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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1882)
linn -i ii n i - nm-" ift V tVf.'tLjiagfctiii T II 12 II E S P E H IAN S T U I) E N T goatls, lUdenlum dicere verum Quid vdatT Hon. Sat. 1. Bras coats mid blue buttons abound. Messrs. Foote and Culver are back with ns again and hope to stay awhile. The Analytical Geometry class begins the term with a membership of eight. "MUs Cora Doolittle, daughter of May. or Doolittle," is the way future notices will road. It is rumored that our Mr. G. T. Sprechor hns instituted an insurance com puny at Schuyler. The front walks have been rclaid with ashes. I low carefully everybody avoids thorn and takes to the turf! Chancellor Fairfield lectured on tcm. perancc last Saturday evening at Central City and preached on Sunday. The Union society are about to put their name up in big gold loiters on their bulletin board in the lower hall. For tardiness at recitation or absence from oliapol exercises the mark shall be three. Jtulcs on the Bulletin Board. Our broom brigade is becoming eel obratcd. It repeated the drill down town, (he other night, at the Baptist sociable. If the special session of the legislature is called the Inst of May what interest will be taken in the last examinations? Miss Fairfield has retired from the editorial chair, leaving Mr. Snell quite alone. Can the Hoard fill this vacancy ? Miss Luna Dundy and Miss Grace Mason are among those who have been obliged to discontinue school this sem ester. The class in Parliamentary Law still continues. The recitations are held in the chapol on account of the size of the class. The Seniors are laboring away on their graduating orations. It isj a good class and sve will expect good subjects, well treated. Miss Mary Campbell visited Wahoo during vacation. She rode iu a carriage from Wahoo to Valley on that torrlhly dusty Monday. The singinr; in chapol, led by Miss Kimball, is becoming bettor and more general every day. It is really onjoyablo to hear it, nowadays. James Conrad, of Omaha, n studont of two H'His standing here, has boon obliged to return home, not certain whether lie will ever return or not. He is going west. The electrical exhibitions in Prof. Col 1 in's room nowadays are verj brilliant. The professor is an expert in this. The Palkidian bulletin board has been lined with black cloth and looks as if it gone into mourning for something or somebody. Now all it needs is a sign at the top to tell what it is. A class has been formed in Book-keeping. Although properly belonging to the Industrial College, yet by request of sov eial students the class was organized under Prof. Culbertson, numbering some ten or twelve. "Do you expect students to contribute to the Student?" we aro asked. Cer tainly we do. Wc want all you can send in, crisp, appropriate articles. In fact, wc have almost given up, so many fellow students have wc asked for contributions Miss Emma Richardson, the instructor of painting and drawing in the Univcr sity, resigns her position in the fall to study at the- Art League in New York. Greatest caro should bo taken in the selection of a successor that this depart ment may be held to its standard. The gardener of the University posi. lively refused to state, when solicited by our reporter, what Mowers ho intended to put out on the campus this spring. The beds look frosh and symmetrical, anyway, and we may expect some beautiful floral effects. The art studio was thrown open during the sociable and made a pleasant ante room where promonailcrs could retire and examine the pictures. Chancellor Fair field and George Hitchcock also lent a quantityof stereoscopic views to amuse those in the hall. The class in French Revolution have been absorbed in their reading in conncc iion with their text book and the rcoita lions aro vivid and entertaining. The "Reign of Terror" lias just been gone over. It is doubtful whether tno remain ing time will permit an elaborate study of Napoleon. In the course of thoir reading tho Soph, o in ore Gorman class came across an extract on the "Laoooon," whereupon they bring in a very accurate bust of tho same and Prof. Emerson dehvors an Im promptu lecture, illustrating tho differ, onco between tho Grecian and Roman sculpture. Dan Wheelor is vory fond of the drama and will go miles to see a good play. During tho last vacation he came down to Lincoln from Plnllsmmith to go to the thoatro and went up to Omaha twice to Boyd's Opu u House. We will so? Dan figuring as handsome man in a stock company jet. The Pals came out in canes Friday eve ning and when tho Unions adjourned there was imminent danger of a cane rush, but it was prevented by the heroism of a few. Button-hole hoquots were thick at tho reception Friday night, from which flut tered the college .badgo of old gold bear the words "University of Nebraska." All seemed pleased with the badges. They'll come in handy when wo go to Crete. A wicked Freshman, without the slightest reverence for the sanctity of the classics, has changed with his deft pen, a sentence in the introduction to Lysias so that it reads, "There arc reasons for be lciving it to bo a confounded infernal lie on the part of the writer." The text roads, "an unfounded inference." Visitors to the University always make for the museum and find much there that is entertaining, but some of the best curiosities, ferns, bugs, flowers, aro in cabinets under lock and key. The mos-t interesting things there aie the first battle flags of Nebraska, which may be found in the north-west corner of tho first room. U. II. Malick, graduate of '74, Univer sity, now established at Bloomington, Neb., in the drug business, called on the Student this week. M. Malick was of the second class that graduated from this institution, the first being in '72. and none in '73. Those were the days when roll was called in chapel and students had to answer "Present" in good round voice It watt a daily hat Wan that. It was of gold and 1)1 uo And wai 80 pretty, yon Would think never grew The like o' that. Sho woro it on one sido, Did she And when naked where 'twas caught, She said, "Humph, 'fraid I ought To confoPB that it wan bought! " Don't you ecol Ed Miller, after returning to the Uni vorsity this term, found that the condition of his ankle would not permit him to move around much and so concluded that he would give up his schooling for the rest of this year, at least. It is really too bad to be obliged thus to leave one's studies, on account of h. game of foot ball. But accidents, you know, will happen. At a recent mooting of the Athletic Executive Committee it was decided to at onco institute tho pleasant custom of hold, ing several "field duys" each year. This day is one sot apart for special trials of btronglh and agility among the young gentlemen. A permanent record of tho running, jumping, wrestling and other matches will bo kept, thus making the day one of considerable interest. iVl
