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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1880)
NO. 1. EDITOIUALS. 11 to say tlmt our predecessors lmvo labored most faithfully to innko it rank with the torctnost journals in the land. Tlie re quired abstract matter has always been in prompt readiness, and tlie Editorials and Locals have boon ovorything that could bo desired. The Hoard of Managers took a deep interest in every move, in every prop osition looking toward the furtherance of its welfare. They nover hesitated to make a sacrifice of time and labor whenever called upon, and not an instance of dere liction of duty is mentioned. But there is a grave fault and one of long standing, which has given birth to many merited complaints. If the managers are not in the wrong, at whoso door must wo put the blame? "Wo dislike to answer the question as it deserves, but wo suppose thero is not an editor of a college paper in c.vistenco who has not had the same complaint to en ter. Tlie root of all evil in this case is not money, but rather the lack of it, and as the students are expected to constitute the larger uumbor of subscribers, thus furnish ing the groatcfr part of the capital neces sary in keeping alive such a magazino as thu Studknt, wo logically conclude that they should receive the brunt of criti cism. The Studknt is a patient, and is afllict ed with a linauoial disease, for which u remedy must be found. We, as physician, have felt its pulse, and are certain wo un derstand its symptoms. In our prescrip tion wo advise each non-subscriber to tako three drops of patriotism every morning for a week, or until his conscience informs him that the only remedy for the disease is a one dollar bill taken from his pocket and delivered into the hands of the Business Manager, K. 1. Unangst, who will see that tho funds are applied in tho right di rection. By a little exertion on the part of thu students this paper can be made a paying concern, instead of a debt con tractor. All wo ask is a littlo encourage ment; as to the rest wo shall do our wholo duty. BOARD OF REGENTS. "Wo formerly denominated tho military drill as a thorn and it pierced tho sido of every student who was compelled to shoul der a musket. For somo reason or reasons known, perhaps, to only a few of thoso who were drafted, it has becomo a crown which not only thoso who must drill, aro anxious to wear, but oven tho ambitious Preps are clamoring for it. That it can be, and lias boon, mado a success, is plainly exem plified in the cfliciont management of tho present instructor. All that is really es sential and necessary is to gain tho interest and respect of the student. After this is accomplished, there is no need of other plans. Wo suppose the Board of Regents in their last meeting reasoned that if the drill could be made still morcattractivc, so much the bettor, and at tho suggestion of the wise and far-scceing Dr. Fifiold, a report was adopted, "requesting our dele gation in Congress to labor for a law au thorizing the annual appointment of a ca det to "West Point Military Academy from each of tho Agricultural and Milita ry colleges that hold a land grant from the United States." itfow this is an ob ject of very much consequence, not only that tho students join tho companies, but that they vio with each other to see who, by his thoroughness and prollciency at tho end of each college year, shall bo ablo to register as Cadet at West Point, with tho favourable prospect of reaching tho piano of a Sherman or a Sheridan. "Wo aro glad tho Regents have opened their eyes to this once knotty problem, and intend to uso porsuasion rather than com pulsion. Thero is no reason why tho Military department should not bo one of the most important factors in tho Univorsity, and when Congress passes a law resembling tho ono requested, wo oxpeet to see ovory male student ambitious for a cadctship at West Point through the agency of the
