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8 THE HESPERIAN ft J ft vh ! m 1 I 1 The Hesperian Issued Weekly by the Hesperian Association of the University of Nebraska. riiRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy, per colleKC year (in advance; One copy, one semester ...... AnvEtiTisiNo Rates on Application. 11.00 .00 ALUMNI AND EX-STUDENTS. Special endeavor will be made to make The Hesperian Inter esting to former students. Please send us your subscriptions. jy Subscriptions oa our books will be continued until or dered stopped. Address nil communications to The Hesperian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. BOARD OF EDITORS. Perse Morso K. U. Perry... ASSOCIATES S. J. Corey J. A. Sargent Harriet Packard L. Idilla JclTery Eva O'Sulllvnn Martha Gimp pell Itobert Andrcson J. II. Saycr L. K. Mumfonl Managing Editor Assistant Editor Editorial Literary Local Local Alumni Exchange Athletic Business Manager Assistant Barbarians point with pride to the number of Phi Beta Kappas elected from among their number. Oh, how thorny is the path of the man who con sumes his life in seeking a place of ease. If the "big-headed" studentcould only see himself as others behold him, his landlady would only need to place a pocket mirror on his dresser. Truth is like the butcher's cat You think you have decapitated it, but lo and behold it bobs up the next day, serenely holding its head in its mouth. The university summer school is to be a perma nent thing. It also in the future, promises to be of more importance. For the first time the legislature has made an appropriation to maintain it. More instructors will be added to the facnlty and more courses offered . By next summer regular university work will be ottered and f till university credit will be given. The last days of the university year promise to be as interesting as usual. But the days just preceding the lasl promise to be dull and monotonous The boys go to camp after examinations are over, on the 3rd, 4th and 5lh of June. Every student who does not have to stay is going home before the 3rd There will be almost an entire week before commence, meut when university life aud spirit will bo practic al ry dead. The success of the Lincoln Beatrice high school series of debates should bj an incentive to every high school in tho state Inter collegiate and inter high school forensic contests are gradually supple menting, if not supplanting athletic contests This is as it should be. The first object of an institution of learning should bo intellectual, There is mi m sou why there should not be just as much school rivalry and enthusiasm over a forensic contest as over an athletic contest. Tho Lincoln-Beatrice series proves thero is.and tho success in this instance should be sufficient to incite every high school in the state to make arrangements for inter hih scho,.i debates tho coming school year. Wo can be justly proud of our base ball team this year. Although wo lost a majority of the games ou the trip east, yet our boys played line ball and bill dowu the score with some of the best college teams in tho land. We havo been afraid to undertake any thing of such consequence as an extended trip lure toforo, but the success this year will warrant the undertaking of a strong date season next year. All, from the stately "Prof" to the jaded bwk worm were constrained to hold their sales for fear of a mirth broken blood vessel on Monday evening The caprice of a few hundred night go a nod cadet isuotan every day spectacle. It sn-nied that all the fun for a whole school year had bei-n carefully bottled aud then uncorked for this spe.-id occasion 'Ridiculous!" gasped the prude. Hi fu-ulnis? Ye?. but what pray you, would this old woil I be without the ridiculous? A joker without a joki This year will graduate tho largest class that the university has yet bceu alma mater to. Not only the class of 'u7 the largest but judging fn.ui uppear ances we predict for its members ub.ight liti""--Never before have such a proportion t the suumr class plauned for a life in some specialty, lhciv seems to be m re definite ohoojtng o: a life work than before. A great number intend i specialist' in some brunch of college wo. k, and nuke msiriw tors of themselv. s ' Tuis is tlie ago of tin specialist. The choice of such a profession is a i-miuueuilable one. Tlie face of tho senior is rather serinn now tint commencement week d.aws near, liisascii matter this being a seuior. Tiling- go very smoothly while our college work hums incrrilj along, but when one comes to the 'jumping" place," it is quite different. All of the warm a"1 mating associations of a college life behind aud not i ingbut a cold, "dig for-yourselt" world Illfl'"11 The consolation of an A. B. or even a I'm lkU Kappa, is anything but satisfying when one set nothing ahead save a com cultivator or book ugee) But then there is the other side. It is i',,WuB'"J suppose, to know that one 1ms attained tnai P"1'" in life which subsequent kuee-pauts or aprons would be nice to atuiiu a broader view of tl,(' "' if it were not that tho sense one hail of oeuiipyii'h' few in iguiliccnt, square inches in it did net co so forcibly home. This is the last issue of tlie Ukumskias for school year. The J1e41ekia.S believes that it "