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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1895)
I 'I m THE HESPERIAN , fr . tt p ft y ! !'.v- Ii-i - EDITORIAL. In starting in on the year 1895 The Hes perian desired to make apologies to its friends and readers . in the university for the slip shod manner of its publication up to date, during the present school year. The board of editors haB recognized that The Hes perian has been very unsatisfactory to its friends this year, and to no one has it been so much so as to themselves. But nothing else could be expected when publi cation day wobbled anywhere between to morrow arid next month some time. The trouble lay with the business manager, who wilfully and persistently placed all possible obstructions in the way of the board in his efforts to further his financial in terests, arid who is now, we are happy to say, after a long and bitter fight between him and the board, in a condition of inocuous desuetude. The new business manager, Dr. L. J. Abbott, Jr., is a horse of, another color, and we feel perfectly safe in assuring our read ers that when publication day every two weeks comes around, they will each and every one find a Hesperian in their mail box. Owing to the fact that the obsolete manager has very kindly withheld the list of subscribers and hugs it in fast seclusion to his manly bosom-. we are compelled to ask the students to be kind and patient while "Doc" circulates around and brings the stray sheep and we hope, and he hopes, many new ones, back to the fold. Now is the time to subscribe. Fifty cents for the remainder of the school year. either cannot or will not see that the evil is speedily abated, then they should frankly confess to the public that the University of Nebraska cannot protect its students from its own thieves. Conservative estimates place the value of overcoats, hats, caps, cloaks, books and the like stolen so far this year at at least $500. This thing has gone too far to be longer ignored. That such things can be, that they can go unnoticed and unpunished hero in the university, of all other places, is a shame and a disgrace. Of the fourteen hundred students attend ing the university this year, and taking ad vantage of the free educational system, four teen attend the University Conservatory of Music. There are probably at least ten times ' that many of our students studying music who see fit to bestow their patronage elsewhere. The University Conservatory is beyond all doubt the best, most thorough and most complete music school in the cen tral west, and that so few students take ad vantage of this institution is very much to be deplored. It certainly speaks but poorly for our college patriotism. No, gentle reader, this iB not a pd. ad. 1 mo.; it1s a free and unsolicited statement of fact. It is high time that some action was being taken by university authorities in regard to tH'e sneak thieves who are plying their vo cation undisturbed and free from interrup tion, and who appropriate unto themselves everything not nailed down, from an over coat to a dinner basket. If the students are to "be afforded no 'protection whatever by the prdper authorities; if the powers that be This department of The Hesperian ur gently requests that all students who have suffered losses by theft in the university this year, whether of hats, clothing, books, or what not, report their losses, specifyirig the articles stolen and value of same, to us at once. If the students will co-operate with us by simply leaving in the Hesperian mail box, or on the editorial hook ii the office down stairs, a list of the articles stolen, es timated value and name of owner, we can easily publish in our next issue such a list of stolen goods as we believe will 'move the proper authorities to take some action that will protect us from further loss. Please do not neglect this nor put it off; let us have a list of what you have lost now, before you forget it
