Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1884)
HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XIII. LINCOLN, NEB., DECEMBER i, 1884. No. V. Tliorc never appeared more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united tho world could no stand against them. Swift. Professor "What is fraud V Studont "Taking a wil ful advantage of a person's ignorance." Professor "Givo an example." Student "Why-crer-ono of your exami nations." Ex. The Rev. 1 hillips Brooks will bo the 3elect preacher in the University of Cambridge, England, next Juno. This is the second time that this honor has been conferred on an American clergyman. Herman Lolze, the great German philosopher, said. "Only love for tho living God, and longing to be approved by Him, is tho scientific as it is the Christian basis of morality: and science will never find a firmer basis Hfea8urer." nor Rambler ,au Italian philosopher expressed in his motto that time was his estate; an citato, indeed, which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will abun dantly lepay tlte labois of industry, and generallv satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it bo suilercd to Ho waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for uso. Am.lief. "How glorious it is to be engaged in a purely Intel lectual occupation I" murmured a Boston maiden, gazing rapturously into the admiring eyes of a country editor "your own mental faculties for tools and the whole uni verse for a work-shop. Now tell me," she added, "what do you find the most difficult thing connected with your noble profession?" "Paying tho hands," said tho editor. Preparations for the World's Fair at New Orleans are now so far advanced that great success may safely bo predicted for tho enterprise. All tho departments will be well filld, but tho display from Central und South American States will doubtless bo the most novel. Tho result of tho Fair ought to be not only commercial rela tions between tho Northern and Southern States, but be tween North and South America. Some readers are like the hour-glass thoir reading is as the sand. It runs in and runs out, but leaves not a vestige behind. Some like a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in the same state, only a little dirtier. Somo like a jelly-bag, which allows all that Is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. Tho fourth class may be compared to tho slave of Gol conda, who casting uway all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems." Oole.idge. Professor of Political Science "Mr. D., supposoyou discovered that a quantity of dynamite had been placed beneath your diuing room, and that you wero to be blown up at your usual dinner hour, what action would you tako to frustrate the cousplrators?" Mr. D. "I should dine-a-mite earlier." Ex. Getting up in a cold room to make a fire is like getting up in life. If you crawl timidly out of bed, go on tiptoe to tho stove, and allow the shivers to get control of 3'ou be fore tho kindling starts,your fire will probably bo a failure, and you will half freeze todeath in tho operation. But if you jump out bravely, bustle around, pull on yonr clothes knock over a chair or two, and pilch iu the stove wood you will probably bo.too warm by tho time the fire gets to burning, and have to open a window. So in life. At tack it timidly, and you will fail. Grapple witli it, hurry up things, stir around, conquer fortune, and you will bo a success. Selected. We are glad to notice the example set by the Hon.James G. Blaine at a recent dinner at Delinonica's in New York given him by the capitalists of that city. Six wine glasses wero set at each plate, and on taking his scat Mr. Blaine immediately turned his glasses down so as to prevent the waiters from even aproaching him with their decanters. In reply to Mr. Evarts, Mr. Blaine said "No I find that nothing stengtliena me so much as a cup of tea. That is better than all tho splrheous stimulants iu tho world." Ho added that during his recent trip of seven weeks in which he traveled between twelvo and fifteen housand miles, his sole refreshment after each exhausted labor had been a cup of good, black tea. Selected. "I have friends whoso society is ex'remely agreeable to me; they are of all ages and of every country. They have distinguished themselves both in tho cabinet and in the field, and obtained high honors for thoir knowledge of the sciences. It is easy to gain access to 'horn, for thoy are always at my service, and I admit them to my company, and dismiss their from it whenever I please. Thoy are never troublesome, but immediately answer every question I ask them. Somo relate to me the events of the past ages, while others roveal to mo tho secrets of Nature. Somo teach me how to live and others how to die. 8ome, by their vivacity, drive away my cares and exhilarate my spirits, whilo others give fortitude to my mind, and teach mo tho important lesson how to restrain my desires, and to depend wholly on myself. They opan to me, in short, tho various avenues of all the arts and sciences and upon their information I savoly rely ihlall emergencies." Petrarch