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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. the boys that is to any, young gentlemen room where they please and are under no restraint whatever. It is, of course, thought desirable that students should conduct themselves in an orderly manner, but it is held to bo of iar greater impor tance that their self-respect should not be lessened by efforts on the part of the Faculty to treat them as if they were boys, with the usual boyish weakness of pur. pose and proneness to mischief and to fall into vicious ways. This enlightened modern conception of the proper treatment of students seems to prevail at Princeton, the President of which institution is reported to have sniu the other day that he had never yet ex pelled a student. The Princeton students apparently learn self-respect by doing ex actly as they please. Of course they are exhorted to behrve themselves like gentle men, but there is a vast difference between politely inviting young gentlemen of 17 or 18 years old to bo orderly and decent in their hchavior and compelling them to he such. In the effort to cultivate their solf-rcspoct by acknowledging no restraint whatever, the Princeton students have for a long time offended the prejudices of dull Jerseymen, who cannot distinguish be tween the educational pursuits of earnest students and other oung rulllans. After frequent appeals to the Faculty to keep the students in order, which were very properly disregarded, the local Jerseymen have tin ally had resort to persecution and have heartlessly compelled more than twenty studious Freshmen to degrade themselves by appearing at the bar of a civil court. It is evident thai this is but the begin ning of a systematic attempt on the part of the Jerseymen to put a stop to the under graduate's method of acquiring self res pect. They insist thnt either the Prince tor. Faculty shall compel the students to give up lamp-breaking and gate stealing or that the law of the State shall punish the ho. called offenders. Brutal and igno rant as the persecutors have proved them selves to bo, it is diillcult to see how they can bo hindered from carrying out their purpose of protecting their lamps and gates. If the Faculty could for a moment entertain the idea of returning to the old system of college discipline and of pun ishing every undergraduate rioter by prompt expulsion, the anger of the Jer seymen would bo appeased; but as this is manifestly not to be thought of, the only course remaining open is the immo diute removal of the college to Central Africa or some other equally barbarous region, where the free untrammelcd Fresh men can cultivate self respect among congenial and approving bavages. THE HESPERIAN STUDENT Published Boml-monthly by tho students of tho Nobrnskn Stato University. Wednesday, Mahoii 1, 1882. EDITOltS IN OIIIKl" May B. Faihfikmj. N. Z. Sneli.. Local Editou, Clem Ciiask. ASBOCIATK ElMTOK WlLI. O. JONKS. HU8INKSH MaNAOKU, I). l' JUltHllALL. TKIOIH OF SUIISCUU'TION. 1 copy pur collogo year - - - - 1 " one half year y Slnjjlo copy IIATKW OF ADVKUTIMlNO. 1 column one Insertion - - - squares " " .... 1 " ... SI. 00. .50. - .03. S3.00. - .70. .11). All articles for publlcatl n should bo addressed Editor Hkhi'Kiuan bTUDKNT, .Statu University, Lincoln, Nebraska. All subscriptions and bus! nosB communications, with the address, should be sent to 11. K. MAHSIIALL. SubHcrlptlonscol lected Invariably in advance. Advortisoiucutr collected monthly. JgtlUorfal, pleasure that such an announcement is made a pleasure only equalled by the desire to supply the compositor with " more copy." Phok. Auohkv has returned and is again hearing his classes. This paper lias frequently given expression of its opinion concerning his prolonged absence. Its remarks were not directed against Prof. Aughey any more than any other professor whoso duty inclination leads him to neglect his University work for so long a time. Students feel the injustice of such neglect, and feeling it are not slow in forming and expressing their judgments concerning it. AnitANaEMENTB have been made for a second contest between the Hesperian society of Doane college and tho Palla dians of the University. Last spring, for some reason knownblo or unknown, the Ilcsperians carried off the palm. The University, having a better corps of in structors, better facilities and a better course of study, ought to contain the best students of the state. If m public exhi bitions lier representatives cannot compete witli those of inferior institutions, some thing is radically wrong. Either the most competctent have not been chosen, or those chosen have not applied them selves to their woik, and condensed, rounded and polished their productions. The responsibility of a right choice rests with the society; that of care in prepara tion with the representatives of the soci ety, yet not of the society alone, but of the University. Tho class chosen for the coming contest has tho wish and desire of the Student that they succeed; that they restore to the Univetsity the laurels that rightly belong to her. Thkuis has been some earnestness (lis played and more energy wasted on the part of some to prove that tho Hespcriuns were tho victors in tho Palladian-IIespor-inn contest of last May. Should the Stu dent venture an opinion o.i the matter, it would heartily condemn the judge win) made two mistakes in the simple work of addition. From these mistakes arose the conllicting statements that have been before the public By tho corrected fig ures tho Hesperians stand victors by one point and n fraction. The Palladians ac cept their defeat in a manly spirit. Tlioy lay no claims to honors which belong to their friends of the Hesperian society. "Did you call your brother a liarY" "Well, I said he was a book-ageut." Ciiaiitku Day, this year, was duly ob served. The remembrance of it will bo kept fresh in the minds of the present Board of Managers, at least. Thanks to those worthy numbers of the Association that made tho entertainment a success. By it ouough money was cleared to lift tho old debt that has hung like an evil spirit over tho paper an'' retarded its pros perity. Not within the memory of any student now in the University has the paper been upon so solid a basis or in such a prosperous condition. It is with We understand that an effort is being made Sy personal friends of Lieut. Dud ley, in Lincoln, to have him reappointed to his old command in the University. We hope the Regents before asking the Secietary of War for such un appointment will take into consideration the wishes of the students in the matter. During the three years Lieut. Dudley was hero the military department was in a deplorable condition. There seemed to bo a want of interest on the part of this gentleman in the students and in building up his de partment. It requires a man of peculiar make-up to sustain tills department. One who enters into the spirit and enthusiasm of his command; takes a genuine interest in tho affairs of the students; a moving pushing, progressive, active man, who wins the respect ami hearts of tho boys, more frdm tho admiration and nttracti n of tho commandant than from the author ity he possesses. Such requisites, in sonic respects, Lieut. Dudley does not possess. Doubtless a gentleman of lino military education and a very capable army officer, but with no words of disparagement or disrespect to him, viewing tho question from tho standpoint of tho true interests of tho military department, his career ol three years hero ought not to warrant his return. We tiro aware of tho high social position hold by him in tho city of Lin coln. But above this tlio true wolfare of the University is the first question for consideration, and wo might Bay tho only one,