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Bmmm LMH..-U. 10...4 THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. HESPERIAN STUDENT. Issued semi-monthly by the Hesperian Student Publishing Association or the University or Nebraska. BOARD OF EDITORS: Editorbw.Ciiief, : : : j JoSie r ( Will E. Joiinson. LK)CAW' : : : : - E J Churchill. Literacy, : : : : : Cius. S. Allen ASSOCIATE, : : : : : 0. E. Vertty. Hxdical, : : : : : : S. B. Letgon. Business Manager, : : : W. C. KNianT. MUNRO. Josie E. Chapman. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! One copy, per college year, One copy, one half year, . Single copy, $1.00 .50 .10 RATES OF ADVERTISING : One column, one insertion, .... Two squares, one insertion, .75 One square, one insertion .40 $3.00 All communications should be addressed to the Hes ferian Student, State University, Lincoln, "Nebraska. Editorial ote. The themes and lectures prepared by the students in the various history classes this term have, in some cases, consumed more than their proper share of the student's time. Original work has a fascination for some persons shat is really dangerous. A good sol- dier learns to obey before he learns to command, and ' a good student must learn to do thorough class work ' before he attempts original investigation to any great extent. A movement is on foot to organize a society for the promotion of the student's knowledge of German. The plans, so far as they are formed, are to have one meeting each week, all the proceedings of which are ; to be carried on in German, and where members . shall have certain exercises in the same language. ' If the society is sucessful its members will perhaps ' enact a German drama or something of the kind. Success to them. reflection it seems unnecessary, and we simply leave 1 it in the form of a local that has got into the editori al department. We heard some one of the classical students say that Socrates used to expose himself to great and sud den changes of temperature, to go walking in winter without his overcoat or over shoes, and sometimes even to walk in the snow without his sandals on in order to strengthen his constitution, et cetera. If Socrates were a student at the University of Nebraska he could secure that very desirable condition of body without any trouble or thought on his part. He might even so accustom himself to breathing carbonic acid gas as at last to be able to live in a gas tank with perfect impunity. Some of the rooms are hot enough to make Vulcan sweat, others are cold enough to give chills to a Laplander, and this cold is always accompanied by gas, but whether the cold is caused by the gas, or the gas by the cold, or both by a defective flue, we cannot say. However we do n ot wish to grumble, we are always content. What is the matter with the societies and Hespe rian Association? Has the old Grecian spirit frdSen in your veins that ye do now elect your officers with so little enthusiasm? Time was, it was not long ago, the office of President in the society, or Editor of the Hesperian Student was a worthy object of am bition. Now scarcely any one is so humble or self sacrificing as to accept either. It used to be custom ary to begin electioneering a month or more before' election, to indulge in all sorts of filibustering, and finally for the defeated candidate to appeal to the faculty or break into the University building, at the hour when spirits of evil are freed from their prison house, steal the type and hide it in some old thresh ing machine. These are certainly signs of the times but we are not philosopher enough to say whether for the better or for t he worse, but are inclined to think for the better. One of our professors said some time ago that col lege journalism in this country was a nuisance. On being reminded that the students of each nation had their own kinds of amusement, he said that in his, opinion it would be better for the students of this country to give wine parties like those of England -rather than to make blackguards of themselves by ' publishing nonsense in the college papers! We had extended to make some comments on this, but after Many of the students find themselves bothered in their work by the irregularity of the order in which their classes come. When one's recitations in each study come or.lj two or three times per week each, it often happens that on one day he will have four or five recitations and on another but one or two. Such a state of things as this inevitably leads to irreg ular habits of study. On one day the student "burns" and on the next he has more than he can do and hence he doesn't do it. The vice or crime of splitting up studies is not nearly so rampant as it was during the time of Prof. Emerson's pious admin istration. The same students sometimes recited to him five times per week but had a different text book m
