The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899, May 15, 1896, Page 6, Image 6
6 THE HESPERIAN pleasant and entortainin'. Cain't hardly seem natnr'l fur our Deborie, after all her achoolin', to cum back and take up with the same feller she would hov likely as not if she'd never bin away. Looks kinder like wo might hev got along without the pinchin' and scrapin' and savin' and had her a com fort us in our old age, a larnin t' cook and do housework. But I reckon if she's satis fied you an' me'll be, Kebcccic, though I'd kinder sot my heart on a doctor or a lawyer er some feller like that fur her. Oka Gldnt. The Gymnasium Girl. The ever popular exhibition of the gym nasium girls took place Saturday night in Grant Memorial Hall. The enthusiastic crowd began to gather at the door of the Armory before 7 o'clock, and at 7:45 stand ing room in the gymnasium was at a pre mium. About 800 tickets were issued and everyoue who was fortunate enough to get a ticket was present; many who did not get tickets came in through the windows. It was a mixed crowd, embracing every organ ization in the University, from seniors down to "preplets." The figure marching and circle drill wore the most interesting events of the evening, but the bag passing contest between the ad vanced class and membors chosen from the first year class was the most exciting. Both sides worked hard but the extra year's prac tice of the advanced class gave them an ad vantage and they won with ease. Miss Barr " and her assistants certainly deserve great credit for the manner in which they con ducted the exhibition. The cadet band fur nished the music. T. F. Sanford, professor of English in the University of California and a graduate of Yale, is here investigating the methods used in teaching English literature. He will visit several of the high schools of tho state be fore he returns. The Student A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing. M et that new style hair-cut at Westerfield's. (Toast responded to by T. P. A. Williams, 'W, before Alum ni Association of State University, at Alumni Ilnnquot In Urnnt Memorial Hall, February 10. 1801.) Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentleman: The Chancellor thinks that I have not reached even tlio danger point yet. (This in response to the introduction of toastmas ter Canfield, in which he said Air. Williams could not be cited as an illustration of the alleged truth of the declaration of the toast.) The student is a necessary evil resulting from the transgression of the First Man. If Adam had not eaten of the tree of knowl edge, if he had been content to remain in the state of blissful ignorance where ho was placed, then, as we say, "things might have been different." But "in Adam's fall we sinned all," and so nowadays men born into tho world must spend a probationary period in conning over textbooks and in passing through examinations and other trials and tribulations before they can regain that bliss ful state of ignorance to which you and I of the Alumni Association may justly lay claim. I am not going to speak to you tonight of the ideal student, the man who is never late to class, who never skips a recitation, who is always on hand at chapel time, who graduates with the highest honors of the class and dies a venerable patriarch at the ago of twenty-four. I am not going fo speak to you of the student as ho should be or as ho should not be, but of the student as he is. What is he? Webster defines a "student' as an individual, non compos mentis for the most part, who is afflicted with occasional attacks of sanity. You may doubt tho latter part of the definition, but of the truth of the former part there is no question. Have you never seen a body of students go down tho streot singing "I feel like I feel like 1 feel," for a half an hour at a stretch, and thfin see them switch off into that other prodigy of intellectual achievement, "Forty eight Bluebottles Hanging on the Wall," ESlSl