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MgMfcia I I 1 - Jt -: R'.kT.WfPWWl THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. EDITORS. EDITORS-IN-CHIEF, - - - C. E. StRATTON AND II. W. CALDWELL. Associatk Editor, Miss May B. Fairfield. Local Editor, Sam 1). Cox. Business Manaoer, E. P. Unangst. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. KATES OK ADVERTISING. 1 copy per college your - - $1.00. 1 column one insertion - - .$ 1-On. 1 " six months .... 0.50. 2 squares " " 1.00. Single copy 0.15. 1 " " .50. Tlie Student($1.00)mh1 Litarary iY0to($l.OO)lo new subscribers 1.35, in advance. All articles for publication should bo addressed Editor Hesi'eiuax Student, Stnto University. Lincoln, Nebraska. All subscriptions, and business communications, with the address, should bu sent to K. 1. UN ANGST Subscriptions collected Invariably in advance. Advertisements collected monthly. (ditorinl. THE university. This term the University has its "boom" if the Student may be allowed to employ a phrase that is very popular among newspapers at the present. Not only is there a large increase in numbers; but there is also manifested a feeling of harmony, and a unity of action between scholars and teachers that has not existed for some mouths past. The present is an auspicious moment in which to drop all differences that have heretofore existed; a favorable opportuni ty for the friends of higher education to unite and drown the cries of the pretend ed reformer, and the groans of the chron ic grumbler. Reform is right in its place; but under the name of reform, do not let us drive out of existence the main stay of the Re. public. For higher education and an earnest study of the complicated anato my of a highly civilized society will alone preserve us from the loss of freedom, from anarchy and dissolution. But the people, it will be said, are the rulers in Ameri ca and they cannot all take advantage of this higher education provided at public expense. Let us examine this objection a moment. If higher education is not made easy of access, and within the reacli of all, it is simply given up entirely to the rich, hence an aristocracy of wealth is formed immediately. Even more; it will at once place all power in the hands of the monied class, since the educated intellect has in every age of the world guided and controlcd the affairs of men and of na tions. But while the free University stands with outstretched arms, eager to encircle in its grasp the poor as well as the rich, the people ever have adi reel influence in the guidance of the government. Not that the mass ot the people have much to do with its direction n they have representatives who have come directly from among themselves, and who are competent to perform all the duties that may devolve upon them, and also to resist all encroachments that wealth may attempt to make upon their rights. Free education, instead of creat ing an aristocracy is the surest means that can be taken to prevent its establish ment. With the chronic grumbler, who is ever ready to defame those that have achieved more success than himself, and who is always finding fault with wltat ex ists at the present time, wo have no sym. pathy whatever. But as long as they ex ist, they will have to be met, and convert ed if possible; if not, they will have to be buried under a public sentiment so strong