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iiunifwmwwi - - I - ,1. v THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. HB5 HESPERIAN STUDENT. LINCOLN, NOVEMBER, 1872. This lIuoVKitiAN Stumlkt, ft G'ollego organ, tliu uttitlontH ot tliu No- ;,musf succeed to effort. So,.'if we- would j Ho at last retained nothing but that bo invigorated with energy una licnllli, I small nut interesting old dwelling wnicn remembered as the birth Fl .... (1... 1. ! t i.i t it t it I tn ii lWtll II Jt ll 1 fit fit lift i gm. . . uuu, . ,,.-. J"'-;'": :::,-::, 3 ' presented a remarkable iihenomenTm rSlUUIJ. " iiiuvv in m hi. kJiiun.v.jii.uiv, mv iwauni w , . . . . . .. 'i iiiti is nil ii'i:iiii Niagara Without Water. Otitho2l)lh of iMareh, 1IS, the river imlillHlKMl luontlily by nrnokn State univurtdty. lornm M) cunt pur j vunr, lh"auhncoT ' SjUTjucrtpHonV VvTII bo'roeulvcd at J, F. Adams' News bland, noxt door mirth of POHt Olllco.' I Communications are solicited from till tho stu- dents mid our friend In general. A'ddross'thu ' Hesperian Student. I. O. Ilox Lincoln. No- i braska. V. H. SNELL, Editor-in-Chief. I OllAOK E. IlKNTON, I Aumii'lntPii LUTHEIl KUIII.MAN, f ABfOLllltCK. SliKKl. "What Is slecnY and what do we under stand by the term A thing so common may seem to be easily defi..ed, but view- ing this question psychologically, to be able to point out the exact process of sleep, and to accurately define it is no easy matter. The etymology of the word may perhaps be of some advantage at the present time. It is derived from schlufcn is the Latin smnntit from supinus, refer-! ring to the supine condition and appear- mco of the body in this state. The elaxing of the muscles and sinking j way of the frame as if unsupported, but this is bv no means a delllnitlon of lenn. It is simply describing the condi. tlou of the body while In that state. I think the true definition would be ilmply tjie loss of scl ('.consciousness, the auving no knowledge of the ego with he material things around. This results ao doubt from the inaction of the bodily enses. We lose all conception of time mil space, anil are cut oil as in death rom all material existence. Ii is not an flection of the reproductive nor those f the muscular, they are still capable ot .ction, it Is only a derangement of the icrvous system. Nor do all the senses all asleep at the same time. Our sight oes, the eyelids droop and close, then ustc and smell, then touch and hearing ire tho last to give way. One sense may repose in slumbcrwhile .till another is awake TIIU IIIUIIIUC JL.IFK. It lifts ono up, so wo huvu been told, To slrlvo for knowledge, be It now or old. So horn wo nru to engage In such strife Ah wo'ru Booking you know for tho higher life. Thu roud to knowledge Ik very steep, Hut we're going to climb It like goats and slump, Dollcving that In tho unit we'll find Tho hlgTior life tho gorgeous mind. So, many of us have gathered here, Far from friends and parionts denr, Not at thu call of the drum and life. But to seek for that oro higher life. I" poets. In regard to his education, there Uias been considerable Mid of tli 6 manner in which he received it. Some think we, t'ltllt t'lk'l ttL-tHIIlftftll 4tJ 11 tl lltu Tllltilllta I ., i i . r i .it. lis was loosened around the edges by think not; for we have good authority, . , .. . ... n,. ', r,.!, . T..t,ll.. ' "lU MU Ml un,n in vtuij n,.iiiiK. lmii i.ih There is no record ol a similar one, nor i has it been observed since. The winter had been Intensely cold, and tho ice. formed on Lake Erie was very thick. J? AVKLLIAIfX 85I.VKKSPI3AIIE. to prove that neither John nor Isabella! Shakespeare could write, for it was an accomplishment that few possessed dur ing the reign of Elizabeth, in even a the day a still' easterly wind moved the. whole Held up the lake. Abojit sundown the wind chopped suddenly around, and , ,n. , r i.i. i . i.i i b ew a ga e from 'die west. This brought higher class of society, but we should I , . . ..Tin. ..,,,, ., i .i . i i i ii the vast rue of ice down again with not think from this that he was deprived , , , .. ... ., ,,,,, ,. ..,,., , ,. i . such tremendou'i loree that it tilled the William Shakespeare, the greatest o' poets, is supposed to have been born o the 2.Jd of April, 15(14. There are, how ever, some who differ about the date, bu we have every reason to believe that . was not earlier than the 2Ud. Two of ih principle arguments are as follows: Fir because It Is generally understood that ' died upon the anniversary ot his bis . day, and we are certain that he died the 2JU1 of April. Secondly, bcc.m was customary to baptize at tin i age as possible. For, accordin customs of the English church, i. baptized were deprived of niair. i. leges, and, as It Is said, "that solemn sweet farewell :' That died In puacu with one another, Father, sinter, sou and brother. With this gloomy belief it is natural t believe that they would avail theuisolv. - of the first opportunity. We therefoii como to the conclusion that Wm. Shaks peare was born but a few days bvtore hi baptism. He was born at Stratford upon Avon, i. murkiH town of England, In Warwick shire, nine miles west of Warwick, ind You may still uo northwest of London. It is situated of all the advantages of regular instruc tlon, that the poverty and Ignorance of his parents necessarily deprived him of an education. There existed at that time and at the present day, one of those free grammar schools of which so many countay towns of England arc possessed, and to the old grammar school In Stratford, founded in neck of tiie lake, and the outlet, so that the outtlow of the water was very greatly impeded. Of course it only needed a very short space of time for the falls to drain oil' the water below Black Hock. The consequence was, that when we. arose in the morning a Niagara, we found tha' our river was nearly half gone. The American channel had dwindled Into tin. -trti iif lM-viird llii I'mirlli It lu unite certain that John Shakespeare had the' respectable creek. 1 he Hrit.sh channel right, as lie was Alderman and Bailiff of k ' U '" 1,ec" s"t'tiU ,the town,-of sending his son free of ' with a quick consumption and was fast oi...r... Tim ..m "lumllv dmiht. but piissliig away. Far up from the head of j" .. ... . what he received as thorough an educa tion as that school allbrded.- In some works we find that the poet had been in his youth a schoolmaster In the country, which of course cannot be Goat Island, and out Into the Canadian rapids, the water was gone, as it was also from the lower end of Gout Island, out be ond the towert The rocks were bare, bluck and forbidding. The roar of Ni- lear what is around you when- the eye Is tlrcady asleep. The indications of up. on a gentle slope above the river, which stretches out to a considerable breadth pouching sleep is then the closing of the j and Is crossed by a bridge of fourteen ielids, the nodding of the head, tho Irooping of the arms, the sinking I rom in erect to a supine condition. If in arches. The older parts ol the town are laid irregular, nit many improvements are said to have been made of late years true, as we know at what an early age he Smi had subsided almost to a moan, left Stratford to enter as actor and author The scene was desolate, and but for Its in the Globe Theatre. London. Ho might, novelty and the certainty that It would havebeon, however, ariev passing through change before many hours, would have the lower classes of the grammar school,! been gloomy and saddening. Every per- son who has.visited Niagara will remem ber a beautiful jet of water that shoots up out of the water about forty rods south of the outer sister in the great rapids, called, with a singular contradiction of terms, the "Leaping Rock." The writer drove a buggy from near the head of Goat Island out to a point above and near to that Jet. With a log cart and four horses we had drawn from the outside of the outer island a stick of pine timber, hewed one foot, square and torty feet long. From the top of the mid. die Island was drawn a still larger stick, employed in assisting the master iu in slrueting the smaller pupils. Among the various stories connected with the early life of Shakespeare, ot which posterity seems to swallow with greediness, is that of the deer stealing expedition, with other riotous young fel-j lows, to Sir Thomas Lucy's park at Char lotte, near Stratford. The young gume stealer, who had broken into the park and stolen the deer, is said to have been slezed brought before the Indignant Justice of the Peace, and was treated so severely by Sir Thomas that he revenged himself by .-eudiiig the eyes close, the book droop0, the streets an; laid out more regular, .elf-consciousness ceases, and we pus.-, .tway in sweet repose. If in church, tin tend rests devoutly upon the friciidh pew, as if deeply impressed by its words .if truth. Accompanying this phenomena then is also the loss of personal control. The will no longer sits upon its gorgeous fhronc. Its sceptre falls. And the mem. net's so willing to do Its bidding, remain and the houses are larger and finer. 1 he church, a fine cruciform building, is situ ated at the southeast corner of the town, and Is illustrious as the burial place of Shakespeare. The remains lie on the north side of the chancel, and on the wall is his monument, partly of marble and with a half bust and two Inscriptions, one in Latin and the other in English. injuring the gates of Charlotte, for whicli! hewed on one side and sixty feet long, he was obliged to escape to London. There are few places on the globe where The idea that Shakespeare became soj a person would be less likely to go alum poor as to be obliged to earn a living bj I bering tlmn In the rapids of Niagara, just holding horses at the door of the theatre, above the lirink ot tnc uorse-suoe inn. must be absurd, lor it is established b , All the people of the neighborhood were abroad exploring recesses and cavities the dramatic compositions of that du. that the people universally isited t theatre either on foot or n boats, b which Uie theatres were built on ii. batiks of the Thameojiequently tin could be no horses to hold. Secondly . seems hardly natural that a man endow. His father. John Shakespeare, was in motionless and still. No longer is our all probability aglover, or manufacturer i with the talent of Shakbpeare, which train of thought guided by this potent .of the many articles of dress then made j mUHt UiVi, shown In his earlier woii. from leather. would be iierniitt'id to become so low. He belonged to the shopkeeper class,' He Viis inarrleifU 18, to a Miss Am but had married an heiress by the name Uutluiwuy, on the vtith of Novemb. of Isabella Ardcn, whose family had be 1582. ". O come quite prominent in the courts of His family and his own tastes, and t. agency. It is not in our power to avert a stray thought, nor, as in waking mo ments, to liix our mind upon It ad libitum, to the exclusion of all others. Hut wc are at the mercy of them all, as the lyre to the passing i recze. Wc are passive to the minds own energy, producing in us the wildest notion, heaving to us all the resemblance ofreality. Sleep, then, being tnc 'x!austion of the nervous system, the moro'ruul the ex. hauBtion the more sleep is requirvlr The student, the man engaged Ir.-hterary pur suits, requires, then, more rest tlmn the physical laborer; ami students should be very careful that this law of their nature should demand their greatest respect. W-s cannot continue always active. "Rest that had never before been exposed to mor taj eyes. The writer went some distance, up the shore of the river. Large fields at the muddy bottom lay bare. The dngular sincope of the waters lasted all lay, and night closed over the strange . cene. But In, the morning our river was .stored In all its strength, beauty, and ', nujesty, and we wero glad to welcome Its ; .welling tide once more. preceding reigns. Isabella Arden had considerable prop erty, but, instead of being an advantage, it seemed to have been the cause of mis fortune to tins family, for John Shakes peare, who had originally been a thriving and prosperous tradesman, gradually de scended, during the youth of his son, to poverty, having been tempted to pursue without experience, an ligricultural life. He was obliged soon after to mortgage and sell not only his farm but even one of his houses in Stratford. encouragements of his friends, wero proi ably combined to turn his thoughts to tl stage. He died on the 2!ld of April, 1010, ' his fifty-third year. F. P. II. The world knows nothing of its grcn est' men. Taylor. The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-glcy ; And leave us naught but grief and pal For promised joy. 77nJ. A little philosophy Inellneth men's 'lindsto Atheism; but depth of phlloso. hy brlngeth men's minds about to re Iglon. Bacon. Ho that wrestle's with us strengthens u nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our ntagonist is our helper. Burke. A fool must now and then be right by '.iiince. Ooioper. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. Oowpcr. One science only will one genius tit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. , -r-ropt. y I w a . - 3reftigTaL ' f "" ..' . J n fi-i
