THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
cover the general law which holds these things together.
HESPERIAN STUDENT.
Issued seml-monthly by Hie Hesperian Student
Publishing Association of tlio University of Nebraska.
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Mnnagingr Editor, A. G. "Warner.
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0. G. McMillan
Anna Haunoerb
8. B. J,ET60N
W. 0. Knight
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gditorial &ott,
Chancellor Manatt, in an address a few days ago
before the students, pointed out the necessity of hav
ing a system of high schools throughout the state
which would prepare students directly for the Uni
versity. That is one of the drawbacks the Univer
sity has had; instead of co-operating with the com
mon schools, it has stood alone receiving no students
from other institutions. The result has been that
the preparitory department has been crouded full,
while the college has received but slight additions.
The common schools should be so arranged in gra
dation that they would carry their pupils to the point
where the University takes up its work.
"Strength," says Mathews, is like gunpowder
to be effective it needs concentration and aim." This
is a very happy illustration. To the student especi
ally it is very suggestive. To accomplish anything
it is necessary to study to a point, to a definite end.
One may be a walking encyclopedia of knowledge,
and yet perfectly useless from the fact that it is of
such a loose and desultory r.ature that it can not be
brought to bear with effect upon an object. True
education consists in training the mind so that of
itself it will discover facts, and not in blindly cram
ming it with facts. Intelligence does not depend on
the number of things known, but in the ability to dis
A writer in the "North American Review" has put
in a plea against the inhuman practice of publishing
all the private affairs of public men after their death.
It seems unjust to spread among an unsympathetic
people their family secrets. These ought to be sa
cred; no one can judge fairly concerning them for
the real motives and reasons may be hidden. It is a
worse crime to libel a man's memory than himself,
in the latter case he hes a chance to defend himclf,
in the former, none. The calumnies that have been
heaped upon some of our great men deceased, arc
outrageous. Even those the most exemplary in char
acter do not escape. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emer
son, Carlyle, have all been assaulted. Their most
private affairs have become common gossip. It is to
be hoped that such a barbarous custom will be discontinued.
The old saying that quality is much better than
quantity is to nothing more applicable than to read
ing and study. Hearing so many complaints or
overwork among students known to be conscientious,
we have taken occasion to notice some of those whose
moan in loudest, and in many cases it seems possible
to account for the trouble. Those who consider
themselves hard at work often spend half of their
time in gazing abstractedly out of the window, or in
reading and rereading the words of a single paragraph,
not realizing that attention is what mnknc m '
of a subject. "Why, I spent two or three hours over
half a dozen pages!" is a common remark. Very
few books of ordinary size require more than eight or
ten minutes to each page, and we suggest that as
spring comes on and spring-fever becomts ripe much
care should be taken not to complain of a difficulty
that is literally "in your mind."
"Are not the mass of men," says Gcethe, "so
marred and stunted, because they take pleasure only
in the elements of evil-wishing and evil-speaking?
Whoever gives himself to this soon comes to be con
temptuous toward the world, spiteful towards his
equals; and the true, genuine, indispensible senti
ment of self-estimation corrupts into self-conceit and
presumption. ' This is pre-eminently true, nothing
is more belittling and degrading than that kind of
egotism which tries to thrust itself into notice by pull
ing down others. It eats out all the noble and gen
erous qualities of men, and sinks him to the level of
the brutes. Its influence contaminates wherever it
goes, and to none is it so baleful as to its recipient
It isolates him, leaving him in a solitude more lonely
than the wilds of Siberia. It cuts of the ties be-
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