THE NEBRASKAN-HESPERIAN.
ON THE GRIDIRON.
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that speaks well for the sagacity of
our managing board and the honor of
the university.
With n proficient coach, wise man
agement and harmony among the men
as well as a successful team in sight
our closing word is to our friends.
Wo cannot win without your sup
port. We cannot continue without
gate receipts. Wo want not only your
good wiBhes, but your presence.
The present is promising, the fu
ture is bright. In order that our
friends may share in the honors that
must como to the team, we solicit their
assistance and support.
F. H. BREW.
ROSCOE POUND ON FOOTBALL.
Interesting Retrospect Progress in
Past Years Some Valuable
Suggestions.
As wo are about to enter upon the
Becond decade of football at the uni
versity of Nebraska, a brief retrospect
from a veteran football crank may not
bo out of place.
Prior to 1890 football, except the
old helter-skelter kicking game, an
indefinite number on each side and
every man for himself, was unheard
of in Nobraska. In '89-'90, McClatchie
'91, who had played at Olivet, preached
tho gospel of scientific rootball and
volunteered to coach. He aroused not
a little enthusiasm, though hamp
ered by a notion then prevalent that
players ought to be elected by ballot,
and began our football history with a
series of class games, an institution
which, with slight interruption, has
been handed down to the present day.
I was away trom the university at the
time, but on my return In the fall of
'90, full of the enthusiasm kindled by
seeing the Harvard" season of '89, In
cluding the games with Yalo and
Princton, I was amused and amazed
to see some two dozen men, in their
shirt sleeves, some in overalls, hut
most in their every-day trousers, and
all wearing suspenders, endeavoring
to learn the elements of football by
the light of nature and their recollec
tion of what they saw the year before.
Some of the men who played that year
had not a little natural ability and
would have done well In time with
proper training. Dr. Frothlngham,
who had seen the best of football, did
what he could for them, and as oppos
ing teams were equally raw, Individual
strength and athletic skill took our
first 'varsity team triumphantly
through Its first season. Another year
.saw our first hired coach In Lyman of
Orlnnell, who had played at Yale. Ly
man was given about ten days to do
what ho could with green mon. The
score in a game with Iowa that sea
son was not pleasant to think of, but
Lyman had set us In motion, and we
repaid Iowa with Interest later.
Then came tho league. No one
mourns Its death, but it was a great
event In our football history. From
tho day It was organized, Nebraska
has had good football. There have
been off years, but there havo been
years of triumph as well, and as one
looks back over ten years and calls to
mind J. H. Johnston. A. E. Yont, Flip
pin, Budd Jones, Dern, Thorpe, Wlg
jlns, Georgo Shedd, Melford and Bene
Hct, any one of whom could havo
played In any company, he cannot but
!eel ample satisfaction.
Tho progress in management has
been no less great. Our first manage
ment was as crude ns our first football.
It Is said that one of the old-time man
agers, finding an unexpected surplus
on hand, and being accountable to
naught but his conscience therefor, di
vided it among tho plnyerd. If so,
ho was unique in those days in having
surplus. Students arc optimistic,
and not the best of financiers, and
ecklessness and extravagance ruled
for some seasons because there was no
system, no responsibility and no con
tinuity of management. We have since
had to struggle hard with more than
ono evil legacy o? those days, but for
several seasons, since the creation of
the athletic board has given perma
nence and continuity to tho manage
ment and has introduced responsibil
ity and control, the financial depart
ment has been conducted as well as
could reasonably be desired.
The most immediate need Is hearty
support. There, too, there is room for
Improvement Probably nowhere else
Is it respectable, or ven safe, to look
pver the canvas, or sit In trees or win
dows In plain view, and steal half a
dollar's worth of football. Some of tho
best men In tho university havo done
this in time past, and have done whnt
they could to make It respectable.
Football Is a democratic game. Ev
ery one of us Is a part of it, and has
his place and his role to play with his
yell or his megaphone. Let us get
out and see the games from tho bleach
ers and the side-lines, nnd let people
hear us yell, not croak. Let us all
give to Messrs. Booth, Brew and Tukey
tho cordial, enthusiastic support that
Ib their due, and tho coming year will
rank with tho best In tho football an
nals of our Alma Mater.
ROSCOE POUND '88.
MEMORIAL EXERCISES.
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The University School
Of Music
ppoefte tbe Campus
Students contemplating the study of Music,
and those who have friends desirous of in
formation concerning the advantages offered,
are cordially invited to visit the School and
and obtain an Illustrated Catalogue.
You can enter at any time,
WILLARD KIMBALL,
Director,
would be to tell you of a true, entire
friendship between a large number of
gay, enthusiastic girls of widely dif
fering temperaments and ono years
older, who yet could wholly sympa
thize with the joys as well as tho sor
rows of girlhood.
"Tho thing that made Mrs. Sher
man most helpful to us all and for
wjiicli wo admire her most, was her
simplicity and unassuming modesty.
Everyone present could probably toll
some trivial incident which would Il
lustrate this raro and beautiful qual
ity. When we asked her to become an
honorary member of our fraternity,
she seemed much surprised and won
dered of what use she could be to us.
It was like Mrs. Sherman to think that
she had nothing to give us. It was her
gontle tact, this sweet modesty, that
made every girl lovo her and long" to
please her In every way. Wo wanted
her at all our meetings and In her
quiet way, she seemed to blend with
every mood. Wo saw In her a sim
ple dignity which we associate with
nobility of character. Mrs. Sherman
always chose tho simple way of doing
things. She conquered quietly.
"Though the reality of her presence
has vanished, yet the Ideality remains
sweet and pure and peaceful. We
shall go forward, strengthened by the
beautiful light of her life and make It
our conBtnnt Inspiration."
Chancellor MacLean's manuscript
was read by Mrs. Hodgeman. It Is as
follows:
"It Is the cause of tho deepest grief
In tho midst of the deeper sorrow ac
companying our sense of loss, that
Mrs. MacLean and I arc by an act of
Providence prevented from attending
this memorial service.
"The good dean has Intimated that
he did not dcslro any more than tho
dear Mrs. Sherman would havo de
sired, ouIogieB upon this occasion. t We
come then, not with eulogies, mu'o'h as
they aro deserved, but with an attempt
at a just tribute due to the memory of
our beautiful sister.
"Her queenllness was not only that
of bearing, but that of character.
There is not time to touch tho chlefest
points of her Christian choracter. One
cannot forbear a tribute to her modest
unselfishness. Tho world will never
know how unselfish she was in the
unostcntatlousneBs of her services.
Two incidents may Illustrate. In the
midst of a commencement rush, when
everyone was being denied tickets.
Mrs. Sherman, after having distributed
tickets that were hers, called my at
tention to a poor old woman who had
always attended commencements, and
who had been omitted in that years'
distribution of tickets. A noteworthy
Illustration of her giving her life for
others, was tho nursing in her own
home through a protracted fover of
ono of the boys, a student far from
homo. Doubtless she saved his life.
When one remembers her own fam
ily, and its many cares, one sees in
this caBe tho height of her unselfish
ness. She made it a. primary principle
to account the student body the parish
to which she should minister. This,
I take It, is tho spirit for which the
Faculty Woman's club stands. I pray
that her example may inspire tho club
to contlnuo to render services beyond
pecuniary estimation to tho university,
it Is ono of tho greatest Joys of Mra.
MacLean's and my llfo In tho Uni
versity of Nobraska that wo all. pro
fessors and their families, thus lived
to minister to tho wants of body
and soul of tho students.
"Tho club doubtless wns unconscious
of tho hours of thought and counsel
that Mrs. Sherman bohlnd tho scones
gnvo to tho work of tho club. Woro It
fitting, tho ox-chancellor and wife
could testify to scores of little atten
tions given to them In bearing tho
bunions for tho university. Many as
woro tho porsons rendering help, none
oxcellcd Mrs. Sherman In tho quietness
and offectnoss of tho holp rendered.
"Amidst tho many great Bounding
words concerning woman's mission In
tho nineteenth and twentieth centur
ies, It Is well to remember tho deeds
of such a woman as Mrs. Sherman.
Womanless, consecrated as well as
cultured, will still In such porsons as
sho rightfully domlnato homo and
church; school and state. Were this
tho time and piaco, affection would
dlctato heartfflt tributes to Mrs. Sher
man as a wlfo, mother and friond. The
sacredness of theso relations forbids
that wo do moro than Bay that in all
these relations she was an ideal.
"Let us comfort ono another not
only with the words of this memorial
service, but above all with the words
of tho Master sho loved, 'I am tho
resurrection and tho life: ho that be
Hoveth In mo, though ho wore dead,
yet shall he live.'
"GEORGE E. MACLEAN.
"September 15, 1900."
Rev. Fletcher L. Wharton spoke as
follows:
"Human life is the greatest thing in
the world. Nothing is so great as peo
ple. They have consciousness and In
telligence and will and love. Wo havo
no words to tell about such greatness.
Because people aro so great their tak
ing off Is tho commnndlng sorrow of
all tho ages. When anybody dies tho
world becomes still. When ono who
is especially beautiful vanishes, then
the sorrow becomes a rare possession
we would not part with. Mrs. Sher
man, whose loss we mourn today, was
especially beautiful, beautiful In face,
beautiful In mind, beautiful In spirit.
Sorrow for such as sho is visible re
demption; we shall be tho better for
our weeping. When wo recall her
llfo and Its beauty, our memories arc
not stained by any fact connected with
her personal history. There Is re
freshment In such memories as this.
"It will make us long to bo nobler
for tho sake of our children, when wo
remember that something of Mrs.
Sherman's beauty of womanhood camo
of a refined and gentle ancestry. Her
father was General Horace Willlston
of Athens, Pa. General Willlston wns
not only a Christian, but he was that
rarer thing, a Christian gentleman.
Ho was a typo of man now happily
multiplying who lived to bless society
without forever being conscious of It.
Ho was a man so strong that ho could
be kind and helpful without an effort.
"During tho days of tho civil war,
when tho black man wns so bitterly
despised by many, three of this un
happy race were disposed to come to
tho church of which General Willls
ton was a member. They woro ap
propriately consigned to the, back Boat
in the church. Ever after that tho
goneral quietly occupied a part of It
with them. Ho did not hold his placo
in society by so slight a tenure that
he had to guard it.
"Some years ago a family poorly
provided with this world's goods was
stricken with the dread Bcnrlet fovor;
neighbors in fright deserted them; a
nurso could not bo secured; Mrs. Sher
man came to the rescue, staying with
the family almost night and day, do
ing the work, not only of a nurso, but
of a house servant, until the family
was recovered.
"Bu among the students of the uni
versity her work outside of tho homo
was mostly dono. Her ministries woro
untiring; whenever a boy was nick,
or a girl afflicted, there sho might
havo boon found, at any time, day or
night; and many Ib tho boy nnd many
Is tho girl, out vover the land, who in
memory through tho years and years
to como, will feel again tho touch of
her hand on their foreheads, as thoy
recall the days of tho fover In soma
lonely room, away at school in Lin
coln. A largo "company of people will
mlBS Mrs. Sherman In to church and
about tho university. Tho women of
tho Faculty club will miss hor sorely
In their coming together and In tholr
homes and In hor former homo which
thoy will not abandon, now that sho
hns gone from It. -A company of beau
tiful girls over whoso fraternity sho
so lovingly cast her caro will mlBS hor;
mlfis her when thoy sing from tho
tally-ho or welcome tholr guests Into
their dainty dwelling, and miss hor
thoughtful receptions to thepi In hor
own beautiful homo. Tho poor will
miss hor, hor neighbors whom she did
not forgot when thoy woro In trouble,
will miss hor.
"Thoro nro those who will miss hor
moro than any or all of theso, nnd with
thorn, though wo stand outside, wo
weep today; but this sorrow does not
kill; it makes alive, it ennobles. Wo
shnll always keep It. keep it because it
keeps alive tho momory of ono noblo
woman."
Miss Holmos very feelingly sang
"Ono Sweetly Solemn Thoug-t," which
was a favorite Bong with Mra. Sher
man, Rov. Wharton pronounced tho bene
diction. The sorvlces throughout were
deeply impressive and will long bo re
membered by all,