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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1882)
THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. The Elementary B.itany class will meet but three times per week until the daisies bloom when tliu usual amount of work will be taken up again. Oscar Wilde will lecture at Omalia on the 21st of 111 in month. It is expected that a special train will go up, and it' it docs a number of University folks pio. pose to attend. The "Rising Stars," formerly the High School base ball club, is now transferred to the University and meets on the South Liucoln ball grounds. This is a strong club, with Shepherd, Stout, Scott, McCon iga, Fairfield and others, and wo hope to hear of some good games. The report that the Preparatory girls hare sent for n foot ball with the intention of funning a team to compete with the young gentlemen, is undoubtedly false. They find .suillciciit exercise lor their kicking propensities in attending to the hooks on the walls of their dressing room. Ten dnys vacation, commencing the 24th. How will it be improved? What will you do? Frankly, the best thing you can do is to do absolutely nothing. Plans for study in holidays ore seldom carried out, and if so are only detrimental. Hoi idays are given for rest and with restful ease they should be occupied. In chapel last Tuesday morning. The Chancellor observes the disorder in the rear of the room and remarks that he is obliged to hike the t nines of four students for that offense. Instantly foriy-six young men and and thirteen young ladies begin to feel uncomfortable and wish they had been a little more circumspect in their behavior. Mr. Dlehl, who is u member of the Ben. iet militia compau', was hunted up by liis comrades when they passed through here on their way to Omaha, and made to 0 up to the strike with them. They say be wus so terrified when woke up in the middle of the night that lie tried to got bis legs into his coat and unlock the door with a looth.pick. Chancellor Fairfiold's visit to the State University of Minnesota at Minnesota at Minneapolis and to Carlton College at Xorthflcld, was very pleasant. At the first he lectured in the University chapel, 81 die other addressed the Y. M. C. A. There are not many students at Minnesota, but they have a fine building of brown "one and u campus of forty acres. The large class in English, numbering about fifiy and reciting in two sections to Miss Smith, are finishing Abbot's "How 10 writo clearly," and are about to com j'leuce "Butler's Practical and Critical Grammar," an excellent and highly reo- mmende-l work. It is from n Louisville publishing house, written by a Kentucky man, modem in thought and style. The Freshman Gorman class have just waded through their semester examin ations. They had the following verse to render into prose and describe every word in it: "Und kiiin tch ihm nichl ein Retter willkommen erschciue.ii so soil michderTod ihm verdinen." The boys said that when iliey got through they felt like walking etymological diction aries. Prof. Church's lecture In the Opera House, (or the benefit of the High School library, was very interesting, his subject being "Charles James Fox and the Amer. ican Issue." After tracing the growth of the English constitution, he told in vivid lamruace the story of Fox's connection with it and tlte American Revolution, cou. eluding by advising a monument on our soil to liis memory. Many were the inquiries at Omaha during the strike if the Cadets were not coming up. Tluy are not a part of the National Guards, (as the Cadets of the University of California nre,) and so can not be called out by the Governor. In case there was trouble in Lincoln, how ever, we doubt not that our boys would turn out very quickly, as there is no militia company at the cap'.tal. In Professor Church's room has just been put up a very fine head of Laocoon, which was imported directly from Paris, having been ordered sometime last fall. It keeps company with Messrs. iffisar, Viruil ic Co., and is more particularly for the Class reading the ncid, though these plaster casts will all and always be of per mancnt art interest to the University. We will have an art room some day. The plan of delivering the Studekt at the University building, instead of through the post office, is to be continued until further notice. We find that this system is less lnborious for our manager and the postal clerks, and has the merit of being more accurate. Hereafter the fight ing member of our staff will hand you your paper if you are in the building on the morning of publication. Otherwise the Student will endeavor to reach you through the post-office. The scrap book belonging to one of the editors of this paper haa attracted consid erable notice while lying on tlio library tables, and we understand that several similar books have been started. The plan is simple and easily carried out. In this book have been pasted all newspaper articles concerning the University since 1877, all programmes, all college cards aud'ticicets, with various other scraps pertaining to this institution. The book is now a full and interesting history of the school. Miss Maggie Dawson, of Plattsmoulh, was married to Mr. Geo. E. Dovey of the same place last Sunday. Miss Dawson, it will be remembered, was the very good looking young lady who took the part of the "Queen" in the operetta of "Snow drop," which was produced largely by University talent, and under Miss Roger's direction, some four winters ago. Des Moines Campus: E. B. Fairfield, D. D., L. L. D Chancellor of the Univer sity of Nebraska, has recently been on a lecturing tour to the Slate University of Minnesota, ut Minneapolis. The Arlel,tic college organ of that institution, has the follo'ving: "Dr. Fairfield has the happy faculty of pleasing while he instructs, and com mands the close attention of his audience. His lecture contains clear statement, large learning, powerful description, richness of imagery, magnetism of manner, and telling hits that " bring down the house." The classes for the June exhibitions have already been chosen. Here is the Palladian programme: Recitation, Miss Cora Dooli tie; Orations, B. B. Davis and R. L. Marsh; Essay, Miss Clara Parks; Invective, Miss Kate Jones; Eulogy, J.N. Dryden ; Debate, Miss Emma Smith aud D. L. Clark The Union class is as fol lows: Recitation, Miss Nellie Lett; Essays, Misses Flora Frost and Narcissa Snell; Review, G. W. Bolsford ; Orations, Mi3s Minnie Codding and C. W. Pierce: Debate,' Jesse Holmes aud W P. Sullivan. Two of our alumni who reside in Liu coin were victims of a rather mean prac tical joke, n few Sundays ago. The ex-co-ed was visited on the night in question by the stalwart alumnus. They were spending the evening very pleasantly, not thinking of the flight of time, when the old alarm clock in the next room, which is always set for 4:30 iu the morning, went off with a resounding Whir-r-r rhll The young man turned pale, made a wild grab for his Hat, and was go no without even bidding the young lady good night. When he reached his room and found the time tc be only 10:80 p.m his remarks were equal to the occasion. The University Athletic Association Is at last fairly organized. This auspicious event occurred Wednesday evening of last week, when the bruisers, to the num ber of thirty or more, after kicking each other for awhile in a social game of foot ball, repaired to the building and pro. ceeded to organize. A brief but pointed constitution was adopt jd and a full set ol offlcurs elected. They are as follows: Pies., N. Z. Snell; V. Pies.. Fred 8hep herd ; Sec'y, Don Claric ; Proas., Ed Miller: Custodian of Property, Will Jones. It was resolved to equip a gymnasium an soon as possible. Iu the meantime vari ous out-door games will bo introduced. ik