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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1885)
THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. (gnmyiw (pfanfo. "Got there?" "Yes." "How much?" "Three dollnrs a day." Lieutenant Dudley is now in tictivc charge of the mili tary department. In a short time the University hopes to boast of two artillery battalions In the second prep, history clnss Barnes, General His tory has been substituted for Swinton's. The junior class in English Literature has been spend ing a dreary period among (lie Old Dramatist. Our old friend John Silvcrnail, now mail-carrier at the legislature, is quite a frequent visitor at the society meet ings. Always ghul to see him. Although thn Student has explained all such things the people of Lincoln still insist on being scandalized when a grave in Wyuka is found empty. Bills appropriating the money or. hand for tlio library and new buildings are already before the legislature with emergency clauses to hasten matters. If we may be allowed to use the expression, the mili tary department is booming; the number registered for drill is nearly twice as many as ever before. The lengthening of tho Christmas holidays led to good results; never before was there suoh promptness among the students at the commencement of a term. A German club made up of students, professors and citizens is enjoying itself in a quiet way in the reading of the German classics without attempting translation. One of the boys in stating his reasons for taking a cer tain step said "a good Samaritan came along and picked mo up" and as is usually tho case the good samaritau seems to enjoy it hcttur than tho object of his charity. Prof. The term "Barbarian" moans all uncivilized people. Stud. I don't believe It. Prof. (looking rather blank for a moment.) Oh! not in college politics, not at all. Wo uro tickled to welcome back Engeno Whoelock . Ho has registered special which proves that it is well to raise a mustache if you want to maUe folks believe you are of age. Another improvement is about to be mado in tho mili tary department. In a fow days tho cadets will befitted out with now guns. Two c&unon will also bo furnished for tiioir amusement. It is reported that during vacation while one of the boys was out on a stroll with his mortcr-bourd, a hunter seeing him became frightened and shot at him, but the distance between them prevented any serious rosult. Tho House journal of the first session of tho forty eighth Congress has two thousand three hundred pages and is the fattest looking book in the library. It would make delightful reading for some Sunday afternoon. Four alumni in the stato legislature one of whom is speaker of the House is a better political showing than the U. of N. has ever made before. Tho Chancellor en thused upon tho subject for some time the other morning and really it seems a proper cause of enthusiasm. A class for the study of Shakespeare has boon orgau iz'd under Professor Sherman. There none but juniors and seniors in it. They hayo four different texts of the play in hand and look wise when they speak about it. The University cimpiu is adorned with a road that would hare compared favorably with the old overland stage route that passed through Lincoln. It takes a stralg1 shoot from tho east entrance to tho south-west ontrance; this black streak will present a handsome conttast when the grass comes up alongside The oflicers of the Hesperian Association for tho ous suing semester were amicably elected on the 24th Inst, president and managing editor Charles S. Allen ; Asso ciates A. G. Warner. C. G. McMillan, Will O. Jones and S. D. Killon; vice-president, C. S. Polk; treasurer, Elloa Fulmer; secretary E. C. Wiggenhoru. The annual Oratorical Co ntest of the Pal Indian Liter ary society for tho Chaso and Wheeler prlzo. is announced for Saturday evening, Janurary 17. The entertainment is to be hold in the chapel, and to be free. The society offers a second prize which they have also mado annual. Tho contestants are Miss Mary Campbell, Messrs, H. P. Barrett, 0. S. Lobengler, E. D. H.,wc, J. H. Barrett and Will 8. Porrin. The Philndiceau literary society has a now bulletin board. It is a hard-wood, broad-shouldered affair that has crowded out the old Y M. 0. A. announcements and now looks down with a porcelain smile from be tween tho College and Union boards. Ii is certainly a great improvement on the baby-coffin affairs that tho old societies accepted at tho hands of the faculty and are still using. Tho second "Chase and Wheeler contest in Oratory," in tho Palladian society came off" as announced, Saturday evening January 17. Tho Chase and Wheeler, or first prize, wns awarded to 0. 8. Lobingior, the Palladian, or second prizo to W. S. Pel rin. The society as well as all contestants acquitted themselves worthy of the Palladian and its previous reputation of the oldest literary society of the Nebraska Stato University. The number of applicants for admission this term is indeed small, but wc see no portent of evil times in tho fact as some would augur. The management of tho Uni versity is gradually becoming better known over our state and while the general depression In money matters certainly enters into it tho fact that the fall term is proper ly the time for cnlcrancc, is the real cause of this scarce ness of applicants. Our institution is certainly in a bet ter way, and as remarked, tho next one or two years, at . most Is to detcrmtno i Is character and place among tho many Universities of the land. Tho social on the first Friday evening of this term was the only thing ol the kind that the literary societies have indulged in since tho present three-cornered arrange ment was mado. The unfortunate Easlerday brothers allowed themselves to be enticed into singing for one of the societies. They were uufortunato in thinking that they had so many friends, for thoy woro straightway seized upon and dragged from one hall to another Jand encored and mado to slug under various pretexts till it Is remarkable that any of the four had a wind pipe loft whoa thoy at last oscapod. Several of our alumni were present ut the social and "all went merry as a social should."