THE HESPERIAN.
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THE HESPERIAN.
(HESPERIAN STUDENT.)
Issued scmi-
ation
monthly by the Hesperian Publishing Associ
ition, of the University of Nebraska.
C. S. ALLEN, '86, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
ASSOCIATES:
WILL OWEN JONES, '86. S. D. KILLEN, '87.
E. FULMER, '87. H. P. BARRETT, 'SS.
Business Manager
Wm. N. Fletcher.
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Single copy,
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Address all communications to the Hesperian, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The thesis system is to be tried on our senior class
this year, at least according to the catalogue. Prac
tically, we think that but little will be done in that
direction until more is known concerning the charac
ter and amount of the work. At present professors
as well as well as students appear to know absolutely
nothing of this newest and most promising addition
to the curriculum.
. The University has entered the race for the first
place in the procession of Western colleges and is
destined to win. Every antiquated weight has been
thrown off and every aid to rapid advancement that
can be secured is at once adopted. A more modern,
progressive institution than the University does not
exist.
The most promising feature of the opening of the
present year is the unusual strength of the Freshman
class. Between fifty and sixty have, already been
registered, a larger number than had been hoped for
"by even the most enthusiastic friends of the Univer
sity. The Hesperian predicts that '86 will be the
last class to graduate with less than a dozen member:.
The class of '85 was a small one, but its members
are individually missed in these classic halls. The
editorial board of the Hesperian especially feel the
loss caused by the graduation of two of its members,
Messrs. A. G. Warner and C. G. McMillan. To
these gentlemen should be given a large share of the
credit for the improvements that are just begining to
be seen in the paper. The good that they have done,
and actively assisted in doing, lives after them and
will eventually Tesult in making the Hesperian a
publication that will creditably represent the best
college in the west.
The University is strengthened the present year by
the addition to the teaching force of two new in
structors, J. Gilbert White, Ph. D., and Stephen
Leonard Gephardt, B. A., LL. B. Mr. White has
spent several years in advanced study at Cornell Uni
versity and is well fitted for his present work, Physics
and Astronomy. Mr. Giesthardt, in addition to the
degree. secured at Yale, is a graduate of the Colum
bia College Law School, and has received special
preparation for instructing in French and Latin. We
welcome them to their new field of labor.
Liberality to the college organ does not consist
in subscribing for one copy and refusing to pay for
that until the end of the year. Our business manag
er is at present seeking interviews with students and
professors who have enough patriotism to pay for
several copies, and enough common sense to see that
money used in that manner is' sagaciously expended.
The Hesperian now not only asks but in a mild
way demands the patronage of the student body and
of the Faculty. Time was when the managers were
unwilling to make this just demand, on account of
manifest defects in the paper. These have to a con
siderable extent been removed by the outlay of a lit
tle money and expenditure of a large amount of en
ergy by the board of editors. The present issue is a
fair specimen of what the paper is to be, typograph
ically, in the future. Is it worthy to represent the
University? If so give it support.
The earnest, well-meaning young student often
wastes one third of his time in attempting to do care
ful and conscientious work. He is fully determined
to spend a certain number of hours per day over his
books, and through this determination utterly ignores
pro per habits of study. Two or three sleepy hours
are occupied in committing lessons that could be
mastered in thirty minutes of brisk, wide awake
mental exertion. We do not decry the habit of regu
lar study hours and do not mean to intimate that the
average student works too hard. Our point is, that
time spent in listlessly reading an exercise is practi
cally wasted. The old admonition to "work while
you work and play while you play" should be care
fully heeded by every one., but it has special applica
bility to the student.
In our last issue brief mention was made of the
fact that the French exhibit of drawing models at
New Orleans had been presented to the University
This collection of casts is now ito be seen in the
room occupied by the Art epartment,and aifewimo-
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