WHHtUIHIMIH MWMMMMHtmM THE NEBRASKAN-HESPERIAN. & ft Vol. 9-30. No. 11. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 27, 1900. Five Cents. t p FINAL ARRANGEMENTS All Ready for Minnesota Gophers Coming in Full Force Two Train Loads of Rooters Last Week's Mass Meeting Survey Work Sigma X Meeting. DR. H S. WIU.IAMS, Manager Prico Wickcrsham, of the Minnesota football team, was in Lin coln Friday afternoon making final arrangements for tbe game and for hotel accommodations. Mr. "Wickersham was very reticent about talking of the team. He said that while Minnesota was confident of winning the game they did not expect anything like a walkaway. On ac count of snow the Gopher team has not been able to do any outdoor practice work for a week. This fact in con nection with the long trip and strange grounds will put them to a disadvant age when they line up Thursday. i. K PACT. MlNNKffOTA'8 CAriMN AND ChNTFK The Minnesota aggregation will ar rive in two divisions. One including the team, tbe band of thirty-five pieces and about one hundred rooters will come in Wednesday forenoon at 10; 15 on the B. & M. The other will arrive at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. The train on the return trip will leave Thursday evening shortly after the game. MINNESOTA'S COACH Manager Tukey has been busy com pleting arrangements. Seats on the bleachers have been provided for twelve hundred. Societies will be al lowed to reserve every other section in blocks of thirty Ave. Five societies iiave so far reserved sections. In order that the gridiron may be in the best possible condition the ground ha3 been dragged and covered with straw to prevent its freezing. Hereafter all practice will be secret. THE M.ASS MEETING A mass roepticg was held in chapel last Wednesday morning in the inter est of football and the Minnesota game. A large crowd was present and much enthusiasm shown for the vlc ortus .e.:m of 1900. Professor Caldwell presided at the moeeting and presented Coach Booth already well kuown to the students. Coach Booth'' was greeted with a wiorm of applause. He gave a practical talk on football, using chalk and a blackboard to explain the positions and plays of each team. His talk was interesting and the common complaint of not understanding the game will not be heard on Thanksgiv ing aay. Professor Caldwell then explained the financial condition of the athletic board at present. Dr. ound followea ' with a talk on Nebraska's team, and compared it with Iowa. Tho latter it now playing with tho large colleges while Nebraska, a still stronger col lego ir ot. He then stated the chance we now have of going Into Class A and said Nebraska must seize the op portunity. Robert Andreson, '00, followed with a speech on rooting. This was his first appearance at a University mass meeting but ho got away as good as in any one hundred yard dash, and fin ished strong. Fr-s'essor Wycr praic ed tho 1900 football team, and inci- dentally roasted those in the habit of observing the game from the wrong side of tho fence. He suggested the placing of a pennant in the armory in honor of the team. Rev. L. P. Luddcn was then intro duced anu laughingly referred to what he had done before in tho way of raising money for tho athletic ooard. He referred to the absence of the faculty and said they must be afraid of him because he had started with them last year and then talked to the students. Rev. Ludden then called for pledges for tickets. Many followed in quick succession from the fraternities and literary societies. Many individuals took tickets to sell and over 800 in all were pledged. Since then the town people have asked for many, as well as tho aggregation from Minnesota. U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORK. Considerable work is being done for the U. S. geological survey by the geo logy department of tho University. Mr. C. A. Fisher, of this department, returned from a week's stay in Col orado, recently. The principal feature of the trip was the discovery of part of a mammoth tusk, four and one-half feet long, and six and one half by five and one half inches in diameter. This specimen was found in tertiary beds about twelve miles east of Castle Rock, or thirty-five miles south of Denver. The importance of the find is the fact that it throws light on the age of the deposit as well as the ani mals of the time. The tusk was fairly well preserved. It was dug up, box ed, and shipped to Washington where it will be exhibited in the national museum. The principal value of the And is the location of the specimens. Besides this, a fossil tooth and several fragments of mammoth bones were .ound. The tooth and tusk are of great scientific value as they are char acteristic parts of the animal and serve for its ready identification. SIGMA XI. Standing room was at a premium at the open meeting of the Sigma Xi in the chapel last Thursday evening. At fifteen minutes past eight Dr. Bessey, the chairman of the society, intro duced Professor Barbour, who spoke for an hour and a half on the wonders j 01 the Yellowstone Park region. The lecture was illustrated with many fine stereopticon views, whose beauty J called forth frequent appjause from the large audience. The views were an excellent portrayal of the geysers, hot springs and other geological won ders which abound in that region. Af ter the close of the lecture Dr. Bessey spoke for a short time on the most in teresting and striking botanical fea- tures of the region, and the peculiar plant growths which exist in the hot springs. In closing ho assured the audience that this would not be the last treat of this kind this year. TO ENTERTAIN THE GOPHERS. Great preparations are being made to entertain the Minnesota people. All tho fraternities will entertain tho visiting members from Minnesota, t-ni Psl will give a smoker on Thurs day evening. Kappa Alpha Theta have been notified that a number of tne Minneapolis chapter will attend the game. WHY SOME COLLEGE STUDENTS FAIL. By James H. Canficld, LL.D., Ex Chancellor of tho University ot Nebraska. The causes are almost as numerous as the failures. Somo fail because the problem of success is always and necessarily one for individual solu tion: whereas the student often seems to expect the Institution to solve it for him. For some failures the insti tutions are at fault, because they aro not careful to secure stimulating and inspiring teachers: quite a different thing from securing men of expert ability in given lines of investigation and research. Some students are easily led away by indolent or vicious companions. Some become unduly in terested in college politics, or in ath letics, or in fraternities. Some are sent to college, instead of going, und never quite overcome the sense of compulsion and work done under compulsion rather than by free intel ligent choice is rarely successful. Some are imperfectly prepared, and being overears from the start simply flounder on to their complete educa tional submergence. Somo have never acquired the habit of concentration, do not know how to study, and so are easily left in the race. Some are un naturally timid: and falling Into the hands of somo "smart" instructors, who have not yet learnea the divine lesson that there is more glory in the one stupidniwho is saved than. in-4ke4s3r. uiuuiy UUU UllIU wiiu uuvu nine IICCU of a master, they are subjected to a process known as "weeding out" than which there is nothing educa tionally more vicious, as it is applied in some college or departments. A few really have not the mental grasp, the intellectual grip and grit, which are necessary in higher education for it is unquestionably true that such education is not possible to all. The reverse of the shield is this: with rare exceptions, it is not neces sary that a young man seeking the advantages of a college training should fail either in college or after- ward. The work of such institutions. Is quite carefully adapted to the aver age student. Those below tho aver age in either ability or preparation must work a little harder in order to hold their own. Thoso above the: average may broaden and strengthen, their course by collateral reading, by unusual participation in the work of tho better literary societies or special; DR J II CAN'1'IKI.D ""ujgaa- i tmrn-mnmwntmmmmmmmfJm GUtttffiBKflH6d OTOTiTrBrrarara