THE HESPERIAN
overlooked. For example take the debates
preliminary to the final Kansas-Nebraska
contest. In giving credit to the dif
ferent departments of the University for the
assistance they rendered the successful con
testants, one department it seems, has been
entirely ignored. We refer to the depart
ment of elocution. Of the eight men who
secured a place on the final "local' seven
either are now, or have been, students in
this department. In interviews with these
seven each stated that the training received
there was of untold benefit. The work is
different from that given in any other de
partment, differing much even from the work
in public speaking. Nowhere else can one
receive such training in position, gesture,
pitch and tone of voice.
Obituary.
Gone.
A flying whirl of leaves blown by
Vine-leaves wreathed and twined
A far-off wail in the west wind's cry,
Like a child that is left behind,
So the years that are fled from us
Flit before they are dead from us
Like the Vi-king's ship to the wind.
Oh the wail of the years that weep,
Waking us in the night,
Walking forever in all our sleep,
Weary and wan and white,
They are our children that cry to us
They are our visions that die to us
Left alone in the night.
Katharine M. Melick.
As Her Mother Had Said.
It turned out as her mother had said it
would. Bert ought to have known. Bnt
she did not.
The Hespxbias regrets very much to ghe WM book.kccpcr and casbicr in thc
announce the sudden death by blood poison- Qne miQ . , gtore -n t,0 town gho
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sat very proudly behind her gilded railing.
And she always tried to drink in the full
dignity of the position when she signed her
aristocratic name to the business papers,
"Bertha Remington."
But she was not dignified at home. She
made red flannel "mairinties" for the little
ing of Rev. W. H. H. Tillsbury a few
weeks ago, at his home in Fullerton. Mr.
Pillsbnry was one of the strongest clergy
men of the Methodist church in Nebraska,
and his loss will be severely felt. Last fall
he was elected treasurer of his county, but
had not yet entered upon his duties when
suddenly cut off. Mr. Ed Pillsbury, on giri next door and smiled across at the three
account or ms lamer s ueaui, win not reiurn wicked ,;ttle bojg wfco WeA Qn tfco ofljer
to school this year, but the other children gide o fI0 gtreet Qn(X ghc invited tho
are continuing their studies. dear miQ girf Qver tQ tea and gayc her pQp.
Died, of consumption, January 4, 1S9G, corn and Ieanut afterwards,
at the home of her parents near Harvard, She sat one 8Pring evening on the front
Neb., Allie Warren Noyes, sister of J. A. doorsteps. She could hear her mother in-
and G. F. Warren of the class of "J7. The aidc rustling the leaves of the evening paper,
sadness of the death is increased when we A,,d outside she could hear the chirp of
learn that the only sister of Mr. Noyes. fileeP-v birds ad the whir of a solitary tree
"MV T.;rr.; Wnrmn.'RAfifo. dwd nt Sheridan, locust. The air was fresh and the scent of
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growing things made her somehow surer of
happiness than she usually felt.
She told herself sometimes that she would
never be really happy. She never had been.
It had been lonesome when she was little
The faculty has decided that seniors have because nobody had lived at her house but
no right to vote in a junior organization. her mother and herself. Later she had been
Wyoming, on November 18th of last year.
In the donblc affliction that has fallen upon
our fellow-students The Hesi'Ebiax extends
its most heartfelt sympathies.
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