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THE : HESPERIAN
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Lincoln, Neb., Monday evening February
fourteenth, and Tuesday, February fifteenth,
1898. Monday Feb. 14th, Meeting of the
Boa I'd of Regents at 4 o'clock. Chart i uay
eve: Lecture to tho Society of Electrical En
gineers by Isham Randolph on "The Chicago
Drainage Canal," University Chapel, 7:30;
Reception by the Society of Electrical Engi
neers, at Grant Memorial Hall, 8:30 to 10
o'clock. Charter day morning, Tuesday,
Feb. 15th: Phi Beta Kappa initiation and grade of one's college course.
student here who is waiting tables for his
board; ho gets up at 4 o'clock in tho morning
and carries a paper route. Not only is this
oung man not able to afford a furnished
room, but he sleeps in an office without even
so much as a spring cot to sleep on. There
are many others who are doing about tho
same thing, and these men stand at the head
of their classes. Tho Hespeulvx believes that
such conditions as these should be taken into
consideration in making up the final rank or
President's address, by Dean Sherman, School
of Music, at 9:30, for the society and invited
guests. Afternoon: All departments of the
University open to tho public from 2 to 6.
Cars leave O & 12th streets for the University
farm and the Dairy School; Review of Cadet
Regiment; Inspection by the Governor and
Staff; Presentation of Medals, University cam
pus, 2 o'clock; Meeting of the American As
sociation for the advancement of Physical
Education, 2 o'clock; Gymnasium Exhibition,
Armory, 5 to 6 o'clock (admission by ticket.)
Evening; Oliver Theatre, S o'clock: music;
prayer; song by the University Glee Club;
Charter Day Oration by A. S. Draper, LL. D.,
President of the University of Illinois: hymn,
America.
Committee of Arrangements: Edwin H. Bar
bour, chairman; August II. Edgren, .Howard
W. Caldwell, secretary.
Student Oommeut.
"jo" Johnson's letter.
.Mr. J. W. Johnson in his letter to the
Associated Press of the state last week paid a irof. Ansley was unable to meet his clasHes
very high tribute to the University, and to tho Monday because of ill health.
Or. Pet.mMonM Leeturp.
The Friday morning chapel lecture on
Henrik Ibsen was well attended by the stu
dents. Unfortunately the Doctor did not
speak loud enough to be heard distinctly in
all parts of tho chapel; but to those who were
able to hear, the lecture was of more than
passing interest. It was really a discussion
of realism the literary realism of which Ibsen
is the high-priest, the realism which is not
afraid to throw off the mask of sham and cant
that conceal human institutions and human
actions and exposes them to the eternal light
of truth. The realist sees the rottenness and
deceit in humanity and he struggles to reform
it. He pictures life as it is; ho does not dis
criminate between the vice of the prince and
that of the peasant. All men are of the same
clay to him. Shallow-brained society is
shocked at his cold-blooded bluntness; it re
sents this exposure of its secret sins; and it
issues an edict against his works. Ibsen's
genius has won for him both fame and wealth.
character of its students. He spoke of "the
young man from Curtis" as coming from the
western frontier and working his way through
tho University. Everybody here at tho Uni
versity knows Mr. Baker. Wo all know that
the compliment given him by Mr. Johnson is
none to strong. He also spoke of a "young
The Bean brothers spent Sunday with their
parents at Omaha.
The P. B. D. C.-D. B. D. C. debate will
occur Saturday evening Feb. 19.
Jim Burks has now full control of the im
plement store at Beatrice formerly operated
man from Clav Center. ' ' There are four young b' h,s nuher-
men from Clay Center: Messrs. Hugh and W. T. Home an advanced student in Bot-
Claud Campbell, Cruickshank and Hager; and any has secured the position of instructor in
what is true of one of them, in this respect, Botany in "Wesleyan University,
might bo justly said of all. Wo do not fully Tho Palladian girls will give a valentine
appreciate the amount of self sacrifice that party at tho home of Miss Jeffery next Mon-
some of our students are making. There is a day evening.
Come in and see our New Spring Style Soot Form Store