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The Hesperian. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XXV. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEB. i, 1896. No. 9. The Hesperian. ssucd semi-monthly by tlie Hesperian Association or tlie Univer sity of Nebraska. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, per college year (in advance) One copy, one semester .... Advektising Kates on Application. $1.00 .00 ALUMNI AND EX-STUDENTS. Special endeavor will be made to make Tiik Hesperian inter esting to former students. Please send us your subscriptions. 3Subscriptionson our books will be continued until ordered stopped. Address all communications to The Hesperian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. fair minded men admit are above bias and partisanship. We would like to hear you refute the arguments there adduced, Mr. Ncbraskavs and not simply fill you columns with bald assertions that Prof. Warner is a verj' small man. We all know ho is a small man, that is probably why he has a head professorship in Stanford University. About Fraternity Politics. BOARD OF EDITORS. O. K.ALLEN - - Editor-in-Chief ASSOCIATES H. E. NEWBRANCH, - - Editorial P. H. THOMSON - - Literary LULU W. BURROWS - - - Literary CLINT M. BARR ... Athletic J. W. SEARSON .... Local C. E. MATSON .... Local E. F. PIPER - - Local JOE BOOMER - - - Alumni L. J. ABBOTT, Jr., NED: C. ABBOTT f ' B Managers. EDITORIAL. We print in this issue an admirable paper on the "New Woman" given by Miss Mary Tremain before the Palladiau Girls' Debat ing Olub, Friday evening, Jannary 10. It gives new light on the vexed question, and should be read by all who wish to keep up with the times. Peof. Waenee's article in the last Hes pbkiak mnst have struck our esteemed con temporary in a tender spot, for there was a load and continued squeal in their last issue. The fact of the matter is they do Tiot like to hear such things coming from men with national reputations as thinkers and whom all Lest there be some students in school so unacquainted with the true status of Univer sity politics as to be deceived by the recent bellows of the ' purity compromisers,'1 The Hesperian takes this occasion to tell a few truths in this connection. First, as is already well known, the dif ferent fraternities have all been members of a common "tie up" in recent years, whereb' all the elective offices in the University were to be distributed among the various fraterni ties, and rotate from year to year. This lit tle game has worked nicely in years past nicely, that is, for the fraternities. Of course it has resulted in the election of some officers not exactly fitted or desirable but that's another story. The main point is that the frats got the offices, and did what they pleased with them. It was the spoils system in practical operation. Second, as is also well known, last year some pledges were broken and some con tracts unfulfilled. This is a very common occurrence in practical politics. This is the way a leading "Beta" told it, "We Jire go into no more such contracts and we (the Betas) want the credit for the defeat of the hog combine." Third, as everybody knows, when the frat big guns sawheir slate broken and their wronged fellow combiners in open rebellion when they saw all hope of victory vanished, i
