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THE : HESPERIAN
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The spring is come; the 81111111101 will soon
be here. The voice of the book ngo.nl is heard
in the land; the sound on the benches is low.
The small boy playcth hooky and the large
boy breakelh his fingers at baseball. Behold
the farmer goeth forth to sow and the yellow
head blackbird plueketh up the young corn
by the roots. The palent-inedicine man ob
scures the landscape with his signs, anid the
politician repairs hio warped fences. The poet
singeth and the editor winnows his verses in
the gale. The summer girl surveys the long
row of shirt-waists suspended in the close!
and sighs for the summer days; the summer
boy seeketh the tailor and his prices. The
March wind howleth in the morning and the
commandant in the eveu; .g. The face of the
of the Prof, smileth us he heapeth on the
labor and the sound of the "grinding" is low.
Yea, the spring cometh. Let her come.
It is a surprise to most people that the rich
man's sou is rarely successful in life. Pos
sessed of wealth, friends and talents, he begins
life with bright prospects. That the poor
man'sson should overtake and pass him seems
improbable. But he has done it again and
again and will continue to do so. The reason
for the lack of progress in the rich man's son
is plain if you look at it carefully. He doesn't
have a fair chance. Everything conspires
against him. Too many fair lassies "set their
caps" for him; too many jovial companions
want to enjoy his hospitality. His table is
covered with invitations to dancing parties,
card parties and theatre parties, until if he
will consent, his entire time will be taken up
with vain pleasures. No wonder he can't
succeed in anything. As a rule when he suc
ceeds he does so not because he is a rich man's
son but iu spite of it.
C.omimiiii?sitc(l.
Editor Hbsveulan: There seems to exist
in the University a more or less wide spread
misunderstanding of the aims and the work
of the English Club. A word-unfortunately
too long unspoken-will right this misunder
standing. The English Club is not a general
literary society. It is a department club, as
its name indicates, bearing much the same
relation to the department of English that the
Political Economy Club bears to the depart
ment of Political Science, or tliat the Sem.
Bot. bears to the department of Botany. The
English Club is composed of members of the
faculty connected with the department of
English and of students who make a specialty
of English or who show especial aptitude and
inclination for the work. The Club is de
signed to be a center for informal discussion
of books and authors and a help in original
work through mutual criticism. Membership
to the club is determined by election, after
the manner of similar organizations. The
number of active members at any one time
is limited and it is required that all so-called
'regular' students shall have completed their
freshman year to be eligible. There arc no
other limitations to eligibility, though a cer
tain mastery of English and interest in the
work of the Club are tacit conditions.
The English Club has never pretended to
be an organization of 'the writers' of the Uni
versity. It is not a writers' but a students'
club. What it does aim to be is an organiza
tion of the most advanced students of literarj'
interpretation.
A word more as to the Kiote concerning
which, also, there has been some misunder
standing. Nearly ever great university in
the country publishes a literary monthly.
The object of these journals is to encourage
cultivation of our mother-tongue, too much
neglected by college students. There is no
reason wiry the University of Nebraska should
not issue as good a magazine as any in the
country. It is to supply the lack of such a
magazine that the English Club, probably the
only organization in the University adapted
to carrying the project through, undertakes
the publication of the Kiote. The Kiote is
not at all intended to be an English Club
magazine, but the literarj' journal of the
University of Nebraska. Contributions are
expected from the whole University student,
alumnus, or faculty member. That two of
the three editors of the Kiote belong to the
facult' is sufficient warrant of impartial judg
ments While the English Club undertakes this
venture for the University, it expects in re
turn the same sort of support tliat is rendered
to oratory, debates and athletics support
given for our name's sake and for the further
ance of life-activity in the University.