I c TL1 E B ESP HIM AN !l m The Hesperian IsMied Weekly by the Hk-peki ax Aociatiox of tbe rnircrslty if Nebraska. TEKMS OF St'BSCKII'TloX Ouocoiiy, cr college year in advance one niy. one M'nieMer AliVKISTI-IMi KTIOX Al'I'MPATlOX tl.Oil .1X1 AI.l'NXI ASII RX-TtTIEXT. Sleclul endeavor will le innde to make Tiik IIpkuian inler eating to former studuntv l'leac send us your Mibcriptions. fgT'Sub'-crlptioii on our books will le continued until or dered stoiied. Address all communications to Tiik UesreitiAX, University of Xebrat-ka, Lincoln, Nebraska. BOARD OF EDITORS. PKUSK MOU6E E. B. I'EKKY AOCIATBS S. .J. COKEY .J A SMlttENT HARRIET PACKMU) L I.iILLA.fKFFKHY KVA O'SULL'VAN MARTHA CHAl'I'ELL KOBT. ANDRESUN .!. Jl. SAYElt L. E. MUUFOKD - Ma'aoixo EdiToi: ASSISTANT ElUTOIt Eihtoiuai. LlTKICAItV jOCAL Local Al.UM.VI KXCHANOK ATHLKTH? Business Masaoku AsMSTAXT Notice. All subscribers who have not paid their subscription will do the business mana gers a irreat favor if they will settle at once. It is now near the close of the school year and all subscriptions be. paid. Do not think i hat Orator Koper won his hist laurels when lie won the state contest. 'Remember that next May lie takes part in the inier-stoile contest. It seems that our representatives in the Kansas-Nebraska d4mle are about lo aree to disagree. To choose sides of t he ueHtiori and order of speakers w the difficulty. It is to be Imped that a rea sonable compromise will be effected and all differences conciliated. The univer sity should have its strongest represents lives in the Kansas eon test. "Resigna tions'" are out of order. The senate has at lat concurred in tli house bill appropriating 0,000 for the niechauics art building. Considering tin "times" and the make-up of the legis lature the university may consider itself fortunate. The election of J. D. Denison. as pres ident of the state oratorical association, is a recognition of which Mr. Denison is deserving. It is also fortunate for Ne braska collegiate oratory. If any one can revive interest in oratory and give vitality to the state associarion it is .T. i). Denison. The Union and Palladian boys delat ing clubs are this year boiling several joint debates with different iieiflihoring colleges. The holding of ths" foreii-ie contests is to be encouraged. Intercol legiate debates not only create a s;iintf college rivalry but also riv us an pj r tunity to compare our forensic staii'lurl with the standard of others. The remaiks of Scnitor (rondriug U-t week, when the senate was in a conrnit tee of the whole considering the univer sity appropriation bill, were quite out of place. Not only were the charges inauV against Chancellor MacLean without foundation, but the senate wn consider ing a university appropriation not one for the Chancellor. It would be difficult to explain the cause for the senator course. Miss Minnie Dodds of Aurora, is v iting Miss Ella Leonard this week. The line of men's furnishings ill" H''r polshimer& Co. are showing thi '& '" for big value and small price Hirpa anything ever seen in Lincoln before Immense assortments of collars, eiifK shirts, handkerchiefs, suspenders, etc. Men's cotton sweaters Wi each. Men s wool sweaters upward from $1.00 each-