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.ptt;fj! HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. y Vol. XI. LINCOLN, NICIJ., OCTOBER i, 1882. No. I. (Qlinctllmuoun Jjtintuvu Tho suffrage question elicits a greiit deal of discussion through Hie stale papers just now. Much, however, dial is said Is wholly irrelevant. An amendment to tho con stllutlon which proposes to make a radical change In the entire organization of society might ho discussed in a more intelligent way than by ahuso, appeals to the seuslhlli tics or quotations from Bhtckslnno. As tho solution of the problem must greatly affect the future welfare of the stato it is important that it should be considered in tho light of candor and reason and of tho existing laws of Nobraska. A subject undergoing considerable discussion in jour nnlislic circles is whether or not journalism is a profession with a moral standard ofitsown 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 r certain mcasuro or policy, against his own convictions, and professedly for tho sake of the monoy there is in it for him? Or docs tho only truo power of tho press consist in tho earnest and steadfast pronnilga. jlon of honest convictions however profitable or unprofiU able? Docs it not debnso and degenerate a paper's infill enco to plnco its tone and policy on tho market? Tho lat ter standpoint is no doubt tho more popular and apparent ly reasonable one and .yet tho question is being much dis puted. It might bo well for our literary societies to show up all sides of tills subject in debate. Tho Egyptian war ended Just as it was every whorooxpec te'd to end. Arabi Pasha and his followers, no matter how bravo and patriotic thoy may havo been, could not long withstand tho organization and discipline of tho British army. Tholr defeat was acKiiowledged before hand to bo a mere question of time. As has over been the caso with the victims of England's self-assumed "protcc Hon" Egypt is financially and politically ruined. How she will now bo disposed of is a question that interests all Europe. Franco will jealously guant 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 tho neighborhood of Turkey. Before tiio matter is satisfactorily adjusted tho Liberal ministry of Gladstone will find it a problem equal in difficulty of solution to any of tho other vexed questions bequeathed them by tiio Jingo policy of their prede cessors. The Popular Science for October has an arliclo on In. duBtrlal Education in tho common pchools which contains a good deal of truth. Tho writer holds that our wholo conception of education needs revision and enlargement Paupers aro on tho increase. PupilB are too often educa ted out of harmony with their surroundings. "Tito sim pler and loss important positions in tho world's workshop aio, a a rule, greatly overcrowded while in tho upper sto. lies thcro Is a vast amount of unoccupied apace" As a tomedy for theso dowels It '.s urged that all educa. Hon should be Industrial: that It should dovolop an Indus, ttlal disposition, Industrial knowledge and Industrial power. How all this may ho done without any increase of time or expense is very ably suggested. Tho ability to distinguish tho 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 inoohan ical work in its solution. As will bo seen in another colu 11 tho Student received an appropriation of ono hundred and fifty dollars from tho University Regents ar thoir Juno meeting. Wi haston to voice tho 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 more than ever boforo deserving of tho aid and encouragement it has always iccoived at the hands of tho Board of Regents. All old acquaintances aro well conversant with tho truly checkered career of our littlo paper; with its pecuniary difficulties, tho troublous and protracted factional wars waged for its control, its suspensions and resuscitations, all of which aro too numerous and woli known to bo ro. counted hero. SufUco It to say that tho Student has over smilingly emerged from tho storms around it and with truo Western grit has again and again started Into tho Btrugglo for existence undismayed by tho obstacles which covered its way to success. And it lias finally surmounted them. Last year for tho first tlmo in its history, through the stronuou? efforts of an cnthunlastlc, yet careful, board of managers, tho Student paid its way, cancelled old debts, placed llsolf on a .sound financial basis and last Juno faced tho world with a glow of honest pride. Loft 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 prido to its clean account books, its newsy pages and its importance as a factor in tho Unlver slty all duo to hard work and persovcrauco. Heretofore tho appropriations of tho Regents had chiefly gone in paying debts already Incurred by the paper. Sinco its first establishment in tho University by tho Board it had been a ruinous investment of tho state's monoy a dis couraging and seemingly usolcss task to holp it outofdobt. Now it stood manfully on its own foot asking only for a chanco of Improvement. Once moro tho friendship and sympathy of tho Regents was offered us in material shape and the result is new and comfortable quarters, a now ad dlton to our well worn stock of typo and an earnest do sire in tho hearts of our managors to make this year a nevt era of prosperity, power and UBefYlnora in the oxistoncft of the Hesperian Student.
