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SSBESBBllttBEffi V v th ) VjipfllCAL HESPERIAN STUDENT T ") (., ..6 J 6..S.4.C?- )) so5!& v k" 5 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XI. LINCOLN, NEB., OCTOBER i, 1882. No. I. $$inttmion& Jffantfon, The suiTrago question elicits a great deal of discussion through the state papers just now. Much, however, tlmt is said is wholly irrelevant. An amendment to the con slitution which proposes to make a radical change in the entire organization of society might bo discussed in a more intelligent way than by abuse, appeals to the sensibih tics or quotations from Blackstnne. As the solution of the problem must greatly affect the future welfare of the state it is important that it should be considered in the light of candor and reason and of the existing laws of Nebraska, A subject undergoing considerable discussion in jour nalistic circles is whether or not journalism is a profession with a moral standard of itsown and with influence to be bought and sold as occasion and opportunity may demand. Can an editor as well as a lawyer exert his every energy to support a certain measure or policy, against his own convictions, and professedly for the sake of the money there is in it for him? Or does the only true power of the press consist in the earnest and steadfast promulga tion of honest convictions however profitable or unprotiL able? Docs it not debase and degenerate a paper's infill ence to place its tone and policy on the market? The lat ter standpoint is no doubt the more popular and apparent ly reasonable one and .yet the question is being much dis puted. It might bo well for our literary societies to show up all sides Of this subject in debate. The Egyptian war ended just as it was everywhere expec ted to, end. Artibi Pasha and his followers, no matter how brave and patriotic they may have been, could not long withstand the organization and discipline of the British army. Their defeat was acunowleclgcd before hand to be a mere question of titno. As has ovor been the ease with the victims of England's self-assumed "protec tion" Egypt is financially and politically ruined. How she will now be disposed of is a question that interests all Europe. Franco will jealously guard her claims to at least a partial control of the Suez Canal, and it is not to be supposed thatllunsia will willingly submit toau'y unusual augmentation of British power in the neighborhood of Turkey. Bofore the matter is satisfactorily adjusted the Liberal ministry of Gladstone will find it a problem equal in diillculty of solutiou to any of the other vexed questions bequeathed them by the Jingo policy of their predecessors. The Popular Science for October has an article on In dust rial Education in the common schools which contains a good deal of truth. The writer holds that our whole conception of education needs revision and enlargement. Paupers are on the increase. Pupils are too often cduca- pier and less important positions in the world's workshop are, as a rule, greatly overcrowded while in tlio upper sto. rtes there is a vast amount of unoccupied space." As a icmcdy for these defects it Is urged that all oduca tion should bo industrial: that it should develop an indus trial disposition, industrial knowledge and industrial power. How all this may bo douo without any increase of time or expense is very ably suggested. The ability to distiuguibh tho properties of various useful materials may bo taught in connection with tho first lessons in numbers and every problem may bo made to iuvolvo some mechan ical work in its solution. As will be seen in another column the Student received' an appropriation of one hundred and fifty dollars from tho University Regents ar their Juno meeting. W? hasten to voice the sentiments of our numerous friends and patrons by expressing not only our hearty thanks for this hand some acknowledgment of our worth and importance, but also our determination to make the Student more than ever before deserving of the aid and encouragement it has always lcceived at the hands of the Board of Regents. All old acquaintances are well conversant with the truly checkered career of our little paper; with its pecuniary difilcultics, the. troublous and protracted factional wars waged for its control, its suspensions and resuscitations,, all of which are too numerous and well known to be re counted here. Suffice it to say that tho Student has ever smilingly emerged from the storms around it and with true "Western grit has again and again started into the struggle for existence undismayed by the obstacles which covered its way to success. And it has finally surmounted thorn. Last year for tho first time in its history, through the strenuous efforts of an enthusiastic, yet careful, board of managers, tho Student paid its way, cancelled old debts, placed itself on a sound financial basis and hut June faced tho world with a glow of honest pride. Left with out a margin of capital other than pluck and common sense with which to sustain itself tho coming year jt can at least point with prido to its clean account books, its newsy pages and its importance as a factor in tho Univer sity all due to hard work and perseverance. Heretofore tie appropriations of tho Regents had chiefly gone in paying djbts already incurred by the paper. Since us first establishment in tho University by tho Board it had been a ruiiuiis investment of the stato's money a dis couraging and seemingly useles-j task to help it out of debt. Now it stood ni-m fully on its own foot asking only for a chance of improvement. Once more tho friendship and sympathy of tho Regents was offered us in material shape and the result is now and comfortable quarters, anew ad diton to our well worn stock of typo and an earnest de sire in the hearts of our managers to make this year a new era of prosperity, power and usefulness in the existence- u -.., i ". ?.";' CV.' C. .'' i'V..'; '. ' ! aft .Mw .5a.yw;? y,.v
