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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. HESPERIAN STUDENT, Issued semi-monthly by the IIkbi'kman Student Publishing Association of the University of Nebraska. BOARD OF EDITORS: EniTORS-iN-OniKr, : : : Locai.8, : : : : literary, : Associate, : : "MicniCAii, : : 13U8INES8 MANAGER, ( A. A Muniio., ( Josik E. CUAIMAN. ( Wilti E. Johnson. ( Ed. J. Churchill. : Giias. S.Allen : 0. E. Veuity. : S. B. Letson. : "W. C. Knight. terms of suusorii'tion : One copy, per college year, One copy, one half j oar, .... Single copy, $1.00 .50 .10 RATES OK ADVERTISING : One column, one insertion, $3.00 Two squares, one Insertion, 75 One square, one inscrlioi 40 All communications should bo addressed to the IIes. r kui an Student. State University, Lincoln, Nebraska. gdiforhl 42otc$, Many are saying that our professor of modern lan guages teaches his classes too much as though the stu dents were children. His desire to be thorough should not induce him to go so slow that nothing is .accomplished during the year. He should remem ber that all students are born tired but they can work when they have to, and that the way to get work from them is to keep piling it up, till at last they get scared and do it. It is a matter of remark that students as a class are characterized by weak eyes. This ought not to be so any more with them than any class of night workers. However there is some explanation for this defect in the fact that as a rule the student is not sufficiently careful in respect to any thing. If they would have a good shade to their lamp and sit so as to prevent the light from shining in their faces, and in most cases Jkeep better hours, fewer students would be obliged to leave school on account of ophtalmia. One of our most erudite Sophomores has been soaring in the realms of the unatainable. He pro poses to "let" a man die in a hermetically sealed room and when his soul comes out of the poor mortal body it can not possibly get away out of the room. This our philosopher believes to be axiomatic. Now since the air has been weighed before the demise of the "subject" when the soul "comes out" it will in dubitably weigh somewhat nine. Thus the air can be again weiglied and of course the exact value of a soul can be readily determined. This beats Darwin. The Student fears that the medical members of the University family do not fully understand the at titude of the other departments toward them. There is not, and never has been a cause for enmity between "lits" and "meds;" neither do the latter have valid reasons for thinking that the academic students are not satisfied with their presence. The work of the two classes of students is so widely separated, how ever, that the divison between the two schools must be very apparent. A trifle too much sensitiveness on the part of the new comers is doubtless the cause of the slight feeling manifested thus far. There was a general stampede of students toward the trains Wednesday, all eager to praticipate in the grand annual Thanksgiving turkey rush at their sev eral homes or with friends. There is something ro mantic in this custom instituted by our fathers and seconded by our mothers, a kind of a passovcr in which a large per cent of the turkey crop fall instead of the eldest son of the Egyptians. The most strik ing feature to us is the fact that no one is expected to pay any attention to the laws of health but load the table till it groans and eat. Laws of health are good things in their places, but we fail to see wherein they apply to a hungry student on Thanksgiving day. Many of the characteristics of the Puritans have wisely been discarded by their descendants, but ina bility to enjoy recreation without some "loud" amu sement is surely a sign of degeneracy. In this con nection it might be well to discuss the propriety of dancing on Thanksgiving day, and to ask if this were not another manifestation of the European influence that has come to be so widely exerted on the customs of the American people. A boistrous holiday is well enough at times, but that nation which can take a day from work and yet enjoy itself in a quiet and orderly manner, gives evidence of a strength that can be relied on. There are some students who have an idea that the best method of obtaining knowledg-) is by borrowing the books of others. We do not need to state the aphorism that this is the most contemptible piece of thievery possible. But judging from the fre quency of these losses of late the subject demands more than passing notice. If there be students in the school so poverty stricken as to be unable to purchase school books, we as a school will cheerfully subscribe to purchase them for those unfortunates. But for the