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V,,J- -rtf wrpiiri5r9.' - b- n--wir.'- " j MB 4 SfERffil- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol XXVI. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 15. 1S96. No. -I. The Hesperian lvsued Weekly by the Hestcruln Association of the Tnlvcn-Uy of Nebraska. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One cojiy, jcr college year )in advance) One eojty, one nemeter ..... W.OO .60 AJVTEETIMJ.G IUTtS ON AmiClTlOX iiciH ami KM-arnsEsrs. "Iec JhI endeavor will be made to rankc Tub Heiteeiax inter--M4np io former undents, ricase jnd us your subscriptions. I"nbr3j.tlonioao'Qroots will be conUnned until or- ii Ti i .iujjed Aidre all miinnicationB to The llnrnuiK, University '1 Nelfl-asVa, Lincoln, Neltaa. BOARD OF EDITORS. .ION AS II. LF.IN - Editou in-Ciiief ASSOCIATES .1 CORKY -1 SUM5KST M EL DEMPSTER A A CRaHAM j: A MOORE ANNA BURROWS O T. REEDY N KINTON JOiEPii F. BOOIER I.Jitor3n "C'lilef jirolem. Editorial Ltxxuahy - Local Local Local Alumni Athletic Exchange Business Manager v. - Palladiaa Sofieiy i i ts Miss Flora Bullock Sec. Mr. John Boose ., . ., Unaos Society lmJI Camebo Sec Mm Anna Andeksox .,, DelUiu SotaeJv ' "" J H Allen . Hakkiet Packaju Pjtfs Miss Mae Rhodes Sec. Mis Mahian Notes lj'('8 Mr D M. Davis Set,! P tw- EngJfcli dob J M,S8 Awy Bnonot Sec IL . Shedd w,. n Atlhletae Assod&iaoo ' - " 1 . lAMEJtON . IB Pimr Editorial The temptations of college life have keen baiped upon by an uninformed and wly deceived public, until one is led to trtaevs that the surroundings of a college Ktadentareamy thing but conducive to good morals. The people as a whole are quite willing to .lump at conclusions gained from a few uncommon examples, and thus it happens that these unnatural exceptions are taken as a criterion of col lege morals. Students as a whole, are " the choicest young people of our laud and their temptations are loss than of any other miscellaneous collection of young men or women. The aim of the college student being high, the average of character is good- Nine out of ten of the young men in our best institutions of learning are gentlemen. The tenth raau by reason of influences which he general ly brings to bear upon himself,causes the greater part of the trouble and ill repute. This one out of ten, being most conspic uous because of this recklessness of mo rality ,serves as the representative college man in the public eye. The world, ibe cause of this delusion,thinks that college men have a different code of morals than the rest of the masses. Nothing could be more misleading or untruthful than this. The main trouble has arisen from the fact that college men have not been turned down by their fellows whenever they have condescended to go astray. The sense of student honor has not been emphasised enough. Things have been winked at by the student body, which if they had occurred somewhere else would have been punished by immediate exclu sion. This has been true, not because college men have had a weakened sense of right and wrong, but because they have been slow In making that sense evident. Honor is not propagated by the distorted Idea that other people can do as. they please because they are men and women, I I h I f II r I: J (I t Bill p l OTrB 111 mi JKMs 'fill 1 nP if