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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1897)
THE : HESPERIAN : $ eeive that either literary soeioties or frntenii- our colleges and Universities to affairs of stale ties stand for a principle. The average new and church. Religious conferences and peri student is inclined to treat the question as to odicals denounce the college fraternity as not wjiuuicr nis win umuate wnn a society or a fraternity, as a trilling matter, and too often is content to allow the con se of events to determine the answer. The student who does this makes a mistake. New Student, the question whether your lot is to he cast with a society or a fraternity is not a trilling one. Lt is not something which will work out its own solution as a matter of course. Upon your determination of this will depend your associates for four years, as well as the character of your college life. Your deeision in this may In potent in d-v-iding your future. The matter deserves conscien tious consideration. Duty impells the ITi-him-iimax to trill the attention of new students to the difference in what the societies stand for, from what the fraternities stand for. The literary societies stand for student equality; for the largest oncar politico, bat if thovara to h n hnnifwumf. social growth and the highest literary (level- power in affairs of state, they would do well ' opment; in short for "the greatest good to the to rid and deliver themselves of the fraternity greatest number." On the other hand the spirit before they attempt to promote the pub fraternities pride thems"lves on their oxclus- lie welfare." iveness. Their acknowledged aim is to pro- The Uksi-kuian does not wish to say what mote the interests of iltljr few. In the astudent should do in this matter. That is university the sphere of the fraternities seem for the individual student to say. However to be small, for they makeabHolutsly no effort the IEimpkuian does not hesitate to say that to win college honors. They do not enter every student, to whom life means somothiug literary or forensic contests. Their whole serious, whether imbued with ambition or energy is devoted to cotillions, promenades altruism, will fin 1 that the opjn literary so und football. cioty can do for him what no other organiza Clearly, whether astudent should join a t ion can. only opposed to purity in politic but as dan"- erous to our political freedom. The Advance, a leading Congregational organ, says in a recent issue, under the caption, "Why Cor rupt?:" "Taki the political boss, the man who believes in nmehino methods more than merit; if he is a college trailed mv.i and waj a member of a 'frnfc,' he left tin halls of learn ing and oimud the threshold of politic imbued with tin idea of combination and organization for the purpose of promoting the interests of a sjljct few. That lu should develop this idea into largo and alarming pro portions only m ans that mustard seeds grow. AVc shall not iinisl on tin immediate connec tion of the two, but the machine method was never before so rank as it now is right along with the multiplication of college graduates. I here is a loud call for these college men to society or fraternity will depend along what line he desires to develope. If the student wishes to fit himself to meet people in all walks of life, to improve as a public speaker and writer; in a word, if he w.ri's to make the most of himself, to p.v;.uvJo.' th largest fluid of usefulness, he will find a congenial atmosphere in the open literary sooioty. The student who desires to bo a "fop" or society "butterfly" will not find an agreeable hnnu in a society hall. Never has there been such an awakening to the serious effect of college fraternity in fluence as in the past year. Hossisin and cor- j. V. Patch spent vacation travelling with a magniseopo. Messrs. Matson and 'Uumlll assisted him. Mr. JIartigan of Hastings will not bo in school this year. He is working for an insur suranco company in Chicago. .Jim JJurks has boon buying up old wagons this summer to speculate on during corn husk ing time. Jim will not bo in school but takes charge of his father's implement store at Heatrice. ruplion have bc'on traced from influence.' in" in hair cuts. AVestorllold has not moved. Ho is still-a't 117 N 13th St. and is giving the latest style
