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IW lH IM1iiIIH IM Hi II II iN '"'" ' t. 180 LOCATi NEWS. VOL. VII. "" Altliougli tin stairs nre notup ycijnor the floors down in the Indies' lin'.l, yet the workmen say it is pcrlcctly legitimate Tor all young ludy students to vit.it nnd pcinmliulatu nil over the, building il they so desire. Wo understand tliat Clcmmcnts has i educed the price of photographs. Now is the time for students and every body to secure picluic of the very best quality for the least money. He has moved his car to the corner of P and 9lh, streets. A CAM) to students. The Brilliant Oil Stove for cooking, or with Pome at tachmenl for heating rooms, are especial ly recommended to students, who wish to board ihemsilves. Wholesale Jc Retail Store 23. 1 1th, Street. Lincoln, Nebraska. Tins following Soph(l) efl'usion was found on the tly leal of a singing book in chapel not long since. "I look in vain, he coinoth not. Oh dear! wlmt lioll 1 (lor 1 cannot ll-len rs I ought. I'nloSs tie Metros loo. One of the professor walked home from lliu II tihiuson' ciitcitainmout be. hind a couple of Uni..sity students, and what he saw caused him to temark the next day, to the young lady, that "You must have been either very tired or very cold last evening." Prof Howard assigns subjects for es ays to the membeis of his class in Eng lish Literature. This h an excellent plan, since by consulting other nuthoii ties than the text-book, it leads to a better understanding of the chief facts in Eng. lish Literal inc. The class exhibits com mendable zeal in preparing these essays. Why cannot the libraiy be opened more regularly V We cannot speak as to the feelings of the other students, but it is rather provoking to a student of Eng lish Literature, afier a subject lor essay lias been assigned him, necessitating thereby the perusing of a dozen volumes, to wait in vain until 3 o'clock for the li. brary to open The students of the Latin School, gave their second public exercise, Friday afternoon before a model ate sized audi ence in the chapel. The exercises throughout were very interesting and much above the ordinnry literary merit of such performances. The programme wis too long to particularize but consist e.l of essays by Misses Hardy and 01 m. stead, Messers. Walbridge, Hackney and Warner; declamations by Messrs Snell, Hairison, Reynolds, Wimberly, and Miss es Macdull and White. One of the ciiy drcss-makers tackled a copy of Loomis' Trigonometry, that one of the young lady students left in her shop, and thought it was a book of dress patterns. She struck Prop. V., in Spheri cal Trigonometry, and gazing on it said: "1 know what fichu basting on a purple polonaise is, and I've met with baiege cretonnes cut bias, but when it comes to making di esses for humpbacked women and trimming them with isosceles and and perpendiculars to the plain A, E, G I'm going to quit the business." " On Friiluj afternoon last, a meeting of the Student Association was called for the'purpose of considering a proposed amendment to the constitution. The de sign of the amendment was that all should be voters, who have been in attendance at the University during the college year, and who are also actual subscribers. This would materially modify the rule adopted by the Regents thiee years ago, limiting the voting members to college students whether actual subscribers or not. After a stirring debate on the con stitutiouality of the measure, the amend ment was lost. A. I). Williams in his paper the Cm tral Xebratkiun has a verysenfc.'ble article on the advantages to the State of Agricul tural Colleges, and urges that immedi ate steps be taken to make our's more ef fective. We are glad to have so able i knight of the quill to champion our iute ests, and hope his efforts may not prove fu
