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In talking with one of the lawyers from Kearney
we found that Nebraska was almost wholly singular in
having an agricultural college with which the people of
the state were dissatisfied. Iowa, among others, was
pointed out a& a state where satisfaction and con
tentment reign supreme, as regards industrial educa
tion. We imagine that this fact would be news to
many of the inhabitants of Iowa, and to some con.
nectcd very closely with the college.
Tun traditional cud between the janitor and the
literary societies, again becomes active as the length
ening days make it more difficult to begin or finish
the Friday evening exercises on time. As the
champion of the 10:30 rule has right and the
faculty on his side, and asjie also has complete con
trol of the gas-meter, it might seem that it would be
easy for him to enforce the rule. But on the other
side there are about a hundred and fifty students and
hence we see that the issue is still doubtful.
The idea that that professor is most popular with
the students who makes them do the least work, is
false. However lazy a student may be, he stilt has
sense enough to respect only those that can make
him work. We believe that there are now fewer pro
fessors in this school under whom a student is allowed
to escape hard work than at any time, for many
years, and the circumstance causes as much rejoicing
amongstudents as among any class. Were we good at
sermonizing we should now enter into a long disqui
sition upon the pleasures afforded by virtue and the
unpleasantness of badness, or we might even say the
stupendous difficulties attendant upon being bad.
But we leave that for the Scholastic.
Our conservatory of music is once more in exist
ence, and under the management of Prof. Saxby and
Miss Cochran will undoubtedly accomplish some
thing more than an enlargement of the instructors in
the University catalogue. Lacking support from the
state, our conservatory of music has had but au inter
mitant life, and that of a seemingly painful charac
ter. We sincerely hope and believe that the manage
ment has at last been found that shall make it not
only self-sustaining but make it a complete success,
worthy of the greater success of which it is to form a
part.
The State Teacher's Association which was held in
this building during the first week of the term may
be considered, we suppose, good of its kind. And to
those who get disgusted with the eternal speechmak
ing and the endless elaboration of unsound theories
it may be said that it has always taken a comparative
ly enormous volume of talk to float any profession on
ward to the goal of correct thinking. In all deliber
ative bodies, an immense amount of irrelevant argu
mentation goes on that, after all, achieves the quite
desirable result of making the hearers see that it is ir
relevant. Such meetings as that held in Lincoln are
chiefly valuable in keeping up the common feeling
among those engaged in a most wearisome profession;
but even when all the differing theories advanced are
brought to the test of good sense there will, nearly al
ways, be left something that is really valuable, and it
does not take. many ideas of real value to make a
man intellectually rich.
The festive book-agent is again abroad in the
land. As the wild geese take their journey north
ward when warm weather returns, so, with approach
ing summer, the plausibly seductive "general agent"
settles numerously npon our colleges, and makes
himself agreeable and ubiquitous. Of those who
will "go out" under his direction most will give as
an excuse for all acknowledge that an excuse is
needed that they expecfto get "a little experience. '
If they think they can get valuable experience they
are mistaken. The Hesperian had a friend who
went canvassing once with that object. He found
out, to be sure, how many miles it took to make a
a blister, and how much indignity a man will put
up with for "ten per centum of the selling price
and the cost of the outfit refunded after having
ordered three hundred copies," but he felt that this
was an inadequate reward for self-respect destroyed, a
mind enfeebled and a conscience hardened. To feel
that one exists only because it is against the law for
anybody to kill him is not the happiest state of