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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. A. few mornings ngo, upon entering llio sanctum, wo found a hole In the ceil. Ing about eighteen Indies long and eight inches wide; and on making enquiries, discovered that the students who room in llio building, had been playing hldc-and-go-scck In the attic the night before; when one of them put tho toe of his boot through. He said that " ho did not think his foot would go between tho joists or ho would have been more careful' A certain prop in our institution is very susceptible to tho charms of tho weaker sex. But sometimes, in our hum Mc Judgment, he carries things to ex Ircmes. Especially was this the case in one instance .tluvt came under our notice a few weeks since, when he performed a jKilka, danced a Hchottlsche, stood on his head and walked on his hands in one of the most public thoroughfares in the city, ami all because a pretty girl in passing gave him a glance of her liquid eyes. One of the festive youths who rooms at tin University went'oul about U o'clock r. m. to view the beauties of nature, and forgot to take the Key of the out-side door with him. The consequence was, when lie closed the door the spring lock closed too and lea him out. Tho night was (juite chilly, ho was lightly dressed, and it took him just two hours, forty-five minutes and a half to waken the Janitor to let him in. Wo are surprised that he could not climb in by the lightning rod, as he is a minister's son. Prof. (In Literature class;, Mr. S., what is Cowpcrs' most noted poem y Mr. 8. Tho Task. Prof What gave rise to the Task y Mr. S. A lady gave him the " sofa " as n subject. Prof Well, Mr. S., from this subject, what do you think would be the general tenor of the poem ? Mr, s Oh, I suppose lie spoke of its color, the superior quality of red sofas, its capacity, and other aisthctio uses. A Soph, in chapel the other morning, put along hair on the shoulder of a Jun lor, who sits in front of him, whereupon tlic Junior took charge of the hair, and Mould not return it. In about an hour he received tho following touching little epistle : Oil give inn buck ihnl yaller hulr, for I would mirely have you know. That U'h oil I huvo to chow Of the golden heud, Hint on my noble, manly breant did Ho, 1,(ihI Friday night, n -.lowly we relumed home Itom the yocluty . Student in elocution class, who thinks Noah Webster was a very good orthog raphic of ills time, but rather erratic " Professor, l notice crocodile, you do Some surprlso was manifested on tho part of the citizens becuuso tho regular ex. ercises of tho University wore not suspend ed tho day following tho sudden death of Prof. Dake. Tho Chancellor's theory In reference thereto appears to bo a reasona. blc vlow of tho matter, viz ,That more real respect would be shown to tho Departed by earnestly attending to duty, than by virtually giving tho Students a holiday; for, without doubt, It would have been used as a day of levity by many without Intend. Ing anything wrong thereby. Tho following is a vcrbntlm transcript, names excepted, of a postal card recceived, a few days since, by ono of our, supposed, .most virtuous juniors: St. Joskpii, Oct. 3, l87o. Baby is Retting alontr all tIrIA ho will soon be well. Your atFectiouato Polia. There was a slight mistake in one of the initials of the address, and the Junior vows, that it wasn't meant for him at all. He solemnly affirms that those pretty post-' ofilec girls have been perpetrating a joke ' at his expense. Too thin and suspicious! The Faculty and students met in the chapel on ihe 20th inst to pay their last ' tribute of respect to the remains of Pro fessor O C. Dake. They formed in line under the direction of Prof. Bailey, and marched to the family rcsi-; dence, where the funeral procession was , formed and proceeded to the Episcopal church. There the Bev. Mr Talbot deliv ered a short discourse, after which the i procession proceeded to the B.S-M. depot. I Chancellor Beutou and several other ' triends look charge of his remains, to j take them to Fremont to be buried with three of his children who arc there interred. The denizens of the Dormitory were thrown into a state of the wildest excite ment, by a student who returned from church(Y) at 11 v. m , yelling altlie top of j his voice, " Help, help! I'm a dead man. ( Help! help! help!" The students, four in number, rushed to his rescue, armed with tumblers, empty bottles, etc. Upon ' arriving at the scene of action, the stu dent declares that " my room contains a whole menagerie, bears, panthers, tigers and lions, and they have torn my hand : oil'." Upon procuring a light, it was j labyrinths of ladies' crinoline, and up the horror-chllled limbs of pedestrians. But such as we would like to see connected Willi the University. Tho number of stu- here we have the most nitty storv on rec- dents in attendance was variously cstiinat- ord : cd at from one hundred and fifty to two A soph girl, recently, solemnly declared ' hundred and fifty. The Normal is an to tho Chancellor, as an excuse for absence j honor to the State and a credit to those at chapel, thai a rat had actually devoured . who have charge of it. The baseball club her stockings and shoes during the night, of Peru and a "picked nine" of Lincoln and she did not like to come bare-footed. played live innings. The score stood 7 to She certified under oath, thi.t she discov- j 1$) in favor of the Lincoln club, llio boys crcd tho bloody beast in Ihe very- net of were all anxious to finish the game, but, it swallowing them en masse, with only the being about time for the train to star end of a shoestring and the buckle ox-' home, they were compelled to relinquish tremity of a garter visible to the naked it Part of the students remained over eye. night to visit the societies, and are under Our new typo had the good for-1 obligations to Prof. Stone, Mr. Majors, Mr. tune, lately, to find a lady's blue bow for B- plP-'r, Mr. Martin Langdon and oth the hair, still retaining in its loving em. ers. for ,hclr kiml treatment, brace n hairpin. A few moments after.' Wo visited the Philoraathean Society, ward, we discovered him sitting in the I ,uul wcrc M&uy entertained by the per sanctum, his rapt countenance, and " roll-' iormanccs, especially a declamation by a ing eyes" fixed on the ceiling, while ne I young lady. That was a good joke on a thus breathed forth his sentimental (.m). i couple of the University boys, who pre. pared addresses to deliver on the debato j and received no invitation to present their "little pieces." tions: The Typo'H Ode. Tune -O, what kind or a tinlrjiiii niv you? O, thou cerulean waif of bombnzlnu. Or Rome other kind of stun, What cruel sprite, or ghoul, or gnome Ilath. with rnthlcxa hand and rough. Snatched thee from thine nmbrolnl throne. And chM thee on this cheerless zone! Were the mtcet tret-ceh which thou hnt di eked, Auburn, black, or brown, or yellow! Wnp the sweet maid, whopluuned thee on her. Brunette, blonde, Miort, tall, or sallow! If you did not cling with frenzy to her, If nlie were blonde, C5od bleep your foul. You're n ure a dolt, or elce n tarnal fool. nut, maybe, from your Olympian wat, Naughty and bad, you ntooped and kixted her' Then, did the prude, with simulated b'us'er, Jtend her fair hair, and swear (and f igh) And cast you fiercely from her! (I don't blame you much, 1 vow I don't And I dare not feign to gainsay: For my own heart in honey melts For my fairy, deary, darling "Dalny."; ISut, woe mol Mich Is the fatu Of men, ae well an ribbon! For we're but hairpins at the beet. To pin on women' chignons. And when we're bent, the ribbon Hilled. Ilefrhrew the tickle trounces We're ntrlpped oft', and flung itwiy I.Ike faded, tielecs flounce! On the 22ud Inst, twenty .five or thirty of the students joined the excursionists to Peru and Brownville, for the double pur pose of helping to rebuild tho Opera House, and visiting the Normal school. The train started a few minutes after PER80NAL. on some points: when you pronounce 4..ii.irl flint lita liutir) ritu fill ritrlif find further investigation revealed the fact that ' S"tj wilh "vcr o Jiundml and fitly on , fried, his room-mate had put a doe in the room. ' bl. ,ind tf'0USh l wa8 ratl,Bi: ,alC .IU I imttniw U When he entered, the dog wished to make friends with him, and touched his hand with his shaggy conl. Sectarianism is on the increase in the Univer-i'y. Feticlilsm is the latest creed on the tapis. This humiliating species of Russcl Hills is quite sick with typhoid fever. B. J. Holt has gone lo Colorado for li is health. Crow has gone to Iowa to celebrate the centennial. Prof. Manly is visiting friends at Delaware, Ohio. He is recovering slowly. Miss Allie Dunham is attending school again after an absence of over two years. Luther Kuhlmnu is running a compass in McBiOotn fc Wells' surveying party, at the Pawnee agency. Delos Smith came up with the excur- i sionists from Brownville. Delos is in the i hardware business in that city. W. H. McBroom is surveying the Pawnee Reservation, preparatory to its beiug offered for sale. He expects lo be with us in the winter term. Ed. Woolley has taken a school near Plattsmouth. He was a faithful, working member of the Palladian society ever since its organization. t J. L. Shank is with us once again. He says " it was hard lo tear himself from his Bed Oak, and she made lum return soon." ; , ' n . . ,,,. .,. Hound " I u o airv nas recently uiokuh oui in me nut give the first i the propel sen ..; . . . "Well. Mr , what sounu Htioum n . .1 i Imvi 'Tho lonK, obscure sounu v't "How do vou spell crocodile, M r. "Cr.o.ckcrock,lcrocki,d.i.l.odilc,orooki. dili'." The class is highly entertained, unci Prof, promised v lie more careful in future. That blonde lightning rod, who bit with the Juniors, cpeaklug on the " Capi tal move " question, recently achieved tho following rhetorical aud geographical cli max. "Now, just look at New York! Wlier's her capital ? Why, at New York City, away down on Loug Island Sound. Then there's Baton Rouge, away up In tho northern part of the state! Again, take Alabama, her capital, Georgia, away down 'II IIIC MIUUI'tUMIlKlll Jlu- plullHC. ladies' end of the hall, recently, we noticed a brunette Junior, " the little fellow with the big black mustache," probably linag. ining himself alone, standing before a lady's shawl and hat suspended on the jl. .. .. a. 4rt intmi tflwi r-iinixi ill ItiP llwi I U1U SCUHU1I IU U1IJ1M IJIU DUHVIJ l il "11 ,.r ,T t.t 1, ...5. ....I 1 ( , ,. , ,. , 11T W. il. iCCUIIlllll ITOIHH .1 ICIUglJUll ! road, all appeared to be quite happy. e , al hU moUt.r WJWveiy i were very much interested ,n watching a h(i wn ag , game of Baucho Pedro, and the hrM thing ( fl memw )f mr n,UfllriuUS S(jnior that brought us to a realization of our , whereabouts was the brakesmen calling , L ' ' "NebrakaCilv!" The train stoiipcd fif- Homer Wsdker is grangeriug near teen minutes. The city had quite a met" Seward. Homer says. "I would like U ropoliUin appearance,' judging from the attend the University again, but " lie stir at the depot. From Nebraska City to ' is building on his homestead, and he has Brownville the road extends along the a great deal of business in Osceola, bank of the historical "Big Muddy." We missed the bland countenance of The train arrived in Peru at 12 o'clock, ,.lu(lg(,., gliowaltcr at the beginning of where uc niajomy i mv i" .,,,. terni. and on inakine inouirv learned Great ap- wall. He liad evidently made an apotheo- u,lll)t,(i anu W(.,e conducted to the Normal . ' , ." ,.,,, !liril1n ,tl r,litii ntutniv His of them, and the grimaces, gyrations ti(.hooJ building to visit the school and be ItM.mB llmt coun,,. haH qult(. au ttttrHC. genunecuouH, luiuiiiyuuui ih.omw.w, "" . onterlalneu uy uie eis m uu,lt",,u,,,i;B-. tjn for ji,(. "jjge." contortions, in wliich lie was indulgiug, rpiiejr performances were line, and did were fearful to behold. Those two pretty ! cmlil U) tue institution. A fine view of G. M. Sturdevimt is at Wahoo. Wo Hrl peeping through the door, seemed ; Uic HUrr0unding country can be had from ; notice that the Wahoo IixUpeiulriU gives to extract a good deal of amusement from , U(e cupoift. four states are in sight-Iowa, , hlin the credit of materially assisting Ju the sad spectacle, all the same. , MtBsouri, Kansas and Nebraska. j carrying the It. R. bonds. George, we arc W, have heard a irreat many tall rat All were much pleased with the raliool ; glad to hear of your success, and hope,. stoTlI How wi" d all conneeted therewith. We Wero that before many moons we may have tho d S taI re wcitomed to particularly interested in the dormitory pl bidding you welcome U, you, meS Playfully 'through the sacmi arrangements ,4jch are excelleim aud accustomed haunt.. .. 1 " wmm