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THE HESPERIAN THE HESPERIAN Issued Weekly by hie Hesperian. Association of tflite Univctrfeity of Nebraska. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, per coMege year, ito advance $1.00 Onse copy, one semester ,. 60 Advcit'LginJg' Rales oa Application. Alumni nmd Ex-Stud ernts. SpcoM crideiavor "will be made lo make the Hesperian finUctresting to fomor studonlts. Please send us your subsoniptiions. CortbrdbutionB ttonkfully ircooLved. Subsariptiions on our books will be continued umtil ordlercd stopped. AddDOss all commun'icalbionb to The Hesperian, UniversiltJy of Ne braska, Lincoln, Nebraska. (Entered In the Postoffice at Lincoln as second clas mnWtar. BOARD OF EDITORS. F. E. Bdgerton Managing Editor J. J. Plibwfheiad Alsstolantt ASSOCIATES. R. C. Roper Editorial F. G. Hawxby News Bertha Johnston News Frank Miller News G. W. Kline Literary W. H. O'Ckxnlnel Debates. Sam B. Sloan Fra-tersiitfies The raovomont on foot to send n Christmas box to the First Nebraska regiment at Manila is a matter of interest to all stud ents and faculty. Tho boys at Manila are not likely to enjoy a Xmas on tho prairies of Nebraska for some time. Nothing will cheer so much and nothing will remove so easily tho blue feelings they may have, as a box of plenty from thoir homes and their Alma JMater. Wo seo the pennant. Tho wind is blowing it Nebraska ward. The Nebraska foot-ball team has won such a victory over tho tigers that it is only necessary to defeat Iowa to in sure again to tho University of Nebraska tho pennant for '98. But this will uot satisfy. Kansas with her Jay Hawkers (and Wiley Woodruff) aro anxiously waiting. Lot them wait. Their victors aro waiting. persuasion. Tho season of training for those 'indoor' contests has begun. It is time to register and enlist for hard service Tho best, bravest, brawniest intellectual material in tho Uni versity is wanted. Missouri must bo defeated. Colorado must be sileuced and Kansas really has to bo squelched. There is a great undertaking, then, for tho students interested in public speaking. Old debaters, gray haired debaters, new debaters, fieshman debaters, any and every kind of debaters aro wanted. Al' interested should register early for tho pre liminary debates. The Inter-Siate Oratorical Contest meets hero in May. All interested in oratory and the success of the contest should pro pare to enter tho local contest. The University needs more than over a strong man or woman to represent it in the contest between the ton stateB roprosontod in tho Intor-Stato Associa tion. It will bo an honor this year to represent tho University creditably in this contest. The chances of victory aro greater by reason of tho meeting being in Lincoln. Tho representa tives of Nebraska will receive tho best support of any of the ten contestants. Our representatives will not have to enter the enemy's country to combat. Tho fight will bo at homo. If wo put up a strong contestant, wo may count on a high place in the list. Let us go after first place with a determina tion to win. Tho University has a winning foot-ball team this year and while it is winning games and giving Nebraska a name in foot ball circles, it should win a heartier support from tho student body. The game tomorrow will bo a very costly one and will be tho very beat game played on tho homo grounds. Grinnoll is playing winning ball this year. Loyalty to the University will bring out a good crowd to see tho gamo. Wo are in tho midst of tho athletic season, and while en thused over tho success of tho team, as all students should be, it is wise to prepare for tho future. Thoro is another field in which victories must be won victories which will add aB much credit and glory to tho institution to which wo belong as those which como from tho matchless oloven. It is tho field of de bates and oratory. Tho inter-collegiate debates and contests in oratory, and tho intor-stato contest and intor-stato debates all otfor opportunities for splendid successes in argument and THERE ARE NO BETTER SHOES FOR MEN Mrs. Ola Hanson, who has spent seven years as a mission ary among tho Kechin tribe in Burmah, has registered for work in the University. Mrs. Hanson has just complotod a r trin nrnnnrl fclin world, nnd ronnntlv nrirlrnnnnd nrnthnrinnrR in Mr San Francisco, Omaha and Minneapolis. She will teach a class in mission study, which will meet every Thursday at 5 o'clock. Oo-Mah-ha, La-wa-tha, is the story of Omaha City by Mrs. Fanny Reed Giffen. The book is illustrated by Mrs. Suaette La Flesche Tibbies (Bright Eyes) and was tho Souvenir pro sented to President McKinloy and party during the recent visit to tho Omaha Exposition. For sale at Horpolshoimer & Co'a Book Department, 19c each. Professor Kimball is pushing tho project of securing tho exposition organ for tho University. This organ is valued at $7,000 and Mr. Kimball oayo that if tho students and alumni will raise $2,500, tho University may have tho organ. It will stand as a fitting memorial of tho lovb borne by tho students for their Alma Mater. Tho Burkott Male Quartette, which made its initial appoar anco at tho Oliver thoatro last Saturday evening in honor of Assistant Secretary of War Moiklojohn and Judge Hayward, wont to Hickman last night, and sang for a republican rally at that place. - Mr. William Armstrong, musical critic for the Chicago Tribune, will deliver a lecture on some musical topic some time in November. Mr. Armstrong ranks high among musi cal critics and his locturo will bo woll worth hearing. Mrs. Fannio Bloomfiold Zeisler of Chicago, America's most, accomplished lady pianist, will give a recital under tho antf picos of the University School of Music on December 8, at tho Oliver thoatro. THAN REGENTS' $8.50. 1080 0 STREET. 4 (V