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TiiSS HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. vot.. xr. LINCOLN, NI5H.,OCTOni5R i, 1882. No. I. tjfflisccllHncous tjfflqntioii. Tho suffrage question elicits a great ileal of discussion through the state papers just now. Much, however, that is said Is wholly irrelevant. An amendment to the con stliutinn which proposes to make a radical change in the entire organization of society might ho discussed in a more intelligent way than by abuse, appeals to the sensibili tics or quotations from Blackstonc. As thcsoluliou of tho problem must greatly nll'eet the future welfare of the state it is important that it should he 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 n moral standard of itsown and with inllueuce to bo bought and sold as occasion and opportunity may demand. Can an editor as well ap a lawyer exert his every energy to support a certain measure or policy, against his own convictions, and professedly for the sako of the money there is in it for him? Or does Iho only truo power of the press consist in the earnest and steadfast promulga tion of honest convictions however profitable or unproiU. able? Does 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 be 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. Arabi Piisha and his followers, no matter how brave and patriotic they may have been, could not long withstand the organization and discipline of tho British army. Their defeat was acnuowledgcd before hand to bo a mere question of time. As has ever been the ease with the victims of England's self-assumed "protcc lion" Egypt is financially and politically ruined. How she will now bo disposed of is a question that interests all Europe. France will jealously guard her claims to at least a partial control of the Suez Canal, and it is not to be supposed that Russia will willingly submit to any unusual augmentation of British power in the neighborhood of Turkey. Before the matter is satisfactorily adjusted tho Liberal ministry of Gladstone will find it a problem equal in difllculty of solution to any of the other vexed questions bequeathed litem by the Jingo policy of their prede cessors. The Popular Science for October has an article on In. dustrial Education in the common Pchools which contains a good deal of truth. The writer holds that our whole conception of education needs revision and enlargement. Paupers aro on the increase. Pupils nre too often educa ted out of harmony with their surroundings. "The aim pier and less important positions in tho world's workshop aio, as a rule, greatly overcrowded while in tho upper sto ties tliero is a vast amount of unoccupied space." As a temedy for those defects it '.s urged Mint all educa lion should bn industrial: that It should dovolop an Indus dial disposition, industrial knowledge and Industrial power. How all this may bo done without any increase f time or expense is very ably suggested. The ability to distinguish the properties of various useful materials may bo taught in connection with tho first lessons in numbers and every problem may bo made to involve some mechan ical work in its solution. As will bo seen in another colu u tho Student received an appropriation of one hundred and fifty dollars from the University Regents nr their Juno meeting. Ws hasten to voice the sentiments of our numerous friends and patrons bv expressing not only our hearty thanks for this hand some acknowledgment of our worth and importance, but also our determination to make tho Student moro than ever before deserving of tho aid and encouragement it has always leccived at the hands of tho Board of Regents. All old acquaintances aro well conversant with tho truly checkered career of our little paper; with its pecuniary difficulties, tho troublous and protracted factional wars waged for its control, Its suspensions and resuscitations,, all of which aro to) numerous and woll known to bo re counted here. Suffice It to say that tho Student has ever smilingly emerged from the storms around it and with truo Western grit has again and again started Into tho struggle for existence undismayed by tho obstacles which covered its way to success. And it lias finally surmounted them. Last year for Iho first timo in Its history, through the strenuous efforts of an enthunlastlc, yet careful, board of managers, tho Student paid its way, cancelled old debts, placed itself on a sound financial basis and last June faced the world with 1 glow of honest pride. Left with out a margin of capital other than pluck and common sense with which to sustain itself the coming year it can at least point with pride to its clean account books, Us newsy pages and its importance as a factor in tho Unlvor sity all duo to hard work and pcrsoveranco. Heretofore tho appropriations of tho Regents had chiefly gono In paying debts already Incurred by the paper. Sinco its first establishment in tho University by tiio Board It had been a ruinous investment of the stato's money a dis couraging and seemingly useless task to help it out ofdebt Now it stood manfully 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 tho result Is new and comfortable quarters, a now ad dlton to our well worn stock of type and an earnest do sire in the hearts of our managers to make this year a new era of prosperity, power and usefYJnofa in tho existence of the Hebpkman Student. W' S .'"
