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8 . Tun, Nedraskan-HeSpkrian w s ?u 1 ON SWEARING. Swearing one of thcMiiost useful ac complishments thd the average man ac quires in his college career. We do not mean that college men have an entire monopoly on the profane vocabulary, as some percocious urchins attain to a fair degree of proficiency in this line, but we claim that they do not swear in a scien tific manner they- do it mechanically, merely to make a noise and not for the purpose of entertaining their friends. But have you not seen a student who could hold his listeners entranced for hours at a time simply by the fetching and spicy manner in which he related the most every-day occurrences? And .yet, take from his conversation all wards be ginning with d and g and you will be surprised to find that all the sparkle has vanished, it is as flat as soda water with the soda left out the same sort of stuff that you and I bore our friends with every day. The art of swearing naturally and gracefully is a pass-port to the good graces of small boys and hotel-waiters. When you have once rent the air with a few jagged oaths, n waiter understands at once that you are F. F. V. arid ever thereafter will obey your most impercepti ble wink. There are also some emotions of the human heart which absolutely refuse to be voiced in honied language. A preacher once told us that when he was dressing in a hurry and his last collar button slipped under the bureau, he found "O My!" a very serviceable expression. Confiden tially, that preacher must have been a man of shallow feelings, and we cannot recommend his prescription to our read ers, for next day when our collar button slurried away behind the bureau, we said "O My!" at least a dozen times, and still felt that more than half of our feelings had been left unexprested. If you can get along without swearing, and are content to be bullied all your life by the people that do, then you have our sincerest sympathy; but if you swear, swear fiercely. Beware of cheap imita tions no matter how high-sounding they may be. Of course, it is amusing to see a first-year man swear and then blush, but don't guy him, he will get over it (the blushing) and Jack Apple's profan ity isn't a marker on what you will hear this now blushing novice disgorge next session. According to a popular magazine writer, there is but one remedy which will effectually prevent men from swear ing; he claims that the North American Indian has never been heard to swear; when he becomes slightly irritated with his neighbor, instead of wasting breath by telling him to go to h (which the neighbor would probably refuse to do) he simply picks up his tomahawk and sends him there. This is an excellent custom and one which the faculty would do well b enforce at the university, it is true that 0ur Special Rates ' ' ' v which we are making to Students still continue., " During this week we will make a big reduc tion to all University Students and Professors. , FRATERNITY GROUPS A SPECIALTY. V, , V Our Work in this line is Unexcelled. Kennedy-Photographer, 132 South Twelfth Street. if such a custom were suddenly insti tuted, not a few scalps of students and prof1 rirobably of some outsiders would be permanently disfigured, but it would result in an unheard-of silence which at night would be broken only by the pianos playing intermittently across the way. Ex. EXCHANGES. Yale has chosen as the subject for the Harvard debate to be held in New Haven on March 30, "Resolved, That Puerto Rico be included within the custom boundaries of the United States." Harvard has the choice of sides. In the Olympian games at the Paris Exposition, Pennsylvania will have rep resentatives in 110 meters hurdle, 100 meters dash, 400, 800 and 1,500 meters run, 400 meters hurdle and a steeple chase of 2,fi00 meters, besides all of the field events. The team sails for Europe June 20, on the S. S. New York. Richard Armstrong, captain of the Yalo crow in '95, has been selected to referee tho Cornell, Columbia, Wiscon sin and .Pennsylvania boat races, at Poughkeepsie, in June. Henry Ives Cobb, uio architect, has nearly completed the plans for the American university near Washing ton.D. C. Thoro will bo twenty-. i'eo massive bu.ings of marble and granlte.on a well elevated campus of ninety-three acres. The University of Chicago is plan ning the erection of a now club house for tho use of tho students. It will bo ilvo stories high and will contain a large banquet and dining hall, which may be used for dancing if desirable. Bowling alloys, billiard tables and other means of amusement are pro vided. The cost is to be $200,000. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR iwvtCH. March id, F., iraliadian Literary So ciety: Inauguration of officers. Close of School of Agriculture. Delian Lit erary Society: Girl's contest program. March 20, T School of Music: Sixth students' recital. March 23, -., Palladian Literary So ciety: Boys' program. 3 CHICAGO FLYERS 3 Iv. Lincoln 1:40 p. in., Ar. Chicago 7:20 a. m., Ar New York 10 n. in . . . . . I,v Lincoln SAO p. in., Ar. Chicago 9:30 a. m , Arrive New York ISO p. ni .. I,envc Lincoln 10:35 p. m., Ar. Chicago 2:15 p. in , Ar New York 8:45 p. m .".!'. ,. Jv Mcoln 5:50 p. m., Ar. Minneapolis 730n. in , St. Paul 8 a. in. . ........ Lv. Lincoln 1:35 p. in., Ar. St. Louis 7:10 a m Lv. Lincoln 0. p. m., Ar. St. l,ou s 2.15 p. m ..'..'....".'.'.','. :v- Lincoln 5:50 p. in., Ar. Teoria 0:.V) u. m., Ar. Iiuliannpolls 2:31 p. i:i v' Lincoln 10:35 p. in., Ar. Peoria 11:11) a. in., Ar. 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AETNA he best $25.00 bicycle on the market. The OLDEST exclusive cycle store in the city. SIDLE'S CYCLE CO., 110-112 NORTH 13TH ST. " PHONEQOT. I be wise. advertise in the nebraskan - Hesperian. faysi fei
