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WEft iVW ' m -V . . .it - L.u -.- j4i itu! l.w l.-taw. I4W HESPERIAN STUDENT. LINCOLN, JUNE, 1872. Lrr nil the students patrolzo tlioso who advertise in the Student. Tiik Academy nt Crete was greatly In jured by the stonn passing through that place last month. -" 1'jioi-'. S. II. Manlky will deliver the ad dress before the State Normal School the ifith of this month. A Piioi'iwson of our University has de clared the "imitation of contagious terri tory to lio beneficial to our government." JSksidks the personal contributions to our museum, we received several boxes of patents from Washington a few days ago. These will be of incalculable worth in the future to the students in mechanics. Hon. J. M. WooiAVonni will deliver the Jlrst annual address before the faculty and .students on the 20th of this month. The Chancellor, at the same time, will oiYor a iow remarks. A Gkuman writer, complaining of the difllcultlcs in the pronounciation of the English language, cites the word Bo,, which he says is pronounced Dickens. A Frenchman by the name of M. Dupuy do Lome has succeeded in getting up a balloon that is at least manageable. The machine- is elongated In form, its greatest diameter horizontal and in a line with the propelling power. It has a screw propeller 250 feet in diameter, worked by four men, and is capable of being run at the rate of live miles per hour. The apparatus has a buoyant power of :i tons, and its lading of machinery and bauds weighs '& tons; hence a not buoy ancy of Yi a ton. 7 As its moving power is only live miles per hour in a calm, it could not make way in the face of an ordinary wind, and a Nebraska gale would drive it along like a oloud of smoke, in spite of the counter working of its machinery. Successful nav igation of the air will not be effected until :i power is brought into use that is genera ted without great weight, and that is cner go5c in its operation. Human muscles are too heavy, work too slow, and are deficient in endurance. Steam has the energy and the endurance, but the necessary weight of fuel, water and heavy machinery mako it for aerial navigation, an impracticable power. Some futuro (cuius will develop a new forco that will yet drive an atmospheric ship through wind and storm with greater speed, and as much safety as wo now travel by ears or by steamers. 'lint it must be a power without the detracting adjuncts of .fuel, water and boilers, as In the case of steam, and it must have moro forco and omluranco than can be furnished by human strength. Man-power would bo luefllcient in working n vessel against a ten mile cur rent, and it would be still more inclllolcnt in driving a balloon against a ten mile storm, because the comparatively enormous slzo of the balloon would increase the resis tance to bo overcome in propelling it forward. WHEEE THE MEN COME PEOM. ii. Anticipating that a reply may bo made to the little article I lately published under the above heading, I am lead to anticipate the argument, and to make use of tills occa sion the only one I can have in the Studknt until next autumn to say what I presume should be said. I oxpect to sec an array of tho names of Unitarian ministers, as, for instance, those of that dull old man, It. W. Emerson, the Channings, and other social disorganizes; also an array of useful pedants and machine book-makers, as, for example, Webster and Worcester, of dictionary fame. Perhaps some of tho New England College Presi dents, and men of local respectability may bo cited. But the names of men who were tho peers of Jefferson, and Hamilton, and Madison, and .lay, and Webster, and Clay, and Benton, and Chancellor Kent, and Livingstone, and John Marshall, and Roger B. Taney, etc., etc., will not be cited. Nor will names equal to Hawthorne, and Long fellow, and Bryant, and Edgar A. Poo be cited. No llrst rate names will be thrust out into daylight; but quite a number of second and third rate names are to be expected in the lists of colleges as old as Harvard, Yale and Michigan. I am, moreover, prepared to see the names of certain historians men plodding and patient, but never brilliant. I anticipate it may be said that a higher social clement an element too wealthy to desire success attends Harvard and Yale than may be found in other colleges. But this cannot for tho instant be admitted. Tills would bo to say that the Unitarian element that mostly patronizes Harvard, and tho Congregational and Unitarian fam ilies that mostly patronize Yale, are supe rior In tho gifts of fortune to tho Episcopal, Presbyterian, and other .orthodox people that oommonly send their sons to safer places. The fact is, tho young men who arc too wealthy to desire a career, are moro likely to bo found at Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, Washington and Lee in Virginia, and several others of like grade. Few peo ple now-a-days, who aro not pretty loose In theological opinion, will trust their sons in Harvard, or Yale, for the leading spirits who come forth from those dangerous stalls of nurture, aro seldom wholly and soundly the children of faith. They are poisoned as badly as the dweller in a marsh. Tho points I made last mouth were these : 1st. Harvard, Yale, Michigan, etc., pro duce few, if any, names of tho highest class. 2d. Those Institutions produce imprac tical men, whom we rarely, If ever, find in place outside of New England. The west is being moulded by the graduates of col leges that have less self-admlratlon and more real vitality. 3d. The secret of the failure of Harvard, etc., to manufacture noble practical men is, that those institutions have no earnest faith; believe little, or nothing in particu lar; are Insincere because unorthodox; have no higher conception of conscience than as a guide in making money, writ ing books, and being generally human itarian and fashionable. Harvard, etc., aro not at all In earnest to make God-fearing men ; they aro satisfied merely to educato in a certain curriculum. They would rather unsettlo faith than deepen it; or, If they would Inculcate- a faith, it is a faith In man and science, rather than in God and revelation. 4th, Infidel Institutions cannot make men of enough forco to bo formidable, while they remain within tho bounds of ordinary decency. Only when they leap over into Coinmun isin, and go to burning and killing, or otherwiso become aggressive, do they become influential. Earnest men come from positive and earnest colleges. A religion of tho soul rather than of tho mind, alone can produce strength, man hood, greatness. nth. Classical influences mould abler and more cultivated men than scientific. As for Michigan University, it was char tered in 18U7, and has been at work gradu ating Its students for a wholo generation. If Its work were the equal of the work in any eastern college whatever, it ought by this timo to be turning out somebody whoso name would be heard beyond county boun daries, and whoso general character would command a position above that of Justice of the Peace. Oraft-Sohools Wanted. To remedy this aiinlcssness and unfitness for life which our education leaves our youth, we need moro cvuft schools, where boys can become practical engineers, chem ists, printers, machinists, and even fanners. The machinist would be none the worse If ho should spend his evenings over Euclid instead of lager; the blaeksniith,lf he knew how to drive home and clinch an argument in'mctaphyslos as skillfully as a horse shoe nail; or the dentist, if lie could extract hidden Greek roots with tho same facility as grrpmbling molars. Educated men would i ilgnlfy any of these employments, and male them sought and not shunned by those vorthy to fill them. A man who wants t run an engine ought to bo educat ed for Is business, just as a lawyer for his profcisuion. We aro inpatient and long sullcring people, or He would never permit ourselves to- be blown up by hundreds by Ignorant engineers, who know nothing more of the monsters which they control than enough to feed them wood and water, and oil up their creaking joints; or suffer ourselves to be sent to our graves by strip lings in short jackets, who give us arsenic for paregoric, and strychnine for tho cxllir of life. The time is coming, sud we trust not far distant, when all these positions of responsibility will be filled by men of education, and can be filled by none others ; when Ignoramuses will bo obliged either to fit themselves for their proposed labors, or seek other employments. 0. 11. Durch avd, in Scribnev's for May. " The Dayton Journal says: "Among tho funny incidents that happoncd yesterday on tho s'trcct railroad, was one of a countryman, who handed tho driver a dollar bill. Tho dri ver politely gave him ono fifty cent packngo and two quarter packages. Verdant, (stretch ing hlinsolf at full length) 'Sco hero, Mister, I've traveled too much around this 'ere world to have you pass a lot of garden seeds on me. No, sir'ee ; give mo my change." Stiulent, (little faulty in pronounciation) " Did you over read the story of Psyche, miss V" Miss "Oh, yes! You mean Bill, that horrid character in Oliver Twist. Wasn't It a pity about his dear little dog?" A broom witli a heavy liandlo was sent as a wedding gift to a bride, with tho following sentiment; "This trilling gift nccopt from mc, Its two I would recommend; In mtnshlno ubo iho brushy part, In "storm tho other end." INVENTIONS, Glass windows were first used in 1180 Chimneys in houses, 1211(1 Lead pipe for convoying water, 1255 Tallow candles for light, 121)0 Spectacles Invented by an Italian, 121)!) Paper first made from linen, 1H02 Woolen cloth first made In England, l.'J.'ll Art of painting In oil colors, 1410 Printing invented, 1440 Watches made In Germany, 1477 Variations of compass first noticed, 1510 Pins first used in England, 151 H Circulation of blood dlsc'd by Harvey, 1G01 First newspaper pub'd in America KJ.'K) First steam engine invented, . 1041) Steam engine improved by Watt, 17(57 Stereotyping invented in Scotland, 17S5 An'l magnetism discoved byMesmer, 1778 First Sab. school in Yorkshire, Eng., 178!) Elcctro-mag. telegraph by Morse, 1SII2 Daguerreotype process invented, 18tfi) HALLETT, ' DKALKIl IN GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, SPECTACLES, CUTLERY, &c. AMERICAN WATCHES AT FACTORY PRICED. A Fine Selection of ih'i CELEBRATED SETII TIIOAfAS CLOCKS Watches, Clocks and Jewelry ropalred by experienc ed workmen. Engraving neatly executed. Itomumbcr thu place HALLETT'S, O street, between 10th and Itth, south side. University of Nebraska, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, Tho University of tho State was opened Inst Septem ber under favorablo conditions, and thus far has been prosperous and succossAil. PROFESSORS. The Faculty, at present, Is composed of llvo Profes sors, skilled in their several departments of Instruc tion. To these thcro will bo added two moro at tho opening of tho next College year. ADMISSION. Students of both eexes aro admitted to tho Univer sity, on passing examination in tho common English branches, If entering thu Lntln 8chool; or in studios of advanced classes, if claiming an advanced standing. TUITION. Tuition In all departments Is FREE. There is an entrance feo of $5. Books aro furnished at cost. VPPARATUS. Etc. The Institution la liberally supplied with Apparatus, Cabinet, Library, and all needful facilities lor Illus trating tho subjects taught. Tho Philosophical and Chemical Apparatus Is especially largo and valuable. AGR ICULTURAL COLLEGE. It Is proposed by tho Itcgonts to open tho Agricul tural College at tho earliest tlmo practicable probably at tho opening of thu next College year. BOARDING. Hoarding is obtained nt reasonable rates In private families, or by routing rooms tho expense may bo reduced to $'2 or $3 por week. At present boarding lu families Is from $4 to $ft per week. CALENDAR. The Spring Term will begin Thursday, April 4, 18?J. Tho Full 'form will begin tho second Thursday or Septembor next. Correspondence lu solicited by tho Chancellor from thoso intending to enter College. Tho health ofour Btato aud tho facilities offered In tho University, should bo strong inducements for thoso seeking health and advantages for education. For Circulars and other Information respecting tho University, address A. R. BENTON, Chancellor University of Nob., Lincoln, Nkb, X M ( H. 8 i V-ss jyyi cuEDI