THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
HESPERIAN STUDENT.
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Publishing Association of the University of Nebraska
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Editorial $iotc$,
This is our holiday number. Most of the editors
are very thankful that it is, for thereby, they, being
at some distance from this seat of learning, are not
compelled to furnish the results of their thoughts to
fill the present issue. All apologies expected of us
on account of this issue will be grounded on the
plea of the over-work of those who remain.
Have the faculty and regents definitely decided
that a dormitory is a practical impossibility in N.
S. U.? Our little neighbor at Crete has erected a
fine ladies hall Is it a fact that our girls are so much
noisier than the Cretans that they cannot inhabit a
common hall without raising the rumpus that caused
our old dormitory to end so suddenly its brief exis
tence? The gods are relenting from their recent met
eorlogical afflictions and now the warm sunny south
ern zephyrs gladden the student's soul. If ever the
above getitlemen did an unkind act it was during va
cation when they so reduced the temperature that
everything theeffeminate students could do was to sit
close by their mas and play checkers. They wanted
to skate, go sleigh riding and build a snowman.
The legislature has met and in accordance with
the old established custom several University stu
dents "have sought for and obtained positions as
clerks, door-keepers etc. Verily, verily, the1 legis
lature is a fine institution in one respect at least it
gives the boys a chance to replenish their wallets once
in two years, but we hope and pray that during this
session more attention may be paid to our University
wants than here-to-fore.
The recent action of the regents in regard to the
military department is to be highly commended. At
their last meeting they authorised Lieutenant Dudley
to offer prizes for the best appearing and best drilled
companies, for the best drilled captain, and for the
best drilled private. Some cannon have been applied
for and should they be secured an artillery company
will be formed and the best drilled artillerist will also
receive a prize. The prizes offered are well worth
striving for even from a pecuniary point of view, and
their effect on the interest of this department is al
ready becoming manifest. Hurrah for Lieutenant
Dudley, hurrah for the cadets and hurrah for us all
What has become of our German society? some
one asked us the other day, and then for the first
time it occurred to us that it was dead yes dead.
That illustratrious organization had its birth, its life
and its death last year. What object it accomplished
is unknown except that its name was entered upon the
pages of our late annual by the side of the notice of
the Anti-Hugging Association, another defunct or
ganization. A good live energetic German society
where all that is said is spoken in that tongue would,
in our estimation, be of great value to students of that
language and a readiness of its use would thus be
gained that could be acquired in no other way. Let
us resurrect the Dutch society.
We have just received for publication an anony
mous essay commencing, "We are just stepping over
the threshold of life." Now we are not over particu
lar as to the literary style of our scrap book articles,
but there is a limit to our endurance and the line is
drawn right here. We won't publish any of the
articles prepared for the annual hand-ortran act of the
seniors. Still less will we toleiate the examples for
practice which they commence about this time of the
year. Preps may write for us; freshies, sophs and
juniors may have published what ever they will; but
when a senior tries to impress the world that he is an
abnormal literary giant, we don't propose to help
him by publishing his luxuriant articles.
As the Student has declared in every issue for six
years, there is need of improvements in our build
ings and apparatus. The regents have wisely gran
ted fair salaries to our instructors, but without a
greater appropriation of the moneys which bylaw