THE ; HESPERIAN
THE HESPERIAN
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II .1. TIIKOHAI.II .... Athletlo
Life does not consist of protenso.s.
Tim base hall score-card ami the athletic
reprint arc indulging themselves in a some;
what unpleasant combat of words. May the
best thing win.
"The rag," says the oilioial organ of a
certain Greek letter society, "is the only
paper which- makes any preto.ii.sas to furnish
no.ws ," anditgocs to press with two columns
on a practice game of base ball and a ten
lino local on an inter-stato debate.
The Mibsouiu- Nebraska Debate. Our
second detachment of debaters consisting of
Ilawxby, Kindler and Taylor will start for
Columbia early next week and as this is con
sidered by many our strongest team wo ex
pect them to return crowned with the laurel
of victory. The question for debate is the
annexation of Hawaii and Nebraska takes
the negative. Hawxby will open and close the
debate; Kindler will speak second and Tay
lor third. Tho base ball boys expect to bo in
Columbia at tho same time, so our men will
not lack for rooters.
Our Men's $8 Welt Slwes have tlie Style and
War is at hand. After a peace of thirty
three years, the American people find them
selves in a position where they must tight.
"War is terrible; war is hell; but it is a neces
sitv. .Not only is it necessarv, but it is
natural. It is but the working out of the old
lny of nature that the fittest shall survive.
Before the advent of man, each age had its
dominating type of animal. Since man, each
ago has had its dominating race of men.
"While the struggle has been to some extent
inter-racial, yet it has been in behalf of tho
great principles which the dillerent races rep
resent. AVe light for western ideas, liberty
and humanity; Spain fights for eastern
tyranny and oppression. We light for the
principle that all men are free and equal;
Spain for tho old and absurd formula of the
divine right of kings.
Many of our boys have enlisted -already,
and many more are intending to do so. In
class-room, and especially in the regiment is
their absence noticed. A feeling of suppressed
expectation is prevalent everywhere. The
I'niversity is proud of her sons, but it is
with aching heart and faltering voice that she
bids them (Jod-speed. She knows that not
all will come back again. And of those who
do return, the empty sleeve, tho sightless eye,
the wooden leg, will tull a sterner story than
words.
The American college boy is nothing if not
patriotic. His is the great, boundless, en
thusiastic patriotism of youth and he counts
his life as nothing, if, by yielding it up, ho
may advance the interests of his country.
But is there a special need for the college boy
to enlist at this juncture? Does ho show
lack of patriotism if ho does not enlist? Per
haps there are but few who would answer in
tho affirmative. Patriotism is not found sole
ly in time of war. Tho greatest duty of the
American youth to his country is to educate
himself so that ho can deal intelligently with
tho internal problems of the nation. Failure
to enlist at this time does not. show a lack of
patriotism in tho college man. Neither does
it imply that ho is a coward. Ho is not
especially needed in tho field. Thousands of
Americans who are not in school aro eager to
go. Then why should a college man ruin his
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