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6 THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. equally bad, one must strive to reach the happy mean. Fully k third of our collego courso may bo lost by too much Btutly. Tills seems paradoxical but It Is true. A more- general Intercut in University affairs is what wo need. Any one who can devise a feasible scheme to bring this result about will have filled a long-felt want. T'io editors of the Annual have become personally rc Bpon8sble for its financial sudcess. The Drifter is one of the colossal intellects that hep bear the loss, if any. Therefor ho takes advantago of having free face to give the Annual an ad. Subscribe for the Annual, advertise jn the Annual, support the Annual. Don't forget itl gmnyux (marAn. Chancellor has gono East again. Miss Belle Ballard has taken a school near Raymond. There will be t-vo more issues of the Student this col lege year. George Hitchcock '83, has just returned from an ex tended trip in Florida. Examinations begin on Tuesday morning the third of June. They continue until noon of the following Friday. Happy Seniors. No r lasses, no cares, no nothing! A whole month of blissful idlenss! You arc the most for tunate of mortals. And now Ohency'is to be disgraced. He has taken an agency for a picture house and will canvass in Richard son county during tlio vacation. Wanted, A guardian for the gymnasium. In its pres out decrepit state it is feared Unit our old and tried friend will wander away mid become hopelessly lost. The police force has been ordered to appear in uniform when on duly and to conform to a number of red tape rules. It will be har.1 on our ubiquitous cops. It is a fact that the University of Nebraska possesses two of the most elegant society hulls in. Ihu United States. Why is this the ease? Answer can be had at this ofllcv, The foundation walls of ihe new capilol are completed up to the water table. The missive walls of the dome have gono of high as the second story in their journey to the skies. The U. N. B. B. nine will play a game with the Firth club on (lie 1st of June. This club grows in a country village, but we wish to warn ihe boys that it will take cxccllaiit i laying to defeat them. Cuts and Hunks seem to be most prominent features of the University work just now. Commencement work is focusing and the weather does all in its power to cause laziness and general dontcarativencss. The Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity which lias beui expected in this institution for lo these many months has up to this writing failed to matiralize. Have the girles been denied a charter? Later Since the above was written the girls have been initiated. Furlhor particulars will be given in our next issue. Commencement promises to bo well iittondod this yonr. Miss Alico Carso formerly '85, mndotho University, a call last week. MissTalbothas gono to hor homo at Syracuse to spend a lew days. Messrs. Frank Myers and Ed Austin formerly 80, mado us a cull hist week The collego orchestra assists the song portion of tho Y. M. C. A. on Sunday nfernoous. A second uino lias been organized, and will soon cluil cngctlic first to mortal combat. Miss.GeniaStillmaii was suddenly called to hor home in Louisiana, Missouri, last week. A. L. Frost, '85, a veteran of two months experience indie- commercial world, has returned to continuo his studies. The Cadets indulge in a diess-parado every Friday afu-riionii. These exhibitions ofmisculinc symmetry are not so well attended as of yoie, however. The base ballists have laid out now grounds several blocks north of the campus. 'I hey are extensive enough for the hnidest Latter in the Univcrsi'Y nine. The prep who, in a fit of menial liberation, carried of chapel bible and left in its place a much worn Dictionary can learn something to his interest by calling at Room Number Five. The Sophomoivs are considering die feasibility of tak ing up a collection to buy a pot of paiut for tho faded ex terior of our building. Their experience in "painting the town red" eminently qualifies them for the laudable undertaking. The catalogue is now in the hands of the printer. It will appeal in a form closely roso-nblng that of the Yale catalogue, and will contain many new feature.. Tho middle nanus of all the siudentB who possess such an useless apendage will be given in full. The commencement progrrmme so far as nnoiinced is as follows; Friday evening, Palladian Exhibition; Sat urday evening, Union exhibition; Sunday evening, B.iccas laureate address; Tuesday evening University mid res; Wednibtlay, Commencement ; Wednesday evening, reception. At last we are to have grass around the building. The work has been eouiincucc d or we would not dare to make this rash statement. Guards or brick have been built a round the basement windows, and the ground will be fill ed so as to form a slope from the top of these to the drive ways. Now "Keep oflthe grass," and in a short time this barren place will become as verdant as an agricultural student. It is broadly hinted that on the morning after the cir cus day the janitor found a donkey in a recitation room on the thi.d floor. He quietly .emoved his royal highness and M.g a pit long and deep for the perpetra tors of the deed by not saying anything about the matter. Ho h oped to detect Ihe euilly pies by observing who fust broached the subject of donkejs, but the scheme was a miserable failure. The truth leaked out without implicating anybody, and at this date the Faculty and the janitor are huHing for the wretches with dark lan terns and clubs. ( f , 1