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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
Vol. XI.
LINCOLN, NEB., OCTOBER i, 1882.
No. I.
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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-
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