THE HliS BRIAN STUDENT.
HESPERIAN STUDENT.
Issued semi-monthly by the Hesperian Student
Publishing Association or the University of Nobrnslcn.
BOARD OF EDITORS:
( Minnie E. Codding
Editors-in-chief, : : : j a G. Warner
W11.1. T. JIaiiok.
Locals, : : : : "j Ed. J. Churchill.
literary,
Associate, :
Business Manaqek,
G. W. BOTSKORD.
A. L. Fiiost.
W. C. Knight.
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Jgditoriul Qoh,
In some of our sister colleges, the societies unite
and engage some lecturer from abroad to speak to
them during commencement week. Why cannot we
do something in this line? By so doing the commit
tee corresponds with the best lecturers in the land,
and could be able to secure the services, perhaps, of
some one who has never been here before, and who
we as students would all be glad to hear. We might
be able to make it a benefit in a financial, as well as a
literary point of view. Who will state the motion?
position, but because his society has other work for
him. This case resembles those of Messrs. Culver,
Botsford, Hitchcock, and Dryden, who during the
last semester threw up their editorship for various
pr'vate reasons. Mr. Frost's resignation is only the
most recent example of the way in which many of
the student regard this paper and their obligation to
work for it; perhaps such a state of feeling may
account for some of our short comings. It may,
however, be said in favor of the last back-slider that
he discharged his duties faithfully while in office
and when he found that he could no longer so per
form them, he promptly resigned.
The students take a lively interest in the question
as to who is to be our future chancellor. In the old
fashioned colleges it would have been thought bar
barous for the students to have, or at least to express,
any opinion in regard to the selection of their supe
riors. It must be remembered, however, that
this is a state institution and many of us are
full fledged citizens; difering from other citizens
only by taking a greater interest in the welfare of
the school. We should be sorry to take upon our
selves the responsibility and trouble of making the
regents understand what is wanted, but can do so if
it becomes nccessapy. It looks as though the regents
need to be waked up to the fact that we want a
chancellor and the best that can be obtained for
money; and if no one else will arouse them
to a sense of their duty it will devolve upon the stu
dents, as citizens, to perform the disagreeable task
as well as may be.
For a paper to copy an article from another and
refer to it simply to an "exchange" is not doing the
fair thing. It ought to be made a point of journal
istic honor not to copy anything without crediting
to the particular paper from which it comes. To
steal an article is a confession of weakness and helps
the paper that does it; but to credit a good thing to
an "ex" helps no one and the practice should be
discouraged. We have committed an ofTenseofthis
kind in this issue but we had mislaid the paper and
could not remember what it was, so were compelled
to quote from memory, ahd could not give credit
directly.
Mr. Frost consented to serve as exchange editor
only because it was imagined to be essential to the
best interest of his society that he should do so, and
he has now resigned, not because he is tired of the
Few realize, when they read of the Bridge of Sighs,
in Venice, which has been made so famous by Byron
in "Childe Harold," the circumstances which led to
its bearing that name Across this bridge the crimi
nals were conveyed from the prison to the place
where the" sentences were pronounced, and from
thence led on to the execution; from this fact it has
derived its melancholy but appropriate name. The
Ducal Palace is on the east side of the bridge, and
the prison are on the west, so in going from one
to the other it is necessary to pass over the bridge
which connects them. Ruskin says of it "a work
of no merit, and of a late period, owing the interest
it posessed, chiefly, to its pretty name and the igno
rant sentimentalism of Byron." Howell speaks of
it as "that pathetic swindle, the bridge of Sighs;
and a traveler writing of it says, that the sighing
company that crossed it must have been made up of
"house-breakers, cut-purse knaves and murdsrers,"
and the name was given to it by that oppulence of
compassion which enables the Italians to pity, even
rascality in difficulties.
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