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THE HESPERIAN
THE HESPERIAN
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BOARD OF EDITORS: . ,.
F. E. Ldgerton Managing Editor
J. J. Plowheaw Assistant
ASSOCIATES: ,.
It. C. Roper Editorial
I' G. Hawxby News
Bertha Johnston News
Frank Miller News
G. W. Kline Literary
W. H. O'Conncl Debates
Sam 13. Sloan Fraternities
Leo Berry Athletics
A criminal forgery or a criminal dupe, which is it?
women and negroes be excluded from contesting on thesfyp
debates. What a request to come from an institution of civil
ization and progross: Women and negroes! Wo wonder in
our reflections whether they really were in earnest or not. We
wonder if they really assumed that wo wore deteriorating in
our ideals to the ideals of the Middle Ages. We wonder, too,
if the secretary of that association believed that here in our
University wo denied to sex or race equal rights. Wo will say
to them in reply that wo have some women who can debate,
and that, perhaps, the Missouri debaters may have a chance to
to realize this next spring.
The new pipe organ is now safely deposited in the Armory.
We hope the legislature will realize our needs and build us a
chapel about it that wo may enjoy its melodious strains.
Can wo believe that the Nobraskan expects reasonable peo
ple to believe what appears in its columns if it makes no at
tempt to substantiate what it prints, when it is charged with
bold forgery and lying?
The growth of the Preparatory School to the University
under the management of Mr. Wallace has boon viewed with
pleasure by the friends of the University. All preparatory
studies have not yet been eliminated from the University itself,
but all hope that such a condition will soon be at hand. The
University should be, and is, the place where the higher
branches of study aro taught. If, nowevor, a student comes
to the Uuivorsity who is deficient in a single study ho can very
conveniently make that up in the Preparatory School. More
than that, the Preparatory School becomes the feeder of the Uni
versity. Some thirty students from this school expect to enter the
University this semester. The instructors in the Preparatory
School aro recommended by the heads of the departments at the
University, and aro as capable men as the University puts forth.
Since their connection with this school, A. L. Keith has be
como principal of the high school at Nebraska City, J. J. Foss
ler, principal of the high school at Clarinda, Iowa, A. R.
Congdon, instructor in the Lincoln High School.
The training for spring athletes has bogun. Many anxious
competitors for places and positions are showing up. The
candidates on the base ball team aro many and skilled. This
year's team promises a good showing the coming season.
The improvement in the Library made by the partitioning
off of a small space for a girls' luncheon room ought to be
greatly appreciated. Wo can now take a seat in a recitition
room without discovering in the middle of a recitation that we
have come in contact with a chemical mixturo of crumbs and
molasses.
The oratorical outlook is still booming. Nearly twenty
candidates aro already preparing for the local contest. This
yoar the prospects indicate- a more general interest on the part
of all organizations in the contest, and interest is tho very
thine; wo want. Tho Hesperian hopes to soo a contest full of
rivalry ani one whoso decision will give tho University a
worthy representative. 'It is to bo hoped that tho cry of un
fair judgment will not bo raised ovor tho conclusion of this
local contest. The Hesperian wants to see Nebraska head
the list of states in tho inter-state contest.
Tns debating association of Missouri State University has
sent a modest request to our local association to the effect that
If the Nobraskan believes, as it pretends to in a meek way,
that it has something genuine in tho shape of a signed letter,
lot it offer just alittlo proof. Why not bo willing to allow tho
letter to appear in tho open daylight and undergo a little test
ing scrutiny? Why does it cowardly secrete the alleged man
uscript? Why not allow a careful examination of it by some
export in testing forgeries? Why do tho editors refuse to show
the note which they claim accompanied the letter, and to which
they did not see fit to publish a name? Why do they skulk
behind an imaginary barrier which they have seen fit to throw
up, and then in a half-hoartod way cry out, uWo have tho
proof to back us up?" Lot us see some of tho proof. Those
who aro affected by the dastardly, contemptible crime aro not
afraid to see a little light thrown on tho subject. Take it out
from under tho bushel and lot it bo examined. Tho parties
libeled challenge tho editors to submit tho foolish fabrication
to a competent export, and abide tho results. They will go
further. They will furnish tho editors of tho Nobraskan a dozen
or more sjgna.ures of tho alleged author of that letter which
wore made (and they will furnish proof to this also) long before""
tho letter ovor appeared, and a hundred pages of writing of
tho alleged writer of the "P. S." attachment, and with similar
proof of tho antecedent date, and then allow tho Nobraskan
editors to choose any throo of tho most similar signatures to the
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