THE II E S P E K A N ST U D E N T.
"SPADES ARE TRUMPS!"
"A lime to plant ami a time to pluck up
Hint which is planted." Eecl. III. 2.
Another agreeable holiday has been
added to the few which this institution
possesses and a precedent established
which, if followed year after year, will
give us a beautiful campus and encourage
good feeling in the college. Governor
Nance having proclaimed Wednesday, the
10th of April, as a day for trecplanting
over the state, the students in chapel that
morning were asked by the Chancellor if
they would all assist in setting out aim
removing trees on the grounds if classes
for the day were suspended. The answer
being exactly what was expected, a unan
imous affirmative, impromptu exercises
were then commenced; reading cf the
pioclamation by Miss Codding and an
address by Clem Chase, after which the
plans of the day were laid out. It was
noticed that the young ladies had not
voted, so it was moved and passed by the
left side of the chapel that the ladies
should carry water for the trees.
cmaties and its limb of science and its
limb of literature and its limb of the
classics from which innumerable branches
spring, the branches ot a Univeisity edu
cation, covered with a (oliage the scraps
and leaves of knowledge."
In his address in chapel, Mr. Chase gave
the credit of Arbor Day to Hon. J. Sterl
ing Morion or Nebraska City, who offered
a resolution in the State Board of Agri
culture, Jan 4th, 1872, offering a hundred
dollars to the county agricultural society,
and a farm library worth .$25 to the per
son, planting the largest number of trees
on Annl lOlh. In April, 1874, the first
proclamation was issued by Gov. Furnas,
based on h resolution of the State Board
of Agriculture, but no proclamation was
issued after that until by Gov. Nance in
1880, establishing Arbor Day on the third
Wednesday in April. The idea appears
to be original with Nebraska and it has
since been adopted by Michigan and
Ohio. The speaker then gave statistics
showing the necessity of planting forests
and closed with a tribute to horticulture
and comparing the progress of a student
to the growth of a fee.
"Mother State lierself has u garden, this
sunny fair garden of the University wheie
she plants "her little saplings that they
may be trimmed and guided by the expert
gardeners she has employed. Green
enough are the cuttings when first set out
in this garden, tall and slender with
small promise of full growth; only a sort
of latent sap which needs stirring up and
good soil. With what interest may
Mother State and her gnrdenevs watch the
development of the young sprigs, as they
put out a bud here and a leaf iherc. get
ting firm-rooted in the rich soil of cduca
lion better able to withstand the blasts
of a blustry world, until, at last, the
young oak puts forth its limb of math-
Wonderful nnc'. interesting were the
discussions in the Palladian as to what
should be planted lor a society tree.
"Let's plant an oak," was the first sugges
tion but a pun on "O. K." killed it.
Someone proposed a poplar tree
because it was a pon'lur society. Nearly
all the younger girls were bent on having
a slippery elm though some hesitated
between that and a peanut tree, but a
private expression from the older ones
revealed a desire for the tulip. A Union
who bad crept in rashly ventured to sug
gest, a bus's. wood but was fired with the
injunction that he better plant an onion
A young lady who hates Greek wanted to
know what would come up if she planted
a Greek rook and a bright scion in the
corner suggested a Latin stem.
The afternoon was calm and sunny; the
grassy campus iilled with students. The
holes li-ul been dug and the trees
brought in from the college farm by u,
certain "committee of eleven," who
seemed to have had a good time. Out
cadet band was out and played indus
triously for every tree of importance.
The Pallndians first planted thcir's with
a speech by Chase, after which a big ring
of students hand in band circled round
the tree to the music of the baud and
cheered for the Pallndians. The same fun
was bad around the Union tree with a
speech from Snell. Then to the Senior,
class tree, where after a few words by
Olmsted, Sr., some mischievous girls
started the doxology. At the Junior tree
all the class biive one threw in a spadeful
of earth anil Wheeler spoke. The Soph
omores varied their exercises by firing off
guns nfier Do dun's harangue. ine
Freshmen tree was found to be a puny
cvorgroun, over which the hand played a
dirge and Churchill pronounced a funeral
eulogy. Even the Preps had their tree,
the biggest ono of all, and more jelling
was done here than elsewhere on the
grounds.
Two Seniors who attempted to put two
Freshmen into a hole found themselves
there instead, but a-ide from the excite,
me nt arising over this tussle, all was calm
and happy. Girls and boys went back
and forth from the well like Jack and
Jill to "get a pail of water." Some cute
co-eds lived up to the agreement of the
morning by bringing diminutive tin
buckets about the size of a lea-cup with
which they gravely watered the newly
planted trees and pretended to bo working
very hard. In the evening the boys had
an immense bonfire at the east steps mid
a crate of oranges, sent up by Lieutenant
Webster, was distributed among the stu
dents and their friends.' It was a big day
at the Univeisity; all the students worked
together, new acquaintances were formed
rand no little pleasure had.
"Thank (iod for noble trees!
How stately. strong nml grand
Thot-e bannered giants lift their crests
O'er all the beauteous land,
l'aleicd the hand that needless smites
Withered the vandal hand! "
Before our next issue the contest I12
tween the Palladians and our society will
occur. The courteous hospitality of the
Palladians which hist year made our visit
to Lincoln so pleasant, will, we trust, find
a parallel in our reception of them on the
12th of May. Donne Oul.
The question of adjourning the Pal In
dian society until Saturday evening, in
order to attend the festival of the Union
society, was the cause of much disputa
tion in that rather fond-of.disputation
society. About half thought the society
should adjourn for the Unions; another
about half thought that very bad policy.
It was finally settled Friday noon that the
society should have a short programme,
adjourning at nine.
The class in Parliamentary Law are at
present engaged in legislative work, and
femful and wonderful are the doings of
the august body. Last week the monot
ony was relieved by memorial exercises
011 the death and burial of a bill provid
ing for the distribution of seed corn
among the drought sufferers of Kansas
and Nebraska. Mallory, who advocated
the passage of ihe bill, and Yates, the
leader of the opposition, delivered the
addresses. Mr. Yates offered the foil w
ing touching lines in memory of the ill
fated Seed Corn Bill:
Ocar Wild came yefetcrday,
To weep with us In his fad way.
He couldn't stay, he had to go,
Our cant-lion stoves depressed him so.
Though his absence we deplore
Some other things do grieve us moro;
And here we fall our dusty tears
1'or lhat which nromleeu many (y)cars.
Noblest thought of grandost minds
With men unkind reception finds;
Ideas even from the moon
Are stabbed to death or hont back soon.
By this certain fate or all
Tho llfo wo mourn was doomed to fall,
- But iimor failed to do Its part
'Till votes unholy broko Us heart.
Weep, O Kansas and Nebraska,
It's naught but just 1b why we ask ye;
Tho friend of both tho' mallcomeant
Was told to go and go It wont,
Best in peace. Old Seed Com Bill!
'Tie true you're dead, but 'gainst your will.
In tho hereafter Jtallory may
Boll tho stone from your grave away.
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