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K ' HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. r ! Vol. XI. LINCOLN, NEB., MARCH 15, 1S83. No. X. MISCELLANEOUS MENTION. It is hinted Ihal Hendricks ol Iiidinim will be aenndi duto for tliu picsidonoy in '84, und has already begun the L canvass. Lurgo'poiiions of the lower Mississippi valley have "been inundated The levees have been broken in several s places, but the damage is not so great as was at first antic, ipatcd. There is, however, considerable suffering among tlio poor, no ctlbrt having yet boon made to relieve the destitute. Il is estimated that $10,000,000. will be spent this year for base bell paraphernalia, that 5,000,000. balls will be sold at one dollar rack and that as much will be expen ded for court plaster, surgeon's bills etc., arc anticipated but the exact account dare not bo stated through fear ofdetoring the youthful aspirant from engaging in that invigorating exeicise. ty In the United States an exactly opposite operation has been taking place to that by which the Greek were states built up There centralization has prevailed there individ ualization. Hut since the civil war the central power has become weaker, the coup detate of the Republican Tri llin vcraie failed and the Union is entering upon a new era. What the result will be is difllcnlt to determine. The length of the college year at Oxford and Cams bridge is somewhat less than seven months. Two years and eight months of coutiuous residence are sufllciont for graduation Comparatively few subjects arc studied. The Sciences are taught at the proparitory schools and t none but specialists at the Univcrlsty. Lulin and Greek are still the nucleus, or rather the substance of the college course. During the last scsion of the legislature several slate officers were made happy by an increase of salary. This is a real economy, for Slink dpenro or some other writer says "To provont men from stealing wo surfeit with gold. A plethoric dog will not steal a man's dinner." And again "Grout men cannot think mighty thoughts without pay, Nor indlto learned messages ut flfty percent." A petition signed by 1,400 promoincnt men and women has lately been presented to tho trustees of Columbia Col lego asking for tho coeducation of the sex in that institus tion, but was rejected on the ground that woman's sphero is dfforent from that of man and hence that a distinction should bo made in education. An "Auncx," howcyer, like that of Harvard, is to bo established. As long as it in de sirable that women should bo inferior to man in intellect ual attainments, so long will it bo customary to close against her the doors of our greatest institutions of learning. Hawthorne, it is said, was so wretched a scribe that it required an expert to decipher his writing. A compari son of his earlier wiith his later manuscripts shows, how ever, a cradual improvement, lie wrote with a fine hand with rapidity, but the numerous erasures and interlinea tions, which render his manuscript utterly illegible to the inexperienced, show bj what persistent toil his great fame was established. No author of the age as been more diligent mid painstaking and noun have met with a more pci manaul success. A recent number of tho At lantic Monthly contains many curious facts in regard to hts manuscripts and will be ol interest to all the admirers of America's most noted w liter. In the March nunibur of the North American Review is a series of papers on "Educational Needs," in which loud compluhnt is made of our work in our common and high-schools. This is doubtless owing to the system of routine, text-book teaching which surfeits the mind without stimulating it. The remedy for this is not tho gymnnsium for tt has been proved inadequate; but the introduction of worlcsoops in which both mind and body will be invigorated bp actual labor. Such a svstcm can be introduced only into city schools, but it is here, in the crowded rooms and unwholesome air that it 13 especially needed. Another cause of overwork is I lie adoption of some injurious hobby like the Geography mania of the Lincoln schools, in consequence of which, several parents were obliged to with. draw their children from the public schools. Among the novelties of the season is an "Essay on Oras tory" in which the author clearly demonstrates to his own satisfaction that any one with sufficient training may be come an orator. "Your sufficient" obscives a student of calculus, is a vaiiable quantity and under certain condi tios approaches infinity." Hearcst thou not, O thou learned author of an "Essay on Oratory," the great Sams ucl Johosou rocifcrating "You can't make guineas if you havcut the gold," and thinkst thou witli all thy roar and smoke to teach men by precept and example that six months-training in monkey ism nnd elocution will fill an empty head? Alas I to soon.for thy great success have all men discovered that thero is a perceptible difference bes teween a gient and n pigmy on stilts. When thou diest, O skillful defender of monkey ism vis. brains, let me write thv epitaph "When terrestrial all In chaos shall exhibit effervescence, Then celestial virtues in their full, effulgent, brilliant essonco, Shall with beaming, beauteous radiance through ebullltl on shine Transcending to glorious regions beiuitflcol, doviLc; Then human powers absorbed, insufficient to dollnleatosuch trans cendental sparks. Will bo transported into tho presence of great and mighty monarchs." mnna umtumammmmm 9F tf&gymtw ; . .- r it ' V.. V-J !v& r -5