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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1883)
-"- n in i ' ! n i j THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. S. E. Keen hns miulo his departure from school for this term nnd is at present located at Frioiuivillc. Tlio Inst nigh Scliool exhibition was n perfect success. Every part of tho program was well selected and finely carried out. Wo will bo pleased to hear them again. Wo understand that Prof. Thompson is giving instrucs tions in jumping to a few of tho farm boys. 'Tis good to bo in practice, especially when examinations aro so near nt hand. Tho Convent, about to bo opened next fall, is being lit ted up in fine order and in appearance fur excels its form er self, when it attempted to run itself as a University eat ing parlor. "I wns just dyin' to git acquainted with you" said a 'gone" Prop, on receiving an introduction to one of tho moro ' Moo" co-eds, and now he is dying to get acquainted with somebody else. Tho freedom of tho students from sickness this year is worthy of remark. Thero have been no deaths and so few cases of sickness, that a medical faculty has been organ ised in order to break up this unanimity of health. In class. Professor loq: Miss please put that note in tho dend letter office. Studontiuuo handing tho note to whom it was intended. "Just as you say", Professor, he is such a dead (beat), letter post on its way this time. "To cheat or not to cheat?" That is tho question. Whether 'tis bettor to do the clear squaro thing, and ever after have a conscience clear, or pony just a trifio for a higher mark, and in tho net bo straight detected Ah there's the rub I A poor blind mau down on O st. tho other day suc ceeded moro than is usual in bringing tho tears to the oyeB of tho sympathetic citizens of Lincoln. lie, shrewd fellow, conopmning the hand organ of common uufortu nates, was making day hideous on an nccordcon. Our locals started out for a littlo pedestrian exercise. They started south and upon arrival at N street tho "Fresh" was (te) Tuttley played out. Tho "Soph" con tinued to put forth strenuous effort until ho reached 0 when he was found as Still(a) man as yon could imagine. One of tho most disgraceful sights which has occurcd on the streets for a long time was witnessed last week by ye local. Four or flvo men were urging three of four dogs into a grand dog fight. It would havo been good if tho dogs had turned upon tho men nnd taught them a lesson. Wo wisli we knew tho value of the pleasure that some students take in playing most heart-rending duets on their baud instruments. If wo could only find tho price, we are confident that within a day, tho distracted students would make a purse largo enough to quiet their music forever. Tho Freshman meeting at Miss Editli Doolittlo's was a pleasant affair. Miss Editli had everything arranged for her classmates in tho most unique stylo, and all that were present on this occasion will ever foudly remems ber tho kind hospitality with which they were received and entertained. If you sco a student, slowly creeping on his homeward way and wearing a hopeless and despairing cast of coun tenance, as if he had flunked in all his examinations, you may be sure that either he has received a regular "loft", or tho shoemaker has been tampering with his pedal extremities. Some of tho shady population of Lincoln aro getting rather too too. Thoy mado an attack upon a squad of our peaceable collcgo boys as thoy vcro returning homo from debating club; and had tho boys not all boon fast on foot much human flesh wold havo boon horribly contused, and many bones crushed. Shorthand, no doubt, is a pleasant pnstimo and much benofit may bo derived therefrom but as a moans of so crct correspondence, It is not half so safo as tho old rolia bio cipher. It is a mattoi of regret that oven ono of our Profs. Is proficient In that nrt nnd tho blllot-doux of the El. Chemistry class are in danger. The comps nre raising considerable opposition to tho uso of tho ofllco for a receptacle for band instruments, I mud suits, banjoes and all the paraphernalia of music. If the band cannot keep their insignia in their own room, wo see no reason why they should inflict the Student ofllce with their scattered remains. Tho now Catalogue of tho Wyman Commercinl Col lege of Omahn, containing tho names and addresses of 172 students in attendenco for tho past six months,, also full description of the College and course of study. Tho lustituti is in i very prosperous condition. It continues in session all summer, and tho full lacully retained. Another of tho boys, Charlie Allen, has severed him self from Bachelor's Hall. This would indicuto that this famed institution will soon bo outiroly deserted, but the four remaining, viz, Clark, Conloy, Bisbeo and Knight say thoy aro indlssolubly united and declare their intent tiou of "sticking it out on that lino all summer" oven though seven plagues and a famine do come upon them good boys, A student boasts that ho has at last after many sleepless nights discovered a schema for oxam that fnr surpasses anything of tho kind ever boforo originated. Ho says it is perfectly safe, can bo carried nut by a person of little or no ability and will novor prove disastrous, as many others havo dono in tho past. Ho has it patented but re fuses to loan or sell uuder any circumstances till ho shall haYo stepped down and out, when he will sell at a great discount. Tho Palladlan society now lias an oratorical prize- fund known as tho Chase and Wheeler Fund, these gentlemen having originated the plan and donated tho money, A prize often dollars is to bo given cacli year to tho ono ex celling in oratory. Contests to be hold in January and decisions rendered by competent judges. It is generally thought that much good will omenato from this move ment and tho boys aro to be commended for their bencs flcenco. Flltcen minutes after tho announcement In chapel tho Chancellor's otllco wis crowded with curious students j and tho book agent began to think every ono in tho Uni versity was scrambling for an agency: but "nary" agent did ho get. Tho boys canvassed for "Peck's bad boy", "Ingcrsols Lectures" and Tho "Lives of Jessie and Frank James1", last summer, but this summer they proposo to replenish on "Chance games" and lemonade stands, not that it will bo moro lucrative, but a change Life must havo variety