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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1896)
THE HESPERIAN Literature and Events, Fiction and the like who road by topics, in ether words, the present arrangement is confusion worse confounded. If a student wishes to road the Philosophy magazines for oxamplo,ho must wade through the whole collection in order to find ono 'magazine hero and another there. Why cannot the magazines be classified in a scientific manner? In giving place to Mr. 0. M. Skilos com 'munication in this issue, TnE Hesperian prints the views of. a good, faithful and staunch barbarian alumnus, who agrees with us that the way to fight the frats is to fight them. The Hesperian is a barbarian paper, "representing the democratic views and belief of the University plebeians. As such it is glad to receive such articles as that of Mr. Skiles', and hopes that more will be forth coming. Union Clrls' Capers. ATBlush'lng'Rdse. I plucked a rose that blossomed in a vale, All wet with dew and blushing deeply red, And carried it with reverential love To one who blushes as red tis any rose. She held it gently in unjewelicd bands; And softly raised it to her laughing lips: Then if I could, I would have given worlds To be the rose and blush a deeper red. J.A.S. "Born Short." It was announced last "week that the Union igirls would give their annual program, Fri day evening, Feb. 28. As is the custom on 'such occasions, the girls carried the slate and did their part quite manly. However, the girls did not post u program, although they -wore confidential enough to tell Searson and Shrevo about the program, and thus induced "the boys to work .ill Friday afternoon on Union hall, arranging curtains, etc. Searaon and Shrevo now say, "What fools wo mortals bo." When the boys called for their young ladies in the evening each of the girls had some excuse to take the innocent lamb of a boy to the homo of Miss Anderson. The girls had prepared a vacant house, near Miss Anderson's for a gonuino time. Dancing and games were indulged in till a late hour. Refreshments in the shape of 'hot weinerwnrsts and trimmings wore served by ftio "young ladies. Goto Rector's 'for Jyonr hot !soda. William Hawloy Smith says that people are born short. When thoy are born 'short they can't do some tilings as well as tliby can do some other things. Under such cir cumstances it is unjust to try to make all conform to any common system of training, since such a system will unavoidably 'tax some of these shortnesses. He says it is tyranny. And he says, "Oh, what's he use, good people?" and stamps his toot. "You know it." Yes, we know it. Wo wore born sho'ft ourselves. Don't wo know it? Those hor rible Friday afternoons, when wo stood with tottering knees, twisting our fingers together, and watching the little boys giggle, while we gasped, "You'd scarce expect one of my age " Those long recesses, when We looked at that hideous, green Harvey until linos at slants, and copulas on little stems danced over the dusty blackboards, -jft!h, William Hawley Smith, if you had but'eorae a little sooner 1 Thero is a boy who was born short, fib walks with a curious, halting stop, lurching first one shoulder, then the other, forward. He holds his head down, his si -alders stoop together over his chest what there is of it. Ho makes you ache with sympathetic un . easiness when he stands before you. But he can't help it. What's the use, goodfdlks? There is the drill sergeant who would stand hat boy up and "try to make the line's 'of lliis Tn3y conform 'to prescribed lines and -burves. He would put 'the .youth into a 0 o is