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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1882)
&' T."V5V75: THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. 7. $0 i N EV Wo regret to learn of the serious sickness of Miss Kim ball's sister which detained her and mndo it impossible, for her to bo in attendance at the opening of the Conserv atory ol Music. Wo miss her sweet voice, but trust provi dence will deal gently by her that shc may roccivc an early welcome from her many friends here. The election of officers for the Hesperian Association and editors of the Student resulted in the election of the editorial board at tnc head of our columns and in the se lection of D. L. Clark, president; W. II. Lichty secretary; C. A. Shoemaker, rice president and E. J. Churchill, treas urer. Tho election might possibly have been more ordei ly. The first meeting of the Union society was eminently successful. The programme was excellent and the audi ence large. The number of students who enlisted under the banners of the Union at the close of tho meeting was simply immense. This society is making extensive prep arations for forensic work and we predict for it a bril liant career. R. L. Marsh and J. H. Holmes, '84, traveled in the wilds of Otoe and Nemaha counties during Juno and July. Marsh can ied the prospectus of a yellow covered book called "Wyoming Pete, tho Arch-Fiend of the Rockies," while Holmes persuaded the innocent rustics to subscribe for "Life iu a N. Y. Gambling Den." When they reached a town the inhabitants arose as one man and cxodusled. The "bone room" on the third floor is no more. A demand arising for more room for the Conservatory of Music, the skeletons were transferred to the museum and musical instruments took their place. The horse "kicked" strongly over the change, but was rebuked by the cow and told to be resigned as the museum was a pleasant place and they would not be troubled by the billing and cooing of spooney young people in the third hall. The human skeleton submitted to the removal without a murmur. The Student office entertained its first young lady vis i tors last week in the persons of Misses Maggie A. and Mary L. Jones The local editor was out lassoing conun drums about "busts" and "inflammatory speeches," the two editors in-chief were in their rooms arduously copy ing editorials concerning the "Relation of the Bhagavat Gita to the hieroglyphics at Ilissarlik" and "The Future of Cosmogony" from encyclopedias and the quondam bus iness manager was down in Kansas testing the prohibito ry law so that the dignity of the ofllce was represented by tho typographical force. Does any ask if it was well re presented ? It is a question whether the afternoon hours will be popular, but by having them Saturday recitations aro avoided. From 2 to 8 p. m. recite Freshman German and conversations, Rhetoric, Logic, History of the Middle Ag. es, French Revolution, Analytical Chemistry, Descriptive Geometry, Chemical Geology. From 3 to 4 p. m., Soph. French, Anglo-Saxon and Shakespeare, Renaissance and European history, Anal. Chem., lectures, etc. From 4 to 5 p. in., German literature, English language, Growth of Eng. Constitution, Ancient Law and Institutional Ilislo iy, in different terms, Calculus and Stereotomy. From 5 to 0, Surveying. The class of '82 is already scattered to tho four winds of heaven, so to speak, and one or two have gone out of sight of the Studknt. Davis is cashier and book-keeper for his brother at Minneapolis, Minn. Sncll is at Ashland quietly preparing for his law course. Weston is keeping books in Denver, while Montgomery fills a clerkship in the 11. & M. ofllccs at Omaha. Miss Fairfield has gone with her people to Obcrlln, Ohio, not accepting tho prln c.ipalship of tho Lincoln High School which was offered her. Olmsted spends his time iu the city and will study law. Of Learner tho Student has heard nothing since he boarded the train for Dakota. The department of Chemistry and Physics in the Uni versity promises to become as popular and do as good work as when the late Prof. Collier was in charge. Prof. II. II. Nicholson, tho new incumbent, pursued a post graduate course at Harvard and has had eight years Buccessful experience in teaching. Ho brings his private cases of chemical apparatus, which, by tho way, leaves the State Normal School with none. These, with the additions made by the University, give us as fine apparatus for mauy lines of work as could bo wished. Room No. 10 is now united witli the loboratory by a generous archway. A large ventilating hood has been built hetc. It will do away with all unpleasant odors and greatly improve the sanitary condition of the laboratory. The improvements on tho building during tho vacation have not been as extensive as could be wished, but still give little cause for complaint. The most noticeable is the "dado" of calcimine which ornaments the hall walls. Our art critic gives its color as approximating that of a mud-puddle in the moonlight. Aside from its artistic excellence it extends far enough up the walls to cover tho pencil marks left bT tha feeble minded children who have been registered as student during the past two years The roof has, as a matter of course, been icpaircd. This occurs every year, and tho only perceptible result is an increase iu the leakage. A now roof has been needed so long that the Regents have entirely forgotten the matter. Painting, scrubbing, and house-cleaning in general has been going on for the past mouth, and the building is now in fair order. The foreman and compositor-in-chief of the Student office improved a slight, temporary cessation in the rush of copy tljat has been deluging them for the last two weeks by exchanging reminiscences of their professional career yesterday over the cadaver of a watermelon. Said the as tute foreman, eyeing nervously the belligerent attitude of the c-i-s. toward the melon, "Yes, the worst cop' I ever had was when I worked on the Riistchuh Schutemnff at the time of the Turco-Russian War. You see the geographical names were so hard to pronounce that th comps. became confirmed inebriates from hiccuping at them and they were so long that three or four of us had 'takes' on one word mauy a time." "A-h-h" said the c-i.e. with a gasp, "No, I never held a case in that precinct, but when I pied the cases on the Wilier Opposition (a Bohe mian sheet over in jSalinc county,) the Bohemian names in the report of commissioners' proceedings had so many letters in one syllable that wo couldn't get 'em Into a lino of lean nonpareil so wo just filled it up with quads and went over to the next one." "But what did you do then ?" yelled the astute foreman. "Kept rtght on filling up with four em quads at ten cents a lino to the county." returned tho unrufiled compositor Then the baflled a. f. went out and tore his hair and wished he were (on) a bust in Union Hall or some other lonesome place while tho jubilant c-i-c. started out with a shooting stick and roller to waylay tho business manager. WW" "- ' ' - Vil"-3CV'. -.:.? r"Cifc . ' - " . liw S.K . t k K " . SFF-TvS
