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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1880)
wmmmn THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. t I N BV1 , Tlio societies uru soon to moot ouch other on tho bloody nronn for u literary contest. The champions hftvo not yet. till boon choson. Their iminos will bo published in our next. Tho next time vc make a quotution from the Genniin, it must bo very tin. portnnt. One of our Gorman instructors says that it is a disgrace to the language to have it Haunted before tlto oyos of tho public in such poor company as plain United States. When the Cadets declared that they would not go to Omaha and thou unani mously decided to attend church in a body on Sunday evening, it looked very much as if a reformation was beginning. But when one boy apologetically re marked that "of two evils wo chose the less," our faith was somewhat shaken. If the scissors and paste-pot editor of that metropolitan sheet, the Lincoln Daily Tunes, will come back to the University and relieve us of our onerous duties, the faculty and students will arisa as one man and call him blessed, while wo will sneak away to our "native corntiold" for the improvement of our complexion. A pedagogic Sophoinore.'boing seated at table by the side of one, was requested by another young lady to pass the potatoes. He answered "Yes, if it is about your lesson." An explanation developed the fact that the gentleman had imagined that he was "leaching doestrick skulo" and that the young lady had asked to speak. Query: why such absent-mind-cdncss ? And now tho fact obtains" thai if two boys' are seen quietly throwing and catch ing a ball within tho campus, they are at once summoned before the Faculty; but if a herd of cows sees lit to come into the enclosure, tear up the walks, trample down the llowers, and browse the trees, it is treated as a matter of no conse quence. Verily tho physical servitude in winch we arejhold is greater than that of cows. Tho question as to whether mental cul ture increases moral courage has boon settled in the negative. For proof of the above lot a mouse loose in tho same room with a certain young lady Senior. When the experiment was tried the y. 1. S. screamed two or three times and then quietly went on to explain "that tho time down a scmicycloid is always tho same." She will jo enrolled among the heroic women of history. A few days ago two members of the surveying class were ordered to calculate the distance from the University to tho Capitol. The next day when asked il hoy had performed their work they re plied that tho distance to the Stato House was of no practical use but that it was just 1100 feet to tho Dormitory Tho host part of all is that one of them began boarding at the Dormitory the very next day. Boone county must bo a Utopia. A new student from that county had frequently heard the boys talk about bring "7mmnZ." He reasoned that, as University students used the word, it must bo found in tho dictionary no looked for it, but strange to say, had o give it up. Now he goes around inquiring of every olio he meets the moaning of tho word. To settle all further diillcultios wo would say that "mashed" is syiionomous with sleepless nights, long meditative walks, sweet dreams, bad lessons, absent-mindedness, summons to appear before tho Faculty to answer to the charge of neglect of duty, wise nods as you pass by, with a sudden awakening to the fact of a term mis-sponl, a cause lost, and one f;inoie fool in tho world thmi you had before thought. (Yc Local has evidently "boon there him self." Printer.) At a meeting in the Opera House a few days since gioal amusement was caused by tho highly original method with which a certain gentleman treated the Opera chairs. Ho quietly sat down on the round without taking tho trouble to un fold tho chair. Hut man's endurance is somewhat limited, and alter tiring the llrst chair he quietly escoiised himself in the next one in the same manner. Then it was that his countenance was brighten ed by a smile ol triumph. But his effort to appear cheerful was a melancholy fail ure. This chair grow lired more lap idly than tho first one. He thought: It unad visahlo to change to another place so soon, so he began a systematic shifting of his position! This was kept up at regular intervals throughout the lecture. The in stallment plan may be a very good one theoretically, but practically it "- not a success. Of course this gentleman knew well enough how to sit down, but he wanted to be eccentric. If ho enjoyed it as well as the rest of us there is no cause for complaint. OMtuury. This issue It is necessary to perform one of tho painful duties of life. It is tocliron iclc lite death of our much esteemed fel low student, Mr. Owen Q. Adams. Mr. Adams was born in Goshen, Elk Hart County. Indiana, Jan. 0th, 1852, and died Oct. 18th, 1880, aged 28 y'rs. !) mos. anil 12 days. He had boon connected with tho University a good pari of the time since 1871 and, if lie had lived, would have graduated next June. Mr. Adams was a faithful student and from boyhood has been an exemplary Christian. In the University none knew him but to respect him. To be cut ofrjust at tho opening of a promising career seems hard, but it must be remembered that our destinies are controlled by one wiser than we. During his sickness of nearly four weeks ho was rational only at long intervals; hut sit those times he showed that lie was prepared for death and when the sum mons came ho met it with tho faith of a true Christian. He leaves fond relatives to mourn his loss. Tho funeral services were hold in the Chapel Wednesday morning, Oct. 20th. After tho sermon a procession was formed to conduct tho remains to tho B. & M. depot for removal the home of his parents at Hastings. The procession was he-ded by the U. C. Band followed by the Uni vorsily Battalion, of which the do coased was a member, the hearse, mourn crs, Faculty, and students and friends. 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