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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
HESPERIAN STUDENT.
Issued semi-monthly by the Hesperian Student
Publishing Association of the University of Nebraska.
BOARD OF EDITORS:
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF, ! :
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1 Ed. J. CituiioiiiMi.
: : : : : G. W. Botsfohd
: : : : C. 6. McMillan.
Locals,
Literary,
( MlNNIE E. CODDING
I A. G. Warner
Will T. Mauok.
Associate, : :
Business Manager,
W. 0. Knight.
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An annual prize for the best orator in the Pal
ladiah society has been established by two members
of the graduating class from that society. This is,
we believe, the first instance of such a thing in the
history of the school, and it would be a favorable
opportunity to repeat the arguments for or against the
offering of prizes. Whatever may be said against
them however, it seems to be an established fact that
they ar.e considered valuable incentives by the best
educators and are most numerous in the best colleges.
A New York firm sends us the first number of the
Biographer Illustrated which designs to give short
histories and portraits of all who come prominently
before the public. The back page contains an ad
vertisement of the "Pictorial Associated Press,"
which makes biographies and portraits of noted men
at the rate of ore per day, and keeps an enormous
supply constantly on hand which can be furnished
any paper on the shortest possible notice. On the
whole we have concluded not to subscribe for the
Biographer Illustrated, but will wait patiently till the
various notices appear in the country papers.
An editorial appeared in the isue before the last
which has occasioned some adverse criticism. In
that editorial we advanced the idea that the perpetra
tion of various kinds of good-natured mischief by the
students was not always to be frowned upon. We
thought that it was often caused by the ebulition of
animal spirits was a sign of energy and force of
character on the part of those who particpatcd in it.
This position we still maintain, but wish it to be dis
tinctly understood that any prank which damages
property, creates hard feeling, or gives vent to per
sonal spite is most despicable, and one engaged in it
should either be fined by an officer of the law or
what would be more appropriate but less practicable
should be most severely spanked.
In 1818 Horace Greely was the editor of a cam
paign paper called the Jefferson ian. He says of it
that it avoided abuse, scurrility, and railing accusi
tions, and was devoted mainly to the ablest and
calmest speeches made in congress. A few years
afterwards he went to Albany to edit another called
the Log Cabin. "The times," he observes, "were so
changed that it was more lively and less sedately
argumentative than the Jefferson ian." Wood en
gravings and music were introduced, and in short it
was a good deal like the campaign papers of to-day.
The tendency which the difference in these two
papers indicates has been increasing, but whether or
not it is a sure proof of decadence in political moral
ity may be doubted. It is unfortunate if we have
lost any of the characteristics of the puritan, when
all that was necessary was to add others to those
which the puritans possessed. Whatever may be
our political tendencies, however, the only thing
that it seems possible for us to do is to put our trust
in providence and in universal education.
A long time ago a preparatory student wrote an
essay which was considered good by the professor
and the members of his class. In those times Prof.
Palmer had public preparatory rhetoricals once a
month and this student again read the essay in ques
tion on one of these occasions. Sometime there
after he read it in one of our literary societies and
a few months afterwards it came out in the Hesperkin
Student. Having a fairly good memory we had
nearly learned the gentleman's essay by this time,
and so when about a year after its appearance in the
Student the author delivered it in society as an
oration, we noticed he had hardly altered a word in
the production. How many times he has handed it
into the various professors who have had charge of
the essays, we do not know. We hope that he will
take good care of this veteran essay hereafter and be
queath it to his children, for it has served him well.
Our memory also enabled us to notice another coin
cidence, once upon a time, which was that a certain
student delivered as an oration, the production that
his room-mate, two years before, had delivered as a
declamation.
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