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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.
