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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1876)
O.) Editor Clun'r. Iliuh' diplomas, analyze simple sentence. If tills stale of I hi n irs Is peculiar to Amcr. Icun in tltutions though wo tiro already hrandcd with shallowness, let it still be tolil vvi h shame. Let us now loo'c at the mutter practical ly, if we can. We have an effect. Truly an ellect deeply grounded in wrong. All we can do then is to looU carefully for the cause, and if possible eratlieate it. Fi-t. we have a system of education. But there is a cause which produced this system. Does our sylem represent the will of the populace? No. The people call for ed ucatlou in a proper sense. They pay for it, yet are cheated out of it. "What is the caiwe of this state of things? It is our laws. Laws are properly the carrying out of the will of the people. If Ihev merely state the 'how," they are not half what they should he. It is plain that they arc defective. Turn now to th ir source. It must he in error. We reach the ques lion. Who are our law.mukcr? That they work blindly is proved by the result of their labors. They either aim at the im proper eflect, or lake the wrong measures to secure the true effect. If we examine, we And that in some degree they do both. The true effect is either unknown or lost sight of. Eihicftv, we claim, is in i very natui'" n secondary effect. It Implies a subject and an object. It also Implies iibf, qu m'yo. qiiommh), in each individual ease. The soul of the teacher i subject, that of the pupil i the object. What are their relations? How Is the soul awak ened? In what does its enenjin consist? In what its slumber? Thee questions and others lie far back of nhicere. They must be answered before we can lightly be said to educate. These then are crop, pings rich and inviting, but have never liciiii removed from their rcMimr places. And still beneath, we have reason to be lieve, there runs n well defined ledge reaching downward, growing richer as you descend, upon which Science, with all her continually improving appliance?, mav sink and uorlc forever. THE UNIVERSITY ' Few schools of like age can boast of equal advantages, or point to moreocd resulting fiom their o eratioiis. The University has been in existence fer fi o years. It was orgau'zed at a lime when the country was vi ry thinly populated, when there were hard lime-, when 'lie Elate itelf was we:;k. Turing ihi- pi ri. oil of its life, our weslun country, and especially Neb'a-ka, has wilni s-cd devas tutioiH and droughts that are almost will', out a paiallel. The school ha grown, nevertheless, from the fir-t, blh in its influence and in the number of its sin. dent.-. Theie have been, so far, ten grad uates, -nme of whom possess maiked abili ty. In tbst;me however our l' initiation only has been laid, ami we now hi k i pun the woik a-happily approaching its com pletion. It is a lnundi lion cmbining -ircnglhand beauty, and worthy to suppoit a structure hough ever so imposing The first ear the catalogue contcined only 12." names. There are now 170 in regular attendance, and in all prohabili. y there will be J500 names legistend be. fore the end of the year There have been several changes in the htcul'y since the last commencement. Our new Chancellor. Dr. Fairfleldl has shown him-elf a man of broad ami lib. era! views, of tine culture, ami pos-e.-s- intr that genuine cuthi'sia-m and kern judgment necessary for so grei.i a woik. I he other new im mhersof he Faeul y Prof, (.'oilier ami Eim-rsim, and Lieut! Dudley, not only ci mc to us well lectin, m uleil. bin have proved themselves to be men well qualified in their s-veral de. pariments of hih-r. The Itegents wisely concluded to open the Military Depart, incut tills ear, since in doing so they incur no additional expense, neither Is there any Increased burden on the gen. eral government. Their policy has been io open the several departments, s the funds of the University allow, and the ti.iiis ami occati.uia lUniiiud.
