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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1895)
iiiiitityitwtB. ,iv rrn ".fWiSf' JTrTf , IT THE. H-ESPEKIAN ? TT .TST-tit- - - s -i , isput, on dishonesty. It makes very little , difference whether you steal hats from the ..halls or ride ponies on examination day. We steal in both cases, yet in the first if we are discovered we are expelled from the .University, while in the second place we are patted on the back and honored with a high class standing. Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel; but inconsistency, what art thou? The Spartans taught their sons to steal, but punished them if they caught them, while if uucaught they were praised. How much different is your system of examination from this? In one examination, during our last finals, not only the professor stood over the students as a policeman, but had his assis tants do the same. Could there be any thing so low, so mean, so disgraceful as this? And in a University, too, such as the University of Nebraska, where we pride biirsclvcs on being broad, and free from those petty vices that reign in other schools. If you expect a student to be a dog he will be a dog; if you expect him to be a man he .generally will. Any fool can cram for ex- . animations, but it takes a student of some pluck, some energy and some ability to get his lessons day in and day out for a whole semester. Some professors have been wise enough to abolish these examinations; would that they all were! Bui it is not the abolish ing of examinations that I care for; it is some honor in giving them. When a pro- , . feasor becomes a policeman and his assis- ,. tants guards, then, fellow students, is it not time to rebel? Is there not dishonor in this sort of thing? You say the student comes Jiere, not only to have his mind trained, but . his .character as well. The moral side bet ter, never be trained at all than to have '.training as this. How can you expect steal ing, to be absent from the halls when such ;wprk goes on in the class-room? Civi lization is advancing, and we no longer have to believe all men untruthful until they : prove themselves truthful. Wayland Carpenter. A VOICE. - ..I fcv'...- -WRITTEN AUGUST 1804, D.URING, CRIMEAN WAR. Echoing over the distant sea, Borne on the wave of the west wind's breath ; Startling the vale and the quiet lea, Cometh a voice like the voice of death, A voice like a shudder that trembles and lingers, An echo that thrills from the far storm-cloud's fingers. Swift on the wings of the sunset's fire, Chilling the gray of the sombre night; Forth from the smoke of the battle pyre, Into our valleys of song and light A shiver somes flying from distant drums beating, A thrill as of armies advancing, retreating. Softly the wide prairies stretch afar, Folding the earth in their waves of gold ; Fair glowing heaven and sun and star, Look on their valley of peace unrolled : Over the ocean the cold steel is glancing, War trumpets sounding and banners ad vancing. Smoothly the river drops down the vale, Softly the mountain descends the plain ; Only the wind from' the ocean pale Thrills with the chill of the breath of Cain, The shriek of the living, the wail of the dying, The voice of the blood of the slain Abel crying. When shall we answer that long, long word, When shall we silence the voice of Cain ? Down through the aisles of the ages heard, "Who is the keeper of Abel slain ? " When shall the wind as it trembles and lingers, Tremble no more to the dark war-cloud's fingers? Katharine Melick. Harvard and Princeton have selected the following question for their joint, debate: "Resolved, that if it were possible, .a rea sonable property qualification for the exer cise of the municipal franchise in the United States, woujd be desirable." 4 f
