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
