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The Hesperian. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. ) Vol. XXV. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JUNE S, 1896. No. 16. The Hesperian. Ixssed scaE-siOM&7 fcjr die Haraxuuc AssoeLsricm cf the Univer sity ! Xebntifca. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oae copy, fmr cssHfe year (is Mvamct One copy, coe srcaesser - - JLM .ae Aotxktoxvg Rates ooi AnucaTaost. jLUCim sto n-trottxiv Special endeavor rSl beana&e to aiafce Tc Hasrxziax inter fgjg io f mmf smdeats. tjseatdesyasrssbscriTtioBS. CSSbstriji4Maitcaa cmr bodes mill be csmdaoed exofl onSered sseppeid. AAinca aH ocmgrmnciimwt ta Tz Bnituu, Uativeniiy of Nebraska. liaodtxi, Xdau&a, BOARD OF EDITORS. O. H. ALLEN - - EotToc-is-CHiEF ASSOCIATES H. E. XEWBRAKCH. T. E. EDGERTOX E. F. PIPER CLINT M. BARR -J. W..BARSON CE.MATSON -E. A. MOORE J. F. BOOMER - L. J. ABBOTT. Je.. 1 NED: C ABBOTT f Edztdziju. LxTZXAKY lxtzzaxt Athletic Local JjOCJLI. - LoCT., AucHVi EOflDOftlAL. These are a great many students in this University who have bad their spirits surely troubled and their minds mcch perplexed by the selfish and egotisic isolation of each department into a sort of Robinson Crusoe affair by itself alone, who were glad to hear Dr. Fling speak out plainly abont Anarchy in the CiirricaIm.,, The student who has come to this University not intending to be a lawyer or a philosopher or an economist or a chemist or a geologist or a college pro fessor of some kind has had rather up bill work. There has been plenty of room for specialization of all kinds but one, plain caltnre and broad comprehension. As it is we have good chemists and botanists and all the rest of them who know heaps about their particular little science and can't write a decent letter in the English language or tell whether Lowell or Macaulay wrote "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" not if it would insure them a $400 job as a "college professor." Prof. Fling thinks it about time that the plain, common man who doscnTt intend to be a great specialist, but only a cultured man and a good citizen be given a chance. The Hesperiax thinks so too. Dr. Fling has found a good thing; we hope he will push it along. The last number of the first volume of the NArtuH-a Literary Jfagazine is out this week. That the tone of the publication has gained decidedly is saying much: the cur rent number is eminently the best of the four. Its contributors are strictly Univer sity people. Among the contributions of note are a long poem by Professor Sher man, giving the introductory circumstance and 'atmosphere' of Shakespearea "Temp est," a "Memorial to Mathew Arnold" by Chancellor MacLean, an article by Hon. Ex-Congressman Bryan, and a strange story by Miss Willa Cathcr. Every student should take a copy home. It would be the best possible evidence of what the Univer sity is and what it is doing. Tqe Hespebiax understands that some members of the faculty were offended at statements made in a signed article by Mr. Abbott in a recent issue. We stated over the article that it was not ours but repre sented Mr. Abbott's views only. The Hes 1TOBIA3? regrets that there should have re cently appeared in its columns the statement