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THE HES BRIAN STUDENT. HESPERIAN STUDENT. Issued semi-monthly by the Hesperian Student Publishing Association of the University of Nebraska BOARD OF EDITORS: EDno.iH.C.i : : : j JJk aOgKa. L0CAI8 1 Ed. J. OiiunomiA. Liter auy, : Associate, : : Business Manager, : G. W. Botsford. ; 0. G. McMillan. : W. 0. Kxuuit. teiims op suhscription: One copy, por college year, Ono copy, one half yoar, .... Single copy, ..... 1.00 .50 , .10 $3.00 RATES OP ADVERTISING : One column, one insertion, .... Two squares, ono insertion, 75 One square, one insertion, 40 All communications should be addressed to the IIes. teiuan Student, State University, Lincoln, Nebraska. Sgtlitorial Qoic, We hope that when our medical school is estab lished we can have a course of lectures on ph) steal culture for the benefit of students in the literary de partment What our state needs is not so much good doctors as a class of citizens that can be healthy without doctors. For societies to put anything more in the daily papers of the city than a mere announcement of their programs, is either a sure sign of snobbishness or else a confession of weakness. Literary societies should make themselves prominent by the work they do, and not through local items written bv themselves. While one of the societies was discussing the feasi bility of getting some good speaker to occupy one of the evenings of commencement week, it was asked why the alumni were not going to have an address delivered this year, and an unregenerate Freshman promptly replied that it was because the said alumni were a lot of "sticks." Of course the Student does not believe any such thing as that, but really friends, why is it? The Student regrets that circumstances made it impossible for Hon. J. Sterling Morton to get here on Arbor Day and prevented him from delivering the expected address. The occasion was looked forward to with interest in hopes of hearing the original foun der of our Arbor Day. Since there is no place in the campus for new trees to be planted, it really seems as if the anniver saries of the class and society trees might have been celebrated. If class orators had been chosen, and the services of our University band of which we are justly proud been secured, it might have been made quite an enjoyable affair. In after years the members of the alumni will take pleasure in gather ing under the shade of the respective class trees. A great professor once said to some thoughtless persons who were annoying others by their whisper ing and laughing, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any of the instincts of ladies and gentlemen, I wish you would keep still." Let the presiding offi cers of our societies express to the audiences the same desire, making use of language as terse, and if neces ary calling the names of the rustics who refuse to heed the request. Sometimes, however, the presiding officer does not know the names of the fools and under such circumstances we would recommend that the presiding officer follow the example of a clergyman who stopped in his sermon andsaid, "If that lady sitting in the south-east corner of the room, with a large red flower in her hat, does not quit whispering she shall be pointed out to the congregation." The Kansas University has done away with the first preparatory year. It is surely unfortunate that our school is not in a condition to do the same thing, but since such is the case it is certainly the duty of the powers that be to make the preparatory depart ment as thorough as the best of its kind, so that those who enter the Freshman class here may be as well prepared for college work as the Freshmen of any other institution. One way of attaining this end is to be more careful about admitting those who are not prepared to take up even the Latin school studies. Few students who are unable to pass rigid examinations in the common branches can get the worth of their money by attending here, and it is the business of those having charge of the Latin school to see that such persons are not allowed to waste their time, to retard the classes, and to vex the instructors. To make an abject apology may be a sign either of moral courage or of meanness of spirit. We have already made one or two and are about to make another you may take your choice as to the expla nation of this action on our part. What we wish to apologize for this time is the fact that several issues back the typographical work on this paper was ter rible. There was some excuse however. We had a X :t 4 y rT' m T a" "f P mmmrrmr mmmmmmimnmmMmm n -vrrr ' iHT rt1"'rt,"v'i,"T
