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m Mi 4 & A HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XIII. LINCOLN, NEB., MAY i, 1885. No. XII. The Owl publishes "Magizino notices." Come off Prcshic. Nearly one hnlf of the personals in the Kansas Courier pre concerning "mashes" past, present, and future, among the students of that University. "Willi the spring the joung man's fancy," etc.. A recipe for a lemon pie vaguely adds: "Then sit on the clove and stir constantly." Just as if any one could sit on the stove without stirring constantly; but we can't understand how it would benefit the pic. Hastings College again sends out a paper, this lime a natty little sheet called the Collegian. The company in charge of the new venture claims to possess money and brains in profusion, hence a life of at least, two or three months may be looked for. The Inter-state oratorical contest takes place in a few weeks. By that time wo will be worked up to enthusi" asm we hope. Kansas Univcrsitj' Courier. Shake, brethren! We now appreciate your position. Combinations against the "infidel school" downed us both. Shako again I Now the sober engineering chaps While tho innocent Professor Improve in base.ball playing, While tho innocent Professoi Credits them with Held surveying AVussar girl writes: I hav'nt seen a man in a month of Sundays. We were out taking a 'constitutional' Satur day and came across a scarecrow in a cornfield. All the .girls ran for it at once, and I only managed to secure a part ofoneofthe skirts of its coat. Still it was something. Ever twanging, twanging, twanging, With an everlasting banging Of the never-resting heel against tho floor, floor, floir; Sits tho banjo flcud playing To tho swaying, swaying, swaying, Of tho arras and of the body of a bore. In tho evening, in the morning, Whan tho breaking day Is dawuiug, And Apollo's crystal streamers shimmer o'er tho shining hills Then his wretched toy adorning, You will see the demon fawning ' O'er tho instrument acciirscd that cither cures or kills Purloined. A cross-eyed reprobate from Buffalo, New York, lias been doing Nebraska for a newspaper of that village, and in tho course of his remarks ho says that that our prolific soil grows th6 ugliest women on the face of the earth. The man must nave confined his observations to the city of Omaha and ths co-eds ofDoane College. The semi-annual examinational West Point made con. sidcrable havoc among the cadets. Tho fou:th class lost twenty-five per cent of its members, and five of tho third class were turned back to the fourth. Nineteon-twentl-eths of our colleges would render more aid to the cause of higher education if their requisites for advancemen t were correspondingly positive. "Adieu," she said sweetly, as lie kissed her good night. "He's adieu'd, ain't he?" sung out her little brother as lie vanished up the stairs. Our exchanges arc quite unanimous in borrowing tho "Four Epitaphs" recently perpetrated by this paper, but few nave shown tho good sonse to properly credit the same. Wcwill cheerfully loan the italics to any of our contemporaries who arc without them. It is a significant fact that the eastern colleges which favor sclculiflc education instead of classical, have receiv ed the greatest gain in the number of students. The Insti. tuto of Technology, and Cornell University, arc particular illustrations of this tendency, the former reporting one hunched mure students than last year, and the enteriug class of the latter being larger than that at Yale, and, ac cording to reports, equal to that at Harvard. The University Presi (Madison, Wis ) publishes nearly thirty pages of closely printed matter that on investigation proves to be the entire debate between representatives of the lileraiy societies. Not having read the debate, and consequently entirely qualified to judge, wa pronounce it u very able and exhaustive treatment of tho question of bimctnlicism. It will hereafter be found in the library, where students who have work in that line can steal ad infinitum. The amount of energy displayed by the literary socle ties of the University of California is astounding. Sevcra years ago Ihev jointly purchased a piano, agreeing to pay for it on the installment plan. The confiding dealer who effected the sale is still looking for his mosey. Ever and nqn ho makes a move toward taving hiimclf by attach ingtlie instrument. At such epochs the college papers arouse themselves and fairly howl for somebody to pay that bill. This thing has just occurred for the for tieth time, and to say that we are tired is drawing it mild. Cornell Era devotes four columns to the regulations of other colleges respecting absences from chapel ami class They show tt:at ncarly'all institutions of note with the exception of effete Harvard of course, require regular attendance at recitations and promptly summon offend ers who do not present satisfactory excuses. In Princeton it seems that nothing except sickness and death justifies a man for cutting, as by the rules the following excuses will not be accepted: Arranging room at the beginning of the term; presence of friends and relatives from abroad ; want of preparation for the exercises; preparing for other college exercises or examination for tho removal of condi tions; duties connected with college periodicals or organ izations; "sleeping over" whether duo to being up lato the previous evening or other causes. Other colleges have rules as stringent, showing that the old parental sys tem has not been entirely abandoned cost of the Allcghenies
