THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
The students, then, should co-operate with the jani
tor, capture these animals and put them in the
'pound" and by so doing once or twice the campus
would be a campus and not a pasture for the city.
school should have a department which, to all ap
pearances, we have despaired of equalling. This is
the only department vacant in our institution at pre
sent and we hope this vacancy is but for a season.
Six new microscopes which have just arrived from
London have caused much rejoicing among the sci
entific students and are considered a valuable addi
tion to the department. They were made by H.
Grouch, of London, whose instruments are superior
to all others both in power and delicacy of adjust
ment. Each has two object glaoses, the more power
ful of which is 500 diameters. With this stronger
object glass we are able to examine minutely the Bac
teriae as well as the various vegetable and animal
structures.
It seems that some people or some colleges are
bound to be twenty-five or fifty years behind the
spirit of the age. We notice in some of the eastern
institutions where the officers and members of the
faculty are trying to inaugurate a system of co-education
the students are bitterly opposed to it, and in
some colleges where it has been adopted the young
ladies are treated with such studied neglect that it is
very unpleasant for them and therefore they do not
patronize such institutions very much. Just think of
it! What would we do without co-education? We
would be as lonely as the "farm student," neither
could we be comforted.
We want to impress upon the minds of the stu
dents that this paper is published as their advocate
and being such a sheet, it demands something more
than their pecuniary support. If any student has
an idea he wishes to communicate to the students, it
is through this sheet he should do it. Of course
this statement must suffer some limitations; but in
general, we want the ideas of the students to appear
in their paper. However, no faction of the school
has any right to use the paper as a means of advocat
ing its claims. The good of che whole class of stu
dents demands a strict neutrality with respect to fav
oring any faction. The Student labors for the
good of nothing but the University as a whole.
For some time the people in the vicinity of the
University Jiave regarded the campus as a pasture in
in which to turn their horses and cows and have been
using it as such. Repeated notices have been put up
as well as urgent requests through the daily papers
but to no avail. Something must be done to pre
ventjiorses and cows from injuring the flower beds
.as well as the shrubery, This custom has been estab
lished forjive years, andjnore or less damage has
been done each year. This year it begins as usual in
spite of the earnest desire of the janitor to prevent it.
The Cadet Band has been in existence for
five years but not until this year has it had a
room in which to practice and to keep the instru
ments. Before this year they have had no def
inite room for practice and hence much time was
spent in finding a place in which to rehearse. This
year they have a room on the fourth floor with ele
vated seats and adjustable music rack. A decided,
improvement is already realized from the fact that the
whole hour is spent in rehearsing. Each member has
his own place and no time is lost in arranging or
hunting music. The Student feels certain that un
der this systematic arrangement the band will make
even more progress than it did last year.
We are glad to hear that the University will likely
be represented in Nebraska's exhibit at the world's
fair soon to open at New Orleans. Nebraska is tak
ing a prominent place among the older states and in
many productions we have excelled. It is time also
that our University was taking the place by the side
of older institutions, which it has so hardly won.
Although our institution is young it has produced in
its several departments, examples of scholarship which
compare favorably to other colleges; and with these
we see no reason why we should not be represented
in every department. We would urge also upon the
literary societies the importance of a just representa
tion of the worth and work of these factors. The
productions of members in regular society work
would make a good showing, besides the productions
of literary contests. It perhaps will take some work
but we will certainly be repaid, for our institution
needs a little just such advertising.
It is worthy of editorial mention that the habit of
punning is dying out in this institution. Two years
ago it was epidemic in the school. Seniors got off
their polished paranomasias; Juniors vied with them
in making amorous puns; Sophs worked hard at imi
ting their upper class superiors; Freshies tried hard
to imitate the Sophs' imitation; and even the preps
rattled their brains to try to "catch on" to the mean
ing and remember the points of the thousand and one
puns fired off daily by the pun factory. Now all this
is changed. Where puns formerly prevailed, com
mon sense now holds possession. J Whenever a pun is
inadvertantly made an instant apology is demanded
from the offending one and not until he denies his
offspring will the inveterate punster of two years ago
I be allowed to appear in decent society. The
