THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
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Wo regret lt learn of the serious sickness of Misa Kim
ball's sister which detained her and mndo it impossible
for her to bo in attendance ut tho opening of the Conserv
atory ol Music. Wo miss hor sweet voice, but trust provi.
dence will deal gently by her that she may receive uu
early welcome from her many friends here.
The election of officers for tho Hesperian Association
and editors of tho Student resulted in the election of the
editorial board at tne head of our columns and in the se
lection of D. L. Clark, president; W. II. Llchty secretary;
C. A. Shoemaker, vice president and E. J. Churchill, trcus.
nrcr. The election might possibly have been more ordci-
The first meeting of tho Union society was eminently
successful. The programme was excellent and the audi
ence large. The number of students who enlisted under
tliobnnnsrs of the Union at the close of the meeting was
simply immense. This society Is making cxtensiyo prep,
millions for forensic work .and wo 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 June and July.
Marsh can led the prospectus of a yellow covered book
called "Wyoming Pete, tho Arch-Fiend of tho Rockies,"
while Holmes persuaded the innocent rustics to subscribe
for "Lifo in a N. Y. Gambling Den." When they reached
a town the inhabitants atosc as one man and cxoduslcd.
Tho "bono room" on the third lloor 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 tho billing and cooing
of spooney young people in tho third hall. Tho human
skeleton submitted to the removal without a murmur.
Tho Student office entertained its first young lady vis.
itors last week in tho persons of Misses Maggie A. and
Mary L. Jones. Tho 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 tho "Relation of the Bhngnvat
Gita to the hieroglyphics at Hissarlik" and "The Future
of Cosmogony" from encyclopedias and the quondam bus
iness manager was down in Kansas testing the prohibito
ry law so that tho dignity of (lie ofiko was represented by
tho typographical force. Docs any ask if it was well re
presented ?
It is a question whothcr tho afternoon hours will be
popular, but by having them Saturday recitations are
avoided. From 2 to 8 p. in. recite Freshman German and
conversations, Rhetoric, Logic, History of the Middle Ag
es, French Revolution, Analytical Chemistry, Descriptive
Geometry, Chemical Geology. From 8 to 4 p. m., 8oph.
French, Anglo-Saxon and Shakespeare, Renaissance and
European history, Anal. Ciiem., lectures, etc. From 4 to
5 p. m., German literature, English language, Growth of
Eng. Constitution, Ancient Law and Institutional Histo.
iy, in different terms, Calculus and Btereotomy. From
5 to 0, Surveying.
Tho 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 tho Student, Davis is cashier and book-keeper
for his brother at Minneapolis, Minn. Snell is at Ashland
quietly preparing for his law course Weston Is keeping
books in Denver, while Montgomery fills a clerkship in
the R. & M. offices at Omaha. Miss Fairflold has gono
with her people to Oborlin, Ohio, not accepting tho priu
cipalshlp of tho Lincoln High School which was offered
Iter. Olmsted spends his time in tho city and will study
law. Of Learner tho Student lias heard nothing since he
boarded the train for Dakota.
The department of Chemistry and Physics in tho Uni
vcrsity promises to become as popular and do as good
work as when tho lato Prof. Collier was in charge. Prof.
II. H. Nicholson, the new incumbent, pursued a post
graduate course at Harvard and lias had eight years
successful experience in teaching. Ho brings ills private
cases of chemical apparatus, which, by tho way, leaves the
State Normal School with none. These, witli tho additions
made by the University, give us ns flue apparatus for
many lines of work as could bo wiahed. Room No. 10
is now united with the loboratory by a generous archway.
A largo ventilating hood has been built here. It will do
away witli all unpleasant odors and greatly improvo the
sanitary condition of the laboratory.
The improvements on tho building during tho vacation
have not been as extensive as could bo wished, but still
give little cause for complaint. The most noticeable is
the "dado" of calcimine which ornaments tho hall walls.
Our art critic gives its color as approximating Hint of a
mud-puddle in the moonlight. Aside from its artistic
excellence it extends far enough up the walls to cover the
pencil marks left by tho feeble minded children who have
been registered as students during the past two years
The roof lias, as a matter of course, been icpaircd. This
occurs every ytnr, and the only perceptible result is an
increase in the leakage. A new 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.
Tho foreman and compositor-in-chicf of the Student
office improved a slight, temporary cessation in the rush
of copy that lias been deluging them for the last two weeks
by exchanging reminiscences of their professional career
yesterday over the cadaver of a watermelon. Said tho as
tute foreman, eyeing nervously the belligerent attitudo of
the c-i-c. toward the melon, "Yes, the worst copy I ever
had was when I worked on the Itustchuk 8chutemff at tho
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 many a time." "A-li-li" said the c-i-c.
witli a gasp, "No, I never held a case in that precinct, but
when I pied the cases on the Wilber Opposition (a Bohe.
mian sheet over in Saliuc county,) the Bohemian names
in tho report of commissioners' proceedings had so many
letters in ouesyllablo that we couldn't get 'em into a line
of lean nonpareil so we just filled it up with quads and
went over to the next ono." "But what did you do then t"
yelled the astute foreman. "Kept rtght on Ailing up with
four em quads at ten cents a lino to the county." returned
tho unruffled compositor Then tho baffled a. f. wont out
mid tore his hair and wished ho wore (on) a bust in Union
Hall or some other lonesome place while the jubilant c-i-c.
started out witli a shooting stick and roller to waylay tho
business manager.
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