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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1881)
- ' ' - - - - - - ..I .ill, mnrtu iftti - JTli. Ilium . Ai, " m iii II T UK II tf S P K It IAS S T U I) B N T. Of tlie class studying mediuovul history there are ten members and in a Into exam, iuatiou none received n lower nvirk than 85 on a scale of 100, many weie in the nineties, while thu highest mark was 07. A very biilli'int class. There has been some complaint that subscribers have not received the Student regularly through thu post ollice. II" sub. suribers will mention this to our business manager. Mr. B. F. Marshall, he will en deavor to have prompt deliveiy ensured. We clip the following from the VidctU lleporter: A. 0 Piatt a former student of the Uni versity of Nebraska, and a graduate ot the State University of Nebraska, passed thiough the city last week en route for Ann Arbor. He contemplates taking a Law course there. How quickly we forget the rules of arithmetic as learned in school is shown in thu fact that a piomineul member of the class of '81 worked half an hour on the following proposition, and failed to give an answer: If four men build a wall live ftet high in four days, how long will it take six men to build a wall eight feel high in seven days? Two fining ladies were chatting to gather industriously in German class. Prof, submits as long as possible and then comes down with terrible force and in his indignation scares the poor ofTendeis almost out of their senses closing his re proof with, "Iftheic were only two wo men in the whole world they cou d get together somewhere and talk!" All the students went to see the whale exhibited in Lincoln last week, and took a lesson in natural history. It surprised some to Hud now little they knew about that animal. One Fresh ic has made the astonishing discovery that it wasn't a whale that swallowed Jonah after all. Holy wiit inuiitions only "a large fish" that was prepared for thu feat. Davis geography class gets along swim mingly. The girls just dote on him and go do the boys. At least some hoys do, for the othor day one of them, who is "in lercsled" in that cla?s made approaches to Prof. D. in the following manner: "Now, Davis, if you if you'll just mark Miss 99 in Hus examination, I'll I'll treat you!" Wo d'd not learn whether the young lady received the mark or not. Our Cadet Hand accompanied Farragut Post, G. A. R., to Omaha, on the 7th, when that body wont up to the funeral of Col. Watson H. Smith. T ho baud boys looked and acted their very prettiest the whole day, returning to Lincoln about nine o'clock in the evening. The day at the metropolis was not very agreeable, rain nut sixteen-inch mud conspiring to make sightseeing almost impossible. The boys voted that city to be the uitlicst, worst kept place they had ever seen. The defacing of the walls of the Univer sity still continues, and the blue tinted calcimine is becoming sadly discolored. When a man finds his name written on a wall, either alone or linked with some fair maiden's, his immediate action is to rub it out This he performs in the read icst manner possible and at thu sumo time rubs oil about a square foot of the color. So all over the building we have these dirty looking blotches on the walls. If students haven't manners enough to cease such practices they should be taught man tiers. We have received the circular of a students' trip through Europe arranged by C. E. Emmerich of the Indianapolis High School. The party is to leave Indianapolis about .June 15, 1882, and return September first The expense of each person, including director's fee of $10, railroad and steamship fares, will not be above $:100. The tour emhrac-s Eng land, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, with a trip up the Rhine. I). W. Spangler, Secretary of the State University, Hloomington, is assist mil director. This seems to us to be a re markably cheap excursion. We never, until the other day, invaded the sacred precincts of the ladies' dressing room, but a carpenter being there at work we ventured in Astonishing tlte senb blings on those walls, various and enter taining the combination ol names! It seems to be a favorite amusement, this linking ot a boy's and girl's name with a significant " &." The one w hich appeared most Irequently was " Minnie." Which " Minnie " is it? The worst shock came, however, when we asked the carpenter what he was doing and were told, " Oh, fixing up hooks for the girls to hang their cloaks on. They kicked the old ones all oil'." The remains of Charles C. Hathaway wcro consigned to the grave on Saturday, the 5th, by tender hands. Impressive ser vices weie hold at the residence of the parents by Rev. C. C. Harris, rector of the nolv Trinity, assisted by the choir. Many friends of thu family and schoolmates of the departed were present. The body was escorted to the cemetery by the Cudct bat talion, of which Mr. Hathaway was a member during his attendance at the Uni versily, the baud playing a dirge, and wiu followed bv a large concourse of Ineiuls in carriages. Seldom does tn departure of one so oung call forth such universal expression of sorrow, and tlte bereaved family have been the recipients of all the sympathy and kind ofilces that it is in the power ol devoted and sympathetic hearts to offer. State Journal. The Palladian ojster festival in the Academy of Music, was, like all Palladian affairs, very well patronized and very well enjoyed. Tliete were excellent oysters, a candy stand and a fish pond out of which came a varied assortment of strange arti. cles. The scheme of voting, at ten ccn(3 a lmllot, for the most popular young lady, met with eminent success, over twenty six dollars being captured. Thebnlloting was recorded on a blackboard, around which was constantly gathered an eager crowd. The contest lay mainly between Misses Maude Million, Minnie Lett and Grace Mason. The latter young lady re ceivcd the title by 107 votes. Not one can start up the first line of "Over the Garden Wall," now but that half a dozen help him out on the chorus, such a favorite has it become. And how the boys do sing itl Zest? Zest is no name for it. Volume? Volume wouldn't halt express it; whirlwind wouldn't. And Charley Rising, dear me, you ought to hear him climb into the upper register with Dan Wheeler to boost, to say nothing ot Billy Jones' assistance. Then it's, Over the pardon wall, The ewceteat girl of alt; There never were yet Such eyes of jot, Anil you may bet I'll never forget The time our lips In klsaoa mot Over the garden wall! The German conversation class, on Sat urdays, is made wonderfully interesting by Prof. Emerson. He announces sub jects for discussion a week in advance, the members of the class read up care fully so as to be prepared to tell what they know and tell it in German exclusively.! This not only gives them a free use of the language but, from the nature of the themes, much outside information. For instance much general history is learned from a talk on the houses of Branden burg or Hohcnzollco, on the Prussian constitution or Napoleon's inllucncc in Germany. The next subject is the "Inllu encu of Gunpowder on Civilization," This is an elective, and by no means an easy one, if faithfully pursued. Several of our industrious, sober minded youths have got the phonographic fever and are struggling to muster the intricacies of Ben Pitman's manual. This fever rages in the University as regularly as winter comes around, and scraps of paper, books and even the walls boar mysterious cobwebs and sky-rockets. They can appreciate now what Charles Dickens says upon the perplexities of shortliand. "The changes that wcro rung upon dots which in such a position meant such a thing and in another posi tion something else entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles, the unaccountable consequences '
