THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
HESPERIAN STUDENT,
Issued 8emi. monthly by the Hesperian Student
Publishing Association of the University of Nebraska.
BOARD OF EDITORS:
Chiefs,
Literary,
Local,
Manager, Ed. J. Churchill.
( 0. 8 Polk.
: ' ' G. B. FraNKFORTER.
: Mary R. Campijell.
( R S.MOCKETT.
: : jW. S. Perrin.
: : 0. G. McMillan.
: : Elmer Pierce.
: : Wm. E. Johnson.
Associate, : :
Medical, :
Business Manager,
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One copy, one half year, .50
Single copy, .10
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perian Student, State University, Lincoln, "Nebraska.
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jjgditarial Hofc$,
It was the impression pf the Student that there
were definite limits placed on the amount of study
to be accomplished by a student in a single term. We
believe it is the truth that at least one half of the col
lege department are attempting considerably more
than the required amount of book-work.- -Thestudies
themselves, the literary societies and especially the
STnDENT suffer from this steam-pressure method
of study.
A firm in Chicago is gifted with the most abund
ant cheek imaginable. Their enterprizc is so vigor
ous that all the members of the senior class have re
ceived circulars from them offering to furnish
orations, essays or poems to order. We are sorry we
can't give their names as such a grand and altogether
fresh enterprizc as the Student's Literary Bureau
ought to have as free and full advertising as any thing
that has of late come to our notice.
It is highly probable that less good will come from
half a dozen different topics in a term than from work
ing on three or four to obtain all that they contain.
There is much danger of students becoming mental
dyspeptics from hasty and half digested knowledge.
To take a few studies , and prepare them deliberately
and thoroughly is the best method of improving the
quality of one's intellect and of maintaining a
healthy vigor at
The student is not receiving the support from our
alumni which a college paper ought and which is in
most colleges they usually receive. This after some
thought we conclude is partly the fault of the alumni.
We have been unable to gather much news concern
ing them very largely on account of their lack of sup
port and on the other hand they loose interest in us
from that very fact. Now we want to meet our grad
uates at least half way; we want communications and
news from them and from old students. We cannot
tell where you are or what you are doing without
first knowing ourselves; and if you will give us a
chance the Student can be made and will be made
of more interest to you.
The Journal and some of our other state contempo
raries are indulging in a somewhat boisterous alterca
tion regarding the color of Fred Nye's hair and a
most perplexing problem it seems to be. It has been and
is the policy of the Student to hold itself aloof from
all petty quarrels especial y those of a personal nature
but when we are compelled to witness a paper like the
Journal stooping to malign the hair of such a man as
Fred Nye, prevaricating with prevarications so obvi
ously malicious, the spirit of Sampson rises within us
and were it not for the fact that we have within our
reach no inferior maxillary of a superior jackass we
would straighway gird up our loins advance upon the
works of the State Journal and smite the gentleman
hip and thigh following somewhat the modus operandi
of that emminent gentleman of olden time. If this
threatening editorial does not intimidate our morning
friend we'll try another plan, but cost what it will
Mr. Nye's hair has its rights.
Comparatively few atudent seem to have any idea
of the value of reading -judicious reading of course,
in the work of education. A student who wishes to
make the most of his time and opportunities while at
college should make a firm resolution to spend a fair
portion of his time every day with well selected
authors. Some of these a few should be chosen
for their style; the greater number should be solid
and instructive. A student who devotes an hour a
day to a good book will at the end pf the year be sur
prised as the amount of in format k acquired, while,
in the meantime his own style of writing and manner
of thinking partakes more or less of his favorite
authors. ( Even the most casual acquaintance with
good books is not without benefit; but to be of the
greatest advantage, both style and matter should re
ceive careful attention. Disagreeable at first, per
haps, reading grows upon one, and when it becomes,
a hat it it will prove both pleasant and profitable.
Some woman in Indiana is bringing forward the fact
that according to the constitution of that state it is-
