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BOARD OF EDITORS.
PERSE MORSE
E. B. PERRY
S. J. COREY
J. A. SARGENT
HARRIET PACKARD
L IiJlLLA JEFFERY
EVA O'SULLIVAN
MARTHA OHAPPELL
ROBT. ANDRESON
J. H. SAYER
L. E. MUMFORD -
ASSOCIATES
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Notice.
All subscribers who have not paid their
subscription will do the business mana
gers a great favor if they will settle at
once. It is now near the close of the
school year and all subscriptions rnvnt bo
paid.
B. J. Arnold of Chicago is giving a
series of lectures this week under the
auspices of the engineering department.
This is a now and commendable depar
ture from the old way of having the lec
tures scattered over a considerable length
of time. The lectures cover the entire
subject of power, plants, their construc
tion and oquipment. This course of
lectures cannot fail to benefit the studonts
and engineers who are attending.
The attitude of the legislature towards
the university seems especially favorable
this year. Never before has there been
bo evident a feeling of interest. The
special building appropriation of thirty
thousand is on the road to passage with
but little opposition as far as now known.
Quite a change in attitude is noticed since
two years ago when it took such effort to
secure the library appropriation although
the building was standing unfinished on
the campus. The securing of this special
appropriation will begin the supplying of
a long felt want in the way of room. We
doubt if there is an institution in the land
so crowded for even standing room as
the University of Nebraska.
We may congratulate ourselves as a uni
versity and show just in what particulars
we excel, but there is one thing wo lack
and that most noticeably. We have grown
so big and democratic and energetic that
we have not fostered one of the needed
graces in university life; this grace is the
so called "College Spirit." We can talk
for hours on our merits, advantages and
the like,' get as hot as a hornet when
anyone says anything derogatory, but
when it comes to showing our enthusiasm
for some all-around university affair we
are decidedly apathetic. We get as care
less in our recognition of college affairs
as does the righteous citizen in his atti
tude towards municipal reform on election
day. University life should not be all
books and recitations but our interests
should also be attracted by the social
side. Debates, oratorical contests and
receptions should be recognized by the
students as well as Greek, Latin and
History.
The coming state oratorical contest
will undoubtedly bo as good as the state
has known for some years. Four col
leges will bo represented by contestants;
Doane, Bellevue, Grand Island and the
State University. Although the interest
in oratory has not been what it should bo
of late, we believe that there is a place
for oratory in the university. We see th o
