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2 THE HESPERIAN one study or any instructor. And his testi mony is the testimony of all. If you wish to learn how to conduct yourself before an audience, how to express your thoughts in telligently and concisely, how to have com mand over yourself, your powers and your faculties, how to appreciate, without an in structor's aid, the beauties of literature, music, art and public speech, membership in one or the other of the three open literary societies Union, Palladian or Delian is indispensable. In them you will find no caste of wealth or position or creed or social pro-eminence; no mushroom aristocracies holding high carnival on fathers' hard earned dollars if these you seek, look elsewhere. But if you would identify yourself with busy bands of busy students, who meet weekly to put into actual practice class room theories and teaching; if you would find a place where a talent or an inclination for literature music or oratory will be encouraged and developed; if you would go where the democratic principles of a democratic people are practically applied in such a way as lv make 3-011 rely on yourself, have confidence in your own capabilities and trust to your own powers, then the literary societies are your proper sphere, and you will be re ccived with a welcome. The doors of Delian, Palladian and Union halls are closed against no one, they respond readily to the open sesame of "1 will try." The Debates. 0 Now, at the very beginning of the school year is the time to get your lungs in tune for the joint debate with Kansas. Remem ber that every individual student in the University should take a personal interest in the struggle with onr neighbor to the south, Let every student enter the preliminaries and try U got a place. The officers, espec ially the president, Mr. Matthews and the secretary, Mr. Alexander, will do all in their power to make us win. But they can't do it all. Every student should make it a personal matter and the interest' and the pleasure of the meeting will be redoubled. The National Council of the Phi Beta Kappa, at its triennial meeting hold in Sara toga, N. Y., September 11, granted a chap, tor of the society to the University of Ne braska. Something over a year ago Chan cellor Canfield and other Phi Beta Kappa members of the faculty petitioned for such a chapter. The new chancellor, as president of the Alpha chapter Phi Beta Kappa in Minnesota, appointed delegates from that chapter to the National Council. That del egation and several others, at the request of Chancellors Canfield and MacLcan were prepared to advocate the granting of a chap ter to the University of Nebraska. But it was found that the standing of the Univer sity of Nebraska was such that no influence was needed in the council, and a chapter was granted practically unanimously ; namely, by a vote of twenty-fivn to two. Phi Beta Koppa is the best known hon orary society in the United States, and an institution to which a chapter is granted must have obtained high standing and a national reputation. The Polytechnic Institute. Lincoln has long been known as an edu cational centre whose resources are not sur passed by any western city. With the advent of the Polytechni institute in the place of the defunct Western Normal, we have a school that will aid Lincoln in main taining its enviable reputation. The work laid out and the manner in which it is to be performed commend themselves to every lover of sound education. President Chan cellor is a gentleman of scholarly attainments and abundant experience Among others in the faculty, Thk Heri'kkuk notes with pleasure the names of two of our old stu dents. Professor Furot and Miss Martha Hutchison will both be strong in the school room. The Hksi-eku.v hopes and prophe cies a bright future for the Polytechnic institute.