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Now for the Jay Hawkers. The Hesperian is now ready to speak defi nitely with regard to the election in Greater New York: Tammany is a hard tiger to buck. THE : HESPERIAN' braska is too grand an institution to be sacri ficed for parry int .-rests. Even if the politic ians were willing, the people of this common wcnlth would not permit it. The literary genius which will appear here Nov. 22, and the editor of our esteemed con temporary lear the same family name, but right there is where similarity ceasw. Several University people contribute to the Xovemlxr number of the Xorth-Wesiem Monthly. Prof. Sherman writes an article on 'The Interpretation of Literature:" Prof. Caldwell, "Steps Leading to the Revolution;" Mrs. W. G. Taylor. "Municipal Government in France: and Prof. Fling. "The I-aws of Sjarla." University professors are prompted by the same motive, when contributing to the press, as they are when arrying on I'niver sity extension work. In t?i h -as they are doing the brsl w.iieh can dsi Ur those who do not have the ntv.mi:ij' of a education. In another olumn Hesperian readers will notice that James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet, appears in Lincoln under the auspices of the Woman's Club. Nov. 22. James Whitcomb Riley is the greatest living American ioet. No poet since the time of Robert Burns lias been so dear to the common people. The Hoosier Poet's lyric poems are sung wherever the English language is spoken. Mr. Riley's visit to the city will be decidedly the literary event of the year. This will in all probability be the last time Mr. Riley will ever read in Nebraska and no University stu dent should miss this opportunity to hear the peoples poet. illege To say tliat the result of the game with 3fissouri was a surprise is to express only lialf of it. Of course, we rather expected to beat the tigers but we never imagined that we could !eat them by a More of 41-l. However, the 3Iissouri team i not strong this year. The tigers are not only light, but they lack systematic training and skill in team work: their line is weak and their plays lack snap. The game did not so much show our team's strength as it did 31issouris weakness. Hence we are not to hastily corHudc that the pen nant is as good as won. It is not. While Nebraska was running up a score of forty-one against 31issouri, the Jay Hawkers were run ning up a score of fifty-six against Iowa. The enter the Kansas-Nebraska preliminaries and Towra leam ii5 generally conceded to le a make certain the success of that debate. stronger team than Missouri. It is the heav- iest team in the Western league, has several The election of two populist regents divides old men on the team and has been doing hard the board equally as to politics. There is no work under Coach Bull. If our team wins reason why a party triumph should effect the the game with Kansas some lard work must well being of the University. So Jar no regent be done during the next week. The game has dared to serve his party to the detriment with the Jay Hawkers on the fifteenth will be of the University. The University lias joi the decisive league game. Jlissouri and Iowa been ilie victim of partisans. It lias "kept, may both be considered out of the race, so the and has been kept, out of politic." The Nebraska-Kansas game, will in a!l probabil- Hsbperian lias too much faith in the newly ity, decide to which team the pennant will go. elected members to think that a change in the personnel of the board will effect the prosper- Hallowe'en did not interfere with the plans ity of the institution. The University of Ne- of the leliau Boys Debating Club. Instead of having me 'Ax tit - Kansas-Xe-1 braska mutest this yar the oTi i?rri of the local delating association hojcd to make ar rangements with other staKs for similar inter state debates. The secretary of the associa tion has currespoinb-d with Minnesota. Missouri, Iowa and South Dakota but as yet no definite arrangements have been made. Debating interest would certainly justify an other inter-state content. But if it is impos sible to liave more than the one, let everyone
