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f .A-S&i UfejLJfaalaU.iMa.ja1sa-t. HESPERIAN STUDENT. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. ac Vol.. X. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 2, 1882. No. VII. gjjiscclfanti. a? A SEXIOHIC ODE. My pony Mis of thoe, Emblem of liberty, To tlico I sine. Hook of my Freshman days, Worthy of fondest prnlso, Worthy of poet' layn, I'd tribute bring. My gallant pony, thee. Help to tho wearied bo, When "Ex." Is nigh. I love thy well-worn look, Thou gentle, little book, Down in some hidden nook, Silently Ho. Lot tribute swell tho breeze, And ring through all tho trees, Thy pralso prolong. Let Senior's tonguca awake, Let Juniors maalo'HiirkeOTtet .. Let Sophs; aii'dTroshmeu make A Joyful song. Hnrpcrs and Holm I to thee, Authors of liberty, To thfto wo sing. Horace, Demosthenes, Tacitus, Sophocles, Llvy and Homer, these, The horco Is Klngl ON SELF CULTURE. SECOND I'Al'EK. "It is a great loss to ti man when he can. not laugh," says Pr jf. Blackie, in his ml. wimble pamphlet on Self Culture, from which we quoted some sentences in the lust Student. Hut then he continues to iy Unit no man was ever mtlc groat or cnoil hy a diet, of broad grins. There is costlier sign of a shallow -mind tliati to Mwujs see tlio ludicrous side of things, for the ludicrous is always on tho surface. Of Memory, this aulhor says llral no iun should hope to remember what ho ub vaguely and indistinctly apprehends. As helps to memory ho suggests: order will classification, repetition, causality, assm-hite ideas, written records. To speak fi'in u pnper has a tendency to weaken tlif memory, oyt to retain stores of written i' printed leeord', enables a man to com. Wiuitl his treasury ot iinj moment. ()t" public speaking lie says, with Soc rates, tint If a man has joincthing to say l" will know how to say it. Avoid tho slnvorv of pnpor A enrd with poinds on m is aiyild at first, but it is better to (lis- lensu uvea who mis. ijuutv your uuui nco directly in llio face. There is no better school than the debating society. "Practice in this will produce dexter- ay ; dexterity will work confidence; and Sio bashfulncss and timidity so natural to a. young man when first colled upon to Address a public meeting, so far as it harms his utterance, will disappear. Ac complished speaking, however, like 'marching or dancing, is an art, for tho X'Xerciso of which, in many cases, a special training is necessary. f Stick to the great books, tho original .hooks, the fountain heads ; there arc only fellow in eacli department. " How many tens ot inousamis ot nooics on unrisuan Cieolouy have been written, which if all burnt to-morrow would leave Christianity Nothing tho worse, and in some points I essentially tho better." You must step up to the big hooks by little books, he saysf therefore do not despise lliem. But be ware of reading by llio mere method of ctam. " Cram is a mere median ical oper ulion, of which it reasoning animal should bj ashamed " " The exccp'.ion to systematic reading is made by predellclioi.. If you feel a strong natural tendency toward acquainting your solf with any particular period of history by all means make that acquaintance (3hc link in the chain, firmly laid hold of will lead to others." But it is a mistake tj narrow one's work to professional studios, BroiUtudien, as tho Germans call ii! What somo think to bo useless orna mollis are often the most valuable aids to future professional activity, as is seen in t!?fj study of languages. C. C. C. LECTURES AND BEER DRINKING IIEN one receives an unusually good letter from a friend, provided its contents arc not private, it is pleasant to Wo others enjoy it. Wo take tho lib erty of printing somo extracts out of a dclighttul letter from Mr. Paul Wilcox, a graduate of "Asbury," Greencastle, In. dlana, now at Berlin University. After remarking o tho delay in the beginning of tho semester, which although udver. ti6eU for Oct. ,t5th no professor com menced to lecture before Mto 24ih, out- friend says: "Tho matriculation is, in itself, a rich experience. About 200 of us were ushered into a large room. An old, white-haired man, having my passport in his hand, asked me my name and whore I was from, then handed mo to his right hand neighbor. This was tho great Gree his torian Curtius. He wanted to kno ny name and where I was from. Ho ga1 no a certain diploma and handed me o to No. 3. This individual didn't frighu mo very much. Ho simply wanted to know my name and where I was from. Having got used to this question I could answer with considerable ease. No. 3 wrote tho facts in a large register and passed mo to No. 4. This gentleman only wanted to know where I lived in Berlin. I volun. tcered to tell him where I was from. I then became tho victim of No. 5. He gave me a pen, placed a big book before mo and requested mo to write my name. and where I was from. If I ever become President of the U. S., the Berlin Univer sity will bo in full possession of my name and natal place. No. G was the practical msn of the assembly. Ho appeared to know my name, and simply asked mo for 18 marks. Ho gave mo some forty doc uments, one, a card admitting mo to all places of interest and amusement at half price, another a book in which each prof, essor whoso lectures I had determined to take wrote his name. The lectures cost from five to eighteen dollars per semester. Very cheap, considering that each man is an authority on tho subject upon which lie speaks. At lectures, Hie professor seats himself on a little rostrum auit quickly begins to speak. If a student comes in Into ho is hissed in a spirited manner. If a lecturer talks loo rapidly ho Is immediately hissed, begs pardon and is more careful. One famous old follow tangles himself fear fully in long German sentences. I lnivo been listening to him for three weeks and am just begi to have a faint concep tion of wiiatho is talking about. I have attended a German student's Kneipe object, toasts, song-singlng, friendly intercourse, and beer drinking. .. The one I attended was given in colo).wo tion of Prof. Viichow's sixtieth bir and twenty-fiflh year in the Un' Ab nit 2000 students and 100 i
