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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1898)
7V: 12 THE: HESPERIAN BIXBY'S RETREAT. When? Is there any hope? An echo has virtues! Wisdom displays itself only in discrete sileuee. Literature is congealed sileuee. A WAIL FROM THE SEMINAR. I have wandered, in the winter When the rabit tracks were new, 1 ill my feet were dea I as lumber And my ears were "sleeping" loo, 1 have battled with the blizzard As he scampered o'er the plains Till I've felt my body needled With ihose sharp mysterious paius, Hut no c nigh ere fell upon me And no symptoms of catarrh, Such as seize unwary students In our frozen semiuar. A VOICE FltOM THE DEAD. All heard His word The while he put red And noiy students rankly slurred. All eyes Devise Cast iron surprise To se him in his wrath arise. And loud applause Attests the justice of his cause. All si'i'nt now, in feai fill dread, Around, below, and overhead. I us"d to think those teachers lied Who say ihe spirits tound us glide Of l hose who long ago have died. OF .SPAIN. She has spilled the bl od of thousands, In the huiigiT-.-tricken glides, Where unconqnered sous of tteedom Lie if. fein. and fevcre I shades. She has j-poiled the hi lpWs planter, Seiz d i he fruithge of hi toil, Mixing murder with the pilhtgo On th it blood besotted -o?l. Foreign fiends, who gloat on bull lights, Captive women hold in thmll, Adding Hell'o unspokiu torture, Till in weleom death they fall. Must Columbia recreant falter, Lnggartf justice ever sleep While the b -nes or slaughtered seamen Call from yon polluted deep? KIIYMK OF THE COFl'EK MAN. EnthtiMaMic G.irringer Sat looking on at Failt, Not dreaming that a "copper man" Was standing by to oust The players played, he raised a shout All oilier snouts to drown ; Then come the burly "copper man" And tutde him sunnier do a n. "THE IMtKACHEItS AT THE SHOW." Up in "Niger Heav'n" I sat Working "Lehrer" yw for you. While I siw the preachers' "frat" Holding down a "cushioned pew" We saw Satin, Faust us conquer Win for him Marg'rite so fail Cause the death of her dear mother Bringing ruin and dcsp.tir. We with Faustus viewed the loarings Of the "dear ones" there who fell Leaving earth with all its craving? For another place in well, While we saw the roaring Cre Raging fiends in iierce combat. What amMst such anguish, ire, Thought you "pica hers" there of that? Grace Lyons spent Sunday with her parents in Fairbury. Ethel Masters is again in school after an illness of several weeks. Oliver Chambers' brother is down from Omaha for a few days. Miss Elsie Schwartz, of Omaha, is visiting her sister, Edith Schwartz. The registrar sent out last Monday all no tices of incompletes, conditions and failures in the work of the first semester. Tne batallion has formed a special squad for those students who cannot afford to pur chase uniforms. Chancellor MacLean and certain members of the faculty have been engaged to lecture before the Lincoln high school history classes. Mr. Eppes, the acting librarian, gave a lit tle talk to the students in the reading room Tuesday morning, making a plea for better order and regard for the rules of the library. Manager Bischoff has received a letter from Mr. F. H. Yost of Amo3 W. Va. applying for position as coach next season. Mr. Bischoff has given the letter and reccome'ndations to the athletic board.
