THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
HESPERIAN STUDENT.
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To those who may be unduly startled at the ap
pearence of two issues of the Student within a week
we would say that such a horrible burden will not of
ten be inflicted upon them. We are simply making
up for lost time, and getting ready to publish the
Commencement number, r
There is one thing which vitally concerns the
students of this University which has not been
touched upon yet in any manner befitting its import
ance, viz.: the Bulletin Board. This reflects on our
institution, no doubt it debars many who come here
to look from entering. Placed right in the centre
of the halls, observed of all, its weather-beaten vis
age, broken out all over with monstrous tacks, it looms
up "gigantic and terrible." Something ought to be
done, either it should be regenerated or another
constructed.
Students who sell their text-books as fast as they
are done with them make a great mistake. If it is
true as has been said that knowledge is not so much
knowing things as knowing where to find out about
them, surely it is short sighted policy to dispose of
just those books of whose contents we know most.
In a five or six years college course, the hundred or
so books acquired form a nucleus for a good library.
From the nature of the case they are sufficiently di
versified in character to give some information on al
most any subject that may be raised; thus answering
the purpose of a general library better than any col
lection selected at random.
Writing seems to be a herculean task for the stu
dents of this University. The faculty has long tried
to persuade them of the necessity of this, and failing
they have now resorted to threats. They, have de
cided that no one's name shall appear in the cata
logue as passed into the next year, until he has made
up all his essays. This no doubt will be a powerful
incentive; but whether it will be sufficient for some we
have doubts. These ought to have some such treat
ment as they give lazy men of Holland. There they
place them in a deep tank in which there is a pump,
then water is turned on and they are compelled to
pump or drown. This is known to be very effectual,
rarely fails to cure the most obstinate cases.
Of all studies none are so well suited for occupying
odd moments as languages. It is surprising how
much good can be done by carrying a small French
or German book about and using it to fill up blank
moments in business. By directing the intense in
terest with which one studies advertisements or lists
of "letters uncalled for" while waiting at the depot
where the train is always late, or at the post office
where the mail is always slow, to a conumdrum in
German or Latin grammar, much "economy of the
reader's attention" may be provided for. When a
student in a modern language has obtained anything
like proficiency no better exercise can be found than
the mental translation of ordinary newspaper English.
The mistakes which are inevitable by no means count
erbalance the good of such lingual gymnastics.
Party spirit in colleges is even stronger than in
the outside world. Nor are the methods employed
by the fact ions more honorable. We have our Ros
coe Conkl ings and Blaines,only they are more insolent
and overbearing, for they have not yet learned by ex
perience the necessity of self-control. Eager to be
the leader they do not scruple to take advantage of
every and any thing whether commendable or not.
They trample down others in their way with but
little compunction. Many a night is spent by some,
not in study, but in scheming for the advancement of
their respective parties. Whenever a new student en
ters, he is "sized" by all the various factions, and if
thought to be good, he immediately falls a victim to
all their traps. He is worked upon till he scarcely
knows what he is about; and joins one or the other
out of sheer despair. The principal generally used is
that "the end justifies the means," each one takes the
hypothesis that his is the only standpoint, all others
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