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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.
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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.
