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Hesperian.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
Vol. XXV.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOV. 18, 1895.
No.
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BOARD OP EDITORS.
O. H. ALLEN - - Editor-in-Chief
associates
II. E. NEWBRANCH, - - Editorial
P. H. THOMSON - . Literary
IDA W. HEISE - - . Literarv
CLINT M. BARR - - - Athletic
J. N.SHREVE - - - - Local
C. E. MATSON .... LoCAL
LULU W. BURROWS - . . Local
JOE BOOMER .... Alumni
L. J. ABBOTT, Jr.,
NED: C. ABBOTT f ' Business Managers.
EDITORIAL.
We have a nice little list, obtained with
a great deal of trouble, of students who
would never, no never, think of subscribing
for The Hesperian but who nevertheless
find both amusement and instruction in
4 'swiping," it out of the boxes, ud reading
it without money and without price. This
list would look very nice in print. Enough
said.
We desire to extend our sincere and
humble apologies to the faculty members of
the Athletic committee for the injustice
done them by an obscure "local" in our last
issue. The local in question was entirely
unjust and uncalled for, and TnE Hesperian
asks for the pardon of the faculty members
in question for inadvertently allowing it to
appear.
Of course wc were all highly elated, and
all that, and we had to vent our enthusiasm
in some fitting way. To down Missouri was
a big thing a great big thing, and all hail
to the team. But it seems to TnE Hesperian
that stndents of the great University of Ne
braska rather stooped below their level in
taking advantage of the occasion to break
into the high school, and decorate its sacred
walls and floors and ceilings with bright,
crimson "U. of N's." We are too big,
and the high school too littlo, to permit us
with any dignity whatever to indulge our
selves in such childish revenge on a childish
neighbor.
It is all very well and proper for the
chancellor to encourage athletics as ho docs,
for athletics should be encouraged. They
are a very necessary part of a great school
like ours. But, at the same time, there are
other student organizations beside the ath
letic association, and other contests beside
foot-ball should they not come in for their
share of encouragement? True, these contests
aie merely intellectual contests, and are fought
to a finish without such exciting auxiliaries
as canvass psntw &mJ nose guurds to kindie
the imagination and arouse the enthusiasm
of the spectators. Take our debating asso
ciation, and the preliminary contests, just
comjleted. The main portion of the audi
encc in these debates has been the judges
and their wives, and the other debaters.
Encouragement! the association has never
heard of stich a thing.
True, debates are unintercstcng, and un
important, and unathletic, and perhaps do
littlo to build up a university or train the