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THE HESPERIAN.
ago the prospects for athletics were indeed
gloomy. There was no cash, no hope, no
enthusiasm. Now there is a plethora of
each, except, of couise, that instead of hope
we have good, solid, satisfying certainty.
Three months ago there was even talk of
abandoning foot ball for the year; there is no
such talk now; there never will be again.
The Uni. "'leven" has played a clean,
honest, invincible game; they have played
themselves into the hearts of everybody con
nected with the university from the Chancel
lor down to the janitors, and above all, they
have downed Kansas and won that pennant.
Here's to the eleven with three times three
and a tiger!
The twelfth biennial report of the Board of
Regents of the University is now out, and it
is a plain, practical, business-like statement
of present University affairs. No student
could do better than to send a copy of this
report home to his parents, and another to
his. home paper, requesting editorial comment
It should and must be kept before the people
that the University of Nebraska is in a posi
tion never before known in the history of
education; that it is face to face with the dan
ger of absolutely being compelled to drop
almost one-half its students beoause it is not
able to receive them. Think of it; a state
university, a public school being compelled
to cut its attendance in two for lack of funr's
and accommodations! To do this means
deep and lasting disgrace to the state of Ne
braska. Let it once be generally known that
our- Qtate is threatened with disgrace, and
that the legislature alone can prevent it, and
the people vill see to it that the legislature
does its duty. "Parsimony in education fs
liberality to ignorance, suffering and crime."
Th Hesperian always has believed, and
always will believe, in college spirit. It be
lieves in pranks. The more fun the better
has been its motto. Student life is weary
enough at hest, so when anything is 'cute,
funny .or witty, it will receive our support. A
UrgCfJimit should be given college'students,
but.they, should. not be entirely exempt from
puhjshhient. The demonstration. Monday
nigbtbefore Thanksgiving, account's of which
have been going the rounds of the press, was
a reminder of early days. To catch the
president of the Senior class and secrete him
for the evening was cute. It was an old
trick, and one which Mr. Lyon should not
have allowed himself to be taken in on. To
pen up Messrs. Oberlies and Hildreth was
amusing and not in the least objectionable.
To "fake" the Seniors' hats and canes was
wot thy of a safe breaker. Indeed it is almost
impossible to think that a member of the class
of '95 would be so careless; yet we did it.
But, then, to break the locks on a mail's pri
vate building is an amenable offense. To
bolt in a crowd of ladies and fight like Cou
manche Indian is net of any particular credit
to a college student even if he is a junior and
short on credit. The fact is, the boys forgot
themselves. A common every day respect
for ladies should have restrained them. A
looker-on would have thought they were
swipes from some livery stable and not bona .
fide or questionable members of the class of
'96. Boys, nothing should be said against
you up to a certain point, but you passed
that point. There is just one more feature
that should be criticised severely: It was a
daring bit of business to walk into a private
house, wake up the inmates, grab the keys
out of their hands and lock the stolen property
up in a room. If a clerk down town had
done such a thing he would probably have
been arrested. The affair is all the more fla
grant from the fact that no student roomed at
the house. Sport is sport, and rowdyism is
rowdyism, in college as well as out.
A LIBRARY COMMOTION'
And the Little Red Book-worm Wiggled
J-fw'T was a dark, still night late in Novem
"A L ber; the sort of night, when spooks like
j-se best to wander and spirits of evil are
disturbing the plans of men. But two
amiable young men, as they walked briskly
along twilling their new canes and dressed in
their Sunday clothes, were not thinking of
spooks or evil spirits. No. Their thoughts
were piously fixed on higher things. They
were thinking of the girls they had left behind
them, and the lemonade and waxed floor and