of showing true Christianity than this practi cal one adopted b these girls of carrying brightness to those for whom the sun never shines. "By their works ye shall know them." Martin Luther might have talked and reasoned until doomsday, but he would only have obtairted a stake and a torch without public sentiment. Public sentiment burned John Huss and scattered Wycliff's asher. to the sea. Public sentiment among the giilsof the State University killed the G. D. C. But pause, stranger, before you shed a tear for the young women wbo have performed the Huss act. They are not gone up in thin, blue smoke. You will yet hear from them in the P. G. D. C. If we cannot have two girls' debating associations in this institntion, let us have one. Hurrah for the P. G. D. C. Miss Nellie Watson most agreeably enter tained Union society and its friends on Hal loween, at her residence seven miles south east of the city. The party went out in two large carryalls, and report of those high times that you read about. Owing to the fact that the drivers lost their bearings, and wandered helplessly around a section or two for a couple of hours, they did not reach Miss Watson's home until about the hour usually set for departure, and to equalize things were compelled to steal several hours from the morning. Forty or more absentees from classes are reported for tne next day. Misses Ferguson and Evans have come to Lincoln for the purpose of starting a dancing class. These ladies are highly recommend ed, hsvfng taught for a number of years in the military department of the Missouri State University, also in Galveston, Texas. They wish to permanently locate in Lincoln. They will make a specialty of the waltz and solo fancy dances for children. Children classes will meet Monday, Wednesday and Satur days at 4:30 p. m. Adults class will meet Monday Thursday and Friday at 8 p. m. All classes meet in Lansing theatre block. Private lessons given. For further informa tion address 336 south Thirteenth street. The work in the shops and electrical department have received a new impetus this year and all departments are crowded with students. The electrical department has just received a Donaldson-Macrae dynamo and moter which is out in advance of anything which this department has had before. By the failure of Queen & Co., the university has secured an extensive job lot of new standard Weston electrical instruments which, how ever, have not yet arrived. A New York safety engine, a seven foot lathe for pattern work, a gig saw, a press drill, and an immense number of smaller instruments have been added to the shops. The ontire addition which was made to the shops last summer is occupied by the forge work. The depart ment contains twenty-four of the new Buffalo system. It is the first plant of this system ever put in at any place. Chancellor McDowell of the University of Colorado, the first speaker this year in the "Chancellor's course," lectured Friday morn ing in the chapel on "Geo. William Curtis, His Life and Works." The stndents and faculty who crowded the chapel almost to suffocation were treated to the address, earnr est, scholarly, patriotic; an address full of hope, even if full of warning. The life and works of' Mr. Curtis were clearly and dis tinctly outlined, and eloquent plea made for that breadth of citizenship which can over step party lines, which can say to party "Thun far and no farther" Chancellor Mc Dowell is an earnest, eloquent and witty talker, and his address was appreciated by every student who heard it. If this opening lecture of the "Chancelor's Course" be an. earnest of what is to follow, it will be'.an even more populor and successful,rha:i last year. :o: A Fountain Pen. The users of fountain pens need only to try one of the celebrated Waterman Foun-, tain Pens in order to become its friends. It combines good workmanship with good material and is by far the best pen in-ithe market. Call at Cooperative Book Co's. and have its superiority over all others explained, to you.
