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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
HESPERIAN STUDENT.
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Issued seinl'.tionllily by the IIksi'KUIAN Student
Publishing Association of the University of Nebraska
BOARD OF EDITORS:
( MlNNIK E. CoDDlNO.
"I A G. Waiinku.
Will T. Mai:ok.
( Eu. J. CllUltCUILL.
: : : Q. V. Botskohd.
: : A. L Fiiost.
: : : W. C. Kxioiit.
Editoiis in-Ciiikk,
Locals, : :
Litkhauy, :
Associate, : :
Business Manaorh,
TKIIM8 OF SUISSOUII'TION:
One copy, per college year, .... if 1.00
One copy, one half year, ...... .50
Single copy, 10
Thkre is an editorial in type in the Student office
on the management of the library that it has never
seemed worth while to have the compositors distribute,
as it could be used about every other issue in the same
form. This editorial sets forth the facts that the libra
ry is not open at the most convenient hour?, that there
is too much red tape about drawing and consulting
books, and that the order during the hours when the
library is open is so bad that it is impossible to read or
to study. Being a little hurried and somewhat lazy
we were going to make use of the same editorial in the
present issne,bnt upon reflection we discovered that not
one of the statements contained in it could be applied
to the present management. We wept for joy and or
dered the compositors to distribute the type.
JI.VTE3 ok advkhtibino :
One column, ono insertion,
Two square?, one irsoition,
One square, one insertion.
$3.00
.75
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All communications should be addressed to the Hies
I'KIiian Studknt. State University, Lincoln, TfclmisUit.
Jgditoml $oic,
It is to hoped that all the reforms in spelling will
not be put into effect this season at least, for then
feather would be changed to fether, and leather to
lether ; but the thing to be lamented in this reform
is that it would certainly give us a bad spell of weather.
The Student has not been very regular in making
its appearance this year. The new board of editors
have made many good resolutions and it is thought
that henceforth the paper will be out on time. Our
calculations however do not take into consideration
such an accident as the pying of three pages on the
morning of publication.
A small volume, "Herbert Spencer on Ameri
cans," has been published since the dawn of the new
year. Containing, as it does, an account of his visit
to America and the farewell banquet given in his
honor, November nth, 1882, besides his address de
livered on the occasion, and a number of responsory
speeches, it should be in the library of every admirer
of Spencer. The Student regrets that his health
would not permit him to remain longer in America,
for it had been hoped that our university chapel
might be favored with a visit from the father of evo
lution, as well as the champion of esthetics Mr.
0.icar Wilde. Spencer has certainly shown himself a
friend of the American people, for the only book he
ever dedicated was "Descriptive Sociology," which
was dedicated to his American friends.
The editors whose term of office has just expired
have made their last bow, delivered up the invisible
keys of the invisible sanctum, corked their inkstands,
wiped their pens on the "devil's" Turkish towel,
handed over the combination of the three editorial
tripods which grace the office, and stepped down and
out. After taking one good long breath of freedom,
they developed their lungs by giving hearty cheers to
their successors. Now it is our turn to bow. We
greet you. With smiling countenance,, cheerful heart
and aspirations to do the best we can, we now seize
the "goose-quill" in one hand and our lamented pred
cssors' "shears" in the other and assure the readers
of the Student that henceforth our fingers may be
stained ink-black not "cork-black" and the same
editorial sign may be occasionally detected in the
shape of "beauty spots" on either cheek or forehead,
while we give our earnest support and best endeavors
for the success of the paper.
One of our exchanges, published among the ice
bergs of Canada, takes us to task quite severely for
the use of slang. We would base our defense partly
upon arguments which our critics can find well stated
in the Contributors' club of the Atlantic Monthly
for December ; and we would also refer any who may
want to know what we think of slang, theoretically
considered, to an editorial published in this paper of
January 20th. The critical exchange cites among
other objectionable expressions used by us the word
"mash." Of course the only excuse for using a word
like this is that it fills a gap in the language. Now,
can our friends who object to the word "mash" find
fpr us any substitute in the dictionaries? "Mashed"
is a specific term to be used in place of the generic
term, "in love." Everyone who is "mashed" is in
love, but (thank fortune I) not every one who is in
love is "mashed." But, it maybe asked, if this word
is not used by good writers is it not a proof that the
thing for which it stands is beneath the notice of the
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