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IBKlSES THK NEBRASKAN-HESPERIAN. 1 THE f 1EBHASKAN A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Insueil Evory Tueitlny Noon by tho Uatvor slty Publishing Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. M. I. Stiwart, H. M. Garrutt, Mauapcrs. Tho Ncbraskan-Hesperlan will bo sent to any address upon rccolpt of tho subscription prlco, which Is ono dollar a year. Contributions arc solicited from all. News Items such as locals, personals, reports of meetings, etc., arc especially desired. The Ncbraskan-Hespcr an will bo Rlad to print any contribution relative to a general univorslty subject, but tho namo must accompany all such. Address all communications to the University Publishing Co., Box 219, Lincoln, Nebraska. Never has tho necessity for more room been so strongly demonstrated to the university authorities as during the past week. All day long there has been a continual hunt for class room. From morning until night the executive office staff was busy directing even the oldest students to all conceivable parts of the grounds, hunting classes that had been compelled to take whatever space was available. It is hoped by all that this state of affairs will not last f6r many years longer. The outlook for a successful season on the gridiron has Improved a hun dred per cent, during the past week. Old men are returning and new ones are coming out in large numbers. The high school representation this year is larger than usual, and considerable material comes from that source. The coach is proving highly satisfactory in his work, which in itself is enough to insure a team of worth. It is safe to say that by the time of tho first game of the season the scarlet and cream will be in the front rank as usual. The success that the combination of the two papers has made is clearly shown by the largo number qt congrat ulations that the editors have received within the past week. Persons, both in and out of the institution, have com mented upon the fact, and in no case has a word of dissent been heard. No better proof than this can be given to the fact that the university is passing out of its childhood and is beginning to desire that the high rank fixed in other lines be upheld in its college journalism as well. Tho Kiote greeted the ireshmen last week and brought from them the usual amount of comment pro and con as to the merits that it has in and of itself. Compared to past numbers, it is not bad, while some of the pieces are slightly above the average. In volume, a decided decrease is noticeable in the yelps. "Whether thiB is done under the impression that it is following public taste, or whether the author was suffer ing from a certain amount of indis position, is hard to say. However, the variety of subjects is sufficiently great to make up for all other deficiencies, the range touching, on the one hand, the celebrated cornstalk poet of Ne braska and on the other the French martyr, coupled in a very suggestive manner with one of the martyrs of our own state. The result is liable to brir.g forth comment similar to some that was noticed in various exchanges last year. In spite of the street fair, with its manifold counter attractions, the uni versity has succeeded in making one of tho best starts in its history. Tho chief attractions, camols, foreigners and tho goodygoody man, arc only capable of drawing a passing Interest. Nearly all havo finished their vacation and now prefer that tho year's work should be gin in earnest. Any alarm that may have been folt earlier In tho season that tho foot ball games on tho campus would not be as numerous or as good as in former years now seems to have been obllvlated. Manager Collett has taken tho matter In hand and already is in communica tion with Drake university, Des Moines, nnd Knox college, Galesburg. It Is thought that ono of these at least will be scheduled, as well as a game for Thanksgiving day. Tho work that has been done by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. In tho past two weeks has been an eye-opener for many. At every turn during the week of registration some member of ono of these societies was there to give any information nec essary to make the work of tho new student easy. Rooms had been listed with the bureau of information sup ported by the society, and any student coming In for tiro first time could be told the location of a room, with a de scription of the same, together with the price that it would cost per month. If the student were needy, he was offered work wherever it could be pro vided. Information about arranging courses of study was freely given. In fact, all of the difficulties were met well and thoroughly and in a manner to satisfy the desires of all. Several times since the opening of the academic year, the editors of the Nebraskan-Hesperian have listened to complaints from students to the effect that the bleachers on the west side of the grounds had been torn down with out cause during the summer months. The impression held by these people is not correct. It is true that the bleach ers are doun, but it is for the reason that the board of regents so ordered. An investigation of their condition by a committee at one of the meetings during the summer disclosed the fact that they were unsafe and it was deemed wise to have new ones erected at the opening of the foot ball season. Other improvements will also be neces sary before the field is in proper con dition. A movement is on foot among the members of the athletic board to have a high board fence built across the south side of the field, and another across the gap between the buildings on the east side. It is estimated that a fence of this kind would pay for itself at the first game. The idea is a most commendable one and should receive the hearty support of all interested in the welfare of the different teams. Several papers from the educational institutions of Iowa are devoting a great deal of space editorially in an at tempt to keep professionalism out of the foot ball league of that state. Drake university is the offender in this case, and Is replying to all accusations with a vigorous protest. For some years, in fact, ever since Drake university began to figure in the athletics of the west, there hae been whispers among the other institutions to the effect that all was not right at the Iowa metropolis. Little seems to have been accomplished in putting a stop to the practice, and in a few short years the ability of Drake athletes has become much greater, until some of the schools, fighting for pure athletics, deemed it necessary to look into this unusual progress. Hence, the result. If the charges now brought against the Drake university athlete are true, all students working for the bottcrmont of college contests wu agree that but one course remains to uo followed. And It is safo to say that this will bo done. From their western position, tho students of tho Univorslty of Nebraska arc watching tho outcome of this troublo closely, realizing, as they do .that a wrong' decision at this tlmo will mean infinite troublo In tho future, besides casting a blot upon tho name of ono of tho institutions that will never bo erased. SECRETS OF SUCCESS. The appearance in one of tho Septem ber magazines of another symposium on "The Secret of Success" may bo re garded as one more sign of tho fascina tion which this subiect has for am bitious young America. It is in re sponse to a genuine demand that simi lar articles have appeared in print in this country at Intervals for many years, nnd tho Interest in the theme seems In nowiso abated. The young American more than the young man of any other country is filled from the start with the purpose not merely to do well, but to do so well as to win dis tinction. Any advice as to how that end Is to be attained is absorbed with eager Interest, even though the burden of tho counsel, as in the case of the sym posium in Penrson's magazine, which is written by several merchant princes and brilliant professional men, is the same. Men whose callings are so un like as those of Dr. Parkhurst. Gen eral Miles. Adm'ral Sampson, E. L. Godkin and Dr. George F. Shrady, to say nothing of several millionaires, are practically unanimous in reiterating that hard work is at the bottom of all true success. The advice, of course, is as true as it Is trite. There can bo no doubt that unremitting, patient work, with a steady fire of enthusiasm behind It, Is the first requirement. But even en ergy in work may be expended in wrong directions, and It would be more practicable at the present time if some of those who discourse upon the secret of success would tell of the Incidental factors by which work may be secured or best applied. Men whose future lies In the direction of business or affairs may get along with work alone, but they will get along much faster with the help of other things. Granting that the ambit'ous young man is no sluggard, the things which will help him materially are tact, a good address, readiness, courage or the quality known as "nerve." a measure of self-confidence, a knowledge of men, and the ex ecutive faculty, which consists in knowing how to accompl'sh the maxi mum of result with the least waste of energy. If the young man who is after success will accept the symposium writers advice regarding work, and then set himself to the cultivation of these traits, his chances of nearing his goal at 40 will be far greater than if he depends upon plodding Industry alone. Such traits are properly Incidental, but they are so many keys to oppor tunity. Given two young men of equal industry and abuity, let both apply for the same mission or promotion, and the one who has the best address or, in current slang, "who puts up the best front" will get the more favorable hearing every time. Chicago Record. 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