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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1881)
?:'. VStfc -..T-., ,-. Mn- THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. The Senior unci Junior Latin classes lliui are together this year have just fin ished the " Fair A.ndrian " of Terence and arc 'about to commence one of Plan tils' comedies. These authors are very seldom read in American colleges. Wheat, the photographer, who has " taken " any number of our students says that a University girl's nose turns to the left and a University boy's nose to the right. Therefore if a boy follows his nose lie will be right and if a girl follows her nose she will get left. The names of young ladies in the Uni versity are written high and low on the i college walls in an utterly disgraceful manner. The young boys who thus ex pose by public eucilliugs the names of their lady fricnd3 ought to bo thoroughly ashamed of themselves. First Frcihic, "Good night, honey." Second Frcshie," Good night, de.ir whoso ducky are you?" "I'm my ma's ducky, whose are you?" Dm't like to tell." Scene closes by Fresh. No. 1 singing No. 2 to sleep with such nursery rhymes as " Rocky bye a baby," etc. Just listen and we will tell you where to go for appropriate holiday presents. First meander down to the Post Olllco and then follow your nose across the street to J. B. Tiiekoy & Co's mammoth jewelry establishment. If you cai't be suited there your case is hopeless. He's a big, fat student, and thought a walk before breakfast would do him good But lie made an awful break when ho re. turned home by going into a house in a row that looked exactly like his, and go ing up stairs and going into t ho room that matched his room and oh, my! The nuisance of wall scribbling is be coming shocking in its boldness. From the first floor up, the blue calcimined walls of the University are defaced with all sorts of marks and remarks. In the third corridor near the bell ropotho walls aro black with vulgarities and obscene couplets. The copies of Plautus ordered for the Juniors are printed in Liepsic, and con tain no notes except a few observations in Latin. They are in pamphlet form, uncut odges, and the text interchange the V's and V'i in ancient manner. This edition is the latest ami best issued and is edited with critical care. The fence at the north-east corner of the campus is badly broken, two lengths bolng gone, so drivers find It convenient to take their vehicles through the campus by way of the foot path, tearing it up bad ly and making it rough for walking. Why is that place not fixed, as well as tho dilapidated front entrance to the Univer sity yard? Who was the fellow who missed so many questions in an examination that the Prof, got irritated and told him, " I declare I've got a dog at home that could answer the quostioii3 that have been given you." " Have you really, sir," answered the poor fellow amiably, " May I ask if you would sell him?" We've forgotten what class she belongs to, but she has been at the University some tune and is considered pretty. Go ing home from the Chancellor's lecture tho other night the conversation turned on literary topics. " Have you read Mer chant of Venus?" she queried. He con tossed that he had not. Two of our Juniors have had the pret tiest pictures of Lincoln young ladies in their albums, ro.photographod into a cab. in'ct. It makes a dazzling collection of beauties, and thoy call them "Prairie Flowers." An un poetical youth suggests that they now make a collection of boy's photographs and call it "Prairie Chick ens." We publish elsewhere a good letter from Dave Mercer to tho Student. II Davo would only permit us we would so like to print the private letter from him which wo received in the same mail. From it we should judge that he had a slight at tack of homesickness, because ho com. plains of a great absence of pretty girls up there and a great presence of fast young men. Tho Student had a handsome verbal compliment tho other day from a prom incut Omaha editor. Ho said, " Tho Stu dent is very neat and well written and I like to read it I nn most pleased witli its frank, outspoken policy. It is expected that the Student should criticiso when criticism is needed, anl you do not seem to bo afraid to do that. It has wonder fully improved I" Down at Opera House, between acts. Lively conversation going on. Slio: "Did Sheridan or Knowles wrlto 'Tho School for Scandal ?' " He: "Why, Knowles, of course. Sheridan was a General in tho army, you know, and never wrote any. tiling. Didn't you hour about his march ing thiough Georgia?" Sho: "Oh, I re. member now, but I always did get those two men confused." Joko down at target practlco, betwocn shots, by the inveterate joker. It's so awfully funny wo oau't keep it, you know. " If I hail a bird, you know a canary or cockatoo or something of the kind and it should Iobo some of its tail feathers - no, hang it, I don't moan that and it should break its wings that's It and get well again, why would It bo like that old heathen follow, Mercury? Because Mer cury's heels are winged, you see, while its wings aro healed I Good, Isn't it? " A young Lincolnite, whoso mustache is, iiko faith, "tho evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not yet seen," called on his prospective father-in-law, and gave notice that he intended marrying the old gentleman's daughter at an early date. " It had hotter take place on some Saturday, so that it will not in terfeie with your school hours," sarcasti cully remarked the old man. The Wyoming Monthly is tho name of a new magazine for students started at Buffalo, N. Y., unci devoted aim jst exclu sively to to the study of English liter ature. Representatives ot the magazine arc employed in ali tho leading colleges, who send in correspondence relating to tho schools. This makes the paper peculi arly interesting to botli instructors and pupils. The local ot the Student is rep reseutativc for Nebraska. The following verse, breathing spon taneity of feeling and a certain eonfo&sed aillliation with nature is found written in a Soph's album: May your ltfo glide down tho etrcam oftimo, vino.' Llko n bob-tiUTud clitckun on u hwucI potuto Further on, another autographist asks tho question, which must bring up cutting remembrances every time the owner of tho book glances at that page, "Do you 'catch on' to any more horses." One of the ocst friends that students have in town is Dr. B. fj. Paine, who is ever ready to assist a deseiving young man. Many a student at Nebraska Uni versity has been helped along in his course by "Doc," several have found a home at his snug little office, and others have been attended while sick with tho most tender care. The Doctor, as presi dent of the Y. M. 0. A., is in an excellent position to do good to needy young men. Tho dapper clerk has enjoyed a little more experience with University girls. One of thorn hud run in just at dusk when ho chanced to bo alone in the store. Afier hauling over a carload of slock sho said " Now, tliis is nice, how much is it a yard ? " Tho fellow was desperate and so, acting on a brilliant thought, exclaimed, " Only one kiss." " All, if it's so cheap I will take three yards," (dapper clerk's little heart goes way up)" and grandma will pay you." (Dapper clerk's little heart goes way down.) Tho youngsters of the University, or those who act like youngsters, though thoy be in upper classes, have been mak ing strenuous efforts to get into llio Uni. vorsity basement in order that thoy may get at the gas motor. Georgo is con. stuntly on the watcli and has to keep his (yes carefully " peeled," for tho .the mischief-makers aro alert Thoy have twice broken in the door of tho uorth collar and been discovered just in time. Tho - J
