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"'-'"-" HESPERIAN STUDENT. EDITORS. EmTOUS'IN-CIIIEF, - - F. 0. Mouton & C. E. Stuatton. Associate Eurroit, Miss May B. Faiufikld. LOoafj Eorron, Sam D. Cox. Business MANAomi, E. P. Unanqst. TEUMS OF SUllSCnil'TIOX. J copy por college year - - $1.00. lUTKS OF ADVEUTI8INO. 1 column ono insertion - - S4-0n. O.fiO. Ssuttnres u " 1.00. Single copy - 0.15. 1 " " " .50. The Studknt(1.00)iuu1 Literary Jros($1.00)io new subscribers 1.35, in advance. 1 six months AllartlcleB for publication should bo addresBod Kdltor IIesfewan Student, Stato UnlvcrMty. Lincoln, Nebraska. All subscriptions, mid buslncHH communications, with the address, should be xunt to K. 1'. UNANOST Subscriptions collected Invariably !:i ndvauco. AdvcrtlBomontB collected monthly. Tllf "STUDKNT" ASSOCIATION. What students constitute Tin: Iliisi'nit. tan Studknt Association? This qm-s-tlon meets us upon every ocot'sion, when the interests of Ihe magazine are men. tinned. And in view of t li is, it is now lime that the question should he definite ly settled. Previous to the meeting of the Hoard of Regents in Dee. last the Association consisted of the four classes of Ihu college of Literature, Se.i. eneo and Art, and the Junior and Senior ohisso. of the Agricultural collide. This boundniy line was made 1 the RcgcntM three yearu ago, and in oiiforinily wilh their decision, the AsHociallon passed a resolution accepting Ihe new basis of membership. Hut in Deo. 1878, for some cause never oillcinlly stated to the mnnugors, the Sri; nr.NT was removed from Ihe jurisdiction of the Regents by a vote of their own body. In oilier words the Stumsnt w.-vs thrown upon its own responsibility a position which It behooves ovory college journal to maintain. Since Ihe notion of the Regents in Deo. hist, there lias heen no material change in the Constitution of the AsKoelntioii. Hence the articles, relating to .nemborbhlp re main as before, established by the resolu tion of the Association and by prccidcnL For the action.-, taken by the Regents, dn not interfere with our legislation, in as much as the nature of their resolutions was to give us absolute freedom, holding us only responsible. Yet, there are some who think the Asso cialion is now composed of till the stu. dents of Ihe University, basing their argue men! upon the ground that the action of the Regents left the Association where it was before its restriction to the college cla?ses. Lei us have this matter settled before another election, when it can only he dc lei mined by a violent parly strife. If propitiatory students arc members of the Association, let the fact be known thill ihe old excuse, of not having any interest in Ihu management of the Stuimsnt, may bo obliterated. . COMPOSITION AS A MEANS. OF DISCI. PUNK. Tn scarcely any part of their work arc students more generally negligent than In essay writing. Imperfect' preparation Ih often made and sometimes none at till. The work is frequently postponed to the last day and then, peihnps, done under protest. In thus slighting tills duly, ono neglects