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TUB HESPBRIAN STUDENT.
Published sonil-inonihly by Ilia MttdontH of tho
!S''lirtiikti Mate University.
Moni)y, .Ianuakv 1(5, 1882
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When tho government or tin institution
of high scientific repute employs for
nmny .successive years one of our profus.
irs, it certainly does honor to tho Uni
versity iih well as reflects gieat credit up
on the professor himself. Recognition oT
ability from such high authority at once
places the professor among the best scien
tists of the United States; and the very
fact that such a man holds a professor's
chair in University, adds to lis reputation.
But the point is that the interests of Hie
classes should not be sacrificed to a mere
name. The matter should he brought
before the Regents at tho coming meeting,
ami some capable aid appointed to serve
in case of a professor's absence.
Aoain tho question of the benefit to be
derived from elocution as taught in our
Universjty, thrusts itself forwiud. As
long an this branch is poorly taught, will
tliu staiiclni'i.1 remain low. Almost every
public speaker in the state who has any
reputation for eloquence, evinces the
most stoical indifference to every rule
taught in our University as being neces
sary to eloquence. How long will stu
dents continue to attempt to make pos
lures, attitudes and certain effects of the
voice pass for common sense? A single
grain of mother wit is wortli more in a
discussion than all the attitude thai a
man could twist nlmself into in a life
Mine If tl.c object of eloquence is con.
vh'lion, then what is more eloquent than
lonini! conwuln m-1181'? Rhetorical bom.
'tist and siifh nonsense makes a fool
1. 1' no one but ihi- orator hinrsclf.
Ok all individuals the conscientious,
plodding, textbook student is the dumbest.
His text book is the standard by which lie
measutesall things All he knows he
learned by rote, and as ho learned so ho
thinks. Ho believes all the ultimate good
of his life to be bound up in some cast
iron college course. When a professor
thinks to awaken In him an energy somo
what resembling individual and manly
thought, by drawing from a source from
without the text book, he immediately
blames his teacher for introducing irrelcv.
out subjects. When a discussion is entered
ii'lo, having in view the truth without
regard as to the statements of his text book,
he calls it dry. Most honor is due the
professor who leads the student to investi
gate and think for himself. The methods
employed, the personal qualities of the
instructor, are secondary matters. The
object of a college course, after all, is but
to learn how to think.
It has often been suggested that the
library be opened during recitation hours
All of the MudetiU who make use of it at
nil would be accommodated by such an
aiiangement; besides, it would afford a
place for si ml v. Many a valuable half
hour is lost to students because there is
no suitable room in which they can study
during vacant hours. Their rooms, often
tire at at a distance from the University
By the time they go to them and get fairly
at work, the hour is almost gone. It does
not pay to leave the University, nor does
it to spend thu time in the room of some
professor who is hearing a class. Few, if
any, can study when another is transla
ting Greek or demonstrating n proposi
tion in Geometry. To study one must be
where it is quiet. Hence, for the two
reasons that students may have a suit
able place for study, and the use of the
library it ought to be opened during the
mornings.
In judging of a man's life, visible
results are not to be unconditionally uc
e.epted. The very term success is capable
of many different interpretations. The
two principal ones are. first, tho life pro
duct've of the most happiness and good
Second, the life resulting in position or
fame the most eminent. In judging by
the first standard, the successful life may
bo known to but fnw; may have been 11
constant struggle with poverty, but tho
reward consists of the peace within. On
the contrary one's life may seem peculiar,
ly successful. Wealth, friends, name, in
short all things commonly supposed to
render life successful, may lie possessed
in abundance, and yet the possessor deem
his own life a failure. Since all do not
acquire fame, it ciiuuot be said that but
those who do, arc sueees-ful. This would
be to condemn the lives of the multitude.
Ho is trii'y successful who puts to the
best use his natural ability, and is kind
and considerate ! his fellow beings. To
him who dies with the clearest conscience,
has life been most truly a success.
Sinok the lat issue of the Student,
we have been pained to learn of the
death of Mrs. C. S. Chase, of Omaha,
mother of our local editor. The news of
her doatli was received with sorrow by
many of our students, to whom she had
had always been a friend and who weie
always welcomed to the hospitalities of
her delightful home; hut she hns now
entered the portals of another home, where
she awaits them and all the loved ones
bereft of the sunshine of bm- r...
She was a devoted mother, currying light
into the chamber of sorrow as only a
mother can. Her looks, her counsels, tho
sweet spirit of her life remains as a pier,
ions legacy. Or all the names ear ever
hears, the dearest and loveliest of all is
Mother." The angel of death on its
rounds will call for us all, sooner 01 later,
bill when the call is made for her, it loaves
11 void Unit can never be bo fil ed, and wo
can only say, "Thy wilj be done." To
the husband and son, left to mourn her
death, words of sympathy no of but little
avail to heal the wound caused by tho loss
of the dearest one on earth to them. Let
the future show how much she is honored
by them, who rise up and call her blessed
by peeking to have all her prayers in their
behalf come true, until they meet again
" in that home not made by hands but
eternal in in the heavens."
Aa the lime for examinations aproaches
those who have not made the beat use of
their time dur'ng the semester, begin to
inquire if their classmates and wonder
what questions will constitute the final
examination. Now is the season ol
"cramming," when midnight oil is freely
burned. This Is one of the evils a collego
professor has to contend against. For
those students who do not work dur
ing the semester invariably bend to it in
dead earnest (luting the reviews. They
know their only hope lies in handing in
a good paper. It may be urged, what Is
the difference when and how a student
masters a subject? Just this: when les
sons arc mastered each day, Ihc subject
treated of must be when the book is com
pleted. A review only fixes in the nieni
ory tho subject as a whole. It enables
thn student to grasp the semester's work
as it is entirely. The domiciled details are
brought together. The relallvo relation
of Hie pails are seen. All this, or nearly
all. is lost o him, who, when reviews
come, knows nothing of the subject. Ho
has the previous work of Hie semester to
do added to Hie legitimate work of tfie
review. A student only cheats himself,