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HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XIII. LINCOLN, NEB., FEBRUARY i, 1885. No. VILtT At this day, ns much compitny as I have kept, and as much as I lovo it, I love reading belter liopc. Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. He who writes from the heart will write to the heart. Disraeli. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thorough-fare. It closes in the twlight to open with the dawn. I im prove every hour because I love this world us my father land. My work is only beginning. My monument is hardly above its foundation. I would be glad to see it mounting and mounting forever. The thirst for the in finite proves infinity. Victor Hugo. No matter how poor I am; 110 matter though the pros perous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwell ing; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to 1110 of Paradise; and Shakespeare, to opm to mo the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, I shall not pine for the want of intellectual companionship though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. Channing. Representative Holmes has introduced a bill into the legislature authorizing the regents to expend what may be necessary of the University fund for the erection of a Science Hall and also a Chemical Laboratory. It does not require a very high order of intellect lor one who is in the least acquainted witli our needs to see Unit those buildings are absolutely essential to our growth and pros, perity. We sincerely hope this will be carefully consid ered by the legislature. Knowlege of books in a man of business is a torch in the hands of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to prosperity and welfare Addison. Congressman Cox has undertaken the task ol putting a stop to hazing in educational institutions under the con trol of the U. S. government. The death of Naval Cadet Strong, which is supposed to have been caused by hazing, has aroused great indignation against the pernicious practice. Rev. Charles P. Thwing, author of "American Col-' leges," says that i I student "arc inclined to demand all their rights, they are not inclined to exact more than their rights. What belong to them they want, an.l usually will j have; but want no more. I have often thought that they form at once the hardest and easiest class to govern." Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the momentous, wonderful and worthy, are the things we call books! These poor bits of rag-paper with blank ink on them, from the daily newspaper to the sacred Hebrew book, what have the' not done, what are they doing? Qarlyle. In its issue of October 2o, the Current taking' up the discussion ol college journalism makes a peculiarly hap py and praclial suggestion, which can best bo given in its own words. It says, oiling Harvard as an example: "Harvard University is one of the most important, somo will say the most important, educational institution in America. Its students enjoy rare privilege, and the ad mirable excellence of the training they receive is aliunde antly evidenced in the post-University lives of its gradu ades. But Harvard University has a two -fold character. It is not only tho Alma Mater of the students that seek its halls, but it lias a mission to peifonnasa factor in American educational progress. It has relations to tho public as well as to the students. And what wo have to say of its public relations is to bo said of Princeton, Brown, Yale, Cornell and other Universities. Tho pub lic lias the right to know what Harvard's faculty think a bout literary and scientific matters. Under the present system when President Eliot desires to make a public statement upon a matter in which the whole public is in terested, he seeks somo other journal than that of his cols lege. Why does lie do this? Why does he not go to tho magazine published by his students? Why does ho not endeavor to dignify the Advocate by making it an abso lute authority for college opinion? It is not necessary that the editors should bo other than the students. The college journal could atill contain all the gossip and fun it now does. It could still open its columns to the work of student-contributor and gives them all the journalistic exercise they may desire. The Current wishes to hotter tho condition of tho editors of college journals. When the faculty holds aloof, the students cannot bo expected to do bettor work than thoy are now doing, which is often very excellent. Would tho presidents of tho various Uni versi'ies of the land be willing to rest their claims for patronage upon the inherent evidences of studont culture to be found in tho average periodical? Wo think not. And yet it is possiblo for ilio (acuities of those grout edu cational establishments to so assist tho students in their work of publication that a graduate could acquire special distinction from having been a college editor. As tho Current has had occasion in tho past remark, either tho college journal should bo a product to bo proud of, or it should bo abondoned. And if it is easily possible to make it thoroughly representative of collego alms, college opinions and college culture, as It is of collogo sports and collego humor, without sacrificing any of those tea turos, it should most assuredly, for the benefit of both collego and students, bo made so" Wooslcr Collegian, .
