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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
Published semi-monthly by tliu students of tho
Nebraska Stato University.
Wednesday, Junk 11, 1882.
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Jgdiforfal,
The Student looks upon the many
things written and said concerning the
behavior of our students while ut Crete,
last month, as too childish and unfounded
to demand reply. Gum chewing we do
not defend, neither do those who wore
thoughtless enough to indulge in the
exercise on that eventful evening. Fur.
titer than this tho University delegation
behaved as any company of students
would when enjoying a happy holiday.
We think it an excellent showing for
the University that so many of the stu
dents are in whole or in part sell-supporting.
Some have regular work which they
carry on in connection with their studies
throughout tho year, while a large frac
tion devote their vacations to zealously
accumulating that which is necessary to
continue them in school. Such students
will noror compromise their Alma Muter.
Siie is proud of them, and woll she may
be, for they represent an important com
ponent of the future culture of the state.
The students have many times been
reminded that it is not a mark of the
highest culture to carry on conversation
during chapel exercises. Whatever their
religious toueuts students should have too
much respect for the opinions) of others
to disturb them in their devotions. In
chapol no less than in the church unnccos
savy noise is l hi outward expression of a
vulgar mind. Our exercises arc sliorl
and none are so young us to bo unable to
maintain quietness until the end.
Now that tho contest is over and
nothing was done to perfect arrangements
for sending a representative to the Inter-
State Oratorical Contest next year, it will
be necessary to devise some means to
insure concord of action among the col
leges of the stale. It is high time for
Nebraska to take her place among the
other northwestern states in these annual
contests. Why cannot a a committee bo
appointed at once from those institutions
which desire to be connected with the
state association to lay plans for selecting
a suitable representative!
As the end of the year approaches, we
recall the awkward situation of the stu
dents who Hied to go home last June at
one-fourth fare. All visitors from abroad
were favored with this reduction, but the
purse-poor student was obliged to pay
almost full rates. There was a misunder
standing on the part of the agents and
all students did not pay at the same rates.
We hope thai those who negotiate with
the R. R.'s this year will see to it that no
such mistake occurs again. When a stu
dent lias succeeded in saving just enough
to pay the reduced fare to his home and
discovers tint it is not reduced after all,
he is embarrassed.
Physics, and all similar studies, have no
place in a university.
Liteuauy Notes takes this paper to
task for saying thai "Most of the high
schools of the slale now aim to prepuro
students for the Freshman year." Like
honest people wo admit the assertion a
little too strong. Should the Notes re-read
the article, it would see that the writer
advocated the abolishing of tho
first preparatory year only. Is there any
school in the stale that lays claim lo the
dignity af a high school that cannot pre
pare studenls to enter the second propar
atory year of the Literary and Scientific
courses? No language, save the English,
is required, nothing but elementary
studies. There is scarcely a district
school but what could, if necessary, fit
students for the second preparatory 3 ear
of these courses. With the classical it
is some different. One year of Latin is
required. But it is indeed a poor high
school that cannot furnish this.
All that tho Student lias said the past
year concerning the relation between tho
high schools and the University it now
reiterates, viz.; Tho standard of admission
to tho University ought to bo raised.
Students have been matriculated that
brought into contempt the judgment of
the men who admitted thorn; (2) as a
sequence of tho first thoro is no good
reason for longer continuing tho first
preparatory year. (0) The Lincoln High
School ought to bo made the preparatory
department of the University. This, as
lias been before advocated, is the plan
adopted in Michigan. Tho older a class
of students there are 111 any university, the
better will the work bo done. Again,
Grammar, Elementary Algebra and
Thehe aro some tilings that students
cannot well discuss without secmim; to
reverse '.lie sphere of professor aim stu
dent. Methods of teaching a class is one.
Willi no excuse except the injustice done
the members of some of the higher
classes, tho Student ventures to make a
few remarks. The aim of a teacher
surely ought to bo to develop what there
is in a student, lo teach him to think lor
himself. True, there is a certain amount
of machine work that every child has to
accomplish. Hut this is, and ought to be,
done when a child. When lie can only
grasp the particular, and not the general,
then it may do to ask those questions that
can be answeied in a few sentences; it
might possibly be in order to give these
simple little questions, with the page n
which the answer can be found in the
book, a week or ten days before an exam
ination; it might be excusable to ask
these children of eight or ten years of
age a third or half of these petty question-,
and call it an examination of the work
done during the term; all this in its
proper plaee the grammar school i
well enough. When such methods arc
used in teaching Juniors and Seniti,
especially tho hitler, of a state university,
they lose much of their force and can
only appear ridiculous in the eyes of the
students.
One text-books may discuss a subject
well and thoroughly. It, like the utlu-i.
may do for young students. But ti
advanced ones the day of one text-bo. k
is pust. It is only a guide which serves
to indicate the order in which suhjecis
arc taken up. One man's opinion ncu-i
made anything true. Nor does one
author's assertion, however great a
scholar ho may be, carry conviction
to the true student. Independent invest
gallon, independent thinking, is what 1
professor should aim to cultivate in a
student. If he fails to do this, he fails u-
a teacher.
Students of Cornell college, Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, keep and publish a record of the
attendance of professors at chapol oxei
cisos. Tho marks vary from 0 to 100 pel
cent.
Tho now college song book is at lat
ready for distribution It is printed on
tinted paper witli rich silk binding, and
until tho first of July will be sold at the
remarkably low price of $1,530.
At Kansas University a copy of Blaine's
eulogy on Garfield was given to eacli rt
ular attendant at chapel exercises. Ti
Review looks upon the scheme with sii'
piciou and sagely remarks that "This slip
seals the deathblow of the 'cliromo dodge.' "
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