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(j T Id E HESP E H1AN i The Hesperian Issued Weekly by the Hesperian Association of the University of Nebraska TEHjS OF SUIHCRIl'TION One copy, per college enr ;ln ndvunccj One copy, one semester . . J1.00 .00 MiVKiiTiHiNn Rates on Application AI.UMNI AN1 KX-STUI)r.NT. Special endeavor will be mndo to make The Hkm-eiuan Inter 'estliiR to former students. I'lense send us your subscriptions. '"Subscriptions on our books will bo continued until or dered stopped. Address nil communications to The Hem'ekian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraka. r - r BOARD OF EDITORS. PERSE MORSE Managing Ed.toii E. B. PERRY Assistant Editor associates S. J. COREY Editorial J A S ARGENT Liteiiaky HARRIET PACKRD . - Local L IDILLA JEFFERY - . Local EVA O'SULLIVAN . Alumni MARTHA CHAPPELL - Exchange ROBT. ANDRESON - - Athletic J. H. SAYER 'Business Manager L. E. MUMPORD ... Assistant An effort is being made to have the regents furnish books to the students at cost. The state statutes provide that the regents should do this. Why shouldn't they? The January "Forum contains an arti cle on inter-collegiate debating by Prof. Ringwalt of Columbia. He thinks inter collegiate debating contests have come to stay. Be urges as a reason, the fact that the student's experience as adebater, is practical, and will be useful to him in after life. Prof. Ringwalt is right. Harvard is seriously considering the question of starting a college infirmary. The plan is to impose a $5 tax on all members of the university. All -would tfhen he entitled to the best medical treat ment without additional cost. The suc cess of this experiment -will be watched with eagerness by many, -who are advo cating the adoption of a similar plan here in our own university. The coming semester will naturally bo "better than the one just past. The dif ferent departments have the experience of the first semester to work up n. They can take that which has proven benefic ial and improve upon it while that which has proven to be unsuccessful can bo dropped. Again the students have bo come better acquainted with each other, with their work, anl can work to better advantage. The true university spirit is shown in the fact that so many depart ments are offering new courses in which students just entering may tajce up; thus allowing those who have been kept from school the first semester, to enter and pursue work to their own advantage. There are a few events that every stu dent looks forward to with much delight. One of these is Charter Bay, when tho whole university is turned over to the in spection of tho public. Another is the hope that the lectures in the Chancellor's course may he continu id. There is still an other phase that every student is or at least should bo interested in, and that is the appropriation by the legislature. Every student should consider it his duty to give any and all the information he possesses with regard to the work and necessities of the institution. Despite all these special events the student should not forget to endeavor to do better work, both in his study room and in his class room. Then, on the first day of Juno next, he will certainly 'feel that this has been one of tho most profitable semesters in his college career. The faculty is to bo congratulate 1 on the new system of examination. It is just what we have needed all these years and strange it has not been thought of before. It does away with the confusion of uniting do visions in large examination rooms, which has "been so embarrassing heretofore. The new scheme besides "having many favorable points makes a