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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1881)
THE II K S P K K I A N S T I ') K N T 1.1 Wlr 1 is Unit iionk about our business man supporting a family V AVc have for gotten it. Student's liciul quarters for coal at of. lice of Down- it Webster, 0. street 2d door woM of II 111 Clonk. (l(tlmmi. uNt(,rs, circulars and jackets, in immense stock at Ashby's, 0 ami 13th -.ln-ei. Iridic- men's, and children's underwear in all qualities and prices at Ashby's, 0 and 1!Mi street. Have you seou those beautiful Fischer piainis at VanMotcr's music store. Go and hear them. Charlie Stratum, '80, was visiting hero circus day. lie is Principal of the Ash. laud High School. S'udonN will find everything they need in the way of stationery and text book? at Fox fc Struve's. Largo invoice of hats and caps latest novelties, just received ac living & Co's clothing emporium. Mr. VanMotor has a line supply of gent's furnishing goods of 11 kinds at greatly reduced prices. Dark night. Feminine voice near the cast gate of the campus, "Why, your nose is cold, tool " H-ssh! T. Ewing & Co. has the largest assort ment of overcoats, ulsterettcs, dress and business suits in the city. Tris just d.)tes on "sweet young girls." But w hat's a "turkey rooster," Tris? Any relation to a chicken gobbler? Students are invited to call at T. Ewing & Co'a emporium, where they will receive Ihe best goods at reduced prices. Mr. VanMcter's variety of pianos and organs is most completed in all respects, and prices lower than the lowest. Davis knows all about circuses. Davis didn't ;ro down to see the "prosesh," however. He went down to mail it let ter. Harney's Cheap Store is the nhmsant re sort, students, where everything in Indies and gent's furnishing good aro sold at bottom prices. You canjlnd anything in the shoe line at Goodrich Bros. Goods the best, and prices ihe lowest 0 St., ono door west of Opera House. John Hartinan's address is Melrose, Montana Territory; care Robert Blickens defter, Hawgood's surveying party. Si. vernail is stiil lost. Howard Caldwell, '80, is a perfect pro. Humming dictionary. Ho must have glo. rious enjoyment regulating the English of the Lincoln High School. The Studknt ofllcc was swept out last Saturday. It will be the endeavor of our intelligent compositor to have it swep rcgularlv once a month after this Miss Anna Gillette, we arc very sorry to say, has been ill for over a week. Erysip. elas is the unpleasant malady which is withholding her from her classes. A new student lost his pocket book con taining $15 in one of the recitation rooms last week. He must have been a new student or he wouldn't have had so much. At Cornell Universit', Ithaca, there is a C. C. Chase, '83, who is first lieutenant and adjutant of the Cadet Battalion. That is a coincidence with Nobiaska to bo sure. Sergeant D. L. Clark has been chosen drum major of the band. Clark has got music in his soul and t,usinoss in his eye, and will swing the baton in a way to amaze the natives. The gallery of the chapel is mined into a hand room and looks very ungodly with the seats littered full of brass horns, band books, and cymbals with a bass drum tucked in behind. Since the publication of " statistics " in the last number there have been some in creases. Prol. McMillan has now 18 Greek pupils, of whom 5 are Seniors, 2 Juniors, 5 Sophomores, and G Freshmen. That prep, who thinks he can whislc like a flute and make- the halls hideous with his shrill pipings bad best sell out to the B. & M. road as a locomotive at tauhmeut. Or he might go on the tender. Dave Mercer writes to a friend here, "At last, one of my long cherished hopes is realized and 1 am u law student in Michigan University." Dave is estab lished at No. 10, Fifth street. P. O. Box 1878. If you are pleased with the Studknt, why not help it along by sending us u dol lar for a year's subscription. The Stu dknt is to be a live neiotpaper alter this and not a bundle of (try essays. Remem ber this. Treasuier L'chty of the Palladian is just tearing around after term dues. He has caused a number of members to be suspended already for nou payment and is just piling full the big iron time-lock safe of the society. On tne bulletin board is a voluntary recommendation of the Dormitory signed by boarders there. It announces that when the number of boarders reaches twenty the price of board will be reduced to $2.75 a week. There is no doubt but that under Mrs. Peckhani, the quality of fare has been brought up to "A. No. 1." Prof. Hmcrson has a pile of bound vol. nines of Ihe Augsbury AUogetneine Zi-i-tung, heavy enough to make a student faint at sight. I is said Hint beginners in German are given one of these vol nines to read through for the first excr. cise. Domic College wants another literary contest some limr in December, and in vites the University down there. They were talking about a game of base ball, but the weather has shut down on that. The game would have been by scrub nines. Awfully scrub on our side. Class in History of the Renaissance busily reciting. Fire-bull rings. Ingen ious Sophomore sees a way to escape his turn which comes next. "Professor, there is a large lire raging across the campus, near my room, and I tear my wardrobe may be destroyed I " Prof, graciously ex. discs Soph., who goes over to see the fire. His room was three blocits below the lire and his "wardrobe" was a pair of summer pants. The lonesomcst looking thing about the college is that old turning pole behind the building, sad relic of u once nourish ing gymnasium Occasionally an adven turous Fiesh or even a Junior in search of exercise, dares to swing from its dizzy height, or hang, nose downward, from the well worn bar. But it usually stands de serted, the winder of small boys aad the scorn of Hie large ones, holding out superior inducements for muscular dcyel opement and broken ribs, but receiving few bids. Like old wine that improves with age, so witli the Hksi-kiiian Student, the of ficial "organ" of the University of Nebras ka. -The last number of the paper which has been laid upon our debk by its busi ness manager, shows columns filled to the brim with news items mid other choice reading matter. We arc glad to know the Studkt how stands upon a solid founda tion and promises to make its mark in the newspaper world. The Journal wishes it unbounded success, financially and otherwise. State Journal Some of the cadets went out to target practice last Saturday. This is the score : Company A. Miller.. 30334 ia. Gregory, 4-1320-13. Iliggins, 4541210. Shophcrd,41332-lfl. Cheney, 33354-18. Parker, 32441-17. Bell. . . . 3434317. Parmelee, 0332412. Lewis . . 3044510. Fair 3433417. Knight, 4334418. Conrad. . 03344 -14. Myers. . 43543-19. Benedict, 4432417. Averuge, out of possible 25, 15.1) Company II. Sprecher, 32342 14. Frankforter, 44343 18 Wiggenhorn, 4333310. Hawley, 4443111). Stiicklaud, 4220210. Mc I Millan, 300003 Piper, 2442012. fit. WUJ