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PERSE MORSE Manacixo Editoii
E. B. PERRY ..... Aimstast
associates:
J. D. DENISON - - Editorial
MARTHA CUAPPELL ..... Lod
F. E EDGERTON - Athlotlc
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L. E, MUMFOltli At.blf.tam
discussing the justification of the resigimtion
Iho Hesperian regrets that the battalion ia to
lose so valuable a man as Mr. Russell, He
has been an active military man, a favorite
with the members of his company, and justly
considered one of the best captains who ever
drilled a company in the University battalion.
The resignation of Mr. Perry as president
of the debating association is commendable
inasmuch as he expects to try for a place in
the preliminaries. Xo student should try to
serve the association as an oflicer and con
testant at the same time. Even though a
debater does not use his ofliee to promote his
interests as a contestant, it is sometimes
difficult to make everything look just right to
one on the out side.
Register for the preliminary debates
Monday is the tost day.
3jast year the Jay Hawkers defeated us on
the gridiron and in debate. It is our turn
this year.
Boom athletics; make the most of college
sports. Hut recollect that they are only the
means to a higher end. Big bodies and hard
muscles are but the physical foundation for
intellectual culture. Do not forget the super
ior end in the fervor of developing the inferior
means to attain it.
On next Monday the organization of the
military department will undergo a radical
change. Two battalions are to be formed with
three companies in each battalion. To many
the change seems to have been made, prima
rily, in order to gi e some of the disappointed
ones an office. But the powers that be have
issued the edict and there 'is but one thing to
do that is "grin S1 bear it." With humili
ty we are to accept the change, hoping that
in the end ii is for the best. Xo radical
change can come without opposition and this
may account for much of the manifest dissatisfaction.
Missouri University has replied favorably
to the proposition to form an inter-state de
bating league with Xebraska. In all proba
bility such a league will be formed. This will
mean six debaters to be chosen instead of
three. This fact should increase the regis
tration one hundred per cent during the next
twenty-four hours.
One of the bad results of the reorganization
of the battalion is the resignation of Captain
Russell. Mr. Russel was assigned to Co. A.
He has been drilling Co. B and desired to con
tinue his relations with B. Rather than ac
cept the change he resigned. Without
The library is disturbed by the habitual
presence of two or three public nuisances.
They regard in no way the regulations of the
place nor the frowns of the workers. Always
whispering or snickering or gawping about
the room or wandering here and there in
search of someone to annoy or talk to; they
are the pest of working students and an ag
gravation well-nigh unbearable. They are
not students, but simply attendants. If con
duct be any criterion, they are simply idlers,
drones that steal the time of the workers.
Hasn't this University honest opinion suffi
cient to frown these people down? Will we
always go on suffering this abuse without pro
testing? We know they appear well, but
should appearance preclude decency? In
some universities these people would be sent
home as a warning to their imitators and an
act of justice to those with whom they interfere.