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I a xo. iu. KniTonrAi.8. 220 octs. Wc arc uvvnru that it may be said from tliis, that we underestimate the val ue of class lectures. Hut there remains considerable difference between a pre pared lecture add rambling talk in the class-room. By the second method, the student is thrown upon his own responsibility. The topics assigned arc to be mastered be. fore the recitation, not iu the class-room. Here, the dillerence of opinion that re sult from different authors are leviewed, and their respective merits noted. This method, it may be said, demands hard and tedious study ou the part of the stu. dent. We readily grant it, but we are in clined to believe that he who thus put. sues a study, leaves it with an accumula tion of knowledge, practical, eflicient, useful. True education must then belong to the latter method. Though it may appear an irregular method of prooeduie, yet is it indicative of accuracy and compe tent scholarship. The earnest student can not but welcome its introduclio'i to the State University of Nebraska. We would once more urge upon the students the duty of their subscribing for their College paper. We have spoken of this two or three times, but lor some rea sou our remarks seem to have had little elTcet. Perhaps it may be from the fact that we have not made the Studknt as in teresting and valuable as thvy think it shoud be. To this wc reply we have done the best we could with the ability aud icsources at our command. Thiee or four persons cannot give sullicient time to make a paper valuable or diversilled in contents, especially when they feel that they have neither the moral, mental or fl nancial support of those whom they ate laboring to represent. When only about forty out of two hundred and twonlyfive students take interest enough Jo subscribe for the paper; and a much less number cau be prevailed upon to write for its col uines, there is not much encouragement for the editors to work. You may say, the nune honor to them if they succeed. But you must remember there is som.6 thing to do in school besides work for honor. The editors have the sittne less ons to prepare that you have, and do any of you want to give your whole time for the little honor to bo gained? Tube sure, most of the students read the paper, but at some other person's expense Is this right? AH seem to be anxious to know when the next number is to be out, n w if they were only as anxious to know whether their subscription had expired if they ever had subscribed whether the editors were supplied with copy, or whether all the interestiu: events con stantly taking place were recorded. Thk Si udknt could be made both better aud target. We do not to complain of all; son' have ever stood ready to help to the best of their ability, but of the majority .we arc sorry wc cannot say this. As this is our last issue we fee? free so urge all to give the paper a more hearty support than it has had iu the past. By doing so you not only increase the reputation of tlie ed itors, but you also increase the iniluence ot yourselves and the University. Never since our connection with the University lias the interest taken iu Socie ty work been as earnest and practical as during "the present term. This intetest if it continues will soon show itself iu the character of the scolarship which will be developed among the students They will have better command of themselves be fore a public audience, an ease and ae curac3'of expiesion and thought, and finally a capacity lo think ami reason for themselves, which the regular course can not give. If one gains nothing moie in these Societies than the power to think on his feeU and lo expiess what few thoughts he has iu a clear and concise form, the time thus spent would be am ply repaid. But this is not all, for iu some of tlie debates we have luid this teim, the debaters have studied their sub- !J r A