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8 THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. Tho Hesperian Association mot on the 27th. tilt, in pursuance to the call of the President. Tlio following officers were elected for tlio ensuing semester: President, A. G. Warner; Vico president, W. P. Sullivan; Secretary, G. B. Frankfortcr; Treasurer, P. P. Clark; Editors-in-chief, It. L. Marsh and A. A. Munro; Locals, E. J. Churchill and W. E. Johnson; Associate, 0. G. McMil lan ; Literary, 0. S. Allen. W. 0. Knight takes tho paper oil tho hands of tho Association and publishes it at his own risk. Tho Student ofllco is putting on stylo this year. Our "faithful and efficient" bus. man. during the summer has constructed, and put in place in tho office, a desk for fil ing exchanges and other important documents; also ho has put up a railing beyond which nono but compositors can pass. With Venetian blinds and these other improve ments we will venture tho assertion that wo cau show as neat an office as can be seen in auy college. It may bo well to remark here, that none but tho members of tho bonvd and the comps will be allowed to loaf in this olys ium. The following was picked up on tho Campus tho other day. It speaks for itself: My Deahest: How I long to bo there, where I could clasp your lissome form in my loving embrace, and how I miss you ; when will you return to me? I am storm tossed upon a turbulent sea of despondency. My longing glance is directed toward tlio heaven-blessed land which is sanctified by thy darling presence. "Without you I perish and my heart, like a broken hulk half concealed by tho shifting sands, will bo cast upon tho barren and desolate beach of corroding time where many a bright child of happy hope lies upon a bier of surf-stained shin, gle with the ever-rolling surges lapping, with tender ad vancc, the mouldering corse. Without your winsome smile, so like a benediction, I am undone, like a massive forest tree blasted by tho scaring thunderbolt; like a ruin ed castle on the banks of the classic Rhine, whoso moss clad battlements and ivy-mantled ramparts are crumbling with decay. Here cuds tho record. JgxchmiQt ric-H-ntc. Tho Thcilcnscan takes the place of the Orestomathian. Which name is the ugliest? (Answer in our next.) Tho two Kansa9 university papers aro again received. Wo Ihlnk a good deal of them. They aro of about equal merit but the Review is the most nowsy wo think. Wo are very glad to get tho Occident. It shows us that there is some civilization in California. All it's prlnci pies are exactly what wo ovrselves firmly believe in, and wo unanimously vote it a first-class exchange. The June number of tho Adelphian is crowded with excellent literary productions. There is good material in Adclphia Academy and the essays and orations which are given us by tlio above named paper are proof of this. That Speculum reflects at us tho following motto. "It is only by labor that thought can bo made healthy." Now we think that some of tho thought in tho Speculum is labored enough to bo about fifty per cent more healthy than tiie Colorado hot-springs. Put us up a pound pack age of "healthful thought" and scud it along charges prepaid. Wo meet with a now friend in tho Occidental Mirror which comes lo us from Colorado College. It is n ot yet very largo but it has a largo number of good qualities which will insure success, and wo shall soon see it much larger although little. It is good enough already. Tho Eclectic Record is an Insignificant lltllo papor that hails from Missouri, this land of "boys." It gives un a couple of diluted cuts and sonds thorn along carefully marked in bluo pencil. Thank you, wo aro glad you marked them. But you tako us to task for criticizing your friend tlio School Journal. Now it strikes us that it would bo well for all these third grado sheets, which well know that they aro likely to bo heavily sat on, to hang out some such notice as the menageries employ. "Lot tho monkeys alono" would bo very appropriate. Wo have just recolved tho most recent issue of tho Iowa college News Letter. Tho salutatory of tlio incom ing board of editors is really quite neat. Wo think that in it's line it is high art. Tho News Letter has enjoyed the enviable reputation of being tho best and most pop. ular college paper published in Iowa, and wo think from our own experience In Iowa exchanges that this reputa lion is a deserved one. The different departments aro so equally managed that tho symmetry of the wliolo paper is ycry noticeable Ouo of tho Seniors sends us tho following: I wont over intending to spend a long evening with Alice some time Biiice. As wo Saturn her Mars porch, in closo conjunc tion, I had just touched my lips to her fair check, when tho old lady, who had had Orion us, camo out, her brow blacker than I've ever Zenith under a cloud. "Jupiter?" she said. " No, I hadn't Earth ought to," said I. "You're a Lyra Beta quarter," she said; "and I don't want you coming round to liorcalis any more." "If Uranus off" I dodged and went homo, thinking "a man can planet but he cau't always comet." Ex. Our cantankerous contempory, tho Berkeletan, outdoes itself. Tho ex-man, after having taken and Inwardly di gested several bottles of "nerve tonic," has tho unparallel ed effrontery to enter Into a cross-grained tirade against tho Student. After several sentences filled to roplolioa with what is commonly known as "Sophmorical wit," ho loads up again and fires at us tho following: "What is the HEsrEiiUN Student anyway?" Now wo aro used to answering asinino conundrums probably almost as much so as tho Berkoletjan is to propound them but wo confess that this one startled us. However, as tho Berkelcyanh ovidently engaged in the laudablo, although vain, wc fear, attempt to get a little valuablo knowledge into it's empty head, we hasten to glVo tho obvious ans wer. The Student is a paper with many good qualities and among them wo will particularly mention It's uui form good temper and it's unwavering veracity. Tho first is all that prevents iw from indisputably proving tho latter by stating that the oxsmun of tho Berkeletan Ib a cheerful Idiot who habitually carries his small quota of brains in a paper sack, labeled In latge red letters, "Cal ifornia fruit perishable." Nevermind what the Student is, friend. Just remember what tho Berkeleyan is aud when tho awful truth breaks over your hunted soul wo adviso you to seek a secluded spot, and to becomo the sole participant in a necktie sociable. Wo will gladly pay all reason ablo expense. . , -J
